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The interesting thing about woke culture is that’s it’s constantly stuck in the hand-off phase. Psychologically, this is akin to young writers breaking into their skills with fanfic, written or otherwise fantasied in their heads. You’ve yet to really come into your own, and you’re playing in the older generation’s sandbox to figure out how everything works. Usually this terminates around high school or college, and the talented writers then make their own original IPs. You’re not supposed to stay in the sandbox. You’re supposed to explore and grapple with the world in your art, and this is where creativity emerges. But Progressives are constantly trying to reboot everything. They refuse to leave the sandbox, and while you can say this is due to financial reasons, as a cultural experience, it’s like watching artists trying to imbibe the creative fire of past generations and failing each time. Yes, you updated the franchise with your more Progressive fanfic characters, and yes you turned the older cast into skinsuit sycophants, but each time it never sticks. Not a single woke reboot successfully passed down the torch to where we could move onto a new cultural vogue. The new discourse never takes shape. It’s like the opposite of the refusal of the call in the Hero’s Journey. A world of origin stories that terminate at the origin and go nowhere. Progressives desperately want the fire of the past—and the status it derives—but the Muses aren’t choosing them.

Prominent journalist Cenk Uygur drops a massive bombshell about Ghislaine Maxwell's father. He reveals Robert Maxwell was a Mossad agent who stole America's nuclear secrets and then bought US textbook companies to brainwash children. The Zionist lobby hijacked our education.

the people that post this kind of comment are inevitably dependent on academic research and pass off what they lift from books and articles as their own “research”

Contrary to popular depictions, brutalist buildings originally had a large layer of fat and colorful feathers.

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Retroflex sounds made by curling the tongue back to the palate are a defining feature of Indian languages, and almost nowhere else in the world are they this abundant. They can be perceived phonoaesthetically as being ‘coarse’ or ‘rough’ compared to more smooth sounds like sh or f. This map shows the distribution of ट, ड, ण, ळ, and ழ (the Tamil/Malayalam zh) based on linguist Peggy Mohan's research. Her argument: these sounds likely trace back to the 'First Indians’, the AASI ancestry that predates every later migration. So most modern day Indian languages did not bring their retroflexes, they found them here in India itself.

I'm sorry for the pause but regularly scheduled programming, but notice what exercise these grannies are doing at 89/91? Yup, the deadlift. The fitness industry is full of snake oil, but one of the biggest deceptions is discouraging the basic compound movements of deadlift and squat. The number of times I've heard the deadlift isn't worth the risk/reward, how it's going to mess up your back etc. No, the deadlift is what makes your back strong as you age. The biggest change to your body is that you start losing muscle mass, your bones have less and less support, including your spine. The deadlift puts an iron rod of muscle around your spine. I've had aches and pains around my back for more than a decade---regular weekly deadlift and squat fixed all of it. I haven't had so much as a tweak since I started lifting heavy. Here is me at 41, lifting 375 at 165lbs. We saw Christopher Waller lift the same at 67. This is what will help you age comfortably, not some random new fitness trend. With all that, you need good form. Get a trainer, practice light over and over again, and only when it's comfortable should you start loading it up. Everyone's *good form* will look a bit different, e.g., my back looks rounder than some others', but this what is more comfortable than a straight back for me. Once you have that down, you'll have the best anti aging hack out there.

RSS-BJP's idea of Indian history is borrowed from James Mill, and of Hinduism from Max Müller; I'm always amused when they claim "Hindutva is indulging in de-colonization" Prof Romila Thapar🇮🇳