To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
@truthwellout@YukonStrong@TheWuhanClap The U S won’t touch the leftist lower mainland in a million years-why would they want another California or Wisconsin..??!!
Wakey wakey..!
🚨 Gutfeld just turned one small Sophie Cunningham moment into a giant meme, and honestly this is exactly why the internet moves faster than the media can control. One clip, one reaction, one joke, and suddenly everyone is talking about it while the usual talking heads try to pretend they still set the narrative. They don’t. The people do.
@scoopercooper In a real country, this would bring down the government. People would be charged. It would be an international incident. But Canada hasn't been a real country for a long time.
So, I watched Citizen Vigilante.
My thoughts:
1. It is a Uwe Boll film, with all that entails. Understand this going in.
2. It is low-budget. Uwe Boll paid for this film to be made out of his own pocket. And I applaud him for that.
3. There is no plot to speak of. No character development. The movie is 1.5 hours of cathartic release for all the pent-up anger and frustration most of us feel at the state of the world today. Unapologetically so.
4. It is very, sometimes too on-the-nose. But that's the point: this film is a blunt object. A cudgel, being wielded to beat the sleeping and the complicit over the head with what is going on, and how people feel about it. In that, it succeeds.
5. It's clear why it got banned in Europe: it's a direct, clear, and vicious indictment of the governments, courts, and law enforcement not just allowing, but enabling the moral and civil decay we see accelerating around us every day. It is also a call to action. In several instances, the main character states to his audience: "I do this for you, until you learn to do it for yourselves." It's a film that scares those in power. And it should.
Is it entertaining? No. It is not looking to amuse. There is no escape to be found in this film. It is not looking to pump you full of adrenaline. It's not there to take you on a thrill ride. You will not even sympathize with the main character. Hammer's acting is...well, average for him. And I don't consider him a particularly good actor to begin with. His delivery and presence is wooden. But that doesn't detract from the film. The main character is not angry; he's almost numb to the situation, and is doing what needs to be done. He is not there to be liked or rooted for, pitied or empathized with. He's there to express and act on what far too many people hold inside these days.
The film also jumps around in time a bit, without warning, which can make it hard to follow at times. But not in a confusing way; more in an unsettling manner, which I believe was the intent. You are not meant to be comfortable watching this film.
Should you watch it? Yes. And think about it. Think about what it's showing you, what it's telling you. Really think about it.