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@sickburnbro >wealthy

Reversing the cause and effect here.

>innovative

Evidence needed. I never see any other than empty assertions.

>culturally rich

Name one thing other than "muh food."

>cohesive

Wow no! Quite the opposite.

>tolerant

Only due to some assholes using more police so that the "tolerance" can be forced on everyone.

History tells us that diversity brings far more destruction and war rather than peace and stability.

@shortstories indeed, I do approve of his ideas in being for no government, as well as his understanding of governments being entirely about the use of force (especially in terms of war).

Most likely, we would never see his ideas work in practice, given that on a large scale any society that has no government often has it overtaken someone else willing to enact control. But I can appreciate his principles to the extent that it falls under the "less government" umbrella.

Whenever there is a bad outcome as a result of someone else's decision (often a politician or other member in power), I do not give a free pass to those who had supported the decision maker just because "I didn't vote for this" or "it was not me who made that call."

Rather, I ask the question: if it was you who was in charge, would you have made different decisions? If you would have made the same choices, then how can your proclamations have any validity?

@shortstories Any atheist who complains when Muslims are as oppressive as they made Christians out to be gets no sympathy from me. This is the bed they helped made, after all. Not saying they are solely responsible, but if they were fully at the wheel of control, would we really have a different outcome?

@shortstories The way I see it, the rise in number of Muslims in western countries is just a consequence of the abandonment of Christianity in those countries. Perhaps not directly, but it most certainly is the case that those who are less religious have less children overall. And along with that, many Christians sects have been eroding the very values that made them Christian in the first place.

@shortstories Wow, what a story. Wouldn't it be funny if something like this happened in real life? That would be something.

@Wormwood Looked up how much protein is in a chicken egg. About 6-7 grams. So an ostrich egg has about 33-40 times more protein than a chicken egg.

Therefore, you can get to full Gaston mode by just eating 2 ostrich eggs.

The response on top illustrates exactly what I am talking about. Men who have no motivation to sacrifice will simply not do so. And I don't see a way to motivate such men into fighting FOR the country when it's own government has nothing but shaming tactics left (like a bitter harpy).

The only way to get men to fight for it is to give them a better deal. Otherwise, we may see them fight AGAINST it. And if it comes to that, well, the powers that be reaped what they sowed.

But now that men do not have much families to call their own and the breakdown of their existing extended family structure, there is far less motivation for men to answer the call to serve in the military.

And this is really where the powers that be screwed up. They thought they could muster men to have patriotic fervor to fight if they just flipped the propaganda switch. While part of a series, here is an example of a shill appealing to the family.

What family? Men don't have that anymore.

And then we add war on top of all that. I do not mean civil war (though that may come) but a conventional war.

In the past, men by and large had motivation to fight, even if much of it was propped up by our government lying to them about the justification for the war. Men back then had a strong motivation to fight: their families.

This applies even to bachelors, who would have extended family they would care for or future aspirations to have a family.

And why does this happen? Because women have become unmarriageable from a combination of policies and loosened social pressures. There are just far too many women who are far too risky of a prospect to start a family with, so there is no motivation to even try for the men.

But given the number of fields of work that are critically necessary for a society to function, this could really become disastrous if the number of men who just gave up reaches critical mass.

If men do not have a strong motivator to go out there and achieve something, many of them will opt for a more minimal sustenance approach. Just work hard enough to support themselves, and little more than that. Men who live like this can do any job, even low paying or low hour jobs. After all, if they are not even caring about impressing women, why work harder than you have to?

Men are the ones who are most screwed over by this destruction, as the government favors women in many aspects of life. Sure, you can screw over men as a whole and still have things operating for a time, but the slow decay will start to set in. We already see men less motivated to get married and have a family. Sure, women can technically have a family without a man present, but this also does not make for a functional society. Men are critically necessary for society to actually function.

I don't think that the powers that be thought through some of the long term consequences of the decisions that they made in destroying the family unit. Whether each aspect of the destruction was deliberate or unintentional, those in power should realize that their policies are destroying families (whether it is biased family courts/divorce laws or welfare policies).

The destruction of the family will mean the downfall of a functional society and instable government.

@VeganMGTOW @Chimi_Chuang_Tzu @RodrickSage Getting the vaxx is probably not going to be a death sentence for most people. I think there is going to be a significant enough number of people with adverse affects and/or death down the line (as well as the numbers of people who already had that happen).

Ever since they said "you should still get vaccinated" even if you already got Covid, that should have been a sign that something was wrong.

@sardonicsmile Anyone who has been around children knows that they most certainly are impressionable and will not be coming up with as many thoughts "independently" as shills will claim. This is especially true with very young children.

From my own personal experience, I was influencing one of my nieces in the things she said from just a long weekend of time together. Children absorb much of what they observe, more than you would think. And groomers know this very well.