Baby woke up last night, so I sat up with her and started rewatching Lawrence of Arabia. It has been decades since I first saw it.
I couldn't help thinking that Hernan Cortés deserves a parallel epic for his conquest of the Aztec empire. Imagine the "Burn the ships!" scene...
On the Western "fertility crisis."
Caged animals in zoos reproduce at much lower rates than wild counterparts. Zoos even resort to artificial insemination.
Now look at "white-collar man." Is his office/smartphone, where he must be available 24/7, like putting him in a zoo?
The guy who founded Netflix was related to Edward Bernays the guy who practically invented modern media Propaganda who was also related to Sigmund Freud
I have a 2 year old, and seeing this makes me want to euthanize every single one of these things and jail the owners/breeders. Whenever I'm in public and I see a pitbull, my right hand reflexively thumbs over the backstrap.
Florida cannot afford to replace DeSantis with a Dem or an Obama/BLM activist in Trump-skin. This guy pisses off all the right people and is as good as our political system allows @j_fishback:
https://t.co/qfhFeIPNC0
The Florida right needs to think outside of the MAGA narrative. DeSantis has been a decent Governor but we can't replace him with BLM activist in a conservatard skinsuit. Ohio is facing a similar problem. @j_fishback & @CaseyPutsch are better alternatives.
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@mohithegoat It depends on the commission, but In the pros, you're usually allowed to "layer" tape and gauze if the other side doesn't object. It seems Picasso's team stipulated gauze only until the finishing layer.
Repeat Cable TV idea: a show, one hour every night, that does nothing but dispassionately report crime of the day. Name victims and perpetrators where possible, post photographs and video. No editorials. Do this for 6 months and watch the national conversation change.
leftism is a memetic parasite optimized for host sterilization. every core tenet leads to the same endpoint: you don’t reproduce
equality - no hierarchy means no selection for excellence, no reason to strive, no family formation incentive.
sexual liberation - commodified dopamine hits replacing pair bonding. celebrate barrenness as “freedom”
identity ideology - fragment the self into a thousand genders, none of which have (or can have) children.
destroy the nuclear family - the one structure that actually transmits values and creates future humans.
delay reproduction for career - until the eggs are dead and the window is closed.
follow the tenets fully and you disappear.
40% fertility vs 71% is extinction math, 3 generations of true believers and the bloodline end
but the thing about death cults is that the successful ones adapt. if your ideology sterilizes its hosts, you cant spread through inheritance and you have to spread through infection.
and you cant infect adults since their immune system is developed, their priors are set.
you need children.
you need them young, before their parents can transmit their values and before the immune system forms.
this is why they need the schools and media (not want, need). it’s the only reproduction strategy available.
this is why parents aren’t told when their child changes pronouns. why therapists are legally required to “affirm” and legally prohibited from informing. why homeschooling is treated as extremism and investigated like abuse. why “parental rights” became a far-right dogwhistle. why every disney movie now features parents as the villains and the institution as the liberator. why family is depicted as oppression and escape from family as heroism. why they lowered the age of medical consent. why they want your kids online, unsupervised, as early as possible.
the parasite can’t reproduce, it can only recruit. and recruitment requires access to hosts before they’re immunized.
every leftist memeplex that didn’t prioritize youth capture already went extinct. what you’re seeing is survivorship bias. the ones that remain are the ones that figured out how to parasitize the reproductive capacity of their outgroup.
you’re watching natural selection for memetic parasitism in real time.
and they need your kids to survive
@KarlRadl I see more slop than things I'm subscribed to on my "for you" feed. There's also a lot of comment suppression. You'll see 4 comments on something and only 1 or 2 show up.
A mam may make any goal the object of his life & devote himself completely to it's attainment. He may even make some progress. But once reality comes crashing at 100mph he will stop & realize: I'm just not good enough.
A woman thrives in her delusion. Failure? What even is that?
🚨 OUTRAGE IN SYDNEY: Eyewitnesses blast 2 female police officers for “FREEZING” during the Bondi Beach terror attack, gunmen firing uninterrupted for up to 20 MINUTES while these officers on scene failed to engage
Genius is an overused term. But this is Peter Winston. He was a math prodigy in NY. He could do huge sums and divisions in his head at 5 and all that.
But then he got into chess. This limited game can totally ruin minds. It’s fixed, it isolates people. They focus on the board. They never learn how to deal with real people. They become abrasive and antisocial.
Winston became a strong player, tied for the US Junior Championship. Then he went out into a NYC blizzard in 1978, and no one ever saw him again. He probably didn’t die that night. The city isn’t that big and there are a lot of people. So where did he go?
No one knows. He is probably dead, but maybe not. But I do think when you have these extraordinary talents with potential tunnel vision - you have to take extra good care of them. They need mentors (his father was a Columbia professor, but died when he was a boy), and they need a lot guidance. This is very likely a massively wasted talent.
Now think about all the DEI stuff - how many smart kids don’t even get their chance. Not good.
The United States - partly because of its ‘freedom’ compared to China - leaves a lot of talent on the table. We screw ourselves. Then we want H1b.