Pinochet wasn't based because he was anticommunist neolib yada yada yada
He was based because without him we'd have like three hundred clones of Pedro Pascal running around today
Incredible that a version of this guy exists to at least some degree in all of the Anglosphere countries. A real dark energy in the culture and people must be producing them
Any great civilization of ancient history would have seen a blood red sky on the night of their sacred founding as an omen of unconquerable power and divine victory.
You know, classically speaking, Marxism wasn't opposed to growth, it claimed it could out compete capitalism on growth.
It's only once Marxism failed to do that that Leftists started talking about growth as a bad thing.
“your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief's. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn't know any better. But for you to have one was terrorism.”
-Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
One of my biggest frustrations with MAHA under Secretary RFK Jr. has been the failure to tackle the US addiction to agricultural chemicals. All the necessary means of weaning America off glyphosate and atrazine exist already. They're natural, they work. HHS should be running pilot studies on methods like this right now, with a view to deploying them on the largest possible scale.
Reminder: Elon also helped other tech moguls lobby for the KIDS Act. He and every other tech CEO literally wants this and benefits from it happening. They were already interested in censoring their platforms to counter bad PR, now they are begging the government to "make" them.
In 1865 Gen. Richard Taylor, son of president Zachary Taylor, surrendered his confederate forces to Gen. Canby. Canbys Chief of staff, a radical Republican German immigrant named Osterhaus remarked that now the confederates could be taught a lesson in American values
Taylor recounted his reply:
I apologized meekly for my ignorance, on the ground that my ancestors had come from England to Virginia in 1608, and, in the short intervening period of two hundred and fifty-odd years, had found no time to transmit to me correct ideas of the duties of American citizenship. Moreover, my grandfather, commanding the 9th Virginia regiment in our Revolutionary army, had assisted in the defeat and capture of the Hessian mercenaries at Trenton, and I lamented that he had not, by association with these worthies, enlightened his understanding. My friend smiled blandly, and assured me of his willingness to instruct me. Happily for the world, since the days of Huss and Luther, neither tyranny nor taste can repress the Teutonic intellect in search of truth or exposure of error. A kindly, worthy people, the Germans, but wearing on occasions.”