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No, the Turks did not rebuild Germany.
They arrived in 1961, 16 years after the war.
By then, White German men and women had already rebuilt our country and revived our economy.
Yeah, Christians took back what was once theirs.
You really want to go down that road? Because by that same logic, what about Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, and much of the Middle East, where Christianity existed long before Islam?
Read history.
In The Republic, Plato argues that every form of government eventually decays, with democracy ultimately giving way to tyranny.
Bukele launched a military operation to free their hostages in Haiti
This is so freaking cool
Pou chèf gang yo ak manm gang yo k ap kenbe kat konpatriyòt nou yo an otaj ann Ayiti:
Mesye nou kidnape yo pa konbatan. Yo se teknisyen nan domèn avyasyon ki fè pati misyon nou ann Ayiti, nan kad yon misyon entènasyonal. Misyon nou an gen sèlman pilòt ak pèsonèl teknik, ki gen kòm travay prensipal fè evakyasyon medikal epi sove lavi moun, pa fè lagè.
Men, nou te kidnape yo yon fason lach pandan yo t ap retounen apre yo te fin achte manje nan yon makèt nan zòn nan.
Se poutèt sa, jodi a nou te lanse yon operasyon militè pou pote yo sekou. Nou gen yon sèl objektif: fè kat konpatriyòt nou yo retounen lakay yo vivan, san okenn mal.
Men, mwen vle pou nou menm, chèf gang yo, konprann yon bagay byen klè: atak jodi a pa anyen devan sa k ap vini si nou pa remèt toule kat otaj yo vivan.
Epi pa pran pawòl nou yo pou menas san fondman. Nou deja fini ak gang yo nan El Salvador, e nou kapab fini ak nou tou.
Nou toujou gen tan pou evite sa.
Remèt nou kat konpatriyòt nou yo vivan, san okenn mal, epi tout bagay ap retounen jan sa te ye anvan kidnaping lan.
Desizyon an nan men nou.
I want you to take a good look at these pictures.
This beautiful architecture won’t survive if we keep babysitting the Third World.
I think about this quote from Hunyadi a lot:
"We have had enough of our men enslaved, our women raped, wagons loaded with severed heads of our people, the sale of chained captives, the mockery of our religion... [W]e shall not stop until we succeed in expelling the enemy from Europe."
We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, but they are still lying.
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In 1911 Belloc warned what happens when a people stop reading real books:
“It is an interesting speculation by what means the Book lost its old position in this country. This is not only an interesting speculation, but one which nearly concerns a vital matter. For if men fall into the habit of neglecting true books in an old and traditional civilization, the inaccuracy of their judgments and the illusions to which they will be subject must increase. … The excellence of a book and its value as a book depend upon two factors, which are usually, though not always, united in varied proportions: first, that it should put something of value to the reader, whether of value as a discovery and an enlargement of wisdom or of value as a new emphasis laid upon old and sound morals; secondly, that this thing added or renewed in human life should be presented in such a manner as to give permanent aesthetic pleasure.”
— Hilaire Belloc, First and Last (1911)
The only proper response is this:
“Charles Martel deployed his troops against them and, warrior that he is, fell upon them. With Christ’s help, he pulled down their tents and rushed into battle to grind them to pieces.”
Elon fired a Muslim who worked at Tesla after he attacked a woman for accidentally stepping on his prayer rug.
A few months later, the guy shot three students at a bar in Texas.
Elon Musk in his new interview on immigration:
“What I’m saying is simply logically consistent, which is that if there’s a culture that has diametrically opposed views to our culture, and that’s, you could take Islam, it’s not that, of course, there are many people who’ve, you know, Muslims who are quite reasonable. But there are some who are not. And unless you’re filtering for jihadis, you’re going to get jihadis, and they’re going to do jihad and kill people.
Now, in Israel, they understand this quite well. Obviously, this lesson has been reinforced with a lot of attacks. And so in Israel, they realize if you let in the people that want to kill Israelis, they will do so. So they’re quite pragmatic about this, and they try to make sure that doesn’t happen. You know, you can’t put yourself in the mind of a serial killer unless you’re a serial killer. Like, unless you enjoy murdering people, you can’t imagine why someone would do such a thing.
And if someone is a religious extremist, where they view anyone who is not in their religion as the enemy, it’s difficult for you to understand that mindset because you don’t have that mindset. But you can obviously recognize there are people who do have that mindset, and that if you let them into the country, they will kill people.
Let me give you an example. There’s many. We had someone who was working at the Tesla factory in Austin until December of last year. He was fired because he assaulted a woman who stepped on his prayer rug in the factory. Okay, so she wasn’t expecting anyone to be praying in the factory, and he was praying in the factory. She accidentally stepped on his prayer rug and he assaulted her, violently assaulted her. So he was fired for that. And then a few months later, he went and killed three students in the bar in downtown Austin.”
Watching old footage and then walking through your city is one of the most radicalizing experiences you can have.
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Colonization was the best thing that ever happened to the third world.
German colonial architecture:
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This is what reading actually does to you:
“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. We realize it best when we talk with an unliterary friend. He may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated. The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many, is not enough. I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. … Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like a night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”
— C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
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Before the Germans arrived in German East Africa, there was nothing.
People lived in mud houses and huts made of clay, straw, and wood. There were no railways, no ports, no hospitals, no written bureaucracy.
Then Germany showed up and did what Germans do. They built.
Liberal women don't care about rape. If they did, they wouldn't be pro immigration.
A French woman says that the rioters and looters broke into her building and threatened her with rape while she was holding her child in her arms.
“That’s collateral damage” responds the feminist activist Bettina Zourli who holds a Master’s in gender studies and focuses her work on gender norms, motherhood, reproductive rights, and voluntary childlessness (“childfree”)
She describes herself as “feminist, childfree and Antifa”
Zourli also says that all the stores getting looted also constitute a case of collateral damage and that the revolution, which she supports, must be violent.
She has lectured in gender studies, including at the University of Lille and Université Rennes.
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Islam is not a religion as the Founding Fathers understood it. They would be stunned by anyone who suggested importing large numbers of Barbary pirates.
A single brick of the Duomo is worth more than all these bastards' lives combined.