The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Empire Strikes Out Some thoughts on the end of ages Radio Far Side History, that unsentimental undertaker, has buried every empire that swaggered across the stage believing itself permanent. The corpses differ in costume, but the causes of death are tediously predictable. Empires rot internally long before their enemies bother to tap the door. The United States, that once-boisterous experiment in liberty, now lies half-conscious, slurring patriotic slogans while the monitors flatline one by one. Mouldy academic types identify five reliable symptoms of imperial demise: fiscal ruin, political cannibalism, military overstretch, economic decomposition, and cultural rot. Let us examine the American specimen before the embalmers arrive, shall we? First off, empires collapse when the ledger stops lying for them. Rome shaved its coinage like a drunk barber; the Byzantines watered the gold; the British mortgaged the furniture. The United States has refined the art: it spends money it ...

  Dead Eyes Don't Lie Society Normalizes and Incentivizes Satanic Pop Culture Child Groomers 𝙂𝙊𝙊𝘿 𝘾𝙄𝙏𝙄𝙕𝙀𝙉 Disney’s darlings grooming young girls: From innocent and wholesome, to normalizing the slutty and pornographic by their teenage years. Corrupting Yooots In 399 BC, Socrates was tried and sentenced to death by hemlock for corrupting the youth of Athens. His crimes? He loitered in the streets and spoke to young men on the brink of adulthood, drawing them into vices that unsettled the polis. He invited them to escape the habit and drudgery of their world with tightly rolled purple cookie monster kush joints to ease the stress of prepping for their geometry exams, and showed them his collection of Only Macedonians— pin-up reliefs, one of which depicted a woman providing a different kind of relief for 1000 Athenian soldiers in a single night. When the Lyceum in Athens hosted its Spring Greek formal, Socrates would show up with chariots stacked with kegs of Egyptian barle...