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Ralph Strickland retweeted
Yes every white country at the same time exponentially increased how many violent third worlders they let in. And yes these countries all at once started teaching children their ancestors were uniquely evil while portraying every nonwhite group as eternal victims who only ever contributed positively.
And yes they all simultaneously pushed the idea that any expression of white in-group preference or pride was inherently supremacist and dangerous. And yes they all celebrated and funded every other ethnic group's identity organizations and pride events.
And yes every major political party in these unrelated countries openly endorsed or quietly facilitated more nonwhite immigration. And yes they all said it was out of moral progress or economic necessity or demographic inevitability.
And yes they all at the same time began labeling any politician or party that tried to slow or reverse the flow as far right or extremist or threat to democracy even when those parties were polling 40% among native voters. And yes the intelligence agencies in these countries all started treating native critics of mass migration as bigger domestic terrorism threats than the actual imported gangs and jihadist networks.
And yes the banking system and payment processors all at the same time began deplatforming and financially crippling anyone who spoke too plainly about the pattern. And yes legacy media coordinated identical smear campaigns against anyone who noticed.
And yes all at the same time fertility among the native white populations collapsed. And yes this was encouraged through cultural messaging and economic pressure and delayed family formation and pharmaceutical and surgical interventions representing liberation while all the same countries imported replacement-level amounts of third worlders with higher birth rates.
And yes they were immediately fast tracked to citizenship. And yes in all these countries at the same time welfare systems were reoriented to subsidize the invaders more generously than struggling native families which created observably tiered outcomes that were blamed on systemic racism when white people noticed.
And yes all of these countries at the same time experienced violent crime spikes and sexual predation scandals and fraud and welfare strain and cultural erosion. And yes when that became impossible to hide every single one of these countries responded with more censorship and more gaslighting and more "diversity is our strength" slogans and more blaming the native population for not embracing the transformation fast enough and more acceleration of the policies that caused the problems.
And yes all these countries at the same time made it functionally illegal to dissent to this. And yes they all deployed the same hate speech laws and online content bans and deplatforming pressure and extremism watchlists to silence natives who objected. And yes in every country the native population was told to adapt and lower their standards and to accept erosion of their safety and traditions and future under the banner of tolerance and inclusion that always didn’t extend to their own group interests.
But NO: despite this precisely repeating across every white country at the same time with no exceptions and no natural divergence you must accept this is all just a spontaneous and completely unrelated convergence of policy and culture across dozens of sovereign nations with no central directive or shared blueprint or common architects.
And NO it’s certainly nothing that can’t be reversed through ordinary electoral politics within the same system that enforced this entire transformation at every step.
There is no reason to ask who or why. It’s all a coincidence. We can vote our way out of this
Ralph Strickland retweeted
Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if he thought Ice was the issue.
“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”
“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”
“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary
But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.
So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.
This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”
“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.
These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.
These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.
This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.
The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”
Ralph Strickland retweeted
"They're just like us, and only want a better life for their families."
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DS9 is the best version of Star Trek because they take seriously the issues of governing, economics and religion. This adds depth, while TNG just runs off to the next adventure without taking any of those things into consideration.
NOTE: I'm a fan of Star Trek, not a "hater." But I'm a tempered fan.
The show is a philosophical mess. Oh yes, its values are progressive, which is why it's incoherent--that's what progressive values are.
1. It pretends there's no such thing as money or currency. Never explains it. Pretends human nature changed and people just "do the right thing" with no commensurate reward.
2. Runs a military organization with a hierarchy, but pretends that it hates battleships and war. Pretends these things can be managed away if everyone would just Federation harder.
3. They wouldn't give up the Federation hierarchy any more than Marxists will give up their penthouse so that the poor they claim to care about are equal.
4. Puts 1,000 people and families on a warship, puts that ship in danger, then the crew insist on prioritizing the safety of nanites that are destroying the ship over the preservation of their own people and families.
5. Consistently places the sensible, cautious, and sometimes militaristic points of view concerned with survival in the mouths of what we would call "Maga-coded" caricatures today.
Even when the "Maga" character is right, and the Captain has to do what he suggests to save the ship, the smug crew and writers still mock him and act superior.
It's a great show. It's also a ridiculous, infantile, leftist liberal cream-jeans fantasy.
Gene Roddenberry and the main production crew for decades are liberal man children.
-Uncle Josh
Ralph Strickland retweeted
We would be vacationing on the moons of Saturn if all communists in America had been eradicated in the 60s
Apollo astronaut Frank Borman was an incredible man, can you imagine the controversy if an astronaut said this today?
Nixon tasked him to go to college campuses after Apollo 8 to give talks and was only met with hatred then detailing how he had to be flown in by helicopters because they barricaded the doors. They also threw objects at him and dressed in gorilla suits to run him off stage so they could mock the first scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey
This is what I mean when I tell people that spaceflight interest to the average person has never mattered, these people are utterly deranged and hinder progress when listened to
Texafornia.
AUSTIN MAN slams into a stopped minivan at 103 mph on Mother's Day, right in front of a cop, and kills a fire captain hours after his fifth son was born. DA Jose Garza's office asked him to pay a small fine.
Marvin Taylor was on his way to pick up his four other boys so they could meet their new baby brother. He was sitting at a red light on Koenig Lane when a Dodge Durango doing 103 in a 45 zone slammed into him and threw his van 150 feet. He died pinned inside.
The officer found the driver, Rodney Bremby, with bloodshot eyes and slurred speech and stench of alcohol.
He was charged with intoxication manslaughter, which carries up to 20 years in prison. A judge revoked his bond twice while the case was pending, and both times he was back out within two weeks.
On Monday he got 10 years of probation, community service, and $535 in fees.
Five boys have lost their father, and the man who killed him just had to pay a small fine and promise not do it again before going back home.
Public officials should be forbidden from limiting comments on their social media.
This corrupt Dem prosecutor was getting roasted in the comments and cut them off. It’s contemptible cowardice, but I wouldn’t expect anything else.
James Edward O’Keefe, 42, and Cam Higby, 26, both face felony charges of unlawful voting and identity theft.
Polling places are the heart of our democracy. Any attempt to disrupt or deceive our election workers will not be tolerated.
Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=c_oqgTcY…
Ralph Strickland retweeted
"Don't worry, Padme.
If anything happens, your daughter will be raised like a literal princess.
As for the boy, I'll send him to a poor farm on a desert planet. Let him become a real man through hard work."
Ralph Strickland retweeted
I forgot how absolutely fucked up this was
Like damn guess those men will have to resort to suicide to deal with their problems now considering when they want to receive help it's immediately shutdown and met with scorn
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Ralph Strickland retweeted
Middle aged female sociology teacher has been ranting for the last half an hour about how unfair no fault divorce is because her husband ditched her, moved to Thailand, married a 19 year old, and she was just informed he will be getting half her pension when she retires.
Ralph Strickland retweeted
Incredible photo of an F-15 Eagle surrounded by vibrant fall color as it streaks through Linville Gorge in N.C. Although you can't see the tail codes, in other photos you can see "SJ" indicating it is from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C. Phenomenal Max Renfro!
Ralph Strickland retweeted
The newest painting in the Louvre. “The Girl with the Suicidal Empathy.” Oil on canvas. Go see it while the Louvre is still standing.
Ralph Strickland retweeted
The single worst intellectual error I ever made was discounting the need for some standard of enforcement concerning what should count as citizenship, which is the political right to participate in the formation of the rules concerning public life. As a libertarian, I never thought this mattered, which is an idiotic thing to believe. As I think back on Frederic Bastiat's The Law, this was a central theme of that book – he believed that receiving welfare should disqualify one for the franchise – a point I conveniently overlooked. This error is now the doom of Europe.
Ralph Strickland retweeted
America has a gun
With (very few) apologies to Brian Bilston
England is CCTV.
France, a cop with lock and key.
Greece, once free, now bends the knee.
But, America has a gun.
Sweden jails the ones who fight.
Germany fines bad words at night.
Spain forbids the wrong to write.
But, America has a gun.
Holland fines what words you say.
Canada takes your knives away.
Australia says, "you must Obey."
While America has a gun.
Japan will bow and not resist.
Scotland bans what they won’t miss.
Freedom bleeds, but still exists
Because America has a gun.
Better risk the fatal cost
Than find that liberty was lost.
The price is high,
The fight, embossed
Because America has a gun.
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