Even the original black pill, Schopenhauer, was white-pilled:
"It is a cowardly soul that shrinks or grows faint and despondent as soon as the storm begins to gather, or even when the first cloud appears on the horizon.
"Our motto should be No Surrender; and far from yielding to the ills of life, let us take fresh courage from misfortune:
Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito.
""As long as the issue of any matter fraught with peril is still in doubt, and there is yet some possibility left that all may come right, no one should ever tremble or think of anything but resistance, just as a man should not despair of the weather if he can see a bit of blue
I really wish that someday I could write about the things that the Stasi did and not become distraught to the point of tears almost immediately.
This book's going to be a doozy.
After East Germany fell, the files were opened.
People could learn who had been spying on them and when.
They found out their husbands had been reporting on them since the wedding day.
They learned their brother had been turned for years.
im sitting here crying like a complete jackass
i shouldnt be the one letting people know about this
it should be common knowledge
One of the laziest methods of political analysis is the claim that nothing ever changes
Not only is this an uninformed take, it's simply untrue
The post Cold War is a vastly different place in very many fundamental ways
Something similar is happening in American politics
For many years the dance went something like this
The Nancys Pelosi go on tv and attack the evil Republicans
She gets to raise money by claiming, truthfully, that she is leading the fight against them
The Mitchs McConnell go on tv and attack the evil Democrats
He get to raise money by claiming, truthfully, that he is leading the fight against them
While the two engage in a pantomime, the Cathedral remains untouched and gets to lob grenades from safety
The enemy class is waking up to the fact there is an enormous percentage of the population who is completely disinterested in anything they have to say, even in terms of mere arguing back.
Their befuddlement about what to do will be a source of great joy in the coming weeks.
same author wants 2 banish his foes from the legal profession
"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles."