@Babygravy9
I don't eat octopus.
"Are you jewish?"
No, I ain't Jewish. I just don't dig on squid. Squids are brilliant animals, I don't eat brilliant animals.
"But squid tastes good. Calamari tastes good."
Chimps may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know, cuz I wouldn't eat that m-fer.
@washingtonpost
Some journalists worry the release will connect their rhetoric to that of a mass shooter, and expose them to allegations of stochastic terrorism.
@JohnJHarwood
It has never been harder for young adults to buy homes in the post war era.
Savings are at historic lows.
Debt is at historic highs.
Cost of living vs median income is at all time highs.
What economy are you talking about?
@DaddyWarpig
LotR is, among many things, a story about how the power of fellowship among men is the most unstoppable political force on the planet; and Sam is presented as the Ideal in this regard, over and over.
@WesternLensman
You never want to complain about the referees but ABC broke the rule about muting microphones, the moderator mocked Trump openly, and the fact checking is only went one way.
Burnham & Francis’s theory of the Managerial Revolution needs updated.
The Managerial Class has been replaced by a Credentialist Class.
Managerial Elites derive their power from technical ability to manage systems; our current elites clearly posses no such ability. At some
@myth_pilot
There's a kind of Christian who worships death, who believes he must self-immolate in this world to achieve something in the beyond
A pro-life Christianity is possible, one that affirms Man's role as co-creators and beckons him to bring forth the kingdom on earth. A cult of life
@extradeadjcb
A variation of my favorite:
Libs: 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Mom: That is great, except could we not in elementary schools?
Libs: This is proof that Republicans are stoking bigotry which is why we need 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 in schools more than ever.
@myth_pilot
After living in the suburb of a big city, I now live in a homogenous community.
I can confirm, our homogeneity is our strength. It's best for children to develop in a high-trust environment like this. I hope no one else ever comes here and disturbs the heaven we've found.
@MKatorin
@AuronMacintyre
They write about us as if we are another species and they are creating observation entries in a scientific journal. I suppose this is an accurate frame, actually.
@Antweegonus
We’ve only had cars for 100 years. “It’s 2023!” they say, as if it should imply we are so far advanced beyond animalism. Oh no, we are still infants learning to crawl.
@FischerKing64
@Alkibiades_
“What if there was a universal mind, an intelligence that we are all one with. But imagine rural Americans didn’t believe in it.”
@pegobry_en
@CityBureaucrat
Even if one accepts the neoliberal premise Re: colonialism and equity (“Europe took from others, therefore it should give back”), it is perfectly moral and just for Europeans to reply “No”, with a sword in hand to defend its inheritance
@JDVance1
“Your children will never be able to retire or afford a house but you have air conditioning and a microwave so you have no room to complain.”
@MarioNawfal
Mass third world migration is Greece’s biggest threat.
Like every nation, Greece had a population boom with the Industrial Revolution. It will survive a natural mean reversion to sustainable pop. levels. It will NOT survive if it turns to mass migration to chase economic growth
@Aristos_Revenge
Modern Conservatives defend an image of the Constitution which isn't even accurate; meanwhile Progs are destroying it with their own constitution—the civil rights act—every day
Like Japanese soldiers still defending outposts in 1965 not realizing WW2 already ended and they lost
@PeterRQuinones
@Babygravy9
This taps into something very deep.
The bugman is raised in this environment. He doesn't know anything different. It therefore must be good.
Rent and crime skyrocketting—these are mere "unfortunate costs" you have to suck up and pay to maintain what is inherently good.
Wife asks, in reference to Moby Dick, as I am trying to read it, Is that a good book? I say yeah. She says, they’re chasing a big whale, right? Yeah but they haven’t seen him yet, says I. How far into the book are you? says she. 525 pages, says I.
@WokeCapital
For ~20 years—not even that—we had the internet as it was intended to be
It will never exist in that form again. When our generation dies, so too will the memory of the greatest era of free speech ever known to man.
It’s gone. Forever.
@Babygravy9
Tolkien denies a conscious allegory but there are too many parallels—perhaps LOTR is better understood as prophecy.
He derides tax collectors:
> ‘We grow a lot of food, but don't rightly know what becomes of it. It's all these "gatherers" and "sharers", I reckon, going round
@whstancil
It’s mainly all part time jobs going to illegal immigrants. American white collar workers are getting laid off. We all sense these things, you can’t gaslight us.
@LoFiRepublican
“Democracy” is fine in certain contexts. In Mass Society, it is not. What’s more, we don’t truly even have “Democracy” anymore. What everyone today calls “Democracy” is basically just “Bureaucracy”. I do however share your hope that America can prove this system is untenable.
@WokeCapital
She shouldn’t have to deal with this. Society should guide and enable her to have two or three children by this point in her life. She is not equipped to participate in this charade nor should she be. A tragedy.
@Babygravy9
Regime apologists can tell a semi-convincing story about mail-in-ballots being counted slower/later. But there are other statistical anomalies which, like the 0s and 5s in Russia, cannot really be neatly explained.
For example, observe this set of bellwether counties which have
@CityBureaucrat
Amazing to observe the fervor, the level of coordination, and the nature of the social pressure applied... and how quickly. A well-oiled machine.
@0xAlaric
There have been psychological studies that show people would rather have $50 if they knew everyone else was getting $50 too, than have $100 knowing some were getting $1000 — and Democrats have simply turned exploiting this feeling into an enterprise.
@BonifaceOption
Rome was a military state and so its Caesar rose from within the military, propelled by his intimate knowledge of that ecosystem.
America is a media state and so its Caesar will rise from the media, propelled by his intimate knowledge of that ecosystem.
@0xAlaric
Interesting angle. I’d always considered Lion King to be relatively right wing. Return of the king and all, plus a minority underclass causing chaos and draining resources. Scar isn’t exceptionally authoritarian throughout, moreso he’s manipulative like one of Sam Francis’s foxes
@martyrmade
This is why I chuckle when people say “The right just needs to learn to fight like the Left”
If you even look like you’re gonna try to fight like they do, they spy on you, audit you, indict you on bullshit, drown you in legal fees. The left can do these things because the mass
@Aristos_Revenge
Libertarianism would work in a homogenous pre-industrial western society.
The founders did not design a political system for a diverse mass democracy. We cannot pretend their rules can still apply to the modern day.
@extradeadjcb
Processing power is like tax revenue
Yeah it may keep going up but the operating system / govt applies it to spyware you never asked for, so your experience never improves.
@Babygravy9
Military dictatorship is the best and most legitimate form of government. We used to call these rulers “Kings”. The people can only pray their dictator is a nationalist and not a tyrant, but if he is a tyrant, then an armed people have the means to overthrow him.
@L0m3z
I believe in total monarchy. Political monarchy. Spiritual monarchy. We must call the archetype of the King back into this world. Films such as this tickle that spirit, cause it to stir and rise — viewing them is like a sacrament in that way. I believe this.
@pegobry_en
@CityBureaucrat
—the neoliberal moral rationalization is itself conquest, just the other way, and at Europeans’ expense
Only a new, aristocratic moral framework (where conquest is just) can defeat the neoliberal claim that reversing historical conquest is “the right thing to do”