Jon
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Anyone got some photoshop experience and wanna help a brother out?
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Fuck this huge ass ugly CyberpowerPC board had to upgrade to a better budget board swapping the case of this with the one on the right my budget upgrades coming along nicely :)
Shinkō@ShinkoTS
The Schizo Aimers Setup! Who has a setup worse then me let's see it and yes that's a 10$ CyberpowerPC Keyboard ;) GOT THIS 300HZ MONITOR TODAY AND OMFG ITS INSANE!!
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There's a lot of chatter on this app about the racist Cinnabon chick.
Here's my take on the incident.
Dexter Taylor is sitting in a New York max‑security prison, serving a 10‑year sentence for the “crime” of building his own firearms at home.
In 2022, an NYPD SWAT-style team raided his Bushwick apartment at dawn and seized his personally built rifles and pistols, which would be legal in much of the country but are banned under New York’s unconstitutional "ghost gun" laws.
During his trial, Judge Abena Darkeh reportedly told his attorney that the Second Amendment “doesn’t exist” in her courtroom, and prohibited him from bringing it up in Dexter's defense.
His lawyer is now working on an appeal, and the outcome will signal whether New Yorkers have any practical recourse when their constitutional rights are brushed aside by the courts.
You can read the full story and donate to his legal fund below!
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Name a famous Japanese person without searching on Google or asking Grok.
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Debunking The Biggest Lies Told About Charlie Kirk
(0:00) - Intro
(10:58) - On Second Amendment
(12:48) - On Empathy
(15:42) - On Gay People
(17:58) - On Trans People
(24:21) - On Racism
(28:21) - On Affirmative Action
(30:58) - On Critical Race Theory
(34:56) - On Illegal Immigration
(39:12) - On Abortion
(44:22) - Charlie’s Why
(49:48) - Liberal Threats
(50:55) - Leaving The Left
(52:29) - My Thoughts
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I've been trying to share a particular message for a couple of years now, and I can never quite find the words. I doubt I will tonight, but I have to try again because I watched my great friend get murdered over it today.
We have a choice: catharsis or civilization.
There's no other choice for us. We can have a civilization, where people are civilized enough to live, work, and trade with one another in a productive way, a safe way, a trustworthy enough way, or we can abandon it for the pursuit of letting the negative emotions of the past years, decade, or decades consume us.
There's no other choice.
If we choose catharsis, we let our emotions, our Pathos, get the better of us. We turn to our anger and look to give it more justifications. We turn to our frustration and seek an orgiastic release through whatever deeds vents it. We turn to our oppression, our rage, our despair, our fear, and we let it flow through us until the Pathos pours out and covers the land in what will eventually be fire and blood.
Catharsis is tempting, and stepping into it will be libidinous, orgiastic, elevating, and divine, until we realize that it's the feast of demons upon everything we could have built and everything we could have passed on to our children and our posterity.
Civilization is harder. It's bitter, in fact, in comparison to catharsis. It means swallowing hard and taking all those negative emotions and sublimating them into something productive, something that builds rather than makes us feel better. Civilization feels like injustice, in fact, even though it is the only basis for justice outside of Heaven and Hell, if they exist.
If we choose civilization, we're allowed to be mad, but we must temper our anger into right action that builds something to leave a better world, which will dissolve it, of course. We're also allowed to be frustrated, but we must sublimate our frustration into the dedicated search for real and lasting solutions to our problems in a civilization worth living in and passing to our children. We are not allowed to despair, though, and we cannot persist in fear. We must have faith that swallowing and metabolizing all of our negativity to turn it into a flourishing society is possible and worth it, and faith will drive out fear and is the mortal enemy of despair.
Civilization is not available on the wide path. It is the narrow path, at least so far as worldly life goes. Veer too far to one side or the other, or even for too long a moment forget your purpose or principles, and you lose the path, lose civilization, and lose everything worth having.
Without civilization, though, we will find ourselves in a terror beyond our comprehension. Maybe it will be like the philosopher Thomas Hobbes described it in the wake of the terrible English Civil War, when civilization was nearly thrown aside. Violent, solitary or tribal, nasty, brutish, short, a wicked and selfish war of all against all. It looks like the favelas of Brazil.
Maybe we'll end up conquered, fighting among ourselves while our enemies feast on our folly. Maybe we'll end up holding it together, for a little while anyway, under a tyrant who can, for a time, make it all stop and demand order. Maybe we all just end up learning Mandarin and get along mastering the ins and outs of social credit existence.
Civilization is worth fighting for, and catharsis is the kind of momentary pleasure followed by pain that every virtue stands in opposition to. In a civilization we, and each of our children after us, can live as individuals, free to pursue our dreams in sufficient safety and opportunity to generate abundance. Catharsis will be a groupish disaster with all the allure and hangover of a drunken mosh pit.
Again, I'm not expressing myself the way I see this issue in my mind. It's such an important message that I just can't get right, no matter how I try.
What I will say is that, for any differences in the particulars my great friend Charlie Kirk and I have had, Charlie Kirk stood for, lived for, and acted to his dying breath for civilization. He was far too temperate and wise, even at 31, for catharsis.
How can I be sure?
Under strange circumstances once, I found myself out on a skiing boat on a lake with Charlie Kirk. Music was playing, we were having a good time enjoying the morning. Charlie, with his standard grin, bare chest in the sun, laughed a little and explained himself, "I had fun once, guys, and I hated it."
Then he made our host change the music from something fun and hip to... classical. And we ran up and down the lake alongside all the other party boats listening to Bach, Vivaldi, and Stravinsky, not having fun even once and loving it. Charlie Kirk lived for civilization, and nothing remotely like catharsis would have been near his mind, heart, or soul, even in its darkest, most frustrated moments.
Charlie wanted to win, but he wanted to win so that we can move away from evil and move away from cathartic, orgiastic destruction and toward civilizational order, where his family and children could grow up as strong, proud Americans.
That's how I know that Charlie understood the choice I still cannot articulate. We have two options, and only two. They are catharsis and civilization.
Charlie Kirk lived that we would have civilization. May Charlie Kirk not have died such that we spiral into catharsis and evil.
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What is an American?
I'm glad you asked.
x.com/ConceptualJame…
James Lindsay, anti-Communist@ConceptualJames
I take some pleasure in explaining to everyone here what the "Dissident Right" culture warriors eagerly mislead people about: America is, in fact, based upon an idea. That idea is simple: free people are capable of governing themselves such that prosperity follows. Americans, in the nationalist-spiritual sense, are people who are citizens of this country who believe in this and uphold the covenant it implies: if you take care of your own, the state will stay out of your affairs except to secure your ability to take care of your own without the unjust interference of others. Thinking this idea would work is often called "the American Experiment," which is a grand social experiment to see if it works. It mostly has. Having faith in this idea is called "the American Dream." The American Dream is the confidence in the return on investment hoped for as a result of taking responsibility and engaging in self-governance in such a way that we each are mutually productive members of society. This idea didn't come out of the ground with the American founders, but they clarified and codified it. It was their tradition, which they inherited from the broader tradition of English liberalism, and which they tweaked and clarified specifically to undo the ravages of the various theories of elitism that dominate European and other politics. They didn't so much depart from this tradition as refine and clarify it. In framing the United States, through over a decade of debates, they codified this great experiment in self-government, including provisions for new citizens to share in its covenantal promise: come be productive, govern yourself, be American, and you can have a shot at American prosperity. Nothing is guaranteed except that you get a shot, but a shot is more than you'll get in most other systems. The codification of this idea in the American Constitution represents the boldest experiment in politics in human history, and the return on investment, for all the trouble it has caused, has been enormous. More prosperity, responsibility, and sense of generous duty has arisen from the American ethos than from any other ethos in history, including every other form of narrow nationalism. They got something very right. The Woke "Dissident Right" wants people to believe with thinly veiling intellectualism that this experiment and this dream only work for certain people who are part of the American "heritage" or of European (or English?) descent, but this is visibly proved false everywhere one looks. For every failure of diversity and multiculturalism one can point to, there are abundant stories of success, some modest and some great, from people of all walks of life who embraced the American Experiment and stepped into the American Dream. What sets them apart from others? Is it some in-born characteristic? Is it being of the right background? Not necessarily. It is willingness to put faith in the American idea of self-governance and to walk that faith by governing oneself and becoming productive in the service to others, as free to profit from this spirit as they are to take it up or abandon it. Faith without works is dead, but it's darkest blasphemy to blame faith, or God, when you claim to believe it but aren't walking in it. So, in fact, America is based on an idea, and that idea is open to all people who are willing to embrace self-governance. Citizenship is rightly an ordeal because it requires imbibing of this covenant and adopting it. America is not a spectator sport. The "Dissident Right" isn't popular right now because it's evil, though. It's popular because it's speaking into a collapsed faith with dark temptations. As Jesus was tempted in the desert by Satan, so shall we all be tempted. The struggle, though, is real, and not just the struggle of temptation. It is the American duty to uphold our covenant, and we haven't been. We must. It is the American duty to protect our covenant, and we haven't been. We must. It is the American duty to proclaim our covenant, and we haven't been. We must. As we have fallen away from our own faith in the American idea, in Liberty First, we have reaped the rewards of lost faith and a broken covenant. Just as with Israel of old, as we step back into our faith and uphold our covenant, we have every right to expect we'll receive its rewards as well. Put your faith in America and its founding idea. Do your duty to this country to hold that faith and to walk in it, first in your own lives and then around you. Resist the poisonous words of false shepherds and the temptations of evil. Faith doesn't merely drive out fear; it is the absence of fear. America can and is being made great again, and it begins and ends with each one of us remembering who we are and what it means.
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HELLO CANADA 🇨🇦 👀
Why did Canada stop locking up criminals?
James Lindsay, anti-Communist@ConceptualJames
Why do Communists always glorify criminals? A few reasons, like destabilization and undermining Rule of Law, but the big one is to get people to blame the system for "criminalizing" them. It's always all about the revolution with Communists. Hope this explanation helps!
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If you haven't seen it yet, watch "Beneath Sheep's Clothing" THIS WEEK ONLY on X to understand the Communist Playbook to take over Culture - especially schools & churches! DVD's and extended interviews are available at beneathsheepsclothing.movie twitter.com/JulieABehling/…
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I only use it for having woke up to a belief in socially constructed systemic power that has to be overthrown by the affected group identities seizing the means of social and political power, though.
Ellie Mae@EllieAnnahMae55
@ConceptualJames At some point you need to stop. The word WOKE ends up having no meaning when you use it for everything.
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I'm not mad at the Americans who voted for Harris in this election. I hope they can see what's happening around them at the moment and realize the Democrats have been running on lies and manipulation, and that a big American coalition against that mistreatment welcomes them. 🇺🇸
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The purpose of the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, also ESG and DEI from the WEF and Blackrock, is to shrink the West while China is helped to rise. It's multinational treason designed to benefit a Communist power and install a new global Dengist system.
Resist CBDC@Resist_CBDC
China 🇨🇳 burns more coal every year than the rest of the world - combined. #Agenda2030 doesn’t apply to China. “Climate crisis” is a CCP operation to break the West via de-industrialization. Get it now? 🔄
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"A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. … he will refuse to believe it… That's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization."
Alpha News@AlphaNews
When fairgoers were asked about Kamala Harris' biggest accomplishment as vice president, here's what they had to say:
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I didn't see this back then. It's a striking speech by Moore, worth watching in the present.
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If I see one more idiot say that 5.56 would’ve “caused brain damage that close to Trump’s head,” I’m going to film a .50 BMG passing next to me and showing how the “lethal shockwaves” are a myth.
The amount of people I’ve seen parrot this (no pun intended) blows my mind.
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