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Out of curiosity, have the election results changed your view on the general political situation in the US? Would you be less inclined to push the button, after a demonstration of the limits of Blue power?
No, it just delays the inevitable by a few years, until they get in again and finish the plan of giving their imported migrants the vote in every swing state.
Go look at Ken White doing the "literally murder heritage foundation members" thing and tell me there's any option other than getting the necessary violence over with as fast and effectively as possible. Bluesky is already talking about a final solution to the white man problem, why should we give them any more time to prepare for it, when they will only grow stronger and their brainwashing more effective?
If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today. If you say ok sure, I say why not 40 years ago when this could have been stopped by a targeted excision instead of civilization-destroying war?
Can I just ask, for the record, exactly how big the pile of skulls you want to build is?
Are we talking thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Tens of millions? Presumably not billions since, uh, not that many Westerners.
(Disclaimer: I am definitely in a glass house here.)
As late as the 70s it probably would have been a few 10s of thousands, although that's with the benefit of hindsight knowing which obscure academics to target. Now... Being realistic it would spiral out of control unless you were very lucky or had enough top-down organization (which would make violence redundant in the first place, and is obviously what the NRX crew is aiming for. Good luck to them.)
Like Hannah Arendt said about nuclear war, it can only be a rational response against a future worse than human extinction.
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Fun fact: it used to be a sand castle.
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Are we talking randos saying edgy things, or some kind of coordinated thought push?
‘The death of the white American male’ or ‘the end of white manhood’ has been a grievance studies DEI goal for a while. It’s hard to tell how actual literal this goal is.
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