What's your favorite Academy Award Winning film? Mine is this 1945 documentary by Dr. Seuss wherein he explains to American soldiers being sent to occupy a defeated Germany that the Germans are a racially evil people who can barely be classified as human. And the German children are the worst of all... Little monsters... Can't be trusted.

Throughout most of history, it was primarily leftists that despised prior generations. They looked with shame upon the past, wanting to destroy it and move on to something they deemed better. This is the classic rebellious spirit, the spirit of progress, the spirit of communism, the spirit of Americanism. One of the really nasty signs that our civilization has disintegrated is that now this has metastasized in the right. Now it is normal for rightoids to look back and scornfully mock boomers or, even, for younger rightoids, millennials. Gone is the right's reverence for its elders, replaced with rebellious chanting and a faint, somber death knell.

Good propaganda makes the recipient of said propaganda more Worthy of responsibility. Bad propaganda will make them less worthy of said responsibility.

Do not spread bad propaganda. If by convincing people to take your side, you make them worse people, you're poisoning not only them, but also your movement and, to an extent, even your ideas.

Machiavelli talked about this

Putting a fleur-de-lys right next to the name "Oscar Wilde"...? Have I finally gone too far?

A reminder to hold yourself to high standards during times of stress or crisis. Control yourself.

You do not hold power. Your side does not even hold power; you are on the losing team. Heck, you are not even on the losing team, but on a fringe breakaway from the losing team that America as a nation holds in contempt. Remember that. Act accordingly.

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It is a mark of our age’s boundless vulgarity and corruption that the "art" of memery has been permitted to flourish. The meme represents the triumph of base immediacy over prudent contemplation. Prior, the transmission of ideas was severely limited. Every idea's transmission was burdened by the necessary labor of its creator having to compose a coherent piece of writing and its recipient having to possess the patience and literacy to consume it. This friction acted as a salutary filter against the ceaseless tide of intellectual filth that sloshes within the common mind. But the meme, this crude pictograph so simple a child of modest wit can comprehend it, bypasses this process entirely. It allows the most wretched, idiotic notions to be packaged and transmitted with the speed of a plague, demanding nothing of the intellect from either its author or its observer, thus ensuring that the very worst expressions of the human Will can now propagate without impediment. The meme was a mistake.

“Decade-long!” Calmly understating the problem by about 4000%.

55 years ago, in the “Days of Rage” era, American hippies were setting off about a bomb a day. They didn’t stop because they “mellowed.” They stopped because they won.

And don’t even start me on the 17th century.

"This one may have been slightly over the line! Just one more incident like this and then we'll be really mad!"

If you're impotent, it's better not to posture as if you hold the guns. It only makes you look pathetic.