@bronzeagemantis The left turns dysgenic youth activism into a real career path, i.e. non-profits, labor orgs, media. The RETARD right gatekeeps and recycles geriatric talking points... Lost cause, for now...
modern travel is increasingly flying 10 hours to experience a slightly different version of the same globally optimized lifestyle.
same third wave coffee. same natural wine bar. same brutalist menu. same sourdough. same beige hotel. same tasteful ceramics. same instagram lighting.
what a ridiculous convergence.
@bronzeagemantis Yes, seeing national socialism as the terminal form of very Jacobin-egalitarian/collectivist impulse. Radical push toward sameness, leftist. For him the old order, hierarchy is rightist, such as Monarchy.
@bronzeagemantis From their website: "Ghent University is an internationally renowned, open, pluralistic and socially engaged university in Belgium. Our credo is 'Dare to Think'." Dare to Think 😹 Imbeciles.
Normie opposition to data centers (which is inextricably intertwined with a deep, often justified mistrust of Big Tech & AI) is not remotely difficult to understand, and people on this website (especially on the right) should stop pretending that is.
Anyone *sincerely interested in persuading normies should spend a lot less time lazily sputtering vacuous pablum about "astroturfed China psyops" and a lot more time trying to grasp why that (often justified) deep mistrust & opposition exists in the first place.
One thing Rand was spot on about is the way the public responds to every new invention by trying to ban it, up until the point where the invention proves indispensibly useful, at which point they demand it be given to them for free.
Making these government stores 30% cheaper requires taking that money from somewhere else while expanding govt power. Taxes, lost revenue, means-testing bureaucracy, gatekeeping, etc. As Thatcher said, socialism fails because eventually you run out of other people‘s money.
If a corporation is tyrannical, it’s certainly a strange form of tyranny—it’s one that cannot tax or incarcerate you, that you consent to enter, that is subject to external legal constraints, that you are free to exit, and that pays you an agreed-upon wage.
Good Morning from Germany, where the welfare state now absorbs almost a third of GDP. In 2025, social spending hit €1.43tn, or 32% of output, up from 31.2% in 2024. Last year, benefits rose 5.7%, while nominal GDP grew only 3.3%, meaning the social state is outgrowing the economy.
26 seconds in is the bit to focus on, the moment that speaks volumes - he laughs as he mocks the very concept of 'elevating' any moment in history, the notion that things might've been loftier in any way..
the goal of these frauds is to cultivate the narrative that life has always been this base, degenerate, hollow, unheroic..
to properly sell modernity they need to make the past appear at least equally small - to level every mountain, so that this putrid valley of modernity looks impressive by comparison.
No man wired like this should ever touch an inspired classic.
I've been uneasy about Nolan's Odyssey since this image: a Corinthian helm in a Mycenaean epic.
Transposing the story to the Archaic era (as Greeks themselves did) would be one thing, and reinterpretations can work. But a jumble of anachronisms just looks like careless pastiche.
Economists have done such a poor job explaining free-market capitalism that we're now re-litigating it with a generation taught socialism is preferable. It's like the medical profession having to convince people bloodletting isn't good medicine and to stop asking for leeches
This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.
Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.
But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.
They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.
It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.
Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.