People unable to comprehend will also be unable to maintain the infrastructure and technology that makes the American military supreme. You can't divorce technology from the Enlightenment ideals which spawned it. That's why China never makes anything new, they just steal from us.
Americans don't take up arms now because they're comfortable. Make them uncomfortable and they'll push back.
Thanks Pede. It'll work out, but just kinda sucks. Figured I'd vent here because I'd been holding it together until the recent Antifa/BLM stuff and the supposed poll numbers.
Even if the worst happens to us financially, I've been confident we could recover. Not so much if the Left succeeds in burning down our society. I'm not a worrier, but I've been rather worried the past few days. This thread is really helpful though.
My wife and I stepped out in faith in late February on a very ambitious move and job change. Covid has seriously derailed our plans and as a result, we've had to eat into our savings pretty deeply.
Before this is over, we may have to default on our old house or maybe even declare bankruptcy. It probably won't come to that, but even the possibility is frightening.
That said, no matter what happens, my kids will not go hungry. We have a good personal safety net and this is a great nation. Everything else is just vanity
Self conscious is a hindrance to social advancement.
I've always believed that there's a sine curve expressing the relationship between intelligence and success. Really stupid people are successful for obvious reasons. Moderately stupid people (who work hard) are successful because they stay out of their own way because they're unaware of how little they know, moderately intelligent people are less successful because they are intelligent enough to be self conscious and so they get in their own way, and then really intelligent people (who work hard) are generally successful for obvious reasons.
The bail fund set up by celebrities to spring rioters stands at 2 million, iirc.
With that money, they could buy five thousand of these enslaved individuals and have a million left over to get them all safely home.
It's very problematic that Starbucks not only employs caucasian people but also employs a Nordic symbol in the person of a mermaid. You may not know that the Nordic people were considered the perfect Aryans by the Nazis. It's very insensitive that you would use a creature from Nordic mythology to represent a product appropriated from PoCs.
Caucasian people stole coffee from my Etheopian ancestors & it's time that they stopped profiteering off of this blood drink. We demand you hire only PoCs
Brandon Tatum has his Thursday night livestream with a bunch of other black youtube personalities. They actually talked about how they feel this way. That they sometimes feel liek they need to show people that they don't agree with this stuff in their day to day. I was surprised. Nobody should be made to feel this way.
I wonder when/if he's going to Blaze it like Beck did