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American Empire I Revive Western Civilization The great questions of this day will not be settled by speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

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Confluence@TheConfluens·
The Vision for The American Empire: In the last three centuries, the United States has undergone two stages. The Colony. The Democracy. It is time for us to embrace the Third, and final, stage: The Empire. The institution of democracy in its present form is a failure. It leads our nation and our Western Civilization down towards a path of decay. If it is not destroyed and replaced, it will inevitably bring us to our knees. The solution is a Red Caesar. The Red Caesar would reorient our country on the path towards national power, reinvigorate the imperial spirit, and would be the agent of causation for the Empire. When the United States strips off the self-imposed shackles of this multicultural democracy, human rights, and international law, it will emerge more fearsome than any can imagine. We will be the Successor to Rome, what the European Empires of Old tried to be, but never succeeded. We are a sleeping giant and it is time to wake up. Ave Caesar. Hail Caesar.
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@theoeides4 I agree. The necessary "Caesar" figure that will emerge in America will come after a major financial collapse or other groundbreaking event. Trump is not Caesar (contra what the Democrats say)—nor was he ever going to be. But that Caesar will come.
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James Bryson@theoeides4·
I’m not sure that there’s any serious post-liberal that imagines leaving the American Constitution in the dust. What sensible liberals and post-liberals agree on—the MAGA coalition basically—is that the current system has eroded the institutions that democracy is meant to serve: those of civil society. How to rebuild these is the great question at the heart of the so-called war inside of conservatism. It is a sign of life that people believe there’s something worth fighting for. What Prof. Mansfield is describing here is the sense of fairness that the liberal system prizes. The problem is that people are not feeling liberal democracy is fair culturally. As the old saying goes, the liberal is he who never takes his own side in an argument. There’s something unnatural about this. Is liberalism in the end simply managed decline? Many key indicators seem to suggest as much, especially our demoralized cornerstone institutions culturally like churches, marriage, family, schools, courts, and universities. Interesting times for conservatives, no doubt. For all of us.
Harvard University Press@Harvard_Press

"Right now conservatism is alive. It's at war with itself." We spoke with legendary @harvard professor Harvey Mansfield about liberalism, conservatism, political philosophy, and why it's important to live in a country where our ambitions are checked by those who oppose us. His new book, The Rise and Fall of Rational Control, is a survey and summary of a course he taught at Harvard for half a century. 🐐 You can't take the course, but you can read the book: bit.ly/45jeh2u 😎

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Enrico Fermi@enricofermi22·
@TheConfluens @romanhelmetguy You pay to go to an all-white school, and it’s not that? Hate to tell you, but it's probably the whitest school you'll find.
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Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy·
The Harvard History department has a class where undergrads just help fill out asylum applications for illegal aliens:
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@romanhelmetguy @joshfontanilla True. It is the scarcity of the thing that gives that thing value. Just like how life is only meaningful because death is inevitable.
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Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy·
@joshfontanilla I would say instead that you’ll probably never feel anything close to what it felt like to hear live music in the 1800s.
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Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy·
It’s sad to think about, but photography made even old paintings less beautiful. If AI can write ten thousand Shakespeare plays, we won’t have ten thousand and thirty eight Shakespeare plays, we’ll have none.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb@nntaleb

Until photography, painters competed largely on the verisimilitude of representation. Photography destroyed art by making artists switch to absurd images often driven by social contagion. Now imagine what AI will do to literature.

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@AutismCapital The Iranian regime should be dismantled but not at the cost of American boots on the ground or a prolonged humanitarian crusade for democracy. We would do well to learn from the lessons of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital·
🚨NEW: More than 150 US military cargo flights and 50 new fighter jets have all headed towards the Middle East as Trump is mounting pressure on Iran. It looks like war may be imminent. This would be a massive weeks long campaign unlike Venezuela (per Axios)
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Western Civilization remains the only civilization to have succeeded in near-total world dominion. Many have tried (Islam, the Mongols, etc.) but none besides Europe have ever succeeded. The West is, to quote Samuel Huntington, the leading world's leading expert in "organized violence".
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Carl@HistoryBoomer·
"Whose civilization is best?" is a stupid game. Europe has been very impressive over the last 500 years, but for the first 2700 years after civilization began in Sumeria (3500 BCE), it was a relative backwater. The Middle East, India, and China were where the cool stuff was happening (literacy, construction, extensive trading networks). Europeans were pre-literate peoples until the Greeks learned to write by copying the Phoenicians in the 8th century BCE. (Unless you want to count the Minoans.) The Greeks and then the Romans did some pretty cool stuff from 600 BCE to 476 CE, but they were regionally dominant, not world powers. In 1492, Europeans were about to begin their rise to global power, but even then, no European state was as strong as the Ottoman or Ming Empires (or the about-to-be-born Mughal Empire in India). Even as late as 1683, Europe was threatened by outside invasion (the Ottoman siege of Vienna). It's probably not until the 1757 British victory at Plassey (over the Nawab of Bengal) that Europeans could be said to be truly globally dominant (although their naval preeminence was clear well before that). And today that dominance is threatened by the rise of China (although that country has its own problems). Western Civilization is pretty cool—I'm a fan—but it has not "always" been exceptional, and if history is any judge, it will eventually be replaced by some other contender (although that newcomer will borrow and build up on what Western Civilization created).
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Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog

It’s amazing to consider that four populated continents border the Atlantic Ocean but for centuries none of them, except Europe, produced a single person who managed to navigate it from one side to another. In fact there is no evidence that any tribe anywhere in the Americas ever even thought to cross it. There was one possible reported expedition from west Africa going the other way but all of the ships were lost, if they were ever actually sent at all. Outside of that, as far as we know, no Africans ever tried to cross it either. Certainly none ever succeeded. Europeans alone had the vision, the courage, the skill, and the ingenuity to pull it off. They not only traversed the unknown sea, but built empires that stretched across it. They don’t want you to learn much about the true history of western civilization because if you do you will learn how incredibly exceptional it is, and has always been.

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Confluence@TheConfluens·
The best example to illustrate the slow decline of the West is Columbus Circle in New York City. At the foot of the flame of the West, where the statue of Christopher Columbus towers above, there are simultaneously halal carts and their owners performing the Call to Prayer for all to see. They have no semblance of respect for Western Civilization; they are in America solely to reap the benefits of an economic zone built by generations past. If this degeneracy is not averted, if the West does not remain Western then our civilization, our people, our home will die. We are in the midst of an existential struggle for survival.
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Confluence@TheConfluens·
@RichardHanania White culture is not NFL and McDonalds. NFL (the modern form of bread and circuses) and McDonalds (the pinnacle of consumerist degeneracy designed to addict and slowly kill you) are mere distractions.
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Richard Hanania@RichardHanania·
Why rightists have trouble answering the question of how white culture is under threat. They start talking about the NFL and burgers, like these things are disappearing from America. They actually don't like racial change, and pretend it's about culture. richardhanania.com/p/the-problem-…
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Confluence@TheConfluens·
Farage is a spineless political opportunist. He is unwilling to do what must be done to preserve a British Britain. Rupert Lowe, on the other hand, embodies the best of the British virtues: aristocratic but not pretentious, brutally honest, and unapologetically courageous for his homeland.
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Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10·
Good news everyone - hope not hate has just stated that I am 'already by far the most extreme MP'. I would have been devastated if they said otherwise, to be honest.
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@PalantirTech Left wing states and cities continue to strangle themselves as the wealth exodus continues. Generational self flagellation.
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Palantir@PalantirTech·
We have moved our headquarters to Miami, Florida.
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@MarioNawfal Farage is a political snake and an opportunist. The ideas of Western Civilization, of British peoplehood, are not salient to him. To the UK: Vote Restore.
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Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·
🇬🇧 Farage has addressed Rupert Lowe’s new party, Restore Britain. "When he stood up and said that we've got to consider the mass deportation of entire communities... that was the moment at which I realised we just had to get rid of him." True colors.
Elon Musk@elonmusk

Unfortunately, the reality is that Farage will do almost nothing to protect Britain. That is obvious. Existing law is clear that anyone who was an accessory to aggravated rape or murder, especially of children, is guilty of serious crime and must either serve time in prison if a citizen or be deported if not. The government simply needs to enforce the law.

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Confluence@TheConfluens·
@adamkjohnston Melting pot (as opposed to say, a soup) implies melting into something. That something is a Western nation built on Greek philosophy, Roman law, and Christian values.
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Adam Johnston@adamkjohnston·
Complete nonsense. The "melting pot" is a modern myth used to erase history. WASPs held a total monopoly on every US institution from 1607 until the mid-1960s. You can’t be responsible for the foundations of a country when these other groups weren’t present in large numbers.
James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki

@adamkjohnston Given that we've had mass immigration for most of the past 200 years, Irish and Italian and Polish and Jewish and Asian and Latino immigrants, and African Americans, along with WASPs, are responsible for it.

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@romanhelmetguy To think she is in the top 2 favorites for the Democrat nomination in 2028...where have we come to
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@docMJP The globalists, believing that they would destroy Western Civilization, have only invigorated it beyond their wildest nightmares. With Rubio's Munich speech, it is finally cemented in the national consciousness.
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Matthew J. Peterson@docMJP·
Between Rubio’s Munich speech and Rupert Lowe’s launch of Reform Britain, we have seen the importance of clear rhetoric even in the midst of the confusion of our idiocracy. Even in a time of Babel, when confusion reigns and people are all speaking past each other. The articulators of The Problem, The Agenda to solve it, and The Vision, or what we are fighting for, are rising. In America we have Vance and Rubio and Miller, working together, playing off each other. Lowe will inspire many more in the UK. It’s shows that winning can still happen with reason and clear words describing what needs to happen and why and for what purpose with clarity and coherence even—and perhaps especially—as things otherwise are falling apart. It draws people and support even now. The white pill of the month. And it is the product of countless posters and outliers, many of whom have been here on X for years, saying things that institutions and big names would not. Black-pilling is for the weak. The easy path. Take on agency. Forget despair. Make fighting to win and making the world a better place your only object. An American way of life worth living in the 20th century.
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@AndrewBeckUSA It is surprising that America, the greatest power since Rome, has not had a figure like Alexander, Caesar, or Napoleon. He will come.
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Andrew Beck@AndrewBeckUSA·
“Americans want to be a great people, not just another people like all the rest, and they locate their greatness mostly in their great presidents…” —Harvey Mansfield
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Confluence@TheConfluens·
@adamkjohnston It is the unique emphasis of the English on a society based in property rights and rule of law that propelled the United States (and the British Empire as well) to greatness
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Adam Johnston@adamkjohnston·
“Would America be the America it is today if it had been settled not by British Protestants but by French, Spanish, or Portuguese Catholics? The answer is no. It would not be America; it would be Quebec, Mexico, or Brazil.” -Sam Huntington. Heritage cannot be dismissed.
Charles Murray@charlesmurray

As I follow the backs-and-forths about American culture and white culture, I keep thinking that the essential analysis has existed for 22 years, written by one of the most brilliant social scientists America has ever produced. Read it!

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@StephenM I attend a very prestigious private high school in New York City (tuition over $71,000) and they are actively seeking to obstruct ICE and keep illegal law breakers in this country. Utterly repulsive.
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Confluence@TheConfluens·
The only question that remains with Rubio is whether he will have the iron will to do what must be done to save Western Civilization through mass deportations and the expansion executive power. America cannot afford another “moderate” or, even worse, another radical larping as a moderate.
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