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Jun 9
What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:

Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie

Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.

This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.

Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.

The Words We’re Missing

The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:

Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.

These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.

And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.

The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism

What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.

That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.

This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.

The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.

Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It

People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.

The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.

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This system does not just produce liars – it produces people who can no longer clearly distinguish truth from the narrative they have been trained to emit.

This environment also produces a kind of cognitive adaptation often described as doublethink – the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time, and to accept both as true when required. It is not merely lying to others, but a learned internal tolerance toward contradiction itself, where inconsistencies are tolerated because survival depends on it.
Literally twisting the minds.

Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, and others who lived through this recognize the pattern immediately when they see it in Western institutions today. The show trials of Twitter mobs. The compelled speech. The ideological litmus tests for employment. The memory-holing of inconvenient facts. The ritualistic confessions of privilege. To a post-communist eye, it is unmistakable.

To eyes that have only known freedom, it looks like a passionate, if misguided, social movement.

That gap in perception – between those who have vocabulary for zakłamanie and those who do not – may be one of the most consequential fault lines in the Western world today. Because you cannot fight a disease you cannot name. And you cannot name what your language was never built to describe.

The first task, then, is translation – not just of words, but of the lived understanding those words carry. The lie is not a bug in this system. It is the system. Until that is understood, the West will keep arriving, perpetually surprised, to find that the institutions it trusted have been quietly hollowed out from within.

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Jun 25
A Stanford neuroscientist warns high cortisol wrecks memory, enlarges your fear center, and make your brain feel broken.

If I wanted to fix it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:

1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.
Your feet contain ~200,000 nerve endings.

When they touch grass, soil, or sand, your brain receives rich sensory information from the body.

That sensory input can pull attention out of rumination and back into physical awareness.

That’s why a slow barefoot walk can feel so regulating.
2. Get sunlight in first 30 minutes upon awakening.

Cortisol naturally spikes 30-60 min after waking — to fuel the day.

Without morning light, the spike never crashes. It stays elevated by 2 PM.

Your brain stays bathed in cortisol it should've cleared hours ago.

That's why you feel scattered and unfocused.
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Jun 26
Per chi non se ne fosse accorto, Palestra non sarà un giocatore dell'Inter la prossima stagione.
Da quando la notizia si è sparsa ho ricevuto molte richieste di analisi e confronti per trovare dei profili simili. Fare un'analisi approfondita per ognuno di questi nomi sarebbe utopistico, quindi ho deciso di fare una carrellata di dati per darvi un'istantanea dei giocatori.
GROSSO DISCLAIMER: Alcuni di loro li ho visti giocare un paio di volte, sono convinto che i dati vadano nella buona direzione, ma ricordatevi SEMPRE che per capire un giocatore non bastano.Image
Prima di parlare di alternative, vale la pena fissare il profilo da replicare.
Nel Cagliari 25/26, 3093': 3.17 cross/90, 4.57 take-on/90, 28.6 ricezioni/90, 8.23 azioni difensive/90, 1 gol e 4 assist.
Quinto molto verticale, alto volume di dribbling, ampiezza costante. Più portatore aggressivo che esterno da gestione. È questo il profilo che si cercava.
Quello che segue non è una lista di sostituti identici perché non esistono. È una carrellata di profili (suggeriti da voi) e compatibili con quel ruolo, con le distanze dal modello dichiarate. Dal meno al più simile.
Emil Holm, 26 anni — Bologna/Juventus (prestito), Serie A

Dati Bologna 25/26: 670', 1 gol, 4 assist 40.0 pass/90 · 34.9 ric/90 · 2.96 cross/90 · 1.48 take-on/90 · 21.09 def/90

✅ 21.09 azioni difensive/90: il dato più alto del gruppo
✅ 40.0 pass/90 e 34.9 ricezioni/90: pienamente coinvolto nella circolazione

❌ 1.48 take-on/90: secondo dato più basso del gruppo dopo Cambiaso
❌Campione spezzato: 670' col Bologna, 226' con la Juventus, i totali non sono leggibili in modo pulito

Profilo strutturale e difensivo. Utile se cerchi ordine e copertura sulla fascia, non se cerchi il portatore verticale.Image
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Jun 26
الجلطة الدماغية غالبًا ما تجي فجأة… لكن الحقيقة إن الجسم يرسل 5 إشارات قبلها بـ حوالي 30 يوم، بس أغلب الناس تتجاهلها

خصوصًا العلامة رقم 3 ( 90٪ من الناس يعتقدون إنها “بس قلة نوم”)

1. صداع
1. صداع “غريب” ومستمر لعدة أيام

مو صداع جيوب أنفية ولا صداع توتر…
يكون مختلف، ومميزاته غالبًا:

• ألم خفيف ومستمر لمدة 2–3 أيام
• يزيد الألم عند الانحناء أو لف الرقبة
• المسكنات ما تعطي نتيجة واضحة
• إحساس بثِقل في الرأس أو دوخة خفيفة

هذا ممكن يكون علامة على اضطراب في الدورة الدموية للدماغ أو تضيق في الأوعية الدموية.
2. تنميل في الوجه أو اليد يجي ويروح بسرعة (حتى لو ثواني)

حتى لو اختفى بسرعة، يعتبر مؤشر خطير.

هذا ممكن يكون:
•نوبة نقص تروية دماغية مؤقتة(TIA)

الجسم كأنه “ينبهك” قبل الجلطة الحقيقية.

الشخص اللي تصير له TIA
👈خطر الإصابة بجلطة خلال 30 يوم يرتفع 5 إلى 10 مرات
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Jun 26
THINGS SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE SLAPPED INTO ME AT 30.
(The best thing you'll read in 2026)

1. Your parents have maybe 20 good years. Image
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Your parents have maybe 20 good years left if you're lucky — stop postponing visits like you have infinite time.
You keep saying "next month," and next month quietly becomes next year.

Call today. Visit this month. Record their voice. Because soon you'll have all the time.
2. The body you're neglecting now will charge you interest in your 40s.

At 35 your body is still forgiving, but that forgiveness expires. The back pain you ignore becomes permanent. The weight gets exponentially harder to lose. The mobility you take for granted disappears.
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Jun 26
A judge sentenced parents to prison for home schooling their children and not teaching them transgender ideology.

Do NOT scroll away because it’s in Brazil. The American government K-12 is setting the foundation for this exact end goal. The Brazil K-12 education system is near identical to ours both in ideology (SEL, mental health programs, queer theory, etc) and timeline.

Let’s take a look at what’s happening here 🧵
Here is what is happening in New Jersey @AlexandraBough3 Image
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Here is what is happening in Illinois @Awake_IL @Shannon_A_IL
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Jun 26
Imagine a VPN that does not know your name.

Does not know your email.

Does not know your IP address.

Has no logs of when you connected, where you went, or how much data you used.

Sweden has one. It has cost 5 euros a month since 2009.

It is called Mullvad. Swedish for "mole." 7,215 stars on GitHub. GPL-3.0. Written in Rust.

NordVPN wants your email. ExpressVPN wants your email. Surfshark wants your email. Mullvad asks for nothing.

When you sign up, the website generates a random account number. No name. No email. No phone. No password. The number is the entire identity.

Five euros a month. The price has not changed since March 2009.

You can pay with a credit card. Or with crypto. Or you can write your account number on a piece of paper, put it in an envelope with a 5-euro bill, and mail it to a post office box in Gothenburg. They add credits to your account and shred the envelope.

Then there is the part where the police came.

In February 2023, German authorities asked Sweden to investigate a Mullvad user. On April 18, six officers from the National Operations Department drove to Mullvad's office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.

Mullvad explained that there was no data. No connection logs. No DNS logs. No IP logs. No timestamps. The servers run from RAM. They forget everything on every reboot.

The prosecutor told the police to leave. They left.

It was the first time in the company's history that a government tried.

Mullvad was founded in 2009 by Fredrik Strömberg and Daniel Berntsson. Founder-owned. No venture capital. Audited by Cure53, the German cybersecurity firm, multiple times since 2018.

They also built the Mullvad Browser with the Tor Project. Free. Open source.

A VPN that does not know who you are is the only kind that can keep a secret.

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Jun 26
Kadir İnanır'ın vefatı vesilesi ile Tatar Ramazan'ın yazılış sürecini not düşmek istedim

1930'lu yıllarda askeri okullarda, ders kitapları dışında kitap ve günlük gazetelerin okunması Genelkurmay Başkanı Fevzi Çakmak'ın emri ile yasaklanmıştı
1938 yılında, Kara Harp Okulunda bir grup öğrenci Nazım Hikmet'in yasal olarak basılmış ve kitapçılarda satılan bir şiir kitabını okurken yakalandı

Nazım Hikmet'in bu öğrencilerin varlığından bile haberi yoktu

Hem öğrencileri hem de Nazım Hikmet'i tutukladılar
Nazım Hikmet bu olay nedeni ile 20 sene ağır hapis cezası aldı

Yargılanıp ceza alanlarda biri, o tarihte İstanbul'da berber kalfası olarak çalışan Abdülkerim Korcan'dır
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Jun 26
In 1960, newly independent African leaders had a choice: capitalism or socialism.

Almost all of them picked socialism.

A Ghanaian economist named George Ayittey spent forty years documenting what happened next.

His findings are in print, and almost nobody outside Africa wants to hear them. 🧵Image
The reasoning in 1960 looked airtight.

Colonialism had been run by Western capitalists. So capitalism was a tool of oppression. Socialism, its opposite, would be the path to liberation.

Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, Julius Nyerere in Tanzania, Sékou Touré in Guinea, Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia, and Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe all reached the same conclusion through the same logic.Image
The logic was tidy. The results were catastrophic.

In Ghana, Nkrumah's government built 64 state enterprises before his overthrow in February 1966. Only three or four were profitable.

By 1970, the Ghanaian state was setting prices on nearly 6,000 items across more than 700 product groups.Image
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Jun 27
🚨 BREAKING: Claude can now build you a full AI YouTube channel like a $10,000/month creator agency.

For free.

Here are 7 prompts to go from 0 → monetized AI channel in 90 days

(Bookmark or loss)
Prompt 1 — Niche & Positioning

"Analyze the top 10 YouTube niches with high CPM, low competition, and strong evergreen demand. For each, give me: average CPM, content difficulty, monetization paths beyond AdSense, and a 3-word channel concept."

What this gives you: A data-backed niche decision instead of guessing.
Prompt 2 — Channel Identity

"I'm starting a YouTube channel about [NICHE]. Create a full channel identity: channel name (5 options), tagline, target audience persona, content pillars (4), and a 'unique mechanism' that differentiates me from existing creators."

What this gives you: A brand, not just a channel.
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Jun 27
תכירו: יעלים. מין חשוב בסכנת הכחדה. הערכה שיש רק כ-4,500 ממנו בעולם. ומכל המקומות הוא משגשג דווקא במצפה רמון, בעין גדי ומדרשת בן גוריון. יש רק בעיה אחת. אנחנו פלשנו לבית הגידול שלהם.  באביב, כשעונת ההמלטה בשיאה, ניתן לצפות בגדיים ואמותיהן באחוזת קבר בן גוריון. אבל הם גם סכנה Image
כלומר, אנחנו סכנה להם בעיקר, אבל גם הם לנו. רז ארבל, תושב המדרשה, נתקל ב-7 זכרים שדהרו לעבר האוטו שלו בבהלה. טוטאל לוס. "יצאתי משם בשן ועין. ניערתי את עצמי מהזכוכיות והבנתי. צריך לעשות משהו." הוא הקים את הועד להרחקת יעלים, שהחל לפעול במרץ ואף ערך את סקר היעלים הגדול. המסקנות? Image
היעלים אוכלות הכל. האם נפגעו תושבים מפעילות יעלים? 53.6% אומרים שכן. הם אכלו שקדיה בחצר. רמסו סוקולנטים. משייפים קרניים על גזעי עצים ומחרבים אותם (לכן הפלפלונים באחוזת הקבר מגודרים). והם גם נתקעו בתינוקייה. בעת מנוסת בהלה לעבר הצוק, היעלים יעברו דרך הכל. נשים ילדים וטף. חיית בר. Image
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Jun 27
I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS FREE!! 🤯

There is a Claude system the top 1% use to never forget anything and make decisions 10x faster.

The longer you use it the smarter it gets and it costs absolutely nothing to build.

Here is the full system 👇🏽👇🏽 Image
1. WHAT THIS SYSTEM ACTUALLY IS

Most people use Claude like a search engine.

They ask one question. They get one answer. They close the tab. And tomorrow Claude has no memory of anything they discussed.

This system is completely different.

It connects Claude to a personal knowledge base that stores everything you have ever read, every idea you have had, and every decision you have ever made.

Every time you add something new Claude connects it to everything already inside.

The 50th thing you add is more valuable than the first because there is more to connect it to.

It is called an AI Second Brain and the co-founder of OpenAI uses this exact approach.
2. THE TWO TOOLS YOU NEED AND WHY THEY ARE FREE

Obsidian is a free note taking app that stores everything as simple text files on your own device.

Nothing goes to any server. Nothing gets shared. Your knowledge stays private and yours forever.

It has 1.5 million users and 2700 plugins including official Claude skills released by the CEO of Obsidian himself with over 12000 stars on GitHub.

Claude reads and writes directly into your Obsidian vault through a connection called MCP.

That connection is what turns a passive note app into a living brain that thinks, connects, and grows on its own.

Both tools are free. The connection between them is free. The entire system costs nothing.
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Jun 27
This starts with the admission that there is no scientific basis for a social media ban for kids but ends with the conclusion that there is a consensus that something must be done so let's all ban social media for kids.
theguardian.com/news/ng-intera…
Not only is this a classic moral panic that uses children as the excuse to implement a regime of censorship, but it delicately steps around the question of what the harms are, beyond a gesture towards "addiction", because that would mean addressing the purpose of the algorithm.
This not only means ignoring the obvious measure of disabling the curated feed (i.e. "For you"), but also means that questions do not need to be asked about general media bias - e.g. that newspapers are purely curated feeds with little ability for the consumer to be selective.
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Jun 27
@DestinationTele "DoXeZ"
1- Abus de franglais (possiblement sans en connaitre le sens en plus ?!) : pas de doute, c'est un journaleux "bien diplômé" ; "BoOmErs" ou fils de "BoOmeRs".
2- Comment admettre être la personne "visée" tout en feignant ne pas l'être… joli CsC
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@DestinationTele Le "Doxxing" n'est pas le volonté ou le fait d'exposer/mentionner/viser quelqu'un, mais de divulger ses infos privées.

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Please unroll @threadreaderapp, pour archivage perso, merci.
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Jun 27
HOW TO PRAY THE HOLY ROSARY:

A STEP BY STEP CATHOLIC GUIDE 🧵

Millions of Catholics own a Rosary.

Far fewer have ever been taught how to pray it slowly, prayerfully, and with an understanding of what each prayer means.

The Rosary is not simply a series of repeated prayers.

It is a journey through the life of Jesus Christ with His Blessed Mother as our guide.

Here is a step by step guide every Catholic can save and return to.

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Begin by making the Sign of the Cross.

“In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”

Place yourself consciously in the presence of the Holy Trinity.

Prayer always begins with God. Image
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Holding the Crucifix, pray the Apostles’ Creed.

This is your profession of faith.

Before meditating on Christ’s mysteries, the Church first invites us to profess the faith handed down by the Apostles. Image
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Jun 27
#RussianUkraineWar #UkraineWar⚡️ГУГИ: Крах глобального подводного террора.

В современном глобальном противостоянии критическая глубоководная инфраструктура, включающая трансатлантические волоконно-оптические магистрали связи, интернет-кабели и газопроводы, превратилась в стратегическую цель первого порядка. Главным инструментом Кремля в этой скрытой гибридной войне выступает Главное управление глубоководных исследований Министерства обороны агрессора. Это самая закрытая и засекреченная структура флота, подчиняющаяся напрямую министру обороны. В отличие от обычного Военно-морского флота, ведомство занимается не классическим ведением морского боя, а стратегическим подводным шпионажем, глубоководной разведкой и подготовкой к ведению гибридной войны на океанском дне.Image
#RussianUkraineWar #UkraineWar⚡️Организационно ведомство ГУГИ опирается на три ключевых компонента. Его основной ударной силой является 29-я отдельная бригада подводных лодок Северного флота в Гаджиево, в состав которой входят уникальные атомные подводные лодки-носители специального назначения, такие как подлодки «Белгород» и «Подмосковье», а также атомные глубоководные станции, включая известную станцию «Лошарик». Интеллектуальным и операционным хабом ведомства выступает 85-й центр специальной службы в Петергофе. Здесь готовят акванавтов — гидронавтов-диверсантов и водолазов-глубоководников, а также разрабатывают методы съема информации с подводных кабелей связи НАТО и программируют алгоритмы автономных глубоководных роботов. Третьим компонентом является собственный надводный флот шпионов, состоящий из специализированных исследовательских и океанографических судов, среди которых выделяются действующее судно «Янтарь» и могли бы стать новейшие большие «кабельные суда» проекта 15310 «Волга» и «Вятка».Image
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#RussianUkraineWar #UkraineWar⚡️Официально суда проекта 15310 позиционировались как вспомогательные суда обеспечения, однако их истинные масштабы полностью соответствуют уровню первоклассных боевых кораблей. Полное водоизмещение головного судна «Волга» составляет более 10 000 тонн при длине около 140 метров и ширине 24 метра. Чтобы понять истинный масштаб этого кабелеукладчика, достаточно сравнить его с известными боевыми единицами Военно-морского флота агрессора. Например, ракетные крейсера проекта 1164 «Атлант», к которым относилась уничтоженная «Москва», имели водоизмещение около 11 500 тонн. Таким образом, вспомогательное судно глубоководных исследований по своей массе практически равно огромному советскому крейсеру. В то же время новейшие фрегаты проекта 22350 типа «Адмирал Горшков», являющиеся самыми современными боевыми кораблями России дальней морской зоны, имеют полное водоизмещение всего 5 600 тонн. Это означает, что «Волга» в два раза массивнее главного современного фрегата агрессора. Такие колоссальные размеры были необходимы не только для транспортировки сотен километров кабеля, но и для размещения тяжелого глубоководного оборудования, мощных подъемных систем и развитых жилых блоков.Image
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