readeratthepillars

I was supposed to be a reading account, but I can't help but be a reply guy.

This is my eternal struggle.

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@HomericFuturist "Teen takeovers" are bringing the mythical "sundown towns" closer to reality than ever before.

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@m1ndhunter_x @dystopiangf DC dating is so fucking awful. Everyone I know in stable healthy relationships are with out of towners or foreign (euro) imports. Everyone inside the belt way is just here to ladder climb, loot the public sector, and become an untethered from reality WONK.

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@kikisknees A lot, not all, of upper middle class black families (shrinking demo) with a father end up having at least one kid like this. It's always surprising to hear them talk inside baseball about the negrocious shit they've seen amongst their generational cohort.

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@NgoloTesla I read that using AC air recirculation drops the O2 levels in the cabin pretty quickly. Would explain why so many people drive like idiots. 🤣

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@spikesguides @Anchovy_Pizza The Turkish shotgun with the Amazon "Reflex dot" special. Wew. I'm thinking this guy was neither white or black, but instead some secret third thing.

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@PWienerstein69 @XJosh Unlike you, I can read. Do you not understand what quotation marks are used for?

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@greycatcheese Correct for most cases. The group I linked also sells "wild" non-blight resistant chestnuts for planting which are from natural hybrids found in the previous growth zones. I also saw someone talking about a tree in Alabama that survived blight with some resistance apparently.

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@PWienerstein69 @XJosh Having a myopic savior complex over a genetic dead end isn't helping anyone. In fact, it's a selfishly misguided "ticket to heaven" mentality that encourages many white Christians to take on this burden to the detriment of their whole family. This is the opposite of empathy.

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@XJosh Pro life stances subverted to ensure certain ethnicities never move up and out of their current economic position. Or worse, fall into absolute squalor because of it.

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@XJosh When it comes to downs kids, it's very strange how shows and articles encourage destroying your family's life with mountains of medical bills. Every example I've seen is a white family bent over by the medical industry to support a single child at the expense of everyone else.

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@greycatcheese For example:
https://t.co/q79NY7g05o

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@greycatcheese There's a few groups you can request seeds and saplings from, some require membership fees and only sell batches of seeds and saplings in the Spring. If you have enough acreage some groups will even help set up a sapling nursery in an ideal spot on your property.

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@UnderSecPD Those puzzle piece shaped boards are incredible. Love it.

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@1VeryChillDude @interstatejuche Lmfao is he being held at gun point? What up with the laser?

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@mattforney The Industrial Diet and its Consequences

[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.

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@CoreyJMahler @treblewoe The blight most likely came from gifted nursery chestnut trees from China and Japan, by the way.

[RidgeRunner 🇺🇸 @UsaRidge]

Two hundred years ago, a squirrel might've traveled for dozens of miles through Tennessee's forests without ever touching the ground.

Folk lore even claimed a squirrel could travel from the Atlantic to the Mississippi without touching the dirt floor.

Among those forests stood the American chestnut, growing up to 100 feet tall with a trunk diameter of 5-10 feet.

It was one of the most common and important trees in the eastern United States—feeding wildlife, feeding people, and shaping entire ecosystems.

Then a fungal blight arrived.

Within a few decades, somewhere between 3-4 billion trees were gone.

Today, most people in Tennessee couldn't recognize a mature American chestnut in a photo.

That's a remarkable thing when you consider how common the tree once was.

The lesson is simple:

The American chestnut reminds us that stewardship must begin long before something becomes rare.

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@fbaredman @JohnNichol0 This character isn't even Chinese lmfao

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Devastating. Rest in Peace, John. You were a visionary of a future that has yet to come.

[Chainsword @Chainsword40k]

Warhammer legend has passed away. Rest in peace, John Blanche. His art was inspiring and defined 40K. To celebrate his memory, here are some of my favorite Blanche pieces.