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Metropolized Society@DominicJeopardy·
Britain is changing. Stop doomscrolling. Pause the weird prepping videos. Follow this quick start guide to better preparedness in 30 days. {Don't make prepping an identity. Do take practical actions day-by-day. Think for yourself. It's up to you.} metropolized.substack.com/p/foundational…
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Balaji@balajis·
BUILD THE SWITCH Ok. I see the “just flip the switch” thing a lot now from the right. But while I’m sympathetic to the desire for law and order, and agree that is a direction worth pursuing, there’s an illusion that should be addressed. Leftists think you can get money without working for it. Just flip the switch on the money printer. Just flip the switch to tax the rich. But in reality, resources are scarce. Rightists often similarly think you can get political power without working for it. Just flip the switch to throw the criminals in jail. But in reality, votes (or political supporters in general) are scarce just like resources are. So the hard part is the invisible part of building that political base. Why were those criminal gangs on the streets of El Salvador? Because they had a drug dealer business model, and because Western leftists were paid by NGOs to support them. They were actually politically powerful. Thus, what was needed to disrupt them? A better political business model, one that actually generated more political support than the legacy model. The Internet was critical for this, as it allowed Bukele to build an audience with social media, align with Western centrists, conservatives, and libertarians via Bitcoin, recruit tech companies to El Salvador, and directly rebut anarchy-spreading Western leftist NGOs through a channel they couldn’t censor. There’s way more to it than that, but the point is: there was no switch that Bukele inherited to flip, anymore than Elon inherited the switch to launch a SpaceX rocket. Bukele essentially had to build a new state from scratch, via the Internet. A new state that was loyal to the people of El Salvador rather than the criminal gangs. This was nontrivial. He had to build the switch.
Wolf Tivy@wolftivy

What's interesting about Bukele's rule is that it's all so obvious. You can just flip the switch and make your country powerful, be beloved by the people, get rich, etc. That this is not widely regarded as something worth striving for shows a deep sickness in Western politics.

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Will Tanner
Will Tanner@Will_Tanner_1·
The favela can be stopped and rolled back in the name of civilization. Decline isn’t inexorable. Our problems can be fixed President Bukele ignored the pro-criminal “international norms” and imprisoned all the gangsters. He flipped the switch and saved his country We must do the same to defeat the Global Favela
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Nayib Bukele@nayibbukele

Cuadra por cuadra... tardará un poco, pero quedará hermoso.

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nachos@comingupnachos·
20th century definitions need to be discarded Debt per citizen is a metric I've been playing with. Depends how you define it gov + personal El Salvador $5k USA 110k Canada 150K Directionally accurate but somebody smart could get better numbers Steak affordability yes is another. Canada worse in the world.
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Lina Seiche
Lina Seiche@LinaSeiche·
At what point do we discard the illusion that the First World is somehow superior to the rest of the planet? Great, you have money. But your people don’t. You have advanced infrastructure, but your bureaucracies are letting it decay. You have beautiful prisons but refuse to jail criminals. You label yourself “full democracies” but arrest people for social media posts. And you control the human rights sector but have not an ounce of morality left in you. If this is what we call a “First World” country, I prefer a “Third World” country that actually cares for its people.
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Rogue | Frontier Philosophy
Russians are the most similar group to Americans. We should be allies, rather than enemies. Here's why: I do not mean that "Moscow Russians" or "Mainland Russians", but rather the remnants of Russians throughout the old "Imperial Empire", regions in Central Asia like: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, etc. Our folk groups have the same ethnic practice of frontier integration and conquest. We abandoned the order of "main land Europe" and sought to venture into the wild unknowns of a frontier region. Once in our frontier region, we build a "Western-style" civilization from nothing, while evolving into a new people group through mixing with location traditions. As the American dawned the "moccasin and canoe" of the various Indian tribes, the Russian dawned the "kulpak and the yurt." of the turkic tribes. One can read early accounts of George Washington's youth as a surveyor in which he did not view the vast wilds of the American frontier as some barren wasteland, but rather he could see the potential of abundant profit — every forest a sawmill industry, every plains field a farm empire, every river a trading hub. Every Russian family I've met here tells stories of how their grandparents saw Central Asia as a "paradise", overflowing with potential opportunity, just like how Washington described early America. Rather than see Russians as the enemy, we should see them as allies with a shared culture. In many cases, some Russian populations as I have described can be said to be more in alignment with our American traditions than we are.
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Tristan Tate@TateTheTalisman

I’ve seen a lot of racism in the past few years. But the single group that has been most harassed and abused in a serious manner is… Russian both online and by governments. If blacks or Pakistanis were treated the way Russians were there would be outrage. Imagine a European state saying “this African dictator did something we dislike so we are seizing all wealth we can find that belongs to anybody black”. Wild.

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Dr Philip Kiszely
Dr Philip Kiszely@KiszelyPhilip·
Yugoslavia imploded because a single country was imposed on historically antipathetic peoples. Britain is set to implode because historically antipathetic peoples are being imposed on a single country. History teaches harsh lessons — but the consequences of ignoring them are truly terrible.
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Dr. Ricardo Duchesne
Dr. Ricardo Duchesne@dr_duchesne·
For naive conservatives who think this can be done in Western nations by being "tough on crime," let me insist: What was accomplished in El Salvador under President Bukele (he posted this video showing before and after his transformation of El Salvador x.com/MAGAVoice/stat…) demonstrates that you must become illiberal and authoritarian if you want to clean up the mess liberals have caused with integration, mass immigration and woke policies. Bukele, in order to be successful (while gaining the support of over 90% of the population), had no choice but to suspend some constitutional rights and limit due process. He had no choice but to declare a "state of emergency" multiple times, curtailing the right to legal counsel, freedom of association, and privacy in communications. His government had to conduct mass detentions of over 85,000 on the basis of "uncorroborated allegations," going against the "presumption of innocence and due process." It had to restrict ability of judges to offer alternatives like bail or house arrest and impose virtual hearings often involving hundreds of defendants at once, with little opportunity for effective defense. As liberal Western journalists (same ones responsible for unlivable American cities) have pointed out, detainees are frequently unaware of charges and lack access to legal representation. Bukele had to limit judicial autonomy, replacing "corrupt" Supreme Court individuals with loyalists, a policy he extended to lower courts. These actions, which have drastically improved living conditions for the majority, are "contrary to liberal ideals," as Western liberals say, "of an independent judiciary protecting individual rights." There have been many "human rights violations" and other actions "undermining equal protection under the law." Bukele has employed the military to "intimidate" political opponents, once threatening the legislature with armed forces to pressure lawmakers. He has used propaganda to encourage citizens to report suspected criminals, which has "fostered a climate of fear and informant culture, undermining liberal values of privacy and community." All in all, this "authoritarian" control over all branches of government and civil society has weakened the system of "checks and balances". BUT this illiberalism finally allowed El Salvador, after decades of incessant violence, to escape corruption, violence, and economic chaos ---- and secure the freedom of the majority.
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Let me tell you what every population does when it gets money. Not every population. Every. Single. One. Japan, 1950s. South Korea, 1970s. China, 1980s. Brazil, 1990s. Vietnam, 2000s. Every developing economy that has industrialised in the last century. The first thing they buy with their disposable income is animal protein. Meat. Dairy. Eggs. Not quinoa. Not oat milk. Not the plant-based burger made in a laboratory by a Californian startup. Steak. Pork. Chicken. Milk. And in every single case, within a generation, their children grow taller. Their chronic disease burden shifts from deficiency-based illness to the diseases of abundance: which are primarily diseases of seed oils and inactivity, not of meat. The people arguing that we should eat like the poor populations they used to be are almost never the people who grew up in those populations. The people who actually grew up in those populations are eating steak. They can taste the difference between ideology and dinner.
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CJ
CJ@UnderSneege·
@maxtempers Here’s mine!
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Lu for Alaska
Lu for Alaska@luinalaska·
One of the reasons modern therapy doesn’t work for everyone is that it encourages the last people on earth who need to spend an hour thinking and talking about themselves to do so. Then the person they are talking to isn’t allowed to say the things that might actually help. They can’t just interrupt them and say “Hey listen idiot I need you to stfu and get a purpose in your life that isn’t spending your time intensely pondering your own bullshit with someone who got a counseling degree online. Back in the day you’d be too worried about the potato harvest to worry about your self esteem. Now i have to listen to you complain about your boyfriend who spoiler alert just doesn’t like you enough to marry you but you give him sex and a place to sleep so he is place holding. Ok so take your money you pay me hourly, buy some seeds, go down to the community garden, and plant them. Then all you do is eat what you can grow there. You’re going to get hungry but the hunger will distract you from being such an insufferable person. Then your boyfriend will leave you because it’ll be weird to date someone who only eats potatoes from the community garden. So we will expedite him leaving you. This is good. He is wasting your time and frankly you aren’t self actualized enough to have a spine about it. Now you’re going to get in shape with all the gardening and a good tan from all the outdoor time. Natural vitamin D. Eventually you’ll meet a man out there when you have a natural glow and an attitude that reflects reality and not your personal neuroses. Now the next part is key. Never ever call me again. Never. I never want to hear your voice again. Your parents had a shitty marriage, you have feelings, we get it. Go do literally anything but tell me about it. Go grow a cabbage.” But they don’t do that do they? They take your insurance card and schedule you for next week.
ZUBY:@ZubyMusic

When I was younger, I never heard about anybody going to therapy unless they were a war veteran or victim of some horrific crime. And people were saner and better regulated back then. I'm not convinced modern therapy helps most people. The opposite is possible.

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Michael Reiners
Michael Reiners@MCRReiners·
When did we start calling it "The UK"? It's more recent than you'd think. I discussed Britain's 21st century re-brand, which turned our nation into as a mere initialism.. ...with John Gillam (@thinkingclasses). Here: youtu.be/frd-3qaoRUE?si…
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Tom Harwood@tomhfh

Around the turn of the century politicians decided that Britain was no longer acceptable shorthand for the country we live in. Instead, they rebranded as ‘UK’. Ugly ‘UK’ branding was slapped everywhere. They diminished our identity and now we’re UKians, not British.

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ℜ𝔞𝔢@dystopiangf·
You can take this as a rule: the more important & obvious a (social) pattern is, the less likely it is to be supported by studies. 3 reasons: 1. It is impossible or unethical to capture the phenomenon in a lab 2. The scientific methods we can use “in the wild” (outside of the lab) are much weaker and do not obtain significant signal 3. Leftist-captured scientific institutions (i.e. all of them) will aggressively suppress results that contradict their narratives or flat out refuse to fund research on controversial topics. I’ve seen this happen countless times; the rot extends even to most scientists themselves, who often edit or exclude results that make them uncomfortable
⚡️🌞 Sol Brah 🌞🐬@SolBrah

One of the worst types of bugman is the “if it isn’t in a study then it doesn’t exist” type Inability to see reality without it being parsed through some approved authority Avoid such types who can’t reason with their god given intuition

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Nayib Bukele
Nayib Bukele@nayibbukele·
Este es el fin último de las organizaciones de “derechos humanos”. Vean todo el caso, desde el inicio hasta el final que pretenden; cada uno de los pasos es parte de la “tutela de derechos humanos” conseguida con sus “luchas y conquistas”. Jamás los escucharemos, no importa cuánto nos ataquen. No tienen nada que venir a decirnos; más bien, nosotros deberíamos estar denunciándolos a ustedes por lo que le hacen a mujeres como Noelia. El mundo necesita urgentemente liberarse de estas organizaciones, que no son más que los bufetes de abogados de los delincuentes, que prefieren LITERALMENTE matar a las víctimas en lugar de protegerlas.
Muy.Mona/🇪🇸💚@Capitana_espana

He leído su historia y me parece una barbaridad que esto esté pasando en España. En 2022 sufrió una violación múltiple en un centro tutelado. Tras intentar quitarse la vida, quedó parapléjica. Ahora, el sistema le da luz verde para morir en vez de garantizarle apoyo, tratamiento y dignidad para vivir. En 24 horas, Noelia será la primera persona en recibir la eutanasia por depresión en España. Esto también es un fracaso colectivo.

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Richard Tawn
Richard Tawn@aerotawn·
I think we’re also going to need something similar to the ‘Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act of 1970’ in the US- this was used to break up the mafia families and organised crime. Every town in this country is now riddled with obvious crime fronts covering for illegal rackets. Everyone I know talks about it, we all know which shops we have dozens of in our towns that make no sense.
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