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4 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Haunting thread.

Future historians, not current ones, will retrieve and dig up the layers of the last century.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_me_qui…
Listen to it...

Then listen to the best female version:

And consider. The plaintive refrain. Over and over. The brokenness and atomization of the layers here between men, women, and...children...in light of that repeated line.

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23 Apr
In the "advice no one should give their kids" category, I've often noticed in life that there really is no telling what brazen lying can accomplish for people, nor any limit to the heights it can take them.
There are ever more complicated downsides as they progress, and clearly it causes internal damage to the liar throughout, but, practically speaking, brazen lying no matter how outrageous often seems to work pretty well.
One doesn't want to acknowledge it for much the same reasons that one doesn't want to acknowledge that, in the moment, drinking and driving can be a hell of a lot of fun...but nonetheless it never ceases to amaze me how well outrageously lies often work.
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23 Apr
Hope is that which Christianity gave the world, even if you think it bunk.

European primitives before conversion struggled w/just this: a dark vision of a doomed world. The monsters would encircle them eventually, they thought. In the end, the dragon would come & slay them all.
The therapeutic and distractive use of technology in our time are designed to keep such visions at bay.
Such myths would inevitably return except for the fact that our masters today have isolated us, and told us a different lie: like Sisyphus in reverse we must keep entertaining and pleasuring ourselves, over and over, with small delights, ultimately alone.
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22 Apr
The claim, made over and over, is that somehow the Right/all the opponents of Ds (bizarrely, this now seem to explicitly all poor white males) are racist fomenters of violence and fear. Meanwhile, media/D elites work to demonize, fear-monger, and cause unrest and violence daily.
If Republicans are afraid to combat this with offense as well as defense, they will lose. But half the nation + is increasingly aware and willing to take action. We must give the pols a spine: punish those who fail to speak out and reward bravery and signs of life.
Here’s one way to take action: first, read @realchrisrufo at @theammind and realize we need to draw a line in the sand:

americanmind.org/salvo/standing…
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20 Apr
The mob will not be appeased. The underlying drive of the instigators is not justice, but unending revenge and destruction of the American system of justice. The problem is "systemic", remember? Their goal is to smash the system, and appeasement will never sate them.
All this is just to say that no one should expect the rioting to end because of the verdict.
I don’t relate to trials & verdicts as symbols (it’s a big country, so one needs to look at stats in general), but this is a normal consequence of the system of justice we have, which is in principle pretty good. It’s wild how people swoop & stretch this thread to fit a narrative
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20 Apr
Jan 6 Protest

*no guns
*no cops dying from protest related causes
*Trump asked for thousands of cops, Mayor/Ds refuse & tell cops to stand down
*no master plan uncovered
*even zip tie guy exonerated
*they don’t even bother to explain what happened to dead unarmed protestor
Read @julie_kelly2
Meanwhile, Rs run scared while a few Ds are willing to say: “Uh, solitary confinement for these people even before conviction is...a bit much.”
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18 Apr
Vast majority of the -ism debates and the history talk today is moronic and grasping at straws at best because we are so ignorant we often don’t even know what they don’t know. Not anyone’s “fault”. The living traditions of thought have died and it’s hard to resurrect them.
they=we
Few understand traditions of thought they grasp at & play w/. Complex thrown around as simple & simple made complex. People read & toss out concepts as readymade weapons. Distinction/focus/zoom levels lost in shuffle. All=funhouse mirrors even for those tryna find firmer ground.
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