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| [Barsoom] Thus opens the foundational epic of European civilization. Achilles is angry because his woman, Briseis, has been appropriated by Agamemnon, the leader of the Greeks. He expresses this discontent by going on strike. While the rest of the Greek army fights and dies outside the walls of Troy, Achilles lounges in his tent, content to sit out the combat until Agamemnon comes to his senses and returns his war bride. If Achilles were simply any other warm body with a spear, this wouldn’t be such a big deal, but he is Achilles — the greatest warrior of the Heroic Age. Without him, the Greeks are at a severe disadvantage. Achilles’ petulance is therefore a problem for Agamemnon. The lesson is hardly a subtle one. Kings and generals need to keep their soldiers happy. They especially need to keep their best soldiers happy. If they don’t — for instance, by taking their women from them — morale will suffer, and they may well find themselves without the crucial support of their warriors when it most matters. Washington seems to have missed that lesson, and now, they’re paying the price. For the last decade they have been relentlessly and mercilessly whipping American whites: defaming them as racists, mocking their intelligence and manliness, tearing down their statues, erasing the names of their ancestral heroes, replacing their fictional archetypes with diverse doppelgangers in the media, disadvantaging them in education and employment, demanding that they attend racial struggle sessions. The list of outrages and humiliations is long and all too familiar, permeating as it does every one of our institutions. But now, the Empire of Lies faces a problem. War has returned to the world. History, its rumoured demise notwithstanding, once again stalks the land. Russia mauls the Ukraine; Israel is beset with enemies; the Empire’s influence in Africa frays by the day; China salivates over Taiwan. Meanwhile the American domestic economy, long since hollowed out by the extractive rent-seeking of financial parasites, lurches from one crisis to the next. The Great Satan remains powerful, for the present, but the young bucks can scent that the silverback is not what he used to be. Their provocations increase in daring and intensity. If they aren’t slapped down, their boldness will only increase. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 ^ oops...."upside down"... |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2024-02-17 15:59 |
| #11 On a job in Panama once we got stopped at a "military" checkpoint....the kid was reading my passport upside and handed it back and said "ok". |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2024-02-17 15:58 |
| #10 Lovecraftian horrors like “Admiral” “Rachel” Levine ... *snort* Great read. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-02-17 12:00 |
| #9 Reserves. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-02-17 11:40 |
| #8 The US Army, operating against actual Americans, in America, with "imported" troops: "We sent Lopez's unit into the Blue Ridge a week ago. We haven't heard from them since..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-17 10:25 |
| #7 Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian dictator, politician and military officer who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. An authoritarian ruler who amassed a personal fortune through drug trafficking operations by the Panamanian military, Noriega had longstanding ties with American intelligence agencies before the U.S. invasion of Panama removed him from power. Wiki |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-02-17 09:39 |
| #6 Remember how quickly the events of Sunday morning, October 23, 1983 went into the memory hole ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-02-17 09:14 |
| #5 The US military has done so poorly in everything since Grenada, Panama and the eviction of the Iraqi military from Kuwait that you have to wonder if "home field advantage" would be any help at all... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-17 08:58 |
| #4 The 'intellectuals' have long believed that the peons are interchangable. They are, but not the way they think. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-02-17 08:51 |
| #3 Next time you're out buying groceries. Notice the customers at the checkout line with BUD LITE. Look around for the snickers and smiles. Plus, how they have it covered and buried in the cart. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2024-02-17 07:38 |
| #2 ^Silverback in gorillas. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-17 04:11 |
#1 the youngFIFY |
| Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 2024-02-17 04:08 |