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[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

The preemptive boycotts of Nolan’s Odyssey in the name of anti-wokeness mirror the very spirit conservatives have long opposed.

For more than a decade, we’ve endured a string of disappointing movies because contemporary progressivism hardened into secular puritanism. Like earlier moral reform movements, it demanded public confessions of orthodoxy, ritual purification of “problematic” elements, and the cancellation of dissenters.

In institutional Hollywood, this took the form of explicit inclusion quotas, sensitivity training, revised awards criteria, and the systematic prioritization of identity-based messaging over coherence, character, or dramatic tension. The result was formulaic, risk-averse storytelling.

The consequences have been plain to see - a string of commercially and critically disappointing projects, such as the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, which sacrificed the original’s anarchic, character-driven comedy for heavy-handed gender-reversal premises and “girl power” framing.

Any deviation from the diversity agenda was treated as ideological transgression, so films devolved into exercises in ticking representational checkboxes.

However, the right’s reflexive boycotts now punish perceived deviations from “correct” representation, even when they come from directors who have largely stayed outside progressive orthodoxy.

The result is a narrowing of the imaginative space in which ambitious, large-scale work can even be attempted without immediate partisan judgment.

The classics are not static relics sealed in amber. They are living testaments to the human imagination - palimpsests on which successive generations have inscribed their own visions while preserving continuity.

Homer’s Odyssey itself stands as the fountainhead of a long tradition of bold reinterpretation. Virgil refracted its wanderings into Rome’s founding myth in the Aeneid; Dante recast Ulysses as a restless seeker damned for intellectual hubris in the Inferno; and Tennyson, in his stirring dramatic monologue “Ulysses,” transformed the hero into a Victorian emblem of indomitable will and existential longing: “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

Mythic archetypes possess a remarkable elasticity. They can absorb new cultural dimensions, philosophical depths, and formal narrative experiments precisely because they resonate with timeless human truths - mortality, homecoming, cunning, and the boundless sea of experience.

Yet when conservatism curdles into closed-mindedness, it inoculates artists against the very openness they need to engage their own moment in history with sincerity and courage.

Conservatives who cling to reflexive suspicion should remember that genuine artistic greatness requires the openness they sometimes reject; pre-judging work before it is experienced only ensures the mediocrity they claim to oppose.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

I wanted to hold my opinion on “The Odyssey” until I’d seen it. I know, weird. So, here it is: it’s grand spectacle with a fascinating moral core. It’s extraordinary.

Also, the actors shouldn’t have said “Dad,” and the casting of Elliot Page is a pebble in the shoe - irritating and bothersome and unnecessary.

All my thoughts here, including my Zendaya and Lupita Nyongo takes. Check it out.

https://t.co/gFSaEWOTzC

["Doc" Hypnosis 🧠 | BowTied Brain-Hacking @BowTiedTrance]

Good comedians are masters at creating Instant Reframes. (Comedy is nuclear-grade persuasion.)

I love this clip from Louis CK's latest special for exactly that reason.

It made me laugh, AND now I can't think about Simulation Theory the same way anymore. 😂

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@TheBuckYouWill Hilarious!

[Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor]

Absolute classic from the Covid Totalitarian era - trust me, you will not be disappointed!!!

[il Donaldo Trumpo @PapiTrumpo]

THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!😎🇺🇸😂😂😂

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

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For 300 years, corsairs came to enslave Europeans.

Not from a colony. From Europe's own coasts.🏴‍☠️

Spain, Italy, France, even Ireland and Iceland felt their reach.

One historian's estimate puts the number enslaved above a million across the centuries.

That figure is disputed. In both directions. What is not disputed: every government paid ransom, and paid again, and the raids never stopped.

🕊️ In 1816 Britain tried one more time, through words alone. The Dey of Algiers agreed to stop. For a while, it held.

⚡ Then in May 1816, around 200 fishermen under British protection were massacred at Bona. Britain had run out of patience.

Admiral Lord Exmouth was given a fleet. And Britain did not sail alone: a Dutch squadron joined him, under Vice-Admiral van Capellen. British and Dutch, sailing as one force.

💥 August 1816. The combined fleet stood off the walls of Algiers. Exmouth sent his terms in. The Dey refused. At half past two, the guns opened fire.

For nine hours, British and Dutch guns hammered the harbour defences. The corsair fleet in harbour was destroyed at anchor. Allied casualties, British and Dutch together, passed 900 killed and wounded. It was a hard fight, not an easy one.

By morning the defences lay silent. Exmouth demanded surrender. The Dey accepted.

🔓 1,083 slaves were freed at Algiers itself. Men and women of many nations and many faiths. The Dey repaid around 80,000 pounds sterling in ransom money.

Counting earlier releases that year, around 3,000 people walked free across all of 1816. Not walking free in a single day. Freed across the whole of that year.

The treaty broke the back of a 300-year system. It did not end the raids overnight. Raiding returned in the years after, on a smaller scale. It was the French conquest of Algiers, from 1830, that finally ended it for good.

Britain and the Netherlands had broken a system three centuries old. Not for empire. For people who had no one else to answer for them.

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British and Dutch sailors stood against a system nobody else had stopped.

Knowing their story, you stand a little taller.

We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you with us. 👇🙏

👉 https://t.co/wN9S2gRmFj 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[FoxyFarmer🦊🇺🇸 @GardensR4Health]

🚨Rubio’s speech on what America is has gone viral, it’s the BEST political speech since Reagan. Period.

“America is not a government”

“America is your family, America’s your faith, your community, that’s America”

Freaking unbelievable 🇺🇸

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@jordanbpeterson @petersonacademy Great to see you back, Jordan! Take care.

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

Happy Fourth of July!
#fourthofjuly

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Canadians have a sense of superiority over Americans in a number of areas — Canadians believe they are more humble, cultured and generally nicer, according to a new poll.

That's part of the problem. Our problem.

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@6ixbuzztv Long live America! Love you! 🇨🇦♥️🇺🇸

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Happy 4th of July.
God Bless America.

[Dr. Alexander S. Burns @KKriegeBlog]

In the 2010s I was frustrated that we never got any Revolutionary media that equaled HBO’s John Adams.

On our 250th anniversary, I’m just happy that it was made.

[Tokyo Rosie @RosieRocks28]

Happy 4th of July to all my American friends. This is one Canadian who appreciates having you as our neighbor. Without you, Canada would've turned into a communist shithole long ago.

[Canada Proud @WeAreCanProud]

To our American friends, Happy 4th of July.

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@PierrePoilievre 🇨🇦♥️🇺🇸

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@SenFettermanPA Happy birthday to your great nation, Senator Fetterman. ♥️🇨🇦

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@SaltyGirl09 This was one of the most important events in human history.

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@Martyupnorth "Cousins"? Well, OK, but I prefer brothers and sisters. 🇨🇦♥️🇺🇸. 🇺🇸♥️(real)🇨🇦.