The Tomb of Western Illusions

The international Left is on the side of the downtrodden, the oppressed, the voiceless. Oh, yes. So it follows logically - doesn’t it? - that it is on the side of Islam.

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The Taliban last week banned women from even “looking at men” and speaking out loud not only in public, but also “inside their homes".

The regime announced new measures regulating daily life. “Adult women are forbidden to look at unknown men.” And: "Women are ordered not to speak out loud inside their homes to prevent their voices from being heard outside.”

Reading is forbidden.

Also forbidden is “making friends with a non-Muslim". In this case, there will be very few temptations, given that Afghanistan is the worst country in the world to be a Christian and in Kabul there was only one official Catholic church, right inside the Italian embassy, but it too is now closed, as is the “Gender Studies Course".

Afghanistan has gone from being the famous tomb of empires to the tomb of Western illusions.

And:

Europe financed a desalination plant in Gaza with 10 million euros. A meritorious work. Too bad Hamas has converted the plant into a missile launch pad.

And:

The UN has just set up an exhibition in New York on the victims of terrorism… without once mentioning the Israeli victims of October 7.

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I don’t really care if Muslims want to live in the Stone Age - let them! That’s their business.
The problem isn’t that they are backward, it’s that the West can’t just leave them alone, mind it’s own business and stop meddling in theirs.
Whether the motives are corrupt - to profit off of war, or altruistic - to “nation build”, it never ends well.
The worst meddling yet has been the policy to import them by the hordes so that they can be used as tools in the insane, suicidal, Marxist induced effort of the West to destroy itself.

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Yes. For exactly that, Liz.

But I cannot understand why.

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Me either. Insanity is impossible to understand.
And as someone wrote recently, we are in “an epic struggle session between the sane and the insane.”

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That’s good. Can you remember who said it? It would be a useful quotation.

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Yes, found it - it’s from James Howard Kunstler in a blog post titled “RFK Jr. Murders Whale with Chainsaw!” on his website.
Full quote: “As you know, this election is no longer a battle between the political Left and Right. It’s an epic struggle-session between the sane and the insane”. The rest of the article is good, too.

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Thanks, Liz!

I want to know why he murdered the whale.

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Oh! Seems the whale might have been already dead, killed by a bicyclist. How on earth? … Or how in the ocean?

I think a lot of the stories about this man with the terrible voice are apocryphal.

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Though I also suspect he should be classed among the insane.

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I guess he, like most of the Kennedys, was pretty crazy in his youth. But he seems to have sobered up in his old age! In fact, he seems to be the only sane one left of the Kennedy family, who have all condemned him for leaving the Democrat plantation and endorsing Trump.
He’s still too far left on some issues, but I really like his work exposing the corruption in the pharma/government collusion, and the damage done by vaccines and chemicals to children.
It’s great that he’s endorsed Trump. But of course the media must now demonize him because of that, and make him look like the crazy one.

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More confirmation of what we are saying about the destruction of the US:

“Across much of America, elected officials are deliberately trying to ruin our country. There is no other explanation for their conduct.”

See whole article here:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/09/speaking-of-illegal-immigration.php

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For the war on free speech in the West, also this:

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That’s right - they are trying to destroy it, because they are Communists, just like the Communists who took over in Brazil. Not much difference between us now, except we still have a (more or less) conservative Supreme Court.
But if the Democrats stay in power after this election, they’ll go full Commie. They’ll quickly pack the Court and we’ll lose that, too.

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Kunstler’s article is here at the first link. But I think the story about the whale came from RFK Jr. himself some years back.

“RFK, Jr. Murders Whale with Chainsaw!” (substack.com)

RFK Jr Beheading Whale Story Resurfaces After He Endorses Trump - Newsweek

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“deliberately trying to ruin our country” - That’s still not clear or obvious to a lot of people, though it should have been to everyone four years ago. I call it warfare by government capture. I’ve described it to you as analogous to Graft Versus Host Disease, a body’s newly imported immune system turned against the patient’s organs after an allogeneic bone marrow transplant (allogeneic meaning with marrow from an HLA-matched donor other than the patient). The other analogy to immunology I like is the way our once robust immune response to communist growth and activity has gradually deteriorated to nothing, beginning in the late 60s and early 70s.

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