Porky the Great

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

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[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

CLIMATE THE MOVIE
(THE COLD TRUTH)
DIRECTOR MARTIN DURKIN
PRODUCER TOM NELSON

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

Renzi è l’unico che riesce a battere la AI! Quando vedi una roba assurda ormai pensi sia AI, invece lui riesce a andare oltre la caricatura, facendo la caricatura della caricatura ma rimanendo freschissimo. Un genio, del male, ma un genio. Chapeaux 🎩

[Agenzia ANSA @Agenzia_Ansa]

La sfida di Matteo Renzi al generale Vannacci durante la partita del cuore. Il leader di Italia Viva: né calcio né triathlon, ma maratona #ANSA

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@danieleviotti Tu sei parte del problema. Perché condanni la soluzione e non vedi il problema. Anzi lo promuovi.

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@Frenkie_Woody La traduzione è: quando c’è il consenso i soldi arrivano.

Io non mi preoccuperei delle coperture di Vannacci, ma di avere una retorica che possa funzionargli contro.

Per ora non è stata creata… 🤷🏻‍♂️ perché l’elefante è lì, nella stanza.

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@M25016096 @worldivergentx La legge tutela chi gli pare. Se così non fosse non ci sarebbe il problema.

Andiamo al cuore del problema.

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

Che tristezza, che disagio

[DelPapaMax64 @DelMax64]

Partita la santificazione. Chissà se gli chiederanno pure delle molestie, dei precedenti, della occupazione abusiva del sagrato di una chiesa e di tante altre faccende

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@DelMax64 Che tristezza. Che disagio

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@SalisIlaria Uno che fa lo stronzo per strada, bloccando il traffico, adesso si dice ha disagio psichico? 🤨

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@SchiaviAlex @NicolaPorro Ma vaffanculo @SchiaviAlex

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

Chi sta con l’Iraqeno dovrebbe essere separato dalla società e stare con l’Iraqeno e i suoi sodali.

Basta con sta gente che difende l’indifendibile perché vuole sentirsi più buona degli altri. Che vadano a vivere tra il disagio che creano agli altri con le loro idee: SECESSIONE!

Dateci una terra dove vivere in pace tra persone civilizzate.

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@JamalDavisBFly @MosabHasanYOSEF Thanks to confirm his point with your post.

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

Palestinians who deliberately put their own children in harm’s way for political sympathy have no right to demand either a state or compassion.

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@massibisca @Corriere Max tu sei parte del problema di questo Paese: una grossa parte del problema sono gli anti-italiani che grufolano nel loro disagio, che è anche e soprattutto psichico.

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@Corriere Sareste voi da picchiare per i titoli del menga che fate.

“Rompipalle viene rimesso a posto da un cittadino, mentre lo Stato è come al solito assente” sarebbe stato molto più onesto.

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@LaStampa L’unica polemica è sul perché ci debba pensare un privato cittadino a far rispettare una minima di ordine mentre lo stato incassa con tasse senza senso e non fa nulla di nulla, se non parlare a vanvera.

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@flaviafratello Dai lo sappiamo che non lo voti e che sei parte del problema da risolvere. Non rompere le scatole suvvia.

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@andreafare @fratotolo2 Tu non avresti fatto nulla perché sei parte del problema

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@fratotolo2 Il problema sono gli eunuchi che gli dicono basta

[Porky the Great @JoggerSimone]

@Agenzia_Ansa Lezione di giornalismo. Sbagliato il titolo. “Militante di FN toglie dalle palle in clandestino che molestava la gente a San Benedetto.” Questo è più corretto

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment – the real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire

The French Enlightenment and the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment happened simultaneously, in the same century, reading the same books, arguing about the same questions. They reached completely opposite conclusions. One produced the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. The other produced the guillotine. This is the most important civilizational fork in modern history.

1. The French Enlightenment begins with the assumption that human beings can be improved by reason – that if you strip away the corrupting institutions of Church, tradition, and inherited authority, the natural goodness underneath will organize itself into a just society. This sounds like progress. It is a fantasy with a body count. Every attempt to implement it has required, at some point, a Committee of Public Safety to handle the people who turned out not to be naturally good enough.

2. The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment begins with the opposite assumption: human beings are what they are, not what they could be if properly enlightened. Hume grounds morality in human nature as it actually operates – sympathy, habit, sentiment, the slow accumulation of social trust. Smith shows that self-interest, properly channeled, produces collective benefit without a planner. Neither man is building a utopia. Both are building with the actual material available.

3. Burke is the direct refutation, written in real time. He published Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790 – before the Terror, predicting it precisely – because he understood that institutions are not obstacles to human flourishing, they are its precondition. They contain accumulated wisdom — the knowledge of the dead — that cannot be recovered once destroyed. Pull society apart to improve it and you don’t get the General Will. You get Robespierre.

4. The American founders read Burke, Hume, Smith, and Montesquieu – the Frenchman who looked at England and understood what France was missing. They built a system that takes human nature as given — self-interested, power-hungry, tribal — and constructs institutions to contain those tendencies rather than assume they disappear once the right people are in charge. Checks and balances are not a design flaw. They are what you build when you don’t believe in philosopher-kings.

5. 1776 versus 1789. Same Enlightenment, same century, same vocabulary of liberty and reason. One produces a constitutional republic that has survived two and a half centuries of stress, civil war, and upheaval. The other produces, in sequence: the Terror, Napoleon, 1848, the Commune, and eventually — via Marx, who was a Frenchman in spirit if not in birth — the entire catastrophe of the twentieth century. The difference was not intelligence or intention. It was the starting assumption about human nature. Get that wrong and everything that follows is wrong with it.

6. The guillotine is not the Revolution’s failure. It is its logical conclusion. If man is naturally good and the system is corrupt, then whoever seizes the system in the name of natural goodness is licensed to do anything. The General Will cannot be wrong. Those who resist it are not opponents – they are enemies of nature itself.

7. The real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire was never a better French philosopher. It was a different civilizational tradition – one that builds with human beings as they are; that treats inherited institutions as repositories of wisdom rather than obstacles to progress; that distributes power rather than concentrating it in whoever currently claims to know the General Will. That tradition was built in Edinburgh, London, and Philadelphia. It is currently under sustained assault — from exactly the same ideas, in exactly the same form, with exactly the same confidence — that Burke watched demolish France in 1789. He was right then. He is right now.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Aristotle wrote the operating system Western civilization ran on for two thousand years – and quietly abandoned in the twentieth century, around the same time all the catastrophes we have been describing began.

1. His central question is not “what are your rights?” It is “what are you for?”
Eudaimonia — flourishing, not happiness — is the answer: the full realization of what a human being can become. The moment a civilization stops asking this question and starts asking only about rights, equality, and safety, it has already chosen administration over life.

2. Virtue is not a rule you follow. It is a habit you form – through practice, through the right environment, through a community that models and rewards excellence. This is why negative selection is so catastrophic in Aristotelian terms: it doesn’t just promote the wrong people. It corrupts the very mechanism by which virtue is transmitted across generations.

3. Man is a political animal – not in the sense that man should be governed, but that man is constituted by his community. You cannot flourish alone. But the corollary is equally precise: the polis exists for man’s flourishing, not the other way around. The moment the state becomes the end and the citizen becomes the means, you have not just bad government – you have the inversion of the natural order.

4. Aristotle catalogued the corruptions of every form of government: monarchy becomes tyranny, aristocracy becomes oligarchy, polity becomes mob rule. The pattern in every case is identical – the rulers stop ruling for the common good and start ruling for themselves. This is not a modern insight. It is the oldest political observation in the Western tradition. Every system contains the seed of its own corruption. The question is always: who is it for?

5. Phronesis — practical wisdom — the ability to judge particular situations correctly, without a rulebook. The bureaucratic state destroys phronesis systematically, replacing judgment with procedure, wisdom with compliance, the experienced man with the certified one. This is Aristotle’s explanation for why the credentialed class produces so many wrong decisions with such complete confidence.

6. He identified the middle class as the foundation of the stable republic – the ballast that prevents the ship from capsizing toward oligarchy above or mob rule below. Not as a sociological observation. As a structural necessity. Destroy the middle class and you have not just inequality – you have the preconditions for every tyranny he ever described.

7. The West replaced Aristotle with procedure, utility, and rights. It gained a framework for managing conflict but lost the vocabulary for saying what a good life is. The system can optimize for GDP, equality of outcome, measured safety – but it cannot tell you what you are for. Aristotle could. Every civilization that forgot that question discovered, eventually, that someone else was happy to answer it for them.