American's living Paycheck to Paycheck

[Speaker to Animals]

You think it was justified that the liberal big government herded all the black people who came out to Los Angeles in the Second World War into ghettoes, and then used the LAPD to enforce a kind of aparthied state?

You think Officer Lee Minikus was really justified in pulling Marquette Frye over, for "reckless driving"?

You don't think the residents of Watts were justified in trying to stand up the Covenants enforced in Los Angeles at the end of a gun by the LAPD?

I think if people are burning down the city, it needs to be stopped.

But all they did was start throwing rocks at the police, and then LAPD chief Bill Parker called them "the Viet Cong" and then unleashed a Brigade Conbat Team into Watts, who then treated it as a free fire zone and started lighting people up left and right on sight, so who really incited the civil disorder all the way to burning the place down? They lit the buildings on fire to limit the ability of a Brigade Combat Team set upon them to manuever, trying to give them more to deal with so they wouldn't be so freed up to blow people away at will.

It occurs to me that, if you ever want to get into the podcast game, you could go with something like this, tactical and strategic analysis of various nontraditional confrontation, especially riots and whatnot.

[Ex-California]

... never went back to the depths of near slavery they were at before.

Yes it did, it simply spread through Russia instead, the idea that spread through Europe from the Commune, was of course Communism. I mean, duh.

But the idea of Liberty spread through Western Europe. Even though the ideas as they were pushed further and further left originated in the West it needed the more collective history of the East to really be able to take hold.

Although that doesn't explain today outside of the fringe theory that StoA and I hold that all the individualist and tough Euro genes either moved here or got wiped out in the two world wars

[Speaker to Animals]

My theory is that there are two Wests. One is urban and the other rural. If you want individualism and liberty, then you need to look to the rural setting. The urban setting is where the collectivism generally grows and reaches critical mass. Urban environments strongly select for the alleles that enable people to more comfortably live in such dense populations of strangers, to better tolerate differences, and to sacrifice their own prerogatives for the sake of social harmony. Both sets of genetic adaptations have good and bad aspects. Right now (and for a long time, really), the bad aspects of urban adaptations have gone unfettered. You are not even allowed to challenge them without facing a violent backlash from them.

This really only applies to whites, though.

[Smitty-48]

There was nothing liberal about the French Revolution, there was no promise of liberty in the Commune, the Commune was Communist, nothing liberal about it, liberals vehemently opposed the French Revolution. Liberal thought spread through Europe reactionary to the French Revolution, Communism decried the liberals are the bourgeois oppressors, liberals as Kulaks, fit for the Gulag, a guillotine of being worked to death in a frozen wasteland.

The liberals were not in France, the bulwark of liberalism was Britain, which is why the British fought the French Revolution to a standstill, to defend the true liberal revolution, the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

[Speaker to Animals]

It was the triumph of the city over the rural aristocracy.

The American revolution was mostly waged by farmers. These are two completely different kinds of revolts.

I very much believe the urban/rural divide has a strong genetic component.

[Smitty-48]

It was Britain and America who spread liberalism around the world, the French, Russians and Germans fighting it kicking and screaming all the way.

Wot, the French Republic born of the French Constitutional Monarchy in the wake of Napoleon? The British imposed that on the French by force of arms, otherwise they would have been a Communist Dictatorship like their progeny the Soviets.

The French were the Original Commies, the British the Original Liberals agin em'.

Classical liberalism mind you, not the Marxist wolf dressed up as "liberal" sheep that you see today.

As the British waned, then it was America who took up the torch for Classical Liberalism, there was a hand off between the liberal Hegemons. But there was a handoff between the Communists as well, Paris to Moscow.

[Okeefenokee]

I think this is where we were talking about these pictures,











I see a resemblance to stuff like this,

[SuburbanFarmer]

Yes. Art-deco is a communist tool.