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@Captive_Dreidal @TheMindScourge @myth_pilot Check out Mark Felton's YouTube Channel where his video on the gun pictured was produced by the Nazi's in WWII. It was used against the Soviets mostly. youtube.com/watch?v=BHPVko…

@TheMindScourge @myth_pilot True but they went out of fashion when Germany introduced the massive artillery guns that could shred Castle fortifications in WW1 Belgium

The castle was a genuine innovation. The Romans didn’t build castles, for example - private fortification was illegal in most of the empire - and the successor states of the west continued this tradition Castles emerge in the late Carolingian. They are an expression - or arrogation - by private actors of the use of force within society. They represent a decline, in a sense, of state capacity. Royal governments resisted their spread, unsuccessfully. The rise of the castle was contingent, not inevitable. But you could not have predicted it from what existed before. It was something new Be careful when making predictions. History is not so limited as your imagination. This is maybe the real gift of the study of the past. You gain an appreciation for the degree to which things can change It happened before. It can happen again

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@TheMindScourge What would be the equivalent for the digital age?

@FinalTelegraph @VigilantFox "A state-sponsored stupor is the goal of the globalists." is precisely why the boy-child dictator Justin Trudeau championed the legalization of marijuana in Canada. It's effective too as the brain addled boomers who grew up smoking dope on the sly are in love with the Liberals.

Kara Swisher’s sarcasm reveals the Left’s deep hatred for merit. Western civilization was built by ambitious men who demanded excellence. The radical Left prefers a medicated, docile population. Data proves GLP-1 drugs blunt the brain's reward center. This chemical suppression of drive serves an elite managing our decline. Success requires fire. A state-sponsored stupor is the goal of the globalists.

Bill Maher reveals what CEOs are privately concerned about with employees on Ozempic. MAHER: “I’ve been hearing this on the low for a while.” KARA SWISHER: "On the low. From who?" MAHER: “I’ll tell you after the show. Somebody [in Big Tech] you would know... He’s been hearing, and in his company also, they don’t like their employees on this stuff because—” KARA SWISHER: “Oh, they don’t work hard enough for the man?” MAHER: “They don’t. It takes away your craving for food and maybe substance abuse...” “...Also kind of for success, and sometimes for living and for being motivated. They get kind of logie.”

@Rog973521 @GodPlaysCards On my next to read list.

@GodPlaysCards The final chapter in Sword and Scimitar.

For two centuries, the Ottoman Empire had pushed westward, swallowing kingdoms whole. Vienna was on the brink of collapse, the gate to all of Europe was about to fall open. Then, over the ridge of the Kahlenberg hill, came the largest cavalry charge in recorded history. 🔸By 1683, the Ottoman Empire was the most powerful military force on earth. Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa marched with more than 150,000 soldiers toward Vienna, pulling with him over 300 cannons and a supply chain that stretched back to Constantinople. 🔸On July 14th, the Ottomans surrounded Vienna and began digging. They ran tunnels beneath the city walls, packed them with gunpowder, and detonated them one by one. The city's 12,000 - 15,000 defenders watched their walls crumble from the inside out. 🔸After two months under siege, Vienna was dying. Food had run out, disease was spreading through the streets, and the garrison had lost a third of its men. The city's commander, Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, sent desperate messengers through enemy lines begging for relief. 🔸Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I had spent weeks negotiating one of the most unlikely alliances in European history. Catholic Austria, Protestant German princes, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth agreed to set aside their rivalries and march together. King Jan III Sobieski of Poland would lead them. 🔸Jan Sobieski was already a legend before Vienna. He had spent his career fighting the Ottomans on Poland's eastern frontier, and the Turks called him the "Lion of Lechistan." When the Pope personally wrote to him asking for help, Sobieski mobilized 74,000 men and began the march south. 🔸On the evening of September 11th, the allied commanders gathered on the Kahlenberg hill overlooking Vienna. Below them, the Ottoman camp stretched across the plain like a city of its own, with silk tents, horse herds, and cooking fires as far as the eye could see. Sobieski turned to his son and said: "Tomorrow we fight." 🔸The battle opened at dawn on September 12th with infantry clashing in the woods and ravines below the hill. For eight hours the fighting ground on, neither side breaking. Then, at around four in the afternoon, Sobieski ordered his cavalry to the ridge. 🔸The Polish Winged Hussars were the most feared heavy cavalry in the world. They rode massive warhorses, carried 16-foot lances, and wore wooden frames on their backs that held enormous eagle and ostrich feathers. At full gallop, the wings created a roaring sound that witnesses said was unlike anything they had ever heard. 🔸18,000 horsemen crested the hill and began riding downhill toward the Ottoman camp. Sobieski led from the front with 3,000 of his Polish Winged Hussars. The ground shook. The Ottoman lines, which had held all day, looked up to see a wall of horses, lances, and screaming wings descending on them at full speed. The formation collapsed almost immediately. 🔸The battle raged for 15 hours after which the Ottoman army was in full retreat. Kara Mustafa abandoned his command tent, his treasury, his artillery, and the green banner of the Prophet Muhammad. The Poles captured so much coffee from the Ottoman camp that it is credited with introducing the coffeehouse culture to Vienna. 🔸Kara Mustafa fled to Belgrade, where he was executed by order of the Sultan three months later. The Ottoman Empire never again threatened central Europe with the same force. The siege of Vienna is now considered the high-water mark of Ottoman expansion into the West. 🔸On the evening of the victory, Sobieski wrote a letter to the Pope. In it, he borrowed the words of Julius Caesar and wrote: "I came, I saw, God conquered." He had just saved Western Europe. He sent the letter before the bodies were even cleared from the field. 🔸The Winged Hussars charged for the last time at Vienna, and they won the most consequential cavalry battle in modern history. Within a generation, the age of mounted shock warfare would be over forever. Most people have never heard of the Battle of Vienna or of Jan Sobieski (he will receive his own card in due time). I believe it is vital you are now part of the group that does. History has a way of burying the moments that changed everything. Europe was about to fall. These men ensured it didn't. Thanks for sticking with me. Tomorrow I've got another fantastic story lined up for you.

@kane The fix: Decertify teacher unions. Make 'teacher' a respected merit-based 'profession' with ethics codes & performance metrics: good promoted, bad demoted. Place cameras in every classroom. Protects students, teachers, admin & parents. Behavior changes when cameras are present.

Please bro just one more tax will fix it trust me bro

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@BelannF Decertify teachers unions. Make 'teacher' a respected merit-based 'profession' with codes of ethics & performance metrics: good promoted, bad demoted. Place cameras in every classroom. Protects students, teachers, admin & parents. Behavior changes when cameras are present.

If you have seen the interviews on the streets of the students presently attending school at the universities, you will know this guy is right - Our school system has failed us - The #1 superpower in the world with the best economy spends $30K per student and when the students graduate from high school many can't read or write - and forget math and science. Our kids are graduating with shocking levels of illiteracy and poor math skills. - Douglas K Murray is right, it's not about money. It's the unions that have continuously robbed our students and held our schools hostage. Watch here 👉 on comment one.

@Jclearfield2 @BasedTorba Nope. But that aside, they sure could write great songs that changed the world anyway.

@JimonSolarFlair @BasedTorba Not the cleverest chaps, were they?

@Jclearfield2 @BasedTorba “Christianity will go. It will vanish & shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right & I’ll be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first — rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary.”

@BasedTorba Trump should have learned from the Beatles. He's old enough he ought to have remembered their "bigger than Jesus" gaffe.

@globeandmail The Liberals have had a defacto majority for years with the pussy NDP attached to their back pocket. And look at what they've done to Canada. Full steam ahead down the WEF NetZero death spiral just as planned. Too bad we're along for the ride.

Opinion: Mark Carney finally has his majority. He must not waste it theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

@johnkonrad We bought a 35' blue water sailboat built in 1984 after I retired in 2011 for $85k. Never sailed before. Power Squadron courses+lessons+refit & 3 years later, we sailed from Vancouver BC thru the Panama canal & into the Caribbean. We lived the dream & enjoyed awesome adventure!

Wow. This may be the bleakest stat I’ve heard all year: In the entire United States, the richest nation on earth, only 300 new sailboats big enough to carry an engine were sold last year. A country this large used to build sailors by the thousands. Now it barely buys boats.

@by__brittany Any last words before the Liberals censor X?

Any last words before we enter a Liberal Majority tomorrow? 😭

@Aarvic @JasonLavigneAB Well I'm in White Rock - south of Vancouver - so I'm expecting conservative lower mainland republicans to dominate the leftists so I can live in The Republic of Western Canada. Or maybe White Rock can declare itself a RoWC enclave. I'll be the Governor. Don't care about Manitoba.

@JimonSolarFlair @JasonLavigneAB Leave Manitoba and the lower mainland out

My prediction for Alberta. Liberals win a majority. Albertains hold a referendum. Over 60% vote to leave Canada. The House of Commons rejects the results. The Supreme Court rejects the results. Danielle Smith rejects the results. Alberta replaces Danielle Smith with a republican leader. Alberta Declare Independence. Donald Trump recognizes an Independent Alberta. Canada joins the European Union, UN and NATO in rejecting Alberta's Independence. PM Carney invokes the Emergency Act. Alberta becomes Independent with US support. Saskatchewan follows in Alberta footsteps. Remember, this is just a prediction. I don't have a crystal ball, I am just listening to Albertans.

@AdaLluch You'll likely be joined by many similarly disheartened Canadians if you go there. El Salvador is a nice country. Kath & I stopped in on our sailboat cruise south about 10 years ago - before Bukele. Warned of the danger, we traveled inland anyway. Met many friendly helpful people.

My home is and will always be Spain. That’s why I do everything in my power to make remigration happen even if all I can do is to speak up about it. But sometimes, it hard to remain hopeful about it. That’s why moving to El Salvador sounds more appealing by the day because Spain is no longer a place I am comfortable raising my future children. Maybe if I could afford private security and living in a gated community I would not think this way, but so far, it is not the case. Now with Viktor Orban losing in Hungary, the EU will be even more powerful. Ukraine will join the union in a few years and we will be plunged into war. Not to mention the already dire situation in Spain where women are unsafe, the infrastructures are broken, buying a house is extremely hard, starting a successful business is almost impossible, public schools have lowered the bar so immigrant kids can follow up with the lessons and the medical system is saturated. Nayib Bukele has proven to the world that a different path is possible. It’s a Spanish-speaking country. They believe in God. Their trajectory is upwards and not downwards. I never thought I’d say this, but it might be seriously time to consider a restart there. Without stopping the fight for my nation, of course. I can’t raise a family in Europe with the way things are going. It’s not fair to my children. Is it the morally correct option as a patriot? Maybe not. But as a future mother, protecting my kids will always be my number one priority.

@SceneinCinema Zihuatanejo - where the movie ends - is a very cool place to visit. Kath & I stopped in there with our sailboat 10 years ago to enjoy their Guitar Festival. What an experience. Highly recommend. You should go. zihuafest.com

The Shawshank Redemption flopped in theaters, $16 million worldwide on a $25 million budget, opening weekend just $727,000 in 1994, it disappeared almost immediately. It lost all seven Oscar nominations to Forrest Gump, no awards, no box office, the studio labeled it a failure and the director walked away devastated. Then something quiet started happening, VHS rentals, cable reruns, someone watching it alone on a Tuesday night and calling a friend the next morning. People who watched it told their friends, their friends told more people, it spread slowly, one recommendation at a time, no marketing push just genuine word of mouth. By 2008 it reached number one on IMDb, the audience voted it the greatest film ever made and it has stayed there ever since. It took 14 years to get there, a box office bomb turned into the highest rated film in history, built entirely by viewers long after the studio had already moved on.

@root_rat If you clicked on this and wasted your precious time (like I did) then you're 'hair-brained'.

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@FischerKing64 I visited family friends in 1967 as a 16 year old. I was sitting on the subway when a woman boarded. I stood giving her my seat which she accepted. Pretty sure the rest of the passengers were shocked by this but nobody said a thing. Would this happen today by anyone? I wonder.

In 1962, you could sit on the NYC subway and analyze a chess game on your pocket set without someone eating ethnic food right next to you or dropping his pants or screaming uncontrollably all of the sudden.

@NickyMccann @liz_churchill10 But whatever you do, don't erect bouncy castles because for sure they'll declare martial law and bring in the horses to trample you. If you're lucky they won't take their cue from China or Iran and just shoot you outright.

@liz_churchill10 The Irish need to get as much cash as possible out of their bank accounts NOW. Banks blocking accounts is what Canada did to the Truckers - your government is the same ilk and will use the same tactics.

EPIC BACKFIRE IN IRELAND The Irish Government sent in the MILITARY to CRUSH fuel protesters…but the Crowds EXPLODED in size. Now, huge parts of the country are RUNNING OUT OF FUEL. Their Globalist Regime has COMPLETELY LOST CONTROL

To Mark Carney & Those Applauding Him: I am a Canadian paying for a country that doesn’t include me. I live in the part of the country your map forgets. About 2,600 kilometres from the nearest stop on your proposed $90 billion train. I am an overtaxed, under-served Canadian. I heat my home with rising costs. I fill my vehicle at almost $2 a litre, depending on the day and my luck. I watch a country with 163 billion barrels of oil behave like it’s on a meagre allowance. And you want me to pay for a train I will never use. How thoughtful. I am a hard-working, falling-behind Canadian funding infrastructure I will never touch. It runs roughly 800 to 900 kilometres, depending on how creatively it detours around reality, from Toronto to Quebec City. Seven stops. All neatly contained within Ontario and Quebec. Top speed, 300 km/h. National reach? Let’s just call it selective. I am a Canadian treated like a revenue stream, invited only by invoice. Roughly $90 billion. About $8,000 per household. For a ticket I will never hold. From where I sit in Saskatchewan, your high-speed rail corridor might as well be interstellar travel. Two thousand plus kilometres away circling the station, and still billing me. I am a Canadian bereft of a stop on this train. Close enough to fund it. Far enough to never use it. I am an overextended, nickel-and-dimed Canadian. I am fixing my own road access. Paying more for groceries. Driving farther for basic services. And now funding new infrastructure for people who already have airports, highways, and existing rail. At this point, I would settle for a train that delivers affordable groceries. No need for 300 km/h. Just cost-saving reliability. I am a Canadian squeezed by government-made inflation, where every errand costs more than it did last week and every explanation from you sounds rehearsed. I am a Canadian quietly recalculating the future, trying not to downgrade my retirement to a leaky camper on wheels, while the country accumulates debt it cannot repay and prints money to pretend it can. I am a rural Canadian watching how this works. Not on my land. Not this time. But close enough to understand the mechanism. Because an 800 plus kilometre corridor does not meander politely. It cuts. Straight. Fast. With purpose. Through farmland. Through properties. Through communities. I am a watchful Canadian taking note of precedent. Survey stakes. Expropriation powers. “Public interest” to be explained after. It is not my yard today. But it is someone’s. And tomorrow, it will be called "necessary" for something larger. Something urgent. Something climate-related. Something that cannot wait. I am a wary Canadian noticing how easily "necessity" is declared to match your agenda. And how quickly my rights become flexible once it is declared. I am an observant Canadian with a long memory for names. And somehow, the same SNC-Lavalin lineage Canadians were told to forget is back, rebranded as AtkinsRéalis, positioning itself for one of the largest public contracts in Canadian history. A remarkable comeback. Truly. No apology tour. Just a new logo and a larger taxpayer subsidized opportunity. Seems history doesn’t repeat. It follows a predictable pattern. I am an unimpressed Canadian watching familiar #Lavscam players return under reimagined branding. The script is the same. Only the cover has changed. I am an exasperated Canadian you included in your sales pitch. I am told it will create 50,000 jobs. I am told it will add $35 billion to GDP. And I am sure it will. In the corridor. Where the stations are. Where the density is. Where the benefit is. I am a shunned Canadian excluded from the outcome. Included in all the arithmetic. Excluded from all the access. I am a cynical Canadian being told this is nation-building. Though the nation appears to exist along a very specific set of coordinates. I am the depleted Canadian who: Reads grocery receipts like an audit. Choreographs fuel stops around paydays not plans. Measures distance in cost, not kilometres. I am an overburdened, last-in-line Canadian. Essential when it is time to pay. Optional when it is time to benefit. I am an impoverished Canadian whose citizenship now resembles a pre-authorized debit agreement. The withdrawals are national. The benefits are regional. I am an exhausted, overlooked Canadian. You’re not building this for me or my family. You're just sending me the bill. Signed, Your most reluctantly reliable revenue stream, Melanie in Saskatchewan