ORIGINAL TRANSLATION
Lessons to the Empress on the Origins of French Civilization - Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
In 1870, Fustel de Coulanges delivered to Empress Eugenie of France a series of lessons on the history of French civilization. As in his best-known work The
Asked my wife (a self-described “moderate” Taylor Swift fan) why she thinks Swift is so popular. Her response: “she’s a 32 year old woman who acts like a 16 year old girl in a world full of 32 year old women who act like 16 year old girls.” Hard to argue with that.
The murder of the Romanov family was so absurdly evil that the Soviets spent years denying it happened and didn’t acknowledge the remains’ authenticity until 1989. Lenin personally distanced himself from responsibility
Modern tankies, sadistic beasts they are, recall it with joy
The right way to interpret the Barbie movie is as a Shakespearean tragedy, with Ken as our tragic hero: a would-be Übermensch of high birth, unparalleled vision and will, whose noble pursuit of strength and vitality is hindered by his fatal flaw: desiring the approval of women
The Barbie movie literally has Ken try to bring the Patriarchy (explicitly called the Patriarchy) to Barbieland & amend the Barbieland Constitution to remove Barbies from positions of power.
The lengths the studio went to hide how INSUFFERABLY WOKE this movie is are astounding.
And then Anthony Bourdain said: “wow, I’m a world-famous millionaire who takes dream vacations for a living yet I’m still depressed and unfulfilled. Maybe the good life isn’t about traveling and eating in restaurants and people should stop emulating me.”
So true, Mr. Bourdain
Imagine there’s a rash of home invasions. The cops refuse to do anything. In response, homeowners start buying big scary dogs and putting signs in their front yard saying “beware of dog.” Burglars start getting hurt. Then the pro-home invasion faction starts saying the homeowners
Guy who teaches “political science” and writes books on the “intellectual history” of “the right” is “astonished” to find out fascism was a response to Bolshevism. These people are completely clueless. This is your brain on secondary sources.
I’ll never forget after 9/11 when the Dixie Chicks tried to longhouse him for being mean about Iraqis so he photoshopped a picture of Natalie Maines cuddling with Saddam Hussein and made it the backdrop at all his concerts. RIP to an American legend
You must understand the bind they’re in.
They know they dislike being harassed on the subway, but they’re not allowed to dislike the people doing it.
Urban crime must, *somehow* by some ideological magic, be the fault of regime-approved Bad Guys (downscale rural whites)—they
One interesting development from this conflict is that some women appear to be learning for the first time that civilization is not the default; that civilized men are not so because of any “teaching” that fundamentally alters their nature, or as a brute fact due to being at a
Insane chart
IQ is 650% more predictive of job performance than years of education, 400% more predictive than years of experience, and 200% more predictive than GPA. In other words, the only metric that matters
I wonder if there are any macro societal trends explained by this?
I see now. I’ve put it together. Women aren’t choosing the bear because they’ve gamed it out based on logic and available evidence and soberly determined a lower chance of danger (basic innumeracy of that sort might even be endearing). Of course.
They’re choosing the bear to
There’s something really contemptible about these shrill scolds who become “historians” for apparently no other reason than to constantly try to suck all possible fun and joy out of history and eternally henpeck anyone who sees the past as anything other than a benighted dystopia
I for one am quite relieved all sides are now comfortable admitting that mass immigration was always grievance-based predation by one people on another
The song and dance about GDP, cultural enrichment, foreign food etc was always loathsome and I’m glad it’s pretty much done now
No amount of fire by young protesters in France can equal the over four centuries of violence, death & destruction by France in the Third World. France would have to burn for years without end to account for it’s crimes from Haiti, to Algeria & Vietnam!
Really wild seeing them go this hard trying to make you dislike Bukele.
People were getting murdered all the time, now they’re not. Streets were unwalkable, now they’re not. Spinning these as bad things is one tough maneuver but journos are sure as hell trying for some reason.
Bukele saw a crown lying in the mud and picked it up by the edge of a sword. And his people love him for it. Almost hard to believe such things are still possible.
In 1558, Saint Teresa of Avila received a vision of hell. Her account is simple and concise, yet perhaps the most bone-chilling of its kind on record.
I recount it here.
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Demanding black women “cite their sources” is thinly veiled white supremacist rhetoric, meant to cast suspicion on black women’s work and/or imply black women could not produce it without the help of white men. The sole purpose of “peer review” is to gatekeep white academia and
SAY IT WITH ME:
BLACK WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR CITATIONS
BLACK WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR CITATIONS
BLACK WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR CITATIONS
BLACK WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR CITATIONS
BLACK WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR CITATIONS
BLACK WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR CITATIONS
Virtually all modern people feel this way to some extent, but it’s a deeply strange way to view human life. Imagine saying the maple tree in your backyard is there “by complete chance” or a lion is only in the Serengeti by “an accident of birth,” as if the tree and lion somehow
SAY IT WITH ME:
BLACK WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR CITATIONS
BLACK WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR CITATIONS
BLACK WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR CITATIONS
BLACK WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR CITATIONS
BLACK WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR CITATIONS
BLACK WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR CITATIONS
Really crazy that the US just allows its primary geopolitical rival to send hundreds of thousands of students every year to study at elite American universities and pilfer our tech. The CCP openly says they’re doing it and the FBI opens a new case on some Chinese espionage op
“They have taken the Bridge and the Second Hall. We have barred the gates, but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes... Drums. Drums in the deep. We cannot get out. A Shadow moves in the dark... We cannot get out... They are coming."
“But are they bothering you???”
Alive, dynamic, energetic
A furnace of martial and cultural excellence
An arena for great men to rise, fall, and immortalize themselves
This is the Europe that would soon pour from its shores, conquer a hemisphere, build global empires, and invent the modern world
The first and primary question should of course be “why is there a pro-home invasion faction and how do we make sure they never have any power ever again”
@Peet_Pray_Lift
I feel like 440lbs is on the lower end for someone who lifts
I see the men do it in my gym all the time.
I think if it was heavier then it’d make sense as to why he can’t lift it and his excuses would have made sense
To this point, you cannot understand WW2 or 20th century fascism accurately without understanding the 20 years Europe spent watching revolutionary Bolsheviks commit systematic class slaughter of millions of people and destroy entire nations (all the while remaining stalwart
Adolf Hitler has been dead since 30 April 1945. He is never coming back. The fascism he represents in your mind is also a historically bound phenomenon – a response above all to the 1917 revolution in Russia and the rise of militant communists in weak Weimar.
Robert Cardinal Sarah on mass immigration, Western intelligence agencies, and the "mafia-like network" of smugglers between Africa and Europe:
"There is a grand illusion that consists of making Third World peoples believe that all boundaries will be abolished. Certainly,
Sorry to keep posting about this girl but she’s really quite amazing. This is a person who presumably spent years studying geopolitics and international law. She had the professors, read the books, wrote the papers, passed the exams. And after all that she is “genuinely shocked”
Imagine having centuries of bones in the ground & blood in the soil and being told a random Arab guy is “more American” than you because of his “dream” of collecting wealth transfers and working Uber eats on a stolen bike while blasting rap without headphones. That would be crazy
Low-level conflict of this sort will grow in frequency and intensity across the West as long as immigration (legal and illegal) continues unabated. Whites are thoroughly docile at this point, but the same is not true of other demographics. Urban blacks e.g. will see themselves
This is what black Chicago is dealing with now. They planted these illegal immigrants in black neighborhoods and now this. But one thing for sure we gonna fight not flee
It’s a testament to the piss poor level of instruction most “Christians” are getting in American churches that anyone could say this with a straight face.
At its base, Christianity is about free will - aka, CHOOSING to follow Jesus Christ and his commands. Not once did Jesus
We should have hanged every single person who fought for the Confederacy. We should have jailed everyone else who aided the Confederate cause. We are still living the consequences of our going easy on those traitors. This is also an obligatory "Andrew Johnson sucked" post.
Turns out when you reflexively label anything normal young men like (weightlifting, fighting, heterosexuality, stimulants, in-groups, hierarchies) as far-right, normal young men become far-right at an alarming rate. Keep doubling down though, I’m sure that’ll fix it.
Vox examines how popular nicotine pouches symbolize conservatives' crisis of masculinity. Apparently, sucking on the pouches is supposed to make men feel strong, powerful, and potent.
One rule of thumb for understanding the lib-academic brain is that if a young boy might think something is cool—knights, cowboys, Spartans, war, heroes, explorers—the lib’s greatest goal in life is to take all possible joy out of it and turn that boy into a weird loser like him
It’s always been like this. There have only ever been two options.
“All your life long you are slowly turning [yourself] into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature: Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.”
—CS Lewis
Done with
@Target
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"Satan is hope, compassion, equality, and love. So, naturally, Satan respects pronouns. He loves all LGBTQIA+ people. I went with a variation of Baphomet for this design, a deity who themself is a mixture of genders, beings, ideas, and existences. They reject
The ideology has implicitly accepted the 3rd World can never be raised to the 1st: therefore, by its standards, the 1st World must be *lowered* to the 3rd
Everyone can feel that's what the ideology now believes. Exposing its shift to degrading us is what we are here to do.
“No you don’t understand, they HAD to bayonet the children to death because otherwise the good guys might’ve come and saved them! It was a complicated situation ok.”
This raises a good point: a lot of these half-rate historians are so pompous and annoying precisely because they’re so half-rate. The great historians wrote about great events because they were great; the modern historians write about irrelevant minutia because they are
@Antweegonus
Dude took his work seriously, appreciated that his students were young and interested in learning more about something they had broad, popular notions of, and didn’t seek to subvert or belittle their areas of interest.
@LatinxPutler
Crazy how if you swap him for a homeless black guy (i.e. make it an accurate portrayal of real life) it changes the character of the whole video
Overt celebration of the demonic can be understood as evidence of a particular, predictable phenomenon that takes place during late stage decline, what Evola and Guénon call “Fissures in the Great Wall.”
While materialism and positivism signal the terminal phase of a
Note how the bystander immediately switches sides when he sees the power shift
Modern valorisation of victimhood is a highly contingent phenomenon, only possible in a high trust society. When order breaks down, the normal human preference for the strong over the weak is revealed
There is a certain type of woman who legitimately believes you can get anyone to do anything with a sufficient amount of scolding. Clean Binder Girl who thinks everyone’s as neurotic as her about status and social shame.
She doesn’t understand why prisons exist because she has
Virtually all modern people feel this way, but it’s an utterly strange way to view human life. Imagine saying the maple tree in your backyard is there “by complete chance” or a lion is only in the Serengeti by “an accident of birth,” as if the tree and lion somehow precede their
These ones are pretty funny.
“Men are dangerous, we should lock them all up/exterminate them”
Ok, who’s gonna do it? Women? Aliens? Even in your misandrist revenge fantasies you still have to implicitly depend on men willing to use force against other men.
Stencil’s method appears to be posting “dunks” on people making what he believes to be obviously false claims, only to be continually owned in his replies by people saying “yes that’s actually true” with citations and everything. He’s done it repeatedly and just keeps doing it
Lots of replies like these. I don’t really know what to tell you. It shouldn’t be some kind of revelation or “mask off” thing to point out that men have a capacity for great violence—we are designed for it from the ground up. This doesn’t mean each individual man is a threat to
Conservatives are incapable of producing good art because they lack empathy, which means they are incapable of creating anything which communicates to a larger audience. When they try to produce art, they only end up producing clumsy in-group signaling.
@memeticsisyphus
Yeah I realized shortly after posting this that it’s not even that outlandish a scenario. They already tell people to just “buy insurance,” that such crimes are “part of living in society” etc. Hard to parody.
English culture is to become the apex human civilization, conquer a bunch of third world backwaters and give them hospitals, schools, and sanitation, then feel guilty about it and become a third world backwater to atone. A truly erratic people.
First time getting CN’d and it’s the dumbest cope I’ve ever read.
“0.6 isn’t a strong correlation even though it’s uhhh the most strongly correlated metric we have but it still definitely doesn’t matter just trust us ok. It’s ackshually all about ‘job fit’ which correlates to
Insane chart
IQ is 650% more predictive of job performance than years of education, 400% more predictive than years of experience, and 200% more predictive than GPA. In other words, the only metric that matters
I wonder if there are any macro societal trends explained by this?
What’s “madness” to me is how many disgruntled libs will do this exact “I didn’t leave the left, the left left me” rhetorical shuffle, on repeat, forever, without for one second considering what this means about progressivism as a meta game. I don’t see how it could possibly be
Jordan Peterson used to talk about how western feminists often defend third world rapists out of a sublimated & perverted desire for male domination. He made many qualifications and apologies whenever he said it, of course, but he shouldn’t have because he was obviously correct.
The Proverbs tell us “the beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord”. Accordingly, one who does not fear the Lord has yet to begin in wisdom.
Friend, you need to be fearing God. If you do not, maybe you spend some time meditating on Teresa’s vision. This time is well-spent.
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This is porn for them. They have to make ‘Innocent POC Threatened By A Mean White Man’ fantasy fiction because it never actually happens.
The people who take pleasure in this “““important””” video would call you a murderer if you called the cops on real life subway criminals.
You simply cannot overstate how huffed up on their own farts these people are
A white male engineer posts some pictures of himself with his (actually quite diverse) friends/coworkers, celebrating his leaving Google, and this 27k-follower harpy takes it upon herself to initiate a
One important thing to understand about the Omar video: there’s a reason she makes no effort to hide the disparity between her views of the US vs her own homeland. It’s not like she’s a universalist in the open and a blood and soil nationalist only in secret, behind closed doors.
The Ilhan Omar clip where she is a fanatical ethnonationalist imperialist in her own Somali language while being a progressive human rights champion in English went viral not just because it was a flagrant show of hypocrisy. It exposed how the US and Europe are completely
UNITARIANISM 🧵
“All human conflict is ultimately theological.” —Cardinal Henry Manning
Here I will discuss the claim (popularized most notably by Moldbug) that Unitarianism is, and always has been, the de facto civic religion of the United States.
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Archeology is so mindbogglingly boring that trying to strangle your pipeline by suppressing the romance seems like a terrible idea.
But I'm a history major, and historians are ruthlessly trying to exorcise anything exciting from their field too.
Ah, we’re doing this again I see.
“Christianity was the woke movement of Rome” is a lazy (mis)application of modern culture war categories onto a time and place where they don’t fit and don’t belong, not dissimilar from saying genocidal anti-whiteness in South Africa is about
Christianity is not the “intellectual” foundation of the Woke movement
Christianity is a type of “ideology” that appears OUT of a “herd of slaves”
The rubric to understand this is that biology comes BEFORE ideology
Christianity could vanish and you’d see many things like it
@JiffjoffI
“Reality is the perfect enemy: it always fights back, it can never be defeated, and infinite energy can be expended in unsuccessfully resisting it.”
IB unable to understand that mocking our war dead makes him an enemy, period. He thinks it’s a matter of argumentation like any other, just more takes in the take economy of Xitter. He doesn’t get that it’s a simple matter of familial loyalty. Because he’s not one of us.
To tell people like this to “work out,” “master your body” etc is to invalidate the whole basis of their worldview, which is the elevation of the malformed over the good and beautiful. It’s a betrayal of what they see as the core values of the revolution—and they’re right.
It makes them so mad that the people who actually care about history (i.e. the ones keeping museums alive) are more interested in soldiers than slaves. They really think they can scold young men into thinking weapons and battles aren’t cool lol
Prepping for publisher meeting tomorrow for ''The military households of Roman army auxiliary commanders in Western Europe and North Africa' and highly distracted by reports that the British Museum's legionary blockbuster has barely mentioned anyone who wasn't an actual soldier.
I love this idea & am planning one:
A night where all of your friends make a presentation on what they do at work and answer questions.
I don't know much about what many of my friends do for a living.
The thing is, we’ve been “discussing” what motivated Hitler for the last 70 years, but the discussion has been juvenile and meaningless because no nuanced answers are ever permitted. The total victories of the liberal order on the battlefield and at Nuremberg ensured the
"There can be no more discussion of Hitler without a discussion of what motivated him."
This is becoming normal. It will lead to genocide if we don't stand up.
The right answer: Genocide is always wrong. Individuals who support it are guilty. Those who oppose it are not.
@whstancil
“Generally correct point” you mean an article of faith?
Be honest here. There’s no statistic anyone could cite, no matter how iron-clad it’s data and method, that would compel you to change your views on anything to do with race.
"Of course, if Dragons had returned, our Fair Jarl of Haafingar would tell us, right? After all, we pay the Imperials millions of septims in taxes to ‘protect us’—in theory.
Well that's where it gets interesting.
We reached out to the ‘Greybeards’ at the Throat of the World..."
I understand I’m likely not making any friends with the NRx posting. Indulge me for a second here.
I think Yarvin is wrong about lots of things, but I think he’s basically correct in his assessment of political activism. I have never heard anyone else provide a compelling answer
“What do you MEAN you just came to look at the armor?? What are you a FASCIST?? REAL history is about random camp women and their barely legible SHOPPING LISTS!!!”