Ian Garrick Mason

If you love your people and want them to be left alone to live and prosper in their own ways, the first and most necessary principle to follow is to leave all other peoples alone to live and prosper in their own ways.

The end result of the reformation

Iran is currently Paul Atreides standing on top of the pre-spice mass with the Water of Life threatening to bring all travel in the empire to a halt I know this is nerdy but trust me this is the perfect analogy

Ukrainians, 2023: "Lets launch a classical armored maneuver operation against those subhuman Russians." Israel, 2026: "Let's launch a classical armored etc. etc." Lessons never learned.

The Houthis have understood the friend-enemy distinction far better than we ever have.

BREAKING: 🇲🇽🇨🇺 President Claudia Sheinbaum announced today that Mexico seeks to resume fuel shipments to Cuba despite Trump’s threats

the Houthis have entered the chat buckle up

Ali Larijani wrote a book on Descartes. The title is Critique and Examination of Descartes’ Rules for the Direction of the Mind. Descartes wrote the Rules long ago. It was unfinished. Twenty-one rules. They show how to guide the mind. Divide problems. Order thoughts. Count everything. Seek clear ideas. Larijani reads it closely. He sees the method. Doubt everything uncertain. Strip away the false. Reach the sure thing. I think, therefore I am. He takes the method further. Not just for one man. For the state. The state must doubt too. Doubt foreign models. Doubt Western values. Doubt international laws that bind. Doubt the stories others tell. Doubt like a knife. Cut away imitation. Cut away dependence. Then the state finds its own certainty. I critique, therefore I am. I think alone, therefore I stand alone. This is absolute self-possession. The state owns its mind. Owns its path. No outside master. Larijani links it to Iran after the revolution. Neither East nor West. Build your own reason. Build your own strength. Be patient. Be independent. He mixes Descartes with Islamic thought. Not rejection. Transformation. The old method serves the new state. The book is sharp. It criticizes Descartes too. Points out gaps. But the core stays. Doubt leads to freedom. For the man. For the nation. That is the book. Simple lines. Deep water beneath.

Butlerian Jihad, but for the centralized state. Smash it into pieces and don’t let it re-form, lest a future Epstein class use it against us again.

When all your power is actually an illusory spell based on the aura of invincibility concealing a Potemkin empire, then yes minor damage to your prestige systems represents an epoch-shaping milestone.

the laundry room on the F-35 caught fire

Levin, Loomer, and Kushner should be deported

Cuba is under deep cut off and sanctions BUT it's a nation of strong men and women ,they are not only hitting street for Cuba but for Palestinians too . Respect

Translation: Given that the US has now effectively run out of stand-off munitions, they finally ordered an F-35 sortie into Iranian airspace. The "stealth" aircraft was detected, targeted, struck, and was lucky to make it back to its base in one piece.

Another two Canadian charities have had their registration revoked after the CRA found they were using donor funds to support the Israeli military. zurl.co/GqkJi

Israel is threatening to destroy Tyre. Tyre (Sour) is Lebanese. But also part of world history: cradle of Phoenician seafaring, source of Tyrian purple - the colour of Roman Emperors, the birthplace of Stoicism, and site of Alexander’s famous siege. An assault on us all.

@CrusaderTrade Exactly. As the world levels out, we're going back to the "people who live next to a trade chokepoint usually get to control (and monetize) that chokepoint" rules.

@iangarrickmason They offshored and cut their military manpower back. It does make more sense that the countries of the region would control it

Just wait till Yemen does the same thing for the Red Sea. Honestly, though, this would be a way better outcome for all of us than the current "choke off the world's energy supply" strategy being pursued by the empire.

It's not even about destroying the post-World War II protections on civilians at this point. They want to exempt themselves — and only themselves — from the most ancient rules of civilized conduct, like not killing diplomats, not killing the wounded, accepting white flags...

"Colonialism only loosens its hold when the knife is at its throat." - Frantz Fanon

That last sentence 😂

Like I keep saying: Europeans need to be politically and philosophically anti-American. Our continued existence depends on it.