Cameron Cabrera

I was old when the world was young

[Just Loki @LokiJulianus]

Dogs must be terrifying to wild animals: basically a wolf that is life-bonded with hairless talking chimpanzees.

[lumberjack @idmpredator]

Some one smarter than me could probably explain what it means that the infinite subspace beneath reality has transitioned over the last century from a library to an empty, decrepit, office

[Iván Fernández Amil @ivanfamil]

Vasco Núñez de Balboa se metió en el agua hasta las rodillas en 1513, levantó su espada y reclamó todo ese mar "y todas las tierras que bañase" para el Rey de España. Parecía una fanfarronada, pero durante 250 años fue una realidad geopolítica. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

By late 16th century the city of Potosí in modern-day Bolivia became the source of around 60% of global silver production.

The silver from Potosí mines was transported on caravans of llamas and loaded on Spanish ships. Some of this silver was sent to Manila to trade with China.

[Nature & Animals🌴 @naturelife_ok]

may my grave become a shelter for every creature of god that wanders in search of refuge and warmth..

[Frontier Melville @hammerofvision]

To my ethnic brothers across the pond:

Few myths inspire me like the Arthurian legends do. These stories are not mere fiction or fair tales, they are a glimpse of the fighting spirit of the English. Yours is a noble race, a noble heritage. May King Arthur return in our day.

[Southern Chestnut 🇺🇸 @AppyOrtho]

We can’t conceive of the world? Son, we ARE the world and we are ancient.

1190: The stone cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde were constructed by the Ancestral Pueblo people.

1513: Juan Ponce de León made the first documented Spanish landing in present-day mainland United States (Florida).

1562- French explorers and settlers first arrived in the American South when Huguenot explorers led by Jean Ribault briefly established Charlesfort in present-day South Carolina. Permanent French settlement in the South began in 1699.

1607- The English arrived in North America to establish the first permanent settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.

1742- Russian explorers first arrived in Alaska.

1776- America the country officially begins following in the English tradition of the Magna Carta with important and valuable cultural input from Natives, the Catholic Spanish, the Catholic and Protestant French, the Russian Orthodox (in Alaska) and many more.

[Historical Chronicles @HistoriaJack]

May I present the works of David Roberts for consideration...

[Kangaroobixcube @kangaroobixcube]

@blondesnmartini How you know America is a benevolent nation:
Central America does not fly the stars and stripes.

[Jellenne 🇺🇸🌵🌞 @Jellenne]

See?
It was neglected so long, they didn't even know fountains and statues and Memorials were supposed to be inspiring not depressing.

[Bandy @bandy1803]

"Shouldn't we keep the regiment together, General? If this is as big a camp as the scouts say...?"

A short list of Custer's mistakes immediately before the Battle of Little Bighorn. (1/6)

[Westside L.A. Guy @WestsideLAGuy]

If I had to summarize the biggest difference between the America of today vs that of my childhood, it's that the country now feels like a perpetual array of fraud, grift, transactional scheming. Everyone is out to get a piece of the pie, no sense of a national story or vision.

[ALX 🇺🇸 @alx]

Trump’s Arch vs. Obama’s Arch

[Amanda Milius @AmandaMilius]

He says w out ever seeing Wind and the Lion or Rough Riders (literally two films made years apart about “different parts of Teddy Roosevelt’s life”).

Additionally my Dads “Daniel Boone” script also still sits on the shelf at WB and was the first thing he tried to get for me to direct.

Along w 30 other unmade movies from the best writer in Hollywood.

I get that Matt hates me for dunking on the DW for years and their own hokey content but show some respect to people like my Dad that personify the point you think yr new in making re conservative films that are actually good.

What DW will never realize is the material has to be good first and conservative or whatever tf second. Or you’re just making homework on film.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

This is the single greatest paragraph in American literature.

It comes at the close of chapter 93 of Moby-Dick. Young Pip, a Black cabin-boy, beloved by the crew of the Pequod, is inadvertently stranded alone on the open sea. The experience of being lost for hours in the middle of those “heartless immensities” drives the boy to insanity. But in that madness, Melville argues here, is a kind of wisdom. Pip had a vision of the inner workings of all things, and it drove him mad.

On the first day of my final year in college, my literature professor, Dr. Gaines, asked each of us to name a favorite work of art: song, book, film, it didn’t matter. When my turn came round, I opened a copy of Moby-Dick that I happened to have brought with me and read this passage aloud. By the time I had finished reading, Dr. Gaines was in tears. He said, “Class dismissed.” In all the years I knew him, he could never get through this paragraph. It haunted him. It haunts me.

[Ἀγίας 𓃬 @blondesnmartini]

Europeans First View of the Grand Canyon, 1540

[MissionControl @Miss1onControl]

I honestly can’t believe this is really happening. WE HAVE ACTUAL PLANS FOR A FUCKING MOON BASE WITH TONS OF OTHER MISSIONS AT THE SOUTH POLE OF THE FUCKING MOON.

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

The 2,700 year history of the United States begins with Romulus killing Remus on the banks of the Tiber; China was still ruled by steppe nomads when the Wright Brothers invented the airplane.

[Melian Refugee @escapefrommelos]

the opposite is actually true.

if you look at chinese sources, they endlessly discuss the strategic implications of the recent american craze for “diversity” as a WEAKNESS. they even have a phrase for it: “社会分裂”, or “social splitting”. Chinese academics inside their elite universities who write in Chinese for PRC government audiences talk about how american diversity erodes social cohesion, lowers trust, and makes governance harder.

There are prominent academics in china who focus on the US who discuss this as a self-inflicted vulnerability… see Diao Daming (刁大明 ）at Remin University; he and others openly write about how stupid and suicidal this sort of thing is.

[see: 身份政治、党争“部落化”与2020年美国大选 （Identity Politics, the “Tribalization” of Partisan Conflict, and the 2020 US Election)]

China isn’t importing Indian engineers and “founders”. They’re sending ethnic Chinese students and researchers to US institutions and corporations, then recalling them to the motherland once they’ve learned everything they can.

And they are laughing at us.

[J.T. Alexander @JTAlexander]

“And he’s so cowardly and blubbering and pathetic, as are most strong men when you remove their power and they’re and they’re faced with their imminent death, they rarely handle it bravely.”

This quote alone proves to you that Kripke is a Revenge of the Nerds type coward and weakling. This single sentence says so much about this man.

He thinks “strength” means “power,” and thus rationalizes his own weakness as merely an absence of real power, acquisition of which would be a major sin. He believes his weakness is a virtue.

This is absolutely typical of Hollywood writer types. This is why they write stories featuring jocks as low IQ meatheads, when in reality most of the great men of history were both athletes and intellectuals (Plato and Nixon as two great examples millennia apart). They misunderstand “blessed are the meek” as “blessed are the weak.”

People like Kripke cannot believe in real strength and real courage because *they* could never feel it. He can’t even imagine it. All those strong and brave men are, secretly, just as chicken shit as he is. The only thing separating Kripke and Audie Murphy is that Audie Murphy had power—or something like that.

I don’t care about this show, never have watched a single episode, and have never understood the appeal. But everything I have seen and heard of the showrunner leads me to believe without any doubt that he is the most dangerous kind of person—an utterly weak and cowardly man that cannot even imagine being a stronger and braver one.

Be very wary of weak men.