America is lost...

Monahorns said:
Not true anymore. Swedish cities are filled with immigrants from the ME and Africa. I think the issue is that Swedes still see them as "other" and are willing to protect themselves. Their identity as Swedish hasn't been corrupted yet.
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I think there is a sort of critical mass (tipping point) for this stuff. When the immigrant diasporas get large enough to start electing pol's in regional elections then it changes the whole dynamic. It's too late to do anything about it but it is one way our Citizenship process is fatally flawed. We don't require citizens to truly be "American", as in having America's interest first. We have a huge number or people (and many pol's) that actually prioritize their home countries over the U.S. It's the reason you see the squad be anti-Israel and judges with Hispanic surnames be very pro-immigration.
 
Sangre Naranjada said:
Did they think it on their own, or were they beaten into thinking it by insane professors, LGBQWERTY+-x advocates, and hollyweird social media types?
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Oh, I'm not saying they weren't influenced by outside cretins, but cretins nonetheless is what they are to be that easily brainwashed. Been happening for centuries.
 
$25M - nice!!!

So they fired this lady for the Philly fiasco ... when she had nothing to do with it. :mad:

Meanwhile the guy in charge of the store in question wasn't punished, and he happened to be black. (Also, Starbucks employees did nothing wrong on the day of the incident.)
 
LC
At first I was not pleased that the media was covering that stupid group
But as I kept reading your posts I see the Christian groups outside got more coverage than the meaningless event inside.
Thank you for finding those tweets.
 
Horn6721 said:
mc
I am not a subscriber to WSJ. What ideas of his aren't so marginal now?
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On Sept. 19, 1995, readers of the Washington Post opened their newspapers to find a special section entirely devoted to a single, 35,000-word essay. Still more unusual was the way the article had found its way into print. America’s most wanted terrorist, an anonymous individual then known only as the Unabomber, had offered to stop mailing bombs if the paper published his manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future.” At the urging of the FBI, the Post agreed, with the New York Times sharing the cost of printing.

As it turned out, the publication didn’t just mark the end of the Unabomber’s campaign of terror, which had killed three people and wounded more than 20 over the previous 17 years. It also led directly to the arrest and conviction of Theodore Kaczynski, a math professor turned hermit, whose brother recognized the manifesto as his work. Kaczynski was sent to prison, where he died this past week at the age of 81.

At the time, the manifesto set off a debate about media ethics, but virtually no one expressed much interest in the ramblings of a mad bomber. Reading “Industrial Society and Its Future” today, however, what’s striking isn’t the weirdness of Kaczynski’s ideas, but their familiarity. The obsessions that turned him into a killer have become mainstream, from hatred of what was not yet called “wokeness” to fear that artificial intelligence will render human beings obsolete. Even the format of the manifesto—a relentless march through 232 numbered paragraphs, laying out the source of every problem in the modern world—feels less crankish today, now that the Internet has turned tweetstorms and “rants” into familiar genres.

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The Washington Post published the Unabomber’s manifesto, ‘Industrial Society and Its Future,’ on Sept. 19, 1995. PHOTO: EVAN AGOSTINI/GETTY IMAGES

In his complete rejection of modern American society, Kaczynski cut across ideological lines. Some of his sentences could get applause from conservatives: “In the United States, a couple of decades ago when leftists were a minority in our universities, leftist professors were vigorous proponents of academic freedom, but today, in those of our universities where leftists have become dominant, they have shown themselves ready to take away from everyone else’s academic freedom.”
Kaczynski, who once taught at UC Berkeley, was especially incensed by “political correctness” in language: “‘Broad’ and ‘chick’ were merely the feminine equivalents of ‘guy,’ ‘dude’ or ‘fellow,’” he writes. “The negative connotations have been attached to these terms by the activists themselves.”

Other views, meanwhile, would get a warm reception in many faculty lounges. Kaczynski rails against “blather and obfuscation from the people who have power” on environmental issues, while “we keep on piling up environmental problems that our grandchildren will have to live with.” The manifesto begins with a declaration that “The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race,” a view shared by Greta Thunberg, who has described the British as “climate villains” because the Industrial Revolution took off in 18th-century Britain.

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Above all, “Industrial Society and Its Future” reflects the mind of a conspiracy theorist—a type that has become increasingly common in American politics. Kaczynski’s hate-list is long and eclectic, including feminists, scientists, corporations, the media and “big government.” But like other conspiracy theorists, he sees all these agents of ruin as expressions of a single malevolent power that must be defeated at any cost, even violent revolution. For Kaczynski, that enemy isn’t the 1%, the swamp or “elites,” but something even harder to stop: technological progress.

Part of his indictment of progress is that it has “inflicted severe damage on the natural world,” and this is the element of Kaczynski’s message that resonates with environmentalists today. “I’ve recently been reading the collected writings of Theodore Kaczynski. I’m worried that it may change my life,” wrote the British thinker Paul Kingsnorth in an influential 2013 essay, “Dark Ecology.” While rejecting the Unabomber’s violence, Kingsnorth was “convinced by the case he makes,” particularly the idea that modern society is incapable of reforming itself. Instead of mailing bombs, Kingsnorth calls on people of conscience to withdraw from the modern world and “build refuges” to protect themselves from its impending collapse.

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The cabin where Kaczynski lived in Lincoln, Mont., had no electricity or running water. PHOTO: ELAINE THOMPSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this way, radical environmentalism, which is ordinarily thought of as a leftist movement, converges with far-right groups that want to withdraw from society, such as survivalists and militias. Kaczynski himself lived “off the grid” in a primitive wooden shack in Montana, and in his manifesto he writes nostalgically about a time in American history when “A man might be born and raised in a log cabin, outside the reach of law and order and fed largely on wild meat.”

The most important thing technology has deprived us of is this kind of autonomy—the power to shape our lives by our own values. Kaczynski argues that human beings gain self-esteem and self-confidence by achieving their goals through personal effort. But our society is so complicated, bureaucratic and technological that it is impossible for individuals to control their destinies or even to feed themselves. The manifesto holds this loss of autonomy responsible for just about every social and personal ailment imaginable, including “boredom, demoralization, low self-esteem, inferiority feelings, defeatism, depression, anxiety, guilt, frustration, hostility, spouse or child abuse, insatiable hedonism, abnormal sexual behavior, sleep disorders, eating disorders, etc.”

That list is a perfect expression of Kaczynski’s monomania, his belief that every problem has the same solution. But the basic idea that the only dignified life is an independent one is very much in the American grain. And his sense that technology was on the brink of making the planet unlivable is now shared even by many of the people who create that technology.

Writing about artificial intelligence in 1995, Kaczynski warned: “If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions…the fate of the human race would be at the mercy of the machines.” Last month, some of the world’s leading AI researchers signed a statement that said “Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global priority,” comparing it to the danger of nuclear war.

Theodore Kaczynski became the Unabomber because he believed that only spectacular violence could gain a hearing for his idea. “If we had never done anything violent and had submitted the present writings to a publisher, they probably would not have been accepted…In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we’ve had to kill people,” he wrote in the manifesto. Almost 30 years later, it turns out that all he needed to do was wait
 
mc
That was totally eye opening. Thank you for posting the article H.e is right except of course his view thst killing innocent people was the way to get his message out.
And now? There is no way to stop it.
 
For so long, down through the centuries, many, very many have believed that if they devote themselves to the Roman Catholic Church they would go to heaven one day when they die. They followed the rules religiously and gave their money.
All in vain. Salvation is not through a church but through the experience of having a relationship with Jesus, the God who died for them and everyone. Having your heart sprinkled with his blood and the love of God shed abroad in the heart is the only way to heaven, not following rules of the RCC, not being devoted to the RCC, a greedy institution that started out as a mixture of paganism and Christianity. God was never the head of the RCC but Satan. For centuries the RCC did not allow the reading of God's word, the bible, for fear their parishioners would understand what God wants.

However, In this fallen world the RCC has been a help in some respects. As long as people do not rely upon God to sustain them, as long as people rely upon the world for help, then the worldly RCC is a beneficial help to many. But not for holiness and Godliness which is what God wants. (sigh) so much to say, and books have been written.
 
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