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Violence In California Reaches "Epidemic" Levels As Our Society Rapidly Deteriorates All Around Us
2022-09-18
[ZERO] I can’t understand why anyone would still want to live in California. Yes, there are lots of high paying jobs and the weather is very nice, but crime is completely and utterly out of control. As you will see below, a new report that has just been issued is warning that violence in the state has now reached "epidemic" levels. The police are doing what they can to try to contain the violence, but at this point they are vastly outnumbered by the predators. Sadly, this is the end result of literally decades of cultural rot, and what is happening in California is going to happen to the rest of the nation if we do not take urgent action to turn things around.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  What has hate to do with accomplishing goals, Sonny de Medici5342? (let us together ponder the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact)
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-09-18 13:05  

#4  From:

"...Over the past two hundred years, advances in science and technology have so greatly improved material conditions that for many people, life no longer seems to be a battle for survival. What happens to loyalty, honor, and gratitude when conditions of affluence obviate the need to struggle to secure safety, sustenance, and even luxury in everyday life? The noble attributes recede.

Every great life has to be earned. It is not possible to live a great life on the backs of others. Moaning, wailing, begging, and borrowing amount to a mediocre life at best. Because loyalty, honor, and gratitude are the handmaidens of greatness in famous and common people alike, a brilliant person can live a cramped life, and a unsophisticated person can live a life of greatness. The creeds of victimhood, sniffing like hounds for slights and slurs, are replacing the effort, sacrifice, and compassion that make a great life possible. Victimhood culture is why we are watching greatness disappear from the American landscape.

The mighty paradox is that as material ease increases, the world becomes a colder, cruder, and crueler place. When the noble attributes become obsolete, infantile creeds of entitlement emerge. Instrumental victimologies are psychological belief systems that project a sense of victimhood in people who have never been persecuted, abused, or significantly victimized. The psychological purposes of instrumental victimhood are to exert control over others and demand and manipulate material advantages.
Instrumental victimology takes two overlapping forms. Impersonal relates to mass sociological conditions of consciousness such as racism, and personal relates to delusional victimization in family and social contexts. The dishonesty and moral destruction of instrumental victimologies dominate public discourse and much of private life in materially advantaged societies.

The left wing uses instrumental victimologies, especially nonexistent racial persecution, to control political conversation. When Biden shuffles to the podium and offers spectral handshakes to the ghosts he feels around him, he is not merely dividing our house against itself; he expresses the perversion that those who remain loyal to American greatness, those who honor America and are thankful to be Americans, are victimizers, and the disloyal, dishonorable, and ungrateful are victims."

Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-09-18 12:53  

#3  Liberal socialism? Socialists hate liberals. Liberals hate socialists. This is as stupid as saying Nazis and Communists get along because they're both socialist. The stupid, it hurts.
Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342   2022-09-18 11:39  

#2  Urban crime, violence and anarchy have become a reality. Planned Parenthood, the current family of Birth Control meds, and Fentanyl have failed to achieve the desired results. Vaccines for males and females which can be delivered to make people sterile without them being made aware are necessary.

Paging Cardiologist Wouter Basson. Doctor Wouter Basson to the white courtesy phone please. Doctor Wouter Basson.

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-18 08:53  

#1  
Why we need to ban Liberal Socialism?

1. It divides a nation.
2. It causes social unrest, instead of solutions.
3. It is the cause of Riots, Looting, & physical attacks on certain classes and races.
4. By use of a Welfare system, it perpetuates a poor minority working/non-working class to make wild claims of racism.
5. It is an ideology that its very roots demand upheaval instead of peaceful solutions & unity.

If you feel any of these are unwarranted, please name a Liberal Socialist city where it has been successfully implemented.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-09-18 08:29  

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