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Unexceptional

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:

Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie

Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.

This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.

Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.

The Words We’re Missing

The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:

Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.

These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.

And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.

The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism

What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.

That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.

This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.

The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.

Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It

People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.

The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.

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[Lukas Ekwueme @ekwufinance]

The UK is regulating itself into irrelevance.

The plan was to build 531 km of high-speed rail.

Before laying track, contractors had to:

- Complete a 350-page “social value” assessment
- Guarantee 30% female representation
- Guarantee 20% ethnic-minority representation

The outcome was predictable.

- Original timeline: 2010-2026
- After years of delays and overruns, ~50% of the project was cancelled
- Remaining construction now stretches beyond 2033
- Cost: ~£70B for just 40% of the route (~£311M per km)

Meanwhile, China:

- Built ~50,000 km of high-speed rail in 17 years
- Averaging ~3,000 km per year
- At a cost of ~£14M per km

China builds high-speed rail ~200x faster and ~22x cheaper.

Now apply the same regulatory mindset to the energy transition....
and the scale of waste becomes obvious.

[Luke @LukeNewman53]

@MichelleDewbs Ah, you are not looking at it the correct way. @Keir_Starmer sees himself as guardian of the world, and at a micro level of your children. They are not yours they are part of the collective. Just as our country our assets are not ours but everyone’s. Nice.

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[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Important.

From April 2027, every person who saves any money will have to hand their National Insurance (NI) number to their bank under new rules signed off by Rachel Reeves.

So the all powerful HMRC can help themselves to money they decide you owe.

Imagine what the government will help themselves to when you are forced to have digital ID.

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[Luke @LukeNewman53]

@cladtrap Sorry for your predicament. Mine is a B1 rating under 18m. Also has developer pledge. In theory should sell. But the service charge is now 4k a year on a one bed. Recently got RTM, so hopefully get that reduced.

[Luke @LukeNewman53]

@cladtrap I curse this wretched government and the previous one. Is it an under 11m? With potential future liabilities? Are you a non qualified? Seems odd. Where I live a recently remediated building is selling like hot cakes.

[Luke @LukeNewman53]

@cladtrap Damn that’s a worry.

[Luke @LukeNewman53]

@cladtrap Do you have an EWS1?

[Luke @LukeNewman53]

@NonQualifyingLH @mhclg He says looking closely at the in perpetuity abomination. So maybe a glimmer of hope for some.

[Luke @LukeNewman53]

@LostInSW19 @Stewart__Mills @AngelaRayner @AlexJJNorris As much as I resent the buffoons that are gov, the only way out is if they take absolute responsibility for finding and fixing all buildings, then use the machinery of state to recoup off of all industry players responsible.

[Luke @LukeNewman53]

@RH_residents @Stewart__Mills @UKLabour @darrenpaffey @mtpennycook @AlexJJNorris @ukcag @KirstieMAllsopp @mhclg I want compensation for all of this and people locked up, pensions forfeited etc.

[Luke @LukeNewman53]

@Stewart__Mills @dannybster @UKLabour @darrenpaffey @mtpennycook @AlexJJNorris @ukcag @KirstieMAllsopp Yes it’s now Mistral and Sirrocco. My flat built by the same people and on the same estate apparently has a different frame and allegedly safe! Until next month when they find something.

[Luke @LukeNewman53]

@RH_residents Ah thanks. I was concerned it was more ass covering. Appears to be a lot of wood there.

[Luke @LukeNewman53]

@julietMCP2 Enjoy. I was geared up to emigrate in 2020. I’m still determined to leave this wretched place. Eventually.

[Luke @LukeNewman53]

@julietMCP2 I can imagine the relief I would feel if I was in my pre-cladding state of mind.