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Alaric The Barbarian
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Warrior-Poet lifestyle advocate. Historical research and martial arts poasting. Founder @Dissident_Rev
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Dec 2 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
In 1541, conquistador Francisco de Orellana and his men became stranded along the Amazon River.

Their only option was to build a boat and follow the length of the river. They were the first Europeans to do so — and the only ones to encounter thriving Amazonian civilization.

1/ Image After splitting off from Gonzalo Pizarro's expedition to the fabled "Land of Cinnamon," Orellana and 50 men traveled downriver to look for supplies. They quickly realized that they could not fight the current to return.
Nov 29 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Good thread on football — a lot of the online Right does this whole “ew, sportsball” schtick that feels out-of-touch and defeatist.

In reality football is still a powerful part of American life and identity, and many of the impulses you may have re: politics are applied to it. Right now there’s a change following what’s described in the thread: the two-high safety scheme is suffocating the deep pass, and again changing the game to favor the run, screen passes, etc.

There’s a popular nostalgia for power-T offenses and other old-school schemes. Image
Nov 23 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The immediate belief that “giants couldn’t have been real” is really funny to me. It’s not a fire-breathing lizard, it’s literally just a really tall guy. The same thing goes for older skepticism about the Giant Squid. We already have squids. We’re very aware of them. But apparently everyone agreed on a Hard Line at a certain size.
Nov 23 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Something that’s bothered me for a long time in how we talk about communist agitators is that we pretend they’re young and dumb and senseless instead of rightly identifying them as communist agitators

Take them at their word. They want you dead and say as much in public. Weak, dysgenic 19 year olds with gay voice make up a large chunk of antifa types. Pretending that this stuff is just “haha dumb young people, amirite?” is how we got here in the first place.
Nov 22 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
NC Wyeth practically *created* Americana, in such a way that it transcended all of the kitsch that tried to follow in his footsteps Image
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Image (I know this was not OP’s point, but this is more of a response to what he’s quoting, which alleges that “American art has only been good because leftism”)
Nov 22 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Joe Rogan is right about dragons. Many strange animals have come and gone in human memory; for a banal example, man hunted European lions into extinction. See also giants and strange pygmies, the latter of whom were wiped out in a bloody war with migratory cranes. It's all real. Image Patagonia was once home to giant men. There are so many accounts — Pigafetta, Drake, Schouten & Le Maire, Byron, and more — that the null hypothesis *must* be "giants existed." To deny this is to allege a centuries-long conspiracy undertaken for no discernible reason. Image
Nov 20 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
António Soares dos Reis is known today as a sculptor — a pioneer in Portuguese art.

However, in 1878 he illustrated an edition of The Lusiad: the Portuguese national epic of exploration and heroism.

It’s obscure today… but it shouldn’t be.

1/ Image The Lusiad is an epic poem covering the life of Luís de Camões & discovery of India.

It enshrined the deeds of Vasco da Gama (and many others) in Classical verse.

In many ways, it is the Aeneid of Portugal — an ode to the whole Age of Exploration, from a participant. Image
Nov 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This post but with women and Classical literature. Zero knowledge, inventing entire new ways to be wrong. Emily Wilson & Donna Zuckerberg made their careers out of this. Image This is the typical level of understanding of the people — invariably physical or spiritual women — criticizing your interpretation of the Classics btw. A glib, surface-level understanding paired with DEEP conviction that you are ONTOLOGICALLY EVIL for accurately reading Homer.
Nov 18 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is the uncomfortable squirming of someone who understands the nature of historical violence but wants to "claim" only one side. He will not allow himself to accept Achilles, only Hector. His lineage is violent, but only in the nice & comfortable way. "I'm a sheepdog, BRO!" Whenever someone starts revising the "true nature of masculine violence" (since the actual origin is painfully obvious), it's them trying to reckon with the difficult reality that the best among their ancestors did not believe in protecting the weak, but in subjugating them.
Nov 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
In retrospect, 2016 was the low point of “mass culture.” It was the peak of awful rap, mania over cheap plastic, ugly fashion, and stupidity in media. After 2016, “mass culture” started to stagnate and show cracks. It’s not that things got better, just that the concept of a unilateral youth-oriented media culture started to crumble. 2016 was the last year of unilateral agreement and unilateral decline.
Nov 13 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Based on nothing but intuition, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been discredited because it gets the causation backwards.

Language does not influence one's perception in the way proposed — but perhaps biological differences in perception express themselves through language. (1/6) Image Pastoralists experience time differently than settled agrarian peoples, who experience time differently from hunter-gatherers, who experience time differently from... etc.

Whorf controversially argued that the Hopi don't have a concept of time, but the core idea is valid. Image
Nov 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Picking up late night food. Accosted by DMV-type lady.

Polite “I actually had a second online order as well”

“ok CALM DOWN, we GETTIN it” at a shout. Drive home, both orders are wrong.

I can’t help but think this experience of US life is what 74M people just voted against. This sort of thing is death by a thousand cuts, the gradual decline of goods and services especially since 2020

Besides being expensive, things are unpleasant, hostile — from customer service to bureaucratic processes to even interior design

Trump is, in part, a rebuke of this
Nov 8 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I have a few suggestions for gutter-fighting, to change popular leftist cultural attitudes.

1/ 1. Shortform video

This is the #1 type of media that people consume. Call it TikTok slop, call it ADHD TV, whatever (these are true assessments) but shortform content serves as the modern American’s staple crop media. Most of this content takes the form of “morality plays” — sort of awful Aesop’s Fables about proper behavior. They used to be mostly clipped from network TV, but increasingly they’re produced solely for shortform apps.

There is a self-insert, an antagonist, and a catharsis where the antagonist is punished. This type of thing serves to reinforce social rules, especially ones that the creator desires to see more widely adopted. It tells the viewer “this is what’s acceptable” on a basic level, and widespread interaction with the post tends to solidify this.

It’s slop, yes. But it’s not going anywhere as a format, and is currently ~90% leftwing agitprop. It’s also a lot cheaper to produce than TV, and this type of counter-propaganda can flood social media with relative ease. “These are the norms now” — gay sexual harassment is to be met with force, nonwhite criminals aren’t Aladdin, Dolores Umbridge types are the primary type of villain today, heterosexual white families are good by default, etc.

Ultimately it is this kind of lowbrow, background norm enforcement that shifts the tide in your favor — and frees up the most promising people from being dragged down by peer derangement.

(As an aside, shortform video can be wildly profitable.)
Nov 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve never understood this whole “THEY’RE GONNA USE THE ROBOT DOGS FOR A POLICE STATE!” larp.

It reads like wishcasting. “I want to be the main character of cyberpunk Divergent!”

Of course the main application is military. This isn’t groundbreaking. What are you, five? Image So many people immediately jump to salivate over a grimy cyberpunk dystopia, where they are a Gritty Revolutionary kept down by The Man with his Evil Robots

Grow up. You don’t do anything cool enough to be suppressed, & the state is already plenty capable — sans robots.
Nov 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There are some fields which demand, by their nature, pure dedication to one’s craft. Medicine is one of them. But now, with the dual factors of a growing % of jobs being fake and a cultural scorn against excellence, younger people expect all jobs to subscribe to make-work norms. I don’t say this as a “kids these days!” jab, since I am fairly young. But if you want to become a surgeon or a soldier or something along those lines, you should expect the job to in many ways be your top priority and identity. If you don’t want that, become a remote SWE.
Oct 31 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
And some still say “people have been getting more attractive, a normal person today would be a 10 in Antiquity”

If anything the opposite is true. Men & women are degenerating rapidly in terms of beauty; see also statues and illustrations made from live models in the 19th c. “The ancients were ugly!” is just another form of “history was never cool, CHUD”

Even athletic prowess and beauty must be robbed from the past, lest you get any “dangerous” ideas.
Oct 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Reductio ad absurdum isn’t a phenomenon, it is a law

Imageboard spergs in 2014 talking about the ill effects of porn eventually becomes some “trad” feminist movement, demonizing men for expecting sex in a relationship That’s all these histrionics are btw, strange female cartel behavior that in any other light would be instantly legible as 70s feminism; demonization of the male sex drive, elevation of female emotional needs to primary importance, attempts to reinterpret “tradition” to such ends
Oct 14 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Happy Columbus Day! You guys weren’t very good at resisting.

Some battles [1/8]: At the Battle of Otumba, a battered Spanish army under Cortés faced and defeated over 10,000 Aztec warriors — without artillery.

The conquistadors took the day through daring cavalry charges, routing the massed Aztecs. Juan de Slamanca slayed Matlatzincatl, securing victory. Image
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Oct 10 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The Left’s entire message to men is “humiliate yourself for our acceptance, which can be revoked at any point”

Male femininity and emotional openness are trumpeted as great things, but the mirage of “acceptance” drops like a rock as soon as they can be used for humiliation. Being emotionally vulnerable, unmasculine, or even just a little zesty… these are all “REAL CONFIDENT MASCULINITY” until someone identifies themselves as a political enemy

Then suddenly they’re embarrassing again.
Oct 9 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Below is my report from Western NC, on the federal government’s failure to respond to Hurricane Helene.

The information on here can feel like a useless rumor mill — and sometimes it is.

But in this case, social media has been consistently ahead of the curve (and the media).

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Image Western NC looks worse than Ukraine or Syria in many places.

The government is lying about the death toll.

Aid efforts are being held back by pure disorganization.

One interviewee, a contractor, described it as a “total clusterfuck.” Image
Oct 9 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Imagine explaining this to your great-great-great-great grandfather. He’d probably beat you to death. “Practical self-defense advice” is a big flashing sign of our fail-culture; the idea that the “safest course of action” trumps your RIGHT and OBLIGATION to defend honor is absurd.

Imagine saying this to anyone even 40 years ago, much less 400