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Master Thread Dance Your Cares Away/Fraggle/Law Abiding Citizens
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The fall of Rome had qualities that are very similar to what America is experiencing today. In fact, most great empires throughout history have many of the same conditions. But what happened to Rome is as close to what is happening to America as any other collapsed empire I’ve studied.
And just like many Americans, I'm certain many Romans knew things weren't right. However, like many Americans, most Romans likely accepted what was happening and moved on with their lives. What were those causes of Rome's demise?
1. Open Borders
2. Corrupt politicians
3. Loss of common language
4. Social & political instability
5. Creation of a welfare state
6. Violent entertainment
7. Decline of morality
8. Decline in fertility rate
9. Rise in Pedophilia
10. Unchecked debauchery
11. Class warfare
12. Unbearable taxation
13. Outsourcing
14. Trade deficits
15. Exploding debt
16. Money devaluation1
7. Military cuts & exhaustion
18. Terrorist attacks
The United States of America is unique, and we do have a completely different founding than Rome. However, if we don't face these similar challenges head on, like the greatness that once was Rome, America will find also itself in the dustbin of history.
We’re not one generation away from losing our freedoms, we’re one presidency.
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cozy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.
What we basically knew, Emma Watson is a spoiled, entitled, ignorant cvnt
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said her “heart is breaking for the Grand Blanc community,” calling the violence “unacceptable.”
Gretchen, you ignorant slut, you've been preaching and advocating these actions for years. You're as much to blame as the driver or the truck.
Gretchen, you ignorant slut, you've been preaching and advocating these actions for years. You're as much to blame as the driver or the truck.
They marry more than one first cousin.
I spent 3 months with Charlie two to 3 times a week just sitting and talking with him as I was dating his ex-wife….I can 100% assure you he’s one of us…..and it started after 9/11 with him and Alex Jones
Haven't watched a SB halftime show in decades but I'm glad to find out that Bad Bunny isn't another obese female rapper.
I haven't watched a Super Bowl in that long.
I hope they get 2 small market surprise teams with no national following with this no talent cross dressing clown and ratings absolutely tank.
If they took gambling out of the equation, ratings anyways would be low
Yeah, all those right wing riots after his death were something. FFS, and libs believe this
Freaks laugh at the women they beat, and the feminists applaud. Crazy world
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