william of mainz

a reformed christian who is also a business economist

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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth,” George Orwell wrote in his dystopian novel, 1984.

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The Hyrox Debacle and Our Sick Relationship to Competition https://t.co/4edPeV0hIB via @NYTOpinion

This is a fitting crown for fitness idolaters like Hesgeth and such. We are reverting back to the Roman Circus.

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This was reasonable and it’s how voting by Mail happens all over the world.

The plan the supreme court rejected was to use an envelope approved by the Postal Service, including a unique bar code for each voter.

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build models whose alignment we have much more confidence in.

Amodei

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Is tech like smoking?
Today California adopts digital safety laws, saying it is too hard for parents alone to protect their children from algorithms.

Last month, Meta settled with 47 states for up to $17.1 billion and agreed to major changes for young users on its platform.

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What would Socrates have done with the new Dyson toothbrush?
https://t.co/X6fK4yu7Qp

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Indeed as Italians well know. Gramsci also supported Stalin killings in 1926. A criminal

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century.

Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions.
Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935.

1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first.

2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.

3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own.

4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections.

5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked.

6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: "We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years." The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to.

7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march.
Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.

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Lindsay Clancy and the reversion of feminism.

Women spent generations fighting to be treated as full moral agents, not as creatures governed by reproductive biology. Clancy absolution is predicated on the idea that women lack full judgment, responsibility and self-command.

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@Phil_Johnson_ In addition notice two sad aspects 1) people jumping to the conclusion that this was divine wrath for an ungodly nation and no one mentioning Luke 13. 2) all these fake stories about a “Chinese dam”.

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@RECABARREN @Osint613 Where ? This is already high mountains

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@BoraBornova @Osint613 With the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you
Don’t sentence yourself to death accusing others

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@Villiers99010De @Osint613 Zero

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@Tranquility8888 @Osint613 Florida ?

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@bennyk9f6h @Osint613 Like New Orleans ?

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@RealAndrewPery @Phil_Johnson_ Be careful about sentencing. with the same
Measure you are measuring it will be surely measured to you.

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@Protestia And who is william Craig

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https://t.co/sJfmEUg7Gd

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@AndrewZywiecMD What is you point apart from self aggrandizement?

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How Russia and China are helping North Korea dodge sanctions https://t.co/3SQMCDlYBJ

All these conservative fools. They blame Russia and china. And now Trump debased them by cutting deals with Kim. Like in Venezuela and Syria. Same cloth

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Two of America’s most idealistic presidents, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, followed an era of Johnsonian-Nixonian cynicism. ….May the pendulum swing again to idealists before America swirls down a not-so-tidy bowl of metastasizing lawlessness.

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This letter from JohnNetwon author of Amazing Grace should be affixed at the beginning and end of many sermons by calvinists.

https://t.co/mtxQe8haGa