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Ceb K.
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Romanticism 2. Together through life
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Dec 17 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Good old post from @curtis_yarvin on the viral Compact Mag essay: the culture industry’s a MLM federal jobs program designed to produce people capable of noticing & replicating & teaching the preferred narrative, bc this comes with status benefits, & it’s what allows for capture- Image
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Image @curtis_yarvin The first creative writing program was only created in 1936—at Iowa, still the top of the pyramid & origin of every official fad. By 1980 there were over 250 in the US; now ~500. As writing becomes this kind of commissariat, ofc it’s vulnerable to dysfunctional campaigns & purges Image
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Oct 28 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
In 1974 Congress was upset about Nixon having refused to spend appropriated money on programs he disliked, so they banned this discretion in a law that also formalized all the appropriations bills (usually 11-13 per year) into one standardized process. Huge constitutional change: There’d only ever been one “omnibus” bill before this in our nation’s whole history (1950, as an efficiency experiment that nobody found interesting or fruitful then). The 2nd was in 1986. From 2012 to 2024, 147 of 149 budget bills were passed in omnibus form. Huge transformation
Oct 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Odd! Not sure what one could possibly make of this! Very surprising to anyone who’s ever interacted with male, female, & mixed groups! We must fund extra research ASAP to figure out what combination of carrots for women & sticks for men can help women come out as equally liberal! Image
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Image As teen was taught female orgasms require complex rube goldberg machinations. It’s actually quite simple, but getting any group which defers to its female members to eg actually consider any factual or logical assertion instead of status quo-ing requires comical game foreplay etc
Oct 12 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
He notes that starting around 1965, US college students began throwing shrill fits at their admins in ways that their admins began coddling instead of disciplining. He notes that this began at UC Berkeley (which “boast[ed] more women students than any other US coed institution”). Image
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Image The alum page on “150 years of women at Berkeley” notes that women were prominent in all these campaigns (& for once they’re not just making them up as “hidden figures”). 1960s was when all the “in loco parentis” rules evaporated—no more female curfews, bans on mixed sleepovers… Image
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Sep 6 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Men are more naturally monogamous bc we wanna just have our home life settled so we can use it as foundation for external pursuits. Women are the ones always working on their home life, introducing new projects to it, etc. If she’s in love, that means making his home better—but… Polygamy’s only more common than polyandry bc a) it’s much more stable, & b) so many women so underhandedly pursue the few top men that sometimes they can’t focus enough to reject these additional distractions. Men who have their shit together never say “if only I had more wives”
Sep 3 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Men build civ best under monogamy: ie when we have to compete with each other over other things than extra wives; when that’s been successful & consensual, it’s thru neolocal nuclear families, thus not even about securing high-value mates for our kids. Opaque spergy men’s clubs > ie perhaps the *removal of the desire to fuck women from public life* is what allows men to build civ: if we already have wives at home & can’t fruitfully seek extras, then we have no reason to let women into these clubs or cater their competitive outputs to women’s sensibilities
Aug 28 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is what “the sixties” actually meant: the 1950s were about “amoral excellence,” big-is-beautiful, etc (highways, air travel, television, football, company men, conglomerates, the space race…). Small-minded hippies rejected this as unnatural & scawy & enthroned mudhut morals The Pentagon was only built at the end of WWII & even still the National Mall was covered in simple big War Department buildings through the 1950s as action-oriented power-seeking bureaucracies exploded (unlike the passive red-tape self-flagellating bureaucrats who replaced them) Image
Aug 24 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Wonka (2023) was written by LLM. The whole movie’s just “set up some sweet lazy tropes then sacrifice their coherence to sweet lazy one-liners”—next token prediction run amok. Plot, character, theme, world etc are all obvious but gorge on so many obvious gags that they fall apart This IP was expected to make parents buy kids movie tickets bc Wonka’s recognizable: abrasive recluse obsessive prankster; in this he’s just his ever-gaudier accessories on a bland saccharine wizard who always has magic macguffins for friendship while switching btwn dumb & genius
Aug 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Charming & sympathetic. As she says, they’re *producing* the time that we then “commodify” (ie invest into projects which then allow them to demarcate yet more time for us to reinvest). Like how musicians can only net perform if there are musical illiterates to produce audiences. Distance becomes poorly defined below the Planck length, bc the energy required to precisely probe this gap would necessarily produce a *black* hole larger than it. & same with time: you can’t clock anything shorter than how long light takes to “walk the Planck.” Same basic idea.
Jul 15 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Basically the plot of Atlas Shrugged. FL turned down a $2.5B grant from Obama for public “high-speed rail,” & approved the only private inter-city passenger rail in the US, Brightline, which in 9 years opened a 235 mile rail network for $25M/mile, while CA’s likely at ~$300M/mile In 2008 CA promised it’d have SF-LA HSR open by 2020; now the projected opening’s already been pushed past 2045, & it may never even get there, but official projections are still optimistically estimating its likely inflation-adjusted price at ~$275M/mile (ie it’ll be way more)…
Jun 12 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I read the paper. Precisely what you’d confidently guess based on the pic & caption. Total of ~10,000 respondents across 2 versions (nodes are attitudes on abortion, redistribution, etc). In both, position correlates v well with partisanship scale & even more with partisan hatred Image
Image In other words, extremity of left vs right in these reliably correlates with self-reported extremity of left vs right; but the correlation is even stronger for self-reported partisan ingroup feelings bias (far left more identifiable by hatred of far right than by self-ID as such)
Jun 10 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
Piketty’s new paper has good graphs but retarded thoughts (brief thread). He shows that 19thC Europe had an incredible current account surplus, & so—by definition—accrued an incredible capital account. Again: this is definitional—net income is net wealth accrual in this data. But Image
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Image He says this is bad bc Europe’s goods trade balance was negative (imported lots of raw materials & exported ~half as much manufactured value). So this wealth was colonial theft, & Europe “should’ve” been *much* poorer (if it paid 20% more for raw imports & levied 0 taxes abroad). Image
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Jun 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
You’re telling me that Republican voters like red state policies? That Democrats don’t suddenly pretend they’ve always hated blue state policies? I guess it was worth testing whether they’d switch on a dime when Ezra told them to, even tho the groups are still favoring the groups In fact, the *only* person who *should* be surprised by this is Hanania: his hypothesis for the past few years has been that EHC types (eg Ezra Klein & his readers) are uniquely suited for *both* adopting objectively good policies *&* popularizing them among the blue tribe. Oops!
May 18 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Women’s tears in the marketplace of ideas are most costly when they’re tears of joy. Shrieking at you to euphemize more in public is noticeably annoying, but it’s far more notably bad that female suffrage immediately leads to limitless childish negative-sum collectivist signaling Image
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Image Can our civ muster the will to tell groups of women that what makes them feel good is bad—that they should be politically disempowered—that their insipid saccharine groupthink is retarded & smothering & destructive? History says no—esp as girlbossing substitutes for childrearing. Image
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Apr 28 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
KKK reached peak membership in 1924 (destroyed by sex scandal & Ellis Island in 1925). They were focused on Progressivism (prohibition, anti-corruption, the Fed, free trade, immigration restrictionism, etc), not lynching—meantime Ellis Island gangs waged war on cops & Anglo order Image
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Image They used their peak influence in 1924 to back McAdoo (whose main accomplishment was creating the Fed) & pass the Johnson-Reed Act (closed borders). Then they got forced from power by corrupt & actually buffoonish actual terrorists who imposed low IQ larps of nativism (tariffs)…
Mar 22 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
There should be more no-fault contracts. If you sign an NDA, you should be allowed to tear it up if you ever feel like doing so, & still keep half of what they paid you for signing it, with no negative consequences. You can kick out lessees at random, & keep half the year’s rent. This might seem like precisely the opposite of a contract, but it’s what we do with marriage, the most generally sacred of contracts; & it’d be odd if we applied higher enforcement standards to NDAs, leases, etc than to marriage, so why not make tenant law similarly “open-minded”
Mar 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Ubiquitous pre-internet correct use of obscure nautical metaphors in 1995’s “Dreams from My Father” is what convinced me that it was ghostwritten by former seaman Bill Ayers. It repurposes tics & scenes from 1993’s “To Teach” by Ayers—eg kids learning the Hudson’s a “tidal river” In both, a turning point when colored kids at Hudson’s edge & audibly notice that it flows both north & south, bc they’re at exactly the point where it changes direction. Etc. & Obama wrote it at Ayers’ dining table, after Ayers began mentoring him—1st thing by O with *any* style
Mar 3 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I like many assimilated Jews & Indians, & I prefer the current anathematized Jewish & Indian govts to the leftist postwar Jewish & Indian govts, & I dislike the woke Jewish & Indian diaspora mainstream, & retarded rightists make the same stupid cargo cult critiques of both groups “Wow they were able to work for a living & they were willing to move around & they partnered with an enlightened empire & other third worlders were ‘tricked’ into staying in same old poverty by their lies like ‘money’ & ‘property’ during good-faith attempts at development—so sad”
Feb 28 • 16 tweets • 10 min read
Let me tell you a story about the Navy. The $1.2 billion USS Bonhomme Richard was destroyed by a fire in 2020 while it sat in the San Diego bay. The Navy blamed it on a white kid who was frustrated at the Navy’s incompetence, bureaucracy & sclerosis—tried to put him away for life Image
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Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
They’re facing a 95% extinction rate every 4 generations (~100 years). They live in a concentration camp society almost as inhuman as that of their neighbors to the north. Any party not interested in aggressively experimenting with radical changes is pointless—I want them to live What happened in the Germanic lands during the 1600s? Basically just the 30 years war, as far as the modern world is concerned. About 50% population loss over three decades. Total upheaval of all relations. If you were there would you back local leaders who twiddled their thumbs?
Feb 7 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
This journalist just got our guy doxed & fired over private racial statements. Let’s look at some of her public racial statements over the years—unfortunately, she deleted all her old tweets, & many of her pieces are paywalled, like *several* cancelling *high schoolers* for this: Image
Image These pieces that her paper published “calling out” high schoolers for this one image were put out from January 2019 through February 2020. This was before Floyd. The high schoolers were trying to be woke by showing that drugs particularly harm blacks. But that wasn’t good enough