The question "what is an American?" has the same glitching effect on a Neocon that "what is a woman?" does to a Leftist.
If you ask them where these "classical liberal principles" they venerate come from, whether they successfully export to other cultures, or if they're even still present in our society today, they short circuit. 404 Error.
"Individual liberty" has always carried with it extreme presuppositions. Liberty requires the foundation of a cohesive culture with a shared morality. The founders wrote at length that our system was wholly inadequate for other peoples. "A Republic if we could keep it", well we didn't keep it.
Liberty without morality immediately devolves into degeneracy. This is why libertarians complain about the fact that they can't buy heroin at CVS, or whine about age of consent laws violating individual liberty. Without the underlying responsibility that liberty requires, it is just lizard brain hedonism. They think that the law dictates ethics, when actually ethics precede law.
Liberty requires something of you. It demands a complimentary host of responsibilities in order to keep it coherent. "Rights" without duties are just entitlements.
Liberalism was only ever an adjudication mechanism for a preexisting moral people group. It was a way for various Western European Christians to work out their grievances peacefully. It was never meant to represent or be wielded by hostile hordes of Third Worlders against Americans. It's purpose is nullified under these conditions.
Mexicans might be good at building things, but they are not Western European. Indians might allegedly be very smart (they're not), but they still worship a heretical pantheon of blue elephant monkey gods. Neither are Americans, they just want access to American riches, and they will say anything to get proximity to these riches.
Our tolerance of others was always contingent on their ability to emulate Western European ways of being. When blacks were still mostly Christian and behaved themselves (or were made to behave), they were largely tolerated. Now that those expectations are gone (or made illegal) and they once again behave like Africans. The fatigue climbs daily.
The French tried their hand at an American-style Revolution. It looked more like Lenin than Jefferson and ended with Napoleon. They were both Western European and largely Christian and even they couldn't pull it off. Leftism was spawned from their failed attempt.
No one who should be taken seriously actually thinks that the Somali migrant cares about, is capable of, or wants to preserve "individual liberty". There is no amount of paperwork or government documentation that will make them an American. This is why we call them "paperwork Americans".
The idea that they can is the type of nonsense that people like James Lindsey still try to push, not realizing that it's just Blank Slatism with extra steps.
The material conditions necessary for liberalism are mostly gone, we can go back to spirited college debates about individual liberty once those preconditions are once again met.
As Christianty has faded or been made illegal and the founding American stock has been diluted with compounding waves of Third World waste, liberalism has proven to be incapable of solving these issues. That's because it was never meant to.
No one on the "post-liberal Right" hates America or thinks that the founding was a mistake (with the possible exception of Curtis Yarvin, still love you Curtis). We are simply realists who are able to look around and see what time it is.
The only question that matters now is: "what is an American?" or more accurately, "what do Americans do with non-Americans?"
The way this question gets answered over the next decade will decide the fate of the next 250 years of our continent.
The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he is dirt and he doesnt even notice because there is milk on the floor again. the childfree man has read eleven books this year about the decline of the west and he is the decline and the books are the evidence and he will understand this at fifty eight in a room that is very clean and very quiet
@stoxkcharts@AJA_Cortes@martyrdison Same thing happened to my girl. Thank God I was walking her and not my wife.
Found out recently the shitbull was on it's last chance at the shelter because it had been returned so many times, until the current owners took it in.
@mprice14@ReformedWriter@memeticsisyphus Michael, you may not know this, but in the United States, "cunt" is not commonly used and is generally seen as a particularly nasty slur against women. Should we convict you of hate speech? Do you see the slippery slope this leads to?
The SEC is a rare instance of an insulated and self sufficient dating market, that outsiders can neither infiltrate nor fully understand. It is the last remaining functional dating subculture in USA, with healthy incentives for relationship formation still reasonably intact. 1/8
Gonna try to explain this to tech CEOs again: Young Americans are pissed. They feel betrayed. Half have embraced the far right & want to cut off your access to cheap foreign labor. The other half have embraced the far left & want to cut off your head. One side will win. Choose.
@YFPixel@ChristianHeiens It would have been nice of them to explain that in the movies, rather than counting on people to have read the books, some of which are no longer canon.
@LilFrier@mauthe_doog As an addendum, I don't think young men go out of their way to listen to pop. I worked on-air at a pop radio station from 2021-2025 and about 95% of callers were young women.
@LilFrier@mauthe_doog He's the first that came to mind because he's wildly popular in my area (he grew up here).
Most of the people I know well enough to know their music tastes are in their late 20's so that would probably skew the data a bit. Do younger men really care about rock? Idk.