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[allen farrington @allenf32]

rape gangs and beheadings are not great but what really radicalised me was Clarkson’s Farm.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this didn't "happen", we caused it

first, children disappeared from daily life
most women turn 30 without ever holding a baby (they don't have siblings or cousins, and young babies have been removed from shared spaces), never changed a diaper or watched one up close.
you cant want what you've never seen

second, we killed the single income.
the average family needs both parents working just to get to the end of the month, so raising a family well went from hard to something practically impossible (2-3 months of maternity leave should be considered a crime against humanity).

then schools and media, the whole cathedral, all pushed towards the same direction in a systematic brainwashing effort: pushing every girl at the career, motherhood turned into that despicable thing you settle for when the better options run out, "a smaller life". nothing worth desiring, and if you do you must be ostracised

social media just finished the job.
presented childfree as freedom and ideal life, filmed the worst four seconds of a mothers day and called it a warning or "here's motherhood"

and underneath all of it, we removed people from history

no ancestors you owe anything, no descendants you're building for, just one atomic self detached from any sense of continuity. one life with no purpose other than its own selfish goals
especially for western people who have been taught that their ancestors are the most evil humans who ever existed
someone with no past and no future has no reason to see themselves as part of history, and everything they do revolves around their own pleasure
why would you carry something you were raised to be ashamed of?

so a quarter of women raised in captivity selecting for civilizational suicide becomes inevitable
the idea that this was a conscious choice is delusional.
we are the first species in history to get everything it ever wanted: safety, medicine, abundance, ninety good years, and the result is suicide.
everything else alive still manages to reproduce through famine and plagues. we got paradise and stopped

anyone shutting off their own survival drive with no threat in sight is definitionally suicidal and that's where we are now

[asparagoid @asparagoid]

The best girls intuitively see your potential a little before you do and look at you like it already exists. Their unshakeable belief in you functions like a catalyst. It helps you believe magic is possible and you take way bigger leaps than you otherwise would

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

"For there's nothing as powerful or as great
As when a husband & wife, united by oneness of mind in their thinking,
Keep their home together—a great bane to their enemies,
A blessing to their friends, & their renown is on everyone's lips.”

Odysseus' great praise of marriage.

[『葬送のフリーレン』公式 @FRIEREN_PR]

サグラダファミリーレン

[saila @sailaunderscore]

How your wife (you’re faithfully married) looks at you after decades of being married (in a church) and having multiple beautiful children together (you love each other deeply). Neither of you are cheating by the way (you are married, to each other).

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

The truth is it’s impossible to make good Star Wars sequels, because in their purest form the prequels portray the rise of the id, while the original trilogy depicts the triumph of the superego, and a satisfying sequel trilogy would require a Nietzschean synthesis of Christ and Caesar that the West was never able to achieve.

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

You can't have honour in a society that allows divorce because it teaches children that even the most sacred of bonds can be broken.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

Alexander wept. Caesar wept. Jesus wept. Your problem in life is not that you are too passionate. Your problem is that you are not passionate enough.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

[Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV]

Quadruple NASA’s budget

[Ben Black | Dynasty Foundry @Dynastus]

I must plant trees I will never know the shade of

[jbolina jolie @pastapilled]

I suppose what easter is teaching us is that it has to be so over before we're so back

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

I wish everyone, including the haters and losers, a very happy Easter!

[Eric Richards @EricRichards22]

Alarming percentages of the population can't answer the breakfast question, visualize an apple, hear music in their head, rotate shapes, read a map, add fractions, make change, read a paragraph, give orders, follow orders

The reality is the opposite of the Heinlein quote

[Natania Marshall ✞ @NataniaMarshall]

Make getting married young normal again.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Lots of talk but the truth is many of you got duped into acting like pussy cowards because of Covid and now you are too ashamed to admit that you were wrong

[Murray D @Murdog1]

Maybe I'm old fashioned. When did it become acceptable for our Prime Minister to stand up and lie to the house and the people of Canada. Shame.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Fatherhood is the end of philosophy. you can read every book ever written about meaning and purpose and discipline, but the moment a small human looks at you and believes you, everything you thought you knew burns down. because now you have to do it, not think it, not debate it, not post about it. the child watches your hands, what you do when you are tired, what you do when you are mad, what you do when nobody else is looking. that is your only sermon and you cannot fake it for one day because children are bullshit detectors made of flesh. if you are a weak man your son will know it before he can spell the word weak, and he either becomes you or becomes the opposite of you, both out of desperation.