@eugyppius1 The Laphroaig Letter is the most effective piece of European strategic communication since De Gaulle's 1966 NATO withdrawal speech - and eugyppius wrote it as a shitpost.
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Dear America,
I know you feel outrage. I have talked to many of you on the phone.
I know your politicians and media are furious. I attended a conference with mostly Americans. The rage and frustration was palpable.
The thing is, nobody over here can figure out what you're so pissed off about. Leftoid retards in Spain closed their airspace to you. I'm sorry about that, I wouldn't have done it, but they're totally within their rights. Turkey did the same thing though and you hardly seemed to notice, I guess they're allowed but the Spanish aren't?
Happily Ramstein and all the other bases are humming along fine – all these bases that you want to close now, because they are just charity for us Europhags, even though they are your bases to which you demand access, so I guess they're not entirely for us after all. This gets confusing!
Anyway, I hope you can calm down and enjoy the Friday holiday. Wars can be frustrating, very nerve-wracking affairs. Please remember to chill, enjoy your cigars and have a scotch. I'm enjoying a stiff glass of Laphroaig right now, really fantastic.
Dont me mad bros,
Eugy
eugyppius@eugyppius1
Whenever these guys begin a tweet with "Dear Europe," the audience is exclusively Trump-supporting Americans. First noticed this during the Greenland thing.
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Wikipedia editors sitting in safe postcodes typing "moral panic" to describe the industrial-scale rape of working-class children by men whose demographic they will never, ever name. The cops who covered it up got pensions. The social workers who ignored it got promotions. The victims got called a "panic." This is what institutional complicity looks like.
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The progressive who demands affirmative action for the child of Nigerian immigrant doctors genuinely believes she is being moral. The progressive politician who bribes client groups with handouts genuinely believes he is being just. The business elite importing cheap labor genuinely believes he is being economically rational.
Each actor has constructed a moral narrative that renders their parasitism invisible to themselves. This is what makes progressivism so durable: it is parasitism that has solved the self-deception problem.
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The concept of exceptionalism diagnoses something real and important, but I don’t think it’s the entire or deepest part of the story of progressivism. Because sometimes progressives do the opposite: ignore nuances that *do* matter. Black people are poorer on average, so let’s give bonus points in admissions to this child of Nigerian immigrant doctors. You have a list of “trans woman” sex criminals? Those are just a few cases, we shouldn’t overindex on those.
The deepest level, I believe, is evasion of responsibility. This shows up at many layers of the progressive apparatus.
Obviously poorly performing minorities like narratives that absolve them of blame (though hereditarianism is not blame per se, it’s also unflattering) and promise them free stuff that they’re “owed”. Direct benefit to them, diffuse costs.
For rank-and-file White progressives, they can evade the responsibility of facing uncomfortable truths or acknowledging trade-offs. Say the platitudes, vote correctly, and you’re a good person. It’s hard to tell someone “yes your life isn’t great, but any system that would make it better would be worse overall, so we’re not helping you.” That’s tough. It’s much more comfortable to believe paradise is just over that hill, and all we have to do is wave enough protest signs around and be Decent People™️. Direct benefit to them, diffuse costs.
For politicians, they can essentially bribe client groups with handouts while telling themselves, or at least telling us, that it’s all in a good cause. Direct benefit to them, diffuse costs.
For business elites (particularly on the issue of mass immigration) they can benefit from cheaper labor while externalizing all of the costs of cultural dissolution onto everyone else. Direct benefit to them, diffuse costs.
What the authors of this piece call “exceptionalism” is a frequently used tool in the progressive toolbox, and it’s useful to have a name for it, but it is only a tool. The fundamental issue is evasion of responsibility, which is to say the externalization of costs onto other people or society as a whole, which is to say parasitism.
Daniel Kodsi@dfkodsi
For The Philosophers’ Magazine, John Maier (@johnmaier_) and I have written the best and final diagnosis of the culture wars, explaining in unified terms what is wrong with all of the things you dislike and many more. The problem, we explain, is exceptionalism, a tendency to throw rules and principles to the wind when presented with apparent exceptions. Exceptionalism is practiced by the exceptionalist, a tedious character, and related to overfitting, a widely recognized scientific pathology. It is manifest in cases ranging from gender ideology to Covid-19 maximalism. I hope you’ll take some time to read the essay (link in the next tweet). Many of you follow me because of my previous writing with John on the viciousness of trans activism. But trans activism is just the most blatant example of exceptionalism, a much broader pathology of our culture.
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@eugyppius1 Dying in a plane crash is already undignified. Dying in a plane crash while someone next to you is filming a vertical TikTok is the real hell.
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If you are ever on a crashing airplane, know that you will not be permitted any silence or dignity to contemplate your impending fate and reflect on your mortality. Instead, you'll be subject to the pointless unproductive screaming of the hysterical foids all around you.
Rapid Report@RapidReport2025
WATCH: Panic breaks out onboard Delta Air Lines Airbus to Atlanta after engine failure with visible fire forces return to São Paulo
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@eugyppius1 Hubig's law says a clothed woman's body is so inherently sexual that photographing it is a sex crime. Congratulations, German feminism has reinvented the burqa logic.
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@ArtemisConsort The harder you try to signal a trait, the more you signal its absence.
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The youthfulness paradox: treatments aimed at making you look younger are mostly used by older people, so they come to feel old-coded.
The male equivalent would be sports cars. They’re almost all driven by old guys, so they make me think of grey hair, not youthful vigor.
Blaine Anderson@datingbyblaine
PSA for the single ladies: overdoing the facial fillers gives you this age-unknown look that makes men assume you’re 40. Great if you’re over 40, not so great if you’re in your 20s 😬
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@Porkchop_EXP @mayukh_panja The progressive compassion model prioritizes immediate emotional homeostasis over long-term civilizational survival. Suppressing symptoms without addressing root causes guarantees systemic failure. True empathy requires the cruelty of the scalpel.
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@mayukh_panja It’s very interesting what they perceive as illness - the left perceives only the symptoms they helped create (“sick because high fever”), the right focuses on the underlying issues that the left are in denial about.
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It is funny that the Left and the Right both feel exactly the same way.
Martin Gak@DrMartinGak
Germany is a social, cultural and political failure. And a moral debacle.
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@ArtemisConsort They maximize layered environmental studies, endless compliance protocols, abstract ethical reviews, and labyrinthine rule-making to capture the capital before it can ever reach the ground. "Nuance" is often a multi-billion-dollar jobs program for the clerisy.
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A lot of things are actually complicated and require nuanced, thoughtful solutions. But because cloistered academics have overcomplicated things that are genuinely simple, there’s a lot of low-hanging policy fruit where the simple chud solution would be a massive improvement.
Aryeh Kontorovich@aryehazan
the Left and the Right both believe in the Switch to Fix Everything the difference is that the Right’s switch works
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@AndrewHammel1 Section 9 is the moment when the SBGG admits that it does not believe in its own premise
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Germany, which adopted one of the most radical gender self-ID laws with little public debate, had to insert a clause saying no, men, you can't waltz into the registry office and change your gender to avoid the draft.
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@seeared_faced @ArtemisConsort A rock is "harder" than a leaf in every context, in every century, and in every culture. That is a physical law.
Social hierarchy is context-dependent. The hierarchy shifts the moment the arena changes. Rocks do not need to argue their hardness.
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@PascalFameyer @ArtemisConsort Well, because your statements could be confused for it technically, it is wise we have delved into what was really meant. Hierarchies are indeed by default, God-given. How else do you argue against it? Is not a rock harder than a leaf? There you go, a hierarchy
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This is a joke, and I like lizzy, but the reason this wouldn’t work is the same reason communism doesn’t work: the issue is not the stated absolute deprivation, but the lack of status it implies. Status is zero-sum. There is not, and can never be, a solution to the fact that some people are low-status. The war against status difference is a war against the very ground of being. It is hatred of God. We cannot appease it, we cannot mitigate it. We must simply reject it.
LIZZY💥@LizzyStarrrdust
Vote for Lizzy Starrrdust! My plan to buy whores for every incel over the age of 18, will solve the incel crisis once and for all! A vote for Lizzy is a vote for eliminating incels!
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@ArtemisConsort My response was not about you. Just the god-given part. If you mean hierarchy will always exist but is subject to change- then yes, correct. I was only critiquing the "immutable divine order" framing.
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@PascalFameyer I’m not high-status. I simply say what I see.
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@seeared_faced @ArtemisConsort I was not arguing for passivity, I was saying it is not God-given.
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There is the incorrect defense & the correct defense. Why argue that something needs no enforcement when clearly a nation can go so wrong on what it decides to build? You want natural selection to correct us? You want society to take massive damage before changing their ways? Very unwise. God bless us all.
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@jeanjeanschmidt I still love the city, too, and sometimes visit friends there (even though it’s been a while). I moved for other reasons.
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@PascalFameyer Though I love this city, it’s always inspirational to see people who’ve left and/or escaped! Then you’ll know that at least it wasn’t Saturn near Hauptbahnhof.
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I’m the freak (discreetly) taking a pic so can’t be mad that guy’s looking over, it’s irrelevant. Jarring and disorienting however is how I was almost the only Euro girl at some “tech/houseware” store during lunch break in Hamburg. Harder and harder to delude oneself.
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@jeanjeanschmidt I lived in Hamburg until two years ago, so I know what you mean (even though it's spreading almost everywhere).
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@PascalFameyer This is so very well put. Wanting to physically withdraw from these situations while staying mentally on high alert at all times. This wasn’t at night in a ‘bad area’ and nothing happened, but it’s just always present and looming. The hypervigilance tax rings very true.
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This is the "tax of hypervigilance." Historically, living in a homogeneous high-trust society provided the luxury of an unobserved existence in public spaces. The loss of this standard demographic condition leads to chronic cognitive strain - a constant, exhausting weighing of dangers and spatial negotiations that depletes basic mental capacity.
The architecture of the guilt-based European social safety net becomes incompatible with those population groups. We are effectively financing the infrastructure of our own demographic displacement.
Ultimately, it is the state of an internal exile. By making yourself small and hiding behind the camera, you relinquish your claim to the space, transforming into an alienated specter.
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@eugyppius1 By controlling the exact definition of a hostile threat, the intelligence apparatus controls the Overton window of permissible governance.
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UK and Germany continue to converge into dystopian repressive shitlibbery as Brits aim to remake MI5 into a domestic political spy outfit for vetting political candidates – after the pattern of the notorious German Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
Mason Boycott-Owen@Masonboyowen
New: Reform UK has said it is “very interested” in taking MI5 up on its offer to help political parties vet candidates amid fears of hostile states meddling in British politics. The offer was made to all parties last month by MI5 chief Ken McCallum at a cross-party briefing. 👇
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1. Historically, autocracies fail because subordinates are physically afraid to deliver bad news to the dictator, leading to fatal blindness to reality. The government has developed this hyper-loyal, maximally optimistic feedback loop to consolidate domestic power in a democracy.
Any retreat, adjustment of the timetable, or admission of strategic misjudgments would be immediately registered by the base as a betrayal of the carefully cultivated myth of invincibility.
2. The Influencers cannot stop spreading optimism without ruining their own social standing. They are motivated to reinforce the illusion in order to protect their market share.
3. Like runaway selection in evolutionary biology, the right-wing political organism has voluntarily disabled its own feedback mechanisms and treats the objective recognition of threats or material realism as moral failure or intellectual betrayal.
4. The war inevitably transforms from a military objective abroad into a mechanism of internal conformity, where denying the illusion of victory becomes grounds for political excommunication.
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