Luke

Here for long form intellectual dialectic

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

To turn that shitty voice into 2 billion in music is def a talent

[Drizzled_T🐳 @mis__educated]

That time when Kanye west went to american idol😭😂😂

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Every one of these women ran for office on the horrors of Trump’s patriarchy which will strip them of rights and put them in the Handmaids Tale

Here are the *same* women the second they get in from to a Muslim:

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

They say cats and babies have a vocal tone that causes the human brain to feel empathy, I think Dolly had that...
https://t.co/KUXWDgO7Ig

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

Should def do these before they die so they can be honored

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Brandi Carlile honoring Dolly Parton in Nashville with "I Will Always Love You" 💖

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

Love it, Just like buying alcohol, tobacco, picking up a kid from school, tickets, casino...

[Caroline Kennedy @real_Caroline_K]

How would you Feel..?

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

Diversity = racist requirement to have the least whites

[Hunter DeButts @BillySullivan7]

Checks in on the diversity of his staff . . .

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

Self own 101. No one offended, feels celebratory

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

"Teen" takeover

[John Fitzgerald Kennedy jr @jfk_jr_legacy]

Holy s*** 🚨This is the full video of the Charleston, South Carolina teen takeover where a female officer was brutally beaten.

This chaos will continue until police are allowed to respond with lethal force. Once that happens, it will stop.

FOLLOW @jfk_jr_legacy

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

We let immigrants elect this fucking guy in out biggest city, fuckin travesty

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Nearly 3,000 New Yorkers died on 9/11; 22 years later, the death hasn't stopped.

We mourn our neighbors who died that day. The hundreds of thousands who died in the wars that followed. The unknown millions injured & displaced.

In their memory, we work toward a better world.

[Jurnal @jurnalhabertr]

Kronik bir rahatsızlığı olan genç, yaşam enerjisini kaybetmeyerek pasta üfleyip kestiği samimi anları paylaştı.

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

Future Helen of Troy even

[Kashvi @KashviiSpeaks]

She works here and Zendaya makes movies. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

Infiltrated every American institution

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Most Destructive Intellectual Project of the Twentieth Century.

The Frankfurt School. You should know what it was, what it built, and why you are still living inside it.

1. The Institute for Social Research was founded in Frankfurt in 1923 and relocated to Columbia University in 1934 when Hitler came to power. The civilization they had decided to dismantle gave them refuge when another tried to kill them. They spent the next five decades producing the theoretical infrastructure for that dismantling. Western civilization itself was the problem: reason, the Enlightenment, the family, tradition, authority. Not reformed. Dismantled.

2. They called it Critical Theory – and the name is the program. Everything is to be criticized; nothing is to be built. In The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), Adorno and Horkheimer argued that Western reason — the reason that produced Newton and the rule of law — contained the seeds of Auschwitz. Not that reason had been misused, but that reason itself, taken to its conclusion, produces the death camp. This was not a critique of institutions. It was an indictment of the civilization itself.

3. Adorno gave them the psychological weapon. The Authoritarian Personality (1950) classified conservatism, religious faith, patriotism, and the traditional family not as political positions but as symptoms of a proto-fascist personality. If you believe in the nation or the father’s authority, you are pre-fascist. The opponent was no longer wrong – he was sick. You don’t argue with a pathology. You treat it.
This made dialogue impossible. You don’t persuade someone who is wrong; you diagnose someone who is sick. Politics becomes therapy, and disagreement becomes pathology.

4. Marcuse gave them the political weapon. Repressive Tolerance (1965) argued that tolerating wrong ideas is itself oppression. True tolerance therefore requires suppressing intolerant ideas. The left decides which ideas are intolerant. Everyone else is silenced – not despite tolerance, but "in its name." Censorship dressed in the vocabulary of liberation.

5. The generation that read Marcuse at Columbia, Berkeley, and Yale went on to run universities, media, foundations, NGOs, content moderation departments, and the EU regulatory apparatus. They implemented the argument sincerely because they had been taught it as philosophy. This was the Frankfurt School’s greatest achievement: it produced true believers.

6. French Theory picked up the tools and made them aesthetic. Foucault made the critique of power literary. Derrida made the critique of meaning philosophical. Deleuze made the critique of identity elegant. A political program became a cultural sensibility. You can argue with a program. A sensibility is in the air you breathe. By the time these ideas reached the American campus through the French conduit, they were no longer ideology. They were the water. The fish did not know they were wet.

7. A civilization stands on three pillars: truth exists and is accessible to reason; good is distinguishable from evil; and there is an inheritance worth transmitting. The Frankfurt School attacked all three – systematically and with considerable intellectual sophistication. It produced a generation that knows how to deconstruct and has forgotten how to build. That sees power everywhere and beauty nowhere.
The ultimate achievement was to make destruction feel like progress. Every inherited institution became suspect; every constraint became oppression; every act of preservation became reactionary. Deconstruction became the default, while construction became something that needed to justify itself.

The answer is not another theory.
It is the thing the Frankfurt School most feared: the builder who simply builds, the scientist who follows the evidence, the father who transmits what was transmitted to him.

The deconstruction machine runs on the assumption that nothing is worth building.

Prove it wrong.
Tell the truth, have courage, and build.

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

All while recording, lol

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Am I allowed to observe that this is performative, self-centered, childish bullshit from a theatrical narcissist or will that make everyone really mad again?

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

In all the documentaries there are 100s of engineers in the background that get no credit, where's their movie

[Marty Robbins 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸 @Mike_McD5511]

Every single plot point of this movie is false. Made up. A lie.

They never got pulled over by "Generic racist white cop" because none of them were friends. The bathrooms at NASA were never segregated because NASA was never segregated. Ever. At all.

There was no separate "colored" coffee maker.

The one that wanted to be a supervisor but was told "No" in the movie was already a supervisor in 1949.

The one that wanted to be an engineer but couldn't because NASA did a racism? Already an engineer before the plot of the movie.

Literally every single plot point and character detail of Hidden Figures is a lie.

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

Sounds like AI

[lindsay | btsla n1 n2 n3 n4 @folklordelore]

you know what at the end of the day if someone like madison beer made music like this everyone would be ok with it but because this poor woman doesn’t fit your definition of conventional attractiveness her art is deemed lesser than others

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

Chasing social acceptance through "city culture" mixed with nepos who don't care about money

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

You could move to New York City.

Rent an 852-square-foot apartment for $5,503 a month.

Blow $500 on three “first dates” a week and somehow remain single for six years.

Finally meet someone you like, then discover they’re “not really looking for anything serious right now.”

Get a master’s degree so you can qualify for an internship.

Apply to 147 jobs, get 93 automated rejections, and finally find an “entry-level” position requiring five years of experience.

Eventually land a six-figure job and still need a roommate to make rent.

Pay federal income tax, New York State income tax, AND New York City income tax because apparently living there is a three-level subscription.

Learn that a “quiet neighborhood” means the sirens only come by every 20 minutes.

Pay $27 every day for a sandwich (no sides) because the place has exposed brick and a handwritten menu.

Take the subway to work every morning and develop the useful skill of pretending not to notice absolutely anything happening around you.

Spend 45 minutes traveling three miles.

Carry your groceries home six blocks because parking near your apartment is more of a philosophical concept than an actual possibility.

Have “owning a washer and dryer” become one of your primary measures of generational wealth.

Walk past a mountain of trash bags on your way to a restaurant with a Michelin star.

Tell your friends back home you don’t need a car while spending $46 on an Uber because the subway is delayed again.

Go to Central Park when you want to remember what trees look like.

Spend your twenties telling everyone you could NEVER live anywhere else.

Then one day you visit your cousin in Iowa.

He has a house with four bedrooms, a garage, a yard, two cars, four kids, and somehow pays less than you do for the apartment where your refrigerator touches your couch.

But hey.

The NYC bagels are incredible.

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

Forgot the part about how it was OK to protest and riot for Saint Floyd

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

💉💉A time capsule from the pandemic. Every clip is a public official, on the record, describing their fellow citizens. No commentary needed. Just watch how it sounded.

[Luke @Strongthirsty]

NPR will do an hour story on the the male gaze and me too movement, then air this

[🤍𝒥𝑒𝓃𝓃𝒾𝒻𝑒𝓇🐚 @NE_CoastalQueen]

Please shut the fuck up because this has cleared every tiny desk recording past, present and future

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Friendly reminder that E. Jean Carroll admitted LIVE on CNN that her allegations against Trump were fake, but Democrat injustice systems are too corrupt for fair trials and SCOTUS is too cowardly to correct them.

“This was not, this was not sexual.”

“I think most people think of rape as being sexy.”

Carroll is a sick freak who colluded with far-left activists to scam Trump out of millions of dollars.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Another really amazing pandemic clip.

October, 2021. CNN sends a reporter to Miami to investigate a school that is considered "anti-vax."

While there the reporter runs into a parent who says that he is not going to have his children get the Covid vaccine.

While being harassed by the CNN lackey, the parent says that fully vaccinated people are still dying from Covid and that Fauci is not the best scientist in the world. The CNN clown scoffs at him and tells him he is wrong.

This exact same week the former head of the CDC Robert Redfield said that more than 40% of people who died from Covid over the past 6-8 weeks in Maryland were fully vaccinated. Soon after, the CEO of Pfizer said publicly that two doses of the vaccine offered almost no protection at all against Covid.

The parent was right. The arrogant CNN reporter was wrong.