Promethea Bloodworth

Science enthusiast, cosmic horror addict, Enlightenment romantic.
To believe incorrectly is never a crime but simply to believe is never to have knowledge.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

We really shouldn't pretend we didn't know better. We just didn't want to be honest.

[Promethea Bloodworth @P_Unbound]

Yes it's interesting isn't it? That wasn't genocide because it wasn't intentional while war in Gaza is because even if Israel doesn't mean to do it, they're just incompetently killing just a few terrorists at the price of countless civilians.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Most global legal systems and historians distinguish between premeditated murder (such as the Holocaust) and deadly policy failures.

Mao did not explicitly set out to starve his own populace. That said, he bears immense historical responsibility because he was warned repeatedly about the ongoing mass starvation, yet chose to ignore reports, silence critics, and export grain abroad to project economic success.

The asymmetry is however, exhausting. On one side conservatives are painted as evil fascists for wanting low crime and secure borders, while leftist regimes rack up death counts but get to play the moral trump card because apparently they "mean well." It gives them undue benefit of the doubt and allows ideologues to launder mass death as incompetence.

Stop granting the moral monopoly to the side with the bigger mass graves

[Promethea Bloodworth @P_Unbound]

@robkhenderson The woke stuff doesn't stop at casting though. He could have injected christian morality and still kept more of Odysseus' personality, kept his love for his wife, his wit etc. for example. The problem is that Nolan also removed a lot of values that would still be relevant today.

[Promethea Bloodworth @P_Unbound]

Richiesta raccolta dati statistici sulla violenza domestica maschile - Firma la petizione! https://t.co/7bkztHEL0O via @ChangeItalia

[Promethea Bloodworth @P_Unbound]

I don't deny this, but personally, what holds me back is the islamo-leftist alliance, attempts to replace capitalism with corporate communism, lack of social cohesion, widespread anti-white racism, media dishonesty, and gender propaganda.

[Dr. Debra Soh - SEXTINCTION is here @DrDebraSoh]

No amount of government incentives, like baby bonuses or tax breaks, will increase the fertility rate until the underlying issue is resolved:

Most people aren’t interested in coupling up anymore.

And those who are, can’t find the right person.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Will CNN report it? Yet member nations are still giving billions to this organization so it can be turned to into weapons, tunnels, and propaganda.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

My American friends invited me to dinner. It was wonderful.

Then, at 9 o'clock, someone said the sacred words: "Well! We should get going."

I rose. I gathered my coat. A clean farewell. We would part now.

We did not part now.

This was not a goodbye. This was the ANNOUNCEMENT of a goodbye.
A goodbye, I would learn, has many stages, and we had completed only the first.

For we then talked, standing, for twenty more minutes.
About a road. About the road they would take to drive home.
The conversation about leaving had become longer than the dinner.

We reached the door. "Okay! Goodnight!" Surely now.

No. At the door, a SECOND conversation began. A fresh one.
Someone remembered a story. We laughed. We were not leaving. We were thriving.

We moved to the porch. Stage three. The night air. New topics emerged.
The host, in his socks, in the cold, would not go back inside while a guest remained.
The guest would not get in the car while the host stood in the cold. A perfect deadlock of courtesy.

We reached the cars. Stage four. The driveway summit. The final boss.
Standing by the open car door, we discussed, in depth, plans to do this again —
the very event we were currently, allegedly, ending.

It was now 10:30. The "goodbye" was ninety minutes old. It had outlived the meal.

I understand it now. The long goodbye is not a failure to leave.
It is the meal's dessert. The reluctance IS the affection, made visible and stretched as long as it will go.

So I have learned to honor it.

Last week I left a friend's house.
The goodbye was so warm, so complete, so beautifully extended,
that we finished it standing in his driveway at midnight,
and I was so moved I invited him to MY house —

and he is here now. We are having dinner.

I can see, in his eyes, he is already thinking about the road home.

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

He’s lying. It isn’t his “universal values” at work here. Ask him why he attends the Pakistan Independence Day celebrations in Brooklyn year after year while boycotting Israel Day events. Pakistan is an actual one-religion ethnostate by law (unlike Israel, btw).

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The Crisis in the Humanities Is Not About Money: "Critical theory did not merely politicize scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce" (anyone could get a dissertation out of showing that some work was really an instrument of oppression). Abraham Wyner cites a phenomenon I've long noticed: for an academic movement to get traction, it has to give grad students & junior scholars something to do. Chomsky dominated linguistics in part because he revised his theory every decade or so, sending linguists scrambling to reanalyze every construction in the new theory's terms. In the 80s and 90s neural networks spawned hundreds of papers called "A Connectionist Model of X," followed by the cognitive neuroscience revolution in which anyone could get a thesis out of sticking people in a magnet while they did some familiar experimental task. https://t.co/gguNcI0DFm

[wanye @xwanyex]

It means quite straightforwardly that natives have less political power, because their votes are a smaller share of the overall electorate.

Newcomers do not merely “coexist” alongside you. They form political coalitions. They vote.

Even physical space in a city is to some extent zero sum. The old burger joint is either a burger place or it’s a halal shop. It can’t be both at the same time. And if the burger shop becomes a halal shop, then it’s not coexisting with the burger shop.

A city will have a character. It will look like something. The buildings will look like something. The buildings will contain various kinds of activities and if they contain those specific activities, then they don’t contain other activities.

Norms, too, compete. There will be rules around queuing, as in England. And as the English are finding out, people either queue or they don’t. You can’t have a situation where the people who queue coexist alongside the people who don’t.

What you see in our discourse is that wherever White norms come into conflict with immigrant or minority norms, the elite consensus is that the White norms are stodgy and oppressive and should just simply give away to the black and brown norms, which are superior.

These are all random examples, but this plays out in every detail. Immigration affects the most significant features of a culture’s ethos, its spirit, all the way down to its most trivial aesthetics.

If you change the people in a society, then you change the society. And you don’t just change it in random ways. You make it more like the people you’re bringing in and less like the people who are already there, proportionally.

Later in the thread, Cathy pivots to the empty truism that, well, you know, cultures change over time. What are you going to do? You can’t stop it.

But this is the position that because cultures sometimes change in ways that are unpredictable and difficult to control, we should not be allowed to prevent ours from changing in predictable ways that are really quite easy to control.

This is like saying, well, sometimes marriages drift apart naturally, honey, so I don’t really see why I shouldn’t be allowed to move my girlfriend into the house.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

"Ironically, people who see themselves as victims often feel entitled to mistreat others. The implicit moral logic seems to be 'because I’ve been wronged, I can do no wrong.'"

https://t.co/F4bTXnnZtx

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

Colonialism is bad, right?

Wrong.

The Aztec Empire ran sacrifice at industrial scale. Excavations of the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack next to the Templo Mayor, have uncovered hundreds of skulls of men, women, and children. Spanish eyewitnesses described tens of thousands. The Aztecs fought "Flower Wars" whose purpose was capturing live victims for the altar. Hearts were cut out of living people. Subject peoples hated Aztec rule so much that Tlaxcalans made up most of Cortes's army. The conquest was largely an indigenous uprising against an indigenous empire. The sacrifices ended under Spanish rule.

India: burning a widow alive on her husband's funeral pyre. British records from Bengal alone documented thousands of cases between 1815 and 1828. The British, with Indian reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, banned it in 1829. When priests told General Napier it was sacred custom, he answered: my nation also has a custom, we hang men who burn women alive. You follow yours, we will follow ours.

India: Thuggee cults murdered travelers by the tens of thousands over centuries as offerings to Kali. It was a hereditary profession. William Sleeman's campaign in the 1830s wiped it out.

Slavery was a universal indigenous institution. Dahomey and Ashanti were built on slave raiding and sold captives for a thousand years to Arab traders before any European ship arrived. Pacific Northwest tribes held up to a quarter of some village populations as slaves and killed them ceremonially at potlatches. The Comanche ran a captive-raiding economy across the Southwest. What colonizers introduced after 1807 was the first attempt in history to abolish slavery globally. The Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron spent fifty years hunting slave ships and freed about 150,000 Africans. African kings protested. The King of Bonny complained that abolition was destroying a trade ordained by his gods and priests.

The Dahomey kingdom's "Annual Customs" beheaded hundreds of captives and slaves every year to honor dead kings. Documented by European visitors for two centuries. It ended when France conquered Dahomey in 1894.

Sailors called Fiji the Cannibal Isles. Chief Ratu Udre Udre kept a stone for every victim he ate. His pile holds nearly 900. Shipwrecked sailors were killed and eaten. Within a generation of missionaries and British administration after 1874, the practice was gone.

Nigeria: In parts of Igboland, newborn twins were left in the bush to die and their mothers ostracized or killed. Missionary Mary Slessor spent decades in Calabar rescuing abandoned infants until the practice collapsed.

Indigenous genocide of indigenous people. In 1835, two Maori tribes invaded the Chatham Islands and slaughtered the Moriori, whose own law forbade them to fight back. They killed, enslaved, and ate them. The Moriori population fell from about 2,000 to barely 100. No European did this. British colonial law ended it.

Add headhunting in Borneo, the Philippines, and Nagaland. Female infanticide in India and Polynesia. Foot binding in China, dismantled partly by missionary campaigns. Every one of these ended under pressure from the colonial powers we are taught to treat as history's unique villains.

Colonialism was not charity. The Belgian Congo was a horror, conquest was for profit, and rule was without consent. But the ledger has two sides and one has been erased. Pre-colonial societies practiced slavery, human sacrifice, widow burning, infanticide, and genocide, because cruelty is not a European invention. The first civilization that tried to abolish these practices worldwide is the one you were taught to be ashamed of.

If "indigenous" means innocent and "colonizer" means guilty by definition, that is not history.

[BLACKSTAR @Art444Star]

The misuse of the concept of "coding" has destroyed so much discourse and warped so many people's minds

Because most of the time people use it to validate their very subjective interpretation of a piece of art

"I see orcs as black people" = subjective, weak, easy to pick apart

"orcs are black coded" = objective, strong, harder to counter

"I see this character as a child" becomes "this character is child coded"

"I see goblins as Jews" becomes "goblins are Jewish coded" etc.

"I'm touch-starved" becomes "Every single friendship between two characters of the same sex is secretly queer coded"

"I'm a narcissist with validation issues" becomes "Every single gender-non-conforming character is trans coded"

But the fact remains that more often than not, by a massive margin, this is still your subjective interpretation of the art, you've just couched it in stronger terms, for the sake of making it harder to argue against

And, again far more often than not, the reasoning is pure Rorschach test level bullshit, whether you're just primed to get mad over something or just wanting to culturally colonise something, or motivated reasoning to the point of schizophrenia (e.g. It doesn't feel like something exists, but because it doesn't exist, means that it does exist)

The irony being that, if you use this play, you must sacrifice the "all art is subjective" argument, because the two are irreconcilable

You don't get to say that all interpretations of a piece of work are valid and at the same time that your apophenia overrules someone else's meaningful, reasoned analysis of the actual content of the work

Of course when you press them in it they will crumble and admit that it is just interpretation or headcanon

At which point they use "all art is subjective" as a shield, because none of this was never about anything but whatever makes them feel good and forcing you to accept it

[Promethea Bloodworth @P_Unbound]

@japan_nobunaga Kellogg's coco pops and Kellogg's special K

[Promethea Bloodworth @P_Unbound]

@japan_nobunaga @JustinBrowsin Do you have a way to vote against this or are all your political factions willing to "try" this "experiment on their country anyway despite knowing the consequences it had everywhere else?

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

True. When Capital in the Twenty-First Century came out, every journalist was fawning over Piketty. He was a visionary, a genius, an academic rockstar, the most important intellectual alive. Finally, someone had proven with numbers everything we'd always believed!

So I'm rather flattered now that @PikettyWIL once called me "stupid," "disturbing," and "foolish" for suggesting that billionaire philanthropy might actually be a net good, and preferable to taxing billionaires out of existence (he doesn't know me — he was just responding to a journalist).

Piketty is one of those leftists who thinks extreme wealth is a greater evil than extreme poverty, and is even prepared to jeopardize the fight against poverty if only he could eradicate billionaires.
https://t.co/z1s3nDluiO

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

You want to know what's worse than incompetence? Knowing the truth and burying it anyway.

They knew. That's the bit nobody is saying. They knew.

Two days after Henry died Hampshire Police secretly recorded Digwa in a police van speaking Punjabi to his brother. Digwa admitted stabbing Henry. Discussed claiming self defence. Made zero mention of racial abuse. Not one word.

Hampshire Police had that tape.

They knew Digwa was lying about the racist attack. They had the evidence. They had his own words and then tried to smear Henry as the aggressor anyway.

Three days after his death their statement read “it was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.” Henry was the unknown man. The boy bleeding out on the street. They flipped it.

Family complained. Statement changed. Then police told the family their NEXT update would again infer Henry was the initial aggressor. His family had to fight them a second time. While grieving their murdered son.

Then during the trial Hampshire tried to issue a statement telling the public to stop talking about it online. Calling it disinformation. The CPS had to step in. Told them they were about to collapse their own murder case.

This is the force that handcuffed a dying boy. Missed the murder weapon twice. Had a secret tape proving the killer lied. And still tried to bury Henry's name.

That's not incompetence. That's a machine protecting itself. At the expense of a dead boy's reputation and three officers are still on active duty. Not suspended. Treated as witnesses. To their own actions.

Hampshire Police didn't just fail Henry on that street. They kept failing him for six months after he died.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Great article.

“ The UN has become one of the most dangerous instruments in modern geopolitics. Authoritarian regimes are using the UN’s prestige to normalise their behavior, conceal their crimes and peddle anti-Western propaganda. It should terrify all of us that the world’s most trusted watchdog has been successfully leveraged as a PR firm for tyrants.”

https://t.co/scgJQ6REmR

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[6ɪx��� @ok6ixx]

I was waiting at a crosswalk in Tokyo. The traffic light was red but no cars were coming. A bunch of people were waiting anyway.

The tourist next to me said to his friend "why is everyone waiting? There's no cars."

He started to cross. An old woman said something to him in Japanese. He didn't understand and ignored her.

She stepped in front of him, blocking his path. Said more firmly in Japanese, pointing at the light.

A Japanese guy nearby translated for the tourist: "She says you must wait for the green light. Even if there are no cars. That is the rule."

Tourists got annoyed. "That's a stupid rule. There's literally no cars."

The translator told the old woman what he said. She responded in Japanese.

The translator said: "She says rules are not about cars. Rules are about respect for order. If everyone follows rules only when convenient, society breaks down. You wait for the green light because that is what civilized people do. Not because of cars. Because of civilization."

The tourist kind of scoffed but stopped trying to cross.

The light turned green. The old woman smiled at him, gestured for him to go ahead of her.

As we all crossed, the translator said to me quietly "she is right, you know. We follow small rules so we can trust each other with big rules."

That stuck with me. The idea that waiting at an empty crosswalk isn't about traffic. It's about proving to each other that we're all willing to follow rules even when no one would know if we didn't.