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I really don't want to have to fight in a civil war in my 50s/60s, but that's America's trajectory.
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I've had this exact same thought every Halloween for the last few years.
Nothing shows the decline of a high-trust society like modern Halloween.
Halloween used to be a civic duty that we've lost in barely 30 years. It was a simple deal that you bought candy for other people's kids. A high-trust holiday where every neighbor opened the door to strangers and had to welcome each one personally. The Greeks called it Xenia, the sacred laws of hospitality and guest-friendship with a duty to welcome strangers. No other holiday asks us to be this vulnerable to our community.
Now trick-or-treating gets consolidated to a parking lot or onto a few commercial downtown blocks where local businesses have been passed the social obligation of welcoming that the neighbors used to do. High-trust means making oneself deliberately vulnerable, but there's nothing vulnerable for a business who opens their doors to random strangers. It's quite literally how they operate. They risk nothing. Total cowardice of the modern neighbor.
Parents used to trust the people on their street, and a bowl marked "take one" worked because most people took one. If you grew up with it, you remember the houses that didn't give out candy were the neighborhood pariahs.
This is what a fraying shared identity looks like in real life. Fewer obligations to our neighbors, social expectations to participate in shared customs, less faith that strangers will act decently, and more retreating into private circles. Very sad that a children's holiday needs a managed venue to do what an ordinary streets and communities used to do for free.
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There needs to be an alliance between countries sick of Islam. A new sort of NATO, with a zero tolerance policy.
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The chaos is Europe, particularly France right now, is exactly what Soros wants and has worked for his entire life.
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Pedo protector?
Bitch your entire "religion" is based on pedophilia.
Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress. I have always stood up to him and that will never change. The pedophile protector will never silence me.
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Happy Indigenous People's Day, to nobody in the Americas!
Because humans aren't indigenous here.
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In the not too distant future, as civil war rages in Europe, American forces will have to secure the nuclear weapons in France and the UK.
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Freedom of religion also means freedom FROM religion.
By definition, there is no freedom from Islam.
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