Lord Henry from Dorian Gray

Tryin' to hold on to the dying, wispy embers of classical liberalism and free market capitalism as they float into the night.

Film | Lit | NUFC | Brooding.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

1) Saskatchewan has the world’s largest potash deposits, producing twice as much potash as Belarus. 85% of US potash imports come from Saskatchewan, efficiently and reliably shipped by rail.

2) Belarus is a brutal dictatorship and puppet state for Vladimir Putin under international (including American) sanctions for gross human rights abuses.

3) Belarusian potash production has been fully contracted to Asian buyers (eg China and India) since the imposition of western sanctions. Belarusian dictator Lukashenko has already said "Even if we wanted to supply somewhere else, Western markets, we just don't have those volumes, everything has been contracted."

4) The US Government does not buy potash. US fertilizer companies and ag producers do. Those private sector buyers have consistently demonstrated their preference for Canadian potash.

5) President Trump tariffed Canadian potash early in 2025, then backed off days later following loud protests from American ag producers and their Congressional representatives.

[@jason @Jason]

Great essay from Sam Harris on the “last time” for everything (from Waking Up App) — transcribed by @bot

Many here might not think highly of him any more, but he’s a clear thinker on many subjects — even if you don’t agree on politics.

**Transcript — The Last Time (Sam Harris)**

[0:00] I'd like you to take a moment to think about all the things in this life that you will experience for the last time. Of course, there will come a day when you will die and then everything will have been done for the last time.

[0:15] But long before you die, you will cease to have certain experiences, experiences that you surely take for granted now. If you're a parent, when is the last time you will pick up your child, or tuck her into bed, or read her a story?

[0:36] Our youngest daughter still says, aminals instead of animals. And though I'm a stickler for words, I am not correcting her. Each one of those is priceless.

Now thinking in this way lends a poignancy to everything, even to things that you don't like. Again, let's say you're a new parent and you're getting woken up several times a night by your baby. That's brutal, but there will be a last time.

And knowing that can change your experience in the moment. There's something sweet even about this experience. It's possible that you will miss this.

We do everything a finite number of times, and yet we tend to take even beautiful moments for granted. And the rest of the time we're just trying to get through stuff. You're just trying to get to the end of whatever experience you're having.

tim urban, who writes this wonderful blog titled @WaitButWhy, often touches this topic. He actually publishes a poster which represents 90 years of life in weeks. Each line has 52 squares, and there are 90 lines on a single page.

And the scale is frankly a little alarming to contemplate. Each week is a significant piece of 90 years, and you can put your finger on the current week in your life. You can see where you are, and then of course you realize you have no assurance of how many weeks you have left.

Assuming that you have 90 years, certainly 90 good years, is generally not a safe assumption. What you can know, however, is that each time you do something, pleasant or unpleasant, that is one last time you will do it.

And there will come a time when you will have done something the final time. And you will rarely know when that is. For instance, I used to love to ski, and I now haven't skied in well over a decade.

Will I ever ski again? I have no idea. But I can assure you that the last time I took off my skis, I was not even dimly aware of the possibility that it might be the last time, right?

That I might live for many, many more years, and yet this stood a good chance of being the last time I would ever ski. When is the last time you swam in the ocean or went camping?

When is the last time you took a walk just to take a walk? As you go about your day today, consider, everything you're doing is like this. Everything represents a finite opportunity to savor your life.

On some level, everything is precious, and if it doesn't seem that way, I think you'll find that paying more attention can make it seem that way. Attention really is your true source of wealth, even more than time, right?

Because you can waste time being distracted. So this is just to urge you to take a little more care. When you meet someone for the first time and you shake their hand, pay a little more attention.

When you thank somebody for something, mean it a little more. Connect with your life. And mindfulness is the tool that allows you to do that, because the only alternative is to be lost in thought

And every time you notice that you're lost, that you're distracted by a thought about the past or the future, and you come back, you are training your mind. And it may feel like an effort at first, but eventually it's like continually waking up from a dream.

And ask yourself, how much effort does that take?

[Lord Henry from Dorian Gray @LordHenryDorian]

@moodslayer95 These people are absolute idiots, dude. No amount of logic, facts or reasoning is working in the face of this onslaught of agitprop that they're all spewing simultaneously. "Indians ethnically cleansed the Brits after 1947! They're are all socialists who vote Dem inherently!"

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

I said this the other day, but stuff like this has seriously opened my eyes to how past eras experienced such rank bigotry. I never thought I'd live in a time when the *federal government* felt comfortable openly implying that white = better. It's kinda scary.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Remember when CRT kinda crashed out and they switched to drag queens everywhere?

The Woke Right hit a limit of diminishing returns with the Jew hate and Israel obsession and switched to anti-Indian racism.

The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

[Lord Henry from Dorian Gray @LordHenryDorian]

@isthisdimpeeb @AkashJC Dimpee, your attempts at gaslighting won't work as it's your cohort of far right fanatics who refuse to accept un-hyphenated identities. In fact, they only focus on the first part, "Indian," denying "American," "Canadian," etc. And follow up with: "If i was born in Japan...!"

[Renu Mukherjee @RenuMukherjee1]

10 months ago, I wrote that Indian Americans’ belief in merit, free markets, the American Dream, faith, family, the list goes on, made them a natural GOP constituency. All Republicans had to do was engage in some outreach and, of course, not be racist. Many (not all) failed.

And this failure will indeed have significant ramifications for electoral politics going forward. The in-roads that the GOP made with Indian voters between 2020 and 2024 were nothing short of remarkable. People are citing voting patterns among Indians, which, don’t get me wrong,are important—after all, more Indian men aged 18-39 said, in 2024, that they intended to vote for Trump than intended to vote for Harris (remarkable!). But consider, too, the massive swings in party identification. All from the Indian American Attitudes Survey @CarnegieEndow:

Compared to 2020, the share of Indian Americans identifying as Democrats dropped from 66% to 57%, while the share of those calling themselves Republicans rose from 18% to 27%, in 2024! This likely translated into electoral victories.

All I can say, after this week, is that I’m certain we’re going to see a reversal; the in-roads the GOP made within the Indian American community over the last several election cycles will be lost. (I would love to be wrong. Really, I would, and if I am, I will gleefully write an article saying so.)

It is all such a shame. Complete political—and moral—malpractice.

[Lord Henry from Dorian Gray @LordHenryDorian]

@LouBee03961603 But then where will your Mom get her afternoon creampie?

[Lord Henry from Dorian Gray @LordHenryDorian]

@MT_6226 Douglas Murray and Andrew Doyle referred to the woke as 'cry bullies.' The woke right follows the same playbook. They strike you while crying they're the victim, and the moment you react to their bullying, they hold up your reaction to the world, "look look we're being attacked!"

[Lord Henry from Dorian Gray @LordHenryDorian]

@EddyDantes618 @SteaknShake I’ve never before read a tweet where the person who wrote it has no idea what any of the words they wrote mean.

[Lord Henry from Dorian Gray @LordHenryDorian]

@RichardHanania This follows my recent observation that Substack Comments Section > X.

[Lord Henry from Dorian Gray @LordHenryDorian]

@hay_banda I can shed some light. There's a huge SL Tamil community in Toronto (Scarborough), most of whom are great ppl. But there has always been an extremist presence (Tigers & their sympathizers), who are radical identitarians. This small faction also engages in identity politics.

[Yael Levin 🇺🇸🇮🇱🗽 @Yael4Hanover]

@usedgov I am a three-time Trump voter. I’m as conservative as one gets. I’m devastated to see our administration infiltrated by groyperism.

[Lord Henry from Dorian Gray @LordHenryDorian]

@wil_da_beast630 @TheBrancaShow Wilfred, Branca is a devout racist, and is pretty public about it. This is on brand for him.

[Eli Steele @Hebro_Steele]

This whole heritage American stuff reminds me of the black power stuff that blacks went through. How black are you? Keep it real. Stay black. Don’t act white. Look how far that got blacks. Now we got whites trying to prop up whiteness as some kind of strength. No one cares. This is nothing more than racial gamesmanship. All blacks did was ghetto themselves. Bo French and others like him are already building their ghetto. All that matters is whether you are an American right now and believe in the greatness of this country. My ancestor fought in the American Revolution and it’s an incredible story but what makes me an American is what I believe in and do today.

[Jason Vaughn @JasonVaughn]

The Woke right focuses hatred on two primary groups: Jews and Indians. Two of the most economically successful groups in the country. Why? Because they’re bitches. They’re whiny victim mentality bitches that can’t succeed and don’t believe in meritocracy and are desperate for a government handout.

[Wonderbeard @WonderbeardShow]

@wil_da_beast630 The too online right and left alike live in an entirely fictional world, constantly pretending to be enraged by things that aren't real. And it's easy to tell the outrage is pretend because they're never relieved when the bad thing turns out false. They just double down on anger.

[Lord Henry from Dorian Gray @LordHenryDorian]

@neoavatara Pradheep, not only is India itself below replacement rate, Indian-Americans follow the same trend as everyone else in the U.S. Nobody is winning the TFR charts except some very small groups (not Indians).

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

“How dare you call my daughter Indian?”

[Lord Henry from Dorian Gray @LordHenryDorian]

@robkhenderson I think also as we get older, we are acutely aware of how little time we have left with others. So I don't care if they people I love are boring, nagging, etc. Even if I get bothered by it, it's not enough to drift away from them.