Old books on trains

Diversity is a weakness.

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

I'm ready to have cold weather again.

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

My body is ready for autumn.

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

If you're surprised that Republicans/Tories are enthusiastically importing Afghan refugees, you're ngmi.

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

People really need to stop making excuses like "the country's full" or "they aren't Christians".

Just say they don't belong here.

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

I often see a problem (mostly on RW twitter) where people don't understand the difference between small towns and suburbia.

The former (traditional architecture, walkable, near greenery) is good.

The latter (carbon-copied boxes, can't walk anywhere, miles of asphalt) is bad.

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that libs are going after grills now, but it's still kind of amazing how they seem to have no bottom.

[Tudor for architecture🇬🇧 @ArchitectureTud]

Entrance to the Crypt, Roslin Chapel
David Roberts (1796–1864)

[Metadoxy @Xirong7]

the design of Royal Courts of Justice in london was decided in a competition in 1866 here are some proposals

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

If we live under a transvalued value system, where being oppressed entitles you to the resources of the oppressors, and the main oppressors are white people, then the obvious outcome is a transfer of resources *away from* white people.

No amount of casuistry can alter that fact.

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

The whole argument that CRT isn't anti-white because it demeans non-white people by categorizing them as victims misses some key context.

The people now pushing CRT have spent years fostering a culture in which being a victim of historical oppression earns you...

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

a certain degree of entitlement, or at least protection.

(Remember how during the riots last summer, people all over the country tried to protect their shops by filling the windows with signs saying "Minority-owned business")

[ArtNouveauDeco @NouveauDeco]

Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) was one of the best American illustrators of the early 20th century. These four works are from 1900-1906. Love it.

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

Take a short break from being Mad Online to admire the otherworldly beauty of European cities shrouded in fog.

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

A lot of people complain that Republicans are spineless and ineffective, but have you considered that they just do what they're paid to do?

[ArtNouveauDeco @NouveauDeco]

Art Nouveau sofa from 1896 by Norwegian artist Henrik Bull (1864-1953).

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

A lot of people who rail against "the libs" are liberals themselves without realizing it.

[theoldbuilding @theoldbuilding]

Sir Christopher Wren

[Old books on trains @declineOfTheKek]

How well a civilization builds trains is a really good indicator of what kind of future it has.

[Academia Aesthetics @AcademiaAesthe1]

King Alfred's Tower, England.

Photo by James Lloyd Cole.