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Every High Civilization Decays by Forgetting Obvious Things

Dr. Bastiat
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Lesbian soccer star Megan Rapinoe attempting, unsuccessfully, to sell lingerie to women.

Victoria’s Secret just lost millions of dollars because they forgot that women like to look pretty. This may seem like an obvious point to many, but the leaders of one of the world’s leading companies in the industry of ‘making women look pretty’ apparently forgot this timeless truth. They were reminded of this obvious point when they lost millions of dollars, and have changed their focus from virtue signaling back to making women look pretty.

Budweiser just lost millions of dollars because they forgot that blue-collar men like beer, pretty women, and America. These may seem like obvious points to many, but the leaders of one of the world’s leading companies in this industry apparently forgot this timeless truth. They were reminded of this obvious point when they lost millions of dollars, and have since changed their focus from virtue signaling back to selling beer to men who like beer, pretty women, and America.

Our military is having trouble recruiting because they forgot that men who love America are eager to defend her, but over-educated trans-gendered abortion-seeking drag queen atheist urbanites tend to interested in other things. When our military made it clear that conservatives and others who love America – those who are willing to kill or die for America – are no longer welcome in today’s military, it began having serious problems with recruiting. We’ll see if the leaders of our military are reminded of this timeless truth in time.

The world is going crazy. North Korea, Afghanistan, Ukraine, China, Iran, Russia, Israel, and many other countries have noted the sudden instability created by America’s apparent inability to recall that without a strong military, it doesn’t matter how many drag queens get government-funded abortions in their home state.

The leadership of Victoria’s Secret and Budweiser recognized their mistakes, and are attempting to correct them. The recovery of those companies is far from certain.

Will the leadership of America recognize their mistakes in time to correct them? Will America be able to recover from the insanity of the past 5-10 years? That is far from certain.

Some mistakes, you don’t get to make twice.

Note: The title of this post is not mine - it is a famous quote from Chesterton. In case you forgot.

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Discussion (31)

  • Misthiocracy has never@Misthiocracy
    Quibble: A small niche company can totally turn a profit making products for a small market (e.g. the subset of women who do not want to look pretty). The mistake is when major corporations pivot in that direction, thinking that it will increase their sale rather than turning them into a small niche company.
  • kedavis@kedavis
    Dr. Bastiat (View Post):
    Our military is having trouble recruiting because they forgot that men who love America are eager to defend her, but over-educated trans-gendered abortion seeking drag queen atheist urbanites tend to more interested in other things. When our military made it clear that conservatives and others who love America – those who are willing to kill or die for America – once our military made it clear that such men are no longer welcome in today’s military, it began having serious problems with recruiting. We’ll see if the leaders of our military are reminded of this timeless truth in time.

    Except, of course, the government has no similar motives - profits, etc - to change their misbehavior.

  • Dr. Bastiat@drbastiat
    Replyingtokedavis

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Dr. Bastiat (View Post):

    Dr. Bastiat (View Post):
    Our military is having trouble recruiting because they forgot that men who love America are eager to defend her, but over-educated trans-gendered abortion seeking drag queen atheist urbanites tend to more interested in other things. When our military made it clear that conservatives and others who love America – those who are willing to kill or die for America – once our military made it clear that such men are no longer welcome in today’s military, it began having serious problems with recruiting. We’ll see if the leaders of our military are reminded of this timeless truth in time.

    Except, of course, the government has no similar motives – profits, etc – to change their misbehavior.

    My point is that our government's motive is not profit, but self-preservation.

    Or will they fiddle while Rome burns?

  • kedavis@kedavis
    Megan Rapinoe has the safety of being no longer a participant in the sport that made her rich and famous, when it gets ruined by "trans women" being involved. No risk to HER in arguing that women like Riley Gaines should have to compete against biological men.
  • kedavis@kedavis
    Dr. Bastiat (View Post):
    Budweiser just lost millions of dollars because they forgot that blue-collar men like beer, pretty women, and America.

    As I read it, they lost almost $400 Million in sales just in the second quarter, and $40 BILLION in stock value.

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