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[–] ReverantRevenant 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

When you break that down and act like celebrating your nation is something to be ashamed of, then wtf are we.

It used to be state pride before national pride. The civil war ended that. Perhaps the next step is a resurgence in state pride before national pride. In essence, going forward by going back.

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[–] prairie 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

A city cannot be constituted from any chance collection of people, or in any chance period of time.

Think of how much of modern "order" is just a temporary depletion of the rich material resources of an area (or the planet), unsustainable but appearing to reflect the soundness of mixing incompatible sets of values.

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[–] Cantilever 2 points 0 points (+2|-2) ago  (edited ago)

Sounds good in theory but remember, this "Phila" to which you refer keeps growing in number and geography

It's no mystery that TPTB want us fighting identity politics rather than actual crime perpetrated by the elite

Should we defend only our immediate family? Extended family? City? County? State? Country? Who decides what the Phila is?

I reject this idea

There have always only ever been two classes: the rulers and the ruled.

The rulers make the rules and set the stage for all factions to fight one another while the rulers escape unscathed

The rulers have no race or identity loyalty. Their loyalty is to power and power alone.

So, fuck you. Fuck your identity. Fuck your infighting. Let's get together as plebs and unite to undo the greatest multicultural theft in the history of mankind - the Federal Reserve!

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[–] Schreiber 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Doesn't work when some of the "plebs" would rather stay homeless, be thugs, leech from you, and commit random violence.

They will side with the authoritarian left rulers as long as the rulers make sure that your income is stolen from you and be redistributed.

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[–] Cantilever ago 

You know not the nature of man, son

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[–] Runaway-White-Slave 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Link or it didn't happen.

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[–] DishingShitLikeA ago 

@Martel-Sobieski I want to believe.

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[–] Calculated 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

Ecclesiastes 1:9 King James Version (KJV)

9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

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[–] Schreiber 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Diversity only works under a strict hierarchical caste system where different groups are unequal.

For example there is no problem with ancient empires having "diverse" slaves as long as the ruling class is homogenous. Diversity in America was working much better when only land-owning white males can vote.

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[–] cyclops1771 ago 

When Athens set up their democracy, due specifically to the main families/factions constantly fighting each other, and then once family A was in power (say the Pisistriads over the Alcamaeonids), they would exile the main people in family B. And then, tides would turn, and this would switch.

To counter this, they split up people and put them into demes (basically districts or neighborhoods), and everyone in those areas were deemed a new clan, not of blood, but of living area. Then, 3 demes were grouped together to form a third, and each of these came from separate areas (A USA comparison would be by state = deme. Then, you would group 3 states together (say, Ohio, Washington, and Alabama as a third or Texas, Rhode Island and Idaho as another third). Then, they would group 3 thirds together to form a tribe. This was done in order to break the ancient 'clan' ties that had led to factions, and create new lines of power and belonging, but that spread over many distinct areas, classes, and groups - sort of like if there were 10 political parties, and you were born to one.