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Oct 8, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
What multiculturalism is not:
- foreign food and diverse skin tones

What multiculturalism is: 🧵 Palestinians in London cheering over the rape and murder of Israeli civilians
Aug 31, 2023 15 tweets 6 min read
Real leaders of men have been absent from our highest ranks for generations. It’s not that Washingtons, Pattons, and Lees don’t exist anymore, but that they are barred from power in a system that actively selects against men like them.🧵
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Machiavelli famously divides leaders into the two broad categories of Foxes, who rely on wit and subterfuge to achieve their goals; and Lions, who rely on strength, force, and stubbornness. It's obvious which type corresponds most closely to the modern American elite.
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Jun 28, 2023 16 tweets 5 min read
In 1558, Saint Teresa of Avila received a vision of hell. Her account is simple and concise, yet perhaps the most bone-chilling of its kind on record.

I recount it here.
1/ Teresa was one day in prayer, and with no warning found herself transported. Highly advanced in prayer and already well-attuned to the divine voice, she understood immediately that it was God’s will that she “should see the place which the devils kept in readiness for [her].”
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May 31, 2023 12 tweets 6 min read
The most revealing, succinct exposition of socialist pathologies I've ever seen is Oscar Wilde's 1891 essay "The Soul of a Man Under Socialism"

Lurking just below the surface of every socialist virtue is a vice: hatred, selfishness, envy, resentment.

books.google.com/books?id=johYA…
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Care for a vague, impersonal "humanity" as an excuse to shirk one's own duty to his fellow man.

Dostoevsky: "The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. [...] As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom."
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May 29, 2023 63 tweets 24 min read
Happy Memorial Day.

Roosevelt did Pearl Harbor. Mega 🧵
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Prior to December 7th, 1941, the FDR admin was engaged in ongoing, good faith negotiations with Japan. Then the latter carried out her dastardly, unprovoked surprise attack, forcing the US into entering WWII.
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May 10, 2023 29 tweets 13 min read
Theodore Parker and the de-Christianization of Christianity 🧵

One of the most important Americans you’ve never heard of:
1/ Image I previously discussed the long and abiding influence of Unitarianism on American history as the primary religious progenitor of modern Progressivism (see threads linked here for an introduction to the topic, though they only scratch the surface)
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Apr 29, 2023 10 tweets 4 min read
It occurred to me that my previous thread addressed the “what,” but fell short in addressing the “why” of Unitarian/UU dominance. What was it about Unitarianism (and its successor systems) that allowed it to so consistently beat out its competitors? I briefly address: 🧵
1/ As Moldbug maintains, the generational victories of liberal protestantism are essentially adaptive rather than conscious processes. In other words, there are contingent societal forces placing selective pressure on ever-more liberal mutations of the same liberal gene.
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Apr 23, 2023 46 tweets 19 min read
UNITARIANISM 🧵

“All human conflict is ultimately theological.” —Cardinal Henry Manning

Here I will discuss the claim (popularized most notably by Moldbug) that Unitarianism is, and always has been, the de facto civic religion of the United States.
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On the question of why the US moves further left with each generation, many have noted Protestantism's ingredient leftist tendency: rejection of capital-T Tradition & ancient hierarchy, primacy of personal interpretation of Scripture, etc.
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