homogeneous countries are the much more stable than majority-minority ones. Which type do you want to live in?
I want an ethnic majority regardless. It’s not just “appeasement” it’s about stability.
I take it that means your answer is ‘yes’?
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If keeping the country the way it has been for it’s history is “appeasement” sure
Personally I don’t want to die, because I know whites hold all the cards or at least most of them.
By that rationale, you should be combining names like John, Jacob, Jake, Jack, etc.
If this is truly the goal, then shouldn’t you leave?
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Bullshit. I don’t even care what the rest of your post says; I can’t abide the idea that the United States of America is not magical. Love it, or leave it.
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You used to have a cartoon avi, right? Prolly wouldn’t have come in so hot so early if I’d known you were a regular. But anyway.[/quote]
Yup, I think I had a Randy Marsh avi way back when. But definitely don’t hesitate to burn me if I have it coming; dumb is dumb regardless of seniority.
I’m not saying I think the web should be Thunderdome 2.0, but going at it with smart folks who are comfortable taking shots with some weight behind them and responding in kind is a fun change of pace with no hard feelings attached (for me, at least).
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I’m a fan of the New York Knickerbockers[/quote]
Whatever you say, DBCooper. But because posting a clip of your favorite team getting BTFO must have stung something fierce, I’ll let it slide. 7+ months later, that play still manages to get an ear to ear smile out of me.
And to get things back on topic: my “better thing to do” this afternoon was Rocky IV on AMC.
Not really sure if I should be hopeful or scared that Trump watched it for some foreign policy insight.
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If it sends him to Siberia to train like Balboa for a few months, I’ll take it.
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With respect to its racial/ethnic/religious composition, there is no ‘way’ that this country has been for its history. This notion is part-and-parcel of the white revisionist fantasy that there was a halcyon period in America’s history when everyone was happy and employed–and, not coincidentally, straight, white and Christian. This fantasy is at the heart of Trump’s campaign slogan: Make America Great Again. For many working-class white Americans struggling to maintain their footing in a country whose socioeconomic ground is shifting under their feet, this fantasy had/has a very powerful appeal. (This notion of a lost American Xanadu is of course chimerical–note that, when pressed, neither Trump nor his supporters can identify the specific time period when America was ‘great.’)
Unfortunately, the MAGA fantasy has an unpleasant corollary–it requires a scapegoat, an outsider, an other whose fault it is that we are no longer great. And the ‘other’ du jour is the nonwhite immigrant–Mexicans, but especially Muslims. Note that in years past the immigrant-other-of-choice has been Irish, German, Italian, and Jewish, to name but a few. Same song, nth verse.
So, the current POTUS administration is hardly the first to gain power via this sort of demagoguery. However, what makes the current round of scapegoating especially disconcerting is the presence in the White House of an individual who actually seems to believe in it. I’m not referring to Trump–I have no idea what he truly thinks, but tend to doubt he’s passionate about anything other than his own aggrandizement. Rather, I’m referring to Steve Bannon. I don’t know if Bannon is a white supremacist, but there is little doubt he is a white separatist, one who thinks America is too nonwhite already, and certainly doesn’t need to get any darker. I for one will not sleep well until that man is out of the WH and re-ensconced in the lunatic fringe of the internet from whence he came.
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Fantastic post.
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Yeah, my concern though is that there’s just no way his hair retention protocol is WADA-approved.
Still, it would be nice to watch that thing scuttle down to his chin:
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Are you trying to make an argument here or just a form of catharsis?
Nah. Totally different styles. They don’t even address the same subjects.
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I think we’ve just stumbled into a meeting of the South African government circa 1965.
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My guess is you don’t fit in in a majority white country and you need illiterate rapists (Muslims) to make yourself look better by comparison
A speech Abraham Lincoln gave. Is this what the natural ends of full blown white identity politics looks like?
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln5/1:812?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
No, it looks like a man from a different era proposing a pragmatic alternative to chattel slavery. We learned that growing up in our country, unclear what you learned in yours, if anything.
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Interesting because slavery is common in some Islamic countries.
No, it isn’t - it’s yet another example of how you cite to an article to support some hair-brained idea you have without reading it or understanding it.
The war had begun, and Lincoln was trying to find a way to get rid of slavery and end the hostilities.