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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds for the ashes of his fathers and the Temples of his Gods

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

During the Cold War, it was assumed that a nuclear exchange would just be the beginning of the fighting. It was hoped that soldiers would charge into the chaos and grab territory after the bombs fell. My profile pic and the below are taken from the first successful nuclear detonation by the Chinese at Lop Nur.

Who is the “Fifth Horseman?”

He who charges boldly. After the apocalypse, even into Armageddon itself.

For even at the End, there may be some willing to fight amongst the ashes.

“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”

[Ankit Panda @nktpnd]

China sort of one-upped this. At its first nuclear test (Test 596 in 1964 at Lop Nur), there was a gas-mask-donning cavalry charge. #Nukes 🤔

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@extradeadjcb This popped up on my feed right after i read this. Appropriate.

Idk if i really care if it’s their “innate” power. This shit is evil, man. https://t.co/2ABxQW5Y8w

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@romanhelmetguy Glad you got to see it, my friend!

Impossible not to be inspired at the end of that one. Especially given a lot of the crazy stuff they show at the Battle of Monongahela actually happened.

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@avidseries Entirely unpersuasive. Why should I care how high performing they are? So what, a number goes up on a page?

Islam is incompatible with Western culture. They’ve been telling us that for 1000 years, you admit it in this post (“cultural aggression”). Why should I allow any of that?

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@CovfefeAnon I understand the sort of “I always keep muh promises!” stuff being seen as a sign of weakness, that’s basic Machiavelli (and therefore women).

I’m speaking about something more akin to “I make good on my threats, don’t fuck with me” Trump style. Women love that shit.

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@romanhelmetguy It was good, RHG! Excited to hear your thoughts. Pretty intense for an Angel Studios movie, which was good. It doesn’t pull any punches about the tactical fuckups Washington made.

Overall, felt like something from an older time. Heroic, hopeful, inspiring, if a little campy

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

I never see progressives bragging about the fact that we ended slavery, usually it’s right wingers making the point that our society is more moral than everyone else; all have had slavery, only we ended it.

Perhaps that’s giving in to a progressive framework in a way I hadn’t considered.

[Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine]

To love only what your country might ideally become, in aspiration, is not to love your real country at all, but only an ideological abstraction.

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@FischerKing64 I was under the impression that he tried, but his cavalry directed at the rear of the Union line was stopped by a charge of Michigan cavalry led by none other than George Armstrong Custer.

But you’re right he didnt attempt any sort of mass flanking maneuver. Odd.

[𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚 @EudaimoniaEsq]

Dawg I am a lawyer and things are too damn expensive.

Someone needs to really get in the ear of the right-wing pundit class and let them know that, no, it’s not “laziness.”

[Jeremy Christiansen @TradVat2]

@pegobry_en Borders are arbitrary and made up and oppressive, but at the same time are literal magic for making you a citizen if born within them.

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@Pat_Stedman Aura is the modern way to put it, and an appropriate term.

I like the way the Romans put it though:

Gravitas.

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@pegobry_en That’s not true at all. Basically everyone I read on here was expecting that we would lose, they were just hoping the court would do it on some sort of procedural grounds rather than reaching the substantive issue. I didn’t see a single person suggest this would be an easy win.

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

A great point. Having that sort of deference and respect for other branches was the whole point of Originalism: “Congress should do something about this!”

But when it’s used to wring out of Constitutional text an obviously strained interpretation with terrifying policy implications, its raison d’etre becomes unpersuasive.

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@ChristianHeiens Yes.

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

People can say a lot of things about this decision; one obvious but uncommented-upon consequence: this is the death of Originalism as a legal theory.

Not a single conservative lawyer who forms his views after today will consider Originalism credible.

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@NatHalberstadt Indeed.

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

People can say a lot of things about this decision; one obvious but uncommented-upon consequence: this is the death of Originalism as a legal theory.

Not a single conservative lawyer who forms his views after today will consider Originalism credible.

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@pegobry_en @Vermeullarmine To be fair, my friend, many of us have been there for a while.

I’m not at a top 10 school, either; I’ve been shocked how many of my friends knew @Vermeullarmine already…

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@extradeadjcb Correct.

https://t.co/oa4WdjsF13

[Jeremy Christiansen @TradVat2]

@pegobry_en @Vermeullarmine

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

@TradVat2 @pegobry_en @Vermeullarmine Correct, but portentous.

[Feels Knight @Aurelian274]

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