Prometheus 2.1

Software dev, Bible thumper, boxing. Formerly Signature beard. Married to @ydniclee01

[Prometheus 2.1 @wraithburn]

@LibertyFarmNH @MorlockP I'm coming to believe for most people, magic is real.

They only have a tenuous grasp on causality, and mostly do everything by ritual. Even their thinking.

[Prometheus 2.1 @wraithburn]

Very interesting thread

[HankHeIl @HankHeil]

Finally, due to popular demand.

Cheap People: The Evil Within

Dedicated to the Cheap Bastard who originally inspired this concept for me, Stockton Rush of the infamous Oceangate Titan disaster.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Nou kenbe pwomès nou…

Nou detwi kay Lanmò San Jou ak katye jeneral gang 400 Mawozo a.

Pifò ladan yo kouri ale san yo pa menm eseye goumen.

Ala lach yo lach! 🥲

[Vineland @GazeWindward]

Can you imagine an American woman attempting to SEDUCE

[Rabite @rabitedensetsu]

@amelia_tweetz

[Prometheus 2.1 @wraithburn]

@ydniclee01 Would you rather I tie you differently? 🤔

[Prometheus 2.1 @wraithburn]

That is why I keep my pretty woman @ydniclee01 at home, chained to the radiator.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

That pretty girl in your DMs on X: AI

Pretty girl on Facebook: multilevel marketer

Pretty girl at the gym: prostitute

Pretty girl at the office: Chicom spy

Pretty girl in your militia: Fed

[The Refined Populist @RefinedPopulist]

My local library runs a reading event similar to the old Pizza Hut BOOK IT! program.

I looked through their reading list of over 100 novels, and virtually every entry was feminist/racial propaganda or some other variety of woke slop.

No Hatchet. No Percy Jackson. No Alex Rider. No Ender’s Game. No Diary of a Wimpy Kid. No Captain Underpants. No Superfudge. No Holes. No Magic Tree House. No Johnny Tremain. No Hobbit.

You know, the books that got generations of boys to actually ENJOY READING.

So I confronted the head librarian about why there wasn’t a single thing on the list for my sons to read.

This woman had the audacity to lecture ME about how my boys needed to “broaden their horizons.”

After a rather aggressive screaming match and several threats of a lawsuit, she finally, and rather sheepishly, pointed me toward a couple of books about “sports.”

I looked them up. The Hero Two Doors Down was actually about racism, Ghost was about parental abuse. “Sports” was just a convenient excuse to Trojan Horse social conditioning down my children’s throats.

These people are so consumed by their ideological garbage that they can’t even conceive of a little boy reading a book for the sheer pleasure of it. EVERYTHING has to be an opportunity for indoctrination. EVERYTHING has to advance their political agenda. And then these same idiots have the audacity to wonder why boys are falling behind in reading, when they’ve done everything in their power to make reading absolutely miserable for them.

I’m increasingly convinced that we need to burn down the entire rotten educational establishment and rebuild it from first principles. Because apparently teaching a little boy to LOVE reading is less important than making sure he reads the right propaganda.

[Prometheus 2.1 @wraithburn]

@vxunderground Mylicon was our friend at that age

[Generic Dude @yakov456]

Anakin found an upgrade. Bro is locked in.

[BLACKSTAR @Art444Star]

This is a grooming tactic called "Hugboxing", by the way

They shower the target with validation and superficial affection to lower their defenses, making it easier for them to violation boundaries later on and to isolate them from people who will actually help them, such as friends or family members who will be honest but critical with them

It's very similar to the most standard grooming strategy, "you're so special", "you're so mature for your age", "your parents don't understand you, only I understand you", but replace "I" with "we"

Men are particularly vulnerable to this tactic because we get barely any compliments from anyone our whole lives

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Only if you ignore the fact that God did in fact die on a hill as a biological male.

[Upstate Federalist @upstatefederlst]

I didn't believe in Pizzagate at all until the dude came in, shot the computer, surrendered, and then the judge (Ketanji) on his case ended up on the Supreme Court.

[Prometheus 2.1 @wraithburn]

@SagerDM IBM used to know this way back in the day

[KK @Kal_Kairos]

Hobbes: witchcraft is fake but we should kill witches anyway for being malicious

[But_Now_Salt @BWSchank]

Indiana is not a blank canvas or a “global village.” It is a specific American place shaped by Midwestern settlers, Protestant work ethic, English common law, and a civic culture that long treated the Statehouse as a seat of republican government, not a platform for every imported religious festival. Diwali celebrations on official grounds are a recent novelty that would have been unthinkable to the people who built the place.

America 1st is not “hate.” It is the recognition that nations and peoples have particular histories, myths, and gods, and that mass immigration of groups with incompatible religious and civilizational patterns changes the character of the receiving society. The Founders and early Americans were not relativists about this. They inherited a Christian moral framework (even the deists operated inside it), classical republican forms, and a strong preference for cultural continuity. They did not treat every foreign cult as interchangeable “diversity.”

Hindu practice is not “just another festival.” It is a living polytheistic tradition with idols, ritual offerings, caste residues, and a theology alien to the biblical prohibition on graven images that shaped American public culture for centuries. The Ten Commandments and repeated scriptural warnings against idolatry were not obscure footnotes; they were formative for the Protestant culture that settled the Midwest. Pretending otherwise is historical illiteracy.

Early American interest in Greco-Roman antiquity (Jefferson, Franklin, the neoclassical architecture still visible in state capitols) was not an invitation to every Eastern pantheon. It was a selective classical revival filtered through Christian and Enlightenment lenses, symbols of ordered liberty, not living deities demanding public ritual space. Conflating Athena or Columbia with contemporary Hindu idols is a category error. One was aesthetic and civic; the other is active worship of foreign gods on the people’s house.

A serious Hoosier America 1st position therefore says: public institutions exist to serve the historic American people of Indiana and to transmit their culture, not to host every diaspora festival as an act of state recognition. Private practice is one thing. Official celebration of alien religious forms in the Statehouse is another. Demographic and cultural replacement is not enrichment when it erodes the very particularity that made the place worth living in. Indians who prefer a Hindu public square have a country for that. Indiana does not need to become a second one.

[MrGrenade McBoom @MrgrenadeMcBoom]

I corrected my first grade teacher, who said the US was still on the gold standard in the spring of 1993.

She went to the school counselor and tried to have me put on Ritalin, which was the style at the time.

In my defense I was six and didn't know how some women responded to being corrected in front of others.

My parents had to go out of pocket to pay for a child psychologist to evaluate me to keep the school from pushing it on me.

[Upstate Federalist @upstatefederlst]

"You will fucking read what we tell you," is the entire attitude that runs the publishing industry and why boys don't read.

[BlockHead @blockhead4000]

Its crazy that "High-School" in America can mean anything from a rigorous program of varied studies that's more challenging than many 4 year college programs, to a State-mandated adult daycare where you do coloring books until you're ready to go to prison for killing someone.

[wanye @xwanyex]

It’s not a small or inconsequential matter, either. I feel like I’m on a different planet from anybody who thinks the, “gender binary is made up” i.e. that all gender preferences are the result of socialization. That’s such a fundamental difference in worldview.

And I think plainly not supported by the evidence! It’s not just a little bit wrong. It’s completely wrong in a way that calls into question literally everything else you believe.

And the fact that such a large percentage of liberals, specifically, believe it really is a discredit to the entire ideology.

Like, you have to wonder what’s going on that it’s so important to so many people who claim to support liberalism that they believe something so transparently ridiculous.

[Sean CW Korsgaard @SCWKorsgaard]

Save that a bad teacher can ruin in a semester what a parent can spend a lifetime to build.
My brother and I were raised avid readers - school made him hate it. didn't read for pleasure again for a decade.
My son is 3 and adores books more than toys.
I worry that can be undone.