I always loved how he cut his hair and clearly tried to look different and distance himself from this now immediately recognizable meme after it became so famous.
Know how to eliminate them? Stop abandoning the wife and daughters for a younger model to start a newer, "more exciting" family. That would go a long way in stopping the bullshit.
If they did, she was told he was a racist slave owner along with EVERY SINGLE OTHER WHITE PERSON! EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T OWN A SLAVE YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM BECAUSE WHITE!!!!! SINFUL, NASTY WHITE!
I wish more people felt that way. Even right here on TDW.
Too often it's "Give me liberty or give me death...unless it means I have to miss a day of work cause then I could lose my job which means I won't make my mortgage payment and I might have to move my family out of our house into an apartment in a different neighborhood while I look for another job and we might have to sell the second car and a few of my nine AR-15s I never plan on actually using to defend my liberty, and that sounds like a whole lot of hassle and I worked hard for this house and all these comforts and possessions and I really need the healthcare plan my job gives me so I guess I'm ok with losing some of my liberty piece by piece so long as my day to day life appears to be more or less the same for now. I'll just make sure I vote in a rigged election this November and post spicy memes. That's basically the same as being willing to die for liberty right?"
Insert meme of a Republican kneeling in front of a mass grave while a commie points a gun at him. He says "I could've stopped you, but some of us have to work for a living."
Fuck their signs. Walmart and the rest of them can eat a dick. I got plenty of options. My little local grocery chain doesn't have the thought police waiting to check me for my temp and make sure my mask is sufficient. I'll not go back until they rescind the mandatory mask baloney. My cows and horses don't give a good goddamn if I wear one and I rather be around them than 99.9% of people in walmart anyways.
I spoke somewhat to this yesterday in a different post: For me (and likely many others), the situation will have to become much worse before I am willing to put my life, and the well-being of my family, on the line.
You gotta pick the hill you want to die on... I haven't seen mine yet.
A lot of us are going to find that hill ends up being the very last hill and we've been entirely surrounded and there is no hope of victory and that our last chance at actually winning was when we were saying "it's not time yet".
Yeah, but if anyone tries to start anything their lives are ruined and not enough will follow, so they'll be branded terrorists and thrown in jail and their lives ruined for no change at all.
Give me liberty or give me death... unless death involves not using google, because there are just some things that google does that are invaluable to my work, you know? God, who wants to change email addresses.. again! Am I right?
Yup. Ask me to wear a mask to help my fellow citizens and I'll wear it more often. Force me under penalty of fine/prison and I'll wear it as little as possible. Just enough to not be fined/arrested.
Ask me to wear a SPECIFIC type/level mask with hard data proving its efficacy and usefulness to protect those around me as well as myself and I'll happily strap that puppy on every day.
Demand I wear ANY kind of covering under penalty in the absence of data and logic and... well... you have our current situation.
It's called scientific activism and it is based on emotions rather than fact, and if they make their intentions out to be good then it attracts all kinds of support, propelled further by the paid mainstream media.
In response to our mayor's mask mandate, I have a friend who has decided to wear a plague doctor mask; something that is ridiculous and that we know has no effect in stopping disease, but 100% meets the requirements of the mask order.
Is it absolutely ridiculous? Yes. Buuuut it keeps her out of trouble, and it drives the point home to everyone around her that she knows this is ridiculous.
Have you seen the covid ads on TV? Pure propaganda. It disgusts me every time a fucking CORPORATION and GOVERNMENT pretends to be for the common man. Sit and spin.
Im the same way but my boyfriend's parents are boomer age and watch TV all the time. I catch a glance every now and then. No wonder his mom believes in COVID.
I suspect a lot of people on our side would wear masks more often if they weren't trying to force us and shame us at every turn, not to mention blatant hypocrisies in abundance.
That's a fair take. I'll do it voluntarily to help someone else who's more afraid to feel better. If it's someone I know well, I'll try and educate them.
But threaten me with prison unless I do what you say? Then I start standing up for my rights. I wish I was strong enough to get arrested and challenge the local orders on Constitutional grounds, but I don't have spare tens of thousands of dollars to fight a long court case.
I wear a mask at work when I'm required because I entered an employment contact with them. They pay me and I do what they say. They can already make me wear a hard hat, body armor, safety goggles, a reflective vest, etc. They can throw a useless mask on top of that and I'll jump through those hoops because I voluntarily agreed to do so in exchange for money. But I'm not wearing that shit if you're not paying me to do so.
As long as you respect and don't degrade yourself if your boss asks you to "because he pays you", this makes sense. Otherwise that's being a wageslave.
Everyone should know that the left did a complete 180 about masks and lockdowns within the span of a month. It completely delegitimizes their narrative.
That’s my biggest gripe in all of this. We already have the right to keep our businesses open. Literally government’s entire job is just to protect our rights. That’s it. If we don’t want government protection, why must we close? We can defend ourselves if we want. If people attack us and we forgo government protection, then we should not be able to rely on government courts to redress damages.
government’s entire job is just to protect our rights
Allow me to respectfully disagree and/or be nitpicky.
The job of government is to recognize citizens have God-given rights it can't infringe on or face replacement, violent or otherwise, and help the citizens who's rights are infringed upon by other entities, foreign and domestic (other citizens, businesses, terrorists, states, you name it.) Its job is to put on the books the rules of society so that citizens can refer to those written rules and seek justice in the event their rights are infringed on.
On the contrary, I think it's the job of citizens to protect their rights against anyone who would infringe on them (including government), and petition the government for help in protecting them through the justice system.
William Wallace is historical figure with an associated legend, in the vein of King Arthur, still good lessons to be learned. Thanks for the Reminder on other two, The Patriot is in our “soon” list and we are waiting for a bit more maturity for Mohicans.
HBO is a really bipolar film/tv enterprise. On one hand, they've been censoring movies and made the godawful woke Watchmen series. On the other hand, they came out with Chernobyl last year, which absolutely destroys the Soviet Communist regime. Their John Adams miniseries from several years back was also excellent.
These people watch Chernobyl and think Trump is like that, they don't even realize it is real events that happened under the ideology they proclaim to want to take over
Yeah, but one of the great things about homeschooling is you can use cultural happenings and historical fiction (where I would place Wallace) to teach ethics, history, character, etc. as long as your guide/mentor/parent/teacher gives right interpretation. Think of the old times, when the prince had a tutor, such as Doctor Cornelius in Prince Caspian
they conflated things that happened to 2 people into 1 and created a couple of love stories to make the motivations easier to understand for anyone watching the movie with zero knowledge of the actual history. it is really tough to condense stuff for a movie or any medium besides books, I am doing something similar at the moment and I have altered the motivations of the main antagonist a second time because even though they were better before, the underlying story is too convoluted to present - there are other constraints than accuracy when you are making a product that people will consume in specific manner, in 1,5 to 2 hours etc
I used to hate what Hollywood did to real stories, but as I get more and more into the work of storytelling I understand the need to simplify and condense in order to make the story more compelling... if you want history read books
People like this don’t understand that when you give government an inch they take a mile. Tell me WHY your gay crossover suv should be able to go faster than 55, Karen. No one needs an assault Subaru. Think of the children. Wear your walking helmet and virus mask and your sterile bubble suit.
Its never ending.
I couldn’t help myself, as a car enthusiast most crossovers kind of make me puke. Also I live in Oregon so everyone and their lesbian aunt drives a Subaru.
LOL! gladly I don't live in Subaru-country 😁 sorry for the eye cancer they are giving you.
Now, back to the topic: If we could only ban those fully semi-automatic assault Subarus, imagine how safe our kids could be! wE nEeD cOmMoN sEnSe aSsAuLt sUbArU cOnTrOL!!
When parents scrimp and save to send their child to college, that opportunity was purchased with hard work and discipline. Turning around and giving that same opportunity to another child for free because his or her parents were lazy, undisciplined losers isn’t equality. It’s communism.
“Equality of opportunity” is a Trojan horse. Reasonable access to an acceptable quality of life is the only acceptable goal.
That's because that is how women are wired mentally. Safety and security at the expense of freedom. Trading submission to a man for protection and resources is how women survived, it's literally baked into their psychology as a survival mechanism and governments the world over know this and exploit it.
I also fully understand I'm going to get women around here going, "but I'M not like that. I don't want to give up freedom in exchange for safety!" You already did if you are actually a conservative woman and follow the "stay at home and take care of the house and kids while my husband works and supports our family" mindset. Even if you both work, if you defer to him and let him make the majority of the decisions and control things like the family finances you still are doing it. That's why it was so easy for you to slip into that roll. There's nothing wrong with that, you just have to realize that other women want to trade your husband's freedom for "security" which will take away your safety and security as they destroy society.
You’re right, and I understand that about women. I often think, “this is why men are better suited for policy making, tough decisions.” It still sounds sexist to me since that’s what I’ve been conditioned with for decades.
I really don’t think it is, though. Men and women have different but equally important strengths. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
This is less true. Women control the overwhelming majority of dollars spent from family households in the west. Men are so passive it's sad. Women often decide what house is bought when house shopping (for most families this is the largest spending decision they'll make). Cars purchased by families are marketed towards women (SUVs and Minivans), designed for women (moms, really), and ultimately bought by women.
It's amazing. Men are instinctively more pragmatic. Aesthetics and status matter less when your concerns of survival are adequate commuting from school/work/extracuricculars so as long as those baseline requirements are met, the women take the helm from there.
Women control the overwhelming majority of dollars spent from family households in the west.
There is a difference between spending money and managing the finances of the household. There was a story recently about a kid that managed to spend something like 20k on streamers that the parents are unable to get back. Is the child managing that houses finances or did he spend money and now the ones actually responsible for the finances are left trying to figure out how to patch things up?
The same is true of families in the west. The vast majority of women suck at managing money, but spend it like they're democrats handing out ballots. They then look to their husbands, boyfriends, and the random "guy friends" single women keep around just for that purpose to bail them out of the hole the woman got into. For the most part the men do by taking extra shifts, or getting a second job, or opening up another credit card. These same men then get told by their wives and girlfriends that he "can't" buy things he wants because "they don't have the money" because SHE needs the money to spend on stupid and pointless things.
"My money is my money, but his money is our money."
I wonder if the quotes mean "This word is very hard to appropriate, unlike other words like racism and discrimination. So let's just belittle its meaning entirely."
Freedom allows one to look after their own safety. Less freedom and more "safety" has never anded well for the ones losing freedom for safety. Freedom allows us to tell others to fuck off with their ideas of what is "safety" if those ideas are either inadequate or, worse, infringing on us. Freedom allows us to act on that so we can take our safety in to our own hands using our freedom.
That is why freedom AND The Second Amendment work very well together - it keeps the snakeoil salesmen and carpetbaggers who promise us safety at the cost of freedom away from us.
So a giant "FUCK YES!!!" to the question because freedom actually leads to safety.
Surprisingly many people don't actually want freedom. It's hard to understand at first but a lot of people are weak and just not capable of handling freedom. Because freedom requires responsibility. It's easier for some people just to be taken care of as long as you listen to whoever pulls the chains. We've all seen those brown nosers at work who suck up to the new boss the moment the old one is gone. No loyalty, only to money.
Apparently a ton of irrational women are living in a constant state of fear. Hate to generalize and sound sexist, cause I know there are a ton of based women on here, but it is women who are driving a lot of this horseshit.
I know some people around here hate the idea of a topic like this, but Evolutionary Psychology lays out a lot of uncomfortable truths about why humans behave like they do. (Some will understand that it goes along with the "God is a watchmaker not a parent" concept and see it for what it is) Women especially have a lot of issues as a result of being weaker and unable to survive without men supporting them. Easily lying and innately knowing how to manipulate to avoid being cast out of the group and dying, moving on from a relationship exceedingly fast to make sure they maintain resource acquisition, giving up freedom for safety and security, etc are all hardwired into the psychology of women because those things meant survival even just a century ago. Men are different in our innate nature but in other ways that are no less upsetting.
It's not nice and it hurts a lot of women's feelings to have things like that presented so bluntly. Society has done everything possible to cover up truths in the past century that we've known for many millennia and are spelled out in texts like the Bible because someone ignorant is easier to manipulate and control than someone with knowledge.
they paid their taxes so they must, by default, approve of every action their government decides... /s
Just like how we're supposed to comply with and enjoy wearing masks - the people making the decisions/mandates hate you with every fibre of their being and would happily see you suffocate through a mask or a welded door.
Also by pointing to Scandinavian Socialism which has worked really for 15 years until around 5 years ago. Having socialism that works really well is really hard when you import people who dont work, and just keep raising taxes because the government officials are corrupt and sell our country out to the EU and China, while the working man has to foot the bill for everyone.
These fucking retarded politicians proved that socialism dont even work in rich countries with endless natural resources because POLITICIANS are ALWAYS corrupt.
I'm a liberal (as in freedom and not socialist/sjw) purely to protect myself from the government because they always end up corrupt. Not because socialism dont work, it could've worked really well in Norway because we are low population and got a shitton of natural resources so we could eliminate taxes and use only export tax to fund everything, but because our politicians are corrupt and piss and steal our money away, it dont work. Norway is literally the only country I think it could work in if we had smart and good people running our country, and that is purely because we are a small country with a shitton of natural resources. We could finance all our social programs by export tax only
Many Americans today think "freedom" is like how the Europeans use the word: essentially just laws that can be overturned or overruled. Remember how they had "freedom of speech" for so many years, and now they don't? That's their understanding of the word.
As far as I can tell, the idea that we're all endowed with the same natural rights by our creator is too close to religious thinking, so verboten throughout the left. Also it would sound a lot like shitting on Europe for pretending to be like us while continuing to suck like always, also verboten to the left. So they threw away John Locke and the concept of negative rights entirely.
The real problem is that these are your kids teachers that we're talking about, so this is what's being taught in schools. So yeah, she probably was straight up taught by the American education system that freedom isn't real.
Well put. Liberty is no longer a birthright. It must be fought for and reestablished in the hearts of our children before it can be reestablished in our government.
lmao in Canada it seems so staggering to explain to people that "I don't give a shit what's written on paper". Like so so many people just can't wrap their heads around the concept that a bunch of British boot lickers wearing suits in a building 150yrs ago (or more so 40yrs ago) write a "constitution" and then people just sit back and say "well the constitution says we can suspend rights in 'reasonable' situations". No. I don't give a shit, you can't just 'suspend' rights without a proper trial for a specific crime comitted by a specific person.
Lawyers are honestly some of the worst for this. Teachers too. This idea that the system is correct so what the system says is the norm and it's ok. I don't give a shit about the constitution of my country, it's meaningless words as far as I'm concerned.
HARD yes
ERECT yes
ENGORGED yes
THROBBING yes
Guys, i have a problem. I've had a yes for longer than 4 hours. Should i call someone?
Call more ladies.
Not the lady holding the sign above
Make sure you have enough Courvoisier
And avoid the crazy-eyes type!
In not your Guy buddy
I'm not your buddy, fwend.
Take one eagle and call DHS in the morning
Think about Democrats and it'll subside.
This thread has impressive length
Nimble navigator!
I prematurely Yes'd on my girlfriends skirt
No, but thanks for asking!
That's a valid fetish, in this pede's opinion!
Priapistic yes
That's a girthy yes.
Beer can yes.
THROBBING, PULSATING, QUIVERING YES
Ha ha, username works out
How do you have safety and dignity without freedom?
You cant
Like gratitude and rational thought, dignity is a concept wholly unknown to leftists
Locked safely in a cage like a dog, they don't need freedom as long as they are GIVEN things
They are the recipient class, the takers of this world. The selfish.
And they project their selfishness onto us, as though we were the selfish ones. Kek
Dumbest poster I’ve ever read in my life.
There's a video of a white chick arguing with a native Hong Kong protester telling them to stop because of the reason above.
Feminism is the biggest scourge the world has ever know when it comes to men trying to build a better future.
40yo virgin is a movie about a bunch of simps trying to make their friend a simp too.
Yip, women (with few exceptions) in men's positions are an unmitigated disaster.
They did not evolve for that purpose and it shows.
Isn't that why it's a choice. Freedom or slavery l? /safety? That's why most of us agree. Freedom is NOT safe but 100 percent worth it.
That's called living...
DIAMOND-CUTTER YES!
BANG
Benjamin Franklin's "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Yeah but he was a white male so reeeeeee!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkX8ecKHWw4
Thank you for posting the actual quote.
He actually says “you’re fucking a white male,” which is just that much funnier
I always loved how he cut his hair and clearly tried to look different and distance himself from this now immediately recognizable meme after it became so famous.
lmao I'm a hispanic guy with dark skin and some girl I knew unironically called me a "privileged white male."
I really don't know how these people can ever function in society without logic or reason.
Know how to eliminate them? Stop abandoning the wife and daughters for a younger model to start a newer, "more exciting" family. That would go a long way in stopping the bullshit.
This quote is the first thing I thought of when seeing this idiot's sign. Did no one ever teach her this? WTF?
Probably not. Our public schools have absolutely failed in the teaching of US Civics.
When I was in elementary school they were teaching this stuff. So I'd say that a shift happened moreso than never tried.
Can attest to that, public school is garbage
we've gotta teach our own kids this stuff
If they did, she was told he was a racist slave owner along with EVERY SINGLE OTHER WHITE PERSON! EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T OWN A SLAVE YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM BECAUSE WHITE!!!!! SINFUL, NASTY WHITE!
Even if you owned a slave, who fucking cares.
Dude the ironic thing is this is probably a protest by teachers and she is a teacher.
She's a woman.
and will lose both.
And will lose both.
"Freedom is reserved to those willing to give their lives to defend it."
-Alfred Nobel
"I'ma gonna light this thing and throw it!" - Alfred Nobel
Give me liberty or give me death
I wish more people felt that way. Even right here on TDW.
Too often it's "Give me liberty or give me death...unless it means I have to miss a day of work cause then I could lose my job which means I won't make my mortgage payment and I might have to move my family out of our house into an apartment in a different neighborhood while I look for another job and we might have to sell the second car and a few of my nine AR-15s I never plan on actually using to defend my liberty, and that sounds like a whole lot of hassle and I worked hard for this house and all these comforts and possessions and I really need the healthcare plan my job gives me so I guess I'm ok with losing some of my liberty piece by piece so long as my day to day life appears to be more or less the same for now. I'll just make sure I vote in a rigged election this November and post spicy memes. That's basically the same as being willing to die for liberty right?"
Insert meme of a Republican kneeling in front of a mass grave while a commie points a gun at him. He says "I could've stopped you, but some of us have to work for a living."
You either die young or live long enough to become a boomer
Give me liberty or... Oh wait they put a sign up, better submit.
Fuck that. Not once since the AL mandate went into effect have I work a mask, even at work. Damn the commies.
Fuck their signs. Walmart and the rest of them can eat a dick. I got plenty of options. My little local grocery chain doesn't have the thought police waiting to check me for my temp and make sure my mask is sufficient. I'll not go back until they rescind the mandatory mask baloney. My cows and horses don't give a good goddamn if I wear one and I rather be around them than 99.9% of people in walmart anyways.
I spoke somewhat to this yesterday in a different post: For me (and likely many others), the situation will have to become much worse before I am willing to put my life, and the well-being of my family, on the line.
You gotta pick the hill you want to die on... I haven't seen mine yet.
A lot of us are going to find that hill ends up being the very last hill and we've been entirely surrounded and there is no hope of victory and that our last chance at actually winning was when we were saying "it's not time yet".
Yeah, but if anyone tries to start anything their lives are ruined and not enough will follow, so they'll be branded terrorists and thrown in jail and their lives ruined for no change at all.
It took me a minute to realize that gremlin in the corner was Trump lol. /pol/ can't make up their minds about him, which is a good thing imo
They're very reactionary. When he does something they don't like they completely turn. But then he does something they do and their right back on
You may be right.. time will tell
Choose, or the choice will be made for you.
Black pill thread
Give me liberty or give me death... unless death involves not using google, because there are just some things that google does that are invaluable to my work, you know? God, who wants to change email addresses.. again! Am I right?
Google wormed its way into everything. Apple and Microsoft aren't much better. Yahoo seems to have breaches every other week.
Your best option is hosting your own, but then you more easily open yourself up to being framed for stuff.
Live free or die.
Yup. Ask me to wear a mask to help my fellow citizens and I'll wear it more often. Force me under penalty of fine/prison and I'll wear it as little as possible. Just enough to not be fined/arrested.
Ask me to wear a SPECIFIC type/level mask with hard data proving its efficacy and usefulness to protect those around me as well as myself and I'll happily strap that puppy on every day.
Demand I wear ANY kind of covering under penalty in the absence of data and logic and... well... you have our current situation.
This is the correct answer.
For as much as leftists like to throw out the word science, plenty of their decisions and perceptions skirt around data and logic.
I’d wear a mask if the data supported it. It doesn’t seem to at this point, so I won’t.
It's called scientific activism and it is based on emotions rather than fact, and if they make their intentions out to be good then it attracts all kinds of support, propelled further by the paid mainstream media.
Agreed.
It’s a sick loop of disinformation and the resulting reaction, generally labeled as science or being progressive.
Show me the data, rather than your appeal to emotion and influence and let me decide for myself.
In response to our mayor's mask mandate, I have a friend who has decided to wear a plague doctor mask; something that is ridiculous and that we know has no effect in stopping disease, but 100% meets the requirements of the mask order.
Is it absolutely ridiculous? Yes. Buuuut it keeps her out of trouble, and it drives the point home to everyone around her that she knows this is ridiculous.
Yep, just wear an old Halloween mask. When you live in Clown World, every day is Halloween! 🤡
(I recommend also wearing the classic Guy Fawkes mask)
I've been wanting to buy one of those! I've been trying to decide whether to just get the mask alone, or buy the whole getup (cloak, hat, etc)
It would be fun to walk around Walmart slowly without acknowledging anybody.
Have you seen the covid ads on TV? Pure propaganda. It disgusts me every time a fucking CORPORATION and GOVERNMENT pretends to be for the common man. Sit and spin.
People today are so weak.
Im the same way but my boyfriend's parents are boomer age and watch TV all the time. I catch a glance every now and then. No wonder his mom believes in COVID.
My mom went from “the world is ending” to “maybe wearing a N95 in the supermarket can’t hurt but this is over blown” by switching from CNN to Tucker
I suspect a lot of people on our side would wear masks more often if they weren't trying to force us and shame us at every turn, not to mention blatant hypocrisies in abundance.
That's a fair take. I'll do it voluntarily to help someone else who's more afraid to feel better. If it's someone I know well, I'll try and educate them.
But threaten me with prison unless I do what you say? Then I start standing up for my rights. I wish I was strong enough to get arrested and challenge the local orders on Constitutional grounds, but I don't have spare tens of thousands of dollars to fight a long court case.
A large part of the problem is the mask mob trying shame anyone that follows the science which says they don’t really do anything when outside.
I’m ashamed to admit I wore a mask the other day...
I was dealing with a mold issue in the basement and wanted to be safe.
I wear a mask at work when I'm required because I entered an employment contact with them. They pay me and I do what they say. They can already make me wear a hard hat, body armor, safety goggles, a reflective vest, etc. They can throw a useless mask on top of that and I'll jump through those hoops because I voluntarily agreed to do so in exchange for money. But I'm not wearing that shit if you're not paying me to do so.
As long as you respect and don't degrade yourself if your boss asks you to "because he pays you", this makes sense. Otherwise that's being a wageslave.
Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. It's not something you plan to do for the rest of your life.
Just have to get through it. Additionally, it allows contact with the blue pilled. Allowing dissemination of ideas.
just keep your nose clear so you don't breathe your own filth all day :D
Everyone should know that the left did a complete 180 about masks and lockdowns within the span of a month. It completely delegitimizes their narrative.
Good thing every day is a new day where nothing that previously happened is to be remembered.
Welcome to the Memory Hole
FUCK YEAH IT IS
I have the Freedom to provide my own Safety...
God-given right
That’s my biggest gripe in all of this. We already have the right to keep our businesses open. Literally government’s entire job is just to protect our rights. That’s it. If we don’t want government protection, why must we close? We can defend ourselves if we want. If people attack us and we forgo government protection, then we should not be able to rely on government courts to redress damages.
Allow me to respectfully disagree and/or be nitpicky.
The job of government is to recognize citizens have God-given rights it can't infringe on or face replacement, violent or otherwise, and help the citizens who's rights are infringed upon by other entities, foreign and domestic (other citizens, businesses, terrorists, states, you name it.) Its job is to put on the books the rules of society so that citizens can refer to those written rules and seek justice in the event their rights are infringed on.
On the contrary, I think it's the job of citizens to protect their rights against anyone who would infringe on them (including government), and petition the government for help in protecting them through the justice system.
"If you want ultimate security, go to prison."
Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
Ok, go to prison but don't piss off anybody too important on your way there.
If you homeschool, put Braveheart into your late middle/ early high school curriculum. Especially if you’re training up boys.
Mel Gibson has to be the most based director in Hollywood.
They hate him bc of his drunken rants against Jews and his father is/was a holocaust denier. Only way to get blacklisted.
And serj tankian didn't say a fucking peep like the TDS suffering hypocrite he is
William Wallace is historical figure with an associated legend, in the vein of King Arthur, still good lessons to be learned. Thanks for the Reminder on other two, The Patriot is in our “soon” list and we are waiting for a bit more maturity for Mohicans.
Ps, how did you get italics?
Good point. Thank for the code.
use three asterisks (*) before and after for bold&italic
Fake history, sure, but decent morals in The Patriot.
"You've done nothing you should be ashamed of."
"I've done nothing... and for that I am ashamed."
Better get a hard copy before HBO deems they hate speech
HBO is a really bipolar film/tv enterprise. On one hand, they've been censoring movies and made the godawful woke Watchmen series. On the other hand, they came out with Chernobyl last year, which absolutely destroys the Soviet Communist regime. Their John Adams miniseries from several years back was also excellent.
These people watch Chernobyl and think Trump is like that, they don't even realize it is real events that happened under the ideology they proclaim to want to take over
Well, duh.
Braveheart is like 90% fiction, FYI. They just took the high level story and names and made it Hollywoodised
Yeah, but one of the great things about homeschooling is you can use cultural happenings and historical fiction (where I would place Wallace) to teach ethics, history, character, etc. as long as your guide/mentor/parent/teacher gives right interpretation. Think of the old times, when the prince had a tutor, such as Doctor Cornelius in Prince Caspian
they conflated things that happened to 2 people into 1 and created a couple of love stories to make the motivations easier to understand for anyone watching the movie with zero knowledge of the actual history. it is really tough to condense stuff for a movie or any medium besides books, I am doing something similar at the moment and I have altered the motivations of the main antagonist a second time because even though they were better before, the underlying story is too convoluted to present - there are other constraints than accuracy when you are making a product that people will consume in specific manner, in 1,5 to 2 hours etc
I used to hate what Hollywood did to real stories, but as I get more and more into the work of storytelling I understand the need to simplify and condense in order to make the story more compelling... if you want history read books
Yeah, I don't want anything I just stated a fact.
Atlas Shrugged is more relevant, IMHO.
If you're begging the government for either one, you're going to have a bad time.
A no job holding retard with a Gender Studies Degree in the wild who hates men
She thinks this was her big "gotcha" sign that would make everyone go "Wow.... so deep!"
Yes. Freedom is often taken under the guise of safety.
People like this don’t understand that when you give government an inch they take a mile. Tell me WHY your gay crossover suv should be able to go faster than 55, Karen. No one needs an assault Subaru. Think of the children. Wear your walking helmet and virus mask and your sterile bubble suit. Its never ending.
HAHAHA I had to laugh wayyyy to hard at gay crossover suv and assault Subaru 😂
I couldn’t help myself, as a car enthusiast most crossovers kind of make me puke. Also I live in Oregon so everyone and their lesbian aunt drives a Subaru.
LOL! gladly I don't live in Subaru-country 😁 sorry for the eye cancer they are giving you.
Now, back to the topic: If we could only ban those fully semi-automatic assault Subarus, imagine how safe our kids could be! wE nEeD cOmMoN sEnSe aSsAuLt sUbArU cOnTrOL!!
Equality**
**Of opportunity, not of outcome
Many opportunities are outcomes.
When parents scrimp and save to send their child to college, that opportunity was purchased with hard work and discipline. Turning around and giving that same opportunity to another child for free because his or her parents were lazy, undisciplined losers isn’t equality. It’s communism.
“Equality of opportunity” is a Trojan horse. Reasonable access to an acceptable quality of life is the only acceptable goal.
Swap the last two, then I'd agree with you
There is no such thing as a stupid question....just stupid people that ask them
This is pretty much the difference between men and women in one picture.
I see so many of these brainless twats putting the word freedom in quotations like this. It’s infuriating.
That's because that is how women are wired mentally. Safety and security at the expense of freedom. Trading submission to a man for protection and resources is how women survived, it's literally baked into their psychology as a survival mechanism and governments the world over know this and exploit it.
I also fully understand I'm going to get women around here going, "but I'M not like that. I don't want to give up freedom in exchange for safety!" You already did if you are actually a conservative woman and follow the "stay at home and take care of the house and kids while my husband works and supports our family" mindset. Even if you both work, if you defer to him and let him make the majority of the decisions and control things like the family finances you still are doing it. That's why it was so easy for you to slip into that roll. There's nothing wrong with that, you just have to realize that other women want to trade your husband's freedom for "security" which will take away your safety and security as they destroy society.
You’re right, and I understand that about women. I often think, “this is why men are better suited for policy making, tough decisions.” It still sounds sexist to me since that’s what I’ve been conditioned with for decades.
I really don’t think it is, though. Men and women have different but equally important strengths. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
This is less true. Women control the overwhelming majority of dollars spent from family households in the west. Men are so passive it's sad. Women often decide what house is bought when house shopping (for most families this is the largest spending decision they'll make). Cars purchased by families are marketed towards women (SUVs and Minivans), designed for women (moms, really), and ultimately bought by women.
It's amazing. Men are instinctively more pragmatic. Aesthetics and status matter less when your concerns of survival are adequate commuting from school/work/extracuricculars so as long as those baseline requirements are met, the women take the helm from there.
There is a difference between spending money and managing the finances of the household. There was a story recently about a kid that managed to spend something like 20k on streamers that the parents are unable to get back. Is the child managing that houses finances or did he spend money and now the ones actually responsible for the finances are left trying to figure out how to patch things up?
The same is true of families in the west. The vast majority of women suck at managing money, but spend it like they're democrats handing out ballots. They then look to their husbands, boyfriends, and the random "guy friends" single women keep around just for that purpose to bail them out of the hole the woman got into. For the most part the men do by taking extra shifts, or getting a second job, or opening up another credit card. These same men then get told by their wives and girlfriends that he "can't" buy things he wants because "they don't have the money" because SHE needs the money to spend on stupid and pointless things.
"My money is my money, but his money is our money."
I wonder if the quotes mean "This word is very hard to appropriate, unlike other words like racism and discrimination. So let's just belittle its meaning entirely."
Exactly what it is. Anytime they approach an argument they can't attempt to counter they come to insults and belittling.
Freedom IS safety YA DUMB CUNT
Yeah I think I learned that in middle school.
gold
Yup
Yep.
Not really an argument and if you think this you are very very dangerous to society.
These liberals deserve to suffer.
Those that are willing to trade SAFETY in favor of FREEDOM deserve neither.
What's safety if you have no freedom?
Slavery.
YES
Freedom is safety
Freedom allows one to look after their own safety. Less freedom and more "safety" has never anded well for the ones losing freedom for safety. Freedom allows us to tell others to fuck off with their ideas of what is "safety" if those ideas are either inadequate or, worse, infringing on us. Freedom allows us to act on that so we can take our safety in to our own hands using our freedom.
That is why freedom AND The Second Amendment work very well together - it keeps the snakeoil salesmen and carpetbaggers who promise us safety at the cost of freedom away from us.
So a giant "FUCK YES!!!" to the question because freedom actually leads to safety.
Surprisingly many people don't actually want freedom. It's hard to understand at first but a lot of people are weak and just not capable of handling freedom. Because freedom requires responsibility. It's easier for some people just to be taken care of as long as you listen to whoever pulls the chains. We've all seen those brown nosers at work who suck up to the new boss the moment the old one is gone. No loyalty, only to money.
Absolutely.
Apparently a ton of irrational women are living in a constant state of fear. Hate to generalize and sound sexist, cause I know there are a ton of based women on here, but it is women who are driving a lot of this horseshit.
I know some people around here hate the idea of a topic like this, but Evolutionary Psychology lays out a lot of uncomfortable truths about why humans behave like they do. (Some will understand that it goes along with the "God is a watchmaker not a parent" concept and see it for what it is) Women especially have a lot of issues as a result of being weaker and unable to survive without men supporting them. Easily lying and innately knowing how to manipulate to avoid being cast out of the group and dying, moving on from a relationship exceedingly fast to make sure they maintain resource acquisition, giving up freedom for safety and security, etc are all hardwired into the psychology of women because those things meant survival even just a century ago. Men are different in our innate nature but in other ways that are no less upsetting.
It's not nice and it hurts a lot of women's feelings to have things like that presented so bluntly. Society has done everything possible to cover up truths in the past century that we've known for many millennia and are spelled out in texts like the Bible because someone ignorant is easier to manipulate and control than someone with knowledge.
There's a reason why the Karen meme exists.
Karen: yes hello Mr. Goverment 911 there is a family in the park NOT WEARING MASKS AND NOT SOCIAL DISTANCING!!!!!
911: aren't you the one spitting in our blue boy's faces screaming defund the police?
Karen: well that was like LAST WEEK what is your point.
Karen: hellllooooooooo
Too many Lifetime movies
How about you wrap yourself in bubble wrap and and seal yourself away in a basement? Go immerse yourself in all that "safety".
Look at a painting of Washington crossing the frozen Delaware and ask yourself that same question, you mindless cooze.
Yes...that's literally the point of Freedom.
Questioning our right to be free? Citizenship revoked.
that's a little harsh. just revoke voting rights, let her be a peasant.
Why the fuck does the world at large, and a huge chunk of Americans, hate freedom? Some people are better sheep than lions, I guess. It's pathetic.
Yes, otherwise we’d all be welded into our houses like the Chinese did.
they paid their taxes so they must, by default, approve of every action their government decides... /s
Just like how we're supposed to comply with and enjoy wearing masks - the people making the decisions/mandates hate you with every fibre of their being and would happily see you suffocate through a mask or a welded door.
That’s fucking terrifying.
She clearly hasn’t seen Braveheart. Thats probably what’s wrong with her.
"...but they'll eventually take... OUR FREEDOM!" - William Wallace after time-traveling to the future
Sorry. I don't understand the question.
What part of....
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH.
Do these people not get?
The part where they don't get to control you
Our founding fathers said exactly this. Give me liberty or give me death!
Because the alternative to trump is worse
How can an America even have this question?
Years of marxist globalist propaganda in the public education system
Also by pointing to Scandinavian Socialism which has worked really for 15 years until around 5 years ago. Having socialism that works really well is really hard when you import people who dont work, and just keep raising taxes because the government officials are corrupt and sell our country out to the EU and China, while the working man has to foot the bill for everyone.
These fucking retarded politicians proved that socialism dont even work in rich countries with endless natural resources because POLITICIANS are ALWAYS corrupt.
I'm a liberal (as in freedom and not socialist/sjw) purely to protect myself from the government because they always end up corrupt. Not because socialism dont work, it could've worked really well in Norway because we are low population and got a shitton of natural resources so we could eliminate taxes and use only export tax to fund everything, but because our politicians are corrupt and piss and steal our money away, it dont work. Norway is literally the only country I think it could work in if we had smart and good people running our country, and that is purely because we are a small country with a shitton of natural resources. We could finance all our social programs by export tax only
Why is freedom in quotes? Does she think freedom isn't real?
Many Americans today think "freedom" is like how the Europeans use the word: essentially just laws that can be overturned or overruled. Remember how they had "freedom of speech" for so many years, and now they don't? That's their understanding of the word.
As far as I can tell, the idea that we're all endowed with the same natural rights by our creator is too close to religious thinking, so verboten throughout the left. Also it would sound a lot like shitting on Europe for pretending to be like us while continuing to suck like always, also verboten to the left. So they threw away John Locke and the concept of negative rights entirely.
The real problem is that these are your kids teachers that we're talking about, so this is what's being taught in schools. So yeah, she probably was straight up taught by the American education system that freedom isn't real.
Well put. Liberty is no longer a birthright. It must be fought for and reestablished in the hearts of our children before it can be reestablished in our government.
lmao in Canada it seems so staggering to explain to people that "I don't give a shit what's written on paper". Like so so many people just can't wrap their heads around the concept that a bunch of British boot lickers wearing suits in a building 150yrs ago (or more so 40yrs ago) write a "constitution" and then people just sit back and say "well the constitution says we can suspend rights in 'reasonable' situations". No. I don't give a shit, you can't just 'suspend' rights without a proper trial for a specific crime comitted by a specific person.
Lawyers are honestly some of the worst for this. Teachers too. This idea that the system is correct so what the system says is the norm and it's ok. I don't give a shit about the constitution of my country, it's meaningless words as far as I'm concerned.
This bitch deserves neither.
wow, pit her in prison where she’s safe for a week then ask her what she thinks. unbelievable
Those who seek safety over freedom have forsaken the root cause for their comforts and security.
Didnt Benjamin Franklin have a quote on that conversation?