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We need to have a serious discussion about how to fix these "teen" takeovers. Nearly EVERY time, the crowd is OVERWHELMINGLY Black, but we are not allowed to notice that because that's racist... ...so how do we fix this? Seriously, what is the ACTUAL solution here???

Remember when a 20-year-old fan wanted to take a picture with his favorite rapper after a show and they all beat him up causing a concussion and a brain bleed? I wonder if this kid even listens to rap anymore.

You think Julius Caesar was a general who wrote about his wars. He was a politician who used his wars to write himself into power. The Gallic Wars is not history. It is the first great act of personal branding in Western civilization – and it worked so well that Latin students are still reading it as a neutral text two thousand years later. 1. Homer wrote about a war he didn’t fight, centuries after it ended, with nothing to gain. Caesar wrote about his own war, in real time, while it was still happening, for a Roman political audience that would decide his future. This makes the whole difference. The Iliad is a most honest war document in Western literature. The Gallic Wars is a most sophisticated dishonest one. Both are masterpieces. Only one admits what it is. 2. He wrote in the third person. “Caesar decided. Caesar advanced. Caesar built the bridge.” Not I – Caesar. The oldest trick in political communication: remove the first person and create the illusion of objectivity. He is not telling you what he did. He is reporting, as a neutral observer, what Caesar did. The technique is so effective that it became the template for political memoirs, leader’s autobiographies, and every carefully curated war documentary ever produced. 3. He built a bridge across the Rhine in ten days, crossed, demonstrated Roman power, crossed back, and destroyed the bridge. Militarily pointless. Politically brilliant. He knew it would be in the book. Every spectacular logistical achievement in the Gallic Wars was performed with one eye on the page. The campaign was also the content. 4. Vercingetorix nearly stopped him. The Gallic chieftain united the tribes, invented the scorched earth strategy, and brought Caesar closer to defeat than anyone in Gaul. He surrendered at Alesia to save his people from starvation. Spent six years in a Roman prison. Was paraded through Rome in Caesar’s triumph. Then strangled. Caesar describes him with genuine respect – because the book needed a worthy opponent. The dignity of the defeated, carefully managed, served the victor’s narrative. 5. Modern historians estimate Caesar killed or enslaved between one and three million Gauls. The Gallic Wars records this in calm administrative prose. Battle statistics. Surrender terms. Efficiency metrics. The most sanitized account of mass atrocity in ancient literature – written by the man responsible, published for his political benefit. He didn’t lie. He curated. The difference is important and the technique is everywhere. 6. The Gallic Wars is the origin of something more dangerous than fake news: the selective true story. Every fact it contains is accurate. What it omits is everything that doesn’t advance Caesar’s interests. This is the mature form of narrative control – not propaganda, not falsification, but precision curation of reality. Every institution that has mastered communication since has been working from Caesar’s manual. 7. He crossed the Rubicon three years after finishing the book. The army that crossed with him was loyal to Caesar specifically — not to Rome — because the book had made Caesar into a legend his soldiers believed in. The Gallic Wars didn’t just record the conquest of Gaul. It manufactured the political capital that ended the Republic. The most consequential content marketing campaign in history was written in the third person, in elegant Latin, by the man who understood before anyone else that controlling the narrative is the prerequisite for controlling everything else.

DSA Members: “We might not even have a president. Abolish the Senate, abolish the Supreme Court.”

“What a long day at work, I think I’ll let my guard down and close my eyes on the subway home, just for a moment…”

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Why don't podcasters and their guests ever talk about the tens of billions of dollars Qatar and Saudi Arabia are spending in our country to influence our politics and policies, our businesses and sports, brainwash our kids, and buy podcasters and their ilk?

BREAKING: Elon Musk acquires Jacksonville power company APR Energy in a deal valued at more than $1,000,000,000.00.

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