Christoph Neidhart, who lived in the Soviet Union during its final years as a correspondent for the Swiss news magazine Die Weltwoche, could only remember one: grey. ‘The Soviet grass was grey,’ according to Neidhart, ‘as was Soviet snow and the Soviet people.’ Soviet greyness spread like a fog to the socialist satellite states: the German Democratic Republic, a BBC report on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall tells us, was ‘grey, regimented and plagued by shortages.’ For anti-communists in particular, greyness was ubiquitous, indeed almost unbounded, manifesting primarily in architecture and a lack of consumer goods but spreading to people, modes of thought, or forms of behaviour. In Czesław Miłosz’s classic anti-communist study The Captive Mind, he depicts a ‘chronic lack of consumer goods’ rendering the masses ‘uniformly grey and uniformly indignant’. Even ethics assumed a grey quality: the historian Tony Judt spoke of a ‘grey veil of moral ambiguity’ operating in communist states, which were characterised by citizens’ collusion in their own oppression.
Repealing the 15th is key. Putting some basic socioeconomic requirement to vote would keep many Dem leaning demographics from drowning out the votes of our more productive citizens
The 14th is abused heavily as well. 17th basically stole power from the states and gifted it to cities. The 19th... A no brainer there. Universal suffrage is a mistake and a vote should be earned through service or something. Not just handed out for free to the lowest in society that offer nothing and take everything.
Exactly. They wanted only people who wanted to participate to be the voters. Basically men of honor.
Universal suffrage has watered down the vote into worthlessness. I think everyone should have a right to vote but that everyone should not be just allowed a vote without proving their honor. Some sort of required service or military service. Something that shows you wish to be a true citizen.
We have a right to bear arms, but a lot of places make it nearly impossible. If they get away with it, I'm not sure why there isn't a requirement for voting.
Unpopular opinion but voting shouldn't even necessarily be about productivity. Ideas are qualitative, it has nothing to do with the quantity of economic output. Genuinely caring about the nature of existence is what makes someone a philosopher, and I agree with Plato that they are most fit to rule.
Here’s the issue. We have a massive underclass voting for people who want to use the state’s coercive powers to take money and resources from the more productive members of society. We either need constitutional reforms stopping this transfer of resources or we need to keep that underclass from voting.
Voting itself is pretty strange when you think about it. Politics is something that effects everyone, but it's also a very specific art that demands mastery. Imagine if generals were selected based on popularity, or doctors, engineers, or pilots for that matter.
Thomas Paine once wrote "A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician" to criticize the monarchy, but is a doctor or mathematician selected through universal voting any less absurd? Popularity often has nothing to do with meritocracy.
I love T. Paine. Dude was ahead of his time. The founding fathers considered him a trouble maker and contrarian. He quite enjoyed poking holes in ideas to expose the weaknesses. He would have loved P.Win, memes and all.
I'd argue that Thomas Paine was pretty foolish about the "hereditary doctor" concept being absurd.
If anything, various professions were so incredibly hereditary that various surnames have even come about because generations of fathers taught their sons their jobs and generations of mothers did the same with their daughters.
Miller, Smith, Carpenter, Baxter, Fisher, Skinner, Tanner, Taylor are all professions and very much passed on from generation to generation.
Heck, to give you a good example of a "hereditary doctor" - many of the doctors that treated the Islamic Caliphs in medieval times came from Arab Christian physician families, who, generation after generation, produced doctors that served high dignitaries in the Caliphate.
A hereditary doctor is literally the norm for most of history.
But a doctor voted upon by a group of people, who know nothing of what a doctor does, is truly absurd.
Unpopular opinion perhaps... but showing up every two years to vote is NOT participation. Massive vavancies remain in precinct positions. Most pedes have never even attended a local political meeting of any sort-- precinct, county, school board, etc.
A lot of idiots in Philly really did support him. I drove through a liberal Philly neighborhood shortly before the election and saw probably hundreds of Fetterman signs and not a single Oz sign over a several mile drive.
I keep wondering how 250,000 unverified ballots got sent out fraudulently weeks before the election and nobody - literally nobody, even amongst PA Republicans - made a fuss about it, especially after Fetterman "won" due to winning most of the "mail in ballots" vote.
At this point, I have to admit the GOP are fully in cahoots with the Dems.
You think if Republicans were winning mail in ballots vote and 250K "unverified ballots" got sent out by the local government, there wouldn't be a nation wide media barrage about "GOP using fraud" to win?
Like, at this point, if the GOP themselves are fully choosing to lose the vote, what the fuck is MAGA doing, still trying to court these fuckers?
I genuinely have no fucking idea what we're supposed to do at this point.
All the conflicting information coming out from Trump.
The nonsense fight between him and DeSantis.
The glaringly obvious "mail in ballots" fraud and all on our side advocating for "ballot harvesting better" rather than fighting for election integrity.
Honestly, I'm at a point where I'm just keeping the faith going but am tired of getting dissapointed.
I'll never understand why they picked Dr Oz. It was a cynical choice in a race they thought was a sure bet. If you disrespect the electorate, don't be surprised when they throw shit back at you.
As conservatives, we have to admit we're mostly slacktivists. At least leftists are out there stuffing the ballot box, infiltrating schools, grooming kids, getting people hooked on drugs and pornography, laundering shit coin, instituting mask and vaccine mandates. Those may all be bad things, but at least they're motivated to do them. We make memes and hope for the best. If we're going to win in 2024, we need to do more than memes.
As much as I disagree with everything this guy stands for, we all fucked up with this guy. He’s goofy af. Never underestimate a goof being popular among idiots.
The people of Pennsylvania deserve better. If Fetterman won’t resign to be replaced by someone more competent, then we have no choice but to take more decisive action to force his sorry ass out
I dread the coming day when this guy stands up to speak and begins frothing and twitching. We cannot allow people in office who are medically unfit, or senile but unable to give up power, or puppets of foreign nations.
Some folks call it a Kaiser Blade
I like them French fried potaters.
I could use another 8 or 10 cans of that potted meat if you got any extry
You got any mustard mmhmm
I can tote yer wersh
Yabadabadoo.
Is it got chicken peckers in it?
And lips
Mustard biscuit
reckon I'll have me the biggin mmmmmHmmmm
I guess ya better get me the big 'uns...
Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade.
No bigger than a squirrel
Nice
UMMMM-HMMMM
whatchu like to eat in der mmmHmmm
I'd like me some french fried potaters.
"Ahight dien."
that also goes for retards and cocksuckers!
i calls it a sling blade mmmHmmm
Living a life where you "Just want to be left alone" empowers those who don't want to leave you alone.
The left has no desire or intention to leave us alone.
Notice Fetterman wears "communist gray"
Christoph Neidhart, who lived in the Soviet Union during its final years as a correspondent for the Swiss news magazine Die Weltwoche, could only remember one: grey. ‘The Soviet grass was grey,’ according to Neidhart, ‘as was Soviet snow and the Soviet people.’ Soviet greyness spread like a fog to the socialist satellite states: the German Democratic Republic, a BBC report on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall tells us, was ‘grey, regimented and plagued by shortages.’ For anti-communists in particular, greyness was ubiquitous, indeed almost unbounded, manifesting primarily in architecture and a lack of consumer goods but spreading to people, modes of thought, or forms of behaviour. In Czesław Miłosz’s classic anti-communist study The Captive Mind, he depicts a ‘chronic lack of consumer goods’ rendering the masses ‘uniformly grey and uniformly indignant’. Even ethics assumed a grey quality: the historian Tony Judt spoke of a ‘grey veil of moral ambiguity’ operating in communist states, which were characterised by citizens’ collusion in their own oppression.
That's how my close friends feel
"I just want to be left alone to do my own thing"
Well, bucko, the Left wants everything to do with you
We are called to be permanently vigilant of freedom’s promise, not hide on the homestead.
No man is an island.
No matter how much he wants to be.
The catch-22 of libertarianism
Plato was right about democracy
People vote for the best liars then vote counters pick their favorite.
Foolish will be the hunter who wants a rifle but thinks not of ammunition, trigger discipline, basic maintenance 101 and the ability to aim.
Foolish is the society that fails to understand this.
Live in this society, we do.
Society is flammable, just throwing that out there.
Highly. Standby for flash bang.
Mob rule.
Got much closer to mob rule since the passage of the 14th, 15th, 17th, and 19th.
Repealing the 15th is key. Putting some basic socioeconomic requirement to vote would keep many Dem leaning demographics from drowning out the votes of our more productive citizens
The 14th is abused heavily as well. 17th basically stole power from the states and gifted it to cities. The 19th... A no brainer there. Universal suffrage is a mistake and a vote should be earned through service or something. Not just handed out for free to the lowest in society that offer nothing and take everything.
Agreed. Universal suffrage is a mistake. The founders had no intention to implement universal suffrage when the constitution was written
Exactly. They wanted only people who wanted to participate to be the voters. Basically men of honor. Universal suffrage has watered down the vote into worthlessness. I think everyone should have a right to vote but that everyone should not be just allowed a vote without proving their honor. Some sort of required service or military service. Something that shows you wish to be a true citizen.
We have a right to bear arms, but a lot of places make it nearly impossible. If they get away with it, I'm not sure why there isn't a requirement for voting.
Only people who should be able to vote are those who contribute to society.
That’s it.
Hell, you’d cut down on a lot of the riff raff if you just charged $5 to cast a ballot.
only white land owning gentiles should be able to vote
ahem
19TH
Unpopular opinion but voting shouldn't even necessarily be about productivity. Ideas are qualitative, it has nothing to do with the quantity of economic output. Genuinely caring about the nature of existence is what makes someone a philosopher, and I agree with Plato that they are most fit to rule.
Here’s the issue. We have a massive underclass voting for people who want to use the state’s coercive powers to take money and resources from the more productive members of society. We either need constitutional reforms stopping this transfer of resources or we need to keep that underclass from voting.
Voting itself is pretty strange when you think about it. Politics is something that effects everyone, but it's also a very specific art that demands mastery. Imagine if generals were selected based on popularity, or doctors, engineers, or pilots for that matter.
Thomas Paine once wrote "A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician" to criticize the monarchy, but is a doctor or mathematician selected through universal voting any less absurd? Popularity often has nothing to do with meritocracy.
I love T. Paine. Dude was ahead of his time. The founding fathers considered him a trouble maker and contrarian. He quite enjoyed poking holes in ideas to expose the weaknesses. He would have loved P.Win, memes and all.
I'd argue that Thomas Paine was pretty foolish about the "hereditary doctor" concept being absurd.
If anything, various professions were so incredibly hereditary that various surnames have even come about because generations of fathers taught their sons their jobs and generations of mothers did the same with their daughters.
Miller, Smith, Carpenter, Baxter, Fisher, Skinner, Tanner, Taylor are all professions and very much passed on from generation to generation.
Heck, to give you a good example of a "hereditary doctor" - many of the doctors that treated the Islamic Caliphs in medieval times came from Arab Christian physician families, who, generation after generation, produced doctors that served high dignitaries in the Caliphate.
A hereditary doctor is literally the norm for most of history.
But a doctor voted upon by a group of people, who know nothing of what a doctor does, is truly absurd.
Or something less.
Funny thing is a lot of people interpret the quote to mean "get out and vote!" and Plato would be laughing from beyond the grave at the very notion.
Heck, the Founding Fathers straight up said Democracy was a farce and a terrible institution.
We did participate. They cheated. We are cucked faggots for not accepting that you have to fucking kill communists for them to stop.
Too much to lose. Everyone is cucked.
×100 :)
Unpopular opinion perhaps... but showing up every two years to vote is NOT participation. Massive vavancies remain in precinct positions. Most pedes have never even attended a local political meeting of any sort-- precinct, county, school board, etc.
Guy always looks like a bum. I can’t believe Pennsylvanians voted for this. I’ll never understand it.
yes
A lot of idiots in Philly really did support him. I drove through a liberal Philly neighborhood shortly before the election and saw probably hundreds of Fetterman signs and not a single Oz sign over a several mile drive.
I keep wondering how 250,000 unverified ballots got sent out fraudulently weeks before the election and nobody - literally nobody, even amongst PA Republicans - made a fuss about it, especially after Fetterman "won" due to winning most of the "mail in ballots" vote.
At this point, I have to admit the GOP are fully in cahoots with the Dems.
You think if Republicans were winning mail in ballots vote and 250K "unverified ballots" got sent out by the local government, there wouldn't be a nation wide media barrage about "GOP using fraud" to win?
Like, at this point, if the GOP themselves are fully choosing to lose the vote, what the fuck is MAGA doing, still trying to court these fuckers?
Agreed
I genuinely have no fucking idea what we're supposed to do at this point.
All the conflicting information coming out from Trump.
The nonsense fight between him and DeSantis.
The glaringly obvious "mail in ballots" fraud and all on our side advocating for "ballot harvesting better" rather than fighting for election integrity.
Honestly, I'm at a point where I'm just keeping the faith going but am tired of getting dissapointed.
Actually read it all and yes, absolutely.
I'm not a "blind faith" in Trump kinda guy.
But I really wish him the best.
They CHEATED.
Any info on the PA elections in this regard? I'll confess I've been too focused on the AZ steal to pay attention to this one.
The usual counting after the deadline of as many fake ballots as needed to "win"?
Not really. Oz rolled over like a little whiny-ass bitch and gave up straight away, like the carpet bagging piece of NJ shit he is.
They didn’t
I'll never understand why they picked Dr Oz. It was a cynical choice in a race they thought was a sure bet. If you disrespect the electorate, don't be surprised when they throw shit back at you.
There were so many better choices.
LOL
There’s a scene in that shitty Battleship film where they’ve captured one of the giant hulking aliens and take its helmet off.
The resemblance is uncanny
John "Aphasic Caveman" Fetterman: https://files.catbox.moe/wg17cl.jpg
Originally posted here: https://patriots.win/p/15K6qL5Lyo/-look-at-all-these-new-costumes-/c/
Over 50% of his votes were mail in. Another stolen election.
You want us to put water on the crops?… water, like out the toilet?
BRAWNDO - it’s got what plants crave. Electrolytes.
Eventually he gave up trying to explain, and told the people he could talk to plants and they told him that they wanted water.
Hahaha… I never seen a toilet with plants growing out of it
What's the penalty for not voting hard enough? AFAF
As conservatives, we have to admit we're mostly slacktivists. At least leftists are out there stuffing the ballot box, infiltrating schools, grooming kids, getting people hooked on drugs and pornography, laundering shit coin, instituting mask and vaccine mandates. Those may all be bad things, but at least they're motivated to do them. We make memes and hope for the best. If we're going to win in 2024, we need to do more than memes.
Yep, we're going to have to ballot harvest just like the demonic side or else we lose again.
I think the problem is we have too many who do "pariticipate"...
I got to live in the time of Fetterman
The neck lump still sticks out.
first thing I noticed too
Good night, everyone
Nothing against Dickies, but how disgraceful to wear that shirt for your official photo... Have a little respect for the office.
peak clown world
God accidentally married a small head to large body. Wonder if this mook has smooth brain.
He's got more than the usual caveman in his DNA that's for sure.
Guy that slouches around in a hoodie looking like he's gonna abduct children.
Plato obviously never knew of Dominion voting machines.
"Hey yoouu guuuuys"
Hey You Guys!
"Chomp! Chomp pa-chewy chomp."
This loser looks like the scale miners from Demon’s Souls.
Or you participate and the evil side just cheats.
Kek.
As much as I disagree with everything this guy stands for, we all fucked up with this guy. He’s goofy af. Never underestimate a goof being popular among idiots.
The people of Pennsylvania deserve better. If Fetterman won’t resign to be replaced by someone more competent, then we have no choice but to take more decisive action to force his sorry ass out
faggot looks like the fucking orc general from Return of the King
Is he really inferior to the average modern day leftist though? I mean, really?
The only person on the planet that he could beat was Oz
This was what I did, before 2020.
Chose to be uninvolved, since all I saw was propaganda and brainwashed masses everywhere I looked.
"I dearly love that little boy"
I dread the coming day when this guy stands up to speak and begins frothing and twitching. We cannot allow people in office who are medically unfit, or senile but unable to give up power, or puppets of foreign nations.
Even time I see that guy... my reaction is always the same
.............WTF!?............