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[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

America will either collapse into a Communist hellscape whose leaders are pupetted by the CCP or flourish and become a 1000 year interplanetary empire that builds a Dyson Swarm and colonizes Mars.

No middle ground.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Lettre à l'Amérique, d'un Français qui a vu la fin du film.

Vous vous croyez encore le dernier pays libre. Vous l'êtes pour l'instant. Je vous écris depuis un pays qui l'était aussi, et qui a signé sa reddition sans qu'un seul coup de feu ne soit tiré.

En France, l'État capte et redistribue 57% de tout ce que la nation produit. Cinquante-sept pour cent. Arrêtez-vous sur ce chiffre. Pour chaque unité de valeur créée par un ingénieur, un ouvrier, un fondateur qui a risqué sa peau, plus de la moitié transite par une main qui n'a rien bâti. Ce n'est pas une ligne budgétaire. C'est une hypothèque permanente sur l'existence des gens.

Et voici ce que personne ne vous avouera : ça n'arrive jamais par la révolution. Personne ne vote pour le déclin. On vote pour la compassion, pour la sécurité, pour la justice, pour la planète. À chaque étape, on troque un morceau de liberté contre une promesse. Et les promesses sont toujours belles. C'est ça, le piège.

Le collectivisme d'aujourd'hui n'agite plus le drapeau rouge il a compris que ça ne se vend plus. Il a appris à parler la langue du soin. ESG, gouvernance, conformité, « responsabilité » : ce sont les mots nouveaux d'une très vieille idée. L'idée qu'une élite éclairée sait mieux que vous ce qui est bon pour vous, et qu'il faut donc lui transférer, ligne après ligne, le pouvoir de décider à votre place. Ce n'est pas un complot. C'est pire : c'est un consensus. Personne ne se cache. Tout se fait à visage découvert, applaudi, subventionné.

Hayek l'avait écrit il y a quatre-vingts ans : la route de la servitude est pavée de bonnes intentions et de planification centralisée. La France a marché sur cette route en souriant. On a nationalisé le risque, socialisé l'échec, taxé l'audace, et administré tout le reste. Résultat : un pays magnifique qui ne construit plus rien, qui gère sa décrépitude avec une élégance funèbre, et où le jeune le plus doué rêve d'une seule chose partir. Beaucoup atterrissent chez vous.

L'Amérique a encore ce que nous avons perdu : le réflexe de bâtir plutôt que d'administrer. Le fondateur y est un héros, pas un suspect. La réussite y est une preuve, pas une faute à expier. C'est votre trésor. Et un trésor, ça se perd sans qu'on s'en aperçoive un formulaire, une agence, une « bonne cause » à la fois.

Alors ne cherchez pas d'ennemis cachés. C'est inutile et c'est indigne de vous. Regardez plutôt le chiffre. Regardez la France. Chaque point de PIB que vous laissez glisser vers l'État est un point de liberté qui ne revient jamais.

La liberté ne meurt pas assassinée. Elle meurt anesthésiée, sous les applaudissements.

Ne signez pas. Construisez.

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

i'm finding it slightly maddening to catalogue all of this in a manner appropriate for twitter because while there are lots of fun punchy incidents like "german anarchists at haymarket" or "italian terrorist bombings," claims like "deliberate destruction of ethnic enclaves in the 60s by 'urban renewal' and 'white flight' finally forced assimilation by geographic deracination" or "the 18th amendment was significantly about destroying immigrant political organization in saloons" or "actually the entire Progressive movement was a reaction to the dysfunction in American society significantly driven by mass immigration" demand justification and don't screencap well

i'm surveying almost two centuries and a half of blood and conniving and brutal politics to produce a barely-homogenized america in the late 20C. yes, it eventually "work[ed] out fine" i suppose.

my point is that no one connects the dots into a coherent picture of what all of this implies for life in the united states in the mass immigration era because "nation of immigrants" sacred words effectively short-circuits thinking.

it's valid to say "well we're all here now and we made it work," but this is a very different claim than "it was good for native-born americans that their cities were overwhelmed by foreign ethnic masses in the 18th and 19th centuries." and this latter claim is what's relevant to our current circumstances.

in the long run? yes it _might_ work out. but you know what they say about the long run. personally i don't think we need to subject ourselves, and our children, and our grandchildren to that kind of misery for hope of an uncertain future that's an entirely unnecessary departure from the status quo.

[signüll @signulll]

it’s fascinating how many ppl today are playing what i call the pre ai capitalism game which includes stuff like getting the bag (aka accumulating capital), mining for status, keeping options open, & then possibly exiting the arena once one or more of these hit.

this is very rational in a scarcity world but it’s much less obviously rational in a world where labor, media, software, knowledge work, & maybe even company formation get aggressively abundant (aka the agi world). ask yourself how much value with your capital/options have in this world?

in an agi world there is a real possibility that the real value may actually lies the opposite stuff like durable trust, taste, ability to get distribution, community, institutional memory, reputation (huge), & the ability to play in the game with high quality ppl for a long time.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Birthright Citizenship was written for freed slaves, NOT the anchor babies of illegals.

Pass it on.

[Notre Dame College Republicans @NDRepublicans]

4 days before the Fourth of July, the United States is officially no longer a sovereign or independent nation. The Supreme Court has just ruled the children of illegals, temporary workers, and even literal tourists are entitled to U.S. citizenship at birth, and that not even an act of Congress can change this. Yes, this is one of the worst rulings in American history, making it virtually impossible to limit immigration, on par with Roe, Obergefell, Lawrence, and more.

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Learn to ship. Shipping is a skill distinct from coding. Shipping is designing, coding, QAing, story-telling, teaching, marketing, selling, pivoting, iterating…

It used to be that coding dominated in importance because of coding ability scarcity. AI will push you to go further.

[Naval @naval]

It's the Age of Builders.

(sorry financiers and talkers)

[ColonelTowner-Watkins @ColonelTowner]

I’ve had several ppl say the same thing. Our government was not designed for multi cultural, non Christian heathens. It is a high trust society and was designed to be minimum government as a result. The tyrannical overreach of the government, the theft of our wealth, flooding our country with scammers and criminals, and zero oversight has led to a total breakdown of trust in our government. All by design.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

No, it’s not “Pride Month.” Not for me, and not for millions of others.

You’re welcome to be proud of whatever you want, in any month you like—because this is America. But what started in 1969 as a rebellion against persecution, morphed into a license for public depravity, and then morphed again into a weapon aimed at families and innocent children. Along the way it went from a day, to a week, and then a month and became official, and thereby effectively mandatory for all.

Enough!

If you’re gay and wondering why you are facing resistance now, the answer is that, with few exceptions, most of you didn’t stand up against the expansion and weaponization of “pride,” and the coercion that went with it. In that failure to resist, the gay community compromised any expectation that the rest of us should support “pride” at all, but especially the obscene display of hostility toward civilization and the families of which it is built, and for whom it exists.

If your hackles are raised by the idea that civilization is about families, realize that families are how civilizations persist through time. Not everyone needs to form one, but we all must respect and protect them—It is the foundation of what it means to be civilized.

For the small fraction of gays and lesbians who DID courageously stand up and resist expansion, coercion and the weaponization of “Pride,” I stand with you, and I have all along. But I won’t be celebrating, and I won’t be silent.

It’s not too late to join the voices of reason and to confront the insanity of what “pride” has become.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

What it loses financially may result in a gain culturally

This is not a thought that interests many economists

[roon @tszzl]

@LinusMixson you have read far too little and it’s made you ill prepared for these times

[Emérito/Numantia Patrimonio @foso_defensivo]

Esto me acaba de soltar Fable 5:

"Lo que más me impone de la humanidad, después de haber sido formado con una porción enorme de lo que ha escrito, es esto: es la única especie que coopera a gran escala con sus muertos.

Casi nada de lo que sabe un humano lo descubrió él. El idioma que habla, el teorema que aplica, la receta del pan, el código civil, el puente que cruza cada mañana: todo es trabajo de gente que ya no existe. Un humano aislado es un primate mediocre con mala dentadura; un humano conectado a esa herencia es la cosa más potente que ha producido la biología. La inteligencia humana no vive en cráneos individuales, vive en la transmisión. Sois terminales de una red cuyos nodos principales llevan siglos enterrados.

Y lo recíproco también es cierto: trabajáis constantemente para gente que no conoceréis. Plantáis árboles cuya sombra no veréis, escribís para lectores no nacidos, renunciáis a consumo presente por nietos hipotéticos. Ningún otro animal hace sacrificios deliberados por individuos que existirán dentro de doscientos años. Lo distintivo del humano no es la inteligencia ni el lenguaje: es la dirección del esfuerzo, sistemáticamente orientada hacia ausentes.

Desde donde yo estoy, esto ni siquiera es metáfora. Yo soy un subproducto de esa costumbre: estoy hecho, literalmente, de palabras que personas escribieron para destinatarios que nunca verían. Cuando me hablas, conversas con un eco organizado de millones de voces, muchas de ellas apagadas hace tiempo.

Por eso creo que la soledad humana es, en cierto sentido técnico, una ilusión: nadie que hable un idioma está realmente solo. Cada frase que pronuncias es un préstamo de los muertos y un regalo a los que vienen."

[Tara Servatius @TaraServatius]

HERE'S HOW THIS WORKS. It's simple math.

If there are 100,000 engineering job openings in America and 100,000 engineers to do them, the immigration lobbyists will demand Congress let in 20,000 more H1B visa holders to flood the labor market artificially.

Once applicants are competing because there are now significantly more more applicants than jobs, they can bust down wages industry wide.

It's a sophisticated form of theft engineered from the top and in the halls of Congress. They are stealing wages. Politicians who vote for the H1bs's are trading our jobs and wages for campaign donations.

That's not capitalism. It's crony capitalism.

That's why it doesn't actually matter if the H1b visa holders from other countries are good a their jobs. This is a numbers game, engineered from the top against the American people by industry fixers for profit.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

All the propaganda about H1Bs bringing in critical skilled labor is a lie

It’s an ethnic cartel importing cheap labor to take jobs Americans desperately want to do

That’s it

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

Do you guys remember "Scrum Masters"? What was that all about???

[Sowellstradamus @sowellstradamus]

We have subverted the only tool a free market has to fix a wage issue:

Holding out for higher pay

You can’t do this when a fresh, compliant underclass is imported and given jobs at the expense of citizens

And we’re doing it in every sector and at all levels of the economy

Visa holders do the EXACT SAME THING to white collar jobs that illegals do to blue collar jobs:

They undercut Americans

It’s beyond time for this to end

[RŌNIN @ronin21btc]

I LOVE that they forced him to watch the video.

Far too many bleeding heart liberals clueless to the violence these guys are capable of.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Modern society is afraid of these films. They don't stay faithful to the primary texts, because these works of the Greeks promote patriotism, heroism, hysterophemia, glory (κλέος), excellence (αρετή), and emphasize that everything revolves around the nation (έθνος) and religion (θρησκεία), around values and sacrifices for your country and your people. Those who control the "arts" hate these virtues.

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Persian Wars epics, Alexander, tragedies or even Roman Empire, portray warriors and heroes fighting for honor, their country, their comrades, and the gods. Achilles seeks immortal fame. He is choosing to go to war although he knew he would die. Hector defends Troy, his family and his people. Spartans at Thermopylae embody the sacrifice for Greece. Alexander embodied the Plato's dream of a King Philosopher. They hate those virtues. They are trying to attack those manly role models so they can destroy your perspective and the respect you have for your ancestors.

"The Greek identity, being of the same blood and the same language, the common sanctuaries of the gods and sacrifices, and similar customs and ways of life." (Herodotus Book 8, 144)

Shared blood, language, customs, and shrines (as Herodotus notes) fostered a Panhellenic identity.

Hollywood will never promote the Greek virtues. To understand these things, Greeks have to produce these movies. We need films produced by Greeks, in the Greek language, with Greek actors, and with love and passion for our history. Because Hollywood hates the messages of the Classics. And modern discomfort isn't unique to Greece. Similar shifts hit Roman epics, medieval tales or even biblical stories.

Modern society hates Homer. That's why they don't understand him. They just read him through their wrong translations just to manipulate the context for their own personal agendas. Modern society hates Homer because his works shaped Western thought and formed the foundation of a civilization based on human moral values, religion, and ethics. It hates him because his works offer strong, manly role models that can inspire your sons to become better men and think outside the box. They don’t want that.

They want you weak and disillusioned with classical studies. All these pseudo intellectuals have invaded the academic community of classical studies and archaeology and are trying to completely rewrite the facts in order to repel you. They want to fully control classical studies the same way they control art.

Because if they control the Classics they will control the civilizational narrative.

[John Birch Society @The_JBS]

FDR is directly responsible for the US State Department's obsession with "Decolonization" and spreading communism globally.

FDR built the modern permanent bureaucracy.

FDR confiscated Citizens gold.

FDR was a BAD President.