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Foundry Lead for Galco

[John Wright @johncwright2001]

I did not used to believe this. I was very much an egalitarian, and favored the sexual revolution.
But the experiment has been run. The results are unambiguous.

Feminism harms women rather than saves them. Feminism feminizes men,erodes family bonds, butchers children

Enough.

[John Ringo SF Author @Jringo1508]

Great idea. Get a woman to write an article about why boys won't read.

A woman who has never read and enjoyed a book that was designed for a boy to read in her entire life.

Do better.

(56 books with my name on them in B&N. So, sure, get some unpublished nobody to write the story.)

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

Saburo Sakai was the greatest Japanese fighter ace to survive the war. Sixty-four confirmed kills. Flew the Zero against the P-40, the P-38, the Hellcat, and the Corsair.

Over Java, in early 1942, he caught a lone American DC-3 transport plane in his gunsight. An easy kill. Standard target. He closed to point-blank range.

Then he looked into the cockpit.

The cockpit was full of women and children, Dutch civilian refugees trying to get out of the East Indies ahead of the Japanese advance. One of the women, holding a baby, looked out the side window straight into Sakai's canopy.

Sakai did not fire.

He broke off, saluted the woman, and let the DC-3 fly west into the sun.

Years later, in American interviews, he explained himself plainly.

"I am a samurai. My father's father was a samurai. We do not shoot women and babies. If my ancestors saw me fire into that cockpit, I would not be able to meet them when I died."

Five months later, over Guadalcanal, Sakai took a .50 caliber round through the canopy of his Zero. The bullet went through his head. It blinded his right eye and tore open his skull.

By every medical reasonable expectation he should have gone down.

He flew his damaged Zero four hours and 650 miles over the Pacific, bleeding into his flight suit, half-blind, repeatedly losing consciousness. He landed it, intact, on Rabaul.

He survived the war with one eye.

After the war, Saburo Sakai did not hate Americans. He became a Buddhist. He said in interviews that he had killed too many men already and would not do it again, not even in his own thoughts. He corresponded for years with former American Navy pilots who had been his opponents.

When American pilots began visiting Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to pay respects to Japanese pilots they had shot down, it was Saburo Sakai who met them at the gate and walked them in. Enemy pilot. Enemy pilot. Both with white hair. Side by side, bowing at the memorial of men they had tried to kill.

"We were warriors," Sakai told one American interviewer. "Now we are old. Only the young should hate. The old should remember."

Japan had Zamperini forgiveness. Japan had Fuchida reconciliation. Japan also had Saburo Sakai, who refused to fire at women, took a bullet through the head, and spent his old age walking American pilots into Yasukuni.

Warriors recognize warriors.

Even after the war is gone.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In December 1952 a young New Zealand writer was days away from a lobotomy, with her mother's signature already on the consent form. The operation was cancelled only because the hospital superintendent happened to read in his newspaper that her first book had won the country's top literary prize. She had never had the illness they were treating.

Janet Frame was a shy, red-haired teacher's college student from a poor railway family in Otago. In 1945, at 21, she had a breakdown, and within weeks she was committed to Seacliff Mental Hospital outside Dunedin and diagnosed with schizophrenia. She looked the condition up in a textbook and found it described as a slow, incurable deterioration of the mind. She spent most of the next eight years being proved right by the people treating her.

Over those years she was given more than 200 rounds of electroconvulsive therapy, unmodified, with no anaesthetic and no muscle relaxant. She said later that it shredded her memory. In between she wrote. A friend gathered her stories and got them published in 1951, as The Lagoon, while she was still a patient.

By late 1952 the doctors had decided the next step was a prefrontal leucotomy, cutting the connections at the front of her brain to make her calmer. Her mother, told it was for the best, signed. Janet counted down the days.

Then the superintendent, Dr Geoffrey Blake-Palmer, came onto the ward holding a newspaper. The Lagoon had won the Hubert Church Memorial Award. He told her he had decided she should stay as she was. The operation was cancelled.

In 1957, at the Maudsley Hospital in London, a team of psychiatrists examined her properly and told her she had never had schizophrenia. They said she should never have been put in a mental hospital at all, and that most of what was wrong with her by then had been caused by her time on the wards.

She went on to become New Zealand's greatest novelist. Her autobiography became An Angel at My Table, Jane Campion's film. She received the Order of New Zealand, the country's highest honour, and was talked about for the Nobel Prize. She died in 2004, at 79, with her mind intact.

The women in the beds around her at Seacliff had no book in the newspaper.

[Donut Operator 🍩 @DonutOperator]

Before I made videos about police incidents, I wrote hundreds of articles about them.

The first thing I ever made that went viral was an article titled "Proof That The News Media Is Inciting A Race War."

71,000 shares. I was damn proud of that.

I wrote it 10 years ago and it still holds up.

Link below.

[Kristin Sokoloff @ksoklower48]

🚨 BRITISH COUPLE CONFRONTED OVER REMEMBRANCE DAY POPPIES!

Imagine being harassed in your own country for honoring the men and women who sacrificed their lives for it.

Absolutely DISGUSTING. A British couple confronted at London's Victoria Station while wearing Remembrance Day poppies, and the woman ends up in tears.

These poppies honor those who fought and died for their country. The sheer disrespect is infuriating.

Britain, what the hell is happening to your country?!

[Dr. Sydney Watson @SydneyLWatson]

@piersmorgan Sorry this isn't the UK where people are imprisoned for offending Muslims. Womp, womp.

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

How the Fake News Legacy Media work:-

The same poor Ukrainian Man with the same poor Dog keeps getting bombed by Russia in different locations every year

Except he doesn’t…..

[Frank McCormick @CBHeresy]

Someone just left this at my door.

I’m traumatized by this act of anti-Irish racism.

Please give me some space while I discuss this very difficult time on national television.

[Naomi Seibt @NaomiSeibt]

You know it’s Christmas time when the imported Mohammeds crash their car into Germans.🎄

[Neo @Realneo101]

Okay. Fuck you. Fuck Islam. Fuck Palestine. My turn.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

UPDATE: The district released a statement saying that the school aide present on the bus has been put on leave following this incident.

The district also stated that they "regret the delay in promptly notifying parents of the incident."

The district and local police are now reportedly investigating the brutal attack.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🙏

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

A long time ago a guy said that a certain house was infested with cockroaches.
Polite people didn't believe him.
So that guy turned on a light to reveal there were a bunch of cockroaches scurrying around a room. He said, "See? Look. I told you there were roaches."
The cockroaches were extremely upset by this and threw quite the epic cockroach tantrum.
After being told he was no longer welcome in that diseased, roach infested, crack house (which the cockroaches burned down in a fit of arson anyway) the guy who turned on the light moved on with his life (and wrote like 27 books since then)
12 years later cockroaches still curse the man who flipped that switch, claiming that he bullied those poor cockroaches, and they want everyone to know that light switch man is universally loathed by all cockroaches everywhere. And they are very loud about it.
The cockroaches are incapable of understanding why this man doesn't care that cockroaches despise him, and assume that he must be emotionally devastated by their tiny insect hate.

In totally unrelated news, I don't know why Sad Puppies is all over X again right now. 😀

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

I have to say this … even if it’s unpopular.

Again, I don’t know if he’s innocent or guilty but it’s impossible to get anything but a kangaroo Court in the UK. They arrest conservatives for free speech. They’ve basically sentenced him to death, for over 20 year old allegations, with zero evidence, only he said, she said, evidence. They’re about to do the same to the Tate brothers. Who have not been charged with anything in the USA, and are being held with no bail, all on charges from the commie UK. While they hold a U.S. citizenship. Again don’t send me nasty grams, I don’t care what you think about the Tate brothers, but they’ll never get a fair trial in the Commie UK / either charge them in the USA and give them a fair trail and their day in court, but if you send them to the communist UK, they’ll get their lives cancelled, guilty or innocent.

The UK never does this to liberals only to people who speak out and are conservative

The UK charged Julian Assange falsely of rape for years. Never forget what they’ll do.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Yes, I have made millions and millions of dollars doing comedy and I have been doing it for over 30 years and I continue to make millions doing comedy. So yes I make my living doing comedy

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

It’s wild that we broke this over five years ago and it’s going viral now.

[Curt Schilling @gehrig38]

Tell me your an idiot, understand NOTHING about the HOF ballot and made the vote about you, and not the players, without saying ANY of those things. 5th most hits all time, 5th. Not 5th in the decade or 5th during his career, 5th all time. You're an idiot and should never EVER be allowed to vote on anything beyond dog catcher. #clown ANY voter who does not vote for a player receiving 90%+ support should lose their ballots, same with the idiots who vote for a guy as their sole vote. Anyone who votes for a player receiving less than 5% should lose their ballots too.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

After some recent trends, I finally decide to read the Harry Potter books.

And I came away with something I didn't expect.

I came away with an understanding of what makes a generationally beloved classic.

It isn't authorial skill. Rowling is certainly talented, but, at least at the time, she was also relatively unpolished, and the series has plenty of rough patches. Uneven pacing, awkward plots, exposition dumps, two-dimensional secondary characters. I could write quite a few lines about what might be fixed. And I probably will at some point.

But none of that matters.

Because a generationally beloved classic is almost never the best book of a generation. A generationally beloved classic is the book that most perfectly captures what that generation yearns for.

Hogwart's School of Wizardry did that for millennials, just as the quest to destroy the One Ring did so for the boomers.

Boomers grew up hearing tales of recent history, and the heroism of previous generations, who got us through the great depression, and the great war. Their father, or grandfathers, or both, were heroes. But they were left growing up in the 1950s, a near-ideal time of growth, happiness, and prosperity.

Near-ideal isn't ideal. Humans need goals. The boomers were left with no great struggles to fight, no great tasks to do, nothing that could make them feel like they measured up.

So they invented something. A new struggle. A moral struggle. They decided that, because the great depression, and the great war, had happened when the institutions of Western Civilization existed, therefore those institutions were responsible. That those institutions needed to be torn down, gutted, and rebuilt in the new Boomer Morality.

This was their great quest, what allowed them to imagine themselves heroes. As an added bonus, it allowed them to imagine that the men who fought WW2 were not. They were, after all, adherents of the old creed.

When the hippies took to the streets, chanting "fascist scum, your time has come", they meant the very same people who had fought the Nazis.

Lord of the Rings dovetailed perfectly into this narrative. Its central struggle, its great quest, is not a martial struggle or a political struggle, but a moral struggle... the quest not to seize an object of power, but to destroy one.

Frodo was not some great warrior, or wise wizard. He was an innnocent, whose virtue was moral worth. The young, unaccomplished, and very small man had to resist the temptations of power, and to destroy it, because it was wicked.

Is it any wonder that the boomers decided to tear down and hollow out the institutions of society, rather than inherit and incrementally improve them?

Even to this day, any younger person who seeks power, wanting to improve the world, is subjected to any number of brain-dead aphorisms about Boromir and the Ring.

Never mind that Tolkien never intended any of this. Never mind that the Ring wasn't a symbol of anything. It was a ring. It was evil not because it represented power... it was simply evil because it was made by evil for evil purposes, and possessed a malign will of its own.

LOTR, the way the boomers read it, fit perfectly into their worldview, and they imagine themselves perpetual revolutionaries, always fighting the evils of power, even now when they are 70 years old and own everything.

Which brings us to millennials. They grew up in the world that the gutting of Western institutions left us. They went to government schools run by characters straight out of a Franz Kafka novel, sent there by parents who inexplicably hated them from the time they were old enough to talk.

When they yearned, they didn't yearn for a great moral struggle, or to tear anything down, or to be revolutionaries.

They yearned for a society that cared about them, for parents who loved them, for a civilization that saw them as the future, and invested in them accordingly.

They wanted to go to Hogwart's. They wanted get a letter by owl, telling them that the reason they didn't quite fit wasn't because they were inadequate, but because they were special.

They wanted to be the special ones, the chosen ones, the boys and girls who lived. And that last sentence may sound a bit conceited... until you realized that when they wanted to be special, they wanted to be special in precisely the way that Harry Potter was special, the way that every child in a healthy family is naturally special... not because he is talented or great, but because his mother loved him.

This is what saved Harry Potter in the inciting incident of his young life. This is what millennials wanted for themselves. Not to be astronauts and war heroes and rock stars, but to fit into a place like Hogwarts. To be mentored by wise and caring elders like Dumbledore. To be part of a community. To have mothers who loved them.

To write a story like this isn't necessarily to understand a generation, because it never seems to happen except by accident.

It is, rather, to help a generation understand itself.

That's why fan fiction, with visions like this picture, matters. Not because it has so large a footprint as to change the world, perhaps, but because it represents the spirit of an age.

It tells us what people want. And if we look carefully, it tells us why.

[Bo Loudon @BoLoudon]

🚨Arnold Schwarzenegger just refused to apologize for being a PROUD REPUBLICAN on Jimmy Kimmel's show.

"The Republican Party freed the slaves."

There's nothing wrong with being a Republican!