Ty Cramer

[Ty Cramer @TyCramer174925]

@andy_buksterlin It is easy when people come to see themselves as goddesses who have the power of life and death

[TimOnPoint @TimOnPoint]

As the Communists continue their “march” through the Democrat Party… a warning from the old world.

“This system does not just produce liars – it produces people who can no longer clearly distinguish truth from the narrative they have been trained to emit.”

KS is my new favorite follow.

[Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy]

Why are so many women sooo angry? They won. They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well. They make more, they have the majority of jobs, they are the majority of college graduates, (UCLA undergrad is 60% female), they make more money, have much lower rates of suicide, addiction, and alcoholism, and live longer. They won: they took over all men-only spaces, they took over the Boy Scouts, they ended men’s bathrooms, they can fly fighter planes and be in combat. Marriage is optional, divorce is no-fault, they win 99% of the custody battles, they can control fertility at will, and they can’t get drafted. We are all living in the female future they promised.

[Ty Cramer @TyCramer174925]

@SamuelLJackson Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Jackson!

[Ty Cramer @TyCramer174925]

@Kristof_Poland Another banger, Krzysztof!

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The word tolerance has been weaponized against you. The weapon was forged in 1965. You should know who forged it and why.

Before there was the French Theory — before Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze made deconstruction elegant and exportable — there was the Frankfurt School. And the Frankfurt School was worse, because it was deliberate. Foucault played with ideas he never expected to have consequences. Herbert Marcuse knew exactly what he was building.

These were not fringe academics. The Institute for Social Research relocated from Frankfurt to Columbia University in 1934 when Hitler came to power. Funded, positioned, and deliberate, they spent the next decades producing the theoretical infrastructure for the dismantling of the civilization that had given them refuge. This is not ingratitude – it is the logic of the project. It was universal – it applied to every Western civilization equally.

Marcuse — godfather of the New Left — published Repressive Tolerance in 1965. The most influential political document most people have never read. Its argument: tolerating wrong ideas is itself oppression. True tolerance requires the suppression of intolerant ideas. Tolerating everything is repressive. Suppressing the wrong things is liberating. The argument is circular by design – it puts the conclusion inside the premise and dares you to find the exit.

The practical implication was stated explicitly: withdrawal of tolerance from movements that are regressive, from speech that reinforces existing hierarchies. The left decides which movements are regressive. Everyone else is silenced – not despite tolerance but in its name. The most sophisticated justification for censorship ever produced, dressed in the vocabulary of liberation.

The French Theory picked up the tools and made them elegant. Foucault made the Frankfurt critique of power literary. Derrida made the critique of meaning philosophical. Deleuze made the critique of identity aesthetic. What had been a political program became a cultural sensibility – which is why it spread further and faster than the original. You can argue with a political program. A cultural sensibility is in the air you breathe.

The generation that read Marcuse went on to run the universities, the media, the foundations, the NGOs, the content moderation departments, and the EU regulatory apparatus. They did not implement his argument cynically – they implemented it sincerely, because they had been taught it as philosophy.

This is why cancel culture does not feel like censorship to the people practicing it. The journalist who demands a speaker be deplatformed genuinely believes she is defending free speech. The HR department that fires the employee for the wrong opinion genuinely believes it is creating an inclusive environment. They have been taught that this is what tolerance means. Marcuse taught them.

Musk has been fighting Marcuse’s argument for four years probably even without knowing Marcuse’s name. Every content moderation policy, every advertiser boycott, every regulatory assault – these are Repressive Tolerance, institutionalized. The DSA is Repressive Tolerance with a legal budget. The fact-checking organization is Repressive Tolerance.

The good news: the argument fails on contact with a free platform – because the suppression becomes visible, the mechanism becomes nameable, and a named mechanism loses half its power. This is why the Counter-Reformation moves so fast against X. Not because X is dangerous. Because X is where Repressive Tolerance gets named.

You are reading this now – which is precisely what Repressive Tolerance was designed to prevent.

[BLAIRE WHITE @BlaireWhite]

Not to tinfoil hat but why do celebrities always die shortly after exposing sexual predators in Hollywood?

[Ty Cramer @TyCramer174925]

@SethDillon 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Ty Cramer @TyCramer174925]

@SteveLovesAmmo The post caught me off guard! I laughed pretty steadily for about a minute thanks!

[Ty Cramer @TyCramer174925]

@UpdatingOnRome Me as well

[Ty Cramer @TyCramer174925]

@iFightForKids I know! Those poor children might learn “values “or “hard work “or “ethics “. It’s a total shame!

[Ty Cramer @TyCramer174925]

@nodosakana That looks like it would have applications with spacecraft and solar panels

[Ty Cramer @TyCramer174925]

@rspctablmoderat One of the greatest people late Western civilization has produced

[Ty Cramer @TyCramer174925]

@Ok_Cinema0 Blow Out, Jack

[Ty Cramer @TyCramer174925]

@jiratickets Met my wife at 40, have a son, wished we could have had 4 more children

[John James @JohnJamesMI]

We can’t let Socialists and Communists destroy this country. 

Michigan’s the last hope, and I’m running to save our state. 🇺🇸

Join me: https://t.co/vgwmjD4TGI

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@LeaderJohnThune @SenateGOP So, what about the SAVE America Act?

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

The doomsaying climate modellers completely missed the biggest transformation of the Earth's ecosystem in the last thirty years.

Wait: it's worse than that. They predicted exactly the opposite of what has happened.

How can we possibly justify continuing to trust them?

The planet has not desertified. In fact, it is almost inconceivably greener. A whole continent's worth of additional vegetation.

And crop yields are way up too.

Why? Because of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide.

There's a really Inconvenient Truth.

https://t.co/bafnpMiuor

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Elon Musk: "We encourage our competitors to copy us, but it's quite difficult to copy something like Starship. We don't use patents as a landmine exercise to stop people to copy us. We actively encourage it."

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Leonardo da Vinci was not a Renaissance man.

That phrase — the universal man, the polymath — does not begin to describe what he actually was. It normalizes something that should not be normalized.

The scope of what he did is nothing short of crazy. He was insane. In the best possible sense.

1. The paintings first – because that is where most people stop, and stopping there is already extraordinary. The Mona Lisa. The Last Supper. The Virgin of the Rocks. Each one a revolution in light, shadow, atmosphere, and psychological depth that changed painting permanently. He invented sfumato – which is why the Mona Lisa looks alive in a way no painting before it did. He did this while also doing everything else on this list. The painting was the side project.

2. The anatomy. He dissected somewhere between thirty and one hundred human corpses – illegally, at night, in hospitals that tolerated him because the quality of his drawings was too good to refuse. Anatomical drawings not surpassed for three hundred years. He drew the chambers of the heart, the structure of the spine, the muscles of the face, the development of the foetus in the womb. He understood the function of the heart’s valves five hundred years before modern cardiology confirmed it. He also mapped the brain, the eye, and the reproductive system with the same precision. With candles, in cold rooms, with decomposing corpses. For fun.

3. The engineering. A flying machine, 1485. A parachute. A hang glider. An armored vehicle. A rapid-fire crossbow. A solar power concentrator. A robotic knight. A submarine. The armored vehicle is a tank. The rapid-fire crossbow is a machine gun. He invented both in 1482. Nobody built them for four hundred years. He was building the centuries ahead with fifteenth century materials and calling it sketching.

4. The geology and the rest. He understood two centuries early that the earth was ancient and the sea had covered the mountains. His drawings of fluid dynamics were not improved upon until the twentieth century. He did geology, fluid mechanics, botany, and cartography simultaneously – in his spare time, while painting and designing war machines.

5. The music. He arrived at the court of Ludovico Sforza not as a painter but as a military engineer – and brought a lute he had made himself, in the shape of a horse’s skull, in silver, because why not. The court was impressed. He got the job. The painting came later.

6. He left approximately 13,000 pages of notes, drawings, observations, calculations, and ideas – written in mirror script, right to left, in a script that required a mirror to read. Why mirror script? Possibly because he was left-handed and it prevented smudging. Possibly because he didn’t want people reading over his shoulder. Or because he just liked it so. The notebooks contain everything: anatomy, engineering, geology, botany, cartography, philosophy, observations on the nature of light, the movement of water, the growth of plants, jokes, shopping lists, notes to himself about books to find and people to ask. And the observation that "the sun does not move" – written quietly, in a notebook, a century before Galileo got in trouble for saying it publicly. He knew. He wrote it down. He moved on to the next thing.

7. He died in 1519, reportedly in the arms of the King of France. He left the Mona Lisa unfinished – sixteen years of work and still not satisfied with it. Most engineering projects unbuilt. The notebooks unpublished. What he finished changed painting permanently. What he left unfinished would have changed everything else. He reportedly said at the end of his life that he had offended God and mankind by failing to work as hard as he should have. The man who designed the tank, painted the Mona Lisa, and understood the heart’s valves felt he had underperformed. That tells you everything about the difference between genius and the rest of us.