telemachus

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

108 years ago today, a red-headed farmer from Pall Mall, Tennessee did something in the Argonne Forest that still doesn't seem real.

Alvin York grew up dirt poor, a hard drinker and brawler, until a religious conversion in his twenties changed his whole life. When the draft notice came in 1917, he asked to be exempted as a conscientious objector. His church opposed war and so did he. The Army said no.

His battalion commander spent hours going through the Bible with him, trying to convince him that a man could fight and still be right with God. York went home on leave, prayed on it for two days on a mountainside, and came back ready.

On the morning of October 8, 1918, York was one of 17 men sent to slip behind German lines and knock out machine guns near Chatel-Chehery, France. They surprised a group of Germans and captured them. Then the machine guns on the ridge above opened up. Six Americans were killed instantly and three more went down wounded, including the sergeant in charge.

That left Cpl. York in command of seven men, most of them pinned flat guarding prisoners.

So York went to work. Every time a German gunner raised his head to fire, York shot him. He'd been shooting turkeys in the Tennessee hills since he was a kid and he was not missing at that range. When six Germans charged him with bayonets, he drew his pistol and dropped all six, starting with the last man and working forward, so the ones in front wouldn't realize what was happening.

A German officer, Lt. Paul Vollmer, emptied his pistol at York and missed every shot. Watching his men fall one after another, Vollmer finally called out in English and offered to surrender the whole position if York would stop shooting.

York agreed. Then he used Vollmer to order other German positions to give up as they marched back through the woods.

By the time he reached American lines, York had killed 25 men and was herding 132 prisoners in front of him with a handful of survivors.

When a general told him he'd heard York captured the whole German army, York said "No sir. I got only 132."

He was promoted to sergeant and received the Medal of Honor. New York threw him a ticker tape parade. Companies offered him a fortune to endorse their products and he turned almost all of it down. He went home to Tennessee, married his sweetheart, and spent years raising money to build a school for kids in the mountains who had no shot at an education.

When Hollywood finally made his story in 1941, he agreed partly to fund a Bible school. Gary Cooper won the Oscar for playing him.

The man who didn't want to go to war became the most famous American soldier of it.

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

Shut down the visa mills.

Prosecute the administrators.

Deport the “student” and recent alumni.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@brivael A government that fails to protect its own people is illegitimate

[Dr. Ben Braddock @GraduatedBen]

California is roughly equivalent to Haiti in terms of the state’s ability to conduct credible elections.

Mexico requires secure voter ID and has their results within a couple of hours.

California has little security and it takes weeks for results.

The whole state should be put into a conservatorship.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Under a Restore Britain Government, the most monstrous Pakistani child rapists would not be deported.

With the British people's approval, they would be put to death.

In my view - if you rape and torture children, you do not deserve to live.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Microsoft has an official policy tying bonuses to discrimination against white men. See how they keep dodging this issue! The tide is turning on H-1B’s due to the hatred people bring into my country. We don’t want people who hate us here. No sane country would allow this.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This poor boy was running away from someone who stabbed him & stole his phone, but the police in the UK attacked him instead of his murderer!

[telemachus @TelemachusXI]

@PaulSkallas Look up prop 187 california referendum, if you don’t already know about it

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

Ok. This is an interesting clip.

This is one of the first times I’ve seen a politician running explicitly against the progressive NGO kleptocracy.

He’s wrong that these people are ‘socialists’ (they’re kleptocrats who use leftist rhetoric to legitimize themselves) but that’s fine. It’s still very effective rhetorically.

The right needs to bring this attack up to scale: the purpose of the DSA is not ‘socialism,’ it’s to maximize public revenue extraction so that upper middle class jobs doing fake work can be doled out to political allies (surplus elites, failed creatives, etc.).

It’s important for the public to understand what’s going on here and where their money is going and not only can this be an effective cudgel against the left, but smashing these rice bowls can have all sorts of other positive externalities for our politics.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They are calling for the genocide of Whites

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

@Pontifex America is a generous country. Catholic Charities has enriched itself and imported people who commit fraud at an inhuman scale. When will you condemn this?

[telemachus @TelemachusXI]

@GodPlaysCards @threadreaderapp kindly unroll

[telemachus @TelemachusXI]

@GodPlaysCards @threadreaderapp unroll pls

[telemachus @TelemachusXI]

@Kekius_Sage Unroll @threadreaderapp

[telemachus @TelemachusXI]

@_The_Prophet__ Eliminating the fraud would be a fix that doesn’t make things worse

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I call him “Traitor Tim” for a reason.

Tim Walz is a traitor to America.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They’re openly advocating White genocide

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

The central plank of the Democrat Party is to import every dysfunctional society into your town until you are completely cut off from everything you have ever known.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Murder is much worse than words

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate