If American Christians had been more like Yoweri Museveni and less like Ted Cruz, we would have avoided the last 60 or so years of social degeneration.

That's OK. If Afghanistan's any indicator, after about 20 years of pointless fighting and drone striking Ugandan weddings/bombing their hospitals, we can expect the hated Western-backed regime of child mutilators/rapists to immediately collapse and for Martin Ssempa to inaugurate his reign as Supreme Holy Judge of Uganda & the Great Lakes by building a pyramid of LGBTP+ skulls in downtown Kampala, much to the Ugandans' rejoicing on both counts.

Canada proves anything to do with promoting, and increasingly mandating, euthanasia - always a key to any good Malthusian dystopia - will work just great. The Anglosphere as a whole is a fine testament to the viability of totalitarian anarcho-tyranny of any stripe to the point that if you were to describe the absolute state of 21st century Australian, Canadian, New Zealander or British degeneracy, law enforcement and finances to someone from those countries in 1953 or probably even 1993 (at least in Canada) they'd think you were writing a dystopia so histrionic and unhinged as to be 100% unrealistic.

The Byzantines between the Fourth Crusade and the final collapse of their empire had a saying: 'Better the Sultan's turban than the Latin mitre'. I suppose these days that saying should be updated to, 'Better the Islamist's star and crescent than the rainbow rag of Globohomo'.

Coming to this realization was the final step in my rejection of liberal democracy, much less anything to its left. The masses ('normies' or 'NPCs' if you will) functionally have no agency and can only ever be directed by the few, as it has always been: these days electoralism and the press exist to give them the illusion that they have choices and are their own masters when if anything, their enslavement is more total than even under the worst and cruelest kings in history. The likes of Qin Shi Huang, Caracalla, Al-Hakim and Tamerlane can only dream of the modern surveillance state and enormous self-ruling bureaucracies, while even Lenin and Stalin would be taken aback by the stupidity of the modern populace and how they are so eager to debase themselves that mothers would line up to castrate their children & submit them to the 'affections' of drag queens.

How can a prisoner be persuaded to break his or her shackles when they don't even know that they've been chained up, and that if they were, those shackles are actually totally necessary and a Good Thing™? As for the wardens of this 'prison', history proves that the ones who promise their prisoners freedom if only they'd help in taking over the entire prison are invariably the most depraved and sadistic of them all.

I'm also thinking Oblivion would be the best suited for a media adaptation, alongside Daggerfall and Skyrim, on account of having the most 'normal' medieval fantasy settings (at least while staying in Tamriel) out of the games. I would personally love to see a Morrowind adaptation but I can't think of any studio, even non-pozzed ones, that could do it justice.

Didn't stop the Mouse from axing Victoria Alonso from Marvel, even though she (being a Latinx lesbian) enjoys even more diversity points than Kennedy. Tbh, at this point I'm leaning toward the idea that KK was a fantastic fuck in her prime and built up a big enough dossier of blackmail on every important person at Disney/Lucasfilm that she's ever gone to bed with, possibly up to and including Lucas and/or Spielberg themselves, to fill Little St. James twice over to make sure she's impossible to fire.

Even if Disney wants to destroy Star Wars & Indy for the sake of The Message™, you'd think they'd want someone who could do so on a slower and more profitable timetable. They're bleeding money bad enough to lay off thousands (no doubt including numerous other, probably more diverse hires than Kennedy herself, because that's the kind of people Iger's been filling the company with for ~18 years and who Chapek bowed to) recently and yet they won't touch the one person who pretty much everyone hates & has identified as the root cause of so many problems, to the point where she can't get applause at Disney events? It can't be a (literally) skin-deep-issue.

Have you considered some older historical manga? Vinland Saga is a more famous recent one, but I'd like to throw some different suggestions:

• Green Blood: From 2011. Since you said you're interested in Westerns, IIRC this one's story starts in post-Civil War NYC, but eventually moves out to the frontier. It is a seinen clearly inspired by Gangs of New York, so you can certainly expect blood & other mature content in its pages.

• Kingdom: From 2006. Centers on the unification of China by Qin Shi Huang, who is of course a major character. IIRC this is the biggest bestseller among historical-fiction manga and one of the bestselling manga of all time period, beating Vinland Saga by a whopping 90 million copies sold - I'm always surprised that it isn't as well-known in the West as I would've thought it would be on account of that.

• Wolfsmund: From 2009. A seinen manga centered on William Tell and the first great Swiss uprising against the Habsburgs in the early 14th century. The author was a student of Kentaro Miura's and it shows in the art & grim themes, most certainly including by way of the Berserk-esque medieval brutality depicted.

• The Rose of Versailles: From 1972. Ancient, as you might guess, and it's actually classified as a shoujo manga, but that in no way means it's not good. Centers on the years leading up to & the earliest stages of the French Revolution. Despite being from the '70s, long before historical revisionism & rehabilitation of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette's reputations got going, it shows the royals in an actually reasonable, even leaning-positive light and doesn't portray most of the other nobles as cartoon villains either (unsurprising, because main character Oscar Francois de Jarjayes is one). The author actually won France's Legion of Honor award for her attention to historical accuracy.

And two more recommendations based on famous works of fiction from other countries...

• The Heroic Legend of Arslan: From 2013. A manga adaptation of a novel series of the same name (the latter having been illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano, who was also the chief artist on most of the Final Fantasy games from I up to X), based on a Persian legend and set in a low-fantasy world clearly based off of the Middle East. The author was also the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist and she hasn't lost her touch with this one.

• Lupin the Third: From 1967. Must be quite a few ouiaboos in the ranks of the mangaka from that time period, because like Rose of Versailles this one was also based in something from France - this time, the Arsène Lupin stories. Follows the various misadventures of that guy's grandson and his gang as they carry out seemingly impossible heists.

If I had a nickel for every dumbass on the Internet who sneered at Christians warning about the slippery slope around 2004-07, much less from 2004 all the way up to the legalization of gay marriage being forced on the entirety of America by SCOTUS in 2015, I'd have enough currency to bury them all alive under.

I hope some North Dakotan who's had enough just ices Brandt at some point, period. I don't care if this makes me glow like Chernobyl, I'm not asking for some elaborate and sadistic revenge fantasy, just...may some concerned citizen 'Gary Plauche' his teenager-murdering ass and never get caught, like whoever killed Ken McElroy in broad daylight.

Some people just need to die, end of story, and the message that leftist violence and incitement thereof will be answered badly needs to be sent at some point. Might as well be after this filthy thug tracked down and brutally murdered a kid for being a Republican.

In case you don't know who they are, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are - as the article explains - an especially blasphemous crew of drag queens, even by faggot standards.

The 'event' they were kicked out of is the Dodgers' Pride Night. Certainly it would be best if neither they nor any other sports team had such a grotesque celebration to begin with. Better still had the likes of the Templars or Hospitallers or Teutons in their glory days still been around to mount the heads of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence & their ilk on pikes. As the Muslims' antics and a distinct lack of 'Piss Muhammad' or worse these days demonstrates, putting a little fear-of-God into the hearts of modern degenerates goes a long way to keeping them on their knees and their necks bowed.

But I guess everyone's got to start somewhere, and better this than the damn near absolute nothing that 'traditional conservatives' have done to push back against the absolute tidal wave of demoniacs plaguing the soul of the West for the last couple decades.

The Romans, if you consider 'diversity' to mean more than just skin color. Their empire brought together:

• Latins
• Italians (NOT the same as the OG Latin Romans, peoples like the Samnites, Sardinians or Etruscans spoke different languages and organized themselves quite differently compared to the Republic or Principate)
• Greeks
• Gauls & other Celts (Britons, Rhaetians, Celtiberians, etc.)
• Iberians (not to be confused with the Celtiberians, who were a distinct populace from pre-Indo-European Iberian peoples like the Turdetanians and Aquitani/Basques)
• Illyrians
• Thracians
• Dacians
• Africans (the North African peoples weren't black - those called Numidians/Moors/Libyans were Berbers, the Carthaginians were of mixed Semitic and Berber ancestry, and the Egyptians were their own thing entirely)
• Remaining Anatolian peoples, ex. the Isaurians
• Syrians (NOT Arabs, they were Aramaic-speakers and their descendants are today's Syriac-speaking populations - Arabs didn't move en masse into Mesopotamia or the Western Levant until the 7th century Islamic invasions)

And even some Jews (Titus' second-in-command at the siege of Jerusalem was a Jew for example) and Germans (Rome's German provinces roughly covered modern Belgium & the Rhineland, and one of the men who could've saved Rome in its twilight if he hadn't gotten assassinated by the Senate was Stilicho, a Romanized Vandal). The Romans' downfall had more to do with constant backstabbing & civil wars and less with 'diversity', even the migrating Teutons generally took to Romanitas like fish to water.

Aside from the example of Stilicho up there, the barbarian successor kingdoms like Francia & Gothic Spain quickly forgot their native tongues in favor of local Romance dialects and adopted Roman law, customs & Christianity pretty quickly. Even Alaric, the guy who sacked Rome in 410, was trying to get high office in the Roman army and only sacked the city because the Senate massacred his soldiers' families after their coup against Stilicho and then kept trying to backstab him during negotiations despite (or because of) him constantly destroying their armies in battle.

It'd be easier to ask what didn't Buckley do. Basically all that which ailed American conservatism and neutered its effectiveness at withstanding & rolling back left-wing gains between Eisenhower and Trump can be traced back to him, either as an active proponent or at minimum as a figurehead.

Buckley set himself up as the gatekeeper of American conservatism through his ownership of the National Review & influence on other conservative organizations such as Young Americans for Freedom, a position which he used to lock out & demonize proto-paleocon groups like the John Birch Society as I have said. On the other hand, he got the neocon infestation going by inviting 'ex'-Trotskyists like James Burnham (a man whose Machiavellian idea about the emergence of a dominant managerial elite inspired the character of O'Brien in 1984, all Orwell was missing was Burnham's suggestion that such an elite continue to keep some democratic trappings like a token opposition and a 'controlled circulation of the élites' to better manage dissent...y'know, like what the uniparty has been doing for ages) to work for the National Review.

The creep of lolbertarian thought into the right, resulting in the joint promotion of social atomization, corporate worship and the capitulation of the levers of state power to the left, all with the inevitable consequence of the sixty-year losing streak in the culture war? Again Buckley's work, the 'fusion' he was responsible for in regards to the 'fusionist' trend which defined post-1950s American conservatism refers to him fusing conservatism with libertarianism and onboarding yet more 'ex'-Communists (this time supposedly libertarians) like Frank Meyer onto his platforms.

Israel worship to the detriment of any points of relevance to the American situation, or really anything else? Yet again, blame Buckley. He was a huge, huge philosemite, and the John Birch Society being dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism (even though they accepted sufficiently, consistently hard-right Jews into their ranks) because they dared note the connection between neo-Marxism & the huge number of Jews pushing its various strands (queer theory, the commie infestation of the civil rights movement, etc.) and because they supported a generally non-interventionist position in foreign affairs outside of rolling back Communism (meaning no dying for Israel) was what drove a rift between him & their leader Robert Welch, even before their final split. Buckley would also condemn Pat Buchanan on similar grounds.

Conservatism being liberalism driving the speed limit, essentially the manager of decline for the right's 'managed decline'? Buckley's own career and 'evolving' beliefs is an example of that. He went from opposing the civil rights movement to not only supporting desegregation, not only supporting integration, but also supporting affirmative action - his best friend & brother-in-law L. Brent Bozell meanwhile maintained a more consistent record, opposing him opposing desegregation but not drifting way off to the left (actually, he became a tradcath integralist willing to throw hands to combat abortionists, at which point Buckley thought he had gone the same way as the JBS). He was for wars abroad until they became unpopular, as was the case with Iraq. He quailed before gay critics and promoted the beginning stages of the slippery slope to today's hellscape. And so on, so forth.

Nine months after his death, his own son Christopher not only voted for Obama, but felt the need to publicly announce he did so in the pages of the National Review. Conservatives called him a traitor, of course. But in hindsight, considering all the 'contributions' Buckley had made to American conservatism, I don't believe it can be said that he betrayed his father at all (certainly Buckley himself thought he'd live to see the first black president and believed that was something to welcome) - he was merely carrying out the logical endpoint of his father's life's work.

Erickson's presence feels entirely artificial, tbh. He left RedState around the time when Trump was starting to make waves and while he went all-in on NeverTrump, that didn't work out too well for him or his blogs at The Resurgent & The Bulwark - his former coworkers on RedState have been piling shit on him, calling the latter site 'The Bullwank', etc. and theirs definitely seems the more successful site by far. And obviously, influential paleocons like Tucker (at least once he gets whatever he's planning for Twitter off the ground, if he's not immediately crippled by the new WEF CEO) can blow whatever numbers he scrounges up out of the water any day.

Certainly I don't believe Erickson has anything resembling a natural audience, no more than the child rapists at the Lincoln Project do. The Buckleyite 'fusion' consensus is dead and there's precisely zero passion on the right for more of the failed old 'deepthroat corpos, bomb brown people for Raytheon, let immigrants undercut American workers and don't worry about losing cultural ground to degens because Jesus said to love the sinner' bullshit. The base isn't buying that anymore and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Erickson's audience these days are made up of the most cucked of boomers and cheerleaders from the left, same as the Lincoln Project.

The American right have been subjected to a psyop going back to at least the 1960s, where '''''principled leaders''''' like William Buckley Jr. (founder of the National Review) and an infestation of neocons (literal 'ex'-Trotskyists - little wonder these people seem to have so little to say on the culture war in particular) have brainwashed them into thinking that the only real conservative principles are to die for Israel and to choke themselves on corporate boots. Everything else - religion, the preservation of American culture in any meaningful sense, etc. - is at best a secondary concern next to those priorities, and that's if they're allowed to enter the conversation at all.

Oh, and above all, it is critical that they conduct themselves with 'dignity' (ie. being a limp-wristed cuck) and play the role of 'graceful loser' when the libs inevitably kick them in the balls and achieve a victory by hook or by crook. Literally every bit of social progress since the '60s was unpopular at the beginning, the left had to get them done through the courts rather than at the ballot box: abortion, affirmative action, busing, school prayer, etc. And once set in stone, conservatives weren't supposed to do anything but meekly and strictly vocally protest against these things, because they're 'settled law' now - meanwhile of course the progs and their pets were free to riot, intrigue and rig systems in their favor until they got what they wanted.

Groups that actually wanted to fight Communism and take a stand for God, the Stars and Stripes, not allow the American nationality to get buried under a tsunami of immigrants, etc. like the John Birch Society were ruthlessly demonized and driven out of the public sphere by these asshats. The '''''principled stewards of real conservatism''''' rejoice in every defeat, both because they got new ways to grift and because they have nothing but contempt for their purported base, who they deride as ignorant hicks at best. Trump, I believe, is but the beginning of the American right - no, the American people, because leftists have made no secret of how much they hate the concept of Americans and the existence of the United States of America - finally starting to wake up and push against their restraints in a very long time (notably the Dobbs case that killed Roe v. Wade was literally the first right-wing victory in the culture war since the fucking 60s).

And cucks like the man described in Posobiec's tweet up there? They have no place in an angry, militant Right that's woken up to just how badly they've been lied to & betrayed for decades. I would actually be a little more forgiving of them if they were boomers rather than young'uns from the newer generations because those guys were subject to a constant propaganda campaign to neuter & atomize them without having any tools available to even begin to open their eyes until talk radio got going in the 1990s. But regardless, they're too weak to be useful in any regard other than being browbeaten into voting for the furthest-right candidates possible for as long as the fiction of electoral democracy can be maintained & made to serve the Right.

You know what I mean. Now sure, professional historians & anthropologists may have moved past that, but colloquially the term 'Caucasian' is still treated as synonymous with 'white' generally around here.

Anyway, doesn't change my point, which is that MLK having white ancestry is vastly likelier than Cleopatra having a drop of sub-Saharan blood in his her family tree going back to the very first Ptolemy. In fact it's not even likely but certain; following even a few pages on Wikipedia is enough to lead one to proof (by way of both research done by MLK's own relatives and DNA testing) that one of MLK's ancestors was an Irishman.

This but unironically. African-American genetics have got considerable Caucasian admixture from all those slaveowners carrying on affairs with their slaves, like 24% white ancestry from the last study I saw on the subject (from 2015). Meanwhile the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty took up the Egyptian tradition of brother-sister inbreeding, and only occasionally branched out to intermarry with their Greco-Persian Seleucid neighbors. Even when they took mistresses, the Ptolemaic Pharaohs' known concubines were all fellow Greeks (from either Alexandria or Cyrene, a Greek colony which long predated the first Ptolemy & Alexander).

So yeah, it's literally more likely that MLK was part-white than it is that Cleopatra was part-black (sub-Saharan African), or even Egyptian. Frankly, much more likely at that. (The Ptolemies generally had a much more elitist attitude toward their Egyptian subjects than the Seleucids had toward their Persian & other Asiatic subjects, and certainly weren't known for taking Egyptian wives, much less sub-Saharan black ones.)

Funny you should ask actually, some based Italians have started an effort to revive the Templars and are gaining traction abroad. While they're still working on full Papal approval (which the still-extant Hospitallers and Teutons already have) they're already cultivating grassroots ties in Italy & elsewhere, getting their name out there doing things like preserving historic churches or locating the grave of Arnau de Torroja (one of the OG Templar Grandmasters), and setting as their public mission "fight against esotericism and rampant magic, especially among young people; cleaning operations against Satanists operating in the dioceses."

As far as church politics go, I find it especially interesting that if you look at their US/Canada site, their archive of events shows them often hanging out with known conservatives in the Catholic hierarchy. People like Cardinal Robert Sarah (the African archconservative cardinal) or Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas (an opponent of Pope Francis who has supported the view that one can't be a Catholic and a Democrat these days). Also, they're obviously active in events like the March/Rally for Life on the federal & state levels. Hard to tell what the future holds of course, but if they're looking to get a reaction going against the type of churches in the OP, they're off to a good start and building the right connections.

I'm gonna guess the answer is a resounding 'no', based both on the various stats compiled over the years showing that the manga industry (sometimes even just a single manga in particular, like Demon Slayer) has been BTFO'ing Western comics and my own personal observations. Actual kids & teenagers at my suburban bookstore invariably don't bother with Western comics, they're pretty much always checking out & buying up manga while leaving said comics to the 20+ soyjack/legbeard brigade.

OK, so add her and the other two Republicans who stood with her to the list of traitors to get primaried, blacklisted and cut off from every resource the SC GOP has. After all this is South fucking Carolina, not a purplish state like North Carolina or even Texas, so there isn't even the 'but maybe we can actually win votes by compromising on issues of life!' excuse to hide behind.

Fair enough, haha. This must be the first time I've been ninja'd on any forum since the mid-2010s.

Buzzfeed? More like Buzzkill.

I would argue that being polite and inoffensive isn't even necessarily 'kindness'. There's nothing 'kind' about enabling someone hooked on drugs or any other destructive habit until their addiction finally destroys them & sends them into an early grave, after all. I would categorize the coddling & enabling of people's worst impulses demanded under the name of 'tolerance', 'kindness', 'empathy', etc. by the left as more just 'being nice', in the same sense that white Minnesotan liberals are putting their 'Minnesota nice' on display for all those Somalis screwing their state up.

There's a pretty good collection of 4chan posts that nails the difference from many years ago, and which I think still absolutely applies to this 'Nice Doctrine'.

Of course, salvation is not to be found in the world. Still, impermanence and our own imperfections are no excuse to sit back and make no effort whatsoever to hold back the corruption & degeneracy as much as we're able in what time has been given to us. Sloth's a sin after all, and wiser men than I, from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas, have written at length about healthier forms & functions of worldly government.

History demonstrates otherwise. As I just said, Nicene/Chalcedonian religious orthodoxy was upheld for more than 700 years. For some perspective, this means it lasted for three times the lifespan of the United States as of this year.

If you're looking for some means to permanently and decisively put an end to theological arguments within Christianity forever, I can only recommend waiting for the Second Coming. But as far as actually practical long-term solutions to bridging the gap between different churches and binding them into a united front against common civilization-destroying enemies on multiple fronts go, church councils in the vein of Nicaea and Chalcedon are objectively the best possible option within man's reach and with a record to back it up.