Actually I want a totalitarian strongman fascist dictator tyrant or whatever word describes the guy who gets these foreigners out of our country by any means necessary without any regard for existing legal authority in order to secure a future for my children and crush our enemies in the process.
L’Odyssée s’achève littéralement par l’exécution des étrangers qui abusaient de l’hospitalité de la famille d’Ulysse (les prétendants).
L’Iliade décrit littéralement le siège brutal d’une ville parce que l’un de ses princes avait abusé de l’hospitalité de Menelas en séduisant sa femme.
Leçon finale des deux poèmes homériques : les vrais hommes châtient impitoyablement les étrangers qui abusent de leur hospitalité.
On peut partager ou non cette vision mais le poète fait l’éloge d’hommes qui ne se laissent pas marcher dessus par des étrangers qui abusent de leur bonté.
Suitor - “we lived off your lands, but we did not kill anyone. What is our crime?”
Odysseus - “Your crime is that you tried to steal my world. The world I built…”
I've watched The Odyssey. It's much worse than I expected.
There's a lot I could pick apart and I intend to write a full review, but for now I will say the ending reveals Nolan’s adaptation as basically a safe Hollywood inversion of Homer.
Homer does not glorify war and Odysseus grieves over Troy, but he does it without repudiating the heroic world. He learns to master his greatness and return it to the service of his homeland and household, destroying the usurpers consuming his estate and restoring order to Ithaca.
Nolan’s Odysseus, who is sanitised into a familiar modern archetype of the conflicted war-verteran, instead completes his arc by confronting his repressed guilt over Troy (with the help of his therapist Athena) then leaves Ithaca with Penelope. Homecoming and restoring order to home can't be a satisfying fulfilment, just another stage in his therapeutic story of guilt and atonement.
Obviously, a story celebrating homeland, lineage and violently removing unwelcome outsiders was uncomfortable for Nolan, who recently summarised the moral of his story as "be kind to strangers." Don't listen to anyone claiming he pulled someting brilliantly subversive here.
Even independent of the messaging though, this just a dreary, lifeless slog. It never feels like an epic. It never feels like it comes anywhere near matching the scope of its source material.
Also, people really had a point about how colourless everything looked in the previews. This never feels like it's set in the Mediterranean. Grey beaches, pale blue skies, Viking longboats, it's really like Nolan went out of his way to make everything look as sterile as possible. That seemed like a minor complaint to me at first, but over 3 hours it becomes draining.
And do not pay to see this movie. If anything, watching it off the big screen will show you how hollow it is outside Nolan's IMAX spectacles.
If the British police were doing their job they would search every mosque for stockpiles of weapons, but they’re too gutless to do it because they know what they’d find, and somebody might call them racist. It’s safer to harass people for expressing opinions online.
This is the answer to "why can't we just let in all the good ones?"
This is the author of "The Boondocks," a comic strip and TV cartoon that desperately tried to reconcile the black experience with Western Civilization for decades, and failed.
He failed because the black experience cannot be reconciled with Western Civilization, because blacks either cannot or do not want to behave in a way that is functional within Western Civilization.
His mistake was trying to bring the rest of his people with him into reason and civility, which cannot be done.
Every single one of them (the "good ones") will make this mistake over and over forever because they have no choice. They cannot exit who and what they are, so they will always attempt to include the rest of their own kind after being included as "the exception."
This is also true of Muslims and Indians and so on. Every single one of them will bring the problems of their people with them, even if their true intention is to help their people rise above.
They have no choice.
I have occasionally been asked dismissively why I care about what's been happening in the UK as an American. When I've highlighted the extremity of the issues that have manifested there (and elsewhere in Europe) to friends or family here, I'm met with indifferent looks and "Who cares, that's over there."
But I care first and foremost because it is right (I don't understand how anyone can be indifferent to the Rape Gangs for example), and second because the failings of the UK (or other European nations, or South Africa, etc.) are a portent into our own future if we allow circumstances here to mirror those that enabled the situations there.
Churches are burning across the United States because in certain areas Muslims have reached a demographic inflection point beyond which their behavior becomes exceedingly predictable. It happened with historical examples like Lebanon, and it is happening in the present day in various European nations.
There is a clear pattern with Muslims where at the onset when there are very few of them they will lay low and generally not rock the boat too much. Then as their numbers increase they will start to demand special privileges (i.e. your essential rights to free speech do not apply to criticism of Islam or Mohammed). As they grow further they will start to make grand displays of conquest (mass public prayer spacial takeovers, obnoxious and intrusive loud calls to prayer). Around the same time they will become outwardly hostile to displays of other faiths (church burnings, physical altercations with non-Muslims in their areas). And finally above a certain threshold they become militantly intolerant and outwardly violent, demanding total subjugation of non-Muslims.
This pattern is predictable and repeats itself everywhere they go without exception. Mamdani's victory in NYC appears to have triggered some kind of inflection point where the Muslims perceive themselves as having attained enough political power and demographic insurgency (even though it is concentrated in NY, MI, and TX) that they are escalating to the hostility stage.
This means that we in the United States are going to be subjected to the exact same horrors and issues that have manifested across Europe, and all of this could have easily been prevented by actually understanding what was happening over there and preventing these hostile, adversarial people from ever arriving on our shores in the first place.
For so long it was dismissed as a European problem because our migrant invasion skewed towards Latin Americans, but this perception is out of date and masked the Islam problem by covering it in a blanket of Mexican Catholics. And so while yes we were dealing with more Mexicans, Muslim invasion was not zero, and they have gradually accumulated people such that the inevitable consequences of tolerating them have started to materialize.
The best time to do something about this was years ago by preventing them from coming in the first place. The second best time to do something about it is now. For in Europe we can understand what it means to tolerate Islam.
To tolerate Islam is to tolerate:
> Sporadic indiscriminate terrorist attacks (i.e. Buford's Backyard Beer Garden shooting - Austin, Texas)
> Church burnings (i.e. the quoted post)
> Territorial takeover and imposition of Islamic parallel governance (i.e. Dearborn, Muslim only housing development in Texas)
> Erosion of historical rights and particularly free speech (i.e. Dallas Forth Worth police harassing street preachers for "offense," de facto "blasphemy" laws)
> Muslim hostility towards non-Muslims practicing their norms (i.e. man threatened with knife for walking dog near a mosque)
> Rape Gangs (Not strictly Muslim behavior, skews towards specific regional backgrounds like Pakistani/Bangladeshi, but we see an example of early signs of this in Saskatoon, Canada where men were caught recording children at a pool. This WILL manifest here if we import these people).
> Two-tier policing / anarcho-tyranny (We already have our own form of this in the light touch the justice system is giving to American Blacks, but it will be exacerbated as Muslims increase and especially as they gain political power).
None of this is acceptable, and all of it is the obvious, inevitable outcome to anyone who has been paying attention. If we refuse to learn from the catastrophic example in Europe we consign ourselves to precisely the same horrors they have been subjected to.
We cannot coexist with Islam, and in this case Freedom of Religion acts as a pernicious loophole that will kneecap our ability to meaningfully deal with this problem once it has been imported. The Constitution will be exploited to protect them but it will absolutely not protect us.
It's therefore essential to not allow them into the country in the first place. And further, I think we must seriously reconsider our willingness to tolerate the Islamic faith. Revising the First Amendment is probably impossible under current polarization right now, and it would be risky in general because any revision attempt might be subverted by Leftist tyranny, but this historical freedom will be exploited in a way that the current Liberal paradigm has no defense for.
Islam will be our undoing and the death of all our freedoms if it cannot be addressed. We cannot tolerate it. It must be expelled from our shores. And if we cannot do this our norms and our way of life has no future. Our people will be subjugated. It is inevitable.
I will not tolerate Islam. Will you?
Patriot Front is banned from X. Antifa is not.
Antifa is collectivist, antisemitic, violent, and anti-white.
PF is collectivist, antisemitic, non-violent, and pro-white.
The difference is anti- vs. pro-white.
Either both should be banned or neither.
It should be consistent.
This is just a sample; the full 162-page report lays out the entire Radical Left ideological capture of the Smithsonian — which the Trump Administration is rightfully correcting.
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE: https://t.co/6zIXxCkBiH
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Of course the poems are about war and women have always had a peripheral role in war, but if you wanted to explore the inner lives and struggles of those women you could read Euripides. I doubt she has. I doubt her education made her aware of those plays. Instead it molded her, and millions like her, to center herself in every discussion, to demand to be the focus even when inappropriate. It’s obviously worked out well for her.
The communist always must destroy your history. History is what attaches you to something. Memories make a home. The communist attacks your history to unmoor you from your home, so you won’t fight him when he demolishes it and renovates it in his image.
This Mamdani-style anti-American chic that gets gushing reviews from self-hating upper class neurotics is just a revived late-sixties/early 70s fad that was boring and stupid then, and still is now
One day, some years from now, a documentary will feature the footage these images came from.
It will pause and zoom in on the Princess of Wales.
The narrator will ponder her expression:
"Was it concern? Indignation? Fear? What must she have been thinking at the time? What did she know?"
He will wonder:
"Did the Princess understand the depth of the anger her subjects felt? Did she even know why they were angry?
Did she realise that in just 9 days, the then Prime Minister, the hopelessly unpopular Starmer, would announce his resignation - only to be replaced by the even less popular, and even more tyrannical, Burnham?
Was she aware of Operation Hexagon? Did she understand Burnham's role in it?"
The narrator will continue:
"And what did the Princess know of her own family's plans? Did she know that her father-in-law, King Charles III, was less than two weeks shy of using the Sovereign Grant Report to relinquish his role as "Defender of the Faith", instead declaring himself a defender of a space, in which multiple faiths could belong?
These two events - Starmer's concession to Burnham and Charles' concession to Islam - occurred just days apart and with remarkably little fanfare at the time. Yet they are now broadly viewed as marking a key point in time: the point beyond which the fall of the House of Windsor became inevitable..."
The documentary will be titled: "The Last Queen of Britain".