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[Matt Fradd @RealMattFradd]

Tolkien Expert: You don't understand the Lord of the Rings.

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@hochbergjason @JayDyer @jordanbpeterson Where’s this from?

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Krzysztof is kooking

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Voltaire – the fake antidote to Rousseau

He is the most entertaining man of the eighteenth century and the most seductive trap in Western intellectual history. He seems like the cure for Rousseau. He is the other half of the disease.

1. Where Rousseau is emotional, Voltaire is rational. Where Rousseau weeps over the noble savage, Voltaire mocks. He is the master of devastating wit, precise irony, surgical ridicule. Candide dismantles every naive optimism in ninety pages with the efficiency of a guillotine – which is fitting, since the guillotine is partly what his work made possible.

2. His great weapon is mockery. Écrasez l’infâme – crush the infamous, meaning the Church, tradition, inherited authority. He crushed it. With wit, elegance, and devastating precision. He was right that the Church was corrupt, that the aristocracy was parasitic, that the old order was indefensible in many of its particulars. Being right about what to demolish is not the same as knowing what to build.

3. Voltaire is the demolition crew without an architecture firm. He tears down, magnificently. He offers no replacement – only rubble, and the advice to cultivate your garden. Private. Disengaged. The conclusion of Candide: after every horror, every injustice, every system failure – grow vegetables. This is not wisdom. This is elegant surrender dressed as philosophy.

4. His irony is a solvent. It dissolves corruption, yes – but it dissolves everything, including the things worth keeping. A civilization marinated in Voltairean irony learns to mock every claim to authority, every appeal to tradition, every invocation of duty. This feels like freedom. It is actually vulnerability – a society that has learned to be ironic about everything is defenseless against the person who believes something earnestly enough to act on it. Robespierre was not ironic. He was a true believer. He won.

5. Rousseau gave the revolutionary the emotional fuel: the pure victim, the corrupt oppressor, the righteous rage of nature against civilization. Voltaire provided the intellectual solvent: he dissolved the legitimacy of every institution that might have contained that rage. Together they cleared the ground completely. Robespierre arrived and found no Church, no tradition, no inherited authority with enough credibility to resist him. He simply moved into the vacuum and filled it with the General Will and the guillotine.

6. And when he wasn’t playing "champion of liberty", he was on the payroll of kings, literally. He spent years at Frederick the Great’s court and corresponded adoringly with Catherine the Great, flattering both in print as enlightened monarchs of the age. While he was writing these letters, Frederick and Catherine were carving up Poland – dismembering a European nation, erasing it from the map and subjugating an entire people in one of the great crimes of the eighteenth century. Voltaire knew. He didn’t care. Écrasez l’infâme — crush the infamous — unless the infamous is paying well and lives in a palace in Berlin or St. Petersburg.

7. The contemporary Voltaire is everywhere: the late night host who dismantles everything with devastating wit and proposes nothing. The enlightened cynic who sees through every institution, trusts nothing, builds nothing, and considers this sophistication – while cashing checks from the very system he mocks. The fake antidote doesn’t kill you. It leaves you without defenses when the real disease arrives. Rousseau is the fire. Voltaire is the man who dismantled your fireplace and called it progress – and then went to warm himself at the tsar’s.
Together they produced the French Revolution, with the Terror, and the template for every ideological catastrophe that followed. The most dangerous intellectual partnership in Western history wasn’t a conspiracy. It was two men who despised each other and destroyed the same thing from opposite ends, leaving the ground perfectly prepared for those who came after them with a plan.

[R. Rastapopoulos @RobRastapop]

It’s funny how TV advertising is becoming an archeological artifact to a “lost civilization”

[PJ Ace @PJaccetturo]

Everything they taught you about July 4th, 1776 is a lie.

The Redcoats weren't soldiers. They were something else.

We recovered the real footage using Utopai 🧵👇

[Asian Dawn @AsianDawn4]

🇺🇸🇯🇵 Fireworks and drone show for America's 250th in Tokyo

[Stock Mom™ @stockmom]

I can't stop listening to this song. Best thing that came out of the World cup being in the United States this year. 🇺🇸

Watching this compilation of fans from all over the world at the 2026 World Cup in America is so heartwarming.

USA USA USA 🇺�

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

The European mind simply cannot comprehend a random citizen playing the national anthem with a semi automatic rifle in their backyard shooting range

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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@DionTrades_ YES

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@edgeful @MrZincx IB

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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@jonatanwik @Axdorff Ferdinand Porsche designed tractors (1930s Volkstraktor prototypes; post-war designs licensed as Porsche-Diesel Junior/Standard/Super/Master — ~125,000 built 1950s–1963) and tanks (WWII Tiger (P) prototype; ~90 Ferdinand/Elefant tank destroyers from its chassis; also Maus).

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: Miguel Bosé, the biggest Spanish-language pop star of the last few decades, has just released a video taking a knee and putting his hand over his heart in honour of Henry Nowak

This has now spread like a wildfire. Europe has never been more UNITED! 🇪🇸🇬🇧

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@Itzwaleedggw @1XRISK @BIASHUNTERFX @Awelmo1 @sirrillahfx @Peregrinefx1 @katsinawafx @Nanami_trades @FortuneMMXM @ValeriyBreakout @Romeotpt @Range___Trader What’s indicator name? Is it public

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@jonatanwik @BradyHaran There needs to be a name for this paradox: scandies personally believe they are peak individualistic yet trends in fashion, art, cooking etc are EXTREMELY strong

[Tatum Turn Up @tatumturnup]

This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.

[🇬🇧Lost Britain 🆘 @LostBritainSOS]

So here we have 2 children, one is a racist, violent, far right thug, the other, well I’ll let you decide.

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@ryuz6k1 Can I try it please

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@merkourios_ @romanhelmetguy @restisdross So it’s really a factual error after all? I don’t know which is more shocking