Orderly? Yes. The English have a great reputation for that.
But, England also has a rich history of righteous rebellion against tyranny.
Here are some examples of historic English rebellions and the causes of those rebellions:
Rebellion of the Marches / Baronial conflicts (1312–1326): Causes: Baronial resentment of royal favorites, fiscal policies, and governance failures.
Lollard / Oldcastle Revolt (1414)
Causes: Religious dissent against the Church and desire for reform.
Cornish Rebellion (1497): Uprising in Cornwall against Henry VII. Causes: Opposition to heavy taxation for wars against Scotland.
Bigod's Rebellion (1537): Causes: Continued discontent with Henry VIII's policies.
Kett's Rebellion (1549): Causes: Enclosure of common lands, rising food prices, economic grievances against the gentry, and some religious discontent amid Protestant reforms.
Prayer Book Rebellion (Western Rebellion, 1549): Causes: Opposition to the English-language Book of Common Prayer and economic issues like enclosures
Monmouth Rebellion (1685): Causes: Protestant fears of James's Catholicism
Pentrich Rising (1817): Causes: Economic distress and demands for parliamentary reform.
I can't help but think that these previous generations of English citizens would have certainly rebelled by now over the modern abuse suffered by English children at the hands of barbaric invaders, and the prolonging of that suffering caused by the neglect and heinous cover-up by law enforcement. The causes of these historic rebellions are much less significant than that, and they rebelled anyway.
But, our modern English brothers have not rebelled. Why not? My guess is that the English were disarmed in 1988 and 1997.
I love England and I want to understand how I can legally help.
Before giving this speculation/claim any credibility, one should remember the testimony of Alex Jones from a deposition on March 14, 2019 with attorney Mark Bankston:
Bankston: Okay, Mr. Jones. You would agree with me that when some damage happens, when you break something, when you cause something to be lost, when you hurt somebody, whether it’s intentional or whether it’s a mistake, there’s consequences for that, right? People should be accountable for the people they hurt?
Jones: Well, sometimes people claim they’ve been hurt when they haven’t been. So you have to look at the agenda behind things. ...
Jones: And I, myself, have almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I’m now learning a lot of times things aren’t staged. So I think, as a pundit, someone giving an opinion, that, you know, my opinions have been wrong; but they were never wrong consciously to hurt people.
Bankston: You said false things about Sandy Hook because it was psychosis?
Jones: Well, I’m just saying that the trauma of the media and the corporations lying so much, then everything begins — you don’t trust anything anymore, kind of like a child whose parents lie to them over and over again, well, pretty soon they don’t know what reality is.
The 20th century's worst famines clustered under centralized, non-market systems:
-Soviet Union (Holodomor 1930s: millions).
-China Great Leap Forward (1959-1961: tens of millions).
Read the Institutional Causes of
China’s Great Famine,
1959–1961, XIN MENG, Australian National University, NANCY QIAN, Yale University and PIERRE YARED, Columbia University 2015 (Eds.)
No large-scale counterexample exists of sustained hunger reduction without markets and property rights.
Exactly. The moral good is placed entirely in the showing of intentions. Results are ignored. Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich demonstrated this well in 2007. He said, "Budgets are more than a series of numbers. They're moral documents that reflect your priorities." He used this framing to lobby for a $950,000,000 spending increase aimed at expanding preschool access, hiring state troopers, and funding healthcare.
If you feel raw about this then I hate to think how you feel about social security. Under social security, the u.s. treasury can (and does) use the incoming cash for general government spending. Under Trump accounts, Govt/philanthropic seeds (e.g., $1,000 pilot or private) are disbursed by the u.s. treasury or donors directly to the beneficiary's account. Even when funded by government, they are treated as targeted deposits to the individual accounts, NOT general spending offsets.
@hotahotasa45082 You need to fight. Do not let Japan be transformed into a multicultural mess. Do not pass this fight onto the next generation. The next generation is counting on you to act.
I highly recommend "The Real Lincoln" and "Lincoln Unmasked" both by Thomas DiLorenzo
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War: Dilorenzo, Thomas J.: 9780761526469: https://t.co/7rFReiuwgo: Books https://t.co/aoMmopZ7Mw
Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe: Dilorenzo, Thomas J.: 9780307338426: https://t.co/7rFReiuwgo: Books https://t.co/sdCJIAbePd
Jeremy Bentham wrote, "What natural fixed price can there be for the use of money more than for the use of any other thing?... were it not then for custom, usury... would not then so much as admit of a definition."
Lending a coin is not metaphysically different than lending a bicycle.
@jwsherrod@MarketAnarchyRx@AnaKasparian What if I were to copy and paste his point and subtract the insult? Then how would you respond? Thank you in advance.
@jwsherrod@MarketAnarchyRx@AnaKasparian Charles made a very interesting point. It would be productive of you to ignore the perceived insult and address the substance.
"Everything the Chinese have is voluntary. 95% approval from the public is a thunderous endorsement."
You're kidding. You write as if you've never heard of falsification and repression under communism. The 95% approval that you site probably came from the Harvard Ash Center study. Harvard is well funded by the CCP and has even engaged in programs training dozens of CCP officials.
I've spoken with people who escaped Communist China. Chinese law and practice hand out strong penalties for dissent. They regularly detain people for "subversion of state power" or "picking quarrels and provoking trouble". Protection of the right to free speech and press and freedom to peaceably assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances are completely foreign ideas to their minds.
The man I know told a story of how the CCP smashed his violin because it was "bourgeois". Do you think that people who are subject to such intimidation are going to dissent on the record? What a joke.
He made a plan of escape when he saw people being forced to work in short shifts while naked in the snow on the railroad. The idea was that they would work fast because of the cold, and earn the chance to return to the fire barrel to warm up again. That was the last straw for him, and he escaped to the USA. That was the 1980s.
In modern times (March 2026) we have the recent story of Gao Zhen. CCP seized his artworks and prevented his family from leaving China. He faced a secretive, non-public trial on charges of "insulting revolutionary heroes and martyrs". The intimidation and repression are constant and overwhelming, and none of them are armed to fight tyranny. But, you trust the 95% approval line? That's gullible.
@RockChartrand@ProudSocialist " Prior to capitalism forcing itself onto the world..."
Wow. Talk about projection. Capitalism emphasizes consensual trade. Communism is the ultimate use of force.
@hotahotasa45082@Yogobobcat Because of X, we can basically replace the rotten media with ourselves. We have several competing sources of news from which to choose. It was not possible until this technology existed.
Contrast these two quotes:
“The people’s representatives will reach their destination, invested with the highest confidence and unlimited power. They will show great character. They must consider that great responsibility follows inseparably from great power. To their energy, to their courage, and above all to their prudence, they shall owe their success and their glory.”
--from the collection of decrees made by the French National Convention, May 8, 1793
"...in questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."
--Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Fair Copy of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
@hotahotasa45082 When I visit Japan, I want to see authentic Japan. I do not want to see an East Asian imitation of Pakistan. Japan should reject Muslim immigration.