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@martianwyrdlord Very well put.

It isn't just guns. Anglos are accustomed to civil liberties that they have possessed for centuries. The twentieth century hatched a managerial class that saw these ancient rights as an inconvenient obstacle to their imposition of the perfectly regulated society. The people were reluctant to give these liberties up. Social engineering was sufficient to convince some fraction of them to defect to the managerial order, but not enough. So the managerial class started importing voters from cultures that have no tradition of liberty, telling everyone that the imports came because they yearned to be free, when knowing full well that they would reliably vote for the enslavement of all.

@AHomelyHouse The average person who would even attempt this would do a much better job than your average contractor.

I believe young people and the nation as a whole would be better served if they disregarded the housing market completely and returned to building their own micro-homestead cabins and tiny houses wherever possible. We need to recolonize this land from the commerce wilderness.

@GreeneMan6 They all have imposter syndrome performing in traditionally male roles and it validates their anxieties to construe all previously competent men of power as actually incompetent, merely coasting along on their privilege.

For some reason modern Millennial (female) writers find successful older men threatening.

@thewoolshire @reallytanman That was my first thought when I saw your tweet about all the millions of wasted cowhides in the world. Why isn't every single car interior wrapped in genuine leather?

Our family was looking at buying a new car for our growing family. New cars emit a lot of VOCs, so we were looking for a natural leather option. Found out that most new cars don't even have a real leather option anymore. The 2027 Telluride for example - even for their nearly 70k car -entirely synthetic. Looks like we need to go back to the old days.

@beaverd I just watched this movie. It's called Disclosure

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@churrascooooo @bizlet7 "I'll do everything I can to help you get established in life. But at the end of the day, if you want more, it will be up to you and your drive and your hard work to get it."

@churrascooooo @bizlet7 I could go along with the idea if, after his son reached the $2,500 or whatever he wanted him to save up, he then matched it with an equivalent gift, or bought him a nicer car than he was planning on buying. Teach him some skills, impart that entrepreneurial spirit, but tell him:

teaching your kids "hard lessons" was forgivable during the Economic Gigaboom but if you're still doing this during The Age of National Rape you're just a fucking asshole

@owroot I grew up with three siblings and two parents in two-bedroom apartments, three-bedroom semis, and a 1200 sq ft single detached. My boss grew up in a single detached home of around 1600 sq ft with seven or eight of his eleven siblings.

They claim they aren't having kids because they say a 2,000 square foot house isn't big enough to have one kid in? Dumbest thing I've read all day. My wife and I have three kids in a house of less than 2,000 square feet. Sure, yeah it's tight but historically, this is more than fine. Go back to the 20th century and there were more bigger families in smaller homes. Kids shared rooms, things were tighter, things were more than fine. Actually, dare I say better. People are so turned around and so weak, used to so much crazy feature creep that they don't even realize what is historically reasonable for human life or what family life is even all about. Ultimately people like this are removing themselves from the future because they are too spoiled. It's just that simple. Interesting selection that is happening right now.

@eugyppius1 My uncle never had his pilot's license, but he co-bought a de Havilland Tiger Moth with a guy who flew private jets for a living. It was a trainer for the RAF in WWII. He took me for a ride and man, what fun.

when i was a child i wanted to be an airline pilot and my insane mother railed against this ambition of mine as boring and inadequate, she said i might as well be taxi driver. some imponderable combination of social pressures and my own talents steered me toward ancient history/archaeology anyway, but i’ve always been an aviation enthusiast in my reading and i really think a massive defect of the modern world is allowing stupid hag women to importune upon the naive visions of young boys. i would’ve been totally happy and thrilled to be a pilot, i put up with loads of shit in academia and walked away from it permanently embittered.

@Antweegonus @Steve_Sailer I believe the intellectual roots of the phenomenon are planted in the idea that white, phallogocentric patriarchy inherently detaches its subjects from the body and nature, and therefore those opposed to this way of being are described as being "grounded" in their bodies.

@martianwyrdlord I admire Carney's voracious and insatiable lust for power, and his commitment to achieve it by any means necessary. I only wish that there was someone like that who actually had interests aligned with mine.

And with the latest defection from the Conservative Party, Carney commands 171 seats in the House of Commons, just one shy of a majority. There are 3 by-elections next Monday, two of them in safe Liberal ridings. Carney will probably get his majority, after which he'll have a free hand to do whatever he wants. At the same time, these defections are destroying the CPC and, with it, the electoral legitimacy of the Canadian government. What's the point of voting Conservative if the MP you elect transmogrifies into a Liberal the moment they get to Ottawa? What's the point of voting at all?

@simonsarris As someone who lives there, I think about it almost every day. If the trendlines continue, my daughter will be growing up with worse healthcare, more expensive housing, a more dangerous driving environment, more crime, less freedom, less opportunity, etc. I must do something.

Do we have a plan if Canada actually collapses in our lifetime? Or the next ten years?

Not two weeks after I saw a thread on here about how oatmeal crops are doused with glyphosate at harvest time, my wife came home from COSTCO with these glyphosate-free oats from One Degree Organic. I never told her; she just knew.

@UCCavalier Are we going to stop them?

@UCCavalier The Yarvin video circulating now addresses this. The Laurentian Elite is our predator. They were stalking; now they're charging. They can in fact continue this indefinitely until someone stops them or until the last heritage Canadians are quivering behind their electric fences.

It is remarkable, in the way that slow-motion disasters are remarkable, that a regime visibly losing its grip responds by tightening its ideological commitments rather than questioning them. When a ship is sinking, you do not double down on the policy that put the hole in the hull. And yet here we are. The DEI hire is not a solution to declining legitimacy. It is a symptom of the magical thinking that produced the decline in the first place. The people running this regime have convinced themselves that visibly rewarding the correct demographic categories generates a kind of protective aura, a talisman against the growing discontent of the governed. Tick the right boxes, appoint the right faces, recite the right words, and the legitimacy will follow. It is cargo cult logic, and it is being practiced by people with institutional power and Ivy League credentials who absolutely should know better. It does not work. It has never worked. What it actually produces is straightforward: the majority watches itself being systematically passed over in favour of candidates selected for reasons other than ability, and it draws the obvious conclusion. You cannot disenfranchise the largest group in your society and then be surprised when that group stops believing the system works for them. Meanwhile the institutions themselves rot. Competence is not a luxury. It is the basic load-bearing requirement of any apparatus that needs to actually function. When you subordinate it to symbolism, you do not get a more just institution. You get a less effective one, staffed by people who know they were chosen for reasons adjacent to the job, which does nothing for morale, standards, or output. The result is a regime that is simultaneously less legitimate in the eyes of the public and less capable of performing the functions that might rebuild that legitimacy. You do not stabilise a failing system by making it worse at its job. You accelerate the collapse while ensuring that when it finally arrives, the rubble is considerably deeper.

@IterIntellectus @martianwyrdlord One trend that counteracts the tendency you've observed is the modern kitchen. The kitchen used to be hidden away or even outside of the building. Now there is seating at the island, and the room is continuous with the dining room. This arrangement is prosocial.

you can tell a lot about a house by which room is at the center it used to be the dining room and the dining table. that's where life actually happened, dad paying bills, mom helping with homework, meals with the family life was built around that table now the center of the house is the "living" room. couch and a screen people even eat on the couch now which is genuinely insane if you think about it for more than five seconds. we moved the meal away from the table and the family, toward the content the room at the center of your house tells you what you worship

@IterIntellectus @martianwyrdlord We always eat meals in the dining room, but we do spend more time in the living room. The TV only comes on after our daughter goes to sleep, if ever.

@realKIRAC I had a very similar experience with a Dutch woman who took over a company I was freelancing for. Once she was in charge, suddenly my rates were too high. How could you be taking advantage of this poor non-profit? You've been replaced by someone who charges reasonable rates.

One of our major sponsors left last week. After years of support and contributing high six figures. The strange thing is that Dutch sponsors always leave trying to make you feel like shit. "The fact that you needed me all this time makes you a drifter. I should have treated you even worse. Why was I even doing this, I can watch your films without transferring thousands of euros a month. It's actually pathetic that you still don't have a normal business model. You don't deliver. You don't follow through on your promises. Why does the Houellebecq film take so long. You've lost your edge." I think it's stupid, because in doing so they taint all the support they gave with a bad smell. They trash their own investment. But it's probably like breaking up with a girlfriend. It has to be her fault. And somewhere you can't understand how you could have been stupid enough to ever believe in her in the first place. The real pain, I think, comes from the realization that I don't need you. Yes, for the money. But existentially, philosophically, not at all. The Dutch can't tolerate sovereignty. It's the consensus culture.

@retirementkeys Bit of a saturated market now, like microbreweries.

@urso_bruto @MTClassical I've come to think of the Extracts as a kind of primer. The snippets come from texts legal, historical, religious, etc, and by their very nature, prime the reader to look for thematic parallels and insights of a legal, historical, religious, etc nature in the subsequent text.

My father had a different or perhaps supplementary view of those opening pages in Moby-Dick. Rather than seeing the etymology section as merely a comical imitation of the learned apparatus fashionable at the time, he used to say that its real purpose was to initiate the reader into the boredom of the sea. I always thought that was an arresting comment. I have never seen any scholar pursue that line, but my father was an exceptionally erudite and reflective man who had sailed the North Atlantic solo as a young man, and I find myself inclined to believe him.

I just re-read Ishmael's comments before the Etymology and before the whale Extracts again. I think I've always blown past them too quickly, because I didn't feel the full force of how utterly bizarre they are. A few points on the Etymology with the Extracts to come later: The etymology is provided by an assistant teacher who recently died of tuberculosis. It is said that he is "threadbare in coat, heart, body, and mind." The fact that he is threadbare of mind must be meant as the first hint that Melville is up to something with the etymology (I already covered what he does with the Hebrew, where he uses the word for "grace" and not "whale"; I can attach that post for those interested). This teacher dusts his lexicons and grammars with "a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of the known nations of the world." How large would a handkerchief have to be have ALL the gay flags of the known nations of the world?? It would be awfully motley. And why is it mocking? Is the great wide world contained here meant to be compared with the narrower life of this duster of books? In this alone, we see the duality of Melville's soul when we think about what type of human being he is. On one hand, he had to be somewhat like the etymology compiler and extract compiler that he mocks, because he did read so many dusty tomes to make his book possible. And on the other, he did adventurously see much of the wide watery world. Melville could come to sight as a slightly more Xenophontic literary type, where the adventurous side or honor loving side of one's soul might express some contempt for the intellectual or philosophical side.