@UpdatingOnRome Gonna get lunch at the local kebab place wearing this stuff (with a Kevlar vest underneath, of course)
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Local Boethius
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Local Boethius
@local_boethius
Vivere est mori. Mori est vivere.
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Hierarchical authority—be it the father of a family or the king of a nation or the pastor of a parish—is part of the natural order, and even when that ‘head’ is wrong about something (which is inevitable), it’s rarely a good thing to rend the whole body. If the head is sick, it can be healed, but once you start chopping off limbs, going back isn’t so easy.
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@local_boethius @JTAlexander_ Why is the opposite of that logic supposedly good?
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The Protestant Reformation was probably the most destructive event humanity ever has or ever will experience and virtually everything wrong with the world today can be traced to the logically consistent application of its principles.
🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛@nonregemesse
Which opinion about history will get you like this?
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@TsarNicFanatic @JTAlexander_ So a ‘reform movement’ that refused to submit to Magisterial authority, then. That’s just another way to say it.
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@local_boethius @JTAlexander_ The reformation was not 'going to do my own thing' it was a reform movement that was expelled by the Catholic church.
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Local Boethius retweetledi
God chose a virgin for the birth of the Messiah, not a redeemed harlot, for a reason
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@kangminlee @JackPosobiec Alas, it’s probably Nigel Farage
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Local Boethius retweetledi
Own a gladius for home defense, since that's what the great Julius Caesar intended. Four bandits break into my villa. "By Jupiter!" As I grab my helmet and gladius. I thrust my sword and pierce the heart of the first man, he falls to the ground lifeless. Draw my pugio on the second man, miss him entirely because it's a short-range weapon and it hits the clay pot. I have to resort to the ballista mounted at the top of the villa loaded with javelins, "For the glory of Rome!" The javelins pierce through two men in the blast, the sound and extra splinters shatter the nearby vases. Fix my pilum and charge the last terrified bandit. He bleeds out waiting on the Praetorian Guard to arrive since pilum wounds are difficult to heal. Just as Julius Caesar intended.
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@Oilfield_Rando I see your Independence Day sequel and raise you one Gladiator sequel
(and the Turkish sack of Constantinople)
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The actual ideology of these anticolonial movements was that white people have no right to live in Africa and it’s up to their Third World rulers whether they’ll be allowed to live there and on what terms. That’s the underlying moral claim of decolonization.
My two parting questions are:
- Can you think of a single American official in the last 70 years who would disagree with that claim, even in its most explicitly racial phrasing?
- Can you imagine the same moral claim applied, with modifications, to the United States? Because the “decolonizing” left certainly can.
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“Third Worldism” is a good term and I use it myself, but I prefer other names like “race communism” for two reasons.
1. Its enemy is not just the West but white people explicitly.
2. “Third Worldism” sounds foreign and it’s not. It’s the ideology of the American empire.
Zineb Riboua@zriboua
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Big difference between people who criticize US policy and those who want to absolutely destroy U.S., work to make its collapse happen, and feel absolute pleasure in seeing Americans fail. hudson.org/politics-gover…
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@FischerKing64 I’ll gladly submit to your rule, King FischerKing, and steadfastly uphold your FischerKingdom.
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Every American problem - from bad infrastructure, to open borders, to foreign lobbies manipulating American power, to the massive debt - could be solved inside 5 years with forceful, effective government.
But not this form of government.
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@MattWalshBlog Voting should, at a minimum, be contingent on heritage, marital status, and welfare received vs. taxed paid. Raising the age to 25 would be a good start.
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There's basically no difference between this and the exact same kinds of "dumb spring breaker" videos you'd see 10 years ago or 20 years ago or 30 years ago. I actually don't mind the fact that a bunch of 18 and 19 year old kids are totally ignorant about world affairs. That's healthier than obsessively doomscrolling alone in your basement or whatever. The problem is that these kids can vote. We should all just agree that 19 year olds are stupid and don't know anything, and that's basically fine, but it's also why they shouldn't be able to vote. Raise the voting age to 25.
New York Post@nypost
TV reporter finds the dumbest spring breakers in America: ‘Who the f–k is ayatollah?’ nypost.com/2026/03/24/us-…
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@mattvanswol The Constitution hasn’t governed the American people in at least a century, and the sooner we realize it’s a relic of a bygone age with no power of its own, the greater our opportunity do what’s necessary to save our country.
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30-32% of the population are first and second gen immigrants. This foreign-origin population includes 21% of Blacks, 80+% of Asians, 66% of Hispanics, and ~8-10% of Whites.
Americans (of all backgrounds) with pre-Hart-Celler roots have been thoroughly replaced and displaced in a much greater share of the US than in comparable European countries.
We can definitely still resolve the issues this brings, but we should keep keenly aware of our situation.
Michael Knowles@michaeljknowles
Is it time to start denaturalizing people?
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@AaronIrber “…but then something happened the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: Captain James T. Kirk, USS Enterprise.”
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Does Shatner have the Ring of Power or something? He looks well preserved
William Shatner@WilliamShatner
At 95, I'm still smokin'! 😝 I’ve learned two things: Never waste a good cigar. Never trust anyone who says you should ‘act your age.’ 😉👍🏻
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Addressed that in the last sentence. Assuming they weren’t enslaved by the existing (and thriving) Arab slave trade, their ‘free’ life in Africa would’ve still been a Hobbesian nightmare. Not that slavery was the better lot, but if the negative difference in quality of life is ‘oppression,’ it’s not all that much.
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@local_boethius @bonchieredstate @christopherrufo Except the Atlantic slave trade increased the frequency of wars fought to capture slaves
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The replies to this (Chris was responding to another account) are full of people earnestly arguing discrimination against white men today is worse than chattel slavery.
You can’t imagine how much internet victimology rots the brain.
This used to be an exclusively left problem.
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
I don’t think white men in 2026 are more oppressed than black men in 1826
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Rufo, scolding white people and belittling the abuse they’ve suffered *is* Leftist thinking.
No one’s playing this game anymore. White people aren’t gonna take it. Not after Somalis defrauded the US taxpayer out of tens of billions of dollars.
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
I've done as much as anyone to stop anti-white discrimination in America's institutions, but you have to be brain-damaged to believe that "white men are the most oppressed group in history." This is a leftist attitude, and almost certainly a projection of personal failure, frustration, or resentment onto the Jews or the social tableau. Yes, you should absolutely fight to reduce anti-white discrimination, but if you believe "100% of your problems are external," you're being dishonest with yourself and repressing massive inferiority feelings, which almost certainly have nothing to do with the war in Iran or AIPAC or whatever you think is "holding the white man down." It's leftist thinking. A victimhood fetish. Your pioneer ancestors would laugh at you for whining that you're "the most oppressed man in history" because of Pam in HR.
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Liberalism has run its course and left us in the Pottersville timeline from It’s a Wonderful Life.
No way to get back to Bedford Falls besides making broad categories of degeneracy illegal again.
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We gotta ban polymarket and Kalshi and fanduel and whatever else man. Just gotta rip the bandaid off
Nick O’Neill@chooserich
$500k Polymarket chain on my neck, no wife or kids, and just turned 44. Does life get any better than this?!
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Do you think the mass demoralization and institutional/economic disenfranchisement of white men was intentional or incidental? If the former, then it’s not a matter of scapegoating, as bad actors holding the levers of power wanted to do us harm and did, giving us the right to blame them. We can debate who’s to blame but not that there is indeed someone to blame. Not every conflict can be resolved by soul-searching.
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The question for young men is to figure out precisely what is holding you back from your dreams, and how to break through the barrier. The Torbas of the world will sell you resentment and scapegoating, but besides being a distortion of reality, it won't help you build your life. If you're honest about your circumstances, the real conclusion is not "the Jews are why my life isn't where I want it to be," in the same way as "whiteness, or systemic racism, is why my life isn't where I want it to be."
While it's fine to solve social problems, my observation is that people who are obsessed with blaming Jews, whites, blacks, whomever, have real individual issues they need to sort through, and will be disappointed to discover that spending a few years hating the scapegoat didn't materially improve their lives at all.
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Transgender activists used to run this same tactic, which we now see with the Groypers: they mobilize their bots and basement-dwellers to "ratio" tweets to create the feeling of social punishment for believing that "girls can't become boys" or "Israel didn't kill Charlie Kirk."
Both ideas are false, of course, and Torba is precisely the kind of man who is inducing the "full-blown schizo meltdown about the Jews," which is why he took the bait here. The solution is simple: tell the truth, which will outlast the ideological fantasies of the Groypers and the ephemeral clicks of Nigerian bot farms.
Andrew Torba@BasedTorba
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@L2pir @extradeadjcb The quoted post is a textbook example of the former as it calls her “racist, homophobic” and censors the mean words she used.
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@local_boethius @extradeadjcb You can’t tell the difference between being upset by the action versus being upset by the hypocrisy?
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Oh no those are all the worst things a person can do
Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸@Bubblebathgirl
Mayor Mamdani’s homophobic, racist terrorist-sympathizing wife, who recently got exposed called black people ni***rs and gay people f**s, has shut down her 𝕏 account.
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