Matthew J. Martin

“It ain’t what people know that causes trouble; it’s what they know that ain’t so.” Follows or likes are not endorsements.

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

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[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

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[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

@rhfobmAuN252663 @wxh3y7 In the Islamic world it’s the year 1447.

Go figure!

[asparagoid @asparagoid]

Just remembered the world sauna championship. Was one of the most interesting things I've read about

It used to be hosted in Finland every year until the incident in 2010. Rules were that it started at 110°C (230F). Then 1 litre of water was poured onto the stove every 2 minutes

The last person to walk out under their own power won

In 2010, both finalists had to be dragged out

The russian finalist died, burned all over, and the reigning Finnish champ went into a coma and woke up 6 weeks later with 70% of his skin burned, kidney failure and his airways completely roasted

One peculiar thing about it was there were no prizes. Only in one particular year did the winner get 1 small prize, some special heat resistant speakers that could be used in a sauna

But despite this, participants went to the edge of death every year and would do insane stuff like grow their hair out long specifically to cover their ears so it didn't get burned by the boiling water vapor

It was interesting to me because it's another piece of evidence that as soon as you create a ruleset... no matter how ridiculous it is, no matter how small the group of participants, no matter the extremely chance of death, and no matter a total lack of prizes. There will always be men willing to compete to the point of actually killing themselves

The male brain enters a kind of hypnotic trance where it will completely convince itself of the worthwhileness of the task, so long as it begins to venture seriously down the path of a competitive interest

It's kind of like a hijacking of the programming evolutionary mind, where no incentive makes sense but it happens anyway. You can find a million examples of this for every male interest on the planet. Just the simple act starting down a path confers it meaning to the person, and the more they are surrounded by other men who care about the same thing, the more they learn and compete, the more entranced by it they are, until their identity is fully subsumed by it and stuff like these sauna deaths happen

Seeing lots of things like this taught me to be very careful when I start down the path of any competitive interest or business, because getting hypnotized by what you are doing is essentially guaranteed. So it's good to assume it'll happen and be totally sure the outcome is worth your potential self-destruction

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

@bbcquestiontime Restore Britain ought to have been allowed on to this panel.

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

New blog: results from a deep research project on swing voter attitudes to KS, Kemi, Farage, immigration, NHS, net zero, benefits etc…
Want to know what swing voters think?
* They hate Westminster and both parties more than ever. 'It's like they hate us' is a common view.
*The cost of living and immigration dominate discussion much more than SW1 realises.
* Voters greatly UNDER-estimate the scale of immigration by ~5-30X, contrary to the conventional wisdom. They are already angry about the immigration farce of Tories and Labour before they are given the real numbers. So there is huge scope for *much greater hatred for the old parties* and much more support for *much tougher action*. Millions of LAB voters want much tougher action on immigration than Tories like Gawke and Barwell.
*The fact that the millions are mainly legal not illegal is further terrible news for both old parties and makes voters hate them more. Voters want MUCH tougher rules on 'can they support themselves financially', use of NHS, and blocking/deporting of violent criminals. Dinghy farce stopped.
* Voters are much more sceptical of Net Zero than 5 years ago. Showing them PRC emissions helps win the argument for a shift of policy they support.
*Voters are much more sceptical that more money will help the NHS than in decades - maybe since the start of the NHS. They want to hear new ideas but hear nothing from the old system.
*They HATE HATE HATE the utility companies - the hate is the same across CON/LAB/REF etc. This is an open goal for all political entrepreneurs.
*Voters are much more angry about benefit scams than MPs of any party. This issue seems less polarised than immigration.
*Voters were deeply hostile to Starmer BEFORE the Epstein debacle. There is zero prospect of this turning around given KS's skills and temperament. (The conventional wisdom from the likes of the Institute for Govt and FT was KS is ‘a serious person’ who will ‘bring stability’. The system is now disowning KS but he was their boy.)
*Voters have few views on Kemi because they ignore the Tories because ‘they’re just not relevant any more’. They know nothing she's said or done. 'Useless but irrelevant'.
* Voters want ‘a team and a plan’ from Farage but fear he won’t give them it and fear another bout of chaos making the cost of living nightmare even worse.
*The aesthetics of right wing videos tend to be bad for persuasion. Aesthetics polarise emotionally even when people agree on facts/arguments re immigration etc.
*A big chunk of the SW1 NPC class has radicalised so much on immigration they can’t see sense and will keep sabotaging themselves. E.g Sam Freedman says that it’s HARDER for Britain to stop the dinghies crossing the Channel than for America to control the 2,000 mile southern land border! 🤣🤡 The NPCs will generate any degree of nonsense necessary to avoid confronting reality on immigration. They have radicalised even more since 2016 when their delusions sank them in the referendum.
*This should not surprise you — this network decided they understand managing tech companies better than the guy who built SpaceX and spent 3 years saying X was about to collapse before self-cancelling to Bluesky where they've driven themselves mental.
*This is not a network that will update accurately in response to voters. Much of SW1 will continue radicalising Left and supporting the continuation of how SW1 works as the voters hate it, and them, more and more and more.
*Like the Democrats doing things which gave Trump the White House, this NPC network is making it much easier for Farage to become PM, even though that is the thing they want to avoid most.
*The left who think they should copy Mamdani will also self-sabotage.
*The elite fragmentation, radicalisation, OODA-loop-as-denial-of-service attack, and pathological politics will continue.
*Chances of financial crisis and blood on the streets go up every month.
*What LAB MPs should do is pick the person with sensible priorities who is the best suited to controlling a pathological Whitehall and getting things done. They shd optimise for good government, a No10 which is NOT Media Entertainment Service. They shd not think first of polls and 'communication' (which the old parties can't do). The only path to partly averting the debacle of Starmer is to orient towards the voters and *change Whitehall to deliver those priorities*. But this won't happen! Labour like Tories *prefer to lose* than to have rows at dinner parties about firing officials and improving the management. More likely is the Trolley>Truss show -- meltdown then double meltdown with Miliband/Rayner.
*Voters want 'a new team and a detailed plan' and a leader who can stick to core priorities particularly cost of living, immigration, and NHS. Neither LAB nor CON can do this. Farage says he will but will he? If Reform is essentially just NF + Tory dregs, then we're heading for either a Reform clownshow or a red-green-yellow-troon-loon-ScotNat-Hamas coalition clownshow... Or entrepreneurs create the thing voters want and take votes from everybody!
*Everybody Reform is asking for money from shd ask: 'what's your recruitment plan for actual serious people who represent the best of the country and have a record of building things?'
*If you want to get a sense of voters, rather than what the usually wrong ‘experts’ tell you about voters, check out the link in next tweet…

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

The Ancient Greeks studied literature to become wiser.

The Romans studied literature to become more civilized.

My Columbia Shakespeare class studied literature to determine whether Shakespeare was gay.

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

@Emma_A_Webb The jibe that Lowe mistook rowers for illegal immigrants is the papering over of the facts that there is an intolerable number of people arriving in that manner.

It’s a boot which is lacing up; a boot that laughs at protesters but will later stomp on the face, forever.

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

@ScottLucas_EA Someone should be allowed to be in favor of war. That should be allowed. Especially rhetorically; that is to say peaceably.

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

@MichaelMoore381 @RestoreIrelandX 🤣that is such a cunt line but I’ve gotta respect the wordplay

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

@RestoreIrelandX Leave out the reunification, for now. There may be more pressing existential matters.

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

Huh….is it gonna meme access the EU?

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 Every British river. 🌊🇬🇧

Has a name older than English. Older than Rome. You still say it.

The Thames. The Romans wrote it as Tamesis. But the name they wrote was already old when they arrived.

A pre-Celtic name passed to the Celts, passed to Rome, passed to us. The name has changed only in the shape of the sound.

The Severn. The Welsh called her Sabrina. A river goddess in the Brittonic tongue. And the Severn still carries her name today.

🏞️ The Trent. The Celts called it Trisanton. A name meaning the trespasser. The river that bursts its banks. And it still bursts its banks.

The Avon. The word means river. The Britons called every river the Avon. The English kept the name.

The Tyne. A Brittonic name meaning the flowing one. The Dee. A name meaning the goddess, the holy one. The Britons named her sacred and the English left her sacred.

The Anglo-Saxons came. They renamed villages. They renamed hills. They renamed almost everything they could. But they did not rename the rivers.

The rivers were too holy. The names were too rooted.

And so the Brittonic words stayed in English mouths.

The Britons did not vanish. Their words did not vanish. Their descendants became the British. And the British still name the river the same way. Every time.

🇬🇧 British people speak a language older than English. Every day. Without noticing. The Britons named the water. The British still call it the same.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The river names are not relics.

The villages changed names. The rivers kept theirs.

Help us pass our history downstream. 👇🙏

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

My Chud-Woke Test Results. https://t.co/Br45qG6cqL via @idr_labs

Haha that was fun

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

@procurementfile 79 total, in the whole country ?

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

@elonmusk BREAKING NEWS

Labour are worse than not serious!

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

@Martin396929701 This guy seems like a very sneaky heterosexual gay lad.

Pretending to be gay to jump in to her situation.

[Ben Habib @benhabib6]

Everyone is panicking about @RestoreBritain_ splitting @reformparty_uk vote and allowing Burnham to win.

The panic is misplaced.

The worst political outcome would be Restore stepping aside to allow Reform a victory.

With its current direction of travel, Reform offers the country no redemption. By stepping aside, Restore would concrete in Reform’s hopelessness.

Restore must fight this election and do the best it can. If it were to gain 7% of the vote, as predicted, that would send an earth quake through Reform.

Reform might then correct its ways.

A Burnham victory makes not a blind bit of difference to the country. Labour has a 156 seat majority. Whether Burnham or some other idiot from Labour becomes PM makes no difference.

And for those worried about an early general election - turkeys do not vote for Christmas. It is not happening.

Restore and Rebecca Shepherd must fight this by election tooth and nail.

I know @_AdvanceUK supporters are already in Makerfield campaigning on their behalf. I will help where I can.

[Matthew J. Martin @MatthewJMartin3]

@SteveLinkingBiz @We_Are_XDC @Nigel_Farage @RupertLowe10 🤣 many do, but yes some may lie.

All you do is account for the notion that some might be lying.

Any polling must incorporate that.