Darin Beachy

Christ follower, husband, father, history teacher, Classical education advocate, Tolkien nerd, Philly sports fan

[Darin Beachy @darin_beachy]

This might be the most important Twitter thread of our time. Don’t let the wokies win!

[Wokal Distance @wokal_distance]

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The question I get asked most is "what can we actually DO about wokeness?"

People don't want to get beaten up by antifa, or lose their livelihood to cancel culture. I understand the fear, but fighting takes courage.

So, tactics to fight back effectively:

A Thread🧵

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

What does MLB think it’s doing penalizing players for their Christian faith?

They owe us some answers. Right now.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education.

46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The welfare state has been more destructive to the black family than slavery just by restructuring the incentives.

In 1960, nearly a century after emancipation, only about 22% of black children grew up in single-parent households.

By 1990, after the Great Society welfare expansions, that number had more than tripled.

Thomas Sowell has long shown this wasn’t the lingering shadow of slavery or some vague “legacy.”
The destruction of the black family was the direct result of welfare policies that subsidized single motherhood and penalized marriage.

The incentives changed, and family structure collapsed accordingly.

[Jason Robertson @JRobFromMN]

I remember watching Seinfeld and we all laughed when Kramer was attacked for not wanting to wear the Aids Ribbon

He was participating in the event, paid his money was was there to support, but it wasn't enough

Now its reached the point where you are penalized for not wearing the ribbon

We live in clown times

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Just got off with the New York Times wanting my thoughts about the new mandatory reading list in Texas. I kept repeating that I think it’s awesome.

Then she asked me if it concerns me that Muslim students will now have to read the Bible in school. I said that’s awesome too.

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

MLB should tread carefully. There’s a lot more us fans that agree with the pitchers than with the league when it comes to pride night propaganda.

Let the MLB be warned, not the pitchers.

Be careful, MLB.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Dear Europeans... Buck-ee's is just normal stuff to us. Yeah, sure, it's freakishly big, and has lots of cool stuff.

But "freakishly big and has lots of cool stuff" is also a pretty good way to describe America.

Why?

It's not because we're somehow genetically superior. We come from roughly the same genepool.

And it's not because we somehow looted the third world... you did a lot more empire-building than we ever did.

It's because of the difference between your politics and ours. And between your social mores and ours.

We have what we call a permissive environment.

That means that if someone sees a possibility, wants to solve a problem, comes up with a better way to do something, even something small...

He's encouraged to try.

The government won't make him fill out 67 thousand forms and make him wait five years for permission.

His neighbors won't sneer at him and say he's getting ideas above his station.

Investors will actually want to talk to him, and think seriously about whether they want in on the action.

We know this seems brash and arrogant and reckless to you. We know you think a lot of these ideas are stupid. Some of them are.

But every creative idea, even the best ones, seems really, really dumb when you first come up with it, haven't tried it out, haven't refined it into what it eventually needs to be.

"He shoots spiderwebs out of his hands? What kind of useless power is that?"

"They're wizards who fight with magic swords, but they fly around the galaxy in spaceships?"

"Nobody is going to want to buy books online! How are they supposed to thumb through them?"

"The best minds have been trying heavier-than-air flight for years and failing."

"Reusable rocket boosters are a pipe dream."

Name any good idea anyone has ever had, and I can describe it the way it might have looked to people of its time, which makes it sound dumb, or wicked, or hopeless, or reckless, or arrogant.

If Buck-ee's had occurred to a European, which it easily could have, he would have been laughed off the stage. Or unable to raise money to try it. Or regulated out of existence.

This is why you're poor.

It's not because you suck. You don't suck. But you are micromanaging yourselves and each other out of existence.

Your ancestors weren't like this. And you don't have to be.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Want to save the West? Start by telling your children the truth.

A society that teaches its children to hate their inheritance shouldn't be surprised when they fail to preserve it.

Teach your children gratitude. Teach them why freedom matters. Teach them what made the West successful.

Because if you don't tell them the truth about their civilisation, someone else will tell them a lie.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

McConaughey: "A nice guy gets along... They don't necessarily have discernment or judgment, not sure what they stand for or against."

"A good man has ideals he stands for and stands against. When tested, a good man is not a nice guy."

[Handre @Handre]

McDonald's announced they're replacing cashiers with kiosks in California just after the $20 minimum wage kicked in. Shocking to absolutely no one who understands basic economics. When you artificially price labor above its market value, employers find substitutes. Machines, automation, or they simply eliminate positions entirely.

The teenagers who desperately need that first job experience? Gone. The single mother trying to re-enter the workforce after years away? Priced out by someone with more skills. You've just created a legal barrier that prevents the least skilled workers from competing on the one thing they had going for them: willingness to work for less while they build experience.

Politicians pat themselves on the back for "helping workers" while unemployment among young minorities hits double digits. The workers who keep their jobs benefit (temporarily), but the invisible victims, those who never get hired in the first place, don't make headlines. Economics doesn't care about your good intentions.

[Bethel McGrew @BMcGrewvy]

@matthew_loftus Insert "always was" meme here.

"Let us do what we want without bothering you" was never going to be enough for a movement built on the need to normalize a disordered fetish at scale.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Asteroid mining is not only going to make a lot more trillionaires, it's going to make us all rich.

Just like the Industrial Revolution, the Space Revolution will greatly increase standards of living across humanity... yours, mine, everyone's.

Electric light and indoor plumbing were once luxuries. Now they are so universal that we can have them and still think of ourselves as poor. But preindustrial folk would have thought us wealthy beyond measure. What's coming is another paradigm shift.

You may think this is all theoretical.

You may think asteroid mining is an unproven concept. You're wrong. Because you don't know one critical fact.

We're already asteroid mining.

And we've been doing it since the Bronze Age.

All gold we mine on earth, all the copper for wires, the uranium for reactors, all the iron for nails, everything made of heavy metals that you own, or use, or have ever seen... it's all mined from ancient asteroid strikes.

All the native Earth metals sunk to the core when the whole planet was molten. Past our reach.

Do you think there are precious metals, like gold and silver and platinum? Do you think that even common metals, like iron and tin and copper, cost a lot to extract and refine?

Artificial scarcity.

Every piece of metal you have ever seen was sourced from the tiny percentage of asteroids that once hit Earth.

Leave the gravity well, learn to sail the void, and we can loot all the asteroids that haven't.

Imagine that we built all of civilization picking up our raw materials, grain by grain, with tweezers.

Asteroid mining, true asteroid mining, is a shovel. And no, not a hand tool shovel, I mean the shovel attachment on the front of an industrial digger.

That's why SpaceX has trillion dollar plus valuation. And unless we screw things up on Earth, and sabotage them somehow, that valuation is way too low.

Below here, you'll see a different part of the plan. A little company, running out of a little industrial space in the San Fernando Valley, is building humanity the ultimate shopping bag.

They think Mars is a sideshow, you see.

They want to bag up asteroids, just scoop the little ones right up with a great big robot butterfly net, and bring back to high Earth orbit.

Strip them down there, and build.

If you thought data centers in space are wild, wait until you see factories in space. Wait until everything from toasters to CPUs to machine tools are made in high orbit, or on the moon, and the only bits that ever make it to Earth on the finished products.

In space, minerals are cheap. And power is free. And it doesn't cost much of anything to move goods down a gravity well.

You have no idea what's coming.

Neither does SpaceX or Transastra, for that matter. They've got a hold of the tail of the elephant, and they think the Space Revolution is a rope.

I'm a science fiction author. My job is to see the whole elephant.

It's a big fucking elephant.

[Neil Shenvi @NeilShenvi]

What we're witnessing is the wholly foreseeable natural consequence of "no enemies to the right" (NETTR) that I warned about in July 2024:

"Wherever 'no enemies' tactics are employed, the most radical, fringe groups are empowered and eventually co-opt the movement." 1/

[Dissident Teacher @educatedandfree]

The cheat code for this is to put your kid in the worst possible high school with open enrollment. You can use McKinney Vento if you absolutely have to, but you probably won’t.

I know this will increase your odds because I saw MANY, MANY poorly qualified kids from my Title I California high schools gain access to UCB and UCLA while virtually NONE of the ones in the California Distinguished High School I worked at got in, and those kids from the latter school who did magically get an acceptance were minorities or LGBTQ+ and/or had faced serious hardships.

So put your kid in the scary school. Just make sure you have plenty of money for tutoring. Grades won’t be a problem, but you also don’t want your kid falling too far behind. You might be able to weaponize a 504 to keep him off campus for extended periods which will free him up to do more serious studying, but keep him out for too long and he’ll end up in distance learning which will not help with admission to the elite UCs.

Isn’t it fun watching how your tax dollars work, California?

[Dissident Teacher @educatedandfree]

Yes. The Reading situation is desperate. I keep seeing this posted everywhere, so I'll throw my hat in the ring to try to help American kids read more and better.

You parents are gonna have to take the reins, but I'll show you how. BONUS: this can bring you closer as a family.

Skeleton Outline:
(1) Test your kid's current reading level.
(2) Choose a Great book you BOTH will read at the kid's proximal zone of development (i.e., just beyond her current reading level, so not too hard, not too easy).
(3) Anchor the reading in purpose. Focus: what does it mean to live the Good life? (Yes there are right answers, BUT there's variation between families/cultures).
(4) [Insert Commonplace Book here]
(5) Talk at dinner (or after, or while preparing, or while driving, whatevs).
(6) Feynman Process at the end.

Two books and your kid will level up. More importantly, time with you and the words of some of the greatest minds in the West will help you both live the Good life.

Hang tight. I'll get it out ASAP on my substack. (link in bio; sub if you want updates, but I'll post here when it's done.)

I invite all teachers with better ideas than this to post them. America's parents are waking to this issue. We need lifeboats, NOW.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Thank you for summing up why people hate successful people: you think you're a loser because someone else made you a loser. The reason you believe this is that it's a lot more comforting than the truth: you're a loser despite the fact that amazing business leaders like Elon created hundreds of thousands of jobs and paid billions upon billions in taxes. In other words, the reason you're a loser is you, your shitty, envious attitude and the fact that you don't understand that the way to achieve what you want is to provide something other people want so they're willing to pay you for it.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Dissident Teacher @educatedandfree]

No, America. Your best and brightest are no longer at Harvard, Yale, Stanford and the like.

Your best and brightest are kids like my tenth graders coming up through mission-aligned classical schools with teachers who know American kids in particular hunger for that which is True, Good, and Beautiful and are willing to GRIND for it, as Americans do.

The kids are here, in every town and city. We can all help build them.

This is what my tenth graders read this year:
The Symposium
The Apology
The Phaedo
The Death of Ivan Ilych
1984
Brave New World
The New Organon
The New Atlantis
Gulliver’s Travels
The Abolition of Man

Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Purgatorio
Inferno
King Lear
Pride and Prejudice
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

@O_TooleKathleen @CLT_Exam @JeremyTate41 @soren_schwab @Jordan_C_Adams

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

One of the greatest lies ever told is that “the left have good intentions”

We see with the outpouring of jealousy, envy and bitterness at the news of Musk becoming a Trillionaire - it is total nonsense

The left don’t want to lift up the poor.

They want to tear down the rich.

[wanye @xwanyex]

Re mail voting: I’m just telling you that it is literally unbelievable that people are not having votes cast for them or being pressured into changing their vote by family members, etc.

That’s literally impossible to believe. No smart person can believe it. It’s literally impossible to believe.

We can argue about whether it’s just a few people or a lot of people. That’s fine. We can have that argument. But it’s literally impossible to believe that it’s not happening. Of course it’s happening. It is impossible to believe that that’s not happening.