Exactly.
I learned that fat is the opposite of thin when I was a kid and that is the word I use to describe someone who is the opposite of thin.
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I think you would see terrorism on a scale that would even shock the middle east.
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California couldn’t stop an invasion of homeless people and I don’t think Texas’s neighbors are worth conquering. Louisiana? You might as well conquer Haiti while you’re at it.
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Arkansas and MS both have large ammo plants.
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I suppose if there were civil war and Balkanization there wouldn’t be some rule that each state lives on as they were. Perhaps there could be new countries taking up the space of several former states.
These ideas of secession and/or civil war might just remain so and the reality might be that the US just putters along in Third Worldism. As I see it now, the US as a whole is second world with areas that are third world (hence “kicking the can down the road” is in the title of the thread). It is also a ridiculous, violent, and perverse place.
So to deal with that I just use some common- sense self help I use on myself.
- Home school.
- Stay in good physical shape.
- Save and invest.
- Pay attention to the world around me (including alternative media).
- Community involvement.
- High-investment parenting.
- Family and friends stuff.
- Armed and unarmed Self defense, of which I regrettably have no appreciable training in. This is the area I need to eventually catch up on and start my kids in soon.
Though under normal circumstances I wouldn’t be a so-called “helicopter parent”, unfortunately these days I believe some helicoptering is now unfortunately necessary.
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What’s your opinion on this scenario of conquering? It wouldn’t be nice. But I don’t think anyone is somehow exempt from what has gone on throughout history.
I honestly don’t think it’s as bad you do, but obviously that’s just a matter of opinion. I think things seem worse because of the level of daily exposure we get through social media. Imagine if Twitter existed during the LA riots for example.
I remember the first time I saw a video of someone being murdered, I was in Marine Corps combat training. We watched a terrorist execute a POW via beheading. I can see it in my head as I type this and I saw it in 2004.
Fast forward to 2023 and I’ve seen several people be murdered on video on Twitter just this year. It barely even phases me anymore because I’ve seen it so many times now.
We’re going through a weird growing phase right now where affordable technology and social media are exposing the population to things most people would likely never be exposed to in their entire life and I think that’s creating some bad outcomes. It could; however, create some good outcomes. For example, a decade ago I wouldn’t have questioned policing opting to believe the stories I read about were isolated incidents. Now, the proof is pretty clear we need to re-think policing in the US. I don’t think we need to get rid of it, but it needs to be re-vamped.
The same scenario is true for public education. If COVID did nothing else, it opened a lot of people’s eyes to the state of education in public schools. I think before that people just assumed it was the same way it had been for them growing up. Obviously, that is not the case.
The same is true for healthcare. The same is true for journalism. The same is true for a lot of things we just assume is working fine at status quo.
At the end of the day, I think we do better if we figure it out collectively vs trying to go at it as 50 or more individual nations. It barely works for Europe. It doesn’t work for the majority of Africa or South America and it only works, if you can call it that, in the Middle East because they’re either incredibly oil wealthy or oppress the hell out of their people or both.
Again, that is obviously just my opinion.
Agreed. I think it’s part of human nature even though I think we’ve largely moved past it post WW2 (particularly after the soviet union collapsed). Obviously, there are examples post WW2, but not nearly at historic levels. However, given the right circumstance, I absolutely believe nations wound conquer again in a heart beat and one of those examples is the US breaking apart imo.
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I believe the US will sputter along for a long time as the frog slowly boils.
Enemies of the Great Experiment have played the long game and they are winning the long game by eroding the very foundations that made the US great while making the giant sleep deeper and revel in self-loathing and an entitled opulence of idiocy.
Now as far as conquering - the US would be nearly impossible for anyone to conquer externally. As soon as an external force showed up, I think people would unite against a common enemy. The outside enemies and enemies of democracy are not that dumb. When it comes down to it there is not enough incentive for nuclear powers to fight each other directly and the risk is far too great.
People beat the shit out of each other and get riled up over sports’ teams. Imagine one state invading another state or threatening to do that, if the US were to break up. I believe certain states would try and actually would have to try. Your northern States would starve and be at the mercy of the breadbasket to feed their massively dense populations. All sorts of issues like this would come up as states are pretty interdependent for things. I am rambling, but also typing from my phone.
In essence - the entire thing would cede to a clusterfuck I think. It would be akin to the African Tribes running roughshod and whoever has the biggest stick would win until that stick broke and another big stick came along.
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Didn’t. Not couldn’t.
What’s funny is how this younger generation is supposed to be woke Marxists yet they don’t value community involvement but do value money.
I can kind of see how community involvement is not a priority as that requires putting the phone down and face to face contact with people, or simply put, work. Why do that when you can be an activist via social media?
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Case and point, I just opened Twitter and watched a guy bleed out in front of a Starbucks…
Stand with Ukraine
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Or behind…way behind.
I get your point but I took notice of America’s decline about 20 years ago, before social media.
I’ve seen that several times now. A professor of mine coupled it with this:
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Hey @BrickHead what’s your opinion on porn and Onlyfans (lol I said that as if it was different)
I literally hate pornography. @tlgains
It’s a topic relevant to the thread considering it is yet another destructive thing in American society, one part of sexual obsession. And, as I said, which recommended authors pieced together for me, was that a sexually loose society becomes tyrannical and pathological. Does that sound like America today?
I’ve heard common arguments for pornography and I don’t think any are convincing.
When a man feverishly argues for it, I wonder why it is so important to him.
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Do you want it eradicated?
Yes, eradicated. Although it seems like the common American feels that almost nothing can be severely cut down on. See edit/addendum above. @tlgains
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