Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years.
Some assholes decided to poke the bear and now I'm gonna make it every Scalawag, Yankee, and enemy of peoples' problem.
Its been totally memory holed now, but in 2020 in a ton of cities the police just stood down and if you didn't literally man the door with a firearm they would just destroy and loot your small business and the state would do literally nothing to protect you.
Civilization consists of having and maintaining standards of cultivation and refinement that push the people ever upward
So, the slovenliness of our citizenry is a massive problem; what people wear matters, for self-presentation is a tangible, visible manifestation of their spirit
That's not to say brands, cost, and that rubbish matter, or that everyone should dress the same. Nor is it a claim that a well-knotted tie makes up for a rotten soul. Frippery and vanity are not virtues, and certainly aren't the point
But what it does mean is that the impression one exudes when in a public space does matter. Are you slovenly and thus showing an utter lack of concern for contributing positively to the space in which you are, or have you obviously taken the time necessary to put care into how you look so as to uplift those around you and the environment in which you are present?
Such makes a difference.
In our Belle Epoque heyday, even the working class poor wore suits when out in public, to show they were bettering themselves. "Sunday best" was a real thing, and worn not just at church but to museums, on the trains, and so on. Being part of the ascent mattered to everyone
Now, thanks to both the general demoralization that came with the war upon civilization itself in the mid-20th century, particularly the 60s and 70s, along with the Prole Drift that Fussell identified in Class, even the wealthy wear t-shirts and sweats when out in public, and nearly everyone is either fat, has tattoos, has scruffy facial hair, or some combination thereof.
This degradation of everything is a critical problem, for a healthy civilization is not characterized by obese and surly "fliers" stuffed into spandex like sausages as they aimless shuffle about and stare transfixed at the mindrot on their phones
There was much that was bad about the world that used to exist, particularly corruption and the exploitation of children. But there was much good as well, namely the way it prioritized cultivation and doing the civilized thing rather than reverting to base instinct or a quest for comfort uber alles. We ought all do our part to bring that spirit back
Next time somebody tells you we’re a nation of immigrants and that’s why we must accept infinity bomalians - remind them that we came from this small circle of tribes over a thousand years.
December 15, 1796. General Mad Anthony Wayne, the fiery Revolutionary War hero who had conquered the Northwest, died a fairly ordinary death. What happened to his corpse afterward was anything but ordinary.
Wayne had earned his nickname through a hot temper and reckless battlefield boldness, and he capped his career by crushing a Native confederation at Fallen Timbers and forcing a treaty that opened Ohio. After overseeing the British finally handing over their frontier forts, he was traveling home when he was struck down, not by a bullet, but by a brutal attack of gout. He died at a lonely outpost on the shore of Lake Erie, in what is now Erie, Pennsylvania, around the age of 51.
At his own request, he was buried simply, in a plain coffin at the foot of the fort's flagpole, hundreds of miles from his family home near Philadelphia. And there he rested. For a while.
Thirteen years later, in 1809, his son Isaac decided to bring his father home to be buried in the family plot back east. Isaac showed up with a small, light carriage, figuring that after more than a decade in the ground, there would be nothing left but a neat bundle of bones to carry.
Then they dug him up, and got a shock. The body had barely decomposed. Anthony Wayne was almost eerily well preserved, far too intact to simply pack into a small carriage for a 400 mile journey.
So they made a grim decision. A local doctor who had known Wayne dismembered the general's body and boiled the pieces in a giant iron kettle, cooking the flesh right off the bones. The now clean bones were packed into trunks for the long trip east. The boiled off flesh, along with the doctor's tools and the original coffin, was placed back into the grave at Erie and reburied.
The upshot is that Mad Anthony Wayne now has two graves. His bones lie in a churchyard near Philadelphia, where his son finally reburied them. But the rest of him stayed behind in Erie, in the original grave by the lake.
And that split gave rise to a wonderful piece of Pennsylvania folklore. As the story goes, some of Wayne's bones bounced off the wagon and were lost along the rough road during that long journey east. So legend says that every year on his birthday, the ghost of Mad Anthony Wayne rises and rides that old highway between his two graves, searching in the dark for his scattered bones. A fierce general who survived the Revolution and the frontier wars ended up, in death, boiled in a kettle and split between two graves, all starting on this day in 1796.
That is the real solution to this that doesn't compromise our civil liberties and hand over power in this country to bad actors: allowing the White population to reform the militias and solve the problem ourselves.
False accusations of sexual crimes are among the most common causes of wrongful convictions because part of the American population reacts like a bunch of hysterical cunts about anything related to sex.
The people you saw berating me here about my posts mentioning age of consent are the same type of person who are the incompetent emotional grand jurors, cops and judges who convict innocent persons.
The reason I made those posts saying “America must become an aristocratic Republic” and I keep emphasizing the need to disenfranchise women from politics is because a legitimate government is rooted in not attacking anyone without cause.
The democratic notion that legitimacy is rooted in getting the most votes from the overall population is a direct attack upon the principle of restraining the use of force from the government because when you support that you are replacing consensus over truth!
You are saying that the use of force of the majority is the only truth! Meaning there are no guardrails to direct force in a way that defends freedom.
How can you be free when you cannot stop those who place their sense of power above your life?
To truly understand the Founding Fathers you must read the court decisions of the time and understand the guardrails America common law had to prevent someone innocent from being imprisoned.
Because you are only free insofar as the government cannot incarcerate you or blacklist without you having done an aggression against life and the only way to measure this is through due process of law under a doctrine that doesn’t penalize mere harmless positions that question the use of power of others.
The doctrine, the mindset that united the nation from sea to shining sea was that in a civilization people seek to wreck the lives of others by falsely accusing them of crimes and criminal accusations require extensive proof to have an effect upon someone’s life.
The worst crime someone can be accused of is murder but a murder requires a dead body to go forward as a case, making it impossible to falsely accuse someone of murder at will. What is the next category of heinous crimes that can wreck someone’s life because it demonstrates an innate deviant personality trait? Sex crimes. And sex crimes don’t require any proof beyond one accuser’s testimony. See the problem?
There used to be corroborative evidence requirements for criminal prosecutions of rape, meaning that one accuser’s alone could not convict someone.
Defamation was criminalized and taken seriously in every state of the union.
Plea deals didn’t exist.
Civil restraining orders didn’t exist.
Children’s testimony was not allowed in court because it was understood that children could be easily manipulated to lie in court.
Women have made a movement to end the corroborative evidence requirements for rape accusations.
Changed the legal definition of rape to mean any sexual act that takes away power from a woman in a given situation.
Allowed children to testify in court.
Created civil restraining orders which are shadow courts within the civil court system that part of the power of a criminal conviction.
Created other shadow courts within colleges named title 9 courts- shadow courts that have jurisdiction over sex crimes in campus and routinely informally label innocent male students as sex offenders.
Gave the government an arsenal of databases to circumvent the criminal conviction process to tie a man’s name to a crime.
The unifying doctrine of presumption of innocence has been replaced by sinister female suspicion.
Presumption of innocence has murdered by the sinister concept that crimes against women are so common that criminal justice system alone is insufficient to protect women and women need an arsenal to expose and ostracize the men who harm them.
Dehumanizing men is natural to women.
For freedom to be made alive women must be politically disenfranchised. But that alone isn’t enough.
Continue below.
It costs $200 to go outside, you’re surveilled the entire time and everyone you meet has this post-Covid social autism where talking to them feels like trying to communicate with a robotic alien and there’s a palpable layer of suspicion around everything
Joe Foss shot down 26 Japanese aircraft over Guadalcanal, matching the record of America's greatest World War I ace, and became the first American ace of aces of the Second World War. He flew from a muddy jungle airstrip with a scratch outfit called the Cactus Air Force, and then lived a second life more crowded than most men's whole lives.
Foss was a South Dakota farm boy who had to fight just to get into fighter flying, considered a bit too old at 27 and nearly washed out. In October 1942 he arrived at Guadalcanal with a Marine fighter squadron, into the desperate air battle over the island, flying the stubby, outgunned Wildcat against the more nimble Japanese Zero from Henderson Field, the airstrip the whole campaign turned on. Conditions were miserable, malaria, mud, constant bombing, planes held together with spare parts, pilots flying several times a day.
Foss turned out to be a natural killer in the air and a gifted leader. He formed a flight of pilots his men called Foss's Flying Circus, and over three months of hard combat his group shot down 72 Japanese aircraft, 26 of them credited to Foss himself. That number, 26, matched the record set by Eddie Rickenbacker in the First World War, and it made Foss the first American to reach it in this war, the ace of aces. He was shot down and forced down more than once, ditching in the sea, coming home on fumes, and kept flying.
He got the Medal of Honor for it, and he survived the war, which so many of the men in these stories did not. And then Joe Foss just kept going. He became a general in the Air National Guard. He was elected governor of South Dakota. He served as the first commissioner of the American Football League, helping build what became a huge part of American life. He was a television host, a conservation advocate, a president of the National Rifle Association. The farm boy who nearly didn't make it into a cockpit shot down 26 enemy planes over a jungle island and then lived about five lives on top of it, dying at 87.
Virginia, and by extension Virginians, are the main characters of the United States, if not the world.
From the humble beginnings of the Virginia company, to leading a revolution against tyranny (twice), Virginia and her posterity has been there for it all.
She's occupied by hostile powers right now. Communists and carpetbaggers. Scallywags and scumbags. We shouldn't forsake her for this. She needs to be retaken.
By God, Virginia will be free again.
"I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the States into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it."
-Robert E Lee, December 15th, 1866
Good morning everyone
"In vain the Catholic priests, attending at the executions of the Huguenots, tried to drown the thunder of Marot's Psalms with their Latin chants. The words lacked the savage energy of the vernacular French; the unknown tongue awakened no response from the crowd. Many victims were gagged before being burned: but the fire severed the cords which held the instruments in their place, and, with charred lips, the sufferers raised the Psalms. Others, whose tongues had been cut out, uttered sounds in which, though barely articulate, bystanders recognised the familiar words. So it was at Angers, in 1556, that Jean Rabec at the stake, while he was being alternately raised and lowered into the flames, continued to sing Psalm Ixxix., half choked with blood, till his end arrived. It was while a Protestant congregation was singing psalms in the grange at Vassy, in 1562, that Guise gave the signal for the massacres of the Huguenots which finally provoked the Wars of Religion. When once the sword was drawn, the Psalms became the war-songs of the Huguenots." Psalms in Human Life, Chapter VII
The fact that Joel Berry treats well-rounded literacy the same way normal people treat the illuminati is useful in explaining why he was completely and irretrievably stumped in a debate over the question of whether the founding fathers were racist.