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Alaric The Barbarian

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Dec 4

The Cold War and nuclear détente created a new religious mythos for Americans, a new eschatological framework.

A dozen world powers have the ability to annihilate everything — yet they don’t.

Even unstable leaders like Kim Jong Un shy away from The Button due to a complex set of international and intra-national policies.

Beyond that, hundreds of individuals (submarine captains, missile silo commanders, etc.) theoretically have the power to pull the trigger, but don’t due to many bureaucratic checks and failsafes.

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Alaric The Barbarian

@0xAlaric

Nov 29

I've never understood the leftist's pathological empathy for the worst types of poor people, and I especially don't understand any sympathy from conservatives. Thieves, bums, addicts, degenerates, and the like only make your life worse. They make everything more expensive, more oppressive, less trusting, dirtier. Singapore, Japan, etc. prosecute this low-class behavior severely, this is why they have a functioning society and we do not.

I have no empathy for those who are not me, my family, or my people. And neither LaKwanda running an EBT scam, nor Crystal having a meth freakout at Piggly Wiggly, nor Derek sucking down public assistance on the streets of San Francisco are my people in any sense of the word.

"It's easy to hate the rich, but it takes courage to hate the poor"

The pathological need for politicians to imagine a "low-class" background I suspect is part of this instinct. "I'm salt of the earth, I've eaten cup ramen before!"

Have some self-respect. One of the deleterious elements of mass democracy is that all must appeal to these types

Homelessness rhetoric from the Right often falls flat because of this tiptoeing around "being mean to poor people"

The low-class, low-impulse-control freaks destroying our public spaces aren't Jean Valjean. Usually they belong in prison.

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Alaric The Barbarian

@0xAlaric

Nov 27

https://twitter.com/act10nc4t/status/1728203892121633241

“Punk is when you support the same things as the government and every major corporation”

https://twitter.com/act10nc4t/status/1728203892121633241

Punk is countercultural, and very political — just not in the way you think

https://twitter.com/0xalaric/status/1634710946114334720

Alaric The Barbarian

@0xAlaric

Nov 25

Leftist historians have, after decades, finally overreached.

In recent weeks, multiple articles have made insane claims: Elagabalus was trans, black women were the biggest victims of the plague in England, etc.

And… nobody has cared.

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For the past few years, these absurd claims and re-definitions have garnered attention and outrage as people lament that our historical institutions have been taken over by nutjobs.

Now, they’re just disregarded as crazy people spouting lowbrow propaganda.

And rightfully so.

I see this as part of a larger shift away from trusting institutions for historical knowledge.

More people are looking into old books, and learning to disregard any vaguely-liberal interpretation of the past.

This is progress — we are reviving old narratives and building anew.

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Alaric The Barbarian

@0xAlaric

Nov 21

Christian charity has overextended itself and become a farce. Most of it today is misdirected and detrimental.

Traditionally, the charity actions of a local church have been focused on its own community — helping its members and other locals in times of need, uplifting the poor, etc. But in the early 20th century, primarily after WWI, socialism-friendly actors in the American Catholic bureaucracy directed the notion of charity outwards… the core goal shifting from uplifting a single community to functioning as a network, to uplift the “global standard of living”, to put more on welfare, etc. @Pope_head talks about this well — it went hand-in-hand with a total deracination of Catholic doctrine and faith.

The results are self-evident. Propagation of faraway dependents while the core rots in times of dire need — this is the core of Christian charity actions today. Empathy directed to some vague notion of The Global Poor, church funds expropriated to NGOs and such that spend 90% of it on “overhead” and the rest on propagating infinite Africans, Guatemalans, etc.

Around the same time, Catholic organizations took a particular interest in aiding immigration to the US, as their core support base was Italian, Irish, etc. At some point, the implicit goal of these organizations (sponsorship of one’s own people) was lost, and they, too are now focused on bringing various third world peoples to the US en masse.

The typical stereotype of an immigration NGO is Jewish leadership, and this has truth to it — but you would be surprised how many major players are explicitly Christian/Catholic. Many of the strongest proponents of infinity immigrants are misguided or liberal Christians.

Christianity is a faith that emphasizes empathy… but this virtue can be twisted in such a way that it defeats the whole point, enriching others that have nothing but hatred for us and allowing religious communities to languish while their tithes and donations are exported.

This is supported at every level, up to our idiot Pope who regularly does things like comparing Somali rapists to souls trying to enter heaven. Twisted Christian empathy is also the force that encourages liberalization, “trans acceptance” farces, and more.

Christians, Catholics especially: be aware of exactly who is pulling at your heartstrings… and your purse-strings.

A more proper view of Christian empathy can be found in the medieval Church and its adherents.

Effective Christian charity looks like local beautification, debt forgiveness, housing funds for young churchgoers, etc.

Not giving 10% of everybody’s income in Nowhere, Arkansas to building a well in some random tribe in West Africa that will soon break and never be repaired

As for “inner-city” parishes, I would argue that turning the local Knights of Columbus into a group of young men concerned with the imposition of order has a far higher ROI than food drives for drug addicts and derelicts.

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Alaric The Barbarian

@0xAlaric

Nov 16

I’ve just finished digitizing Gaspar de Carvajal’s Relación — a wild account of the first European trip down the length of the Amazon.

It’ll be out in print soon… but in the meantime, some crazy observations:

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Orellana and his small band of conquistadors completed the trip on two brigantines, which they made when they realized they’d have to follow the river all the way.

None of them had any shipbuilding experience.

This trip was not a military conquest. It was an act of desperation, which became a brutal fight for survival by a few men far out of their depth.

Every man was wounded at least once; food was rare; the crew nearly died countless times.

Carvajal even had his eye shot out!

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