Michael Sebastian

Fan of Western civilization and American Founding.

[aqualover420 @aqualover420]

Resentment politics always, always leads to you adopting left wing frame for the world. Resentment against boomers, against the rich, against America, against Israel/jews, all of it just results in the same fucking thing: supporting leftism, aka the culmination of resentment

[Matt Forney @mattforney]

Oil prices are significantly lower than they were at this time in 2022 and are barely higher than before the war began.

Are you retarded?

[Battle Beagle @HarmlessYardDog]

The Last Men of the Revolution

[Nathan Halberstadt 🧊 @NatHalberstadt]

Meanwhile, America (2026)

[Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring]

@PrincepsStultus There’s video of her meeting some MMA dude. I was cringing for Zuck.

[Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring]

Zuck met his wife while they were both at Harvard long before he became a billionaire. Once you get rich, the question always arises: Does she really love me or does she just love my money?

[0x阿豆｜Gate美股0费率 @0xadou]

扎克伯格那么有钱，为啥还要找一个相貌平庸的女人做老婆？

[Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring]

@minordissent It’s AI

[captive dreamer @captive_dreamer]

Good little thread here; we saw some of this mentality survive into the 20th century in the lives of types like Jünger and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle; in would hesitate to call it “irrational” honor and courage; it seems more like a firm and resolute sense of self.

[Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring]

@TiloJacs Yes, life is changing. Can’t go back to the past.

[Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring]

This America is long gone where I live, but I remember it from my childhood.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed my lawn mowed. I asked an American for the name of a company.

He said, "Get a kid."

A kid. Not a service. A child.

I asked which kid.

"Any of 'em."

I asked where one obtains a kid. There is no directory. There is no listing.

He said, "Ask around."

I asked around. Two days later a fourteen year old named Cody was standing on my porch.

He did not bring a mower. Nobody told me this part. The kid uses your mower and your gas. He brings arms.

I asked his rate.

He said, "Whatever."

Whatever. A negotiation had opened and the other party declined to attend.

A blade drawn against no opponent must be returned to the sheath in silence.

I put my wallet away.

So I conducted research. I asked four adults what the correct amount was.

Four numbers. Twenty. Forty. Twenty five. One man said he gave a kid fifty once and could not remember why.

There is no rate. There has never been a rate. An entire national labor market runs with no published price and every participant is somehow satisfied.

I looked up the state minimum wage. I timed the work. I arrived at a defensible figure and I paid it.

My neighbor watched this from his driveway.

Later he came over and told me, kindly, that I had underpaid.

I said the amount exceeded the legal minimum.

He said, "Yeah, but he's a kid."

THE PRICE IS NOT THE PRICE. THE PRICE IS THE PRICE PLUS SOMETHING NO MAN ON THIS STREET WILL SAY OUT LOUD.

So I corrected. I overcorrected. Sixty dollars for forty minutes.

The same neighbor came back over.

"Alright. Don't ruin him."

There is a floor and there is a ceiling. Neither is written anywhere. Both are enforced by men standing in driveways with their arms folded.

The samurai who cannot read the room dies in the room.

I have been dying in this room since June.

Cody was thirsty. I did not offer him water, because he had not asked, and a warrior does not name another warrior's weakness.

My wife told me he is fourteen and it is ninety one degrees. I now leave a bottle on the step where he can take it without being seen taking it.

I asked my neighbor why the whole street does this. Why grown men pay a boy more than the work is worth and then pretend not to have noticed.

He said, "You're not buying a lawn."

Then he went inside, because apparently that was a complete explanation.

Cody has cut my grass eleven times. He is saving for a truck. I know the exact figure because he told me, unprompted, in August, sweating, holding my own mower.

Last week a family moved in three houses down. The man came over and asked if I knew anybody who cuts grass.

I said, "I got a kid."

I heard what that sounded like. I did not correct it.

He is nine hundred dollars from the truck.

A mountain is not asked to be smaller. A mountain is walked around, at night, quietly, by a man with a truck payment he intends to make on someone else's behalf.

I have started mentioning him to people.

[a16z crypto @a16zcrypto]

Crypto is at a pivotal moment.

As Congress debates landmark market structure legislation, Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon discuss the decisions that could shape where the next generation of financial infrastructure is built, and whether the United States remains the global leader in crypto innovation:

00:00 Intro
05:31 From crypto subculture to financial infrastructure
08:37 Why crypto needs rules now
12:20 The regulatory war on crypto
15:41 How CLARITY could prevent another FTX
22:42 Why criminals using crypto may be easier to catch
26:20 Privacy, blockchains, and the invention of HTTPS
30:41 Government ethics and crypto
34:52 The banking lobby’s stablecoin fight
37:05 Why every major bank is building on blockchains
41:04 Developer liability as a killshot
45:23 How CLARITY provides oversight
49:30 What happens if CLARITY fails?
50:50 Regulation vs. innovation
54:12 Why America should lead
55:36 What CLARITY could unlock

@pmarca @cdixon @rhackett

[Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring]

Instead of importing infinity migrants for government bucks, perhaps the Church in the US should have been encouraging Catholic marriages. Short term thinking.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Crookston in Minnesota, USA, will stop holding Sunday Mass at seven churches as it grapples with a shortage of priests, declining attendance, and shrinking rural populations.

Bishop Andrew Cozzens called the decision "one of the most difficult" of his ministry, citing aging congregations, a lack of young people in religious formation, too few volunteers, and too few priests to sustainably serve every parish.

The closures will reduce the diocese from 65 to 58 parishes.
The bishop also warned that some northern Minnesota counties are projected to lose 40% to 60% of their population over the next 20 years, further straining parish life.

[Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring]

@TiloJacs Birthrates are collapsing all over the world including South & Central America. Korea, China and Japan have lower birthrates than the US but still don’t import many migrants.

[Hitchslap @Hitchslap1]

Many still believe in the blank slate or put too much stock in the shared environment.

With IQ for example, the effects of the shared environment basically go to zero in adulthood.

[Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring]

Being a low trust society means you have to put up with huge eyesores in your public spaces.

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

We shouldn’t have to live like this

[Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring]

@FredSimonTLM Incredible accompaniment!

[captive dreamer @captive_dreamer]

The obvious rejoinder to this is to ask what cultural and civilizational impact will the Amish have left the world when their time has come and gone? Nothing really.

[Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring]

Interesting that when Muslims run for office, it is never on a platform to restore trad values. Natural conservative things.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Straight men do not do this

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The socialists are all rich theater kid scammers. All of them.

[Kevin DeAnna @VDAREJamesK]

It's easier to get a guy elected to a Board of Education somewhere than it is to overthrow the government, and if you can't do the former, you're not going to do the latter.

Anti-system solutions are the desperate alternative and require more organization and work, not less.