Xibalba

"Existence belongs to the nature of substances."

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Hollywood: We must make Odyssey represent America which is why we need black Helen, trans Achilles, brown Athena, no Greeks, and questionable white men in a 2,500-year-old Greek myth.

Also Hollywood: We must have an all-Polynesian cast to honor the story we made up 5 years ago.

[Mike Kobe (Wild Horse) 🪶 @Oklahoma_Brave]

During King William's war, Abenaki tribesmen killed 15 children in this particular settlement before taking Hannah Duston and her baby.

They killed the baby (presumably to stop it making noise) and when they went to sleep, Hannah slipped out of her bonds and killed ten(!) of the Abenaki in their sleep with a hatchet. She then scalped them, which to me sounds quite reasonable.

She deserves a statue in my opinion.

[Xibalba @humanadei]

@bbrriiaann1024 @Rainmaker1973 Except both are literally monkeys so what are we doing here

[Xibalba @humanadei]

@Rainmaker1973 They didn't do anything for the money it was just handed to them. It's not like they understand the incentive to hoard it

[Xibalba @humanadei]

@YourAnonNews What are the top three line items on the us federal budget

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

>”And if you can’t even understand something that basic, maybe that’s why your country is still stuck behind.”

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

“yOu CaNT gIvE a PErfEct tEXtBoOk dEfiNItIon, sO hOw Do YoU kNoW It’S bAD?!”

Ya dipshit, 99% of people couldn’t explain how cancer works either. Doesn’t mean they’re wrong for thinking it’s bad.

They see it killing people, so they identify it as bad. End of story.

Same thing with socialism. People look at history and see that every socialist society has failed miserably, so they conclude it doesn’t work.

And before you morons jump in the comments screaming “Scandinavia!”those aren’t socialist countries. They’re capitalist countries with large welfare programs. The workers don’t own the means of production. That’s not socialism. It’s capitalism with a generous safety net.

Most of you pro-socialist dipshits can’t give a real definition either, outside of “socialism is the good one with free stuff.”

[wanye @xwanyex]

“Our potential“ posting is lame and pathetic. America is great already. It was great before. It was great during segregation. It was great during slavery. It was great whenever we were overthrowing Latin American regimes. It was great during the red scare. It was great at the time of the alien and sedition acts. It was great during the period of Japanese internment.

It has always been great by comparison to everywhere else in the world at every single moment of its history. There is no moment, no point at which it was not great. It is not waiting to be perfected. It is not good merely because it allows for the potential that it may someday be good.

It has always been better than everywhere else, practically from the moment of its conception.

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

250 years, and your empire has been reduced to a single island the size of Michigan, with a GDP barely higher than Mississippi, the poorest of our fifty states.

Enjoy your warm beer in that unairconditioned old pub.

Don’t talk too much shit online though, you might get arrested.

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

I wanted to sit with the Mamdani July 4th comments for a while before reacting to them.

I think here is my ultimate problem: (And it's not a perfect metaphor, but I think it's a basically accurate one) An immigrant-- especially one who comes from neither a European nor a Christian background like Mamdani, has to come to America like a new Christian comes to Christ.

You make your spiritual breakthrough when you understand that you are bringing nothing to the party. It's not "Jesus+my awesome works"-- it's just Jesus-- he already did everything. You just need to show up and honor him.

Nothing in the background of someone like Mamdani contributed in a meaningful way to the building of America from a small set of colonies hugging the Eastern seaboard to the greatest and most powerful nation the world has ever seen. That's not a moral or personal flaw of Mamdani's. But it is what it is.

My family has been here since the mid-to-late 19th century-- far less time than some and with far less distinguished contributions than others-- but enough time to have contributed to a meaningful way to the building of modern America.

I still absolutely "didn't build that" myself but I'm the rightful inheritor of some of those who did. Mamdani is demanding to share in and even define my inheritance--an inheritance that just doesn't belong to him.

Mamdani's been a citizen for less than a decade. He has nothing to add to the understanding of America. His job right now is just to show up and honor it-- not to formulate new doctrines about it's meaning.

In a few generations, his story and the story of his family may well be part of a new American story-- but he's not there yet, and there are no shortcuts to getting there. That's hard-- personally and on the ego. And not too many immigrants are capable of it-- which is why we need a closed border right now. But in theory, I can welcome someone from any background capable of accomplishing that very difficult task.

As Stephen Tonsor once memorably said in a different context:

"It is splendid when the town whore gets religion and joins the church. Now and then she makes a good choir director, but when she begins to tell the minister what he ought to say in his Sunday sermons, matters have been carried too far.”

Mamdani hasn't even joined the church yet.

And he's trying to tell the pastor what to say in his Sunday sermons.

And that rubs a lot of people the wrong way.

[Real Post Folder @RealPostFolder]

>in future go all the way or don't bother at all

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

When I was a child, my grandfather would sometimes solemnly intone at the dinner table: "The purpose of socialism is to organize scarcity."

As a kid it sort-of didn't register in my brain as meaning anything beyond "socialism bad", but eventually when I was 12 or something, I did ask what he meant by those specific words.

And he said: socialists establish control of valuable resources and then create an artificial scarcity of these resources, so that they can then use them as a tool of control by deciding who gets and doesn't get those resources.

And I thought that was wrong. I mean, are socialists misguided? Sure. But to claim that they deliberately create scarcity as a means of political control? That seemed far-fetched.

But, of course, he was entirely correct.

[Kitten 🐈 @kitten_beloved]

Accepting the premise that any aid is a perpetually binding moral obligation is an excellent reason to never offer any

[wanye @xwanyex]

Most people are running a script that looks something like, “why the fuck would I care about something that benefits somebody who isn’t me.”

The fact that we did not traditionally adopt such illogical, short sighted, antisocial views is what made us exceptional.

[Mises Caucus @LPMisesCaucus]

Excellent. End warrantless mass surveillance!

[HowlingMutant @Howlingmutant0]

There is no political gain to be had from saying this, this is legitimately a man who has contemplated the inner life of grass

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

Benzstradamus strikes again 🔮

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Fight communist influence like you’re the third monkey on Noah’s Ark.

And brother… it’s startin’ to rain.

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

Wait, one of NYC DSA’s leaders is the niece of the guy who runs America’s most influential Chinese communist front?

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

The NYTimes just lies.

“Successfully managed the aftermath of one of the Navy’s biggest fuel spills.”

No. This Lloyd Austin hack didn’t secure America’s fuel supply. He didn’t fix Red Hill. He didn’t replace Red Hill. He shut it down and walked away from our #1 most critical strategic fuel assets.

Then he commandeered old, beat-up US Merchant Marine tankers to drain it, pushed them like a tyrant, and nearly caused a second spill in the process.

Ask how we’re replacing a hardened facility built into the side of a mountain, and the answer is a wave at Austin’s memo: the US Merchant Marine will “distribute the fuel at sea.”

With what tankers? We barely have any left.

He’s complicit in turning my service into floating bullseyes.

I’ve written articles and posted about this for months. It’s a massive strategic risk. I don’t think we’ll have the fuel to evacuate our service members from the Western Pacific in a war, let alone fight China.

He should have been court-martialed.

But did the NYTimes call a single mariner before running this front-page trash?

Of course not.