Bret Nicholson

husband. father. grandpa. pastor. musician and YouTube content creator. We are primed for a Renaissance. Disagreement with you is not hatred for you.🇮🇱

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@cspan The thought that someone who thinks this way is where he is, turns my stomach.

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

This….

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@KonstantinKisin The lack of understanding of why people generate wealth is another indictment of our education system.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

This means a cultural wipe-out for a complete commuity

Madness

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

This…but I would add: ingratitude IS a spiritual malady.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I just left the ARC conference, where so many speakers lamented the decline of the West and attributed it to spiritual causes. I agree the West has a spiritual malady. It's called ingratitude. It's feeling entitled to the miracle all around us and thus miserable and empty.

"Is this all there is?" he texts from a lie-flat seat in the front on a 787 taking him across the world in a few hours. The message gets there fast because the plane is in near-constant contact with satellites that provide high-speed Internet literally anywhere and that you can't even outrun at 0.90 Mach.

We complain about spiritual decline while absolutely nothing prevents us from pursuing whatever spiritual path we want, or inviting people to come participate in one with us. There are zero impediments except our own willingness to see that we're in a living miracle and our own ingratitude.

Not one of the overwhelming majority of us will ever face actual food insecurity. We've never wondered if we'll need to boil our shoes to feed our children. We blame a world that gives us everything instead of realizing we're so entitled we won't even look for depth. We don't even have to get off the couch to find it, though maybe we should. It's in our phones if we'd just look.

I agree that there are elements of decline in the West, and that perhaps there are spiritual causes, but I think those start with each of us being unwilling to accept and be grateful for our inheritance and our incredible bounty.

I disagree that with the diagnosis, though, ultimately. We're doing amazing things people refuse to recognize, and we've been attacked by Western Marxist darkness until we've learned only to be critical about everything we have. We're not declining. We're being poisoned, and in our cushy ingratitude, we can refuse the tainted cup.

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@ConceptualJames Absolutely.

[Steven Arrazola de Oñate @StevenArra]

Egypte bouwt een ijzersterke muur met prikkeldraad en bufferzones aan de Gaza-grens. Ze weigeren Palestijnse “vluchtelingen” massaal binnen te laten. En ze staan niet alleen.
Jordanië, Libanon, Syrië en de Golfstaten doen exact hetzelfde. Waarom moeten al die Palestijnse vluchtelingen altijd naar Europa of andere niet-moslimlanden?
Omdat Arabische landen het zelf niet meer willen. Ze hebben het al geprobeerd.
In Jordanië pleegden Palestijnse militanten in 1970 bijna een staatsgreep (Black September). Duizenden doden.
In Libanon hielpen ze een bloedige burgeroorlog ontketenen.
In Koeweit werden na 1991 bijna 400.000 Palestijnen keihard verdreven omdat de PLO Saddam steunde.
Nu weigeren diezelfde moslimlanden Gazanen massaal op te nemen. Te riskant. Te veel problemen. Te veel terrorisme en onrust.
Toch eisen ze luidkeels dat Israël en het Westen de grenzen openen. Pure hypocrisie.
57 moslimlanden, oneindig veel olie- en gasgeld — en toch willen ze de eigen “broeders” niet.
Muren liegen niet. Arabische leiders weten precies waarom.

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@lamps_apple Yep. I think that sums it up.

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@cenkuygur It’s always fascinating to me how much this kind of commentary sounds inspired by Mein Kampf

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:

Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie

Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.

This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.

Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.

The Words We’re Missing

The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:

Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.

These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.

And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.

The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism

What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.

That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.

This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.

The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.

Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It

People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.

The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.

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[Marine Grunt @03MarineGrunt]

It appears X took down my factual history of Islam for some reason.
Here it is again. Islam, founded in 622 with its first act of mass violence in 622. Zero years as “the religion of peace.” Help me share these facts incase it gets taken down again please. Education is power.
622 Islam was founded
622 Ethnic cleansing of Jews from Mecca & Medina
622 Extermination of the 14 Arab-Jewish tribes
629 1st massacre in Alexandria
1033 1st Fez Pogrom (ethnically targeted violence), Morocco
1066 Mass murder in Granada
1106 Ali Ibn Yousef Ibn issues death penalty for all Jews
1165 Chief Rabbi of the Maghreb burned alive
1220 10s of thousands of Jews slaughtered in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Egypt
1276 2nd Fez Pogrom, Morocco
1385 Khorasan massacres, Iran
1438 1st Mellah Ghetto Massacres
1465 3rd Fez Pogrom, Morocco
1517 1st Hebron Pogrom (Jewish massacre) Palestine
1517 Marsa Ibn Ghazi massacre, Libya
1577 Passover massacre, Ottoman Empire
1588-1629 Mahalay Pogroms (series of violent attacks & murder) Iran
1630-1700 Yemeni Jews forced into Dhimmi Sharia
1660 2nd Safed Pogrom, Palestine
1679 Sanaa massacres, Yemen
1747 Mashhad massacres, Iran
1785 Tripoli Pogrom, Libya
1790 Tetuan Pogrom
1805 1st Algiers Pogrom, Algeria
1808 2nd Mellah Ghetto massacre
1815 2nd Algiers Pogrom
1820 Sahalu Lobiant massacre, Syria
1828 Baghdad Pogrom, Iraq
1830 3rd Algiers Pogrom
1830 Ethnic cleansing of Jews, Iran
1834 2nd Hebron Pogrom, Palestine
1834 Safed Pogrom, Palestine
1839 Mashasi Jew massacre, Iran
1840 Damascus Affair
1844 1st Cairo Pogrom
1847 Dar al-Qamar Pogrom, Lebanon
1847 Ethnic cleansing of Jews from Jerusalem
1848 1st Damascus Pogrom, Syria
1850 1st Aleppo Pogrom, Syria
1860 2nd Damascus Pogrom
1862 1st Beirut Pogrom, Lebanon
1864-1880 Massacre in Marrakesh, Morocco
1866 Kuzguncuk Pogrom, Turkey
1867 Massacre of Barfurush, Turkey
1868 Eyub Pogrom
1869 Massacre in Tunis & Sfax, Tunisia
1870 2nd Alexandria Pogrom
1870 1st Istanbul Pogrom
1871 1st Damanhur massacre, Egypt
1872 Edirne massacre, Turkey
1872 1st Izmir Pogrom, Turkey
1873 2nd Damanhur massacre
1874 2nd Izmir Pogrom
1874 2nd Istanbul Pogrom
1874 2nd Beirut Pogrom
1875 2nd Aleppo Pogrom
1875 Massacre on Djerba Island, Tunisia
1877 3rd Damanhur massacre
1877 Mansura Pogrom, Egypt
1882 Homs Pogrom, Syria
1882 3rd massacre in Alexandria
1890 3rd Damascus Pogrom
1890 Tunis Massacee
1891 4th Damascus Pogrom
1897 Tripolitania massacre, Lybia
1901 3rd massacre in Cairo
1901 4th Massacre in Alexandria
1903 Taza & Settat Pogroma
1903 1st Port Sa’id massacre, Egypt
1907 Casablanca Pogrom
1908 2nd Port Sa’id massacre
1911 Shiraz Pogrom
1912 4th Fez Pogrom
1917 Baghdad massacre
1920-30 Arab riots, Palestine
1921 1st Jaffa riots, Palestine
1922 Djerba massacres, Tunisia
1929 3rd Hebron Pogrom
1929 3rd Safed Pogrom
1933 2nd Jaffa riots
1934 Thrace Pogrom, Turkey
1936 3rd Jaffa riots
1941 Farhud massacres, Iraq
1945 4th Cairo massacre
1945 Tripolitania Pogrom
1947 Aden Pogrom
1947 3rd Aleppo Pogrom
1948 Oujda & Jerada Pogroms, Morocco
1948 Libyan massacre
1955 3rd Istanbul Pogrom
1965 5th Fez Pogrom
1967 Tunis riots
1967 Libyan riots
1969 Baghdad hanging of Jews
1970-PRESENT Christian massacres in Nigeria
1980-present Fulani attacks on Christians, Nigeria
2000’s-2010’s Islamic attacks on Christians, Egypt
2014-17 Christian genocide, Syria & Iraq
2015-present ISWAP massacre of Christian’s in Nigeria
2025 Mar Elias church massacre, Damascus
2025 Christian, Druze, Alawite genocide, Syria

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@JayGenXer @BenMulroney I spent a LOT of time in Afghanistan. The calls to prayer are (for westerners) dominating, oppressive and, frankly, creepy sounding. And they ARE pronouncing Islam’s superiority over all of life. What this town is doing is foolish, crazy and dangerous. They will be sorry.

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@GadSaad Good heavens. Departure tax?!?!?! I think the asylum counsel is legitimate.

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@WhiteHouse Nice spin.

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@MegynKellyShow @megynkelly Nonsense. And it’s not neocon hawkish to expect and desire a man to do what he says. They did “well” —but that’s not worth celebrating. They did well because our leader blinked and made idle threats.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

One day after the U.S. signed a deal with the Islamic Republic، the regime in Iran, handed Parastoo Ahmadi 74 lashes for singing on YouTube.

They call America the Great Satan. And then they flew to the table and signed a deal with the «Devil«. But a woman’s voice scared them more than any superpower ever could.

A regime that whips women for showing their hair and singing, there’s not a normal government.
This is called apartheid against women.

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@glennbeck I’m not someone who complains about everything he does. I’m also someone who doesn’t feel obligated to act like he can’t err. HE made the decision to attack. HE bragged they were obliterated and had no leverage when they did. He blinked and lost.

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@RichardGrenell Fact: they used the leverage they STILL have to force him into a deal they won’t keep. He blinked.

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@realMaalouf 🤦‍♂️

[Bret Nicholson @BretNicholson3]

@VividProwess @POTUS He blinked. Full stop.