Dispatches from the Collapse of Empire

At what point does life become so absurd that satire is indistinguishable from reality? I'm pretty sure we are getting close, or I'm talking out my ass.

[JD™ @LostMyHats]

"I'm a polytheist who believes God was once a man, that He's married to a female goddess and they live on a planet called Kolob, that Jesus and Satan are brothers, that there's a potentially infinite number of gods and I'll one day become the god of my own planet populated with my celestial space babies, I deny every single essential Christian doctrine, and reject every historic Christian creed.

Now explain to me why I'm not a Christian right this second."

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

They actually have figures for this stuff. White males built roughly 30k miles of rail, Slaves built roughly 7k miles, and Chinese Immigrants built 690 miles.

[Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV]

I’m sorry liver but daddy can still remember her smile

[The Faceless Rando @nonblankslate]

Lmao at the question he leads this with. Every Tucker podcast is like retard right madlibs now.

Are (thing audience doesn't like) connected to (thing or people audience is scared of) which is using (supernatural force or new tech) to do it?

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

A snake showed up in our backyard yesterday. Instead of panicking, I sent this photo to my OpenClaw. It identified it as a harmless gopher snake, gave me a local number to call to confirm, and suggested ways to catch it to make it a pet for the kids.

I have small moments like this everyday now, usually less dramatic, that remind me how AI has made daily life feel a little more magical.

[Tim Newman @whitesundesert]

Mark my words: the switch from "We're minorities being oppressed by the majority so need special treatment" to "We're the global majority so you must do as we say" will happen in an instant.

[J.T. Alexander @JTAlexander]

“Gays shouldn’t be allowed to get married.”

Not a single barely literate Southern Baptist that foamed at the mouth while berating my generation as teenagers could explain *how* gay marriage would lead to them buying, trading, and raping kids and dogs, but by God they were right.

[Aleph @woke8yearold]

As a redneck American if I move to Britain I should be able to carry my ancestral Colt python revolver

[Merlin Rhodes @Myrddin_Rhodes]

Saxons have a greater claim for carrying a blade for cultural reasons than any Sikh. Our tribal name literally translates to "sons of the blade", and yet we have been stripped of our birthright to carry one in our own ancestral homeland. Our ancestors are rolling in their graves that their descendants have been turned into slaves (for in their/our culture, being unarmed is a sign of enslavement). Reviving this ancient rite must be one of the outcomes of our tribal awakening, to honour our ancestors. More blades on British streets, not less!

Side note: the second amendment is the spiritual extension of this ancient Saxon custom. The right to bear arms is the difference between a slave and a free man.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

I just can't wrap my head around why white liberal women love Islam so much, and hate christianity.

Islam is 10x more oppressive in its moderate incarnation than Christianity is in its extremes.

[stricture @bog_beef]

Stoicism was meant for men living in a house with 3 generations of deranged Mediterranean mamacitas and it makes a lot of sense in that context.

If you’re a Northern European you’re plenty stoic, it’s fine. It’s for people with hot blood.

[John⛵️🥥 @Jbn3ex]

Crazy thing about Europe is nature straight up doesnt exist there. Outside of a few high mountains there is simply no true nature in the entirety of western Europe. What they call nature we could consider more of a park or hobby farm

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

I’m tired of the Aristotelian physics slander. Yes, heavier object fall faster than light ones, all else equal, *when immersed in a fluid* which is every environment Aristotle had access to. Do the experiment yourself. Drop a bowling ball and a same-sized ball of foam.

There’s a great paper called “Aristotle’s Physics: a Physicist’s Look” that demonstrates how Aristotelian physics is a special case approximation of Newtonian physics in the same way Newtonian physics is a special case approximation of relativity and QM.

Aristotle’s physics reigned for so long not because people were unthinkingly dogmatic, but because it was genuinely hard to come up with better models.

Aristotle had to model celestial objects separately from terrestrial objects because his terrestrial model is describing *terminal* velocity and breaks down in the zero-friction limit. So he had two incompatible models. Newton unified them. Now we have two incompatible models - QM and GR - and are looking for unification. The more things change…

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

This only works when property owners reserve the unquestioned right to hire some goons and throw your ass out on the street the nanosecond you become disruptive or stop paying.

Procedural barriers to eviction make this kind of arrangement completely nonviable very very quickly

[Carlos That Notices Things @QuetzalPhoenix]

Older than the Incas
Older than the Aztecs
Older than the Maori in NZ
Older than the Zulu in SA
Older than the Lakota
Older than Islam in India

But the English are not officially considered "native" to England.

[Dispatches from the Collapse of Empire @PoastMstGeneral]

Some Indians crashed into a bridge and now you're not allowed to have a nation.

https://t.co/TVkWJ7eAaS

[Dispatches from the Collapse of Empire @PoastMstGeneral]

@JoaquinCastrotx Why is she culturally appropriating European professions and hair?

[Dispatches from the Collapse of Empire @PoastMstGeneral]

@joeybeastmarket Transportation to a barren island in the North Sea might work. Just as barren as the desert but wet and cold.

[Dispatches from the Collapse of Empire @PoastMstGeneral]

Golly, I hate it when judges enforce their judgment over the democratic will of the people. Good thing this almost never happens in the US, that would be such a tragety the Democrats would be frothing at the mouth to reform the courts so they can't overrule the will of the people.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Let me explain what just happened in Virginia.

Yesterday, 2.5 million Virginians voted. They passed a redistricting amendment 50.7% to 49.3%.

Today, one judge threw out every single vote. 🧵

[Diomedes Appreciator @HomericFuturist]

Most guys totally miss the lesson of this book.

The takeaway is that our moral framework is completely incapable of stopping this.

You can’t switch to “bourgeois democracy but racist” and survive

Overcoming this will require a complete ethical/spiritual transformation