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25 Aug, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Many right-wingers have been so jaded by the left's constant moral blackmail that they make themselves callous & insensitive to protect against it. Many refuse to admit any compassion because they fear that it will be cynically used against them. And they're right, but it sucks.
Not really. 99% of the people I'm talking about hate most Americans, too. They say "America First" and talk about loving "their own people", but usually all they have for "their own people" is venom about how brainwashed, cucked, etc they are.
I'm not talking about compromise. I'm saying we should be wary of politics rotting our souls. It's possible to stand your ground on immigration without sneering at child corpses (though it's a natural response to incessant cynical moral blackmail).
Rotting your soul is their end goal. Everything else is just a means to that end.

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11 Sep
After the recent episode, many are asking for recommendations on how to approach Dostoevsky. Rather than answering all the emails, I’ll do it here. 1/5
Start w/Notes From the Underground. This is the first book where D finally unlocked the secrets of underground psychology: how pride, vindictiveness, spite, ad masochism disguise themselves as virtue. It’s a book of astonishing honesty. Everything follows from here.
Next do Crime & Punishment. If two is enough for you, make them Notes and C&P. I like to describe this book as the story of the protagonist from Notes From the Underground if he had read Nietzsche as a young man. Real-life examples like Leopold & Loeb make it visceral.
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Today is 100th anniversary of the surrender of West Virginia miners to federal troops at Blair Mountain, ending the largest labor uprising in US history, and the most serious insurrection since the Civil War.

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The Battle of Blair Mountain was only the climax in a decades-long battle between mining communities and the coal mine operators who controlled their lives and were intent on preventing unionization.
America was still being built, and regional economics was inextricably tied to infrastructure expansion. Coal mines closer to accessible rail & industry had an inherent advantage over mines in southern West Virginia & Kentucky, and the difference came out of the hides of workers.
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Why are liberal urbanites so willing to submit to the any draconian COVID regime? hope Rogan dies? demand irrational measures beyond medical guidelines (eg, masks for vaccinated kids outdoors)? They break the rules when they think no one’s watching, so it’s not fear of the virus.
The thing is, they don’t feel it as a burden because it’s become a game. The game is an old one: identify and punish heretics. There are actual prizes: 15 mins of fame for chasing ppl out of restaurants, rushing Trump on stage, leaking docs, and… harassing COVID rule-breakers.
It’s the gamification of totalitarianism, and there’s a sick brilliance to it. Ordinary liberals actually get excited at the prospect of greater restrictions. They adopt them like a uniform update, no problem, then march out into a newly target-rich environment, locked & loaded.
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1 Sep
This tweet explains the vindictiveness of the woke managerial class, their need to “shove it down your throat”, etc. A normal adult doesn’t point to childhood drama as the driver of his politics of resentment. The whole thread (+ most woke politics) is a revenge fantasy.
The most interesting part of the thread is how his political taxonomy emerges from childhood trauma. He codes the dumb bullies from elementary school as red America, and the soft bullied kids like him as blue America. And all of his politics proceed from that.
He describes - brags, really - about how the soft, bullied kids like him fled to ally themselves w/state & corporate power structures and now wield vindictive power over the kids who used to oppress them. Only a deeply damaged man could say these things in public without shame. ImageImage
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Really ugly to see such aggressive apathy about the Afghan allies we’re leaving behind. You can have your views on the war or immigration and still recognize that many are regular people w/families who are going to die horribly because they trusted us.
Many of them bought the line we were selling about making their country better. Some risked their lives for our soldiers in battle. It’s not abstract, these are real people. There are networks of soldiers & Marines trying right now to evacuate Afghans who mean a lot to them.
Stop saying “they didn’t fight for their country.” Well over 100k of them were killed or wounded on our side. Their leadership abandoned them, and guess what… They’ll all have posts at the UN or the IMF by next year. That has nothing to do w/the normal people who took our word.
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"My fellow Americans. Since the pandemic began, your gov't, media & public health authorities have failed you. Our messaging has been confusing & politicized, we have censored good faith dissent, and as a result many no longer trust us to lead the country through this crisis."
"We have asked you to make tremendous sacrifices, destroying millions of your jobs and businesses, closing your schools and your churches, while we politicians and bureaucrats have continued to receive government salaries while working from home."
"We controlled your movement under threat of arrest, then told you the most widespread & destructive protests in decades were a public health necessity. While you were forbidden to hold funerals for loved ones, your leaders snuck away for maskless dinners at fancy restaurants."
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