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>From the excellent chronicles of the monk Matthew Paris, the report on an incident which took place in Germany and other countries in 1241 is also extremely informative,200

>At this time, there was fierce fighting in Eastern Europe against the Tartars and Cumans, who had invaded Europe from the East. The Jews, particularly those in Germany, believed that these nomadic warrior tribes from the Eurasian Steppes were descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, and, in Prynne's words **'believing, that the Tartars were of their own Nation, entred into a secret League with them, to destroy the Christians, and subdue the whole world to themselves'.** As a first way of assisting the invaders, the Jews decided to purchase and send weapons. However, this could under no circumstance be allowed to become known to the Christian world, which is why the following plan was devised.

>The rumour was spread, which was all too readily believed, that the Jews had received an order for wine from the Tartars, because, as the Tartars were Jews, they would only drink wine harvested by Jews. The Jews had agreed to deliver thirty casks of this wine. But in order to do the Christian world a service, they would poison it so that a large number of the Tartars would die as a result.

>The Christian princes agreed, seeing nothing amiss with the Jews' stated plan. In fact, however, the Jews had secretly packed a large quantity of swords and knives into the hogsheads and it was only through the diligence of the German Customs officials that the crime was discovered and fittingly punished.

Nope. Hitler just randomly hated jews because his grandmother was part jew or something like that.

There are things that you do not understand. There are kids born in 2010 in India who have grown up consuming media on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. They do not identify with "being Indian" and are itching to get out of India any moment they can seize the opportunity. They speak English and will look primarily to move to either Canada or USA or UK.

Canadians and the British have woken up to the problem.

But Americans are cucked. You have no idea that the kids born in 2010 are going to be college-aged individuals in 2028. The universities are going to want their money because they pay way more than us American wagies. "Yeah, but college is worthless anyway" . True, but they don't give a fuck about education. They care about planting roots here. Even if they do not intentionally want to, THEY WILL REPLACE YOU. College is just a gateway to the American life.

The F1 visa is what allows college students to get a job in America. While students are on F1, they can "hop" onto H1B. The minute they get an H1B, they are never.going.back. That is one white family replaced. One bloodline gone. Their kids will be the next Zohran.

I am a self-hating Pajeet. My people ruined Canada. My people are continuing to suck the tax payers in UK dry. DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA!

I wrote in a comment under "Changing the Battlefield" the big issue we are facing as an American economy.

The key idea is this: We are seeing more and more of our economic freedoms being captured by a handful of people. Bit by bit, we are losing power and "THEY" are gaining power.

The American economy was never meant to be this way. We NEVER endorsed "Laissez-Faire". We NEVER embraced unrestrained capitalism. In the 1800s and early 1900s we had a huge national debate about what our economic policy would be and it came down to "ANTI-TRUST."

When someone finds a new way to do something that saves a lot of money, NATURALLY they capture the market. This is GOOD because people see lower prices. But it is also BAD because they are losing their economic freedom. The government was expected to identify monopolies and trusts and to break them up so that regular people had access to the innovations or new technologies.

For instance, from our FOUNDING we had the concept of the PATENT. If you invent something, you get X years where you are allowed to exploit that new technology, but after X years, anyone and everyone could use it and never give you a red penny. The idea was you can get rich inventing new technologies, but you can't control the American people.

In agriculture, we are seeing a HUGE shift away from family farms to huge megacorporations owning or leasing everything and making all the calls about how animals and farm products should be raised and processed. YES, this is financially a good idea, because we all get to save a few dollars on our steaks and eggs. But it is a really, really bad idea because we end up LOSING our economic freedom to buy our steaks and eggs from someone else, or grow our own, or to sell what we grow.

Let me be more specific:

It is a BAD IDEA to have a handful of people own all the land.

It is a BAD IDEA to have a handful of people dominate certain agriculture sectors.

It is a BAD IDEA to have a handful of people run all the processing plants, or the factories, or the stores.

THESE THINGS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.

You may be one of those libertarian types who think that the natural market forces can prevent these things from happening, but IN PRACTICE, YOU ARE WRONG. What inevitably happens is someone captures a segment of the marketplace, AND THEN THEY CAPTURE GOVERNMENT TO ENSURE THEIR MONOPOLY CONTINUES FOREVER.

Thus, it MUST be the policy of the government to BUST MONOPOLIES anywhere and everywhere they can be found. Business will go to government to DESTROY the big corporations, not protect them.

We should have MILLIONS of people owning 100s of acres each, making money farming and ranching.

We should have MILLIONS of people owning stores and supply chains and processing plants and factories.

We should have MILLIONS of people competing over every little thing at all times.

Right now, the key factor seems to be transportation. It used to be that we could ship all of our products anywhere in the US using competing owner-operator truck fleets and rail companies. Now, increasingly, Amazon uses Amazon trucks, Wal-Mart uses Wal-Mart trucks, and so on and so forth. The idea that an owner-operator can compete with Amazon or Wal-Mart is absurd.

We must figure out WHY they cannot compete, and we must make the MORE EXPENSIVE to own thousands of trucks and hire thousands of truckers. We must FORCE the companies to rely on MILLIONS of people they cannot control to distribute their products.

When someone comes up with an innovation that makes life better, they get X years to exploit that. But after a while, they should lose ALL profits from that innovation and turn it over to the people of the United States. I truly believe that at some point, Amazon, Google, Apple, etc... should be busted up so that they are a distant memory, one of many successful competitors.