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The actual quote, which I just retrieved, is actually more brilliant than that:
"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
Look at the last word. Suicide...suicidal empathy.
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If the Western world feels like it's gone insane over the last decade, you're not imagining it.
Polish psychologist Andrew Lobaczewski spent his life studying this phenomenon.
He called the field Political Ponerology.
The study of how psychologically disordered individuals capture institutions.
Every pathological regime ends up with the same cast of characters.
Here they are 🧵
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"One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again."
— Thomas Sowell
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Socialism is a psychological disorder that puts on ideological clothing to hide what it actually is.
At its core is a specific kind of irrational resentment, that is the inability to accept that in a free society, some people will be simply be more, make more, have more.
And instead of competing or accepting that reality, the disordered mind creates the ideology that demands the system be changed so no one is allowed to rise “too high”.
So they would rather live under a system of enforced mediocrity that limits everyone’s freedom including their own than accept a world where some people can create visibly better outcomes.
They can’t help but eliminate the conditions that make other people’s success possible.
And since freedom produces unequal results and that inequality is unbearable to this mindset, then freedom itself must be attacked.
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Here is what the left expected to happen during the World Cup: Europeans were supposed to smirk at us. They were supposed to mock our religion and our guns. They were supposed to turn away in righteous disgust at our abundance and free refills and buffet lines and big trucks and big houses. They were supposed to shake their heads at our supposed lack of culture. They were supposed to see a racist behind every tree and under every rock. They were supposed to catch a glimpse of discord and poverty and hate and perpetual ignorance. And they were supposed to leave here hating this country even more so than when they arrived.
But they didn’t.
They fell in love with us. And by “us,” I mean the real, everyday America. They didn’t go to the Met Gala; they went to Walmart. They didn’t dine at the French Laundry; they ate at Waffle House. They didn’t scoff at bigger portions; they consumed them with glee. They weren’t impressed by Priuses; they were impressed by Ford F-150s. They didn’t sniffily order some 25-syllabled cup of pretention from the local fair trade cafe; they drank American beer, listened to American country music, and ate American bar food. They don’t marvel at inner-city legal drug zones; they marvel at the wide open expanses of American beauty.
They love ranch dressing. They love the military flyovers. They love the gas stations. They love the 24/7 business hours. They love the huge American flags.
In short, everything our visitors love about America is everything the left hates about America. The leftists watch this in paralyzing horror. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Foreigners were supposed to return to their homelands and report that America is exactly what Barack Obama, Michael Moore, and Sasha Baron Cohen told them it was.
But that’s not going to happen now. Because our foreign guests realize that everything their "elites" told them about us has been a disgusting lie. Just like everything our "elites" tell us about ourselves is a disgusting lie.
But the most important lesson I hope the Europeans take home with them is this. Patriotism is a moral virtue. It’s good to be proud of your country. And despite what the government, the public schools, the universities, Hollywood, social media, the elite globalists, and both the domestic and foreign media tell us, Americans are proud of their country. And if visiting Europeans can see through the lie they’ve been sold about America, I hope they can see the lie they’ve been told about themselves.
(Source: A.J. Christopher, PJ Media)
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Happy Independence Day to our friends across the Atlantic! Any chance you could return the favour and invade us this time?
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Some biologists have discovered this strange tree in New Zealand. According to experts, it is heading to Isengard to destroy Saruman.
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One night I was putting my son to bed.
He was maybe 5 or 6.
It had been a long day and I was done with his behavior.
Completely done.
So I let out my frustration in a vicious cut down and closed his door.
We had a sound monitor. My wife heard it from our bedroom.
As I walked past she stopped me:
"I know you're annoyed, but is that how you want to end the day with him?"
I walked back in. Apologized. Told him I shouldn't have said that. He forgave me right away.
But here's what I realized:
I wasn't disciplining him.
I was using him as my emotional punching bag.
Releasing MY stress by dumping it on a 5-year-old who couldn't fight back.
And the worst part?
It wasn't about him at all.
I was exhausted. Out of shape. Running on 5 hours of sleep.
I had nothing left in the tank so I took it out on my kid.
That's not parenting. That's being a coward.
HERE'S WHAT I LEARNED:
Your kids aren't your therapist.
They're not your stress relief.
They're not there to absorb your bad day.
When you snap at them because YOU'RE tired, YOU'RE stressed, YOU'RE overwhelmed?
You're teaching them:
• Their feelings don't matter
• They're responsible for your emotions
• Love comes with conditions
That one moment? My son probably doesn't remember it.
But if I made it a pattern? He'd carry that into adulthood.
THE FIX ISN'T COMPLICATED:
Stop blaming your kids for your lack of self-control.
If you're constantly losing it on them, the problem isn't them.
It's you.
You're:
• Not sleeping enough
• Not taking care of your body
• Not managing your stress
• Not creating margin in your life
You can't pour patience from an empty cup.
Get in shape. Sleep more. Create space in your day.
Because your kids deserve a dad who's regulated.
Not one who uses them as a pressure valve.
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Goth Waifu Amelia is now the mascot of UK nationalism and has gone viral after the UK panicked and took her game down.
Make UK great again.
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Pretty amazing! Here is how the United States captured the President of one of the largest countries on earth 👀
