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god was a dream of good government

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@ThomasEWoods @jimmy_dore @Katelyn_Runs Not speaking ill of the dead is a sign of class and decency, no matter where you stand politically. A virtue cherished in the West since antiquity

History books should not, in fact, condemn anyone, ever. They should just describe what transpired

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@extradeadjcb @nosilverv It's also why they oppose surrogacy btw

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

There are many people who claim in all sincerity to have been saved by giving all their money to Scientology or the Moonies. This may even be true. We look at them and feel pity -- but the cult gave them what they were lacking in life. It gave them community. It gave them a sense of purpose. It gave a structure to their desire and their striving.

That is what cults sell and what its salesmen sell successfully precisely because they are themselves true believers in their product because they did in fact derive many of the benefits they sell to others from their own immersion in the cult.

This is what transgenderism sells to its adherents. It sells a story of magical self-transformation that is also the attainment of an authentic self. It does so through rituals of self-mortification that impose a sunk cost so great on those inflicting them on themselves that escaping the resulting immersion in a fictive, pseudo-reality that would vindicate such a sacrifice -- constructed in the same way that all social realities are constructed, through institutional validation -- becomes nearly impossible. "Death before detransition." It does so by creating intense trauma bonds between those who have undergone the rituals, which are further intensified by the cultivated sense of being oppressed unto death by the cisnormative world that surrounds them.

In a liberal, pluralistic society that honors freedom of speech and freedom of association, we don't ban commercial cults. We allow them to proselytize. What we don't do is give them access to schools to recruit children, we don't brainwash children in the millions to accept their beliefs as the only truth, we don't give their cult rituals the imprimatur of medicine, we don't allow them to use state power to force people to pay obeisance to their cult dogmas. The President doesn't affirm their dogmas or direct his executive agencies to propagate them.

Transgenderism is novel in this way. Sharing aspects of many prior group psychological phenomenon -- the social contagions of eating disorders and Recovered Memory Syndrome, the business model of multi-level marketing schemes, the trauma-bonding of the gang initiation or the hazing ritual -- it melded these elements with institutional capture via two masquerades in which it successfully passed as something it is not: firstly, as a form of medicine, secondly, as a civil rights movement.

Undoing this unbelievable concatenation may actually be beyond the critical and epistemic capacities of the Western world.

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@xwanyex @ode_to_fyodor But you see, to the globalist, religion doesn't exist. Culture doesn't exist. It's an illusion. Humans are simply units of production and consumption. Fungible biomass. It's all they are. This is why national borders should be abolished.

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@OwlcatGames As a loyal servant of the Imperium I will not be having filthy xenos and mutants as companions - thank you for your attention on this matter!

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@CraigWilly06 @GrayConnolly Capitalism taken to its conclusion accepts only freedom, property, consent, and lawfulness

Everything else is subject to optimization, and all blockages must be removed

Opposition to prostitution and mass immigration is inconceivable to market logic

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@RobertsSpaceInd The XenoThreat are so cool. Wish we could join them in their righteous cause against the alien menace.

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@gfodor we haven't 'solved" physics, so trying to predict the infinetely distant future is hubris

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@TheMeteorBlog @virtuous_rogue1 Your post was perfect but in truth USAID funds went mainly to regime change, social engineering, progressive causes, corruption, and grift. Even people who care about saving Africans lives shouldn't be moved by lib crocodile tears

[The Meteor Magazine @TheMeteorBlog]

This is a silly way to deal with this debate.

Factually, the libs are correct. People died because we rapidly ended programs they relied on. The correct response is not to shift this to debates about limits but just say, "Yes. Who cares?"

Precisely the reason it doesn't matter is that these deaths happen every day.

Africa can not develop without colonial governance or foreign aid (colonial governance with a Robin's egg mask). People die every day en masse even with all our aid. USAID saved some of them. USAID also funneled arms to terror cells, killing some others. None of it matters. Africa is worse now than 30 years ago.

We ended USAID because we lost the will to pour money into the infinite death continent.

Of course, some deaths happened as a result. The point is we don't care. Musk should just be honest. Of course, pulling aid would kill people. But maintaining aid wouldn't be good for us, or, good, long term, for Africans. The self-reliance you would need to pull aid without deaths in Africa can not and will never exist without colonial governance.

Yes. Some people died. More are going to die tomorrow. Life is cheap in Africa because Africans treat life cheaply. No amount of money will change that.

[Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo]

Four analogies for a country:

1. The nationalist right views it as a family or community. So applying the same bar to citizens as to outsiders is nonsensical, because the country is of, by, and for its citizens.

2. The tech right views it as a company: you should bring in only the people who will benefit it. But this view is ultimately empty, because it doesn’t tell you what the interests of a country actually are. Hence the tech right (who are usually positive-sum thinkers) keep falling back on zero-sum concepts like “being competitive” or “winning against China” to justify their preferred policies. (Yarvin makes the “country as corporation” analogy particularly explicit.)

3. The tech left views it as a charity. To them, wanting others not to receive what you’re been given is hypocritical. This view is also empty, because it doesn’t tell you where the windfall actually comes from—and once you start to talk about the benefits of culture, ethics, institutions, etc, it becomes clear that citizens (and their ancestors) *built* that windfall rather than just being given it.

4. The woke left views it as a cancer: something that is aggressive and parasitic by its very nature. Countries are inherently violent (in asserting their borders) and exclusionary (of non-citizens) and therefore shouldn’t exist (or at least shouldn’t be allowed to police their borders, which is effectively the same thing). A charitable read is that this is a trauma reaction to the holocaust and colonialism—but regardless, it has become so deeply anti-civilization that it seems descriptively accurate to call it evil and insane.

Paul’s tweet below most directly corresponds to the tech left bucket. Unfortunately people in that bucket are rarely willing to push back on the core tenets of the woke left, and so end up aiding and abetting them. As one example, he’s surely smart enough to recognize that his tweet makes no sense to people who view country as an extension of family. But acknowledging that is a slippery slope towards legitimizing ethnonationalism, so he pretends to not understand the pushback.

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@GarrettPetersen The question is not settled while South Koreans remain plagued by ultra-low fertility. Absent improvement, in a matter of short decades, North Koreans will unify the peninsula simply by striding unopposed onto the moribund geriatric wasteland of SK

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@Peter_Nimitz I'm as racist and sexist as anyone, but I don't think the thieving blob of ectoplasm we saw in that viral video was the best JPMorgan could find in our hispanic and female communities

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@Rationalbot trump is a psyker it has long been known

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@ggreenwald >anti-establishment hatred

I regret to inform that this is just garden-variety third-worldism

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@LinkofSunshine The Current Thing is the Current Thing until it’s not

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@cremieuxrecueil Serious question from people considering parenthood via surrogacy: do you advise them to wait?

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@ubiquitousnewt what if our current techno-socio-cultural paradigm has unique pitfalls hitherto unconsidered by natural selection that make worthy men fail

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@gracefool The biggest question facing the West is whether the singularity will happen and humanity will cower and prosper under the shadow of the Machine God