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@MickOKeeffe Is half the Irish population culturally suicidal? Who votes for these people? Assuming free elections are a thing.

When Irish people see a corrupt politician walking the streets...

@HumanBe87 @LostMemeArchive You seem to have a rather rigid outlook on life.

@LostMemeArchive She did have a point, in all fairness He was very suggestive in the way he said it and even looked down towards his crotch at one point when she asked what he meant Not explicitly sexual harassment but she wasn't blind to his insinuation or manner in which he spoke and gestured

Hugh Mungus (2016)

@Ambar_SIFF_MRA Pretty mid but she has an Italian Renaissance painting kind of look.

Henry Cavill and his longtime partner, Natalie Viscuso. They aren't particularly looks-matched. Most would agree he is noticeably better looking than her. Yet examples like this are quite common. It highlights how men frequently prioritize loyalty, honesty, and compatibility over purely superficial looks.

Celtic spearhead from the 6th century BC (Hallstatt culture). This leaf-shaped spearhead was found in a grave near the town of Sigmaringen in Germany. It is decorated with a pattern that runs almost its entire length. Württemberg State Museum, Stuttgart, Germany

@LeoSegga Good catch. I would include Sanskrit as well.

@MattLinde5 My impression is that very old IE languages have a sort of imperial feel due to “is”, “us” and “um” ending in words (Imperium). That is why Lithuanian is the most regal sounding of current IE languages.

The Gaulish language seems spirited and to have an enchanting quality to it. Kind of like Old Latin and/or Ancient Greek (and likely Proto-Germanic even) with that classical regality, but with more fairies, magic, and glistening lakes/ponds baked into it. This is my impression of it phonetically at least. The insular Celtic languages as we know them seem to preserve the fairy/magical quality, but lack the regality imo. Into the Medieval period they seem to have more of a provincial vernacular, perhaps influenced by the Bell Beakerish indigenies... unsure. This is my aesthetic impression.

@tellingly_told @arenrlebrun You find it semi-justifiable to murder people for being a temporary nuisance/inconvenience. That's what you're basically saying. Your replies in defense are pedantic cope. Take the L and rethink. We've all been wrong on the internet before, it's okay.

@arenrlebrun ‘Killed two activists in Panama for protesting a copper mine’ You’re doing the liberals pretending not to understand things meme

Remember when retired U.S. lawyer Kenneth Darlington killed two activists in Panama for protesting a copper mine in the rainforest, and Elon Musk (billionaire EV magnate w/ a vested interest in cheap copper) thumbed the scales on X so badly that people thought he was the hero?

@Rothmus Aaaand the white race continues to decline in birth rate.

@persona27691444 @MarquisKartaga @SelectivBreeder Not that women's preferences are always great or never a nuisance, but a lot of "playing the game" is in usual cases being a decent productive human being or proxy thereof?

@MarquisKartaga @SelectivBreeder Artificial wombs would still be decouple reproduction from women's mating preferences, which select for all sorts of eventually-civilization-ending traits, whether Jews are running society or not. They'd also still liberate men from having to "Play the game" to have kids.

"I do not believe in the Immaculate Conception; I do, however, believe in the Foidless Birth"

Philosophers and economists who are blamed by historians of ideas for various evils: 1. Isaiah Berlin/Jacob Talmon: Rousseau to Stalin 2. Karl Popper: Plato to Totalitarianism 3. Allan Bloom: Heidegger to the Closing of the American Mind 4. Anne Norton: Leo Strauss to Iraq War 5. Giorgio Agamben: Carl Schmitt to Patriot Act 6,. Tamsin Shaw: Carl Schmitt to William Barr 7. David French: Carl Schmitt to “MAGA Morality” Other connections: Hayek/Friedman to 2008 financial crisis; Michel Foucault to Neoliberal Revolution; Pat Buchanan to Trumpism; Hayek to Trumpism: Frankfurt School to “Cultural Marxism”: Frankfurt School to CRT (Rufo)

There doesn't seem to be a strikingly strong consensus from what I gather, but I think the current one (not that I agree per se) is of a Proto-Italic unity in the North Adriatic around 1300 BC, the significant differences between Latin-Faliscan and Osco-Umbrian being explained by Isolation between these two groups post-migration, on opposite sides of the "Appenine spine" from what I understand. I'm no linguist or archaeologist, but some of the differences in vocab make dual origins plausible to me. I suppose there could have been other IE groups that may have influenced one group and not the other though. Genetics show a rather tight clustering between Etruscans, Osco-Umbrians and Latin Faliscans in Central Italy. This may be because all became absorbed into whatever was the dominant Central Italian element of the period, forming an Iron Age "Italic" core, and/or that these populations descend from similar enough populations North of the Alps. They cluster tightly, but I suppose subtle differences can be discerned once we have full fledged genetics papers published and not just leaks.

@CisalpinePride @MattLinde5 Makes perfect sense to me as it is coherent with the theory, confirmed by ancient greek sources, that Latino-Faliscans migrated to Italy around 1600 BC, 400 years before the Umbro-Sabellians. The former from the western Alps, the latter from eastern Alps or the Balkans.

The 20-30% steppe in Iron Age Italics made for a very nice composition, coming mainly from Central European Bell Beaker with some secondary Paleo-Balkan, largely from Ver Sacrum warriors. And their cultural Orientalization (mainly Greek) made for an ingenious blend of Italic ethos with Hellenic ingenuity. Philhellenism was something of a Pan-European phenomenon since the LBA/Early Iron Age. After a while the orientalization went too far. Inevitably Magna-Grecia became highly integrated as an element within the Roman world, but what really screwed up their demographic composition was the massive influx of Anatolians, perhaps mostly as slaves with some merchants etc... nothing in particular against the peoples of the Asia minor but this series of events really diluted the Italic core that much of, if not most of Rome's greatness owed to.

@MichelMoser371 @CisalpinePride On the translated Italian Wiki page on the Siculians, I recall reading supposed topographic evidence of Siculi presence in places near Pisa down the Western Coast as well as somewhat inland in places like Tivoli. They were likely part of the Latin-Faliscan language group.

@user1174658 @CisalpinePride Or genetically steppified people who still spoke EEF languages, or both.

@MattLinde5 @CisalpinePride There were almost certainly pre-italic indo europeans in Italy (maybe apennine culture?), those clades could be from them

@DeepPsycho_HQ Osho was the boomer's guru.

“ Logic is a crutch for the weak; the strong walk on their own intuition.” -Osho

Leaving out Soren Kierkegaard, a shame. Even more accurate than Nietzsche was. “Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm, and shrewdly relapsing into repose.” “The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.” “The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.” “The dialectic of antiquity was oriented to the eminent — the great individual, and then the crowd; one free man, and then the slaves. The dialectic of Christianity is oriented to representation — the majority perceive themselves in the representative and are liberated by the awareness that he is representing them. The dialectic of the present age is oriented to equality, and its most logical implementation, albeit abortive, is leveling — the negative unity of the negative mutual reciprocity of individuals.” “A revolutionary age is an age of action; ours is the age of advertisement and publicity. Nothing ever happens but there is immediate publicity everywhere.” “More and more individuals, owing to their bloodless indolence, will aspire to be nothing at all — in order to become the public: that abstract whole formed in the most ludicrous way, by all participants becoming a third party — an onlooker.” “Our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.” “A political virtuoso might write a manifesto suggesting a general assembly at which people should decide upon a rebellion, and it would be so carefully worded that even the censor would let it pass. At the meeting itself he would be able to create the impression that his audience had rebelled, after which they would all go quietly home — having spent a very pleasant evening.” “In the present age a rebellion is, of all things, the most unthinkable. Such an expression of strength would seem ridiculous to the calculating intelligence of our times.” “Equally unthinkable among young men of today is a truly religious renunciation of the world, adhered to with daily self-denial. On the other hand almost any theological student is capable of something far more wonderful. He could found a society with the sole object of saving all those who are lost. The age of great and good actions is past, the present is the age of anticipation when even recognition is received in advance.”

@OIXo88 Not exactly what I'm saying, in either case.

@MattLinde5 I completely agree. I would also say the Celts who were also subhuman likely contributed significantly to the decline of the gene pool. It’s truly disheartening to think about.

"I'm not concerned with the Times, but with the Eternities." - Schopenhauer on reading newspapers

@Arbogast357766 @Iovincorix Parts of India were fully urbanized when the Greeks were not much more than roving bands of sheep/cattle herders living mostly in huts. Were they more intelligent?

@MattLinde5 @Iovincorix The Gauls were more civilized than we give them credit for, but come on

It may actually stretch back the Middle Bronze Age with desire/emulation of Mycenean motifs in artifacts. Then you had cases of proto-urban planning/layout of towns during the Hallstatt period in places like the Hueneburg and other early Celtic towns. All this obtained via the extensive trade networks/highways that spanned most of Europe, including the British Isles and Scandinavia to some extent, but Central Europe especially. This suggests hired craftsmen/builders from the Greek world as well. I highly recommend this book by Kristian Kristiansen on the subject. Forgive me for not delving into great detail as I'm hazy on it at the moment.

@MattLinde5 >Philhellenism was something of a Pan-European phenomenon since the LBA/Early Iron Age. can you elaborate?

@Arbogast357766 @Iovincorix Less use of stone in building automatically = Less intelligent?

@Iovincorix @MattLinde5 >less intelligent I like the Gauls, but comparing them to the Hellenistic kingdoms is like a Model T vs a Tesla