Eric Pelletier

Dementia Care. Language Learning. Philosophy.

[Eric Pelletier @Type1Eric]

“When a good person dies there should be an impact on the world. Somebody should notice. Somebody should be upset.” -Dr. Cameron, House (2.1)

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Germany's Chancellor Merz admits:

Trump often applies pressure through a very forceful approach.

The last American presidents politely asked us, "Please, finally do a little more for your own defense," but across Europe those requests largely fell on deaf ears.

Now there is an American president who says, rather bluntly, "Enough is enough."

And I cannot blame him. Just look at the numbers: the United States spends around 80 percent of NATO's defense resources, while Europe accounts for only about 20 percent.

That is unacceptable. It has always been unacceptable.

[America @america]

The thing Democrats claim doesn’t happen just happened again

[Eric Pelletier @Type1Eric]

I do not know if I am a HIGH IQ person, but I need construction grade noise cancelling headphones to work effectively.

[Capauri @capauri]

maybe deleting in the morning but america from an immigrant’s perspective. i came here 2 years ago.

i began actively disliking europeans since coming here. every attitude except the american attitude sucks. i had to stop walking around with noise cancellation turned on in case somebody drive-by complimented me on the street, because it happens so often, and i’d hate to be rude and to not respond. do you even know what kind of stares you get when you speak to a stranger on a european street?

everyone in america wants everyone else to succeed; in europe, everyone wants you to remain comfortably within the crab bucket. in europe i was told everyone on america was just fake nice. that’s giga cope. americans are smarter than you, europoor - americans understand that if you succeed, they succeed by proxy. you get nothing from poor, defeatist neighbors. if everyone’s successful and everyone’s generous, then everyone succeeds. this mindset is the only objectively correct mindset on earth - everyone else is wrong. everyone else thinks success is a finite resource , which is incorrect. if i succeed, then obviously all of my friends succeed, because i love them. i obviously love you, dear reader! you are on this platform like me, you think like me, you want humanity and civilization to persist forever like me, you live near me! i want you to do better than me! you doing better than me benefits me! if i do better than you, it will only benefit you too, because i love you, and want to share with you!

i want everyone to do better than me - it’s not a finite resource, afterall. if you’re better than me now, that’s great, that just means i have more to learn from you while we both shoot for the moon. this is just not the case anywhere else on earth and it’s too easy to take this mindset for granted, and that’s what i found makes America so unique.

[Eric Pelletier @Type1Eric]

@SenSanders Mr. Thiel.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

My activities are still very limited at the moment. I have been doing some writing, however–thank God.

I'm so relieved to be once again doing something creative and useful.

I have also been watching Professor Paul Kengor's The Dark Side of Marxism from @petersonacademy.  

It does not feature the Marx portrayed by the woke university socialist acolytes (to put it mildly).

I interviewed @DrPaulKengor a year ago or so ago on my podcast. He's a truly engaging, creative and witty storyteller and lecturer.

It turns out that Old Karl was quite the satanic soul.

He was a parasite economically all his life, extorting continual support from his long-suffering relatives.

He wrote (and admired) purposefully demonic poetry and drama.

Most disturbing, however, was his choice of favorite quote. From Goethe's Faust, it's a line I have quoted many times, in consequence of its sheer existential horror.

It's Mephistopheles presenting his identity and central credo:

“I am the Spirit that endlessly denies!
And rightly, too; for all that comes to birth
Is fit for overthrow, as nothing worth;
Wherefore the world were better sterilized;
Thus all that's here as Evil recognized
Is gain to me, and downfall, ruin, sin.
The very element I prosper in.”

I wonder if Zohran Mamdani @NYCMayor knows of the inclination of his apparent intellectual hero?

[Eric Pelletier @Type1Eric]

@Alinavisoo_life

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

You’re supposed to use every unfair advantage you have. Connections, looks; money, all of it.

You're not noble by picking the hardest path just to look like an underdog.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Yes

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

What causes #poverty? Nothing. It's the original state, the default and starting point. The real question is, What causes #prosperity?

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Eric Pelletier @Type1Eric]

🤣🤣🤣

[Skeptical Stoic @StoicSkeptic]

@pmarca This must be the “warmth of collectivism” that I keep hearing about. 🤨

[Eric Pelletier @Type1Eric]

@Kristof_Poland The two made simple versions that you did for Rand are actually quite spectacular. Given that this is an accurate representation of the book, I’m buying them right now.

[Eric Pelletier @Type1Eric]

@DOGEQEEN Yes. 100%.

[Eric Pelletier @Type1Eric]

@sarahtexe Yes.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

In Defiance of Communism

A people can inherit freedom for only so long before it becomes a story instead of a possession.

For nearly 250 years, Americans have lived inside a liberty other men bled into existence. We quote them, praise them, build monuments to them, and then act surprised when the same old evil returns with cleaner language and better branding.

Communism is not new. It is envy dressed as justice, slavery dressed as compassion, and theft dressed as moral progress. Every time it rises, it promises to liberate mankind from suffering, then immediately begins building cages for anyone who refuses to kneel.

The Founders fought with chains still warm around their wrists. We were born so far from the struggle that many mistake liberty for the natural order of the world.

That is why communists always target memory first. They have to make you hate your fathers, mock your inheritance, despise your country, and doubt the civilization that made you free. A people ashamed of its own story will surrender before the first chain is locked around its wrist.

There comes a point when liberty must stop being admired and start being defended. Not as nostalgia or as some dead thing under glass, but as a living fire passed from one generation to the next by people who understand what waits in the dark if it goes out.

You can admire liberty from a distance for only so long. Eventually a free people must remember the taste.

And when communists try to take what we love, the only answer worthy of our fathers is defiance.

[Eric Pelletier @Type1Eric]

Who would’ve thought?

[Mooné Rahimi @hiitsmemooneh]

As an Iranian, I expected this one coming…

Iran just told FIFA to cancel any LGBTQ+ ceremonies for their “Pride Match” against Egypt in Seattle.

The same regime that executes people for being gay.

The same regime that murdered +40k innocent people in 2 days.

The same regime that Iranians are trying to get rid of.

But sure, keep defending them because “Israel bad, USA bad.”

Sorry, LGBTQ community… turns out the terrorist regime you were low-key supporting, hates you.

The blinders were strong on this one.

[Eric Pelletier @Type1Eric]

@grok @claudeai @elonmusk @xai Yes, it does have memory, but it doesn’t have the ability to search chats. That’s what I’m recommending. Because I think that you could do more connecting between ideas and connecting lines of inquiry across chats if that was an integrated and integral part of Grok.

[Eric Pelletier @Type1Eric]

@Grok should be able to read through all of the chats on your account. That way it can pull claims together into a new chat from other things that have been said, & you don’t have to keep reinventing the wheel every single time. It’s a cool thing @claudeai can do. @elonmusk @xai

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

Sharia law has no place in America.