FR. RIPPERGER: “You have to practice self-denial *every single day* somewhere in your spiritual life. If you don't, you’re going to become spiritually soft. But if you practice self-denial, then when tempted, you’re going to have the strength from that discipline to say ‘No!’”

Fr. Ripperger: “You have to practice self-denial *every single day* somewhere in your spiritual life. If you don't, you’re going to become spiritually soft. But if you practice self-denial, then when tempted, you’re going to have the strength from that discipline to say ‘No!’” pic.twitter.com/al59HJVpXi

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Father Chad Ripperger is an American Catholic priest.  

Historian Johan Norberg explains that one of the major factors in taking down the Roman Empire that’s rarely discussed, is the rise in entitlement spending.

Historian Johan Norberg explains that one of the major factors in taking down the Roman Empire that’s rarely discussed, is the rise in entitlement spending

So many people started receiving welfare and it kept getting expanded, it quickly skyrocket inflation and destroyed their… pic.twitter.com/ELSGXkRAlA

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Historian Johan Norberg explains that one of the major factors in taking down the Roman Empire that’s rarely discussed, is the rise in entitlement spending So many people started receiving welfare and it kept getting expanded, it quickly skyrocket inflation and destroyed their currency “What caused the fall of ancient Rome? There were many reasons; disease, famine, barbarian invaders but historian Johan Norberg covers one rarely talked about. You say entitlement spending played a big role” “The emperors wanted to become popular by handing out free stuff to people. Originally, this started small. You just handed the very poor means of subsistence, make sure that they would but that group was enlarged because it was popular — So the group that lived on the public's expense grew larger all the time And emperors complained about this constantly while they were expanding it. Everyone from Caesar and onwards said, "Oh, we've gotta reform this system because it means that we have fewer people working and more people consuming." But no one succeeded. Instead, it was expanded all the time became more and more costly. So the Romans could conquer the world, but they couldn't do entitlement reform” “It just reminds me of what I see in the West” “It's a very worrying sign in each of these civilizations. Once you have an ever-expanding system of entitlements that you can't afford, then you have to deal with it in different ways. Well, some of them just try to conquer other people’s and take their stuff. But once you run out of that, you have to resort to inflation. Rome started to debase the currency — The Emperor Diocletian, he blamed greedy businessmen for inflation, something that we hear today as well. So he imposed price controls on more than 1,000 goods and even imposed the death penalty on any merchant that increased the price above a certain level. But obviously it all failed because he kept debasing the currency. So inflation kept going, prices kept rising, It only happened in the shadow economy and undermined the Roman Empire completely” I looked into this and found roughly 20% of the entire population ended up on welfare, it got so out of control they devalued their currency by 98% This is exactly what’s happening in America

America is Rome and we’re falling the same way they did 

RADIOGENOA: This is South Africa without white people.

This is South Africa without white people. pic.twitter.com/95IdwdrnYA

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MASSIMO: Dining styles in different countries explained

Dining styles in different countries explained

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from Steven Moore.

In America, they do something which we find strange.  This is how we eat in Europe, but in America they swap the fork into their dominant hand and then eat the food.  It's known as the "cut and switch," and there's actually a historical reason for it.  Because in Europe until the middle of the 19th century, the cutlery wasn't always either side of the plate.  It could be on the right hand side.  You'd have a knife a fork and a spoon, and you would simply use which Implement you needed in whichever hand you chose.  That's because we dined in a star known as Service a la Francaise, where all the the food will be on the table and you simply helped yourself to what you wanted.  When we changed at around 1860, 1870 we started dining in the Russian Style, Service la russe, whereby each course came out and was eaten separately.  So it made sense to then have that cutlery on either side and you worked your way in.  So you'd have your knife in your dominant hand and your fork in your other hand, and you would eat like so.  So when early Europeans went to America, they took that previous dining with them, which is why Americans think nothing of swapping their hand to the fork and eating like so.  The reason it became embedded in American society is because when people took wagon trains out to the West pioneering new States, they had to be very careful about how much weight they took.  So taking a fork was sensible.  Taking a spoon was sensible, but a dinner knife like this was pretty useless.  So they used the side of the fork in place of the knife to cut food and put it into their mouth.  So the start of switching hands became embedded in America.  

LYCEUM NOW: The oldest revolutionary story: call destruction “rebirth” and it becomes justice. From the Bolsheviks to the Weathermen to a Columbia activist headed for Congress, the religion of destruction keeps finding converts.

The oldest revolutionary story: call destruction “rebirth” and it becomes justice. From the Bolsheviks to the Weathermen to a Columbia activist headed for Congress, the religion of destruction keeps finding converts. @a_chrisbray traces the pattern: https://t.co/uDpJeqJSLn

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