This guy provides information that is depressing. But its vital. I love wool by the way. Once i switched to wool socks about 15 years ago, i havent gone back.
To grow cotton in a desert, the Soviet Union drained the fourth-largest lake on earth. Then the children near its old shore began being born poisoned.
The Aral Sea sat between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, an inland sea full of fish and ringed by ports. From the 1960s, Soviet planners diverted the two rivers that fed it to irrigate cotton, a crop with no business in a desert.
The sea fell fast. Within thirty years it had lost over ninety per cent of its water and broken into salty remnants. Salinity climbed past the ocean's, and the fish died off, species by species.
Moynaq, once home to tens of thousands of fishermen, now sits a hundred miles from water, its harbour a field of rusting trawlers.
Then the seabed turned on the people. Cotton is the most chemically drenched crop on earth, and decades of pesticide and defoliant had settled on the sea floor. The wind lifts that dry crust, salt laced with DDT, into the lungs of everyone downwind.
Around the old shore, throat cancer runs at twenty-five times the global rate. Tuberculosis, anaemia and kidney disease are everywhere. Infant mortality is among the worst on the planet, birth defects keep climbing, and mothers are warned not to breastfeed, because the poison comes through in their milk. People call it a Chernobyl you can walk into. All of it, to grow a plant for cloth.
Now hold that against the fibre we are taught to feel guilty about. Wool grows on a sheep on a Welsh hillside in the rain, cropping grass off land too steep to ever plough. It asks for no irrigation, only weather. The sheep grows the fleece back every year, and when the jumper wears through it rots back into the soil.
Cotton, the plant, drank a sea dry and salted a region's children. Wool, the animal, takes only grass and rain and hands the ground something back. Next time you are told the ethical wardrobe is plants and never animals, point east, to the boats lying in the dust where a sea used to be.
If you’re on the right and sympathizing with this degenerate you’ve totally lost the plot.
This dude didn’t get swatted. No one kicked in his door with guns drawn.
A report was filed with CPS. They showed up to investigate.
In Democrat controlled areas like Colorado, the can send CPS to take your kids if you misgender them (ie tell them they aren’t trans)
That’s what Pete wants for your kids. And worse. Fuck him.
The Republican Senate just performed its own public execution in a hotel ballroom in Rapid City and then had the audacity to act surprised when the body twitched.
They did not simply deny Scott Presler entry to their little donor dinner at the South Dakota state convention.
They revealed the clinical truth of what they have become: a cartel of status-anxious narcissists so pathologically terrified of autonomous effectiveness on their own side that they will slam the door on the single most productive grassroots operative this movement has fielded in a generation rather than risk him demanding they actually do the job they were sent to Washington to perform.
This was not an administrative fuck-up.
This was a calculated act of social dominance…a textbook display of malignant group pathology in which the only acceptable response to loyalty that becomes demanding is erasure and humiliation.
The message they broadcast was not subtle.
It was neurological.
It was delivered straight into the attachment systems of every volunteer, every small-dollar donor, every door-knocker who still believed the Republican Party existed to fight rather than to manage.
Shut the fuck up.
Know your place.
We do not work for you.
We work for the donor calendar, the cocktail circuit, the administrative-state equilibrium that keeps our sinecures intact.
Your effort, your results, your inconvenient insistence on proof-of-citizenship and borders that actually function are now classified as threats to our comfort.
The base is no longer an asset to be mobilized. It is a liability to be contained.
This is betrayal trauma made visible and it carries a clinical cost these cowards have not begun to calculate.
Trust does not erode under these conditions.
It calcifies into something colder, more precise, more lethal.
The high-agency citizens who built the turnout machines are not becoming more moderate.
They are becoming more diagnostic. They are running new simulations in which the men in bespoke suits are no longer allies who occasionally disappoint.
They are obstacles that must be removed or bypassed if anything resembling the republic is to survive.
History has already written the next chapter for men who mistake their insulation for invulnerability.
The Roman optimates told the populares to sit down and accept their station.
The French aristocracy responded to the cahiers de doléances with procedural contempt and donor-class disdain.
The British Tories spent a generation triangulating while assuring their base that the institutions still functioned.
Every single time the result was the same: the base did not become more compliant.
It became more accurate in its assessment of who actually serves whom.
The Senate Republicans who participated in or permitted this public degradation of Scott Presler have just accelerated that process by years.
They have handed the base fresh data and fresh rage wired directly into the nervous system.
They will not sleep cleanly again.
Every future closed-door meeting, every donor dinner, every primary challenge will carry the ghost of that slammed door in Rapid City.
The calculation has changed.
The men who thought they could silence the most effective soldier on their own side without consequence have just taught the entire base a lesson in institutional betrayal that no amount of campaign rhetoric can unteach.
The full forensic dissection of this pathology…the neurological rewiring, the historical pattern, the terminal arrogance of a leadership class that fears its own base more than it fears the enemy…is now live.
Read it. Let it cut.
The reckoning they triggered is no longer theoretical.
It is already counting.
https://t.co/29G5RjeCzq
For those of you who are not aware, the poaster is eluding to the fact that this has been done in the not so distant past and caused a humongous fiscal collapse. It’s terrifying.