Henry Brandt

Í gröfinni hætta hinir óguðlegu hávaðanum, og þar hvílast hinir örmagna. Bandingjarnir hafa þar allir ró, heyra þar eigi köll verkstjórans.

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

We are taking physically healthy teenagers and removing their sexual organs. Mostly girls. Some boys. We are doing it in the name of compassion and tolerance.

[Malcolm Clark @TwisterFilm]

1./ The truth about Jazz
I've written in @spikedonline about Jazz Jennings who the trans lobby claims is an icon. But his medicalisation has left Jazz sterile, mutilated and unable to have a sex life. Jazz isn't an icon of our era. He's a victim
1 of /11
https://t.co/kplfAXeUaE

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

@D_Tarczynski Diversity is their strength

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@McFaul Thought that was Clinton allowing North Korea to go nuclear, closely followed by Obama allowing Putin to invade Crimea.
But sure, this time with Iran "just be nice" will totally work.

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

@ReddCinema Talk about cutting away too soon - who's directing this thing?

[Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

Impressive. Thank you

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

@lahpodcast @adamsmedia @simonschuster @SimonAudio I suspect the original sounded a little more...growlly.
But don't mean to detract -this is lovely in its own right independent of the question of the original sound. -

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

@PaulGolding Something different looking about this squad - can't quite put my finger on it.

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@libsoftiktok It's popes who are supposed to die in office. What's happening in the Senate is a grisly farce.

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@cathpro3 @BillAckman Yes, no warning. But I have to say - no disrespect meant to Graham - that I was startled to hear he was 71. He looked to be in his eighties.

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

Selfism leads to childlessness.
The biblical phrase about the wages of sin comes to mind.

[Dr. Maximilian Krah MdB @KrahMax]

Eine kinderlose Gesellschaft ist auch immer eine kinderfeindliche. Es ist eine umfassende Kultur des Todes.

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

@horrormuseum Exactly! May have been the remake that convinced me there was really something to these talking pictures.

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

@horrormuseum Apologies for being obscure, but the sound version 1930 easily beat the silent of 1923. Really worth finding - the sound Green Goddess is close to perfect.

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

@mkraju Why do senators insist on behaving like popes? It's insane.

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

@EFischberger @StealthMedical1 71? He looked 85. Have they been slowly poisoning him for years?

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

@Antiwarauntie @TonySeruga Try harder please

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

@ShitpostRock A refutation, not a logical fallacy

[Edward Dutton @jollyheretic]

Yes, people frequently drive from Yorkshire to Devon to murder elderly conservative politicians for entirely non-political reasons, such as disliking the similes in their novels. We are at late-stage Soviet levels of official lying.

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

@eAsiaMediaHub @SebGorka The man isn't the country. I'm right wing, but the president's image has no business in anyone's passport. How would you feel if it were Kamala Harris in there?

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.

A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

[Henry Brandt @istoothin]

@KrutikaKuppalli @HelenBranswell People care more or less about others based on perceived affinity. This doesn't strike me as particularly perverse.

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@nguyenhdi @IonaItalia The educated part of S's audience didn't have to worry about maths (aside from geometry) or science - their formal education was almost entirely rhetorical. Being able to pull an unusual word like incarnadine out of your sleeve would have been an expected part of socializing.