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[QuintusCurtius @QuintusCurtius]

There was a Time

When we actually Had

Real Journalism.

But This was Before the Smoking Ban.

Ernest Hemingway.

Few are Really Getting this.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

🚨 I spend an enormous amount of time trying to understand the chaos we're living through. Not the headlines. The machine behind them. 🚨

If you want to understand what Elon Musk is really fighting, and who is really fighting him, this is the clearest map I can give you.

Expensive houses. Expensive schools. Expensive healthcare. Taxes that rise every year while everything gets worse. Borders nobody voted to open. Speech rules nobody voted for.

Most people look at this and blame capitalism. The market failed, they say, so the state has to step in and fix it.

They have it exactly backwards. What they want to fix it with is what broke it. This isn't chaos, and it isn't capitalism. It has a direction, a method, and a hundred-year history. Let me reverse-engineer it.

In 1926, Mussolini's regime threw Antonio Gramsci, co-founder of the Italian Communist Party, into prison. From his cell he asked the question that would shape the next century: why did the revolution win in Russia but fail in the West, where Marx said it was inevitable?

His answer: in Russia, the state was everything, so seizing it was enough. In the West, the state was only the outer wall. Behind it stood the real fortress: the church, the family, the school, the press, the culture. Western workers never revolted because the culture held them.

So the conclusion was simple. Don't storm the palace. Capture the culture. Win the institutions and you never have to win the argument, because you decide which arguments are allowed.

In 1967, the German student leader Rudi Dutschke gave it a slogan: the long march through the institutions. Paris supplied the intellectual software, and I've already apologized for my country's part in that.

Then came the most patient operation in modern history. The students of the 60s became the professors of the 80s. Their students became the journalists, judges, civil servants and HR directors of the 2000s. Their students now run the foundations, the NGOs and the agencies. No single step looked like a revolution. That's exactly why it worked.

The method was communist. The ambition became global. And it grew like a cancer. A cancer never attacks the body head-on. It hijacks the body's own cells and feeds on the body's own resources. This system never had to defeat the West. It just had to make the West pay for it.

In America, the machine found a political home: the Democratic Party. Not the millions of decent people who vote for it. The apparatus. The donor networks, the activist groups, the consultants, the captured agencies that keep moving in the same direction whoever wins.

In Europe, it found something even better. The EU's founders, Schuman, Adenauer, De Gasperi, were Catholic anti-communists who wanted to make war impossible. But they built exactly what the long march dreams of: power that never has to face a voter. A Commission nobody directly elects holds the right to propose laws for 450 million people. Chat Control. The digital euro. Speech rules written in Brussels. Nobody stormed anything. They just drafted it.

Add the World Economic Forum, the UN agencies and the global foundation circuit, and you have the full map. You don't need a secret meeting when everyone went to the same schools, reads the same papers, funds the same NGOs and flies to the same conference in Davos every January. It's not a conspiracy. It's a class with shared incentives. That's harder to fight, because there's no headquarters to raid.

And the billionaires? Most people who became the richest in the world got absorbed. They built something real, then traded it for an aura. Bill Gates is the perfect example: he built the software that ran the world, then became the bankroller of global health bureaucracies and the funder of newsrooms covering his own causes. Laurene Powell Jobs bought The Atlantic. Benioff bought Time. You're not buying a business. You're buying the right to be called good by the people who decide who is good. That's the corruption. Not suitcases of cash. Money for aura, grants for loyalty, NGOs for policy. All legal. All invisible.

Here's the proof it's one system and not a hundred separate problems. Look at what happened to prices over the last 25 years. Everything exposed to markets and technology got cheaper: TVs, software, phones, clothing. Everything controlled by institutions exploded: college, healthcare, childcare. And housing, where you need a committee's permission to build anything. Same country, same economy, same decades. The difference isn't the product. It's who controls it.

Taxes go up and services get worse, because the money doesn't reach the services. It feeds the layers. Immigration happens at a scale no electorate clearly chose, because for a system that lives on managing problems, more problems means more budget. And a two-income family today can't buy the house their parents bought on one salary. That's real poverty, manufactured by a machine that is rewarded for looking good, never for being good.

MAGA isn't the cause of the chaos. It's the immune response. Brexit, the farmers' revolts, the votes shaking every European capital: same thing. The body finally noticed the tumor.

So what we're living through is not a normal political cycle. It's a fight to the death between two models. One runs on the perception of goodness. The other runs on reality.

And it had to be the richest man in the world. Anyone smaller would have been bought, sued or cancelled. Every billionaire before him took the deal. Elon walked out of the club and turned the lights on.

He bought Twitter for $44 billion, opened the Twitter Files and gave the world back a public square where any narrative can be checked in real time. He went inside the government and helped shut down USAID. Now Politico announces that the Democrats' gavels are coming for him. His answer: he'll find out who is really pulling the strings and go after them, not just their puppets.

He has one line he keeps coming back to: he cares about the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. That sentence is the whole war.

Now the part that makes me certain of how it ends.

A lie is expensive to maintain. It needs gatekeepers, censors, fact-checkers, friendly journalists, a budget, and constant repairs every time reality contradicts it. The truth costs nothing to maintain. It just keeps being true.

AI is driving the cost of checking anything toward zero. Any budget, any study, any statistic, any promise, audited in seconds by anyone with a phone. Yes, AI can generate lies at scale too. But producing a lie is cheap. Defending it against a billion instant audits is impossible.

That's what acceleration really means. It doesn't pick sides. It speeds up feedback loops. Systems aligned with reality compound. Systems built on lies hit the wall faster. And you cannot build rockets, design chips or cure diseases with a false model of the world. Physics doesn't read op-eds. The more intelligence we pour into the world, the more expensive every lie becomes.

You cannot scale a lie. You can only scale what's true.

We are close to the collapse of the old order and the birth of a new one. Not the one from the WEF's own 2016 video, "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy." The opposite. An order built on truth-seeking, efficiency, science, private property and free markets. You will own things. You will build things. And you'll be happy, because it will be real.

Gramsci's long march took a century. Its collapse will take years.

History will remember this moment. A man walked into the most powerful machine ever built, refused the deal everyone else took, and chose reality over perception.

I have never been more optimistic.

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

Return.

[Roger Scruton Quotes @Scruton_Quotes]

"Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created. This is especially true of the good things that come to us as collective assets: peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit, the security of property, and family life, in all of which we depend on the cooperation of others while having no means singlehandedly to obtain it. In respect of such things, the work of destruction is quick, easy, and exhilarating; the work of creation slow, laborious, and dull." How to Be a Conservative

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Kingdom of Heaven is one of the biggest psy-op movies ever made to make Christians bad and muslims good.

> No context about the historical background of the period. There is no mention of Constantinople or the Eastern Roman Empire, which was the protagonist; no mention of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who initiated the First Crusade; and no mention of the reasons for the First Crusade, because of the unstoppable massacres of Christian civilians in the Middle East and the Holy Land. The First Crusade was a notable success for Byzantium.
> The movie never mentions why it was called a "crusade." Of course, it was not named that in the beginning. It was called in Greek "Σταυροφορία"(stavroforia, from the words stavros = cross and fero = to carry). When the muslims entered Jerusalem, they stole the remains of the Holy Cross. The Greeks from Constantinople then began a crusade primarily to take back the Cross and the Holy Land. The word stavros (cross, the Holy Cross) became crux in Latin. Thus stavros = crux, and stavrofories = crusades.
> Doesn't show the Islamic imperialism and slaughter of unarmed Christians. Christians who lived under islamic rule were relegated to the status of dhimmi which was inferior to the status of the muslims. Christians and other religious minorities thus faced religious discrimination and persecution because they were banned from proselytising in the lands which were invaded by the Arab muslims on pain of death, they were banned from bearing arms, they were banned from holding certain professions, and they were obligated to dress differently in order to distinguish themselves from Arabs and muslims. Under the Islamic law (sharia), Non-muslims were obligated to pay the jizya and kharaj taxes together with periodic and heavy ransom which was levied upon Christian communities by muslim rulers in order to fund their military campaigns, all of which resulted in their contribution of a significant amount of their income to the Islamic states, leading to the empoverishment of many Christian communities, and these financial and social hardships forced many Christians to convert to Islam. Christians who were unable to pay these taxes were forced to surrender their children to the muslim rulers, who would sell them as slaves to muslim households, where they were forced to convert to Islam. Christians paid this price during all the Caliphates (Rashidun Caliphate, Umayyad Caliphate, Almoravid Caliphate, Abbasid Caliphate).
> Balian was a noble man married to Greek Byzantine Maria Komnene. Again NO MENTION of Constantinople which was the center of the world, no mention of the Greeks, no mention of Eastern Roman Empire.
> Guy de Lusignan and Reynald de Chatillon are portrayed as archetypal fanatical villains although is more complicated and out of context.
> The film largely ignores Eastern Orthodox Christians in the kingdom and reduces complex politics to good vs. bad factions.
> The Battle of Hattin (1187) is shown, but details like army sizes are off (Saladin's force wasn't 200,000 OBVIOUSLY)
> The siege of Jerusalem gets some tactical elements right, but Balian's motivational speeches about shared holy sites and "the people matter more" are anachronistic, medieval leaders didn't speak like 21st-century secular globalists humanists funded by George Soros.
> The Crusader states weren't just "Western colonizers" this is pseudo-history and erases thousand of Greco-Roman history.
> Literally pseudo-history, not based on primary sources. Movie shows Christians as greedy, hypocritical, violent fanatics in a drab and muslims, led by the noble and merciful Saladin, come across as more civilized, tolerant, and justified in reclaiming Jerusalem "back". Literally PSEUDO-history.
> Balian delivers speeches promoting religious tolerance. For example "What is Jerusalem worth?", and the idea that extremists on both sides are the problem, but the weight OF COURSE falls more on Christian "extremism".

Do I really need to explain why Holywood depicts "Bad Christianity" and "Good Islamism" duality?

Disgusting pseudo-history.

One of the biggest psy-op movies ever made to manipulate the common thought of the uneducated masses who never opened a book in their lives.

And it seems it worked perfectly for their political games.

And again, I mentioned it thousands of times. You never see movies about the Byzantine period and the Greeks or what happened to Anatolia, only about early Rome, and then they skip about 1,000 years when the Greeks played an important role up until at least 1100 AD. Constantinople was the CENTER of the world and the richest city in the world. How can you skip that kind of history of literally A THOUSAND YEARS EMPIRE? You never see Hollywood depict what was happening in the Eastern Roman Empire, where the sciences, art, education, and theology literally flourished.

For some reason, they don't show/teach you how the Greeks played an important part in shaping the history of that period; they won’t show you the real reasons the Crusades started, that was the response to non-stop aggression from muslims who were enslaving Christian from Europe, Anatolia, Africa and Middle East. Also, they won’t show you how Anatolia was Islamized, what happened to Greece during the Ottoman period, or how North Africa was Arabized and Islamized.

Interesting, isn’t it? Food for thought. You should be more awake of what's happening.

[el gato malo @boriquagato]

we've clearly reached a point where the vestiges of what once styled itself a cultural elite has become a self-referential joke that the teller no longer gets.

it's just astonishing to watch them pretend this is art instead of vapid and cloying political fawning.

it's bad enough that they themselves cannot seem to tell the difference, but their iron bar confidence that neither can anyone else and that "the public" will lap up whatever vile gruel they are slopping into their pages.

falling for this is a near perfect acid test for propensity to slavish adherence to tribal fashion. you'll look right at a stark naked emperor and describe the glamor of his raiment.

it would need to be 70% more poignant to even be bad. it's just embarassing.

such putrid garbage
to pass off as poetry
a clown, not a bard

[Jens Heycke (ينس هايكة / יֶנְס הַיְקֶה) @JensHeycke]

@NewYorker This is not a fucking poem. Here is a poem.

[POK @real_POK]

A woman kills her 3 kids, gets $3M on GoFundMe, and receives endless support.

Meanwhile, the lone Black juror who stood his ground to convict her gets publicly shamed.

Society is completely broken

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“In the academic world, diversity means black leftists, white leftists, female leftists, and Hispanic leftists. Demographic diversity conceals ideological conformity.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Duncan Reyburn @duncanreyburn]

The reason this sounds radical now is because so many people believe, against all reason, that “be kind” is a sufficient foundation for a solid, liveable ethos.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Werner Herzog on why he’ll never go to therapy:

“I’d rather die than go to an analyst.”

“If you harshly light every last corner of a house, the house will be uninhabitable. It’s like that with your soul.”

[taoki @justalexoki]

i have never seen a more perfect post in my entire life

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[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

Angels are one of the great lost images of divine masculinity. Though technically ontologically genderless, they are symbolically masculine in role, God's warriors, agents of righteous force, embodiments of holy aggression in the service of order, judgement, purification and His will.

They symbolise something secular society has almost no framework for whatsoever: that violence is not inherently evil, that there is a hierarchy of violence, and that some forms of it are not only moral, but necessary, healing, and good.

This is the part modernity seemingly cannot metabolise. It sees the healer and the warrior as separate beings, as though force can only corrupt and never restore. But angels, and in earthly form paladins, embody the older and higher synthesis: the archetype of healing through fighting, of wrath in service to mercy, and purification through force.

What the modern world has done is dismember that unity and redistribute its parts into flatter, weaker identities that no longer understand their relation to one another.

I really do not know why Christians do not lean harder on angelic imagery when trying to form heroic masculinity in men. Obviously it cannot be taught one-dimensionally, in a childish black and white way that produces naive do-gooding fools, but the imagery itself is ancient, powerful, and structurally perfect for the task.

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[Mack Hat @mack_hat]

@BasilTheGreat

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

Unemployed and self-employed men on average have way more aura than institutionalised men (not including prison) because they are literally not being spoken down to like a potentially misbehaving child servant everyday.

I mean it does make sense that a man who does not have to sell his dignity for a living, who doesn’t have to fit in with a feminised DEI workplace by being a fake social climber managing bullshit female social politics, but instead gets to do things on his own terms would be way more spiritually potent than a man who has, day in and day out, for years, been conditioned to be a passive aggressive female friendly family safe good boy to survive under the threat of poverty

The modern workplace forces a type of femininity on men that is emasculating - a type of humiliation ritual designed to sap all the bravado and charm and risk taking and masculine potency out of a man, whilst doing the opposite to women: making them hard, cold, more conniving than they naturally are and altogether bitchy and unpleasant

Can you really say you’re a man in the truest sense, and feel that you are in how you carry yourself if you are in a servile role towards people you don’t respect day in and day out for years on end? People who control and dictate to you how you use your highest energy most productive hours day in day out, leaving you with the low energy scraps to assign to hobbies you can barely do before passing out from fatigue? Your time is never your own? You can’t tell ridiculous people to shut the fuck up and bitch slap their souls because that gets you fired, and you are always biting your tongue, full of resentment, having to listen to asinine people you can’t escape?

It’s fucking poison. The corporate workplace is gay. Any workplace that does not follow masculine social rules is depressing and gay. You will hate your life.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

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