Civil Wars & Woes – Part I

Hat tip Mary Christine

Guest Post by Johnny Paratrooper Via Western Rifle Shooters

From my modest historical and military understandings, I believe we can expect social and structural fracturing along the lines of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. I expect those lines to exactly follow the 1936-1939 splits. Specific examples, like the International Communists distancing themselves from Anarcho-Communists and the Catholics/Christians not being able to pick a side can be seen on TV right now in living breathing “on-demand” HD mega-color 24/7. The 1936-1939 social fracturing occurred along racial, religious, and regional lines, but also international lines as well due to Spain’s diverse multicultural global society.

Spain’s diversity was a direct result of the collapse of Latin America and the hard fall of the Spanish Empire beginning in the late 17th and early 18th century. Many of Spain’s global colonists abandoned their colonial expeditions in favor of looting their respective vassal states and fleeing back to the old country. The west is experiencing this again a la Latin America, China, Africa, and the Middle East. On an enormous and unprecedented scale. Clearly, the elite are using the same playbook. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Reforms) The fall of the Spanish Monarchy reminds me of the fall of the Clinton/Obama/Bush Cartel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bourbon

These occurrences are obvious to any student of history and occur with consistent regularity (See Iraq circa 2005 and the “Current Year” situation in Venezuela). These social and structural fractures also occur the same exact way during times of peace. Peace makes for strange friends. War is no different. War is life without Peace; Peace is life without war. Life is the only common denominator and the greatest common factor. This is “Life”.

The Spanish Communists of 1936-1939 are known for their famous fighters and camp followers like Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and Eric Blair (AKA George Orwell). Those famous celebrities fought in the civil war and supported it any way they could. We have already seen in our very own countries a plethora of famous people who are more than willing to support death, destruction, and mayhem. In our own nations, our celebrities, police, and politicians pretend to be friends with Antifa and Islamists. However, do the beautiful socialites hang out with diseased, mentally ill homeless Antifa and hardline Jihadis? No, they don’t. This is the social equivalent of the varsity football team inviting the chess team and skater kids to the gymnast, dance squad, and cheerleader pajama party. It just isn’t going to happen. Sure, they go to the same Islamic-Marxist indoctrination camps, and maybe attend a social function or two when they must, but they are not friends by any stretch of the imagination. They stick to their own, despite their many denouncements when you object to participating in their mandatory fun time. If you watch the documentary I have linked below, you will see the Anarcho-Commies look like a rough bunch of Angela Merkle and Bernie Sanders types. Meanwhile, the International Commies were well connected, talented, and seemingly attractive politicos. We see these same social parallels all around us. I witness them in living color every day. Please read the two links below to follow my point more closely.

Check out this video linked here. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/01/john-boch/video-antifa-member-shot-to-death-after-drawing-down-on-eugene-or-cops-in-school/

As I was proof reading this article for grammar and spelling, this happened in real time. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/01/john-boch/antifa-attacks-ieds-found-at-eugene-or-police-headquarters-after-shooting/

Imagine if that lunatic sporting a “Smash the Patriarchy and Keep Calm” shirt had executed two cops, multiple administrators, and a classroom of cisgendered middle school kids with that semi-automatic combat handgun? Would the celebrities call for a gun ban while CNN runs file photos of middle school kids? Or would they abandon their comrade as an “Anarchist” and not a real “Comrade”. The answer is: Abandon, Ignore, or Counter Spin the narrative. A process that the Anarcho-Commies will quickly understand. Currently, they engage in a cover-for-action for each other, however the Anarcho-Commies will eventually realize they are not invited to the “after party”. The 1936-1939 Spanish Communists abandoned the Anarcho-Commies because they were far too extreme and committed wild atrocities (Like banning money in favor of trade and barter). During the first couple days of that body camera video being posted, the comment section was deeply divided. It looked like a 4Chan Board and a WRSA comment section combined with feminists and illiterate keyboard smashers defending the “poor kid who was crying for help”. Needless to say, any support and excuses for the offender were not at all well-received and the over-whelming majority of comments were similar to the following.

Thank God; please shoot to kill all Antifa Members; bless our police; MAGA!

It read (to me) as if fathers and mothers around America were praising those brave officers for their less-than-superb take down, and perfect barrel-to-brains sight picture. 60 million Americans who voted for Trump can see the writing on the wall. Everyone in America works with at least one of these Pro-Commie supporters or has one (if not more) in their own family. Just the same as the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish, Americans, and Europeans as a whole, can see the writing on the wall. This is currently unfolding, and accelerating, all over again. There is no stopping this. Nothing can undo decades of Marxist indoctrination and Koranic studies. We can only go forward from here, because they will not stop.

The Spanish Nationalists, in my opinion, were the biggest victims of the 1936-1939 Civil War. They tried their hardest to protect their cities and land interests, knowing Civil Wars destroy wealth in at least three ways. First by destroying the public trust, second by destroying the industrial production, and third, by draining the wealth. The aristocrats and their supporters in the northern portion of the nation are the blood and heritage that saved the historically strategic peninsula during the “Reconquista”, and, it makes sense that Stalin would attempt to destabilize or seize this land in 1936 before launching a full invasion against Europe. This is the same strategy that Rome and Islam had previously attempted during antiquity. The Spanish Military, mostly loyal to the Nationalists during the civil war were tasked with the protection of the industry, roads, trade routes, and ports. The Spanish military was also very weak, and 100% concerned with foreign invasion during these years of instability. Does this sound Familiar? It should so far. Keep reading because it only gets better. And the parallels get much deeper. Including the foreign fighters and subversives. They are back, and better than ever.

The Spanish military had several inter-rank conflicts which resulted in limited force-on-force engagements and the banishment of unreliable or over-zealous generals and their soldiers to friendly foreign lands. The military was not interested in killing Spanish citizens, nor were they interested in seizing any land or resources. They had no reason to arbitrarily seize territory in their own country. The country was theirs to begin with and they could only lose support and/or precious soldiers in the fields of battle. The civil war was a zero-sum game for the Spanish Military. Anything anyone did during the Spanish Civil War (All Sides) was a costly, hard earned disaster and everyone kept everyone very busy; or ignored them entirely. Negating any effect either group had on the other. The Spanish civil war is a micro-cosmic version of WW2. All the key players are the exact same. The Nationalists won because they held the moral and ethical high ground. The military committed little-to-no atrocities and continued to defend the national borders and territories during the entire civil war. We pro-Westerners are the New Spanish Nationalists circa 1936. This article applies to Americans, Canadians, and Europeans in the new resistance the same global threats. The Islamic-Marxist Alliance, henceforth referenced as “J-Com” (Jihadis & Commies) will engage “Free Force” within the next couple years. Probably whenever South Africa or France/UK/Germany kicks off their genocide. This will be something like a dozen Venezuela-Columbia, South Africa, and Iraq/Afghanistan wars combined into one giant mess, depending on your geography and human terrain. In some areas, like my hometown of Baltimore, I expect to see Rwandan and Yugoslavian style ethnic conflicts. In the Rockies, it will be like Afghanistan in the Mountains, and Baghdad in the cities. To any well-read American partisan, you should know I am paraphrasing the well-traveled, well-trained, and well-studied fiction and non-fiction author “Matthew Bracken”. For the uninitiated, his website is linked here. https://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com All writings are a must read.

I am a history student at a major Islamo-Marxist Reeducation University in the Baltimore, Maryland area. One that is heavily infiltrated and funded by the Chinese Confucius Societies and the Saudi Kingdom. This article contains some very important intelligence that you should be wary of. https://www.businessinsider.com/china-threat-to-america-fbi-director-warns-2018-2/ The Islamists use the same script as the Chinese. The Spanish Civil War is the best modern parallel to our situation. It is a PERFECT in fact. History is repeating itself. The Commies, NAZI’s, Nationalists, Islamic Mercenaries, Fascists, Catholics & Christians, Jews, and Celebrities are literally, and figuratively repeating history. The flags are the same, the classes are the same, and the divisions are the same. You can plainly and clearly see that all the key protagonists and antagonists are the same. Mirroring even the settings perfectly. In many respects even the languages are the same (Press 1 for English?). You should know that the Latinos have a long, violent, and confusing history of splitting their ranks between freedom and tyranny. Click the link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudillo A Caudillo is a Spanish or Latin Warlord. These people have a very long history of asymmetrical war, typically lasting many generations. Many of these same Caudillos evoke the same nostalgia Americans feel when they hear the name “George Washington” or “Andrew Jackson”. Simon Bolivar (Linked Below) is the South American George Washington, and Tupac Amaru is another famous hero of Latin History. Tupac Shakur, a famous Baltimore lyricist and poet, shares his name intentionally. Toussaint is the only successful leader of total slave revolt in written history. A model for the blacks at my school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simón_Bol%C3%ADvar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Túpac_Amaru

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_Louverture

This civil conflict is eventually going to happen. The match was lit during the 2016 election and the 2015 J-Com invasion of West Europe. The trigger event for the Spanish Civil War was a contested election (Sound Familiar? With the ambiguous scent of foreign influence, invasion, and intervention). One side(s) wanted the miracle of success, health, and wealth through empty promises; While the other side(s) wanted to continue to be proud Spanish merchants, producers, manufacturers, artisans, and aristocrats. The following links are Wikipedia articles that have great sources at the bottom. Including maps, major players, and timelines. This link below is my favorite historical documentary ever produced. Barring none; Watch Part 5/6 if anything. You should make some popcorn and sit down with your friends and family to view this 4-hour long documentary together. It is incredible. This is what happens to an advanced capitalist society who recently forfeit an empire due to incompetence, treason, and greed. The war was a total mess. Very confusing. I can only imagine what it was like to see a nation so divided. Or can I? Only time will tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqn0kiYBiMI&list=PL4w-2j6Q0Qj4iJ7GmEoQGWMUBeE5h1GVq

After I watched this documentary, my jaw literally hit the floor. I immediately watched it again. And during these multiple viewings, I noticed that our strengths exist in several key areas similar to the situation in 1936 Spain. I will touch on a multipoint plan in my part two supplementary article that proves we will win assuming we have hard hearts, deep provisions, and most importantly fresh water. During the Spanish Civil War, the Communist instigators convinced the mostly illiterate and poor farmers in the south to rise up and seize farmlands they were laborers on. They then took advantage of riots and anarchy during the transitional government period splitting the police forces, military, and politicians into friends and foes within weeks. All sides kicked open the doors to prisons, freed long lost friends, and proceeded to engage in Hunt/Kill excursions into enemy occupied territory. Typically, these events occurred on university campuses, churches, prisons, police stations, and office buildings. The only reason they lasted 3-years is largely thanks to the farmers who produced food in an area that wasn’t important strategically, occupied by overzealous and unchecked international reinforcements, and hefty foreign aid on all sides.

This scenario could happen in California and maybe Texas or Florida. But not in a place like Maryland, PA, or Ohio. The climate in the Northeast/Mid-West is too unforgiving. Modern “Commies” are not farmers, but they are illiterate, poor, desperate, and most importantly; They are motivated. Our Commies and Muslims don’t live in the isolated strategically unimportant farmlands. They live in the cities. Gigantic never-before-seen mega cities that require electricity and non-stop trucking. I hang out with J-Com sympathizers all day and they believe this “Worker’s Jihad” is a “Win”. They are very, very wrong. This is not a nation of inbred, sex deprived Muslims and very poor, low-IQ Catholics. Our nations were built by hard working Christian European pioneers, warriors, and explorers who knew their history and loved their cultures. America’s former slave class has destroyed their inheritance(twice). Their neighborhoods and institutions are rapidly crumbling and crashing. The same cycle is occurring in the Latino neighborhoods. The Islamic Neighborhoods in MD, PA, D.C., and VA look like the Middle East. Divided by class, as always, we can assume they have all the same problems, although with less Sunni/Shia divisions and more have/have not problems.

During the Spanish Civil War, the southern farmlands and cities of 1936 Spain turned into occupied territory hostile to God, Government, Capital, and Nation within weeks. Which is the same ideological trap as our modern cities. They occupy our states using the cities, dictating the terms of surrender of our resources using infiltration, the “power of the vote”, sabotage tactics, political and physical assassinations, re-education, and kidnapping. The veil is quickly being lifted. Very quickly. Every month or two, one of my family members or friends wakes up to this nightmare, to one degree or another. As I am sure your family and friends are experiencing right now. Only the most suggestable are hopelessly jacked into the J-Com matrix.

Because of the modern reversals between cities and farmlands, I believe it’s inevitably going to be our turn to use this same quadruple threat. In fact, other than the peaceful removal and/or arrest of occupying enemy forces, it’s our only chance for long term survival. Eventually they will outnumber and slaughter us, or our grandkids, in a South African/Venezuelan inter-generational conflict after slowly draining our resources while poisoning the minds, bodies, and souls of our peers. Currently, we are not winning as much as anyone believes. There is a full court blitz occurring in the legislative and judicial branches of the State and Federal jurisdictions. The J-Com brainwashing in the Universities continues to produce anti-white, anti-Christian, and anti-capitalist subversives by the hundreds of thousands every year. Anyone who isn’t a comrade, is treated like a modern-day leper. Our GPAs are destroyed to prevent successes and drain scholarship money, and our social structures are sabotaged by false leaders combined with the misdirecting of core motivating principles and emotions. Islam and Communism should be the enemy. Not Christians, whites, and Capitalism. Christians and Capitalism didn’t conquer 4/5’s of the world during the 20th century; J-Com did. The hate on campus is NON-STOP, very aggressive, and is getting more ridiculous. Every day they lie, cheat, and steal to maintain their supremacy. Debates are not really a debate at all, and every opposing view is lost in the mind virus induced state of confusion, paranoia, and misdirection. I have never seen a single piece of MAGA gear on my campus. Not once. Even the Republicans on campus are Trump apologists and worship diversity. Simply to maintain their open invitations to sports games and drink-a-thons. This should give you a window into the hopelessness of rescuing these institutions. The colleges are gone. The long march is complete.

The hardest part to believe about the Spanish Civil War, and modern western societies, is how readily people chose sides they did not, or do not, fully understand. They then fully integrated and adopted their new lifestyle within weeks. If you watch the documentary, Part 5 of the documentary discusses the social aspects in more depth. The levels of chameleon-like “apex predator” behavior, reminiscent of Mike Chernoviche’s recently tweeted “We can adopt a moderated Islam” are modern day examples. https://gellerreport.com/2019/01/cernovich-islam-hope.html/

Westerners have been brainwashed to hate themselves and their culture to lower our defenses before a genocidal campaign. Currently, we are committing our own genocide by not raising big, strong Christian families. However, in America; rebellion is the heart and soul of our country. And in preparation for our inevitable awakening and the reversal of current trends, the J-Com alliance has a backup plan. Plan “B” is to burn it all down. Like California or Baltimore.

During my training for the inevitable future, I frequent the shooting ranges in MD, VA, and PA. Which are now full of Communists and Islamists on the weekends and weekdays. Never have I seen this before, and I am under the impression that they avoided visiting these areas for fear of the DHS, CIA, FBI, or local PD. However, they appear to have dropped all inhibitions towards training upon realizing where the allegiance of the police state lies (Thanks in large part to the MSM, Academia, and the FBI decloaking). These institutions, and their apex predators, are clearly under direct and explicit orders to convince all non-whites to suppress and eventually kill off whites in preparation for the inevitable and eventual great awakening to the J-Com campaign. Before any war, you have to convince your foot soldiers who the enemy is and why it’s worth their life, limbs, and eyesight. All soldiers and extremist ideologies need an enemy. Else they find, invent, or manufacture a common enemy. If you are a pro-western sympathizer, you are the enemy. You are in occupied enemy territory and you absolutely must act accordingly.

Mohammed has his Infidels, Marx has God and Capital, Globalists have Nation-States

If you are reading this, you are an Infidel who loves God, Capital, and the Nation-state.

Buckle up, because they cannot cover up the civil conflicts in Germany, South Africa, Venezuela, and France forever. Nor can they hide the underlying reasons of “why?”. Currently, culture and language are distinct and real barriers, however, this will rapidly escalate when the global economies begin to feel the tension. Everyone speaks “Assault Rifle” fluently. When the assault rifles in Europe and South Africa begin to bark, the global festivities will begin. Matthew Bracken, a counter-terrorism expert, once used the military tactic of “Skylining” to describe Free force leaders, like Trump, Le Pen, and Geert Wilders to describe how our leaders bravely blood-let themselves to test the waters for J-Com sharks. The spasms that our leaders cause have decloaked so many of our enemies. The result? We are surrounded. This is truly noble effort and I hope their actions are rewarded ten-fold. This can all be done in less than a paragraph. By merely “begging a question”. It’s a social “S.A.F.E.” test.

S.A.F.E. stands for “Say/Stimulate something”, observe “Actions/Re-Actions”, “Feign, Fake, or Fight” and “Expose and/or Evaluate” your target(s). The process is rather self-explanatory. This is how you survive in 2019. Stay S.A.F.E. my friends. You are going to need it. At this point in the history of the world, you should know that Christianity, Capitalism, and Nation-States work. If you can’t, or haven’t figure that out, there is something seriously wrong with your brain, or, you are an enemy combatant. Barring no exceptions, ladies and gentlemen.

This is the end of part one of a two-part piece. And I encourage you to share your educated opinions in the comment section and be sure to watch that documentary. Am I correct? Is this a rerun of the Spanish Civil War? If we have another civil war in America, will it be State vs. State? Or Friend vs. Foe? You know how I feel, and what I believe. Part two will encompass a complete and total plan for Free Force survival. Using the same tactics that freedom fighters have used throughout history. Have no fear. We will win. We always do.

Eventually…

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22winmag - Unreconstructedsouthernerbygraceofgod
22winmag - Unreconstructedsouthernerbygraceofgod

Allow me to proofread your ‘proof reading’.

‘Proof reading’ is a compound word.

PROOFREADING

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Now as to the potential similarities to the Spanish Civil War… shiver me timbers and God forbid!

Note: The links below are real, NOT The Onion!

In Memoriam: Charles (Charlie) Landeros, 1988-January 11, 2019

Landeros Family will Pursue Independent Investigation

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Stucky

Another fine history article. The comparisons are eerily accurate …. bad shit is coming our way.

Thanks, Mary Christine!

Anonymous
Anonymous

Cant wait to dive into this juicy steak in depth, with more study, when free time allows.
This first part was deliciously served up, and look forward to part 2. Pushing my chips. I’m all in, on this bet, so far.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

There’s never been a situation like ours before. You have a good third of the population that is foreign born with absolutely no allegiance to any American ideal beyond fiat. You have at least 100 million people who are dependent on government largess for everything right down to the food they put in their mouths and you have 400 million guns and a government and media that is actively stoking the fires of this inevitable conflict as if that were their only job.

22winmag - Unreconstructedsouthernerbygraceofgod
22winmag - Unreconstructedsouthernerbygraceofgod

Well put as usual.

I’m in total agreement that no such situation has yet existed (not even close)—> especially in the relatively brief history of modern day states.

Never has the populace been so well armed, and despite all the much ballyhooed fake news and PSYOPS, never so well informed.

Joe Brackhan
Joe Brackhan

I think there are historical parallels. The US, circa 1860, was well armed, probably fairly well informed, and certainly well polarized.

Pequiste
Pequiste

Gimlet-eyed assessment, HSF.

DD NM
DD NM

“…a government and media that is actively stoking the fires of this inevitable conflict as if that were their only job.”

It does sound a bit like the prelude to the Spanish Civil War, doesn’t it?

AC
AC

Documentary from the early 1980s, on the Spanish civil war (lefty produced, so expect that bias in the material).
The communists at Google have age-gated the first few, but youtube-dl will download them anyway, if you are technically proficient.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

I had plans to do something else when I saw the links above. I started watching for a minute and wound up going through the entire thing, took four pages of notes.

I’m amazed at the similarities. Freaky.

Great documentary should be required watching.

dh
dh

That’s a good enough endorsement for me. Your opinion matters.

AC
AC

These are the same videos linked to in the article, I just posted embeds/links to each individual episode. It really is worth watching the entire thing.

Google will often kill these videos, but other people will upload them, so if one has been removed, just search for the title and another posting of that same video should be available from someone else.

The thing that struck me, was the fact that Franco probably didn’t execute nearly enough of the communists – as the ones that escaped the firing squad spent the rest of their lives undermining Franco’s rule in whatever ways they could, and then doing the same to successive Spanish democratic governments once Franco had passed away.

DD NM
DD NM

Thanks for doing that… I’d gotten the first two last night and stumbled on three. Am glad to have these links. Thank you.

DD NM
DD NM

It should be required watching, I doubt the “entertainment industry” considers it marketable subject matter.

I’ve never been to Spain, but I’ve been to Oklahoma. But that subject matters not either.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine

Lots of notes = Essay, I hope

Tactical Zen
Tactical Zen

Unlike our adversaries, nothing is more lethal than an old soldier, armed to the teeth, and with nothing left to lose. I fear there are many among us who can relate to this particular demographic. Thus, we may have a French 1789 moment instead…5,000 or so leaders who are found dead in the street, much like the headless of France in that year. It only took the French another 70+ years to finally sort it out.

One may hope.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Zen..
Right you are.
And if that’ not enough, “They” owe me a fukkin parade and my bullets have flower decals and spit on them.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Communism and Zionism are the same animal. If that’s what he means by Communism then I agree. To blame this all on Jihadists/Communism without mention of Zionism as the largely unknown catalyst, then I would just consider it more disinformation.
I agree with him on the many confusing alliances etc.. The Bolsheviks always strike after they have paralyzed the Government. I see know way out of this war and many americans are going to understand what it’s like to be totally unable to trust any kid or woman within a 100 yards of them. That cute little kid running up to you begging for money will be strapped and blow you and him to the other side. That’s what sets us apart from the commie Progladytes. We won’t send women and kids out to do that and will not be able to comprehend it until it happens so make up your mind now who you are willing to kill and when. If you wait it’ll be too late.

Mary Christine

It is hard to comprehend, but when you think about the fact that they will kill a baby even after it is born it becomes a whole lot easier to accept that they have no bounds.

DD NM
DD NM

Again, what a wonderful set of videos. Am so glad AC linked all six.

Rob157
Rob157

One of my co-workers experienced that recently in Afghanistan. It’s still a reality.

None Ya Biz
None Ya Biz

Reminds me of Vietnam. They used children as walking bombs there too.

Mary Christine

It was really late when I came across this last night. I need to read it again and watch the documentary but I’m working on something and will have to come back to it.

DD NM
DD NM

I’ve watched a few of the videos and they are VERY interesting. It is kind of astonishing I’ve been such a fan of the causes of WWII, yet… have managed to ignore a lot of this particular altercation.

Very relevant to our times, I believe.

Unacculturated
Unacculturated

Spain’s diversity was a direct result of the collapse of Latin America and the hard fall of the Spanish Empire beginning in the late 17th and early 18th century.

Which actually had its roots in the previous century’s (Strauss & Howe defined) 2nd Turning (Protestant Reformation) that led to the beginning-of-the-end for the Catholic Hapsburgs and the Spanish Armada of that saeculum’s 4th Turning; which preceded the “War of Spanish Succession” 87 years later (= the next saeculum’s 4th Turning).

Understanding the 20th-century’s (3-year) Spanish Civil War, like reading this article, is a mental exercise in untying cranial knots.

Marxists
Anarchists
Secularists
Middle Class
Working Class
Entertainers & artists
–Foreign influencers
Catholics
Republicans
Ruling Class
Military
Capitalists Stakeholders
Land Owners
Monarchists
Fascists

Conflicts of land ownership and self –rule and a myriad of other drivers affecting the political and economic spectrums all at once.

The hardest part to believe about the Spanish Civil War, and modern western societies, is how readily people chose sides they did not, or do not, fully understand. They then fully integrated and adopted their new lifestyle within weeks.

It was a freakin’ circular firing squad is what it was; and likely a preview of things to come.

A very interesting article offering much food for thought. Really liked the J-comm & Free Force (simplified) binary, S.A.F.E., and “no exceptions”.

Given the fact the author is a history student in enemy territory (i.e. –a “major Islamo-Marxist Reeducation University in the Baltimore, Maryland area”), it shows there may be some hope after all within the next generation; even if he seems to have learned his clarified understanding of history from a YouTube documentary (which I hope to watch soon)

Uncola

RE: Strauss & Howe 16th & 17th centuries

Actually, one wonders those saeculum’s 2nd Turnings (Protestant Reformation & Puritan Awakening, respectively) would compare to our 2nd Turning’s Fabulous Sixties Countercultural Revolution and if, instead of protestant reformers and pilgrims, we’ll see the unicorn chasers and rainbow worshippers of a new religion; or an old one by another name?

Indeed, there are, perhaps, numerous historical seeds which have blossomed into the recent fracas between the young Catholic, Nick Sandmann, versus the Native American Viet Nam vet and refrigerator repairman, Nathan Phillips:

Covington Catholic teen threatens to sue 54 news outlets, lawmakers and celebrities

The more things stay the same, the more they change.

DD NM
DD NM

Everything seems to be going along just fine until things change.

The less character or story driven entertainment I watch, the more I see relevance in well-documented history, such as this series offers. Perhaps that is what is wrong with our autistic children. Maybe their minds have been programmed to accept information in five minute chunks, give or take a couple of funny slogans or a dancing monkey.

An awful lot has occurred in the past couple of years but nothing has happened. We saw a lot of “never before” events on an international and national scale. Las Vegas shooting followed by so many smaller shootings we’ve all just lost track, haven’t we?

My husband and I were discussing your last piece (he doesn’t KNOW it is yours, I plagiarize you regularly around here with no fear of reprisal from the copyright police. It really is very hard to keep track of who is plagiarizing who around here on some days. I suspect on some days, the TBP pack is channeling Mark Twain while on others, I see a glimmer of Sam Adams (and not the lager from Boston or other parts). I asked for his opinion about the cultural shifts that may or may not correlate with shifts in the medium and method of mass comunication and what did he think caused the success or failure of our ability to suspend disbelief and accept another version of the truth. Except, it has to be less wordy. It went more like this because Nick’s a man of action, not words.

“Hey, why do you think Captain America and Iron Man are believable as rivals in Civil War, but Thor and the Hulk are too fantastical?”

He and I discussed it and decided Technology seems to just always end up being against what is Idealistic and Principled. A science professor told my class, honestly and directly, that as the member of the community which saw the Humane Genome come into being within his lifetime and career, his creative interest and curiosity as a Genetics expert cared not one whit for all the handwringing about what should or should not be done with the DNA code.

He said, “As scientists, we really do not care if we SHOULD or SHOULD NOT do it. We only want to see if we CAN do it.”

He was a brilliant man and on the day of the MCATS, the lecture hall had 12 of 150 students, most of them headed to the medical school. As a journalism student in the 1990s, I just thought taking the Pre-Med Genetics course with the head of the department might give me a clue. It did.

Captain America (Principle and Integrity) versus Iron Man (Technology and Progress)

None of these are bad things, yet they do seem to bring on conflict.

Thor (Philosophy and Laws of Nature) versus Hulk (Laws of Nature violated by Science and Technology)

Maybe it is just me, but I have a difficult time accepting the mythical and fantastical (hulk is just an ogre created in a 1970s lab) as heroic.

I don’t think it is just me. More and more of us are turning them off. We aren’t telling them we are turning them off, but we are doing it.

So, Nick reminded me of the “I want my MTV decade.” That was a HUGE decade in the testing of boundaries in many parts of our culture.

In many ways, I MISS my MTV, but I admit to falling victim to many nights of mindless mtv gazing in the 1980s before I joined any military endeavors.

Television in the sixties, but niche marketing and MTV in the 80s, computers and email in the 90s and now, we are seeing some communication abilities and concepts that suggest there is another big CHANGE in the air.

Undebatable
Undebatable

A big change indeed.

Zulu Foxtrot Golf
Zulu Foxtrot Golf

The only good commies are dead commies. Time to hone my bayonet skills lol.

Rob157
Rob157

Slash and parry…

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

A lot of your statements about the fighting are incredibly wrong; Nationalist fought well throughout the war and Communist always fought poorly; the Left was barbaric and the Right quickly adopted the same tactics. The Left will start the killing here also and I expect Conservatives will murder every last one of them just like in Spain; but I believe it will take us less than three years.

Zulu Foxtrot Golf
Zulu Foxtrot Golf

I freely state that my level of violence will make the most resolute of fanatics run for their miserable lives. The goal of all combat is to utterly destroy the enemy and break them so bad that their taste for anything beyond a fleeting thought of trying that shit again will not happen for several generations.

That has always been the failure of modern combat doctrine. Heads on spikes. Entrails on walls. Complete and utter devastation for anything other than total surrender.

I went to SFAS in 2001 and a dude on the STAR course with us broke his leg open fracture style with 58 of 60 miles completed. Fucker dragged himself to mile 59 across the ground and never gave up. Cadre had to physically stop him from completing the course. Needless to say he was selected and I never heard from him again. That is the willpower and mindset that those fucking economic THOTs will never get: marxist, commie fucking socialist pieces of shit will never win. I may not win either but I am goddamned for sure going to make it my sole purpose in life that none of those fucking useless, non-producing fucking thieves ever win either.

Again, the only good commies are the massacred ones. Fuck Hegel. Fuck Marx. Fuck Bernie and fuck that one genetic marker shy of Down’s syndrome dirty cunt rag Cortez. Fucking abominations of economic slave runners.

I will end my rant with this: eat a dick you commie fucking shit heels.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

Now that’s a proper attitude.

Rob157
Rob157

Salute.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Mary Christine, that was a great article. Thanks for bringing it to us. I’m looking forward to reading part 2. I’ll watch the video documentary as soon as I get a chance.

DD NM
DD NM

The documentary links posted by AC are helpful because jumping through the six on utube grew difficult.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Thanks for info, because I’m about to start watching, at least, what I can tonight.

Prof. Mandelbrot
Prof. Mandelbrot

HAD A VERY LONG DRIVE today and got thru all 6 videos. Amazing when reviewing history unemotionally and detached. What I learned:

1) never pick sides (at least feign stupidity and never let anyone know which side you are really on, embrace being the village idiot, you will survive)
2) never, ever let them capture you, ever. NEVER.
3) know when to bug out or leave your country
4) the enemy of your enemy is still your enemy
5) if you are gonna fight, do it on your own terms, and in secret as in lone wolf. Be the doctor, baker whatever non threatening during the day and “become wrath” at night, staying anonymous
6) hide your wealth, make sure it retains its value and is accessible when and where needed and dont bring attention to it
7) know who to trust; trust nobody
8) keep a low profile, stay unimportant, getting above the radar gets you ventilated
9) dont buy into the emotional bullshit and join up, (watching all those smiling patriotic fools on both sides, running off to die made me sick; running off to fight and die for someone you have never met and is in power and out to make themselves richer, while you get to take the room temperature challenge)
10) do your part and ventilate the bastards that caused the problems, at night, silently and never brag about it. Alone, with no help or witnesses to rat you out. Never tell anyone.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Good suggestions. Also make sure there are no video or CCTV cameras about or make sure you’re totally unidentifiable.

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