Lady of Shalott

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[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Lenin waited until Russians were eating human flesh and corpses lined the roads before ordering the Church destroyed.

In March 1922, with millions already dead from famine, the Bolsheviks seized Orthodox gold, silver, and sacred vessels under the banner of feeding the starving.

Patriarch Tikhon offered voluntary aid but refused to surrender consecrated items. When parishioners in Shuya defended their cathedral, Red forces opened fire and killed several.
4 days later Lenin sent a top secret letter to the Politburo and turned the crisis into a kill order.

He said the famine was the perfect window. Peasants were too broken to resist, so strike now with “the most frenzied and ruthless energy.” Arrest dozens of priests, stage lightning trials, and shoot “the very largest number of the most influential” so the rest remember for decades.

Because the Church was the last independent power still commanding loyalty outside Party control.
Marxist atheism treated it as a rival that had to be broken, and the famine gave them the cover and the timing. They framed defense of the altar as sabotage of the starving, then executed clergy for it.

The Bolsheviks effectively turned mass starvation into a weapon against the only force left between the State and total control of the Russian soul.

[H A Y L E Y @Gruodis80]

“I’m proud to leave this country in a better shape than I found it”

- Keir Starmer

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Say it again for the retards in the back.

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Adams, Monticello, January 21, 1812:

"I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus & Thucydides, for Newton & Euclid; & I find myself much the happier."

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy.

It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy.

For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice.

Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc.

As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love.

To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.”

As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings.

When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder.

When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good.

Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them.

In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.”

It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.

[Handre @Handre]

The Nazi economy was socialism in a better-tailored uniform. Strip away the parades and you find exactly what Mises diagnosed in 1940 as Zwangswirtschaft: private ownership on paper, total state control in practice. You held the title to your factory. Göring's ministries told you what to produce, what to charge, whom to hire, and where your profits went. That is ownership the way a prisoner owns his cell.

Hjalmar Schacht ran the monetary con. From 1934 the Reichsbank financed rearmament through Mefo bills, off-books IOUs worth 12 billion Reichsmarks by 1938, hiding the printing press behind a shell company. Berlin froze wages in 1933 and prices in 1936, so the inflation surfaced as shortages and ration cards instead of rising numbers. You have watched the same trick play out in Caracas.

The "economic miracle" in your textbook was conscription plus capital consumption. Unemployment fell because Hitler drafted young men into the Wehrmacht and labor battalions while forcing women out of the workforce. Real wages stagnated below 1929 levels. The 1936 Four Year Plan chased autarky, burning capital on synthetic rubber and gasoline that cost multiples of the world price.

By 1939 the regime faced the choice every inflationist regime faces: liquidate the malinvestments or loot the neighbors. Hitler chose Poland. War was not incidental to this economy. It was the business model.

[Lady of Shalott @goshauke]

@Lego5739 @CatharineHoey @peteratcmc @toadmeister You think they wouldn't be there for a Muslim politician?

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

My goodness. One of the best things I’ve ever heard. Bravo.

[Lady of Shalott @goshauke]

@stoneythegeeked @19Goldstein84 Did you know there are gods and demi-gods, magical spirits etc. aplenty in Moana movies? Why no colour blind casting, no medieval armour and no Viking ships then?

[Lady of Shalott @goshauke]

@JuliaHB1 @TurraloonNS The people who put 30 people a day into jail for online posts?
Why are you acting as if Britain was a free speech country?

[Sam @Sam24449642]

@JohnCleese Once your culture and civilisation is gone, it's not coming back

[Lady of Shalott @goshauke]

@PaulMay9115 @RobertJenrick And? 99.99% of solar farms look like this.

[Lady of Shalott @goshauke]

@psbroke @RobertJenrick "Can" or "will"? Is the solar farm in the photo the standard, or is it a one-off, just to pretend to disprove the point?

[Lady of Shalott @goshauke]

@PaulMay9115 @RobertJenrick 1. Your photo shows wildflowers.
2. Which kind of heavy machinery fits between the rows of solar panels? Or are we back to sowing by hand and harvesting with a scythe?

[Lady of Shalott @goshauke]

@mcgoverntm @BiancoDavinci Why?

[I know things @polemios]

Ah yes, King Odysseus of Ithaca sailing the wine-dark Aegean in a literal 9th-century Viking longship. The famous Scandinavian-Mycenaean shipbuilding co-operative of 1200 BC.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Spectator’s John Power and @WTMAtkinson have exposed the “Dark Green Lobby” — “a complex web of interlocking charities, think tanks, advocacy groups and campaign outfits, often funded through foreign channels” — which is pushing the net-zero agenda in Britain at the expense of free speech.

This lobby has been remarkably successful at shaping policy, but it has also sought “to distort the energy debate by de-legitimising opponents”. To that end, it contributes financially to “tackling what it calls ‘climate disinformation’ – or what anyone else might think of as informed free speech”.

Read more below in @spectator 👇

[Lady of Shalott @goshauke]

@Or85853884 @SandyofCthulhu @Rothmus Poland had the 4th largest army in Europe throughout the war (behind the Soviets, Americans and Brits) - and they were high skill, high morale troops.

[Lady of Shalott @goshauke]

@OrthoTater @SandyofCthulhu @Rothmus France lost the war, too. As did most of the European countries. Also, Germany and Italy. None of them got anihilated.