@annakhachiyan@00ecco00 My favorite: "Si nous résistons à nos passions, c'est plus par leur faiblesse que par notre force." 122
We resist our passions owing more to their weakness than to our strength.
@iranidaturan@ConceptualJames Islam channels men's sexual libido into outward aggression. This has been recognized by so-called orientalists 100 years ago.
Kasparov: On Bulgakov, my advice to Russian liberal society is simple: keep quiet.
While Russian missiles keep hitting Kyiv, Russians have no moral right to criticize Ukrainians for removing monuments tied to Russian culture, however much we value the literature. 1/
Second and third generation Muslim migrants are far more radical than their parents and grandparents,
says British historian @RafHM in a V24 interview about immigration.
The cheating on his wife, the six business bankruptcies, the “grab them by the” you-know-what comment, the sneering at John McCain’s experience as a prisoner of war, accepting a plane from the Qataris, the praise for dictators, the ferocious attacks on allies, the threat to militarily annex Greenland, the quoting of Benito Mussolini, the gleeful social media posts after a famous critic got murdered — you name it, the average Trump fan can come up with an excuse for it, or insist it doesn’t really matter.
Donald Trump’s life is a moral Chernobyl, and yet there are people — Americans who think of themselves as Christians! — who see him as morally difficult to distinguish from Jesus. I am going to choose to believe that when Pastor Mark Burns and a group of religious leaders dedicated a 22-foot golden statue to President Donald Trump at the Trump National Doral Miami golf club, and then used its creation to sell a meme coin called $PATRIOT, they did so as an elaborate troll. Then again, they did not include a giant golden calf, nor Mooby.
Roughly 6% of the population is incapable of conscience.
Polish psychiatrist Andrew Lobaczewski warned that in times of upheaval, this minority weaponizes the language of justice, equality, and compassion.
And the trusting hand their freedom over gladly.
British police officers say people will get arrested if somebody else says that they “feel” to have been “racially abused” by what that person said.
In case anyone wonders why Vickrum Digwa thought it would be a good idea to accuse Henry Nowak of racism
Tiananmen Square in Beijing just days before the Chinese Communist Party decided to massacre the protesters and students who had taken to the streets to demand freedom.
Bill Gurley on Anthropic: "I would encourage people to read as much as they can about Anthropic. I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity."
Jason Calacanis: "They believe they're so powerful that they can create God."
@JuliaDavisNews Dugin bashing Cheburashka for being liberal! 😂
Although he is right - these Soviet legacy cartoon characters are a release of the Russian repressed unconscious.
Zelenskyy named a Ukrainian military unit after the “Heroes of the UPA” this week because he is at his weakest point since Russia’s full-scale invasion, and is part of a conscious policy of placing today’s war heroes inside a longer Ukrainian independence canon. 1/👇
Keep calm and sign another treaty. This increasingly looks like Europe’s security doctrine in a new age of strategic uncertainty, where governments no longer assume old guarantees, alliances and institutions will automatically hold. 1/ 🧵