James Ferguson

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[James Ferguson @Jacksonwilde303]

Happy Pride month.
Women
Don't
Have
Penises
Pride comes before the fall.

[Rust Belt Kid @rustbeltkid1]

I will continue to boost Woolshire as they set a gold standard for American manufacturing.

American agricultural inputs, American labor, non-toxic product - and finally, beautiful old equipment

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jordan Peterson made a profound point on Chris Williamson’s podcast.

When God dies, a lot of unexpected things die with Him, including science.

Science isn’t some purely neutral, secular tool. It rests on deeply religious assumptions: that truth exists, that it’s knowable, that pursuing it is good, and that the universe makes sense.

These aren’t scientific claims, they’re metaphysical, rooted in a religious worldview. The universities themselves grew out of monasteries.

Without that deeper foundation, science eventually stops being about truth and becomes just another tool for power, ideology, or convenience. You lose the reason to be honest when the data gets inconvenient.

Do you think science can survive long-term without any belief in objective truth or a higher moral order?

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.

University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.

Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.

There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.

If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.

Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:

Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.

Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

Let that sink in.

[J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 @JDHaltigan]

"I further find that there is an emerging mental health political identity that is most pronounced among younger (Gen Z) and more liberal Americans." Open Access link below.

[James Ferguson @Jacksonwilde303]

@MAGAVoice I should hang out with her.

[James Ferguson @Jacksonwilde303]

@ZoomerHistorian They are delusional and in a purity spiral.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Do you remember when I told you that the Arab men would tell me in Arabic: “The West is a woman to be mounted”?

I warned you long ago.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

They don’t care for the poor.

They just envy the rich.

[James Ferguson @Jacksonwilde303]

I'll be your huckleberry.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

They don’t want diversity. They want control.

“Diversity” is simply the battering ram the left is using right now to breach institutions and seize power.

The principle is disposable. The objective is not.

[James Ferguson @Jacksonwilde303]

Damn

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Saving LA - Phase III

[James Ferguson @Jacksonwilde303]

@benwehrman Thanks

[J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 @JDHaltigan]

The feminization of our K-8 educational systems has been catastrophic for young boys.

[James Ferguson @Jacksonwilde303]

Nice

[Local 12/WKRC-TV @Local12]

The Cleveland Clinic has agreed to end youth transgender care and has committed millions of dollars for detransition care.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The message of a protest is "we don't like this".

The message of a riot is "we don't like this, and we're able to do something about it".

People who unconditionally call for peace and calm, regardless of the provocation, don't fundamentally understand how politics works in the real world.

They do understand that the purpose of politics is to provide an alternative to violence, but that's as far as their understanding goes. They don't think through the implications, usually because they are quite comfortable with things as they are.

If politics is an alternative to violence, then politics is a proxy for violence.

And that means you have to dole out power in proportion to capacity for violence. Or someone's going to figure out they can do better by flipping the table.

Monarchy wasn't replaced by democracy because of fine-sounding philosophical ideals and eloquent documents declaring this or that.

Democracy happened because if you added rifling to the flintlock firearm, suddenly a individual farmer with a tube was the pinnacle of military technology, and now you had to keep all the farmers with tubes happy by giving them political power.

(Ancient Greek democracy had a similar relationship with the hoplite warrior.)

When political systems work well, for a while, the violence they represent becomes further and further from people's minds, and those who can't effectively commit or direct violence worm their way into power, and begin to take it away from those who can.

And they'll defend their position by saying that violence is unthinkable, barbaric, always bad, must be disavowed at all costs, etc.

This isn't some sort of high-minded principle on their part. It simply means one of two things. Either "the status quo works for me, so I don't want you to upset it", or "I suck at violence, and I don't want to have to fight".

They want young men demoralized, so that their artificial meritocracy of spreadsheets, or their non-meritocracy of patronage networks, can be protected from the natural meritocracy of conflict.

This means that riots aren't actually for achieving any specific material aim. They are for reminding the comfortable that judges and bureaucrats and policemen have home addresses and families. And that violence is always on the table.

A protest would only send the message that the Irish don't want to be ethnically cleansed. But the bureaucrats and judges and lawyers already know that. They just don't care.

A riot reminds them that they have to care, because the Irish have a long tradition of doing something about it.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Gentle reminder that having your civilization ruled by women and foreigners is literally a biblical curse

[Save Heritage Indiana @HeritageIndiana]

"What is going to overcome that? Is voting going to do it? ...

Well you know there is something that I think is so powerful, and it's starting to coalesce here in the United States... and that's the grassroots effort...

...it's the grassroots... that's gonna be our savior.

It's not going to be the Republicans, or the Democrats, or the politicians, or the bureaucrats doing the right thing...

So it'll be up to the grassroots... and I think you're going to start seeing a lot of rallies and a very large scale movement...

Look what's happening in Europe with the remigration movement. The same thing is starting to form here."

@GregoryKBovino on Kevin DeAnna's podcast (@VDAREJamesK).

[Alexandra Lyashchenko PARENTAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT @AlyashchenkoX]

We LEGAL IMMIGRANTS [ that survived the USSR, by the way] came to what we thought was the number 1 country in the world where laws work and dreams come true. We are penalized for refusing to sterilize our daughter by the degenerates from CA CPS but these sickos are ok apparently in this sick country

https://t.co/i2NY8M20Kv

BECAUSE THIS COUNTRY IS RULED BY CRIMINAL JUDGES AND DAs
https://t.co/FC04MOeWeg