The Man From Post-Dystopia

Look at the rate of civilizational advancement from 1st flight to moon landing and consider where we’d be now had we not subsequently reoriented society around the idea that the entire world has a right to live here, vote here & receive legal, political and financial preference.

@r_aunt2512 @WallStreetApes They’re leftists. They oppose anything that increases productivity. They oppose non-state initiatives that materially benefit humanity.

Why wouldn't people want the data center? It's jobs in their community! High paying jobs with good benefits! More jobs brings more local taxes, demand for more housing, restaurants, good stores , etc! It will enrich the areas economy! I don't understand why people don't want jobs in their communities?

This is literally insane So many people showed up to oppose a $6 billion dollar data center in Missouri they had to use bleachers The whole crowd yells and chants they don’t want the data center Festus City Council voted to approve the data center anyway right in their faces

@BlakeSNeff The country went over the cliff 30 years before I was born, and I’m a GenXer.

The most blackpilling part of the birthright citizenship debate at SCOTUS isn't that they might rule the Constitution requires it. It's that, if they do, there isn't a hope in Hell that our Congress would ever pass a new amendment to fix it. It should be the easiest thing in the world to pass a new law clarifying that tourist anchor babies and surrogate children bought by CCP oligarchs don't get lifelong U.S. citizenship. Yet everybody knows Congress will never do this. There aren't enough votes to repeal a policy of obvious long-term national suicide. That should fill us with a lot of dread for the country's future.

Waiting for this decision was the only reason to not to do Andrew Jackson stuff. If they rule against this, he has no reason to not ignore the courts. They have already signaled that he and his children will be jailed and lose everything if we lose. He may as well go for it. Mr. Roberts and his associates should factor this into their ruling.

@pegobry_en @AnaboliclyJelqd By actual coffee, you mean American-style coffee? Or a caffe crème?

@AnaboliclyJelqd They have regular coffee. It's mid, tbh. But it's actual coffee.

A hipster coffee shop just opened in my very residential, old-money neighborhood, and it seems to be run by an aryan hippie priestess cult. Every time I go I am served by a different set of blonde German or Dutch girls with this energy and no bra. Must investigate further.

You want to murder 300,000 of your own people, start a three-way civil war, declare war on 9 different nations at the same time, and then install an Emperor?

@JMooreP3 @tedfrank @bdomenech @conor64 Public health is an anti-scientific cult since it prioritizes its social democratic and egalitarian ideology over evidence-based medicine. The typical public health expert is the antithesis of Dr. John Snow.

@tedfrank @bdomenech @conor64 You overgeneralize. A few did this. This became the basis for the anti-science cult that has taken over enough of MAGA that we now have the unscientific bozo RFK Jr as HHS head.

A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.

@IndividualistPE @feelsdesperate I agree that they are collectivists, but they’re post-Marxian since they’ve abandoned class analysis. They’ve had more success building solidarity among the non-white petit bourgeoisie that trying to awaken a revolutionary consciousness among the skeptical working class.

@baalwark @feelsdesperate Nothing essential has changed. The old words are fine. Communist, collectivist, Marxist all work. It's a defining characteristic of collectivists that they deny being collectivists if anything bad about it is being pointed out. Lying is their basic strategy.

It can’t be real ‘third worldism,’ right? Because the liberational movements that spawned that ideology are now 50 to 70 years in the past? People are using third-worldist rhetorical framing more but it doesn’t quite fit. They seem to use it out of convenience - it’s familiar (they’ve studied it) and they need something to placard onto an ideology of resentment, malice, and entitlement that is otherwise too sclerotic and muddled to articulate itself.

@feelsdesperate In other words, more like a continental European capital.

New York City needs more NGO employees and we need to build affordable housing so that they can live here comfortably.

🚨NEWS: Leftist Government in Brazil make it ILLEGAL to interrupt women in meetings - Punishable by up to 5 YEARS in prison - The official crime is 'misogyny' but the examples are CRAZY “interrupting or doubting a woman in a meeting” Madness

@millerman @captive_dreamer The Altemeyer (1978, iirc) version of it was even worse.

In 1950, the Frankfurt School designed a test to find the fascists among us. Carl Schmitt said the instrument itself was the problem. 30 questions. Make up your own mind. fscale.millermanschool.com

@AuronMacintyre The revenge of Haile Selassie: strip mining the colonizers’ world of financial and social capital.

@RobertoVaquero_ The communists won the second Spanish Civil War. It’s easier to win a civil war when war is never declared.

Noelia Castillo Ramos será la primera persona en recibir la eutanasia por depresión en España. ¿La causa? Nadie te la dirá. En 2022, Noelia sufrió una violación múltiple en un centro tutelado. Esto destrozó su vida por completo, lo que le llevó a un intento de suicidio fallido que la dejó parapléjica. El sistema le ha fallado y ahora le ofrece la eutanasia como remedio.

Actually, NYC has experienced near-zero private sector growth over the past several years. Nearly all recent ‘growth’ has been in public spending and/or sectors that depend on public spending like nonprofits. You can only cook the books for so long before reality catches up. And our steady decline in tax revenue is reality catching up fast. We aren’t going to tax our way out of this. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying.

@ScottMGreer I attended a church in Manhattan that tended conservative, and if the single women met you through a mutual friend there, they were generally very receptive.

People need to spell out these ways besides the apps. We just spent a week of discourse on here on how women don’t want to be approached at church. Approaching at work can cost a man his job. We have fewer third spaces. Younger people go out less and have fewer social connections. More of them live online. It’s not surprising people still rely on the apps given this situation.

@justforfun1328 @feelsdesperate Trump was echoing Kant's iconic statement, "Sapere aude! (Dare to know!) Have the courage to use your own intelligence."

@feelsdesperate It’s the Art of the Deal. It’s like a how to book of making the Libs rage. “Trust your own gut” literally destroys their ability to control what they believe they should be in control over.

‘Alice from Queens’ has poasted about me 15 times today. Very strange person. If this has clogged up your timeline let me be the first to apologize.

@MechaJefferson @lporiginalg Most people aren’t conscious either.

@lporiginalg you guys realize it's not conscious right? it's imitating patterns its read in human text.

This is fine.

@GertrudeButter1 @AntigoneJournal @ProofreadJulia Cigarettes and Coffee?

@AntigoneJournal @ProofreadJulia I just watched him in ridiculous Jim Jarmusch movie last night.

Timely reminder of when this guy reviewed that guy... Iggy Pop on Gibbon's Decline and Fall (Classics Ireland, 1995): Caesar Lives by Iggy Pop In 1982, horrified by the meanness, tedium and depravity of my existence as I toured the American South playing rock and roll music and going crazy in public, I purchased an abridged copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Dero Saunders, Penguin). The grandeur of the subject appealed to me, as did the cameo illustration of Edward Gibbon, the author, on the front cover. He looked like a heavy dude. Being in a political business, I had long made a habit of reading biographies of wilful characters — Hitler, Churchill, MacArthur, Brando — with large profiles, and I also enjoyed books on war and political intrigue, as I could relate the action to my own situation in the music business, which is not about music at all, but is a kind of religion-rental. I would read with pleasure around 4 am, with my drugs and whisky in cheap motels, savouring the clash of beliefs, personalities and values, played out on antiquity’s stage by crowds of the vulgar, led by huge archetypal characters. And that was the end of that. Or so I thought. Eleven years later I stood in a dilapidated but elegant room in a rotting mansion in New Orleans, and listened as a piece of music strange to my ears pulled me back to ancient Rome and called forth those ghosts to merge in hilarious, bilious pretence with the Schwartzkopfs, Schwartzeneggers and Sheratons of modern American money and muscle myth. Out of me poured information I had no idea I ever knew, let alone retained, in an extemporaneous soliloquy I called ‘Caesar’. When I listened back, it made me laugh my ass off because it was so true. America is Rome. Of course, why shouldn’t it be? All of Western life and institutions today are traceable to the Romans and their world. We are all Roman children for better or worse. The best part of this experience came after the fact — my wife gave me a beautiful edition in three volumes of the magnificent original unabridged Decline and Fall, and since then the pleasure and profit have been all mine as I enjoy the wonderful language, organization and scope of this masterwork. Here are just some of the ways I benefit: I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there were others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day. I learn much about the way our society really works, because the system-origins — military, religious, political, colonial, agricultural, financial — are all there to be scrutinized in their infancy. I have gained perspective. The language in which the book is written is rich and complete, as the language of today is not. I find out how little I know. I am inspired by the will and erudition which enabled Gibbon to complete a work of twenty-odd years. The guy stuck with things. I urge anyone who wants life on earth to really come alive for them to enjoy the beautiful ancestral ancient world.

@BalatrianKid @SamaHoole So what. Are we running out of water?

@SamaHoole ah yesss, totally how 90% of meat is produced, on 35° sloped pastures, the places where the cows actually fulfil their purpose. Except sadly most meat production does NOT look like this.

Activist: "The water usage for beef is obscene. Thousands of litres per kilogram." Farmer: "That's rainfall." Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The figure includes all the rain that falls on the pasture. The cows drink from the stream. The rain falls whether there's a cow here or not." Activist: "It's still water consumption." Farmer: "Should I stop the rain falling on my field?" Activist: "Grow crops instead. More efficient." Farmer: "This is a 35-degree slope in the Welsh hills. Show me the crop." Activist: "Technology..." Farmer: "To make tractors climb mountains?" Activist: "There must be a solution." Farmer: "There is. It's called a cow." Activist: [checks phone]