Throughout history, there is a couple of things that always holds true,

1. The sun rises on the east and sets on the west
2. Hot dogs are way better with ketchup than mustard
3. All empires are doomed to fail

Alright, we know that 2 of those are true, one is a matter of opinion. This blarticle is about the last one on the list. All empires are doomed to fail.

Let’s look at some empires and why they failed…

The Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was the post-Republican state of ancient Rome and is generally understood to mean the period and territory ruled by the Romans following Octavian’s assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 31 BC. It included territory in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia, and was ruled by emperors. The Roman Empire is one of the most iconic empires in history. Its expansion started from the Roman Republic, and it grew to encompass vast territories. The Roman Empire is not considered the largest in history despite how extremely long it was active. The Roman Empire lasted approximately 500 years, mostly due to its administrative capabilities, technological advancements, and a very effective military force. The reason the Roman Empire failed was due to Political unrest, civil unrest and economic factors such as taxation, inflation, disrupted trade routes and decline in agricultural productivity which translated for today would be the equivalent of no jobs or people weren’t willing to do that job anymore, most likely because they all wanted to be on social media, which for that time was the person putting on the plays.

The Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an empire that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. The empire also controlled a southeastern region of Central Europe from the 16th to the late 17th century. At the height of its power (16th–17th century), the Ottoman Empire spanned three continents, controlling much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa. The Ottoman Empire, an Islamic superpower, ruled much of the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe between the 14th and early 20th centuries. The reason the Ottoman Empire failed was due to Political unrest, civil unrest and economic factors. The buzz was that the Sultan wasn’t interested in running the empire and just wanted to hang out in his harem, according to social media accounts of the time.

The British Empire. The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The British Empire and Mongol Empire were the largest and second-largest empire in history, respectively. At its greatest extent, early in the 20th century, the British Empire comprised nearly a quarter of the planet and an equal percentage of its population. The reasons the British Empire failed, I’ll give you three guesses, Political unrest (nobody really liked the Kings back then), civil unrest and economic factors. According to the social media of the day, these Kings were unjust and down right grumpy old douche bags. To be fair, they weren’t in power when the British Empire was actually a force, they had already established a parliament.

What all these empires have in common, besides wanting to conquer everything in sight, was that their failures were the result of the same circumstances. Political unrest, civil unrest, economic factors and the social media of the day played it’s role. While the younger generation might balk at my assertions, “they didn’t even have iphones back then”, they had other things like books and leaflets and while I understand the younger generations position when you tell me “what’s a book and you can’t even write on leafs” (I know it’s leaves but they don’t) it nevertheless holds true that social media, from gossip to todays high tech innovations, like blogs, always played a role in dismantling these empires. So what do you do?

The latest outcry was of a woman who posted Osama Bin Laden’s (OBL) excerpts to tik tok, (a social media website and how do you write on a clock?) that is seen as an afront to democracy. The woman seems to agree with Bin Laden and his lunacy and everyone older than 32, that would be 10 years before September 11th, 2001, are outraged. How can this woman do that and lets ban Tik Tok because we don’t agree with her. Well, there goes the first amendment and here comes the civil unrest, we already have the political unrest and all we need now is a good old fashion depression where the wealthy get richer and the poorer get poorer (To be completely honest, she might have not known who he was and thought he was some kind of musician “You down with OBL, no! not me”). I’m kidding, sort of, as to this lady’s posting OBL excerpts would lead to a nationwide unrest. And I’m not saying to “not” ban Tik Tok for any other reason other than the first amendment, like you feel that social media website is controlled by a foreign country that is purposely sending out misinformation and trying to create discord in a foreign adversary or they are using it to spy on America and Americans, that’s a legit reason to ban any website or social media if it’s true. The symptoms are there though, right? And I hear complaining about it but I don’t hear any solutions. If you think that technological social media sites are creating harm to a democracy, what are your solutions for the problem. Well, I have a story.

My son was doing good in school but I noticed that on the days that he spent more time on his Switch, a Nintendo game console, he would have more problems in school, so I put a time limit on when he could play and how long. 30 minutes on school days as long as he did his homework and did some extra studying and it would have to be off 1 hour prior to him going to bed and 2 hours on weekends as long as he exercised and went outside to play for at least double that time. Maybe it’s time that we do that to our younger adults, maybe all adults, and have these Social Media companies reduce the allotted time for social media to each person to one hour per day on the weekdays and 2 hours on the weekends. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it. That wouldn’t go for the people that actually make a living on social media and the companies would have to determine who they are by viewership or other means. Who knew that our adults need adult supervision. The government and the social media companies could figure out all the finer points on how to make it work and the adults can try to find ways around these rules but I think that some rules are needed. Or (do you like how I start my sentences with articles) we can keep things the way they are, keep bitching and complaining, not coming up with solutions. Watch as American ingenuity goes the way of the Dodo bird and we let this Empire, the American Empire, disintegrate. My bet, which I’m pretty sure I could find a place in Vegas that would take it, is that this Empire comes to a screeching halt in around 100 years. Some people say I’m pretty good at procastinating, wait, that’s wrong…. prognosticating. I was so close.

Also, talking with that woman that posted OBL’s excerpts to find out why she thinks that, might be a greater help than calling her all kind of numbnuts remarks to her face on social media. Obviously, she has her reasons and as misguided as I think they are, she might not. That’s where a good education comes into play, I think. Some civil discourse instead of civil unrest.

And here’s another crazy idea, to relieve political unrest, how about if we get rid of parties, now calm down…. I’m not talking birthdays, I’m talking political, you can still go to your all nighters and raves. How about if there wasn’t a D or an R in front of some ones name at a ballot and they just ran on their values and principles… Crazy huh… I better watch out for the butterfly net.

How many people feel like Nostradamus predicted this somehow…or that blind little old lady Baba Vanga. There’s people out there screaming end of times right next to the scalper screaming Taylor Swift tickets here. Maybe they’re both signs of some kind of apocalypse. All I know is that there isn’t many people too neutral in this conflict. You either believe that the Palestinians are right or you believe that Israel is right. As for me, I just don’t know enough to think that Hamas could remotely be right in this situation. Maybe there is some kind of argument for their actions, I can’t think of one that would justify their actions, but I’m sure there are some who believe they were justified. Well, I know that there are people that believe that, as I see all over the news… people that say this is Israel’s fault. I would like to hear their argument, one that advocates the murder of partygoers and women and children.

Hamas, labeled a terrorist organization by the State Department since October 8th, 1997, is a militant group that was founded by Palestinian imam and activist Ahmed Yassin. It emerged out of his Mujama al-Islamiya, which had been established in Gaza in 1973 as a religious charity involved with the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas became increasingly involved in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by the late 1990s; it opposed the Israel–PLO Letters of Mutual Recognition as well as the Oslo Accords, which saw Hamas’ secular rival Fatah renounce “the use of terrorism and other acts of violence” and recognize Israel in pursuit of a two-state solution. Hamas continued to advocate Palestinian armed resistance. Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, gaining a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council, and subsequently took control of Gaza Strip from Fatah in 2007.

There is roughly 2 million Palestine people in the Gaza Strip and another 2 or so million Palestine people in the West Bank. There are almost 8 million Jewish people in Israel. What I have noticed in these marches to support Palestine is that they are calling out Israel for what they consider apartheid behavior. Their slogans say, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”. I don’t understand the slogan because I don’t know what they mean. Are they saying that Palestine should encompass all of what is now known as Israel? Or are they saying that Palestine is not free to do what they want? That they have to follow Israel’s laws? In either case, I don’t believe that Palestine isn’t free to do what they want in their own territory. The population numbers are significant because if Israel and Palestine were to merge into one country, the current number of Israelis outnumber the current number of Palestinians, which means that Israel would still be Israel in a democracy. The only problem being the Hamas faction which would not abide by a democratic election and still try to rule by violence, in my opinion. So, why and try to make it one state when in the end, you would still be outnumbered in a democratic election, unless your goal is to rule over Israelis, even though you are not the majority?

This conflict has deepened some divides in this country, those that are antisemites are going to be more so now and those that are islamophobic are also going to be more hardened. What I do notice is that social media just magnifies the problem. Everyone, from a no talent blog writer, present… thank you very much, to tik tok and X posters are going to have an opinion on the matter. Most are going to be wrong but have enough truth to make them seem credible, that’s in between their videos of how to get a flatter stomach while enlarging their glutes all in one easy step…. walking into the plastic surgeon’s office.

Another thing that is happening is that Fox News and CNN are agreeing, mostly, that Hamas is to blame for this incident, maybe it is the end of times. While there are young college students all over the U.S. that are protesting Israel and favoring Palestine, most adults feel that Hamas is the true criminal element. To be fair, if the adults had taken the side of the Palestinians the college students would immediately reverse course and be on Israel’s side. That’s youth for you. But this also shows that organizations like Hamas have taken to social media, mostly for recruiting purposes and for misinformation, to sway the young people to be on their side. They come up with a fictious story, like how they can’t collect their inheritance because the Zionists are holding their bank account prisoner and if you donate $1000 to them , they can get their riches and pay you back $100,000 they got from the Nigerian prince they just talked to. They spin how they are the victims and how the other side are the tormentors and give a version of history that makes them seem like they are the nice guys that wield machine guns and kill innocent people. Now, I’m talking about Hamas, not the Palestinians. I don’t think they are the same, but one never knows. It’s scary how young people can be so easily manipulated by terrorist organization. They can’t build a decent refrigerator but they can navigate through social media like if they were walking in the park…. with submachine guns.

What I do notice is that whenever a camera is on in Palestine, someone picks up a child and starts running somewhere, who knows where and who knows who’s child it is. They are great at theatrics and selling their portion of the unjustly persecuted. I don’t know if to believe they are telling the truth or if they are auditioning for the next San Andreas sequel. I think half the kids are eating a Big Mac while being carried into the hospital. They’re not but they also don’t look hurt. No blood or limbs missing. No head wounds. No apparent injury. Just some guy running with a kid, looking like they don’t want to miss the bus, which is on the other side of the hospital.

I’m just not buying the Hamas is just defending themselves bit. They refused to have a two State solution, which seems to mean that they want all the land to themselves and want all the Jewish Israeli’s to leave. I don’t know if that is even possible, for one, I don’t know if they would like what Israel has become, nice. Angry people need something to hate and if they had places like Tel Aviv, they might relax and die of peacefulness. It just wouldn’t work.

In my opinion, everyone should make their own, if this is actually classified as a war, then Israel should completely seize the Gaza strip and make it part of Israel. If you are going to kill 1300 people because you disagree with their religion or their politics or maybe their choice of music, who really knows, then their is always a price to pay for the instigator or the loser. If Israel loses, I’m sure Hamas would take over their land, so, if Hamas loses, I think it perfectly fitting that Israel be able to take away their biggest military asset, the Gaza Strip.

Well, I think I stated where I am at in this… I’m pro self-defense and anti dumb-dumb. Who is who, is up to you. I will say…. Shalom….

I guess the other thing we should consider is if these demonstrations were planned prior to the invasion. If the concerted effort in the U.S. and around the world to hold rallies to sway Americans and the world to turn on Israel was something that Hamas had planned prior to invading Israel. And if so, is there any legal repercussions here for anyone that knew in advance of an impending invasion of Israel that killed Americans, if they didn’t report to the proper authorities.