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[MParsen @MinorGroove]

@JimMcMurtry01 Aha, the balkanization has begun!

[MParsen @MinorGroove]

@globeandmail "tough on crime liberals" 🤭

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

There is an important post I wrote 2 months ago and I want to share again, in which I'm trying to explain to you why they hate Homer and why they want you weak and spiritually dead. It has to do with what I call "Homeric Law". Let me explain. In the Battle of Marathon, all the Greek heroes who became role models for us, took part. Miltiades, Themistocles, Aristides, Aeschylus with his brother Cynegirus. But besides them, a dog also helped in the fight. According to Claudius Aelian (On the Characteristics of Animals, VII, 38), a Greek brought his dog to the camp, and the dog attacked the Persians alongside its master. This scene is also depicted in the wall painting of the Stoa Poikile (Painted Stoa) from the 5th century BC.

The bronze helmet of Miltiades, which the Athenian general wore during the battle, was dedicated by him himself to the sanctuary of Zeus in Olympia as a thank-offering to the god for the victory. The helmet was discovered and is today on display at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

Themistocles, that great Greek, after the Battle of Marathon could not sleep and wandered sleepless through Athens. He used to say: "Οὐκ ἐᾷ με καθεύδειν τὸ τοῦ Μιλτιάδου τρόπαιον", which means, "The trophy of Miltiades does not let me sleep." He wanted to surpass Miltiades so much that he couldn't sleep. Can you imagine that? When the Persian king Artaxerxes asked for his help to attack the Greeks, Themistocles drank poison and committed suicide so as not to betray his country, Greece.

When Aeschylus died, he asked his relatives and close friends to inscribe an epitaph that reflected what he stood for in life and the values he held dear. Our first thought would be that Aeschylus would have wanted them to write that he was a great tragic poet with many awards and an outstanding body of work. Yet the epitaph makes no mention at all of his tragedies or his theatrical achievements, the very things for which all humanity remembers him today. Aeschylus wanted something written that showed what truly mattered to him. The epitaph therefore reads:

"This tomb in wheat-bearing Gela hides Aeschylus dead, son of Euphorion, the Athenian; of his worthy courage the grove of Marathon can tell, and the long-haired Mede who knows it well."
- (Source: Ἀθήναιος 14, 6)

The only thing that mattered to Aeschylus was Greece.

During the communal meals (syssitia) in Sparta, three choruses were formed according to the three age groups.

1. The chorus of the old men would begin singing: "We once were strong young men."
(Ἄμμες πόκ' ἦμες ἄλκιμοι νεανίαι)

2. The chorus of the men in their prime would reply: "We are the ones now; if you want, behold us"
(Ἄμμες δέ γ' εἰμέν· αἰ δὲ λῇς, αὐγάσδεο)

3. And the third chorus, that of the young boys, would say: "We shall become much better."
(Ἄμμες δέ γ' ἐσσόμεσθα πολλῷ κάρρονες)

These Greeks were great because they lived according to the most fundamental "Homeric Law", one that some people today want you not to know.

"Always strive for excellence and to surpass the others, and do not bring shame upon the race of your ancestors." (Homer, Iliad Z 208–209)

With these words, Hippolochus advised his son Glaucus when he sent him to fight in Troy. Earlier in the same book we read:

"Why do you ask of my lineage, fearless son of Tydeus? The generations of mortals are like the leaves of the trees: some the wind scatters upon the ground, and others the forest brings forth again when spring renews the trees. Thus one generation of men springs up, and another passes away." (Homer, Iliad Z 145–149)

We Greeks, we still use that Homeric phrase. We say "Aien aristeuein," which means "Always to excel."

These words from Homer shaped generations of heroes and glorious men. This phrase lived in our collective memory, at least until today, and we fought to become better than our ancestors and worthy of our heroes. We had role models; we admired our grandfathers. The archetype of the heroic ancestor was born, and the lifelong purpose was always to surpass him through great deeds in one’s own life.

Until the dark days of today arrived, days baptized as "progress," in which every day we slide from bad to worse. You read my posts, you see what they are trying to do with the Classics. They hate Homer, they hate Plato and Aristotle, Alexander, Leonidas, they hate Achilles, they hate the Greek tragedies. They won't admit it, but you can see it when they are "manipulating the translations" to fit their agendas. Some want to create a degenerate world, sunk in atheism, anarchy, and spiritual collapse, far removed from values, virtues, and morality. They call this "progress," yet it is nothing but total subjugation, heads bowed, without any desire to resist.

To live without the imperative "aien aristeuein" (Always to excel), is to accept the slow death of the human spirit. When excellence is no longer the measure, when the only sacred thing left is the right to mediocrity and the comfort of never being judged by the shadow of greater men, then man ceases to be a bridge toward something higher and becomes merely a consumer of fleeting pleasures in a rootless present.

A civilization that teaches its young to surpass their ancestors in virtue, courage, wisdom, and beauty ascends.

One that teaches them to despise or ignore their ancestors has already begun its long descent into oblivion.

"Aien aristeuein"

Homer Pavlos

[MParsen @MinorGroove]

@CTVNews If CTV promotes violence against a sitting president, who in their organization is liable?

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I can hardly believe my eyes

[Michelle Rempel Garner @MichelleRempel]

Wonder why there's a separatist referendum in Alberta? See this @globeandmail cartoon.

Alberta oil and gas funds Canada. Without it the whole country would be broke.

If you care about Canadian unity you'll denounce this 💩 like I am right now. Enough of this elitist garbage.

[Jeff Evely - the Magnanimous GenX'er Male @JeffEvely]

CBC reporting at its finest!

Halifax Costco racist: front page hysteria.

Machete attack against a group of women in a park that injured three: crickets.

The CBC hates us and they want us dead.

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

Unless I missed it, AI minister @EvanLSolomon hasn't said a word about the $13B data centre @Meta announced for Alberta.

Why is that?

* he can't take credit for it?
* it's a private investment, as opposed to government handing out taxpayer cash?
* it's in Alberta (yuck)?

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

(Malcolm Mayes cartoon - Edmonton Journal)

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau – the original Woke

He invented it. Every premise of contemporary progressive ideology traces directly back to one man who had never met a "noble savage", never raised a child, and never lived according to a single principle he preached.

1. His foundational claim: man is naturally good and civilization corrupts. This sounds compassionate. It is the most dangerous idea in Western political thought. Because if man is naturally good, then every failure, every crime, every inequality is caused by the system – never by the individual.
Responsibility evaporates. The oppressor is always external. The victim is always pure. This is the complete architecture of Woke in one sentence, written in 1755.

2. The "Noble Savage" is Rousseau’s Form – his version of Plato’s ideal. The uncorrupted man, untouched by property, competition, and civilization, living in natural harmony. Rousseau had never met one. He invented him from an armchair in Paris, extrapolating from travel accounts of peoples he had never visited. The Noble Savage is not an anthropological observation. He is a political weapon – a club to beat civilization with, wielded by someone living comfortably inside it.

3. The "General Will" is the most dangerous concept in modern political philosophy. Not the actual expressed will of actual people – but the deeper will, the will people would have if they were "properly enlightened". Whoever claims to know it can do anything in its name. Robespierre knew it. Every revolutionary vanguard since has known it. Today’s progressive institutions know it – which is why they can override democratic majorities, suppress dissent, and compel speech, all while insisting they represent the people’s true interests. The General Will is the intellectual license for every tyranny that calls itself a liberation.

4. The chain from Rousseau to today is unbroken. Rousseau to Robespierre and the Terror. Robespierre to Marx, who secularized the General Will into historical necessity. Marx to every "liberation" movement that ended in a gulag. And today: replace civilization with white supremacy, replace the Noble Savage with the marginalized community, replace the General Will with lived experience – and you have the complete operating system of contemporary progressivism. The software is the same.

5. Voltaire, his contemporary and rival, saw him quite clearly: Rousseau made primitivism intellectually respectable. He gave the comfortable classes of every generation a way to signal virtue by denouncing the civilization that produced them, from inside it, without cost. The French Left Bank intellectual denouncing capitalism from a café. The Harvard professor deconstructing Western civilization from a tenured chair. The hedge fund billionaire funding the abolition of meritocracy. All of them are living in Rousseau’s armchair.

6. He sent all five of his illegitimate children to a Paris orphanage. Then wrote Émile – one of the most influential books on education in Western history, a detailed guide on how to raise a virtuous child in harmony with nature. He did not find this contradictory. This is not hypocrisy in the ordinary sense – this is obłuda (remember the obłuda of communism?👇🏻). The defining structural feature of the ideology he invented: the sermon is inversely proportional to the practice. The performance of virtue replaces the exercise of it. Naming the oppressor substitutes for personal accountability. Rousseau didn’t just invent Woke – he lived it, in every detail, before anyone had the word.

7. The original Woke was woke about a fiction he invented – and spent his life performing outrage about a civilization he depended on and never left. Two and a half centuries later, the performance is the same. The noble savages have been updated. The General Will has new names. The orphanages are metaphorical. But the man who sends his children away and then lectures everyone else on how to raise theirs – that man is everywhere.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Canadian logic: Current prime minister has been astoundingly bad for the Canadian economy. Conclusion: Most Canadians are very satisfied with his handling of the economy.

[MParsen @MinorGroove]

@globeandmail The future belongs to the Americans, and the sooner our country recognizes this fact, the sooner Canada will prosper.

[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.

[Rebel News @RebelNewsOnline]

Parliamentary report wants to ban the 'manosphere,' including young men who want to get in shape

A 62-page report from Parliament's Standing Committee on the Status of Women calls for censoring "anti-feminist" online content, reprogramming boys through early education, and regulating locker room conversations — and it was co-chaired by former Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu, who crossed the floor to the Liberals.

The federal Standing Committee on the Status of Women has released a 62-page report called Confronting Anti-Feminist Ideologies in Canada. On Friday's episode of The @EzraLevant Show, Ezra walked through the document and noted it has very little to do with equality and a great deal to do with silencing disagreement.

The report's very first sentence declares that anti-feminist ideologies "contribute to violence against women and gender diverse people." Ezra pointed out what that means in practice. "They're not critics. They're not opponents. They're not citizens who have a different point of view," he said. "They are evil. That's the entire premise here."

The committee's recommendations follow from that premise.

Enhance public awareness and digital literacy among youth. Translation: tell you what to believe. Address online harms and regulate digital platforms: censorship.

Develop strategies to engage men and boys in advancing gender equality through early intervention. Translation: start on the boys young. Fund Canadian media that agrees? Bribe the regime media. Expand data collection on anti-feminist ideologies — that's paying professors to create fake scholarships around it.

The report identifies the "manosphere" as a primary threat.

Ezra, with some bewilderment, said that this includes young men trying to get physically fit. The committee heard testimony that "looks-maxing" — working to improve one's physical appearance — originates from anti-feminist online subcultures and is spreading into playgrounds and locker rooms.

"We better stop the looks-maxing," Ezra said sarcastically. "We want people to be ugly."

Traits the report describes as "toxic masculinity" include working hard, carrying a load without complaining, and showing strength. "Imagine being strong, showing strength, not complaining, and calling that toxic masculinity," Ezra said. "Isn't that something all men should aim for?"

Women who prefer traditional roles — homemaking, raising children — are given two sentences in the report, in which they are essentially accused of being traitors to their sex. The "tradwife" movement is described as promoting "misogyny, anti-equality, misinformation, and idealized patriarchal roles." Choosing to be a homemaker, the report suggests, is itself a form of harm.

The report recommends counter-messaging in sports, intervention in locker rooms, and "pre-bunking", that is, educating children before they are exposed to what the committee considers misinformation, so they are inoculated against it in advance.

This, Ezra said, amounts to a plan to reprogram children. "Imagine having the government say your opinions aren't just wrong, they need to be pushed out of you," he said.

The report also recommends requiring content moderation on social media platforms and ending online anonymity. "If you're not a feminist, that's misinformation," Ezra said. "It's not a different opinion. You're just simply wrong, evil, deluded. They have to fix you."

Ezra saved his sharpest words for last, taking aim at the committee's co-chair Marilyn Gladu — who was elected as a Conservative MP on a socially conservative platform and subsequently crossed the floor to the Liberals.

"She was bribed by Mark Carney," he said. "And this is what she co-wrote."

[Robert 🍁Gay🌈 Conservative💪 @rmanders60]

@CTVNationalNews In Ottawa Muslim parents burned and stomped ob rainbow flags to protect the ODSB's LGBTQ curriculum. Were they arrested or punished? No certainly not. They are hailed as model citizens and better Canadians than you or I.

[Bruce @bruce_barrett]

Sikhs are growing poppy fields for opium in BC without a care in the world.

They know the police will do nothing and can openly flaunt their lawlessness. https://t.co/hDKEAPhef5

[MParsen @MinorGroove]

@BeatNorthern @FranYanor @WarrenMirko Where are the Americans when you need em?

[Alexander Zoltan @AmazingZoltan]

The trick is to hide your liquor in a giant crack pipe.

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

Congratulations Alberta, you just bought yourselves a TransMountain-like pipeline.

If all goes well it will be operational by 2035, and will only cost $50 billion in taxpayer money.... money we don't have.

Let's run some very simple economics.

It will transport 1 million barrels per day, at a fee of $10/barrel. That means it will generate $10,000,000/day in revenue, which is $3.65 billion/year. But it will cost at least $1 billion/year to operate (power, labour, chemicals, maintenance, interest on the borrowed money, carbon tax, etc).

So the initial payout is $50 B divided by $2.65 B/yr. which is 18.8 years. Who wants to wait almost 20 years before they get a return on their investment?

The economics don't work because the regulations make the pipeline too expensive and risky. There was a time, lest than 15 years ago, when the private sector could have built this for $10 billion.

This is not a win. The real problems aren't being addressed, and this is making things worse.

[MParsen @MinorGroove]

@amboultbee @Dave_Eby Another corrupt politician