Thoughts?

meme since those phases can last several generations

>Iranians can sometimes access 'forbidden' sites through proxy servers, although these machines can be blocked as well. In 2003, the United States began providing a free proxy server to Iranian citizens through its IBB service Voice of America with Internet privacy company Anonymizer, Inc. The proxy website changes whenever the Iranian government blocks it.[24]

>However, even the U.S. proxy filters pornographic websites and keywords. "There's a limit to what taxpayers should pay for," an IBB program manager was quoted as saying.[24] The forbidden keywords are controversial—banning "gay" effectively bars access to a host of gay and lesbian sites—and have had unintended consequences. The banning of "ass", for example, blocks access to the website of the United States Embassy.[25] A complete list of the blacklisted keywords on the American server can be found here.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran

it is true, though
look at what the cold war did for science and technology
those advancements were a result of "hard times", with an arms race and a space race.
the fact is, fierce competition boosts progress and urgency boosts problem solving

"Strong men" doesn't just mean physical strength. It means men who are capable, overall. Responsible, smart, hard-working, Etc.

Where did this quote originate?

Islam.

So essentially all that we can conclude is that human beings like to procrastinate on everything and then really put all their cards on the table before the breaking point. The same (personal cynicism) will happen with climate change.

>press and speech freedom
Disgusting trivialities. But mongols and nordcucks gonna mongol and nordcuck.

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. —Oscar Wilde

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men (1 Corinthians 6:9)

Gengis khan didn't create good time.

9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

But he had a plenty of good times and also raised his wife's son like a true alpha.

Cyclical history is in itself reductionist and determinist and liked by plebs who don't want to understand history, rather they want a fantasy of history to appease themselves or to prop up their views.

It really depends on how you define "strongmen" and "good times". It's subjective as fuck.

So after the great European civil war we will regain our position as proud and clean respectful power again?

Retarded simplification of complex concepts.

As cocksleeves to the BBC.

1 Timothy 1:15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners--of whom I am the worst.

Always bet on britain baby

Procrastination is love,
Procrastination is life

That's literally an image from stormfront, in case the shitty pseudo-gothic font didn't tip you off.

As for counter-examples, you should just read up on Cato the Elder and the hellenization of the Roman elites circa second Punic war. The men which had in fact raised Rome to its true greatness were all boyfucking, winedrinking, poetry-reading degenerates who were despised by true Romans who preferred a more rustic and humble lifestyle.

Then you have the Mughal empire which was built by a bisexual pederastic winedrinking, drug-addicted poet Babur. You can read about it in his memoirs.

On the other hand you have guys like the Pashtuns in Afghanistan who have had to endure some of the hardest conditions for like 2000 years, and they've only built two empires, both of which lasted for like 40 years. You've probably never heard of these empires though, so you can guess how relevant they were. They've failed to even create a state before 1700s ffs.

>Sweden protects freedom of speech
>but not 'hate speech'
the cognitive dissonance is astonishing

Leftists hate it because it forces them to confront their own profligacy. Theybhate to be reminded that they're like trustfund kiddies who blow their inheritance on partying and confidence men.

>the media has played a huge role in shaping the country's politics
Isn't this a bad thing? Like very bad? I don't media conglomerates 'shaping politics'

stop making it one word you retard

Cato delenda est. He was such a nasty, bitter cunt. I can almost understand the hatred for Carthage but what he did to ol' scipio is fucking disgusting. Dropped.

He did for the Mongols you mong, nobody ever said "good times" had to be universal.

Cato the younger was better desu
he was too pure for this world

Ironically it's not based on any real history.

source? like, literally any source?

>muh fall of rome

He still ended up cucking thousands of men. His seed is eternal now.

...

If this is true a couple questions:

Will hard times in Iran, North Korea, the US, Mexico, Somalia, Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Guatemala, Haiti, Yemen, Sudan and other african shitholes mean these places will produce good times?
And which countries are those currently in the strong men in good times part?

>the 50s to the 80s were right libertarian
ok

America never had hard times
Russia never had good times no matter how strong they got
France was strong because of their good time
UK became strong when their people dressed like foppish faggots
Germany always experience tough times any time they get strong

so that images doesn't really apply to western history

The 80's basically were (economic deregulation)
The 50's-80's was a full cycle of its own though
>50's:Still strong men, good times
>60's: Good times, great economy, wages rising, however, weak men increasing with hippy generation (all about partying, drugs, rejection of authority)
>70's: Moderately hard times, recessions and stagflation
>80's: kind of just jumps back to decent times and you see more people get their shit together, more respect for work and authority
Then you enter the 90's with more good times until 2008 and so it continues.

Really this whole thing can just be seen as a very general social lens to put over the expansion-recession macroeconomic cycle.

How is rejection of authority weak? Isn't that the opposite, to take command of your own decisions and not be beneath the heel of others?

50s were prosperous because of the New Deal which was the least Right Libertarian policy in America's history (next to the Great Society)

>How is rejection of authority weak?
How are children throwing a temper tantrum strong?

>New Deal
>prosperity
>not an economic clusterfuck that delayed our recovery from the Depression
Lulz

>muh book written by hack

50s was command-leaning mixed economy as fuck (though it helped that America owned 80% of the world's economy)

So all those protests in Commie countries were started by weak men? Are revolutions for weak men?

>USA is the only country in the world

What protests in commie countries?
The Czech one that was crushed by tanks?
SO STRONK!

>50s America
>command economy
lol

East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and many others.

It's a shitty simplification.
Furthermore people who post this shit are often people who think Nazism was ''good time''.

Oh so you mean the ones that only accomplished anything because the Soviet Union was on the brink of collapse.

Nazis WERE a good time.
For Nazis.
Until the eternal Anglo showed up and spoiled the party anyway.

Nazis produced a good time where half their country was taken by the communists, most of their Berlin women were raped by said communists, their country was striped and depraved of power, and generations later were forced to live in shame over this event.

good times good times.

>Russians are anglos

If they are successful and overthrow them they are proving themselves to be stronger.

Ivan couldn't have done what he did if he weren't backed by Anglos thirsty for Aryan blood.

So you're saying it's not the act of resisting authority that is a indication of strength in itself then?

keep telling yourself that
>I am the master race I'm the fittest of every human!
>dies in winter because Ivan adapted better

can't make that shit up

I think that's always bet on black

>Dies in winter because the Russians were able to keep their supply lines moving with free American trucks
ftfy

This

It still is the act too. It's better with results, but even so it's more heroic to fight for your ideals than to stay with your head lowered.

>Strong fucker wants a strong people
>overthrows weak government to put people back into shape
>Strong fucker decides that that government is weak
>overthrows it to put people back into shape
>Strong fucker thinks that the new government is weak
>overthrows
>repeat until everyone realize that their state as no foundations, their population is low with no intelligent people because of all the purges, their economy is in shambles because they invested it all in the civil wars, and the only people living in the country right now are pussies who survived because they are pussies that bows to every "strong" guy that pops up
>not as strong country conquers them and installs puppet government that controls them from now on because they aren't niggers who believe strength is better than having a competent government and political infrastructure that can get shit done.

Seriously though it's amazing how much of a fuss leftists kick up over this. It just boils down to "If you work hard you will succeed, if you slack off people who work hard will dominate you and the only way to escape their dominance is to work harder than them.", yet somehow this statement that would be uncontroversial at any other point in history is literally worse than Hitler.

It really speaks volumes toward the mentality of the common leftist, always looking for excuses to justify acting like a lazy bum and explain away their failures.

>n-no y-you're oversimplifying t-things
Put down the weed pipe and get a job hippies.

If your ideals are anti-heroic how can it be heroic to fight for them?

The problem is that the people who DON'T work hard usually dominates

Like our president is an old money faggot who bankrupted his company. He's in every definition a weak man but he wins anyway.

>Trump
>old money
Oh for fuck's sake...

>the engine of cyclical history

Not him but I can provide a somewhat personalized example for India and the ONGC if anyone's interested.
Although that has something to with a few colonial institutions.

Just a small loan of a million dollars :^)

You're not looking at from the right persepctive or timespan

Fake.

weakman detected

>did a DNA test for fun
>tfw belong to Central Asian haplogroup theorized to be the seed of Genghis Khan
>tfw my ancestor was a filthy horsenigger

Sounds about right. We're basically back to the 1900/1910's, and one major depression / food shortage away from New Man ideology coming back in force.

and?

Heavily reliant on environment over individual effort.

>How is prepping the bull weak?

If you weren't weak you wouldn't be in the position of having to resent prepping the bull in the first place now would you?
Notice how the bull doesn't have to "take a stand" against prepping you.

In order to reject authority in the first place, one must already be in an inferior position where you recognize the possibility of a superior authority over your own. You can't prep a bull that doesn't exist.

You had two, the first one ended European dominance in the world and the second cut Europe in half. In other words, you're full of shit.

To add, it vaguely forgets about how nobles, successful merchants, royalty and priests up to the 1500's were basically the only ones with time, ability, resources and reason to actually study.
Also vaguely forgets about success-stories from times that may not need to be considered harsh.
It's basically

>"Hey, Rome fell despite being powerful, your rich western country could follow the same fate if you don't do X for party Y!"

Now one could try to change things before hard times even start, or not even change things for the better when there's a threat of that to begin with, and thus create a harsh environment for one's-self on it's own while making one's situation better, thereby making one's-self strong on one's own initiative and situation.

Luxury brings degeneracy because it sometimes breeds people who don't expect that there isn't much to improve and sees life as a giant gamble in which that all good and bad things that happen, happen because "That's the order of things" rather than the individual reasons that they do so.

Point is: Don't wait for shit to hit the fan if you want to become a better person, be it more virtuous, stronger, braver, smarter and so on.

This poster serves an Ideological agenda (sniff) in which world changing or highly competent and stalwart people (or people described by the Great man theory) can only get to work and enter this world in times of chaos when sometimes it actually doesn't have to happen and it is actually they who bring in the chaos.

Bonus point: Rich people are gearing up while we in the middle-class and maybe even the lower ones are probably the ones wallowing harder in "Degeneracy" considering the stories I've heard of rich kid parents pressuring their them to get good grades,eat well, train and join the army. While we're the ones with nourishment issues.

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Take all I posted with a grain of salt.

muh STRONK men

This is bullshit made up by violent authoritarians (especially Islamists and fascists) to justify their rule.

Fucking kek at that Puritanism

Perfectly wrong.

Good times create good men create good times.

Great men create bad times create great men.

The choice isn't 'stuff or no stuff' it's 'who gets the stuff'.

Fuck your kingdom then faggot.

Fuck your law too christcuck.

Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. (Romans 13:10)

nice meme

>and then really put all their cards on the table before the breaking point.

I think that unlike war, global warming lacks the sense of urgency.

You get a war/national conflict, it's like a frog getting dropped into hot water. Global warming is like gradually heating it. By the time we start really noticing how fucked we are, it'll probably be too late to fix it, and it'll all be damage control.

>Good times create good men create good times.

Good times creates weak men

On the small scale in the US the success of American industry after WW2 gave birth to good times that the baby boomers were born into.

On the large scale the good times of European success through Monarchy and Christendom gave birth to the men that created democracy and everyone born into democracy(weak men)

What you're seeing in the third world is the very best these people are capable of.

Living in hard times can't fix being born black.

>This poster serves an Ideological agenda (sniff) in which world changing or highly competent and stalwart people (or people described by the Great man theory) can only get to work and enter this world in times of chaos when sometimes it actually doesn't have to happen and it is actually they who bring in the chaos.

I don't see it that way at all.
My take on it isn't that highly competent people can only act in hard times, my take is that hard times are the kick in the pants that gets slackers up and moving and turns them into competent people, or kills them.

Hard times are the rock bottom that addicts talk about where they've finally had enough of their own degradation and make a change.