People helping animals are at the top of the scale of human needs - extending Maslow's pyramid of hierarchical needs, with species-transcendence on top of self-transcendence
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Vlad the Impaler did much more for Europe than all the people on the proposed new banknotes put together.
If men like Vlad didn't exist, Europe wouldn't have existed either.
Athleta Christi.
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Reminder: the Crusades were a response to over 400 years of Islamic aggression against Christians and Europe.
632: Muhammad dies.
635: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Damascus.
636: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Antioch.
637: Muslims conquer the Holy Land.
639: Muslims conquer the first Christian country Armenia.
641: Muslims conquer the Coptic Christian country of Egypt.
650: Muslim armies reach southern Italy and Cyprus, taking thousands of captives as "slaves" and "concubines."
711: Muslims invade Spain, and by 715, they have occupied most of it.
717: Muslims besiege Constantinople but are repelled.
730: Muslims invade France, only to be stopped by Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours.
792: The ruler of Al-Andalus calls for the invasion of France, and Muslim armies are assembled to attack it again, but they are repelled.
827: Muslims invade Sicily and Italy, persecuting monks. Sicily remains under Islamic rule until 1092.
846: Muslims invade Rome and force the Pope to pay tribute.
848: A third invasion of France occurs, and they are repelled for a third time.
909: Muslims occupy Sardinia.
937: The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is burned down by Muslims, and more churches in Jerusalem are destroyed.
1009: Destruction of the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem.
1012: Beginning of al-Hakim’s oppressive decrees against Christians.
1071: Turkish Muslims attack the Byzantines and occupy much of Anatolia.
1094: Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos asks Western Christendom for help against the Muslim Turkish invasions.
1095: Pope Urban II finally declares the First Crusade.
Her name was Liana, she was a 16-year-old Ukrainian refugee living in Germany.
She was walking home from her apprenticeship when a migrant began sexually harassing her.
Terrified, Liana called her grandfather for help, telling him that a migrant was chasing her and sexually assaulting her. Her grandfather heard her scream… then silence. He never saw her again.
Authorities later told her parents she had been hit by a train. “Suicide. Case closed.” It looked like a cover-up.
But her family refused to give up. With strong pressure from the AfD demanding a real investigation, the truth finally emerged:
Liana was murdered. She was deliberately pushed onto the tracks by an Iraqi migrant.
The man was identified and arrested, but the outrage didn’t stop there.
He had an active deportation order since January 2025 that was never carried out. If the authorities had done their job, Liana would still be alive.
And it gets worse.
Liana’s mother knew there would be no real justice, and she was right.
A German court has now ruled that the Iraqi migrant who killed her will serve no prison time, claiming he suffers from “mental health issues.” He will instead stay in a comfortable psychiatric facility, paid for by German taxpayers.
The movie Vlad Tepes (1979) feels so different from modern movies because Vlad Dracula never doubts himself or has regrets.
From start to finish he is firm in his belief that he has to unleash terror on the enemies of his land. Unbreakable, unyielding.
@MsMelChen Yes, but no.
There is some leeway, some kind of acceptable margin in all things. A "grace margin".
But a vile bastard deviation has to be treated as such.
@HomerPavlos Yep - Hollywood is now a force of corruption - which is going broke under the weight of its own common denominator woke mediocrity.
Cherish and guard the legacy. And be very selective with future stuff - but there is hope and top people defending also.