Harambe439

@newstart_2024 The coup against Trump was my moment. Pandemic totalitarianism was the frosting. Don’t like it at all but I feel better with this understanding.

Some people look at you and see a cow in a feedlot — and Big Pharma is a perfect example. Bret Weinstein said it plainly in his conversation with Tucker Carlson: there are people who view the rest of us exactly that way — just a source of meat or money. Once you really internalize that, a lot of how the world actually works starts to make grim sense. He explained how our system now makes it far easier (and more profitable) to shrink the overall pie — to get richer by making everyone else poorer — than to grow the pie and create real wealth for all. That indifference to human well-being, he said, is basically “an economic version of the banality of evil.” It’s a quiet, chilling realization that explains so much of the cynicism and dysfunction we feel today. Have you ever had that moment where you suddenly saw a system or an industry through this lens?

Thinking of Scott Adams as one of his favorite “designated liars”, Eric Swalwell, gets a dose of Kavanaugh karma. Wish you were here Scott.

@FreedomIsntSafe @GadSaad A young woman was murdered in my general area. Two brothers were charged. They had separate trials. One brother got off. The other brother got life. One way or another, something went wrong.

@harambe439 @GadSaad I was big on the death penalty but switched for the same reason. Additionally I witnessed the state maliciously prosecute people in a couple trials I paid attention to and it truly scared me thinking of how often that must happen.

Public death penalty. I long ago explained that to remove the death penalty in all circumstances is an act of barbarity (masquerading as progressive civility). Some people engage in acts that defy human dignity. They lose their right to live. Kill them. We owe it to this young boy. Kill them.

@newstart_2024 @Jack_TheRooster The west feels like it’s replaced energy and pride with shame and submission. IslamoCommies, the opposite. There is, however, hope for a Western Christo restoration. Onward!

Konstantin Kisin, who grew up in the Soviet Union, said something that stopped me cold. While the West teaches its children to be critical of — and often ashamed of — their own country, places like China and Russia are raising theirs to be strong, confident, and focused on science and excellence. Not equity initiatives. He put it bluntly: we’re in a real battle of civilizations. And if we keep weakening our own foundations from within, how exactly do we expect to compete? His line about bridges hit especially hard: “A bridge doesn’t work very well if it’s built on diversity instead of math.” It’s a sobering reminder from someone who’s seen ideological self-sabotage up close. What do you make of this take — is teaching national self-doubt a luxury the West can afford, or a strategic vulnerability in a competitive world?

@ParableoftheA @HansMahncke Sounds too exhausting to be heavenly.

@HansMahncke And the men are taught if they die in violent battle, they get 72 virgins.

One of the most haunting stories from the Iran–Iraq War is that the Iranian regime mass produced little plastic keys that were hung around the necks of young children who were then sent out to clear minefields, after being told that if they died the key would open the gates of heaven for them. The regime later tried to deny the story about the keys, but there is no dispute about the underlying reality tens of thousands of elementary school children were systematically indoctrinated in martyrdom and sent to clear minefields.

@Nemtastic1 @peterboghossian Yep. It seems like sin, atonement, and some god or another (even the self) is always in the mix somewhere no matter how Godless it is. Nothing I’ve seen beats Jesus though. Her awakening does give me hope though.

@peterboghossian "I'm a good person" "I need to atone for my sins" I kind of hate that it has become cliche, because I think there is no better conceptual model for leftism than "leftism as secular religion", and almost everything beyond that framing obscures its fundamental accuracy.

Listen closely to what she says from 0:52 on. After teaching, researching, publishing, and making critical thinking my life’s work, I am convinced that this attitudinal disposition is THE barrier to critical thinking. This is it. In a nutshell.

@HumanityChad I’m happy and I wasn’t even there.

That kid doesn’t know it now but someday he’s gonna be all grown up, facing life and look back and realize that’s the happiest he ever was ❤️

@BowTiedTrance I will not be there, but I wish I could be. Are these recorded for later use? If so, where would I find it? Thank you.

We're going to break a lot of brains in this exercise. Not Leftist brains, Republican brains. Why? Because Republicans on average still think logic and evidence works. You're going to find out that you have to fight Leftist emotions with counter-emotions. Ok?

@ConceptualJames The people behind the issue are revolutionaries, but the people you’re talking to are probably just living dupe life. It’s hard to know what to do with them when the truth seems like madness.

I have a question. You know the issue is never the issue and that the issue is always the revolution. So why do you keep engaging the issue like it's the issue when you should be calling it out as part of the revolution? You KNOW.

@BowTiedTrance Keeping his usefulness handy for us. Thank you.

"All data that matters is bullsh*t." -- Scott Adams Before you freak out at that giant Islam symbol in Texas, because pictures are scary and fear = persuasion, the latest Pew Research ALSO shows that Islam is 1% in the nation, nipping at the heels of Judaism at 2%. Hinduism may someday crack the 1% mark, sad trombone. That being said: deport, deport, deport. (If you really want to get scared and worry, keep an eye on the atheists/agnostics/non-religious and their 29% numbers -- I'm guessing they don't count as a "growing religion" on this map. I'm also guessing they're growing anyway.)

@ConceptualJames “May we all wake up and realize what we're dealing with and treat it with the firmness and real compassion that the situation deserves.” We seem to be a “firmness” or a “compassionate” species and logically blending them seems exceptionally difficult for many of us.

It's actually difficult to catalogue all of the reasons transgenderism (as a subset of "gender-and-sexuality ideology," that is, Queer Theory) is not the same as a (classically) liberal civil-rights type of issue, but it's worth sharing some reflections. I'll start theoretical and get to the important prosaic stuff after. Everyone is familiar with the most obvious reason, though they might not understand it: transgenderism (etc.) demands your participation. You are required not only to tolerate but also to accept, include, affirm, and celebrate what is, by definition, deviancy. The definition of "queer" in Queer Theory, btw, is "whatever is opposed to the normal, the legitimate, and the dominant," as given by David Halperin in his 1995 book Saint Foucault: Toward a Gay Hagiography. That is, anything that opposes the normal and legitimate (that is, deviancy) is "queer," and nothing else is. Halperin makes clear that this is a political stance, not an essential identity. That already gives us two violations of a civil rights-type issue, then. The reason your participation (and affirmation) are required in transgenderism (as opposed to older modes like transsexualism and transvestitism) is because transgenderism is ultimately a totalitarian ideology. It never actually works, but it is taken to "woke" if, and only if, everyone pretends that it works. Queer Theory, thus transgenderism, comes from a vein of thought called "critical constructivism" and is, in fact, a critical constructivist ideology of sex and sexuality. When we say "gender ideology," what we actually mean is "a critical constructivist ideology of sex and sexuality." Critical constructivist worldviews (not just ideologies) maintain a belief that what is true is what people believe is true and hold to be true by consensus. Therefore, men can become women, and vice-versa, through "transition," if, and only if, everyone believes it is true and lives and acts accordingly. That means that some person's "transgender" status fully depends on your willingness to affirm that status, and this statement is true for all "yours" in the population. Thus, your full (and enthusiastic) participation is required, and you are an enemy (in Carl Schmitt's friend-enemy distinction meaning) if you do not enthusiastically participate. What you are being required to affirm for this dangerous totalitarian fantasy is, of course, a pathological lie. This is not a matter of civil rights for individuals. It is a totalitarian nightmare that requires assent ultimately under coercion to not only many false propositions but also to a completely false and toxic worldview in which those propositions obtain meaning ("trans" is not real outside of those fantasy worldviews). The second essential lie here distinguishing "trans" from civil rights-type issues is what we saw in the definition of "queer": it is a political, not an essential, identity category. An essential identity is something you are and cannot do anything (or much) about: sex, race, national origin, and, for reasons of its importance, we include religion. Sometimes these are referred to as accidents of birth and deeply held convictions. When these are deeply held convictions, we do not tolerate the demand that other people participate in your belief structure, either. A political identity is one you hold for political reasons. Adopting an identity that is defined "positionally," as Halperin gives it for "queer," "vis-a-vis the normal," such that it includes "whatever is opposed to the normal, the legitimate, the dominant," is functionally not different than adopting "MAGA" or "Democrat" as part of your identity. They are political identities, not essential identities. You adopt them and can un-adopt them. They are not protected civil-rights categories. "Queer," with "transgender" under its umbrella (critical constructivist ideology of sex and sexuality), is a non-essential, political, thus non-protected identity that masquerades as an essential, protected identity. Lots of tortured arguments you're required to participate in and affirm, under coercion, maintain this pretense and aren't worth getting into here. Of course, there's a complication here. Queer and transgender, while wholly political identities in reality (like "Democrat"), are somehow different. That's because they don't obtain meaning outside of an ideological worldview (critical constructivist ideology of sex and sexuality) to which someone can be deeply convicted. That is, people can really and truly believe they are queer or transgender in the same way someone might hold an identity like Baptist, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, or Catholic. The thing is, however, none of the people in these identities or supporting them wants to see them treated as they are, in that sense: as a toxic cult or "religious" identity, but that's their only hope of a path to protected status. They need these identities to be real and true by the consensus of forcing everyone to pretend to believe them, not a matter of faith and conviction that they cannot impose upon others through force or coercion. (If their belief is protected as an ersatz "religion," people of other religious beliefs are protected from it too, which negates the totalitarian necessity of their belief.) That is, this isn't a civil rights-type issue, but it plays one on TV and demands full audience participation, in violation of actual civil rights. That's the theoretical stuff, but it gets worse when we get prosaic. The fact is that one cannot merely live in society as a "queer" or particularly as a "transgender." One must interact in society as well, and the facts of one's oppositional and defiant stance vis-a-vis the normal and legitimate comes with you when you do. Not many would care about "trans" if the people involved were all mature adults who only live that way privately in their homes. (I'm not suggesting that should be the case, just making an argument about the interface with public.) They care because there is intrinsically friction, totalitarianist ideology aside, in public, and sometimes that friction isn't just friction but impact. For a "transgender" (or transsexual, or transvestite) person to go into public is to present the public with the evidence of the deviancy at its heart. The public is then required to deal with that deviancy. Dealing with something like this that you don't want to deal with is generally called "tolerance," and tolerance has limits. Once in public, the "trans" person will eventually be seen by children, for example, who are likely to demand an explanation from their parents. Many parents are rightly loath to give an explanation for this phenomenon, perhaps beyond something honest and protectionary like "some people have mental problems that cause them to dress and act like the wrong sex, and you should stay away from those people." Friction occurs in the fact that the presence of the "trans" person necessitates this possibility in virtually everyone they come into contact with, ultimately without their consent. There's a real question about how much and what kinds of friction people can reasonably be expected to tolerate in their day-to-day lives, and since it is the "trans" person causing the friction, as other deviants also would, it is not incumbent upon society to extend more tolerance than it will in the name of individualism and individual rights. This friction is particularly grating because it is, in many cases, not incidental to the circumstance of a "trans" individual. It is a deliberate provocation by those individuals. They want to be seen and recognized, and they want to specifically to cause the precise conversations and situations people are loath to accept. That's a form of soft coercion, and when deliberate, as it very often is, is is a provocation that demands not tolerance but the withdrawal of tolerance. Much in the theory, not just the praxis and intentional lived experience, under "trans" indicates that this kind of activism is important, valuable, and should be engaged in deliberately as a provocation toward the consensus that the worldview depends upon. Thus we can understand that the friction involved here isn't incidental and a matter of tolerance; it is a deliberate and provocative injection of deviancy (by definition) into public spaces in order to change or transform those spaces. It is an unwelcome manipulation to participate in the worldview of the provocateurs, and people are under no obligation to tolerate it as such, especially when it deliberately targets children, directly or stochastically. But this is merely friction. Sometimes there's more than friction. Sometimes there is impact. Once a "transgender" person goes to the bathroom in a public bathroom designated by sex (often all that is available, and for good reason); there is impact. That's because the "passing" game ends in that moment, almost no matter how discreetly and privately the person behaves. The reason is because the transgression of sex enters a sex-segregated space. Especially for women, this isn't just an uncomfortable situation but a potentially dangerous one. It can be a shocking and confusing moment for children as well. This impact gets more serious in other sex-segregated environments, like women's and girls' sports and, perhaps most undeniably, in women's prisons. The harms and dangers in those spaces are not incidental, and they cannot be expected to be borne in the name of "tolerance" or "compassion." They are not friction; they are impact, a hammer blow against normality, legitimacy, and stability of a realistic worldview. Of course, they are also frequently deliberate harms, sometimes in sports (including in gruesome ways in sports like boxing, rugby, and MMA) and undeniably in prisons. Men will claim "transgender" status to move to women's prisons where they are implicitly and frequently explicitly a danger to the women incarcerated there. This is impact in the most brutal sense. Tolerance cannot possibly extend to these kinds of deliberate harms, and it is sickening that our societies have forced this upon us over the last decade and turned a blind eye and deaf ear to the visible damage and cries for sanity. Then there is the impact of a "queer" lifestyle, particularly "trans," on the people who engage in them, themselves. They are taken advantage of and sold a worldview that is incompatible with reality and totalitarian in nature. They are turned not only into victims but into footsoldiers of this totalitarian program, and it happens in the overwhelming majority of cases through exploiting vulnerabilities like underlying mental illnesses, stress and social disorders, trauma, neurodivergence, and isolation. Fantasy that serves those who are already captured, or a predatory subset of deviants, is put before these vulnerable young people in place of treatment, compassion, and genuine love. This is not friction; this is impact. People who are seduced onto this path do not experience improved life outcomes, even though a few genuine deviants will claim that they do. The vast majority are led into deeper dissatisfaction, confusion, frustration, misery, failure, exclusion, isolation, and harm, chasing a fairy-tale of liberation in place of real treatment for the conditions driving them that way. At the end of this road, there are few good options. With "trans," many of the decisions made along the road are irreversible. You cannot go back. You can only live with the fact that you've broken yourself further while leaving your underlying problems untreated and festering, if not fed, entrenched, embraced, and encouraged. Your choices are a much harder and, in some ways, less satisfying life than you would have had, while having to admit your terrible errors and to start real treatment from square one, or some combination of the two worst-possible paths, which involve loss of life (maximum impact). Individuals, families, communities, and societies are torn apart around these twisted fantasies, all done in service to a lie that very, very few people can benefit from, and all who do are ultimately predatory. Tolerance cannot extend here. This is impact, not merely friction, not even merely intolerable, deliberate friction. Our participation and affirmation cannot be required or coerced, and our tolerance and acceptance are not owed or deserved. May we all wake up and realize what we're dealing with and treat it with the firmness and real compassion that the situation deserves.

@JenniferSey This! “He's pumped full of prescribed drugs based on a wide range of diagnoses none of which include batshit crazy.” They never include batshit crazy.

A psychotic & probably always sadistic young man decides the answer to all of his problems and mental distress is that he's actually a woman. He's pumped full of prescribed drugs based on a wide range of diagnoses none of which include batshit crazy. He pumps himself full of street drugs on top of that. The world sends him the message that he's being genocided because he's "trans." He takes up arms, because his thinks the world wants him dead. A lie fed to him by the entire culture and media machine. He kills his family and school children in one of the worst massacres in Canada's history. The media calls him "woman in a brown dress" then stops talking about him then shifts to "gunperson" because we need to respect his pronouns, in death. This is the state of things. Now Canadians will blame his actions on all the awful anti-trans-ness in the world. Not the fact that he was a drug addicted psycho unleashed and made worse by the trans/medical/industrial complex.

@grey4626 Is this intentional poetry? It hits different. A useful and stickier different.

They demand applause for sawing off the very branch they sit on. Watch them closely...these self-anointed saints of the cathedral, bloated with unearned moral superiority, swinging the axe with manic glee at the trunk that has held them aloft for generations. They dismantle merit in the name of “equity,” flood nations with unvetted millions while calling borders “racist,” neuter language until truth itself is a hate crime, infantilize grown adults with trigger warnings and safe spaces, and groom children with drag queens and puberty blockers...all while preening as the most virtuous souls to ever walk the earth. Every slash is a social media post, every severed limb a viral thread. They despise the tree...Western civilization, forged in blood, genius, and unrelenting will by men who conquered wilderness and built empires...and they insist that when it crashes, the blame will fall on the “fascists” who warned them. Psychologically, this is textbook pathological narcissism fused with a death drive so profound it borders on the demonic. They crave the mirror’s adoration above all else: to be seen as the purest, the most empathetic, the ultimate redeemers of a world they secretly believe is irredeemable without their intervention. Destruction becomes the ultimate performance...escalating, always escalating...because only the complete obliteration of the old order can validate their fragile, inflated egos. They loathe the branch not because it is rotten, but because it exists independent of their will; it reminds them they are late arrivals, beneficiaries of a greatness they could never replicate. Envy, raw and seething, masquerades as compassion. They are driven by what Freud might call Thanatos in progressive drag: the urge to return everything to chaos, to the void, so that no one stands taller than their mediocrity. Philosophically, they are Nietzsche’s “last men” on steroids...ressentiment incarnate, the slave morality triumphant. Weakness weaponized into a creed. They do not seek equality; they seek revenge against excellence. Inversion is their gospel: turn strength into “toxic masculinity,” beauty into “oppressive standards,” truth into “power constructs,” competence into “privilege.” They worship victimhood because it requires no achievement, only accusation. Theirs is a postmodern nihilism that denies objective reality yet demands absolute obedience to their hallucinations. They are the tarantula’s bite: poisoning the strong out of spite, convinced that leveling everything downward is the path to utopia. Look at the specifics, if you can stomach it. They defund police and then act shocked when cities become war zones. They open borders wide and cry “human rights” as fentanyl pours in and women are assaulted in once-safe streets. They shove critical race theory into kindergartens, teaching children to hate their own skin, then wonder why suicide rates climb. Every policy is a saw blade, every ideology a deeper cut. And when the branch finally gives way...when the grid fails, the economy implodes, the streets run red with the chaos they imported and incubated...they will still stand atop the wreckage, chests puffed, demanding ovations. Not for creation, never for creation. Only for the bravery of their destruction, the purity of their intentions, the sacred kindness of their cruelty. History is a graveyard of such delusions. Civilizations do not die from invasion alone; they die from within, from the termites who gnaw patiently, convinced they are carpenters. These are not reformers. They are not even revolutionaries. They are parasites in designer clothing, credentialed vandals with legacy media megaphones and corporate sponsors. The tree creaks louder now. The cracks are visible to anyone not blinded by ideology. And when it falls, the sound will be thunderous. But they will still demand applause. 💀🔪⚖️

@mattvanswol It’s lonely but you’re not alone. One step at a time and you’ll do fine.

I'm slowly starting to realize that the "red-pill-awakening" moment that I and others had after Hurricane Helene, is extremely rare. I was naïve in believing that if you just showed people the truth, they’d see it... and change their minds. I was wrong. Maybe that’s the scariest part, realizing some people don’t WANT to wake up at all. They’d rather stay wrapped in emotion than face reality. Feelings are a comforting, they are warm blanket where, no matter if you're wrong... you can argue that your INTENTIONS are good. They’d rather live in the comfort of emotion than face the discomfort of reality. It’s easier to FEEL right than to BE right. It's WAY easier to be angry than to be honest. I'm starting to understand that a significant portion of people I know actually identify themselves as a movement they belong to. So when facts, the truth, challenge any part of that identity... well then that information actually becomes a threat to their very identity. So actually the OPPOSITE of what I thought would happen actually occurs. I thought the truth would open people's eyes... but I dramatically underestimated how much tighter people cling to the stories that make them feel safe, even when those stories are lies. Because once you ACCEPT the truth, you can’t unsee it. You can’t go back to sleep, and sadly I've realized that the vast majority of people would rather keep dreaming. It is heartbreaking. Sadly, it appears even the truth can’t compete with the dopamine hit of outrage or the warmth of belonging to a crowd that never asks them to think or defend any position. Maybe that’s what makes waking up, these "red-pill moments" so rare. It's not just that you have to see the truth, you have to have the courage to be willing to admit you were wrong and change your mind. I'm realizing, perhaps WAY too late, how rare that actually is.

@grey4626 That may be the most beautifully written post that I’ve seen on X ever.

White liberal women are marinating in suicidal empathy...a pathology so pure it could be bottled and sold as Eau de Self-Destruction. Haute Couture, gift wrapped with a pretty little death wish. They fling open every border, every gate, every vein, inviting in the world’s predators with the serene smile of a martyr who’s already measured the noose. They call it kindness. The rest of us call it what it is: a civilized death wish, a perfumed suicide note signed in glitter pen and posted with hashtags like RefugeesWelcome and NoHumanIsIllegal. They weep for the poor oppressed migrant who raped a jogger in broad daylight, but never for the jogger. They’ll riot in the streets for a career criminal who died resisting arrest, but stay silent when a grandmother is carjacked and left bleeding on her own driveway. Their empathy is a one-way valve: it flows outward to every foreign parasite, every ideological virus, every thug with a sob story...yet it slams shut the instant a fellow citizen, especially a White one, dares to ask for the same consideration. That’s not compassion. That’s a slow, deliberate amputation of their own people, performed with manicured hands and the smug satisfaction of moral superiority. And us? We White conservative women? We’ve evolved a different strain. Call it homicidal empathy...lethal, precise, and aimed like a scalpel at the only target that truly deserves it: our own sisters who keep handing matches to the arsonists burning down the house we all live in. We don’t reserve our sharpest contempt for the invaders. We save that for the collaborators...the ones inside the walls who unlock the doors at 3 a.m., cooing, “Come in, come in, there’s plenty of room in the ashes.” The ones who scold us for noticing the flames. The ones who demand we smile and applaud while they saw off the branch we’re all sitting on. Our rage isn’t blind; it’s surgical. It’s the cold, glittering fury of women who refuse to die politely just to spare the feelings of traitors in Lululemon. Psychologically, the contrast is delicious. Theirs is classic thanatos...the death drive dressed up as virtue signaling, a masochistic thrill disguised as altruism. Ours is pure survival instinct transmuted into something far more dangerous: the recognition that sometimes love requires a blade. We love our children, our communities, our civilization enough to fight for them...even if that means fighting the smiling saboteurs who share our chromosomes. They kneel and offer their throats to strangers. We sharpen ours and wonder why we’re supposed to bleed out beside them just to prove we’re “empathetic.” Spoiler: we’re not going to. FUCK THAT. So yes,darlings...suicidal empathy for the blue-haired saints who want to save the world by destroying it. Homicidal empathy for the rest of us who refuse to die on their altar of performative goodness. If the truth stings, good. Pain is a better teacher than platitudes. Maybe it’ll wake you the fuck up before the grave does. 💀🔪🩸

@ConceptualJames I don’t know much about racists and groypers, but anyone who listened to him regularly knows he was the antithesis of that.

The racists and Groypers really, really like Scott Adams and are making a big show of it now that he's gone. It's weird.

@BretWeinstein Whoah! I didn’t expect that enlightenment today. It is my favorite symbol as well. When things are great, I look at the black dots. When they’re bad, I look for the white dots. Change and awareness. It brings me perspective.

The Yin Yang is my favorite symbol. It describes a type of symmetry the modern West has failed to focus on. Among other things, it illustrates the healthy gender dynamics that we have lost at every scale. Complementarity rather than identity. Spin it and it does not disappoint!

@HououinTyouma @MrAndyNgo The humor is in the truth

@MrAndyNgo we can stabilize both USA and Iran by exchanging women

Polling shows that around 24 percent of Americans think it is acceptable to use criminal direct action, including violence, to stop federal immigration enforcement. But when narrowed to white liberal women ages 18–44, the percentage shoots up to 60 percent.

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