Caribbean Rhythms episode 221 on the ZOMBI apocalypse of impending demographic crisis of OLDS; emerging senility of Putin govt.; second part on Nolan Odyssey and debate over Greco-Roman...
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Sulla was Rome's deadliest general.
He almost had young Julius Caesar executed.
But thousands loved Sulla, too.
9 keys to Sulla's effectiveness, that can make you just as deadly:
Surprised Trump enemies haven't really looked into background of Melania and her family in Slovenia. Strap in:
1/There were quite a few pre-Christian holdouts in Europe. They resurfaced from time to time, sometimes under dubiously Christian label: Catharism is an example
For a good grounding in modern tactics, I recommend two books that cover 20th-century combined arms from opposite perspectives. Together, they help clarify the patterns that we see playing out now and are key to understanding future developments. 🧵
There were four white colonizations of native occupied lands that stuck
The United States
Canada
South Africa (still hanging in)
Australia
Of the four only two fought a war to the death with the natives that lived there… and look now much tougher its people are as a result
Subsidized housing is perhaps responsible for the lions share of White demographic collapse in metropolitan areas. It has absolutely nothing to do with free market competition or "the hard working immigrant" or whatever.
The average rent in NY is what, 5k/mo? LA around 3-4k? But 80% of people who live there aren't paying that. They have section 8 housing or 10 year rent stabilized leases they get for being poor or brown. They're paying $800/mo to live in Santa Monica. You have to pay.
One of the long-standing disappointments of the Trump years has been, despite initial hopes he would go in a Nixon-TR route... his subsequent gradual indifference to classic conservation and environmental matters, to animal suffering including preservation efforts in Africa against poaching (where there is an obvious wedge to use against the Chinese with their obsessive desire for tiger-tooth penis balm etc. that threatens to eat up the world's fauna)...
Although in the beginning under multiple threads of influence from the online right, MAGAmoms, Michael Savage (who first had Trump repeatedly on in 2011 encouraging him to run), he was for a while open to classical Theodore Roosevelt-style conservation efforts, the problem of the poisoning of airs and waters, etc.....but he abandoned this very early in his first administration apparently under the wants of his daughter, and veered instead in the direction of Rush Limbaugh classic GOP-style blustering on animal cruelty, nature, etc....attitudes that are extremely unpleasant and turn off young people especially. TR and Nixon show this could be entirely within the sphere of the right or of American conservatism, and the left has largely abandoned real environmental causes to instead fixate on things like climate change (that in practice increase and even cynically use animal suffering, or hurt the environment) or their latest obsessions with data centers. Basically the left cares nothing at all anymore for real matters that would affect daily life, like the presence or preservation of nature, natural parks, clean food, air, and water, or animal welfare--name one leftist or liberal fundraiser in last few years to address the fate of gorillas, whales, or the problem of factory farming. There was here as elsewhere an opportunity for a progressive right candidate like Trump was in 2015 to take up a very popular and important matter, which he did at first...and then the matter was apparently dropped.
Then we all had hopes when RFK came on in 2024 but he spends his time on just irrelevant nonsense for public consumption and online meme engagement, like Coca Cola in hospitals and encouraging tallow in French fries, while ignoring the problems of pollution, the defilement of public parks, the poisoning of the water table and food supply, etc.; maybe he'll do a collab next on seed-oil-free chips or convert to Orthodoxy.
The most vicious attacks I and friends have taken on here for years since 2018 came from Koch world and their associated sockpuppet "pundits" who in various guises were fixated on me, and my friends, for precisely these matters: because maybe hundreds of billions are at stake for them and their friends. A lot of the fake libertarianism on here comes entirely from this world and has this motivation. I was hoping Trump as a billionaire could resist these people especially as they hated him from the start and tried to stop him on multiple occasions, but for whatever reason he rewards his enemies instead (imo he's maybe just out to lunch on this and ignores it idk).
As for the post-Trump GOP they appear to be taking all the wrong lessons from 2015-6 and it appears not one likely successor will adopt this matter.