Idealists are always appreciated in hindsight

I used to be idealistic, lol

I'm a little more realistic now

i've been a realist far too long

The ideal is the dream, the realism is the goal

*How close to heaven can the earth get?*

Deciding how to raise my son is where my ideals meet the test of reality

It’s the Socratic method with yourself when you start to do those sort of mental gymnastics. It develops your political philosophy

force those ideals into reality

we can do it

I don't entirely disagree with your statements, though I would certainly word them differently.

Society as a whole has been slid towards promoting dysgenics. We need to move back towards a balance with nature.

@missliterallywho ^

Some days, I look only to my hatred of the left to oppose them; other days it's from the love of my people

Modernism and globalism are not the way

19th century was pretty great

@William Russell we got ourselves into this mess incrementally. We will have to get ourselves out of this mess the same way.

I wonder if we have peaked or if it’s going to get worse before it’ll get better

I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
-Psalm 139:22

Maybe I'll get that tattoo around my ankle and take selfies with duck lips

@Deleted User I've been thinking going back to some of the social rigidity of prewar Europe could help with the dysgenic problem

I 100% encourage a higher IQ working class

Make bullying great again

@William Russell tbh, it really will get worse, this is evident in the left's goals

Positive bullying needs to become the norm.

Absolutely! None of this weak spine cyberbullying

Bully squad ready

https://youtu.be/fISgKl8dB3M

@missliterallywho Completely agree. It's funny you and I have been lockstep in our view towards social policy for probably the entire time we've know one another - the only difference is in how we express these ideas.

That video looks a bit like a lot of IE...

I think pre-war europe was perhaps a bit *too* rigid. A moderate level of class mobility is probably ideal.

*far* less than we have now, though.

Just a reminder that modern combat is at least 90% cardio and very little actual strength

Class mobility is important because it discourages the "othering" of other classes

And keeps peasant revolts down

Who needs Kulaks?

If we could get rich whites to care about poor whites, the fight is just about over

The opiod addictions, the dying of preventable and treatable diseases, etc

The homelessness of entire families because of one layoff or illness

@Deleted User I've been watching a lot of Downton Abbey, which begins just before WWII and goes through the 20s+, and it's fascinating and frustrating to see what changed for better and worse. I wouldn't bring back all of it (especially old approaches to pregnancy & birth), and clearly Brits are very different in character compared to us, but a lot of the old ways we never should have ditched.

I've seen a few episodes.

Some guy was on TDS saying he blames rich whites more than he blames Jews for our current situation. Can't say I completely disagree.

I've made promos for PBS for Downton Abbey, never actually watched the show though.

I'm in season 4, no spoilers plz

@missliterallywho What class of people are the main characters in that show?

All of them, really

It's a large cast and details the lives of all the people in the house

@John O - It's about an Earl's family and his servants, so all classes show up

Who do you self insert as?

*don't say the flapper don't say the flapper*

The flapper.

lol

nice

I can empathize with a variety of characters. My mom thinks I'm a lot like Mary, the "cold" one lol

Oh, you were talking to Mrs. Logan, my bad....

Oh, so the upper class

Is there a sassy maid? I want to be *her*

no reason..

We don't have a comparable class system by any means, realistically I'd be between the aristocrats and the servants

i saw a scene with some dude racing a car...I wanna be him.

*Oi! Getcha own damn tea*

@Flint The sassy maids always get fired

You mean freed from my bourgeoi masters to go have my own series?

The burgeoning middle class shows up here and there but none of the main characters are in it

*Oi, you got a license for that!* the series

Lol one sassy maid ended up with a bastard child and worked as a prostitute. Bad behavior used to have real consequences

So, it'll be an HBO show?

Not in that century lol

She was majorly shunned

Actually, there really is a show like that, set in the 70's disco ere

Had Maggie Gylenhal and James Franco...

Gross

Don't remember what it was called

She was a prostitute in NYC and had a daughter

The only HBO series I liked was The Young Pope. Although it had a lot of sexual themes which I didn't like that much

He was the brother of some guy who owed money. I only saw about 20 mins of it

The Wire is a good HBO series. It’s about the drug scene in Baltimore during the 90’s. It’s fiction tho

John Adams is a great miniseries

Downton never shows more than a kiss, it's so refreshing not to be visually assaulted by sex scenes that do nothing for the plot

Ah, found it, it was called "The Deuce"

@William Russell The Wire was awesome

God, it would've been so cool to be working class in turn of the century London

Baltimore is out of control

@John O - For real?

No

lol

It would've sucked so bad

Farmer in 1860 America might be nice

Start at 7 years old in the textile mill

18 hour shifts

Pretty much all of history wouldn't have been to fun to be in, tbh. The beds we have now are better than what Kings had

Labor Unions are pretty cool don't @ me

I agree

We need to fix them

yaaas

They’re getting a bad rep

Labor Unions were necessary

@John O - REEEEE

I SAID DON'T @ ME

@John O - hey cutie.

For the record, I'm non Union

My company is owned by a Mexican parent company. They’re ripping off farmers wages. A union would do wonders