Ogre Magus

Cold be hand and heart and bone and cold be sleep under stone never more to wake on stony bed never till Sun fails and Moon be dead

[Arthur Bloom @j_arthur_bloom]

Republicans these days will do all this WASP aesthetic-posting and then be like MORMONS ARE CHRISTIAN as if every dry Yankee that used to be the core of the party didn't find them completely bizarre.

[Matt Forney @mattforney]

Prison itself is a relatively recent innovation. @CovfefeAnon has written a ton about this: I'll link one of his threads in the replies.

Prior to the 1700s, criminals were either executed or exiled. Incarceration was used almost entirely to hold convicts until they were sentenced. Violent offenders were hanged, non-violent ones were told to GTFO of Dodge within ten days on pain of death. Britain shipped convicts to the Thirteen Colonies prior to the Revolution and Australia afterwards. (Aside: it's funny that Australians puff themselves up over being descended from "convicts." The majority of convicts sent to Australia were from debtors' prisons, the white equivalent of Kool-Aid pineapple enthusiasts.)

Exile was considered tantamount to death throughout most of human history. It meant being stripped of your possessions, permanently separated from your friends and family, and cast into foreign lands where you would be viewed with suspicion at best, where you could not speak the local language. THE SONG OF THE CID starts with El Cid's anguish at being unjustly exiled for this reason; he was booted out of Castile after being accused of robbing the king.

The modern prison system was intended to reform criminals into productive citizens, hence the name "penitentiary": to repent. It only works in a limited number of cases. Libtards have worsened the problem with their anti-death penalty campaigning in one of their longest running motte-and-bailey operations. "Life imprisonment is punishment enough!" Except that libtards also campaign to abolish life imprisonment and have already succeeded in places like Norway, where 21 years is the maximum sentence a judge can hand out.

A rational society would have tried Karmelo Anthony within a week of his crime, then dragged him behind a woodshed and put one in his skull. Just look at him. Zero empathy, zero remorse. The kind of sociopath who was common in Europe before centuries of executing or exiling criminals made it safe. Even a life sentence couldn't teach this freak empathy. He is societal dead weight.

No more cushy Club Fed prisons for rapists and murderers. Time to take a page out of Stolypin's book and letting military tribunals get rid of people like this. A few more Karmelo Anthonys in shallow graves and "changing consumer habits" will change for the better.

[noah @nkreu113r]

About three or four hundred pages* into infinite Jest, there is a footnote which describes a carnival tent within which an event is promoted from opposite sides. In the main entrance, spectators watch performers undergo grotesque degradations and, transfixed by the spectacle, slowly transform into giant gaping eyeballs.

At the side entrance, a promoter advertises the opportunity to watch real human beings turn into man-sized eyeballs, so long as one consents to undergo grotesque degradations.

Many things now seem adjacent to this.

[Laocoon of Troy @LaocoonofTroy]

I don’t know why, but I think this photo is hilarious. You can almost hear the boar:
“She’s ugly! I don’t want to go!
Farmers: “Shut up and grow up. You’re going there and you’re going to mate with her. Period.”
Boar: “You can’t make me!”
Farmers: “Oh?”

[Orcbrand's Kojimaic Matters @kojimaicmatters]

The entirety of society should be built such that it caters to the comfort of guys who fix power lines or operate sewage treatment plants or do plumbing or lay bricks. If a national economy is hostile to the interests of those who maintain its infrastructure, the politicians should all commit seppuku. If your politics aren't going to improve the life of a 40 year old Cincinnati Plumber, they're trash. Seppuku.

[Ogre Magus @One45Wild]

@Eowyn_the_Fair @Callicleez You don't need to pretend to play dumb, you have plenty of brains. Your two paragraphs and my previous sentence and a half amount to the same thing.

[Napoléonos I Tritharsaléos @Brumairian]

I am much more of a "sigh... women" sexist rather than an "ugh... women" sexist.

[Ogre Magus @One45Wild]

@Callicleez Women just hate admitting they want to be led and ordered around.

Unless its a kink.

[JARDINE @oJARDINEo]

Just rewatched Taken with Liam Neeson after years. The grooming, trafficking, racketeering, drugs & prostitution in the film is exactly what Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs have been doing across the UK.

Neeson’s line hits hard.

“You come to this country, take advantage of the system & think because we are tolerant, that we are weak & helpless. Your arrogance offends me.”

[Bx Wood @populusaigeiros]

It really is this simple

[Based in Christ @theistinthought]

Visited Historic Williamsburg, VA today and sat through some presentations on courthouse and legal proceedings then (circa 1700s). It really struck me afresh how severe the laws of the day were; any felony punishable by death without exception (basically). Unabashed and very heavy restrictions around voting rights, land owning, etc. The message was writ large: we will not even let you try to damage this society via crime or irresponsiblity.

I think they understood the potential for and destructiveness of human evil in ways many today do not.

[Ogre Magus @One45Wild]

Kwik Trip is run by an all american family and profit shares with every last employee.

[Kevin DeAnna @VDAREJamesK]

I’ve never met an American gas station owner

[Ogre Magus @One45Wild]

@dyingscribe Try two hundred.

[Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ @GarrettPetersen]

I want to coin a word: Anogamy

From Greek an- (without) -gamy (marriage). An anogamous society is one where most people aren't married or in any kind of romantic relationship at all.

Generational trends point to a transition from monogamy to anogamy across the developed world.

[Ogre Magus @One45Wild]

@MandrakeShriek @AHomelyHouse Speak for yourself!

[The Last Homely House @AHomelyHouse]

I truly believe that the optimal way forward is embracing a Dark Age Mindset. This means:
- Embracing Decline as Opportunity. When the foundations of familiar institutions are shaken, it's a signal to us to stop investing so much effort and dependence on those things, and create new alternatives that actually serve us as people and communities.
-Cultivating Resilient Character and Faith. The folks who did this before were not weak, fragile, or wishy-washy. Get hard.
-Preserve and Transmit Knowledge. If institutions that have historically been responsible for this (looking at you, media and schools) are failing, then it's another opportunity for us to step into decentralized roles as stewards of cultural patrimony, preserving literacy, classical texts, and traditions and educating our own children with this heritage to ensure continuity in a potentially post-literate or tech-degraded world.
-Pursuing Self-Sufficiency and Simplicity. "Ora et labora" was the motto that drove that age forward and upward. But they showed us that simplicity needn't be minimalist or ugly; some of the most durable and beautiful things ever made came from these times.
-Reject Dooming and Be Proactive. No despair. Instead, simplify your processes, improve your skills, and meet your challenges vigorously.
-Foster Creativity in Adversity. Necessity is the mother of invention. But the human person is not merely mechanical; we need beauty, music, good stories, living rituals, significance... Cultivate these things especially in the face of monopolized artificiality.
-Focus on Local and Subsidiarist Action. Subsidiarity is handling matters at the smallest, most local level possible; create "schools for service" (as Benedict did) that prioritize family, home culture, nature, and education over distant, failing institutions. The more responsibility you take up over all the spheres of your living experience, the more you step into sovereignty.

[Lukas (computer) (In SF) 🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

Had dinner with my great aunt a few days ago and explained the concept of breakups. She started weeping uncontrollably

“Oh, my god. How has the world become so evil??”

[Kodiak @Goblinfights]

Autarch is at the very least one of the top 3 tabletop game publishers active currently and the fact that Macris is banned BY NAME from r/rpg is a complete miscarriage of justice that strips that place of any all legitimacy it ever had. A complete joke.