Oplakany

Quasimodo predicted all of this.

[Matt Strickland @MattForVA]

A lot of you probably heard @GregoryKBovino say there are actually 107 million people illegally in the U.S. I think he’s right.

I’m from Northern Virginia. Born & raised, been here all my life besides military service & deployments.

Driving through Alexandria, VA yesterday, I noticed something very obvious.

I didn’t see one white nor black person walking down the streets. Not one, and I paid attention.

The first thing that came to mind was how it felt like Iraq.

Middle Eastern kids on bikes and women in hijabs waiting to cross the street.

I went into a grocery store and was literally the only white person there.

I was born in Alexandria and grew up in Woodbridge.

Woodbridge is no different. It’s flooded with people from Central America.

They just caught the leader of MS13 in Woodbridge a few months ago.

When I walk into stores in my old neighborhoods they look at me like they saw a ghost.

Kind of like the looks I got in Iraq. Their look says, “wtf are you doing here.”

Some things you don’t need stats or hard numbers for, just look around.

America has been invaded, and parts have been conquered.

[Oplakany @oplakany]

@marceelias The first rule of leftism: lie about everything.

[Oplakany @oplakany]

@WesternLensman He’s here to suck dick and hate whites, and he’s all out of dicks.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

There has never been an institution, public or private, that deliberately drove white men out of leadership and then became more effective and successful as a result. Driving out white men has always resulted in decline. In every case. Every time.

[Oplakany @oplakany]

@GovernorShapiro Fuck off fraudster.

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

I have not seen a better argument for the AfD than the beginning of this hit piece from The Atlantic
I'm not kidding

[Oplakany @oplakany]

@yoursnandieni Yes, please punish us.

[Dissident West @dissidentwest]

They’ll use flock cameras to hunt down a white guy who picked up a twenty dollar bill on the side walk but turn a blind eye to hood cartels running around with enough weapons to equip a small army.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Kara Swisher blames the WNBA's problems on "asshole straight men."

"They just can't just stop attacking these women. I think it's misogynist. I think it's racist."

Yes, that's totally it. Men are the real problem in all of this.

Really nailed it.

[Oplakany @oplakany]

@WesternLensman Left behind? You’ve been lapped.

[9mmSMG @9mmsmg]

I always hear that cops only like arresting black people. My friend switched careers after ten years as a LEO because every day he'd pray he wouldn't have to arrest or pull over a black person.

Every single traffic stop was a nightmare. Nearly every single person cried racism, regardless of what they had done. Almost every call, they would fail to listen to the most basic orders like "please dont reach into the center console."

He'd have to call a supervisor for routine traffic stops. Speeding tickets would escalate to felony evasion. Every day he'd pray he never had to get in a gun fight with a black person because the city where he worked would leave him out to dry.

Out looking to harass black people? He quit because he couldn't handle the stress of having to deal with them. He quit and makes cabinets now. Much easier to deal with.

[Oplakany @oplakany]

@312SportsChi @dan_bernstein Bernstein and his girlfriend can eat a bag of dicks.

[Oplakany @oplakany]

@thescorechicago You don’t have one compelling personality on AM 670. There is no one I want to listen to. Lucky for you your competitor doesn’t have much more. The Score is like The Tonight Show after Johnny Carson, a corpse that keeps cashing checks but is of interest to no one.

[Oplakany @oplakany]

@TheChiefNerd Hillary Clinton is Satan’s daughter.

[Oplakany @oplakany]

@DTDavisPhD @CaseyKrol When accusations of “racism” no longer make us fall into the fetal position they have nothing.

[Oplakany @oplakany]

@OpenSourceZone @VoteHub @ZacharyDonnini They are incompatible with western culture. This will not end well.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The conventional explanation for Rome’s demographic collapse is wealth. People got comfortable. They stopped having children. It happens to every prosperous civilization. Nothing to be done.

This is wrong. Or rather, it is incomplete in the way that matters most.

Rome didn’t stop having children because it got wealthy. It stopped having children because it built a welfare state – and the welfare state did what welfare states always do: it replaced the incentives that make people build families with incentives that make people consume instead.

The grain dole began modestly. Around 40,000 recipients in 73 BC. By Caesar’s time: 320,000. That eightfold expansion in under three decades was not a plan – it was a political mechanism. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

The dole didn’t just feed people. It changed what people were for. A Roman citizen with guaranteed grain, free entertainment at the arena, and no frontier left to conquer has no pressing need to build anything – including a family. Children are a project. Projects require purpose. The welfare state had quietly removed the purpose while appearing to provide security.

Augustus saw the birth rate collapsing and did what statists always do: he legislated. The Lex Julia, the Lex Papia Poppaea – penalties for the unmarried, rewards for the fertile, the full power of the empire deployed to engineer a baby boom by decree. It didn’t work. It never works. You cannot legislate desire. You cannot fine people into wanting a future.

What Augustus didn’t have was Mises and Hayek. He didn’t understand that the system he was trying to fix with more intervention was being destroyed by the intervention he had already deployed. He saw the symptom — falling birth rates — and reached for the tool he knew: state power. He didn’t see the cause, because no one in his world had yet articulated it: when you replace personal purpose with state provision, you replace the human drive to build with the human tendency to consume. The dole didn’t just feed the hungry. It fed the purposeless.

We have Mises. We have Hayek. We have the complete theoretical account of what the welfare state does to human motivation, to family formation, to the incentive structures that make people want to build something that outlasts them. We know what Augustus didn’t know. We know why the laws failed. We know what produces the behavior he was trying to legislate into existence.

The answer is not more legislation. It is less welfare state. Not because cruelty is a virtue – but because purpose is. The person who must build to survive builds. The person who must form a family to transmit what they have built forms one. The person who receives guaranteed grain, guaranteed entertainment, and guaranteed security from the state has been given everything except the reason to do any of those things.

Scrap the socialism. Restore the purpose. The birth rate will follow – not because anyone ordered it, but because people who have something to build and something to transmit tend, given the choice, to build and transmit.

Rome didn’t know it had a choice. We do.

[Oplakany @oplakany]

@JBPritzker For illegal aliens.

[Oplakany @oplakany]

@imkiddingrelax1 @NUCLRGOLF Sixsomes are microaggressions.

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@sportsrapport @PWSullivan I believe they jumped the shark long ago. Sports talk is ubiquitous now and somehow they have reached a point where they have zero talent. There is no one on that station I am interested in listening to. They are a long way from the days of Ditka and Boers.