Unraveling the Cultural DNA of the West: Self-Referential Paradoxes and the Crisis of Identity

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The Unraveling

Imagine Western culture as a DNA strand—the fundamental code that transmits our collective identity across generations. Now envision this DNA being bombarded with radiation, causing it to unravel and mutate uncontrollably. The irradiation symbolizes the destabilization of foundational value systems. As the DNA unravels, the genetic information—our shared values, beliefs, and traditions—becomes corrupted and fragmented. This disintegration mirrors how the erosion of cultural transmission leads to individuals disconnected from their heritage, floating aimlessly in existential ambiguity. The unraveling irradiated DNA strand serves as an analogy for the self-referential paradoxes and intractable transmissibility issues plaguing modern Western culture, leading to hyper-individualization, social fragmentation, and a descent into nihilism. 2/18

A Fascinating Yet Horrifying Transformation

The current trajectory of the progressive transmutation of, broadly construed, Western culture is fascinating in a horrifyingly morbid, slow-moving train wreck sort of way. The relationship between the process of self-individuation and its necessary, formational dependence on generational transmission of social and cultural value systems is being actively sublated from its requisite contingent. Any absence or warbling of the foundational reliance on this predicate first-order principle generates an intractable transmissibility issue.

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🧵A Thread on Joe Biden's Horrific Federal Judicial Appointments🧵:

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President Joe Biden's judicial appointments are reshaping the federal judiciary, prioritizing diversity over the traditional focus on professional experience. 2/x

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court has been criticized not only for her lack of extensive judicial experience—having spent just a short time on the D.C. Circuit before being elevated—but also for her record on several controversial issues. She has a history of lenient sentencing in cases involving child pornography, which many see as troubling, especially in comparison to Trump appointees who often emphasized strict adherence to sentencing guidelines.

Moreover, Jackson has advocated for more lenient treatment of illegal immigrants and has been supportive of progressive stances on transgender rights, which critics argue reflects an ideological agenda rather than a balanced judicial approach.

Tim Walz Signed a Bill Redefining the Term "Sexual Orientation" to INCLUDE PEDOPHILES.

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On 02/13/2023, Leigh Finke, a trans identified male, Introduced H. F. No. 1655, which redefined "Sexual Orientation."

Link to the amendment:

In this amendment, Finke CROSSED OUT the section that expressly precluded pedophiles from falling under the definition of "Sexual orientation."

In the old bill, the definition "Sexual orientation" delineated which people were were protected under the Minnesota Human Rights Statute, making it a violation to discriminate against those falling under that definition. This old definition EXPLICITLY EXCLUDED pedophiles through the addition of this phrase to the definition: "Sexual orientation" does not include a physical 1.20 or sexual attachment to children by an adult.

The bill then passed the committee was adopted.
Link to Minutes:
Link to the video stream of the hearing:

The amendment to 2022 c 52 art 19 s 44, (yes, this includes the section crossing out the pedophile exclusion), is characterized by Finke in the committee hearing as "modernizing" the terminology to reflect more contemporary understandings of sexual orientation and gender.

They think including pedophiles under the umbrella of "Sexual orientation" reflects a "modern understanding of sexuality and gender."revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php…
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The most disturbing part of this bill, is that it went through MULTIPLE revisions, and in EVERY. SINGLE. REVISION., they kept the pedophile exclusion crossed out.

Link to the final changes to the bill:

Here is the final version of the bill that is LAW with the language TAKEN OUT:
revisor.mn.gov/laws/2023/0/52…
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This trans-identified male is running for his local school board while scrambling to erase disturbing videos that expose his dom/sub sex work. These videos graphically depict his sadomasochistic role-play scenarios where he is sex-trafficked.

Spread the word.

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If you weren't already convinced that mass immigration is being used as a "biological weapon" against the host populations for the purpose of weakening worker protections and devaluing labor through a surplus of low quality cheap labor, here it is. This is not, and never was, about some mission to absolve or remediate global poverty. It is profoundly selfish and is at the behest of a few influential figures who pull the strings of world leaders vis a vis a global megacorp, with the supra-national bodes of global governance acting as the puppet as it pulls the strings.

The aim is global technocratic rule. The pernicious part is the fact they hide behind empathy and humanitarianism to bring about profound suffering and destabilization.

Do not be a fool.

The pathology that manifests on the right is the idolization of the normative, while the pathology of the left is the normalization of the deviant.

When the “norm” becomes the aspirational point of reference, it is placed on a pedestal. Consequently, “normal” people are expected to aspire to this idealized norm. However, a fundamental issue arises: if those who are already considered normal possess the traits deemed aspirational, there is nothing external to oneself to strive for. As a result, the idolatry of the normative necessitates its transformation into something that appears normative but has not yet been achieved by those embodying societal norms.

1/9 This new normative ideal must be continually modified. Over time, it transmutes into a caricature that is not even recognizable as the old ideal. It becomes a simulacrum of the normative. This process does not sustain the original character; rather, through flaws and pathological means, it attempts to tweak the norm to align with contemporary conditions, under the mistaken belief that this will recreate a social character similar to an arbitrary normative ideal from the past. Normativity is thus continually recalibrated toward what it believes will reproduce this ideal character, but through a distorted logic that cannot truly recreate the past.

Ultimately, the pathology on the right culminates in the idolization of what once would have been unequivocally considered deviant.

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Meta is now censoring the assassination attempt and labelling photos "altered."

The DOJ made a call to Zuck. Just like with google, bing, and duck duck go. When the FBI says dance, they all start dancing.

Biden laptop 2.0.

🧵Thread of companies that are doing this:

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Some of Chris Tyson's old deleted posts across a variety of social media platforms have been dug up, including from his old reddit account u/tysonboy34, and they are incredibly disturbing.

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There's something in the air

These have between 150k -1 million likes on TikTok

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Hegel's Mystical Materialism and The Lurianic Modernity

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Table of Contents

1/10. Introduction

2/10. Lurianic Kabbalah

3/10. The Mystical Idea in German Idealism

4/10. Hegel's Mystical Materialism

5/10. Karl Marx's Dialectical Materialism and its Mystical Structure

6/10. Walter Benjamin and Messianic Marxism

7/10. Erich Fromm and Radical Tradition

8/10. Deconstruction and Kabbalistic Hermeneutics

9/10. Gnostic, Lurianic, and Hegelian Concept Map

10/10. Cosmological Overlap Between Gnosticism, Hegelianism, and Lurianic Kabbalah:

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Introduction

The recognition of this esoteric undercurrent in modern thought has significant implications for our understanding of the intellectual history of modernity. It challenges the conventional narrative of a purely rational, secular modernity, revealing instead a complex dialectic between reason and mysticism, enlightenment, and esotericism. The persistence of Gnostic and Kabbalistic themes in the works of thinkers as diverse as Schelling, Hegel, Benjamin, and Derrida suggests that these esoteric traditions have played a vital role in shaping the very categories and concerns of modern thought, from the nature of subjectivity and language to the philosophy of history and the critique of ideology.

Moreover, the Kabbalistic and Gnostic elements in modern philosophy point to a deeper continuity between ancient and modern forms of thought, one that transcends the conventional boundaries of religion, philosophy, and politics. The recurrence of motifs such as the self-alienation of the divine, the exile and redemption of the soul, and the utopian hope for cosmic repair suggests a persistent human need to grapple with the fundamental questions of existence, a need that finds expression in both religious and secular forms of discourse.

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Lurianic Kabbalah

Lurianic Kabbalah had a major impact on Christian thinkers like Jakob Böhme (1575-1624), whose mystical writings were a key source for the German Idealist tradition. F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854), in his "Philosophy of Revelation," explicitly drew on Böhme and Kabbalah in his conception of the divine life and the process of creation.

Lurianic Kabbalah's influence on German Idealism is particularly noteworthy, as its key concepts and cosmological structure find striking parallels in the works of thinkers such as F.W.J. Schelling and G.W.F. Hegel. As noted by Gershom Scholem in his essay "Schelling and Kabbalah" (1962), Schelling's engagement with Kabbalistic ideas, particularly those of the Lurianic tradition, played a significant role in shaping his philosophical vision.

Schelling's concept of the "Absolute" as a dynamic, self-differentiating unity bears a remarkable resemblance to the Lurianic idea of Ein Sof, the infinite divine source that undergoes a process of contraction (Tzimtzum) and emanation (Sefirot) in order to create the world. For Schelling, as for the Lurianic Kabbalists, the finite world of nature and history is a necessary moment in the self-revelation of the divine, a process marked by rupture, alienation, and reconciliation (Vater, "Schelling and the Kabbalah: Myth, Revelation, Pantheism", 1996). This Kabbalistic underpinning of Schelling's thought is further evident in his conception of evil as a necessary stage in the unfolding of the Absolute.

In his "Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom" (1809), Schelling draws upon the Lurianic idea of the "shattering of the vessels" (Shevirat HaKelim) to articulate a metaphysical account of the origin and significance of evil. Just as in Lurianic Kabbalah, where the broken shards of the divine vessels give rise to the realm of the Kelipot (shells of evil), Schelling views evil as a byproduct of the Absolute's self-differentiation, a dark residue that must be confronted and integrated into the divine life (O'Regan, "The Heterodox Hegel", 1994).

Hegel's philosophical system, in turn, can be seen as a further development and transformation of these Schellingian and Lurianic themes. As Glenn Alexander Magee argues in his book "Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition" (2001), Hegel's dialectical conception of reality as a process of alienation and reconciliation is deeply indebted to Kabbalistic and Gnostic ideas. The Hegelian notion of "absolute negativity," the driving force behind the dialectic, bears a striking similarity to the Lurianic concept of Tzimtzum, the divine contraction that creates the space for otherness and difference.

Moreover, Hegel's understanding of history as a progressive unfolding of the Absolute Spirit (Geist) towards self-consciousness and freedom can be seen as a philosophical transposition of the Lurianic idea of Tikkun, the cosmic process of repair and restoration. Just as in Lurianic Kabbalah, where the divine sparks (Nitzotzot) scattered throughout creation must be gathered and reunited with their source, Hegel envisions history as a gradual process of overcoming alienation and fragmentation, culminating in the realization of "absolute knowledge" (Wolfson, "Hegel and the Kabbalah of the Absolute", 2011).

The Kabbalistic resonances in Hegel's thought are further amplified by his appropriation of the Christian Kabbalistic tradition, particularly the works of Jakob Böhme. As Cyril O'Regan demonstrates in his book "The Anatomy of Misremembering: Von Balthasar's Response to Philosophical Modernity. Volume 1: Hegel" (2014), Hegel's engagement with Böhme's theosophical speculations played a crucial role in shaping his dialectical vision of reality. Böhme's Kabbalistic understanding of God as a dynamic, self-differentiating unity, as well as his conception of evil as a necessary moment in the divine life, find clear echoes in Hegel's thought.

This genealogy of Kabbalistic influence, extending from Luria to Schelling, Böhme, and Hegel, highlights the profound impact of Jewish mystical ideas on the development of German Idealism. As Warren Montag argues in his essay "Hegel and the Kabbalists: Death, Desire, and Detachment" (2018), the Kabbalistic substratum of German Idealist thought represents a crucial but often overlooked dimension of modernity's philosophical and theological composition.

It’s been a death cult for a long, long time, and we are very behind.

These opinions are from the late 1890s— written by members and other individuals connected to the Fabian Society.

Funny how these opinions sound like they could have been written today.

Want to Know Why so many corporations have adopted ESG and All of the Social Justice Nonsense has Spread so Insanely Quickly and Why it Seems the World has Simultaneously Gone Insane and Accepted so Many Blatantly Obvious Lies?

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Simple Answer:

One Megacorp controls the entire world and they basically do whatever they want whenever they want, and everything else is a facade. It's all fake. The trans issues, the race, issues, the feminism issues, every aspect of the framing of these issues is literally designed to make you point the finger at every. single. person. but. the. actual. guilty. party.

Not a single one of these theories is legitimate. Not a single one. Every hierarchy they purport to spot and dismantle, is a guise to prevent you from spotting the only hierarchy that is actually of any consequence:

Megacorp is your god, and the political theatre is how it obfuscates this fact.

Ouroboros: If You Want To Control The World, Make The Snake Swallow Itself.

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Buckle up, I am about to ruin what you thought you knew about our "free-market" economy.

*Disclaimer I'm not saying there's a conspiracy to say, control the whole entire economic world.

I'm just providing evidence that supports the idea that if a group of people at the top of this mess wanted to, they are all set up to do so. Many of these investment firms and banks that make up Megacorp have been around for well over a century, some for more than two centuries, owned by the same families that own them now (at least in part; I’ll show below how they have retained ownership because it isn’t obvious).

Of interest: compare the last four oldest banking institutions in that link (Citibank, Chase, State Street, and Mellon) to the top institutional owners of Megacorp. If you take out “BlackRock” and “Vanguard,” you get those four at or near the top everywhere.

I will get to some deeper connections between them later on.

This investigation causes a few questions for me. Does someone (whatever "someone" means) own the entire world? If so, why? Is “greed” (in monetary terms) really applicable at that scale? It’s the entire planet; its resources, goods, services... everything looks black in the ownership map. What would be the motive behind such potential economic control of the entire world? And if its true that someone already owns everything, why the pretense?

I personally think the ultimate end game is global centralization and global governance: it's easier to own you if they don't need to maintain the veil via 200+ different governments.

It's easier to bribe one mechanism of centralized control than it is to bribe 200+, of which there is the occasional defector who steps out of line.

You can't defect if there is no where to defect to.

Well, Mars still exists, but who knows, they probably already own that too.

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Mutual Funds: Pools of money allowing fund managers to own stock using other people's funds. They symbolize, but do not equate to, direct stock ownership.

Fund Structure: A mutual fund is an account, not a corporate entity, lacking direct ownership or control over stocks it invests in.

Share in Mutual Fund: Represents a portion of the fund, not actual stock ownership. Investors in mutual funds have no legal rights to underlying stocks.

Fund Manager Ownership: The entity (corporation or trust) managing the fund owns the stocks. The name on the stock purchase order indicates actual ownership.

Investor Rights: Mutual fund investors have contractual rights to withdraw and a share of profits, but no control over specific investments or underlying stocks.

Source of Funds: The original source of funds, such as retirement accounts, does not affect stock ownership, which lies with the entity making the stock purchase.

Withdrawal Rights and Contracts: Mutual funds are bound by contracts to provide profit shares and allow withdrawals, often with conditions like penalties for early withdrawal.

Asset Managers: Funds enable asset managers to control stock ownership of companies, significantly influenced by the usage of other people's money.

Why this matters:

When you purchase a mutual fund stock, you are “purchasing” a “stock” in the fund itself. The “stock” isn’t really a stock in the normal sense; rather, it’s more like a share in a shell company. It’s not really a “shell corporation” though, because it’s not a corporation. A fund is just a pool of money.

That is all it is. It owns nothing, it holds no assets, its not anything at all in the “corporate” (legal person) sense. When investing in a mutual fund, you're essentially buying a share in a fund, not a traditional stock. This share is more symbolic, representing investment in a variety of stocks, rather than conferring actual ownership of these stocks. The fund itself, essentially a pool of money, doesn't hold any assets or stock ownership.

Instead, the fund manager, which could be a corporation or trust, legally owns the stocks purchased with the fund's money. This structure means that as a mutual fund investor, you have no direct control or legal rights over the individual stocks in the fund.

Your role is more akin to that of a depositor, with rights to withdraw and a share in the profits, as per the fund's contract, but no say in the fund's stock choices or management. Essentially, mutual funds allow asset managers to control stock ownership of companies using investors' money, significantly impacting the distribution of stock ownership in the market.

For example, if BlackRock buys 8% of General Motors stock, and 30% of the money they used comes ultimately from a group of retirement funds (as a made up example), the original source of that pool of money (fund) is irrelevant to who owns the GM stock. The purchase of this stock, using money from the fund, gives ownership and control of the stock to BlackRock (or whoever’s name is on the stock purchase order). What funds really do is allow for ownership of the stock of the world’s companies to fall into the hands of asset managers using other people’s money.

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Wisconsin’s student achievement scores show that a large majority of K12 students can neither read nor do math at their own grade level.

Yet their education dept. told the legislature the top priority of all their 600+ staff is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: The Department of Public Instruction's quarterly seminar, which is funded by federal tax dollars designated for special education, where CRT crusader Dr. Bettina Love educated the educators about how every form of education reform is an expression of race-based hatred and that Black people are owed more than $2 trillion in education-only reparations for the past 40 years (and a bigger bill to come later).

That may seem like plenty to cover, but DPI doesn’t do anything – aside from educating children – by half-measures. Dr. Love was joined by three other speakers:

Durryle Brooks, whose dissertation explores the belief that white culture’s views on love are linked to power and privilege and represent an ideology that is devastating and traumatic for oppressed groups because everything from the Bible to Twilight vampires to Ariel’s romance with Prince Eric perpetuates the belief that love is only for white, hetero, cis people. Well, and vampires.

Debby Irving, the author of “Waking up White” and an international presenter who asserts white culture (especially through white, Protestant, heterosexual cisgender men of the ‘owner class’) destroys joy and humanity.

Paula Rabideaux spoke about how land acknowledgement is a manifestation of Indigenous cultural etiquette that predate colonization by whites and is necessary for white people to perform as a step toward reconciliation.

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Classical Liberalism and the Moral Authority Problem

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There is a danger of accidentally treating classical liberalism teleologically through superimposing Hegelian dialectic on an Enlightenment framework of rationality to try and circumvent the divine transcendent moral authority problem.

To start, the question is whether the classical liberal state itself can serve as a stand-in representation of the divine transcendent. The preeminent contradiction in this scenario, is that man wants free from God, and thus thinks that orienting towards an ideal state, the perfect balance of personal responsibility as a form of “morality” and protective carve-outs deifying the status of negative-rights within the framework of the state, is sufficient to supplant the role that religion’s transcendent moral authority that has served since time immemorial.

The temptation is there to treat liberalism as if it is a system for manifesting man’s freedom from the state’s proclivity to become an actor of frustration upon an individual’s ability to self-determine. This self-determination serves the purpose of enabling an individual to define himself for himself, in and of himself. It’s the dialectical progression proceeding from the culmination of what ultimately became known as the enlightenment.

The enlightenment represents man defining himself for himself, in and of himself, independently from a divinely inspired natural law; Ultimately, the secular authority of the state in conjunction with this utopian vision of a future state, supplanted the divine authority of natural law and became the new humanistic representation of the transcendent divine.

The Hegelian dialectic inherently involves the resolution, or “rising above” of contradiction to create a synthesis. The contradiction that exists for the classical liberal here, is his relationship to the object of his desire.

The classical liberal is forced to acknowledge the necessary step of deification of state authority in order to fill the God-sized hole with respect to the divine transcendence. In function, the state becomes both the thing that the classical liberal is forced to worship and simultaneously the thing he most wants liberation from. The state is his master, and he, its slave.

Ultimately, the question of whether the replacement or removal of a transcendent divine authority would render coherence stable to the existing order, at least for longer than it has currently lasted an impossibility, is a contentious one.

If it is determined that a classical liberal state ultimately necessitates some form of transcendent moral authority, it means the divine must be replaced with an alternative. Hegel’s system proports to offer such an alternative: a system of logic that infinitely and dialectically unfolds for the purpose of obtaining the absolute ideal, the inverse equivalent of the divine transcendence, which is ultimately envisioned a perfect equilibrium between freedom and state power.

This perfect equilibrium represents the classical liberal’s utopia, a utopia of which that has always been assessed as too impossible to achieve.

The baked in failure of never being able to achieve the perfect state serves the ultimate function of replacing the transcendent. As a result of this infinitely becoming orienting principle and its supplantation of the divine transcendence, the so-prophesized Nietzschean descent into nihilism is allegedly temporarily forestalled. It is through this process of infinitely becoming but never being, that the so-called perfect man and so-called perfect state will unfold—but still withstanding that the utopia is never actually meant to happen, and it is all at a certainty that it will never happen. The classical liberal, thus, purports to apply an all encompassing system in which man is oriented for infinity towards an ultimate purpose that is never actually meant to be fulfilled. 2/3

Hegel was ultimately right about desire, in that it isn’t so different from will, which is that which directs attention. Part of the problem, of which leads to negation and destruction—is having what are functionally finite objects of desire. Once a person obtains the object of their desire, the object is necessarily negated, and can no longer be pursued by definition.

The solution to the problem of finite objects of desire, is thus, to pursue something that cannot be negated, which either means something eternal or an illusion–a false promise. Pageau references this concept of using will to direct desire, or attention, as “worship.”

The infinite object of desire, which by definition, necessarily cannot be negated, has to be something transcendent–because the infinite object of desire used to exist as the the divine transcendent, which the enlightenment had to rebrand as secular and humanist, but as a result, the concept of the divine was thrown out, and as such, the enlightenment lost its transcendent moral authority. This transcendent moral authority, of course is in contrast, to the concept of the immanent object of desire. The immanent is necessarily finite while transcendent objects are necessarily infinite.

The conundrum of the inaccessibility of the an orienting transcendent aspect that exists outside of the divine, is the problem Hegel allegedly solved and concluded that one does not necessarily need an upwards-oriented divine transcendent. This concept heretofore is the Kantian problem.

Hegel solved this problem through inverting the previous notion of the transcendent object of focus as an orientation upwards (representing the divine). Resultantly, Hegel’s system is oriented downwards–it’s an inversion. The inverted “transcendent” is represented in Hegelian terms, as the absolute idea, which ultimately equates to perfecting man, which necessarily requires the perfection of the sate, and the perfect state is the divine, except instead of oriented upwards, the state is the “divine” representation but oriented downwards. So the perfect state is “divine,” inverted, whatever you may interpret that to represent.

Ultimately, it is an all encompassing presuppositionless philosophical system that has an end that axiomatically presupposes the beginning. It starts out with no assumptions yet is somehow inherently oriented towards a transcendent universal.

The caveat here is that this ultimate purpose of achieving the “absolute ideal,” or the “divine, inverted,” is never achieved because it was never meant to be achieved. It both constructively and functionally serves as a focal point that infinitely progresses and unfolds through time; it’s a utopia that is just within grasp but ultimately impossible to obtain.

In the end, this is how Hegel conceived of the state as synonymous with God; and consequently, this is the ultimate hurdle that the classical liberal has to reckon with: whether some manifestation of the “transcendent” is necessary, and if it is, can it be the inversion of the divine? If it ultimately turns out that a transcendent is required for classical liberalism to function, yet any form of integration of divine transcendence is determined to be fundamentally incompatible with liberalism, they must accept that their system must unfold into infinity in order to integrate a simulacrum of a transcendent, and thus, they need fully understand the fact their system is now Hegelian. If this scenario ultimately results, classical liberalism will functionally be a religion in an of itself, containing an inversely divine downward orientation.

Oh boy this is gonna be a long one.

I am going to do a point by point breakdown on how this analysis is disingenuous.

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https://twitter.com/janeclarejones/status/1724720074181767621

Materialism vs. Idealism

Materialist Analysis:

Materialism, in the context of class analysis, refers primarily to historical materialism, which is a Marxist theory that focuses on material conditions as the primary influence on society.

According to this view:

· Economic Factors as the Foundation: Materialist analysis sees economic factors—the mode of production and the relations of production—as the basis of society. It posits that the material conditions of society, such as the way goods are produced and how labor is organized, determine social relations, culture, law, politics, and ideology.

· Class Defined by Relation to Production: Classes are defined by their relation to the means of production. For example, the bourgeoisie owns the means of production, and the proletariat sells their labor to the bourgeoisie.

· Change Through Material Conflict: Social change is driven by conflicts that arise from material conditions, such as the struggle between different classes over the control of the means of production.

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News on Audrey Hale:

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Apparently there has been ongoing litigation since April on whether the manifesto should be released or not.

Two weeks ago, Hale, some parents of the victims, and the Covenant school, argued against its release in the TN Court of Appeals.

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Here is the video of the proceedings

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The investment firm Aspect Capital is attempting dialectical synthesis

“ESG isn’t a fiduciary duty violation; shareholder and stakeholder capitalism are equally efficient [we hope]”

They took horseshoe theory and tried to use it to validate an arbitrary ESG “middle ground”

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I have compiled a large number of sources that categorically rebut the majority of the TRA arguments, so consider this thread a one stop shop for rebuttals.

I have put everything in this google doc that I will add on to as I find more:

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Komodo Analysis

Surge in Gender Dysphoria Diagnoses

In 2021, approximately 42,000 children and teens across the U.S. received a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, nearly triple the number in 2017

At least 121,882 children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria from… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

BREAKING

A trans identified male who molested a 9 year-old boy, raped a 17 year old girl, and distributed child exploitation material, has been transferred to the FMC Carswell women’s prison, by an Obama appointed judge.

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In 1994, July Justine Shelby (previously William O. McClain), a transvestic cross-dresser, was convicted of molesting a 9 year old boy and raping a 16 year old girl.

Shelby violated his parole in 2009 for having internet access in his apartment, and was returned to prison.

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A recent study on the current state of informed consent in gender affirming care revealed significant gaps and inconsistencies that raises serious concerns and confirms what we already know:

"Gender affirming care" is medical experimentation on children.

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1/ The study analyzed 21 unique consent forms used across clinical sites providing pubertal suppression (PS), masculinizing hormones (MH), and feminizing hormones (FH). The inconsistency shows the informed consent process in gender-affirming care is woefully inadequate.

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