Some people believe just about anything they want to believe. The archetype can be recognized by the ever ubiquitous claims that all you see is controlled by something/someone out of your immediate circle.
The further it is from the believer’s direct experience and social circle, the more it becomes a blank canvas for projected control, malice, and orchestration. "Othering" others through parochial mechanisms. And sometimes, it's not reptiles. Sometimes it's entire groups of real people, with real lives, that they want to scapegoat.
Quite the slippery slope:
hearsay becomes narrative > narrative becomes identity > identity becomes a permission slip to dehumanize.
It is MOST effective AGAINST the current status quo. Not because the status quo is particularly evil (maybe they are?), but because it is uniquely distant. And social distancing is the fuel.
The pattern is ancient, scalable, and depressingly reliable and has increased 1000x since the pandemic response.
“Our civilization is in peril because so many eager and uncritical minds, beguiled by the communist ideal, instead of being trained in virtue, are trained to renounce all moral standards in the service of their ideal. Those consecrating themselves to communism must not only cast out truth, mercy, justice, and personal honor, but undergo a sickening discipline in lies, cruelty, crime and self abasement.”
~ @MaxEastmanOrg
FAO all who support the UK puberty blockers trial:
'They ruined my life. They shaped and folded my body according to what they thought would look the best... You can't treat kids like that. We're not your art project.'
-- detransitioner Jonni Skinner
https://t.co/DlTYUfzi5H
@AncapAir@brownstoneinst Marxists/Socialists replaced "Bourgouisie" with "Oppressor" & "Proletariat" with "Oppressed." It is the same overzealous jealousy for successful people, just with different labels: Romanticized notions about life & wish-fulfillment mindsets that seek outcomes they didn’t earn.
Socialism/communism/totalitarianism weaponizes neurotic empathy and utopian fervor to override natural and evolved sex differences, personalities, and incentives. It promises liberation while delivering demographic collapse, institutional fragility, and the very same emotional pathologies of grievance and dissatisfaction it claims to solve.
Photo: Gdansk, Poland - Summer 2025
America was founded on a set of beliefs and convictions—what Thomas Jefferson described as self-evident truths that were proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence.
~David Gortler
The Army ROTC Taught Me to Never Call Independence Day 'The 4th of July'
https://t.co/sZhXNqvqa6
Reminder that if you are fully vaccinated and up to date on boosters, you are allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Those vaccinated are even permitted to have a very small backyard barbecue. Five person maximum.
"The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." -Lao Tzu 300 B.C.
“The more laws, the less justice.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 BC-43 BC
"A great many laws in a country, like many physicians, is a sign of malady." – Voltaire 1694-1778
"Petty laws breed great crimes." – Ouida 1839-1908
"If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law." – Winston Churchill 1874-1965
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." -Ayn Rand 1905-1982
SPLC’s informant program, alleged payments to Klan & Charlottesville organizer, shell companies used for money laundering, how SPLC placed Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA, & Family Research Council on its “hate map”... all to drive fundraising.
https://t.co/IOu5bc6URA
@EVANetcetera@brownstoneinst Funny that🤣
Labeling disagreement as anti-science & ad hominem nonsense about fascist elites inverts the truth: real science thrives on falsification and debate, not consensus enforcement and lazy-ass smears. Your performative rhetoric is weak and completely evades reality. 🤦🏻♂️