elv

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

I’m not Christian, but Jesus is to me the most important human that lived. We still haven’t learned what he came to teach us about the mobs of masses:

“on the outside you appear to people as righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness."

Look at what they’ve done to Ed Sheeran. They’ve ruined him. And for what? For failing their hypocritical moral purity test?

To the world, their cruelty appears as righteous. On the inside, they are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

[elv @FrostedE_]

MARK

[diva @divaagurlxw]

I recently watched the famous lecture by the late MIT professor Patrick Winston, titled ‘How to Speak.’

He opens by saying: “Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas, in that order.”

Freaking brilliant.

[elv @FrostedE_]

一点都不意外呢。

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Zohran took a pic smiling with a guy who personally filmed the torture of Israeli civilian hostages on October 7, very cool!

[elv @FrostedE_]

@pagemineofc @nagji859917 中国支猪能不能别用美国软件？精神白人看笑，你也挺会舔啊。你永远是中国人。

[孟岩-Mike Meng @myanTokenGeek]

我特别反对年轻人读毛选，因为我年轻的时候认真读过，被灌了一脑子水，现在还得花时间往外倒。

毛取得那么大的事功，本事肯定是很大的，也肯定有一些有用的思想方法，这些思想方法也肯定会在他的文章和讲话里有所体现。但是如果你把他的文章当金科玉律，那肯定会灌一脑子迷魂汤，撞一头包。

什么原因呢？

第一，他有很多真正的绝招是不会写在文字里的。纵观老毛的一生，他最有本事的地方就在于需要某个人或某股力量的时候总能拉拢过来为我所用，而一旦不需要，他就能翻脸无情地干掉，翻手为云覆手为雨。不管你怎么评价这一点，这个真的是他的绝招，非常厉害，可以说是他从年轻时就具有的帝王术，终其一生屡试不爽。但这一招你能在毛选里找到吗？完全找不到，他在任何地方都没写。还有，他自从读到《联共党史简明教程》，就茅塞顿开，特别重视和善于编纂关于自己的神话史，这个你在毛选里能读到吗？连这些绝招都没进去，本着“成功学”的目的读毛选的价值直接就脚踝斩了。

其次，他文章里有很多东西是诡辩和强词夺理，是为了把下面的人脑子搅浑，然后跟着他与人斗其乐无穷。但他的特点就是无论什么话都说得特别绝对，气势磅礴，给你一种绝对真理的压迫感。你要是不了解他的真实目的，把他为了一时一地之目标而说的话当了永恒真理，那就娘希匹了。《反对党八股》、《改造我们的学习》，特别是为人津津乐道的《矛盾论》、《实践论》，全都是为了打击留苏派写的。如果说这些文本有价值，它最大的价值就是教你怎么样能够冠冕堂皇、义正言辞地举着大旗斗私敌，至于那里面的具体观点，很多都是胡搅蛮缠。比如那个《矛盾论》，完全可以归于诡辩术，毫无指导实践的意义。你说 AB 是主要矛盾，我说 CD 是主要矛盾，咱们谁说了算？最后还不是谁权力大谁说了算？毛要的就是把这个水搅浑，要的就是把下面的人脑子搞乱，最后只能盲从地跟着他走，他说哪个是主要矛盾哪个就是主要矛盾，他说哪个是矛盾的主要方面哪个就是矛盾的主要方面，他说现在次要矛盾上升为主要矛盾了，他就可以集中全部资源翻手为云覆手为雨。你读毛选要是看不懂这些，那就成了死人的僵尸战队了。

第三，他有很多话纯粹就是胡扯，就是跟任何历史经验和他本人的亲身实践都对不上，但为了搞政治宣传，硬往反了说，而且发动文宣系统把历史篡改一番，让你深信不疑。这一部分害处最大，因为你要是拿着这种观点来实践，直接就是高速不过弯撞头。你比如他说“人是战争的决定性因素”，跟历史完全对不上。事实上战争里双方的人都是差不多的，真正的决定性因素就是武器装备和军事技术。辽国为啥打不过金国？不是因为辽国人不行，就是因为金国的黑龙江马能驮着身穿两层厚甲的骑兵反复在战场上冲杀几十个回合，而辽国的战马只能冲一次就歇菜了。共军为啥能打败国军？不是因为国军人不行，就因为你得到了苏联巨大的人力和武器装备支持，在前线野战炮有 8:1 的火力优势，而与此同时蒋介石连美国的常规军援都拿不到。讲别的都是胡扯，什么小米加步枪打败飞机加大炮，瞪眼说瞎话，就欺负你们这帮没上过战场的，让你意淫强军、颅内高潮。这只是举了一个例子，其他的胡扯还有很多，比如“独立自主、自力更生”，他老人家一路上比较顺利和成功的时期都是充分利用外国势力的时期，他真正独立自主的那几年，尼玛搞得一塌糊涂。所以他的很多最有名的格言、口号，你都得结合他的实践来看，别看他说了什么，要看他做了什么。

总之，如果你是奔着成功学去的，毛这一生肯定是很值得研究的，但读毛选肯定是歪路、邪路、死路。你得把他的历史搞得特别清楚，每一个阶段在干什么都要搞清楚，然后再看他写的东西，特别是没有公开发表的东西，理解他每一个时期面对的问题，他的目标、思路，理解他的行动。至于《毛选》这种冠冕堂皇的东西，你一定要读的话，把它当成一种实现目标的宣传术、洗脑术、有的时候甚至直接就是诈术来看待，就会功力倍增了。

真的对思维方式感兴趣的话，还是去学系统论、控制论，那个是真东西。毛选就算了吧。

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Globalism was sold with a promise of prosperity. In reality, it was the greatest redistribution of wealth in human history.

Globalism meant Western factories closed, borders opened, and jobs relocated to wherever it was cheaper and convenient. The industrial worker in Vienna, the Ruhr region, or Ohio became unemployed or was pushed into low-wage service sector work.

At the same time, profits ballooned for the middlemen who produce nothing. Financial conglomerates, importers, logistics giants, tech platforms, and consultants have pocketed the margin between cheap production in Asia and expensive sales in the West.

The result is a super-rich global elite and a left-behind, indebted proletariat. The middle class—the backbone of every free society—was crushed. This represents the greatest surge in inequality in a century. Without globalism, China would never have risen.

The West gave China everything, including its 2001 admission to the WTO, even though China lacked a true market economy or rule-of-law system. It was a voluntary technology transfer: anyone who wanted to produce in China was forced to hand over their intellectual property.

The West looked the other way on forced labor, state subsidies, currency manipulation, and technology theft. Capital on a scale of trillions of dollars has been pumped directly into China.

The West dismantled its own industrial base and rebuilt it in China. The West financed a totalitarian surveillance state that now uses Western money to rearm, buy up strategic ports, monopolise raw materials, and exercise leverage over us.

China did not rise despite the West, but because the globalist West built it that way. Short-term profit was prioritised over national security, industrial sovereignty, and local workforce stability.

A rootless, stateless elite in New York, Brussels, Berlin, and Shanghai feels at home everywhere and takes responsibility nowhere. In its wake are stranded communities, stripped of industry and upward mobility, entirely dependent on supply chains controlled by a foreign power.

This was no mistake. It is how the system was designed to work.

[elv @FrostedE_]

@YuehuaSomniorum 坚子：我他妈都被流放这么久了，还有回旋镖追着杀？

[elv @FrostedE_]

My mom bought me this.
I’m 23 years old.
🙂

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

That's because you don't know your history.

Roosevelt was an avid eugenicist. Roosevelt was closely allied with Madison Grant and William Temple Hornaday, who founded the Bronx Zoo and put a black kid named Ota Benga in a zoo cage and displayed him as a subhuman species. The child later committed suicide.

Roosevelt wrote a glowing endorsement of Madison Grant's book The Passing of the Great Race, which Hitler kept under his bed and referred to as his "Bible."

Roosevelt's endorsement: "The book is a capital book; in purpose, in vision, in grasp of the facts our people most need to realize. It shows an extraordinary range of reading and a wide scholarship. It shows a habit of singular serious thought on the subject of most commanding importance. It shows a fine fearlessness in assailing the popular and mischievous sentimentalities and attractive and corroding falsehoods which few men dare assail. It is the work of an American scholar and gentleman; and all Americans should be sincerely grateful to you for writing it."

Opposition to scientific racism and eugenics was mainly raised by Christians at the time, and was dismissed by Grant as "sentimentality."

Roosevelt strongly opposed "unfit" races being freely available to reproduce, in keeping with Darwin's prescription in his book The Descent of Man, and he advocated for forced sterilization of those deemed unfit to reproduce.

He was a product of his time, and eugenics was mainstream thought back then. We shouldn't judge too harshly.

But Hitler got his ideas from the U.S. eugenics movement. Calling Roosevelt "Proto Hitler" is not altogether unfair.

Pictures below: Teddy Roosevelt at the St. Louis World's Fair, where African pygmies were put in a zoo display as "missing links" in evolution. Also pictured: the zoo display.

[elv @FrostedE_]

@bbking_jp 恭喜日本队！🇯🇵

[朱韵和 @zhu0588]

波尔布特死前一年多的时间里，他一直被自己的部下囚禁在柬埔寨西北部靠近泰国边境的一个山区。
他每天都要接受审判，被迫承认自己在执政期间犯下的罪行，并向全国人民道歉。
这些审判是由塔莫克主持的，他是红色高棉中最年轻、最激进、最残忍的将领之一。他曾经是波尔布特的忠实追随者，但在1997年 6月10日发生了一件事情后，他对波尔布特彻底失去了信任和敬意。

那一天，波尔布特下令杀害了宋成和他全家。宋成是红色高棉中最资深、最受人敬重、最有威望的将领之一。他曾经与波尔布特并肩作战，共同建立了民主柬埔寨政权，并在越南入侵后带领游击队进行抵抗。

但是，在1997年初，宋成决定与新政府和谈，并准备率领自己的部队投降。 这让波尔布特感到极度愤怒和背叛，于是他派出了一个刺杀小组，将宋成和他全家包括妻子、儿子、女儿、孙子和孙女等十几个人全部杀害，并将他们的尸体用汽油浇灌并点燃了。

塔莫克得知这个消息后，非常震惊和悲痛。他认为波尔布特已经疯了，不仅背叛了自己的战友，也背叛了自己的理想。他决定发动政变，逮捕了波尔布特，并宣布接管红色高棉的领导权。

他还与新政府和谈，希望能够结束长达二十多年的内战，并为红色高棉的成员争取一定的政治地位和安全保障。

波尔布特被捕后，塔莫克并没有立即处决他，而是想通过审判他来揭露他的罪行，以此来为红色高棉的受害者伸张正义，也为自己的政变正名。他还希望能够通过审判波尔布特来与新政府进行交换，换取自己和自己的部队的安全。

但是，这些计划都没有实现。新政府对塔莫克的和平提议不感兴趣，而是继续对他进行军事打击。

塔莫克的部队在不断的战斗中损失惨重，士气低落。而波尔布特的审判也没有引起国际社会的关注，因为塔莫克没有得到联合国或其他国家的支持和认可，他所进行的审判缺乏法律和道德的基础和权威。

波尔布特在被审判期间，表现出了一种既顽固又矛盾的态度。

他一方面承认自己犯了错误，对自己的罪行表示后悔和忏悔，对自己的受害者表示同情和歉意；

另一方面，他又坚持自己是一个真正的共产主义者，认为自己所做的一切都是为了实现共产主义理想，为了建立一个没有剥削、没有压迫、没有不平等、没有贫穷、没有病痛、没有战争、没有暴力、没有罪恶的乌托邦社会。 他还把自己的失败归咎于外部的敌人，如越南、苏联、美国等国家，以及内部的叛徒，如宋成、韩桑林等人。他认为自己是一个被误解、被背叛、被陷害、被迫害的英雄和殉道者。

波尔布特的最后一年，是他一生中最悲惨的一年。他曾经是柬埔寨的最高领导人，掌握着无上的权力和威望，但却被自己的部下发动政变，囚禁在一个偏远的山区，失去了一切。

他曾经是共产主义运动的最激进的代表，拥有着无比的理想和信念，但却被自己的罪行和失败所摧毁，迷失了方向，放弃了信仰。

他在这一年里，经历了从神到鬼，从造物主到毁灭者，从救世主到罪人的惨痛转变。

波尔布特死后，他没有给柬埔寨留下任何美好的遗产。他在执政期间所造成的灾难和屠杀，使柬埔寨人民遭受了难以想象的苦难和创伤，数百万人失去了生命和家园；

---参考文献；菲利普·肖特《波尔布特传》

[Lucy Biggers @LLBiggers]

In three parts, I explain how I was brainwashed into becoming a biased climate reporter.

Step 1: Deconstruct your identity.

When I entered a newsroom at 25, this was the pervasive ideology: The world is divided into two groups—the oppressed and the oppressors.

If you are white, straight, privileged, or American, you are inherently an oppressor. Everything you grew up believing is wrong or evil. You cannot be trusted to see the world as it really is because you are inherently racist, biased, and part of the oppressor class.

I was young, excited to be there, and surrounded by people I thought were smarter and cooler than I was. So I absorbed their worldview and ceded my judgment to the group.

Once you are demoralized, feel guilty for being an oppressor, can no longer trust your own intuition, or your own interpretation of the facts, you will believe whatever the group tells you to believe.

Step 2: Atone for your sins.

Because you are an oppressor all you can do is atone for the sins of your birth. You can do that by repeating and advancing the group’s ideology. You never question it, because questioning the ideology is treated as proof that you are racist, selfish, or an oppressor.

For me, this manifested as becoming a climate reporter. Through my work I could help the downtrodden, the indigenous people and other marginalized groups. I could be a good ally.

And so without questioning, I pushed the idea that climate change was an existential crisis, fossil-fuel companies were evil, capitalism was destroying the planet, and America was an imperialist country that had destroyed the environment. Essentially all of the problems we faced were because of Western imperialism.

If I had any doubts about this way of thinking I would shut them down. Who was I to question any of it? I was just some stupid, privileged white girl who didn’t know anything. That was what I had been told about myself and that is what I believed. Better to go along with the group, keep my head down, and be a good ally.

Step 3: Fully submit to the ideology.

The West is evil. America is evil. Capitalism is evil. White people are evil. Everything you grew up believing is wrong, and the only way to fix the world is to tear all of these systems down.

The weird thing is that I fell for all of this from a place of compassion. I wanted to help the downtrodden. I wanted to solve inequality. I wanted to fix the world.
I thought that by giving up my personal agency to this ideology, I was playing my part in atoning for the sins of my birth.

I believe what I went through is still incredibly relevant today. It helps explain the DSA’s growing power within the Democratic Party. Why most Democrats can’t bring themselves to condemn socialism. Why so many young people believe America deserved 9/11. Why young people and celebrities chant “Free Palestine” without understanding that Hamas is a terrorist organization or anything about the conflict. They’ve been told what to believe and who the oppressor is in each of these situations.

Ten years of cancel culture has taught people that questioning the ideology doesn’t simply mean you disagree. It means you are an evil oppressor. You are racist, sexist, privileged, out of touch, evil. Disagree and you will be cast out and lose everything.

Once people become afraid to trust themselves, examine the facts, or stand against the group, you’ve got them. They can be convinced to believe and do anything.

What do you all think? Did I describe this accurately?

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Goosebumps.

For all its faults, Western Christian culture is still worth defending.

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

The West is in the process of destroying itself from within - and Oswald Spengler saw it coming a century ago.

In The Decline of the West (1918), Spengler argued that civilisations rarely perish from external conquest alone. They collapse when they lose faith in their own identity and begin to take pleasure in their own disintegration. Instead of confidently transmitting their traditions, values and achievements, they turn against themselves. They treat their history as a catalogue of crimes, their institutions as systems of oppression, and their core principles as sources of guilt. At that point, they become culturally defenceless.

The modern West displays these symptoms with disturbing clarity. Large parts of its elite actively participate in the vilification of Western civilisation. Western achievements in science, law and liberty are reframed as sources of shame. Mass immigration from incompatible cultures is often presented not as a policy to be managed, but as a form of historical atonement. Criticism of this process is frequently treated as morally illegitimate.

Spengler observed how late-stage democracies tend to become weak and sentimental. They struggle to defend their borders or uphold their own values because doing so conflicts with their self-image as open and non-judgemental. This creates a dangerous asymmetry: while the West engages in relentless self-criticism, other cultures remain far more assertive about preserving their own identity.

Spengler did not believe this process was easily reversed. Once a civilisation loses the will to defend itself, it has already entered its final stage. We are running out of time to prove him wrong.

[Oscar Barbera @OscarBarbera7]

El jazz no es aburrido, aburrida es la música de ahora. En 1959 #DaveBrubeck rompió todas las reglas con #TakeFive, metiendo un ritmo imposible que se convirtió en el tema de jazz más vendido de la historia. Elegancia y clase pura en 5 minutos. 🎷🥃

[李承鹏（大眼哥） @dayangelcp]

说起“新闻界的良心”，我想起了清末民初，有一批报人的口号是“宁鸣而死,不默而生”，为了真相以命相搏。

比如说沈荩。1903年，他了解到清政府要与俄国签订丧权辱国的《中俄密约》,抢先把密约内容报道出来。舆论哗然，慈禧震怒，下令将其抓走，在狱中活活杖毙。狱卒打了他几百杖，打得血肉横飞仍未断气，就把他勒死，死状极惨。他是中国近代第一个因揭露政府而被处死的记者。连驻华外国公使都出面抗议。

我还有个老乡，叫卞小吾，四川江津人。1904年，他变卖家产，在重庆创办了四川第一家日报《重庆日报》,专门揭露清廷腐败、抨击贪官、宣扬男女平等与革命。报纸一出即洛阳纸贵。清廷以“妖言惑众、结党为奸”封了报纸，把他抓到成都关押三年。因他始终不认罪，在狱中被秘密杀害,年仅36岁。

还有1903年，上海爆发了震动全国的《苏报》案。二十岁的邹容不肯连累他人，自动投案,受尽折磨，死于狱中，年仅二十岁出头。

还有《京报》创办人邵飘萍，以“铁肩辣手”著称，专揭黑幕、不畏强权。张作霖把他枪杀于北京天桥。行刑前，他神色自若，向监刑官拱手说了声“诸位免送”。还有《社会日报》的林白水，文笔犀利、专骂权贵。他因写文章痛斥军阀张宗昌的谋士，被枪杀于北京天桥。他与邵飘萍遇害前后仅隔百日，史称“萍水相逢”。

现在看来，我并不同意他们所有的观点，但佩服这些前辈为了真理不怕付出生命。他们没有军队、没有权势，只有一支笔……后来我的同行中，有报道三聚氰胺的简光洲，报道《山西疫苗乱象调查》王克勤，报道孙志刚案的陈峰、王雷，写了《墓碑》的新华社记者杨继绳。这些都是良心。其实还有很多，但他们大多默默无闻，有的生计也堪忧。

所以，当你夸谁是良心时，认真想想那些默默付出的记者吧。虽然夸他们没啥流量。想想，这世道，唏嘘不已。

[The Forgotten War @ForgottenWarPic]

Seven hundred British soldiers, surrounded on a bare Korean hill by an entire Chinese army of some twenty seven thousand men, held out for three days, and when their ammunition was gone they answered the enemy's bugle calls with bugle calls of their own. It is one of the greatest last stands in modern military history, and most Americans have never heard of it.

In April 1951, the Chinese launched a massive spring offensive aimed straight at Seoul. Standing in the path, on the hills above the Imjin River, was a single British battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, the Glosters, about seven hundred men. Against them came three full divisions of the Chinese 63rd Army, roughly twenty seven thousand soldiers, determined to smash across the river and open the road to the capital.

The Glosters were told to hold. And they did. As the Chinese poured across the Imjin in human waves, the battalion was steadily surrounded and forced back onto a single hill, Hill 235, that would forever after be known as Gloster Hill. There, cut off, running low on food, water, and ammunition, outnumbered something like twenty five to one, they fought on for three days and nights.

And here is the detail people never forget. The Chinese coordinated their night attacks with bugle calls, using them to signal and to unnerve the defenders. So the Glosters answered. Their drum major took up his own bugle and, on the surrounded hilltop, blew back British Army bugle calls, every call in the book except retreat, answering the Chinese note for note. It steadied the exhausted men and rattled the enemy, this defiant British bugle ringing out over a hill that was about to fall.

By the third day it was hopeless. Out of ammunition and completely surrounded, the survivors were finally told it was every man for himself, to try to break out and escape. Only a small number made it, perhaps forty men, back to friendly lines. The rest, more than five hundred, were killed, wounded, or captured, including their commander, Lieutenant Colonel James Carne.

Carne won the Victoria Cross for the stand. And in the brutal prison camp where he spent the next two years, he did something quietly extraordinary. Using a couple of stones, he carved a simple Celtic cross, a small symbol of faith and defiance to hold his men together in captivity. That little stone cross survives to this day, kept in Gloucester Cathedral, one of the most moving relics of the entire war.

Their sacrifice was not in vain. The Glosters' stand on the Imjin, along with the rest of their brigade, so badly bled and delayed the Chinese offensive that the UN was able to stabilize the line and hold Seoul. To this day the fight is remembered as the battle that saved Seoul, and the Glorious Glosters as the men who bought it, seven hundred against an army, holding a hill with rifles and bugles until there was nothing left.

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Aivazovsky painted to overwhelm the room.

You can't get that impression from a scroll.

[elv @FrostedE_]

蒋艳萍名言：

“男人玩女人可以不讲档次，女人玩男人就不能不讲档次。在男人当权的社会，只有懂得充分开发利用男人价值的女人，才能算是真正高明的女人。”

[Finding @Finding8964]

蒋艳萍，原湖南省建筑工程集团总公司副总经理（副厅级），2001年7月24日长沙中院一审判处死刑，二审也维持死刑。

羁押期间，她拉拢腐蚀了看守所副所长万江，两人发生关系，并导致怀孕。因怀孕不适用死刑立即执行，2003年最高法院复核时改判为死刑缓期两年执行。后减刑被释放。

[elv @FrostedE_]

@AnecdotesInX @Finding8964 万江：你懂什么？我最受不了的是她那双眼睛！🥵