Thanksgiving is a truly American holiday. Where Americans reflect and give thanks for the incredible fortune we have enjoyed. It is the dinner, the gathering of family around a meat which makes thanksgiving special, but it has given rise to a new tradition, the Friendsgiving.
1/ Like many of you, I spent many Thanksgivings far from my blood family, sometimes sharing an MRE in an 1151 off Tampa, eating off a paper plate at NTC, or spending it with other homesick expats all over the world.
2/ For me, “Friendsgiving” started before the trend, and for over a decade I spent more thanksgivings with friends and my adopted brothers than I did with my blood family.
3/ It is these Thanksgivings that in retrospect mean the most to me, because they weren’t the obligatory family gathering, they were people we chose to spend the evening with.
4/ Inviting non blood relations into our homes and feeding them from our tables is one of the most intimate and nurturing things we can do.
This attraction towards supping with our friends is rooted in our history.
5/ From the days of Pliny the Younger witnessing early Christian Agape Feasts to frontier trappers gathering around a strangers fire to get out from the cold, the tradition of dining with those we are not forced to was once strong in the West. Somehow along the way we lost it.
6/ As we shifted towards a life of consumerism we often preferred the ease of eating in restaurants and meeting in bars. Public places are a crutch of formality, and reduce the intimacy of dinner at home in a society increasingly shying away from close interpersonal contact.
7/ And while the food at a restaurant may taste better, it will never match home cooked meals, the sense of accomplishment they provide and collegial participation of accomplishing something together.
8/ The imagery of close, friends and neighbors gathered around a home table, talkin, bonding and getting to know one another is the very basis of our culture.
9/ Unique to the spaces of the American frontier, finding another Christian home was paramount in the vast and hostile distances one traveled.
10/ We talk a lot about forming bonds and creating networks, but one of the best ways to solidify those bonds are through shared meals and great evenings.
11/ As Sebastian Junger once said “humans are the only species in which a young male will sacrifice his own life for another male he is not related to.’ One of the best evenings of my life was spent getting to know a group of officers over dinner at Balhousie.
12/ Veterans all, we ate, drank and for nearly six hours discussed battles old and new and debated the merits of American bourbon versus highland scotch. Over dinner you learn about one another, you have nowhere to hide, and your honest self will always reveal itself.
13/ By focusing on quality and production over consumption, it is our little way of pushing back against the current zeitgeist of consumerism. This isn’t some Ancient tradition, it is the way our Parents and Grandparents lived. The hard generations found it helpful, so will we.
14/ It is our way of bringing back solid traditions of old in the hopes that with the traditions come some of the close bonds of community that we remember from our youth. They are social events and whether they are co-ed, or divided the goal is to have fun.
15/ So sometime between family Thanksgiving and family Christmas find a night to gather some friends together bring them over, feed them food drink some of whatever it is you drink and start putting our society back together. If you need help, I’ll help you put together a menu.
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There is no justice in the world unless we make it. You might luck out and the system works in your favor
But if you have to snatch and grab and do an extraordinary rendition of the pedo that killed your daughter on your own, then you do it
The story of Kalinka Bamberski
In 1982, a healthy and athletic 14 year old French girl named Kalinka Bamberski died suddenly in Lindau, Bavaria while vacationing with her mother and step-father.
Her father Andre fought for over three decades, and against three governments to bring her killer to justice.
Kalinka's stepfather, Doctor Dieter Krombach, admitted to having given Kalinka an "iron injection" to help her tan, and also a sleeping pill. She was found dead the next morning.
A very rural (typical for backwoods Bavaria) autopsy revealed some startling discoveries.
The tactics of Generals can win battles and maneuver the enemy to defeat. But if the enemy refuses to be defeated, refuses to succumb to the norms, and stands their ground against the storm then no tactics can defeat them. Like the charge of the Imperial Guard at Waterloo.
1. By 1815 the Napoleonic Wars was on its last legs. Napoleon had won fame and glory with a simple formula: Spread the enemy out, gather your strength and overpower a small part of the enemy line. Time and time again, it worked. Break one part of the enemy line and they all run
2. Napoleon loved the column formation. Instead of spreading his men out in long thin lines, he massed them like a hammer, marched them straight at a terrified enemy, and broke them like glass.
All kidding aside this Antifa thing has a chance to get spicy. It has before
Not to dox myself but I worked for this company that had a huge footprint in Germany, and one day their head of Executive Protection (good dude, former Legionnaire, shot together) asked me for some help
He took me down to the armored garage and the “arms room” where there were no shit racks of full auto MP5s, Uzis, and crates of grenades.
He said back in the 70s and 80s this was standard issue to all EP groups because of the Red Army Factions killing CEOs and hijacking planes.
We did the inventory and the Bundeswehr came and picked it all up, (he didn’t even give me an MP5 as a thank you) but I never forgot that before we got distracted by Islam, (which the commies used to their advantage) we fought a decades long hot war with the Communists.
These people are idiots. They talk in these grandiose self important sentences that don’t mean anything. Also, they have no understanding of how LE works.
Remember; Occam says blame the mentally ill. And they are
2. LE fakes.
Probability: Low
Why? They have lots of evidence already. They have cooperating witnesses and physical evidence. Dude is going away. They risk all of that to run up the score. Besides it is too quick and cops are slow.
The thing about political assassinations is they almost always backfire.
Killing Caesar got you the Triumvirate 2
Lincoln got you reconstruction
Ghandis ended Hindu nationalism
MLK JFK etc
Leaders on the left know this. And fear us
They know regular conservatives aren’t lone wolf killer types. We aren’t laying on rooftops to kill a political celebrity. We have too much to lose yes, but that is not how we flex our power
What they fear is our turning our backs on them. Our indifference to their causes.
Most conservatives believe in America. And we believe that most Americans just want a good America.
At least we did. Over the past few years that belief has eroded to the point of vanishing. The left has pushed and pushed and now they see us about to push back
“Air supremacy” is a broad term. But a general definition is you can hit whatever you want from the air, and the enemy can not. Sure, people still will get shot down. But the mission is a success.
The Serbs shot down an F-117, no one is saying we didn’t have air supremacy in Kosovo
Same in 1944-1945 in Europe. The Allies bombed what they wanted, and the Luftwaffe could not return the favor: still men died, but its war.