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Blax Blah

Blax Blah

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Blax Blah said:
"About the same time a like quarrel raged in Russia, and its cause was this. There were in Russia 20 million serfs. For generations past they had been under the rule, or rather the birch-rod, of their owners. They were flogged for tilling their soil badly, flogged for want of cleanliness in their households, flogged for imperfect weaving of their cloth, flogged for not sooner marrying their boys and girls – flogged for everything. Slavishness, improvidence, were their reputed characteristics.


Now came the Utopists and asked nothing short of the following: Complete liberation of the serfs; immediate abolition of any obligation of the serf towards the lord. More than that: immediate abolition of the lord’s jurisdiction and his abandonment of all the affairs upon which he formerly judged, to peasants’ tribunals elected by the peasants and judging, not in accordance with law which they do not know, but with their unwritten customs. Such was the unpractical scheme of the unpractical camp. It was treated as a mere folly by practical people.


But happily enough there was by that time in Russia a good deal of unpracticalness in the air, and it was maintained by the unpracticalness of the peasants, who revolted with sticks against guns, and refused to submit, notwithstanding the massacres, and thus enforced the unpractical state of mind to such a degree as to permit the unpractical camp to force the Tsar to sign their scheme – still mutilated to some extent. The most practical people hastened to flee away from Russia, that they might not have their throats cut a few days after the promulgation of that unpractical scheme.


But everything went on quite smoothly, notwithstanding the many blunders still committed by practical people. These slaves who were reputed improvident, selfish brutes, and so on, displayed such good sense, such an organising capacity as to surpass the expectations of even the most unpractical Utopists; and in three years after the Emancipation the general physiognomy of the villages had completely changed. The slaves were becoming Men!


The Utopists won the battle. They proved that they were the really practical people, and that those who pretended to be practical were imbeciles. And the only regret expressed now by all who know the Russian peasantry is, that too many concessions were made to those practical imbeciles and narrow-minded egotists: that the advice of the left wing of the unpractical camp was not followed in full."
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Page 3232, time for three epic quotes:

"I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day '

"Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills."

"No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms." "

- John Brown, abolitionist
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"The Utopists won the battle. They proved that they were the really practical people, and that those who pretended to be practical were imbeciles."

Is this the hardest line written in political theory?
 
Monkey D Theories

Monkey D Theories

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America probably needs to invest heavily in education in order to remain an economic superpower. The fact it’s not only waging a war on it’s institutions, but also pushing away foreigners that want to contribute to the country will probably be our downfall.

Tech industry layoffs are probably the writing on the wall. A lot more jobs are going to get automated or offshored to India, which will probably do to service industry jobs what China did to manufacturing.

America can only stay on top by being the forefront of innovation. We need the government to invest in Americans. Create an environment where we can grow and develop. That means building adequate social safety nets and making the nation safer by actually rehabilitating criminals after they’ve done their time.

We need Americans to be the smartest and most talented workers on the planet.

Trump is actively working against these interests. If this goes on, China will become the next superpower and America will become Russia 2.0
 
Uncle Van

Uncle Van

Monké Don't Do Taxes
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Monkey D Theories said:
America probably needs to invest heavily in education in order to remain an economic superpower. The fact it’s not only waging a war on it’s institutions, but also pushing away foreigners that want to contribute to the country will probably be our downfall.

Tech industry layoffs are probably the writing on the wall. A lot more jobs are going to get automated or offshored to India, which will probably do to service industry jobs what China did to manufacturing.

America can only stay on top by being the forefront of innovation. We need the government to invest in Americans. Create an environment where we can grow and develop. That means building adequate social safety nets and making the nation safer by actually rehabilitating criminals after they’ve done their time.

We need Americans to be the smartest and most talented workers on the planet.

Trump is actively working against these interests. If this goes on, China will become the next superpower and America will become Russia 2.0
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That would require billionaires and their lords giving up some money and power. Good luck with that.
 
RyoQ

RyoQ

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Ravagerblade said:
Litmus Test, If you thought what happened to Charlie Kirk was good, You are a bad person.
It's fine to disagree with people. Not everyone can agree with everyone and everything.
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IQ test: you think Kirk was a Nazi or bigot when he was actually pro-immigration, pro-LGB Zionist and was ideologically closer to a liberal than a Nazi
:gokulaugh:
 
RyoQ

RyoQ

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Kizaruber Eats said:
https://reason.com/2025/09/22/michi...nd-even-nonsexual-depictions-of-trans-people/




I'm getting some insane deja vu from a century ago or a bit less right now. Pure fucking evil yet the self righteous will always believe they are justified, especially the ones who want to hurt others and ruin their lives at minimum. Their "God given rights".
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Holy shit, this guy really doesn't want his porn and trangenders in kids shows being taken away
:usoprice:

You can be rest assured though, as long as Gretchen is in power no perversions like that will see any restrictions.
 
RyoQ

RyoQ

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Jew D. Boy said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/comments/1nvf046 He’s 19 years old, by the way…even when it’s a boy, even when it’s the president’s son, conservatives cannot conceal their predilection for sexualizing teenagers :jay-yeah::jay-yeah::jay-yeah:
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19 isn't a teenager

and you are just pissed there is no Barron equivalent for the left. You guys have no princes or kind of political nobility and can only claw at the side that has it to admire and appreciate
:BigW:
 
Blax Blah

Blax Blah

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Jew D. Boy said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/comments/1nvf046 He’s 19 years old, by the way…even when it’s a boy, even when it’s the president’s son, conservatives cannot conceal their predilection for sexualizing teenagers :jay-yeah::jay-yeah::jay-yeah:
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RyoQ said:
IQ test: you think Kirk was a Nazi or bigot when he was actually pro-immigration, pro-LGB Zionist and was ideologically closer to a liberal than a Nazi
:gokulaugh:
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Guy who said the civil rights act is a mistake
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A list of his beliefs:


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A real christian hero like John Brown would be calling Kirk an evil loser, and Trump a fake christian and a pedophile
 
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Zenos7

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RyoQ said:
19 isn't a teenager

and you are just pissed there is no Barron equivalent for the left. You guys have no princes or kind of political nobility and can only claw at the side that has it to admire and appreciate
:BigW:
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19 is considered a teenager in most dictionary definitions lol.

And who the fuck thinks political nobility is worth anything? Thats super cringe my guy.
 
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