Turkka Kulmala

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[Turkka Kulmala @TraductTurkka]

Is that so? "The gun is the physical enforcement of the idea that all men are created equal. Which is why the American founders put it in the second amendment – not as an afterthought, but as the guarantee of everything else."

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The gun is the most misunderstood object in Western civilization. Not a weapon. A technology. The technology that made the idea of equality physically real.

1. The longbow democratized warfare – a peasant could kill a knight with a stick and a string, and Agincourt proved it. The gun completed the process. The armored warrior class whose claim to social dominance rested on physical superiority became obsolete. The aristocratic monopoly on violence ended not with a philosophy but with a mechanism. The gun is the physical enforcement of the idea that all men are created equal. Which is why the American founders put it in the second amendment – not as an afterthought, but as the guarantee of everything else.

2. The Roman citizen had the right to bear arms. The Greek citizen had it. The English yeoman had it. The Swiss canton built its entire civilization on it. The disarming of the population has always been, in every civilization, in every century, the first act of the government that intends to stop being answerable to that population. Show me a disarmed population and I will show you a population that lost something else shortly after.

3. The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is not about sport. It is about the relationship between the armed citizen and the state – the explicit constitutional acknowledgment that the citizen’s right to defend himself, his family, and his civilization against any threat, including the government itself, is not granted by the state and cannot be revoked by it. Power flows upward from the armed citizen, not downward from the armed state.

4. The gun defends the family. The woman alone with her children. The farmer on the edge of civilization. The shopkeeper in the neighborhood the police no longer patrol. The gun is the equalizer – the technology that makes the physical difference between a large man and a small woman irrelevant. Every argument for disarmament is, at its core, an argument that the state will protect you better than you can protect yourself. The evidence for this proposition is not encouraging.

5. In Europe, the disarmament is now nearly complete – and it happened precisely as the state’s ability and willingness to protect its citizens began to decline. The timing is not coincidental. A population that cannot defend itself must trust the state to defend it – which is a population that cannot effectively question whether the state is doing so. The dependency is the design.

6. The gun is a civilizational technology in the deepest sense: it requires responsibility, judgment, and the willingness to accept the consequences of your decisions. You cannot outsource it. You cannot have a committee fire it. It is the most anti-bureaucratic object ever invented – a direct, personal, consequential instrument that puts the full weight of the decision on the individual holding it. Which is precisely why the administrative state finds it intolerable. Not because it is dangerous. Because it is sovereign.

7. The family that can defend itself does not depend on the state for its most fundamental security. The civilization that can defend itself has not yet outsourced its survival to an institution that will negotiate the terms of that survival on its own behalf. The gun determines who controls violence – and therefore who controls everything that violence can threaten. Which is everything. The Sobieski who rode down the hill had a sword and sixty thousand horsemen. The equivalent today is the armed citizen who understands what he is defending and why. Every civilization that forgot this discovered it the hard way. The ones that remembered it are still here.

[Boochie is the Name @stoppfeenin]

32/35 students failed this professor's midterm using AI because he secretly hid some white font in his text.

[Turkka Kulmala @TraductTurkka]

@maceochi Shakespearen kielestä latteuksien erämaahan

[🇫🇮🇨🇵French defense attaché in FINLAND @FR_DA_Finland]

Maavoimien upseereita kouluttavan Saint-Cyrin sotilasakatemian kadetit valitsivat kirjallisuuspalkintonsa saajaksi Olivier Norekin tämän romaanista Talven soturit.

Bravo à @OlivierNorek pour le prix des cadets de Saint-Cyr (mon école🫡) @SaintCyrCoet @OtavanKirjat @Maavoimat

[Lauri Vuohensilta @Vuohensilta_]

Toimittajaa ei kiinnosta kuin klikit ja Seppo ei taida osaa ajatella kuin omaa nykyistä tilannettaan. Molemmat kuitenkin toiminnallaan aiheuttavat haittaa kaikille Suomen talouskasvua odottaville yrittäjille ja työssäkäyville. #talousuutiset #osingot #verotus #sijoittaminen

[Turkka Kulmala @TraductTurkka]

@maceochi Olet lopullisesti (peruuttamattomasti?) integroitunut

[Turkka Kulmala @TraductTurkka]

@TheGriftReport He absolutely did the right thing

[🚣‍♀️ @chillerguylife]

A haiku about watching birds

[Turkka Kulmala @TraductTurkka]

@KupariUsa At least one Finnish name in each and every war. Sobering.

[Turkka Kulmala @TraductTurkka]

@maceochi But if they were in the backyard, entertaining the people having a cig, rather than _at_ the conference?

[Discovering Finland @DiscoverFinland]

Hooray for Finnish, with all its grammatical glory and its endless supply of double vowels! Today the flags fly for Finnish Language Day, which also commemorates Mikael Agricola, who is credited with creating the first written Finnish literature:
https://t.co/zFr53VRu5F

[Turkka Kulmala @TraductTurkka]

@maceochi Tä?

[Turkka Kulmala @TraductTurkka]

@sankuperis Good luck!

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction no longer exists.

- Hannah Arendt

[Igor Levit @igorpianist]

he won.

[Turkka Kulmala @TraductTurkka]

@TimHermansson Med tacksamhet för Per Arne Wibbles offer för Finlands frihet och Sveriges ära - vila i frid

[Johanna Kukka @JohannaKukka]

Hurmaavaa suomalaisen kulttuurin ja Kalevalan päivää😘

”Kirjoja ei tarvitse polttaa, jotta kulttuuri tuhoutuu. Riittää, kun ihmiset lakkaavat lukemasta.”

Jotta kulttuuri säilyy, sitä täytyy luoda - ja kuluttaa. Lopulta kulttuurissa on kyse siitä, keitä ollaan ja mihin ollaan menossa💫

Kalevala syntyi ajassa, jolloin suomalaisuus oli vasta mahdollisuus. Se oli rohkea kuvitelma siitä, että hajanaisista äänistä voi syntyä yhteinen identiteetti.

Kalevalan synty ei ollut vain teknistä toimitusta. Se oli päätös uskoa, että pienellä kielellä ja syrjäisellä kansalla on oma maailmansa, mytologiansa ja arvonsa.

Nyt eletään ajassa, jossa teknologia muuttaa ihmiskuvaa. Tarvitaan jälleen kertomuksia, jotka suojelee ihmisyyttä.

Tekoäly kokoaa maailmaa uudella tavalla. Se etsii toistuvia rakenteita, yhdistää malleja ja tunnistaa kaavoja. Sekin kasaa hajanaista aineistoa yhteen.

Mutta data ei vielä synnytä kulttuuria. Tarvitaan tahto ja merkitys. Lönnrot halusi rakentaa kansakunnan.

1800-luvulla kirjoitettiin tarina kansakunnasta. 2000-luvulla ratkaistaan, kirjoitetaanko me tarina ihmisyydestä – vai annetaanko se koneen tehtäväksi.

Tarina ei synny itsestään. Se syntyy, kun joku ottaa vastuun sanoista ja kysyy, mitä varten se kerrotaan.

Aikamme suurin kysymys ei suinkaan ole, mitä kone osaa tehdä. Vaan millainen tarina me valitaan kertoa ihmisestä.

Kalevalan päivä on muistutus siitä, että tulevaisuuskin tarvitsee runonlaulajansa❤️

[Turkka Kulmala @TraductTurkka]

@LeenaLmaa Elukoita elukalla

[Turkka Kulmala @TraductTurkka]

@P_Kirstukas A part of my Finnish childhood as well