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John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

Dec 7

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Trump’s delphic tweet kicked off a storm of annexation bantz. Canadian reactions have been a mixture of resignation, relief, and 1812 bravado. This seems like a good time to review Canada’s military history. How did a militaristic, traditional country become so excruciatingly gay?

‘Martial’ is hardly the first thing people think about in the context of Canada, which these days is more likely to bring up associations of pride parades, medical tyranny, and multicultural ethnomasochism. All of which is very true:

But it was not always this way.

Canada is in a funk. It has forgotten itself. It has been psyopped.

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BTW, this thread is largely an adaptation of an effortpost, you can find the link at my pinned post.

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John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

Dec 2

Every year during the Christmas season, Flashback, Sweden'a largest forum, and it's most racist forum, has a gingerbread house competition.

Short thread with some of the top entries from last year, starting with a missionary arriving at Sentinel Island.

This heartwarming construction brings season's greetings from the painter, the Italian, and Uncle Mosley.

The piece de resistance, and winner, is this absolute creative culinary masterpiece, depicting the heroes of January 6th storming the US Capitol building.

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John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

Nov 29

To vaisyas, profit is the only possible point; to Musk, money is merely a means to a multiplanetary mankind. That he is better at making money than them is a lesson worth pondering.

A 🧵 about how Musk’s every action aligns with Mars.

1/23

The relevance of SpaceX to Mars is obvious, but Musk is involved with a lot of other ventures: Tesla, the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and X. In addition to these there are his political activities, most famously supporting Trump in the 2024 election.

Each of these plays a role, from how to get there, to how to survive there, to who to settle there.

2/23

Moving large numbers of people to Mars requires extremely cheap launch capability. That’s SpaceX’s role. The goal is to bring the cost to orbit down to something like $10-$15/kg, with a ticket to Mars ultimately becoming comparable in price to a house in the suburbs. That seems incredible but SpaceX is making incredible progress; note that the cost axis in pic related is logarithmic. Mass production of Starships brings the per-ship cost down; resusability and fast launch cadence spreads that cost over a large number of launches.

3/23

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John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

Nov 12

Holy shit.

He's going for the endowments.

He's going to not only tax, but confiscate the endowments of every university that the Department of Justice finds has engaged in illegal discrimination under the guise of "equity".

Which is basically every university in the country, but is especially the DIEvy League, which, if this happens, will die.

This will crush one of the enemy's primary power centers.

If he goes through with this, it's a Henry VIII moment. Dissolution of the monasteries. Vast quantities of capital liquidated and removed from the control of his political enemies ... and vast intellectual capital liberated from the cloistered, cloying oversight of midwit administrators.

Really didn't expect this to blow up, or would have spoken more carefully.

To be clear, Trump says the DOJ will go after the endowments of universities that continue discriminatory practices. So, past discrimination doesn't count. They need to wilfully continue discriminating.

My bet, however, is that the universities are so packed with anti-white, feminist ideologues that they will try to find sneaky, deniable ways to continue discriminating - for example, ignoring SATs and GPAs in favor of admissions essays. The California university system, which is specifically prohibited from engaging in affirmative action, has been pulling this kind of thing for years; the Ivies did something similar after the Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a religious project for these people.

But Trump has now indicated that if they defy him, they will simply be crushed.

Since Elon has RT'd this (thank you for all the eyeballs, Elon!) I will take the opportunity to mention that I also write things. Here you can find links to some recent essays, starting with one about the consequences for academia of feminization:

https://x.com/martianwyrdlord/status/1846913472631554501?t=x1n7A3bmxOsducd512sJSQ&s=19

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John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

Oct 23

Physicist @CJHandmer has an audacious proposal: a 1-kilometre space telescope for mapping exoplanets.

The problem: it isn’t big enough.

A 🧵 about what the Monster Telescope can't do, what it can, and how we can go even bigger to see alien worlds in high rez. 1/24

Handmer published his proposal in @palladiummag, you can read it here.

Briefly, he wants to use Starship – which can put large amounts of material into orbit very quickly – to launch a fleet of 20,000 8-metre mirrors (each of which would already be larger than any space telescope ever launched; James Web is only 6.5 m), which will self-assemble into a colossal 1-km diameter mirror.

The ambition is breathtaking! 2/24

palladiummag.com/2024/10/18/its…

The purpose of the Monster Telescope is to take pictures of exoplanets, in order to study their geographical features in high-rez – comparable, Handmer suggests, to the kinds of images of Mars that we were able to obtain 40 years ago. 3/24

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John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

Oct 17

Academia is women’s work now.

That spells it’s doom.

A 🧵 about status arenas, male flight, why dudes rock, and the death spiral of academia.

1/22

There’s a large gap between male and female enrolment, across all racial groups. The enrolment gap has increased steadily since the 1970s. There;s also a gap in graduation rates – men are much more likely to drop out –which compounds the effect of the enrolment gap.

Recently, universities reached the threshold of 60%

2/22

The enrolment gap now extends all the way to the doctoral level: doctoral programs remained majority male much longer than the other degree levels, all the way until 2005, but have also seen the greatest decline, plummeting from 90% in 1970 to 44% as of 2021.

Across all programs, at all academic levels,American universities recently reached the threshold of 60% of the student body being female.

This will be a disaster for academia.

Why?

3/22

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