Herbert Scones

Your friendly neighbourhood reply guy
The secret son of Rutger Hauer and Carrie Fisher
More of a toad guy than a frog

[Herbert Scones @ToadalRecall]

@kunley_drukpa Maybe we will finally see peace in the region

[Ozymandias𓆏 @0zmnds]

Giorgio De Chirico

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have no problem getting on with leftwing people, because I simply believe that they are mistaken.”

Sir Roger Scruton

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

Your burglar is Nigerian. Your drug dealer is Albanian. Your benefits cheat is Somalian. Your rapist is Pakistani. Your murderer is Sudanese.

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

Hi there. We're the blessings of diversity.

We'll stab you through the heart at a track meet in Texas.

We'll do armed robbery on a child's lemonade stand in Boston.

We'll slit your throat on a subway in Charlotte.

We'll gouge your eyes out while attempting to behead you on the street in Belfast.

Golly gee, isn't diversity wonderful? Don't you wish you had more of it?

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

It turns out Africa and the Middle East weren’t dangerous and dirty because of colonialism or oppression but because they were full of barbarians who make it that way

The people are the problem and when you import them they turn your country into their country

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

Just to be clear - the left wing solution to migrant street beheadings is to simply tolerate them.

[Ozymandias𓆏 @0zmnds]

Marcel Kammerer

[Jen D. @HumanLevelJen]

Median career path pre-2000

[Nick Dixon @NickDixon]

As far as I can tell it’s a pseudo-religion where you’re supposed to accept getting killed or raped by migrants because you (and by extension the entire West) are unclean and inherently deserve it.

If you don’t like it you’re just a heretic who hasn’t absorbed the teachings.

[C.Jay Engel 🌲 @contramordor]

The evidence of the harm legal immigrants do to our country should be focused on cultural transformation and the loss of our historic ways of life, and not mere elections.

Saying that "X immigrant community" votes red is beside the point. The point is continuity of historic culture. That's the core case against legal immigration.

[Dave Greene @GreeneMan6]

I have been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the spotlight recently; all women my age, progressive, and employed at mainstream institutions. I don't know them. Yet in every case, I can intuit their origin story.

It goes something like this:

> be an older millennial female, no strong passion, but strive hard in school
> reach High School
> steer clear of the kids who like talking about “far out” philosophical issues
> also steer clear of student government and debate club, which seems too contentious and vaguely threatening
> focus on getting perfect marks, complying with college reqs. Get into top uni based on those marks
> get introduced to politics in freshmen social justice class, instantly floored
> the appeal of college politics is just how cut-and-dried it is. Unlike other fields, it has a clear “good” and “bad” side, no ambiguity. The “good” side always wins in classroom discussions, you feel like a hero for validating consensus with "The Conversation"
> politics becomes your religion, “this is my passion!”
> graduate with top marks and recs. Your degree is essentially in “Current Thing-ism”. Have no broad understanding of history or philosophy.
> Your concept of human events is just people being oppressed for 4000 years until feminism and progress happened in the 20th c.
> despite the Global Financial Crisis, immediately get hired by a government/media org because they want someone who “understands the role of female politics in our new digital era!”
> most of your colleagues share your perspective, the ones who don't are older guys on their way to retirement, not looking for the confrontation that disagreeing with you would certainly involve.
> great awokening happens, double down on Current-Thingism politics
> organe-man-bad and COVID happens, triple down on politics.
> you are 15 years deep in your career, you have never once genuinely engaged with a peer who didn't validate your worldview or who you didn't consider a "token" opposition to placade your political enemies
> vibe shift happens, establishment uncertain, time to have a "conversation" with the people you've considered deplorable
> have conversation, hear non-progressive opinion that is common in the modern world, historically ubiquitous
> react with schock, umbrage horror. "Can you even believe this is happening?"
> confident that non-progressive opinion is trivially easy to refute, somehow have no idea how to actually refute it
> unaware just how deeply you have been betrayed by your education, such that the average educated man on the street has more practical understanding of what politics is than you do with decades of "experience."

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

The tension for the right is that much of what modernity considers progress relies on universalization

Flows of capital, raw goods, information, everything must be transferable and consumable across the maximum number of participant with the highest degree of reliability

Nations, borders, religious identities, natural hierarchies, and even gender all create resistance to the universalization of these flows

Even the basic structure of the human identity stands in opposition, which is why the internet is currently molding Gen Alpha into a collection of interchangeable memes

Many assume that Karl Marx hated capitalism, but that isn't true, Marx needed capitalism to disassemble all those pesky social bonds holding people back from communist eutopia

Marx liked that capital was dissolving ancient regimes and monarchies, he saw it as a critical step towards global communism

That's why Marx remarked that he was an advocate of unlimited free trade, because he believed that it would erase national identity and boundaries

That's why Marxists supported feminism as well, not because the cared about women, but because they knew it melted down the structure of the family that eventually would lead to the weakening of national identity as well

The problem is that progress is a lie, you can reorder a society to maximize it for certain outcomes but you will always pay a cost

Things were ordered that way for millennia for a reason, you can tear that edifice down and rearrange the bricks to make something else while calling it progress, but that doesn't make it real

Don't get me wrong, I like antibiotics and indoor plumbing and I'm not yearning to give those up

But at some point we have to ask if we can make ourselves any less human in the name of chasing the god of progress

We don't have to blow up the modern world, but it might be wise to reconsider our current maximization, finding a balance that will allow us to retain meaning without returning to mud huts

[Herbert Scones @ToadalRecall]

@CityNationalist @ChristianHeiens I know Edward Feser has written some, though I have only read some of his books about other topics. I'd recommend checking out his blog, where you can find lots of posts about philosophy of mind.

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

i’ve always enjoyed this cool atypical rendition of abraham meeting the three angels (old testament) by aert jansz marienhof, from the early 1600s, where they’re all clearly in some dutch village:

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

The state of Belgium.

Immigrant gang rapists not given a prison sentence.

Critic of mass immigration given a prison sentence for speech.

[Dries Van Langenhove @DVanLangenhove]

"White males are disproportionately committing rape."
❌ Not true
✅ Legal statement in Belgium

"Non-European migrants are disproportionately committing rape."
✅ True
❌ Illegal statement punished by prison

This is because our Anti-Racism Law criminalizes any statement that could increase "disapproval of a protected group", such as asylum seekers or migrants. White males are, of course, the only non-protected group.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Every moral person would prefer morally upright leaders. But in an age of open decadence and corruption - you don’t have that luxury. In fact, when someone preens about his ‘character,’ it’s almost certainly fake.

That’s where we are. Vote your issues, not for pretend saints.

[Video Nasties🇵🇲 @53gaDr3amca5t]

Entire battles and campaigns were fought exclusively on glaciers within the Italian Alps during WWI. The photos of it are closest we will probably get to what warfare on an alien planet may look like.