@GreeneMan6 The problem with all of these first contact movies/books is that the aliens never do anything interesting. They either lay waste to the earth or show off their cool technology.
The debt doesn't mature all at once. It's not like one giant auto loan, where the principal needs to be paid off in 5 years + interest.
The national debt consists of short term and long term debt and it can be refinanced. The question is whether the govt can make interest payments on the debt.
This is a major bone of contention I have with people like Jared Taylor and Kevin MacDonald who insist that whites identify as individuals. If whites were individuals, this wouldn't be an issue. They would resent having to condescend to non-whites to make them feel like equals. The social dynamic behind that implies not only that there are distinct racial identities but that whites have a moral duty toward nons. Downplaying white racial identity ("I only care about values") is part of that. The results of science surveys about racial attitudes that are answered anonymously by whites, but will be made public and will affect their social reputation, are also part of that.
I'm on an ancestry DNA group and every mixed race person who posts their DNA results is proud of their white ancestry. They see it as a status symbol, while whites with no non-white DNA say their results are "boring".
What happens if a white person posts their 100% white DNA results in that group and expresses pride in it? Other whites accuse them of racism. Why would they do that if they have no racial identity? Being proud of your white ancestry is implicitly expressing pride in the civilization that whites created. It's inconsistent with egalitarianism. That's at the heart of this, not individualism.
There's a lot of animus against our race.
And yet Southeast Asians often get plastic surgery to give themselves more European features.
Hispanics and Indians come from countries with racial caste systems where the whiter people are at the top.
Whites are considered the most sexually attractive race around the world.
If they just hated us it would be a lot simpler, but by default they love us, want to be like us, and when they're crushed by the realization that they can never actually participate in our identity, and that they can only simulate it by moving to our countries and trying to act like us, that disappointment creates a much more dangerous disposition than mere hatred.
A certain portion of Whites feel bad for this condition and they play along, trying to console them by pretending race doesn't exist and everyone is the same.
To address this, more nationalistic sentiments don't just need to be fostered among Whites, they also have to be fostered in the various groups that are currently LARPing as members of White societies.
The only way for them to dispel the inferiority complex that's causing us all so many problems is for them to move back home and embrace their own identities.
I'm all for deporting illegals, but that can't be our ultimate goal. We'd still be a multiracial society with a civic identity.
We deport illegals because they "broke the law," not because they're incompatible with our civilization.
Would you care if white South Africans broke the law to get here?
The only reason we didn’t make peace with Iran 20 years ago is because the nuclear-armed pariah state of Israel will not tolerate the existence of any rivals that limit its expansion & influence.
Our “forever wars” have been one systematic campaign to make Israel a superpower.
Great question.
Boomers didn't always love Israel. Even after the Holocaust, polling showed support for Israel was tepid.
Beginning in the late 1970s with Begin's victory, Likud began showering televangelists with vast amounts of money to preach doomsday Theo-political kinship.
Man I hate the corporatization of gaming so much, miss the days when it was just dudes who looked like this guy (who recognizes him? ^^) making whatever they thought is cool while listening to Metal
You said it's not captivity in a literal sense. Okay, in what sense is modern life a form of captivity for women?
There are too many moving parts here. Your hypothesis depends on women not only sharing this idea but as the reason they don't wish to have kids. That's too complicated to explain fertility rates. There is a simpler explanation that is readily observable by everyone.
This attempt to rehabilitate Hunter Biden and turn him into some enlightened centrist fighting against America's ruling class is the most obvious propaganda campaign we've been subjected to since the Kamala Vibe Shift.