Long ago when I was still in university and blind to the culture wars, my anthropology professor taught a few lectures on Europe's transition from the Stone to Bronze Ages, and how the patriarchal bronze-wielding Indo-Europeans burst from what's now the Russo-Ukrainian steppe atop their horses & chariots to conquer the peaceful matriarchal Pre-Indo-European peoples of Neolithic Europe. The Indo-Europeans even worshiped Dyeus Phther, the prototypical male 'sky father' deity who they acknowledged as the greatest of the gods and certainly the dominant partner in his union with Dheghom the earth-mother, while the Pre-Indo-Europeans were basically described as harmless simps responsible for making all those 'Venus of X' Neolithic sculptures depicting thicc goddesses whose names have been lost to time (well, I'm sure she didn't intend for her lectures to be interpreted in that way at the time).
I assume the Indo-Europeans were supposed to be the bad guys in her retelling, but the society of the pre-Indo-Europeans never managed to evolve beyond the village level. They were sedentary Stone Age farmers, their lives couldn't have been that great and they probably hadn't even domesticated cattle yet (that started with aurochs over in Anatolia), nor horses for sure (domesticated by the Indo-Europeans). Northern Europeans being on average at least slightly taller than Southern Europeans was attributed to the latter having a greater admixture of Indo-European genes, since their mixed diet incorporating larger quantities of meat & milk from pastoral animals was more nutritious and better-balanced than the mostly cereal diet (with a few game animals occasionally tossed in) consumed by the pre-Indo-Euro farmers.
Tl;dr matriarchal societies have been tried before and they almost never got past the Stone Age, nor did their organization evolve beyond 'small villages led by headwomen and shamans', hence why they were so easily overrun by competitors - the only exception I can think of were possibly the Minoans, who in any case still ended up getting overwhelmed and conquered by a more militaristic patriarchal civilization (the Mycenaean Greeks) anyway. Male leadership and energy seems to be a prerequisite for high civilization and post-subsistence standards of living.
This is old news from 2019.
How's that saying the whizkids on the Interwebs like to say nowadays go? 'Conspiracy theories are just the news, reported on the Internet 2 weeks (or an eternity) ahead of the mainstream media.'
George Washington would disagree. And call you a pussy-ass bitch.
Would be based if true, since it'd mean the right is actually starting to fight back in a way that kicks the left where it genuinely hurts (unlike voting in rigged elections or bitching about their inevitable defeat in rigged courts). Doesn't even have to be out-of-staters, my understanding is that eastern Washington & Oregon are pretty strongly conservative areas that are just outweighed by the urban bughives of Seattle & Portland.
Unfortunately I don't think we can rule out glowie gayops (whether through Antifa or some other front) to try to justify additional crackdowns & gun-grabbing.
Pretty much where I'm at. I know there's been a lot to get blackpilled over but constant dooming & despair is no way for anyone to live - the early Christians managed to keep up their spirits and celebrate the First Coming of the Lord even while getting crucified, burnt at stakes, or thrown to lions by their persecutors, there's no excuse for us to let the Left get us down on this day.
Merry Christmas.
Eh, we'll only find out just how good the Western world's air defenses if it actually happens (I hope we don't, but I live in a suburb of a city in a Western country that isn't the US and thus not likely to enjoy advanced ABM/anti-air protection, making it absolutely fucked in a hot war).
Doesn't have to be every single nuke that gets through either, right? More-so things depend on which nukes make it through. If that 'couple of cities' that get nuked happen to be the most important power-centers of the globohomo regime (NYC, DC, LA, etc.) and the puppet-masters themselves are the ones who get vaporized then that takes out the decision-makers and their sheep who have the most interest in carrying on a hot war. Heh, we should be so lucky...
A hot war with Russia (which is what 'direct intervention to overthrow Putin' would entail) means they'll be prioritizing the cities (read: bugman hives and diversity clusters) for nuclear annihilation, that's just basic military logic. If it gets to that point Putin would glass Washington DC (what with it hosting the heart of the US government & the Pentagon) long before he even thinks about dropping a big hot one on the backwoods of Idaho.
And no, AP Hill was not known to be a slaveowner (though his family owned slaves), and even denounced a lynching while he was still alive. Doesn't matter, he must still be treated in a manner that even the Romans and Mongols at their worst would find disgusting, because he's a straight Christian white male who fought for the Literally Nazis Before There Were Nazis.
To the descendants of AP Hill, who watched as this travesty happened before them: were I you I'd be glowing harder than Chernobyl as I contemplate my existence and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney. You must know by now that this will not end with your ancestor, it won't end with the dead no more than it ended with the statues, and they have no more respect for the living than they do for the dead - the wokies want to put you in a death camp, but only after they've made you watch your wife and kids be raped first, and to go full Haiti on the entirety of the South.
Yup. Dude's wife has ties to the Biden administration and (being an extension of the Obama administration) they're pretty friendly with the Qataris & Muslim Brotherhood AFAIK - in fact they kinda have to be since they've gone out of their way to shit on the Saudis, who are hostile to Qatar/MB interests. All the bleating about gay rights or slave labor is hollow virtue signaling and the Qataris doubtlessly know it, this guy was safe as long as he didn't lay his hands on the Emir's family or anyone else of actual importance to them.
While it would've been hilarious if they really did kill this faggot for shoving the rainbow rag in their faces, realistically the Qataris - being more rational actors than the incumbent US government themselves - wouldn't have given enough of a shit to kill him and needlessly antagonize their patron (who they certainly would like to continue favoring them over SA).
I'm hoping this is the start of the real-life NSF while also pessimistically considering the more realistic possibility of the latter, myself.
I'm not convinced the whole 'love thy enemies at all costs, including their continued refusal to repent for their sins, and always turn thy cheek to them when they strike thee - forget everything the Savior ever said about buying swords' thing isn't a psyop instigated by subversive agents who have wormed their way into every sect of repute over the last century and are hellbent on rendering Christianity impotent to remove a major historical opponent of Bolshevism in all its forms. I know it happened to the Catholic Church (see Bella Dodd's testimony and the entire history of 'liberation theology') and I'd assume this virus has infected the Protestant churches in a similar fashion (would explain, for example, the Lutheran obsession with flooding Minnesota with Somalis since the '90s).
Yep, saw a story about one of the (R) Senators striking an accord with Sinema over amnesty like...yesterday on this very site. And now reading about how Herschel Walker's been defeated in the Georgia Senate runoff (an outcome I was already expecting), all I'm thinking is this memetic line. The entire West's circling the drain, just a question of when and how badly it's gonna go down the tubes.
Perhaps if conservative Christians acted more like Muslims, the restaurant would've thought twice about screwing them over.
"We have always refused service to anyone for making our staff uncomfortable or unsafe and this was the driving force behind our decision"
My ass they 'always' have. They wouldn't have dared cancel the reservation of a bunch of Muslims who they bet would Allahu Akbar their snackbar if insulted (and in the name of faggots and whores no less) and then sue the survivors of their rampage for Islamophobia to boot, and they'd damn well have acted with similar caution & submissiveness if they could 'safely' assume that denying service to Christians would result in a mini-crusade tearing them several new assholes too.
As Deus Ex put it: "If there wasn't organized oppression, there wouldn't be organized resistance, and what you call terrorism would not exist."
Another poster here also put it pretty well - it'd be based af if this really was the work of a right wing 'terror' cell that finally had enough after the midterms just now. I doubt it, but it's nice to dream.
Indonesia's a Muslim country, so the answer is actually 'yes'.
Exactly right. In trying to subvert Tolkien, Martin has subverted good storytelling, and it shows in the show's ending. D&D used his notes for that after all, and I 100% believe the absolute nonsense we got like King Bran had to have come from him (were it just left to the terrible two, I think we'd have gotten a lame but network-safe happy ending in the vein of Jon & Daenerys sitting the Iron Throne together to lead Westeros into an age of prosperity - they patently didn't like the magical aspects of the setting and left Bran out of the entirety of Season 5). That said ending was pretty much universally loathed must have really burned his ass, and deservedly so, to the point that he still hasn't published the next book after 11 years.
Frankly I'm at the point where I'd far prefer 'boring' but sensible happy endings over subversive last-minute gotchas that needlessly wreck the setting and subvert my expectations of a good or even OK work. Although I don't think we'll have to worry about that on Gurm's part, he'll release a book all about the intimate details of Rhaenyra's affairs before TWOW and ADOS at the rate he's going.
Already kinda happened, the Afghans (a 'cisheteropatriarchal' culture if I've ever seen one) used homemade single-shot rifles as part of their arsenal in the wars against both the commie Soviets and American-led globohomo. They had previously used these jezails to great effect against the British...200 years ago.
The closest approximation I can think of is if a militia of American Christian nationalists were able to hold out against a vastly larger and better-equipped blue helmet occupying force for 20 years until the UN finally fucked off, despite having to wield M16s and Revolution-era Kentucky rifles against drones, jets, MOABs and the rest of today's cutting-edge arsenal in general.
I believe a certain real-life shonen hero had something to say about his ilk, something like...
Never let evil take root.
No, just Leo Frank (the 'pedo in question' and 'him' in my previous post). Jim Conley (the black janitor accused of killing the white girl, Mary Phagan) was still alive by 1941 at least, when he was reportedly arrested for gambling & public drunkenness.
Also, the pedo in question was so obviously guilty that not even the 1910s Georgian lynch mob which killed him would agree that said black guy was at fault.
This, hot damn. Indonesia tabulates its paper-ballot-only votes by hand (no machines involved at all) and even though it takes forever for the official electoral authority to formally announce the results, 'quick counts' based on data from the polling precincts at the end of election day have always been enough to make it obvious who won. Even Brazil at least managed its fraud operation in a day, not an entire week.
Voting machines were introduced with the promise of making elections smoother and more efficient, but America never had election week before they entered the scene. Same as mail-in ballots and other such bullshit, even the fraud-ridden 1960 election was (like Brazil) done in a day and Nixon conceded the next afternoon, and this isn't even discounting how Katie Hobbs is overseeing the count in her own election. American democracy is undeniably fake and gay.
Wow, feels like yesterday that this guy was making the news as the 'trans-Korean influencer'.
Hell, democracy didn't work in its very birthplace. Athens lost the Peloponnesian War because the demagogue Alcibiades convinced the voters it would be a brilliant idea to open a new front against neutral Syracuse, ostensibly to help a minor ally (Segesta) but in reality with hopes of plundering the riches of Sicily and neutering a potential future rival to their hegemony over Greece, when they were winning against Sparta (their original enemy).
Even before the ensuing crippling defeat, the Athenian empire was hardly the benevolent force for liberation and mutual protection it pretended to be, being quite brutal to any who crossed it or tried to leave the Athens-led Delian League. Its ancient Persian enemy, which lent support to Sparta during the Peloponnesian War because Athens was hellbent on antagonizing them and fucking around in Ionia even after they had retreated from Greece itself, was at worst just as bad and at best might have actually been less shitty (certainly less hypocritical) than Athens & the Delians. Also it was the source of the Melian Dialogue, which boiled down to the reality that it was truly no less corrupt and oppressive than any more openly malevolent empires, in spite of all its leaders' claims to the contrary.
I don't put excessive stock in historical cycles repeating itself, but damn if it isn't tempting to substitute 'USA' for Athens, 'NATO/the GAE' for the Delian League, '(Post-Soviet) Russia' for Syracuse & Sparta both, 'China' for Persia, and 'literally everyone who has ever crossed the liberal world order and gotten bombed to slag for it, from Vietnam to Serbia to Libya & Syria' for unfortunate Melos. I don't think there's any chance for an optimistic ending (unless you're a weapons manufacturer or exporter of globohomo of course) to our latter-day Peloponnesian War either, not even for our 'Athens' should they win. (Had Athens won the Peloponnesian War, most likely its empire would still have eventually unraveled between internal dissent at the ruthless reality of Athenian hegemony and mounting external pressure from Persia and especially rising Macedon)
I think a lot of people forgot, or were too young to remember (or were just plain born after), the political correctness craze of the '90s. That was where the War on Christmas started, Stanford developed a speech code which wouldn't at all be out of place in any of today's woke colleges but got struck down in a court case in 1995, the seeds of bullshit like Afrocentrism which had been planted in the '60s were starting to really bear fruit, race riots like the 1992 one in LA still happened, and animation definitely wasn't spared.
Even setting aside obvious examples like Captain Planet, '90s animation had its share of 'diverse' Mary Sue characters being shoved in to show up the existing cast and/or lecture the kids watching in a heavy-handed manner ('very special episodes' relating to race, sex, etc.). The pushers of that garbage had to back off somewhat after political correctness got major pushback from society at the time and rendered a public joke, but as is obvious now they didn't permanently fuck off, they just laid low until a more favorable sociocultural environment had been manufactured by their allies in the education system who were allowed to fester like a gangrenous wound this entire time.