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[Man of Myth @Mythos_Man]

“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.”

— Saint Augustine of Hippo

[Alistair421 @Alistair421]

@AlpacaAurelius A book was written on this topic in France ; hyper-male's wife will have daughters (the ovule "chooses" the spermatozoid) to lower the risk at home, statistically.

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@equesdomini To be exact, Paul VI abandoned it only for himself. He maintained it in the ceremonial for future popes. John Paul I and II refused the planned coronation.

[Handre @Handre]

Power selects for a specific personality type, and it is not yours.

F.A. Hayek spelled this out in 1944. In a centrally planned system, the people who rise are not the most competent or the most honest. They are the most willing to exercise force against strangers, the most comfortable with contradiction, and the most skilled at coalition-building through favors rather than merit. Government filters for the bad ones from the start.

The mechanism is straightforward. Political power means controlling resources you did not earn. Capturing that control requires outcompeting rivals who have no ethical constraints. A principled candidate refuses to promise contradictory things to different voter blocs. An unprincipled one does it without blinking. The unprincipled one wins. Repeat this selection pressure across hundreds of electoral cycles and you get the U.S. Congress in 2026: a body where the average member has held office for over a decade, raised millions from interested parties, and delivered almost nothing measurable to the people who voted for them.

Bureaucracy compounds the problem. Once entrenched, state agencies attract people who want authority without accountability. You cannot fire most of them. The FDA, the TSA, the Federal Reserve all function this way, staffed by individuals whose career advancement depends on expanding the agency's reach, never on serving you efficiently.

[Alistair421 @Alistair421]

@SamaHoole I have eaten tons of oysters since I was one year old, all year and even during some summers - rarely. I'm fond of them nature or cooked, with lemon or vinaigre. They are better from cold water of course. And we chew them ! I've never get this legend to not chew?!

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@abandoncomfortx Where did you learn to do it ?

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@DisqueMystere J'aime bien dans Chartres la série télé avec l'épisode "le préfet taquin". D'où ça peut sortir ?!!

[Alistair421 @Alistair421]

"Créez une image de ce à quoi ressemblerait le monde si j'étais aux commandes (basée sur mes tweets)"

[Alistair421 @Alistair421]

@DisqueMystere J'aime bien le kiosque mais je n'avais pas remarqué que Sardou avait une telle place chez toi !

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@DisqueMystere C'est très parisien ! bon, vintage au moins.

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@DisqueMystere Je t'attendais !

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@martyrmade 🤣

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@JonChesser1 @Rainmaker1973 First thought too !

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Roald Dahl said it best.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The greatest passport photo ever taken.

Issued by the brief Ukrainian People’s Republic in 1918, the document features Makar Oliynychuk raising a glass of alcohol next to an open bottle. Relaxed early 20th-century rules allowed this casual style, contrasting sharply with today’s sterile, biometric photo standards.

[Alexandre Blaineau @AlBlaineau]

Un chef-d’œuvre

[Alistair421 @Alistair421]

@Cernovich In an ideal world, we should go back to the medieval scheme, the heads of families only vote whatever their sex (widows for example, failed husband out, ...). But we're not going to be in this world soon.

[Achilles @Xhej__]

Start NOW

[Alistair421 @Alistair421]

@trad_west_ A French aristocratic family with italian roots, the Audiffret, claims to be his descendants.

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@michaeljknowles @PPVIinstitute