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The prevailing view of so much of the young left in America is that we’re the worst country ever, so if someone attacks us, they can’t be all bad.
Gisteren voelde ik mij erg onveilig en ongelukkig in mijn geboortestad Amsterdam. De pro-Hamas-motoren op het Rokin deden mij denken aan de intocht van de nazi's in de hoofdstad op 10 mei 1940. Toen en nu met sympathisanten langs de weg. Waarom wordt dit toegestaan?
@MiesBee Ik zal nooit meer op een partij stemmen die ook maar enige ruimte geeft aan dit soort intimiderende islamisten en aanhang in mijn ooit vrije vrijzinnige stad. Ze herkennen fascisme niet wanneer het op hun drempel staat. Of zijn gewoon bang.
Amsterdam anno 2026: op ons grondgenied bevinden zich steeds meer vijanden van Joden, christenen, ongelovigen en alle vrijheidslieve mensen.
Als de overheid deze islamitische jihad blijft tolereren, zal onze – tolerante – samenleving vernietigd worden. 👇🏻
@bpschut Ik heb vernomen dat de mars-route gepland is aan de hand van deze kaart...
@queru_lant Berlin, 2026?
Ja gut, die gigantische Menge von 300.000 Tonnen Diesel kann die USA für sagenhafte 14 Stunden versorgen, aber ja - Wenn man es vom intellektuellen Durchschnittsniveau des typischen AfD-Wählers aus betrachtet, dann: Ja, dann ist das der Mega-Deal des Jahrtausends!
What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:
Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie
Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.
This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.
Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.
The Words We’re Missing
The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:
Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.
These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.
And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.
The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism
What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.
That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.
This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.
The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.
Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It
People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.
The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.
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![Kristof_Poland's tweet photo. What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:
Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie
Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.
This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.
Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.
The Words We’re Missing
The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:
Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.
These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.
And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.
The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism
What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.
That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.
This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.
The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.
Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It
People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.
The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.
1/2](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKXmpzvWAAAls5W.jpg)
@JacquesMonasch "Dat velen van hen in de banlieues met haat tegen Frankrijk en de Fransen worden grootgebracht, is algemeen bekend. En dat deze haat nog steeds door de dictatoriale macht in Algiers via schotelantennen wordt gevoed." https://t.co/LTNzXUD2qN
"Het klinkt gek wat ik nu ga zeggen, maar Trump is een zegen voor Europa. Doordat hij zo openlijk de kant van Poetin kiest, rest Brussel en Londen niets anders dan een daadkrachtig antwoord en steun voor Oekraïne... Trump is zelfs in staat om Griekenland en Turkije te verenigen."
Volgens mij heeft nog niet iedereen het door, maar de VS leggen een bom onder de vitale veiligheidsbelangen van miljoenen Europeanen. Maar steeds roepen we 'zo'n vaart zal het niet lopen.' Het loopt wel zo'n vaart. 👇️
https://t.co/qoO0aALr9I
@bpschut "Dat velen van hen in de banlieues met haat tegen Frankrijk en de Fransen worden grootgebracht, is algemeen bekend. En dat deze haat nog steeds door de dictatoriale macht in Algiers via schotelantennen wordt gevoed." https://t.co/LTNzXUCuBf
@mickvanwely "Dat velen van hen in de banlieues met haat tegen Frankrijk en de Fransen worden grootgebracht, is algemeen bekend. En dat deze haat nog steeds door de dictatoriale macht in Algiers via schotelantennen wordt gevoed." https://t.co/LTNzXUD2qN
@Henk_Mintjes Trump has to go as soon as possible! It’s now up to the Republicans to remove this senile and dangerous man from the White House and lock him away...
Blauwe nachten https://t.co/C6DvXRi24C
Trump is a disgrace to America and to human race.
Trump is scamming you - betraying Ukraine- and scheming to enrich his entourage with his fake Russia diesel deal. My latest in @TheAtlantic https://t.co/SUtH1aLTh0
Trump moet zo snel mogelijk weg! Het is nu aan de Republikeinen om de seniele en levensgevaarlijke man uit het Witte Huis te halen en op te bergen...
Für ein paar Liter Diesel. Was für ein moralischer Bankrott. https://t.co/JbVu8Vr5Me
Hamas marcheert letterlijk door onze straten en moslimcriminelen voeren aanslagen op Joodse doelen uit in opdracht van Iran, maar de Jodenhaters van NSB Hamasblad hebben weer een Israëlisch complot verzonnen.
Julius Streicher knikt goedkeurend in zijn graf.
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