Meanwhile in Australia

[Zlaxer]

The unioners will cause other men to stand up too. The pent up rage will be devastating. The coming rough times won’t be primarily economic: once the tether breaks, society itself will be consumed.

I don't think Antivax thugs will prevail, my guess is that military force will be used to put them down in the end

rioting in the streets has never won a war

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

[Smitty-48]

The unioners will cause other men to stand up too. The pent up rage will be devastating. The coming rough times won’t be primarily economic: once the tether breaks, society itself will be consumed.

I don't think Antivax thugs will prevail, my guess is that military force will be used to put them down in the end

rioting in the streets has never won a war

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

the French Revolution did not prevail, the Revolution imploded, then Napoleon Bonaparte seized power

[Zlaxer]

I don't think Antivax thugs will prevail, my guess is that military force will be used to put them down in the end

rioting in the streets has never won a war

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

the French Revolution did not prevail, the Revolution imploded, then Napoleon Bonaparte seized power

Just to confirm - your position is that the French revolution "failed"?

Who is legally the king of France now anyways?

[Smitty-48]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

the French Revolution did not prevail, the Revolution imploded, then Napoleon Bonaparte seized power

Just to confirm - your position is that the French revolution "failed"?

indeed, the Jacobins themselves were killed by their own mobs

then there was a counterrevolution, people took to the streets to demand that the monarchy be reinstated

then Napoleon Bonaparte seized power and crowned himself the new Emperor

the French Republic that exists now was actually imposed by the British Crown, after defeating Napoleon at Waterloo

the Jacobins & Bonaparte were utterly defeated, the British Empire became the Global Hegemon on the wake

it took France a century to recover, and even when it did, they became a client state of the British Empire

finally, France had to be rescued from the Germans by America, France becoming an American client therein

[Martin Hash]

regardless, protesting, boycotts, rabble rousing, etcetera, none of these are effective strategies for aging conservatives

Those Unioners certainly aren’t Conservatives.

no, they are socialist thugs

so that's the face of the Antivax

socialists thugs rioting in the streets

good luck with that I guess, but I don't think it's a winning strategy /shrugs

You've already admitted, there is no winning strategy, there is only capitulation, but as you sit in your idyllic backwoods wonderland contemplating your retirement, there are younger men who still have lives ahead of them, and they will act in the only way they can: violence. What did you think they were going to do?

[Smitty-48]

really, the only successful model was the American War of Independence

but that was not unruly mobs legislating lunacy from the streets, quite the opposite

General Washington brooked no dissent from the ranks, the Founders would have hung rioters from the nearest tree

first thing Washington did upon winning the war was go after the hooligans who refused to pay the whisky tax

[Smitty-48]

You've already admitted there is no winning strategy: there is only capitulation but as you sit in your idyllic backwoods wonderland contemplating your retirement, there are younger men who still have lives ahead of them, and they will act in the only way they can: violence. What did you think they were going to do?

well, Jesus Christ did not resort to violence, so the young men are misguided to resort to that

violence will simply beget more violence, that's not a strategy, that's just a suicide pact

this is Anomie, the urge to destroy the other is the urge to destroy yourself, which is Satanic nihilism in a nutshell

I am not ashamed to contemplate a more righteous path

[SuburbanFarmer]

You've already admitted there is no winning strategy: there is only capitulation but as you sit in your idyllic backwoods wonderland contemplating your retirement, there are younger men who still have lives ahead of them, and they will act in the only way they can: violence. What did you think they were going to do?

well, Jesus Christ did not resort to violence, so the young men are misguided to resort to that

violence will simply beget more violence, that's not a strategy, that's just a suicide pact

this is Anomie, the urge to destroy the other is the urge to destroy yourself, which is Satanic nihilism in a nutshell

I am not ashamed to contemplate a more righteous path

Jesus put in a bit more footwork than internet posting.. then there were the miracles and such.

[Smitty-48]

You've already admitted there is no winning strategy: there is only capitulation but as you sit in your idyllic backwoods wonderland contemplating your retirement, there are younger men who still have lives ahead of them, and they will act in the only way they can: violence. What did you think they were going to do?

well, Jesus Christ did not resort to violence, so the young men are misguided to resort to that

violence will simply beget more violence, that's not a strategy, that's just a suicide pact

this is Anomie, the urge to destroy the other is the urge to destroy yourself, which is Satanic nihilism in a nutshell

I am not ashamed to contemplate a more righteous path

Jesus put in a bit more footwork than internet posting.. then there were the miracles and such.

I don't have a messiah complex, I am not the messiah, I am just a pilgrim

I don't see you do anything other than internet posting, if you are going to charge the barricades, you haven't done it yet

[SuburbanFarmer]

well, Jesus Christ did not resort to violence, so the young men are misguided to resort to that

violence will simply beget more violence, that's not a strategy, that's just a suicide pact

this is Anomie, the urge to destroy the other is the urge to destroy yourself, which is Satanic nihilism in a nutshell

I am not ashamed to contemplate a more righteous path

Jesus put in a bit more footwork than internet posting.. then there were the miracles and such.

I don't have a messiah complex, I am not the messiah, I am just a pilgrim

I don't see you do anything other than internet posting, if you are going to charge the barricades, you haven't done it yet

Quietly holding the center. Resisting the poisons - both mind and body. Raising my kids to be tough and smart. Increasing self sufficiency.

Or in your terms - holding aloft the torch of freedom.