Re: It's Early, But Will You Have for Dinner Tonight, Thursday, 11/14/2024?

On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, Coogan's Bluff wrote:

that the struggle against oppressive systems and groups is the central
subject of politics. This model has no room for what just happened."
 Woke:ism perhaps is starting to implode! =) I have predicted this,
because it will always end up in the groups waring against each other.

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Has to given its artificial origins.
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People can only be force-herded for so long, which is rather too long in my opinion...

Oh yes... far, faaaar too long. But look at the soviet union. The
madness can go on for many decades. =(

"Even the most solid identity group categories are fluid. As a recent Pew
Research Center study found, among people who married in 2022, 32
percent of Asian Americans married outside their ethnic group, as did 30
percent of Hispanics, 23 percent of Black people and 15 percent of white
people."
 Only 15 percent of white people married outside their ethnic group? I
had no idea!

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The TeeVee of course gulls into their artificial couplings as if they were a norm.
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Not.

True. Better to read books!

"As I try to update my own models, a few stray thoughts enter my mind.
First, you don’t reduce racial, ethnic and gender bigotry by raising the
salience of these categories and by exaggerating the differences between
groups."
 That's why wokism eventually will collapse. It ends up as a war of all
against all.

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The demons who have done this must pay!

This is the truth, and I do hope they _will_ pay! Can't wait until Trump
rectifies this and starts the cleanup process!

Much harder! Imagine a country caught in a woke mind prison for 100
years. Sweden is very collectivist, so it will take a strong shock to
the system to break the psychosis.

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The 100 year servitude of collectivism is potent, indeed.
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But sweden is also a very good follower. So if big parts of the world
lead the way, sweden is sure to follow. Small countries are always
anxious to be seen as good, so if the global trend changes, and strong
countries lead, eventually sweden will follow.

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That's not a bad thing, as long as one recognizes and honors the process and tendency.

True.

A third factor is the internet and global american culture. If Trump can
engineer a culture change in the US, it will eventually spread to young
swedes. In fact, I think you can already see some of that happening
among the young. The sweden democrats became the biggest party in high
school elections. So in 20 years maybe there will be some Trumpian
shifts in sweden. We must pray hard for this!

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In Christ's eternal name!

Amen!

The current king on the other hand, he's a good guy! He enjoys life,
drives around in his ferraris, has an affair or two, and just "crushes
it" as the young kids say! ;)

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That's very non-damaging of him, which is a thing to be recognized.

Oh yes, he truly is the king, in all the meanings of the word! It will
be a sad day when his daughter takes over. The crown prince was born
after they changed the law to allow a non-male inheritor of the throne,
and the kind was not pleased with the politicians.

This is the truth!

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Your nation's history is quite fascinating, even the wiki version.

It is an interesting history and I would be very interested in knowing
what my ancestors did and where they went. Swedish vikings traveled
mostly east and south east down to turkey.
Norwegian vikings traveled west settling iceland, and by extension, the
us (for a time).
The danes were going south harassing the uk, france and others. In fact,
Ukraine was founded by the swedish viking Rurik.
"According to the chronicle, Rurik was one of the Rus', a Varangian
tribe. Most historians believe that the Rus' were of Scandinavian
origin,[13] more specifically from what is currently coastal eastern
Sweden around the eighth century.[14] According to the prevalent theory,
the name Rus' is derived from an Old Norse term for "the men who row",
from an older name for the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen.[15][16]"
And Roslagen happens to be where I have my country house and it is a
beautiful area of sweden with excellent fishing opportunities! =)
And todays history trivia, did you know inventor John Ericsson was on
a US commemorative stamp issue?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ericsson#/media/File:John_Ericsson_commemorative_stamp,_issue_of_1926.jpg