Imagine being “far right” & not knowing the USS Liberty was an intelligence gathering ship & the motive for Israel attacking it (repeatedly btw) was to conceal launch of strategic Golan Heights annexation & to send a bloody reminder of who gets to spy on whom in this “friendship” “Muh accident” story was something jointly cooked up to explain away, but it required FedGov to silence our sailors who just saw their buddies dismembered by our greatest friend. Stay classy, FedGov

Anyone who has looked knows this -ppl STILL pushing “muh accident” r lying to u

Total collapse of Roman patrician bloodlines by end of 1stC AD, per the great scholar of Rome, Tenney Frank. A few generations later, even the emperors were no longer of Roman stock

Easy to see why the Empire got so rapidly dysfunctional, leading to the disasters of the 3rdC When ppl post that retarded, all-too-common, yid-worthy/sabotage take about how we don’t have to worry about fertility at all cuz muh Aryan magic, remember that any people goes as their TOP FRACTION goes. If the top fraction goes sterile/mixes then it’s over, as gone as Rome

One thing that jumps out that is underdiscussed is that civ is a function of higher families, as the families go, so goes the civ
Some examples
Greece: Alcmaeonidae
Rome: Cornelii, Fabii, Claudii
Europe: Hohenstaufen, Bourbon, Hapsburg, Cecil, Medici, etc
America: Cabot, Delano The umbrella provided by fam powers opportunity & inherent “training” program -it isn’t enough to just individually improve urself. If u want something higher from culture it must grow from such fertile soil. One way to allow this is legal change that rewards generational wealth

Readings of OT so u don’t have to. Book of Ezekiel. Setting: early 6thC BC, Yahweh is pissed at his Yids cuz they aren’t listening to him again

Ezekiel has a vision of Yahweh pulling up in spectral chariot with 4 faced animals
“Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites” Jerusalem siege is the background

Yahweh tells Ezekiel: here, eat some paper 😂 & then lay down on ur left side for 390 days before switching to ur right side for another 40 days: 1 day for each yr my Yids have pissed me off

Yahweh helpfully ties him up so he can’t move

Sep 1931: Lovecraft describes the character of Miami as becoming increasingly latinized

He says Miami was “hitherto all-Nordic”

Nordic & Miami are two words one doesn’t encountered juxtaposed very often

HPL also describing his failed attempts at sun tanning I’m finding this endlessly entertaining, as you can tell. Some combination of quaint innocence, intelligence, Americana

But Italianbros beware - they are constantly going off 😂

Imagining HPL emerging from his apt and his senses assaulted by “jabbering & predatory denizens!”

I drop some excerpts in here as a thread

Vol 1 - A Means to Freedom

Oct 1930 letter - HPL’s views on America:

https://twitter.com/corsair21c/status/1688332550136270848

REH Oct 1930:

Seeing the world through soda straw of interwebs snapshots creates a distorting effect about perceiving SCALE

We even saw this cause horrid takes re initial invasion of Ukr

We see it now where a vid of a couple of armored vics doing urban exercise is treated like martial law Rule of thumb long used by planners is 1 troop to every 40 pop. That is adjusted according to pop density & size of territory. Smaller numbers of troops can be mitigated through reconcentration but there’s a limit to that too

Occupying USA /physically/ is a near impossibility

The trump card in the obesity explanation debates is the evidence that even wild animals are fatter now

It doesn’t take much endocrine disrupting poison to slow metabolisms, & we are awash in it -not just muh seed oils either. Slowing metabolisms are more than enough to explain And this same poison/slowdown explanation holds true not only for the “great fattening” but also the declines in testosterone, IQ, body temps and every other physiological marker related to metabolism

#harrellposting

The sheets on the bed is the kind of attention to detail that separates Paul from the pretenders and false gun prophets #harrellposting

When you are presented with a deadly threat while doing your rounds as a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, just assume a WIDE 70s stance and return accurate fire

The “cultural lamentation” is something that only appears from wordcels when the thing is already gone. The dreamer -and however intelligent they are they remain idealists in this sense -attempts to reanimate dead ways through wise words

It does not ever work -indeed it cannot Some examples of this from Classical culture are Socrates chastising the youth (in Memorabilia by Xenophon) to get back to the old paramount Greek ideal of physical training, and Cicero trying to revive dead Republican energy in his works

New America: Citizens are now selected at random for a deadly DIVERSITY ENCOUNTER - if they are killed it’s just another statistic, but if they defend themselves then they become eligible for America’s new annual human sacrifice ritual

https://twitter.com/citizenfreepres/status/1657046454853152771

AnarchoTyranny: The Game Show

“Welcome to AnarchoTyranny, the game show where winning lands you in prison for life while your family is menaced by leftist mobs! Today our first contestant is a former Marine from New York who enjoys…”

No Country for Old Men is a Spenglerian masterpiece Moss, a heritage American Vietnam veteran, is a greedy roguish figure, but his & his fam’s downfall follows from his act of decency in returning to give a dying man some water

Chirgurh -> the FOREIGN presence, harbinger of chaos

Bell -> the overmatched old time sheriff

I get benefit from Spengler but ultimately don’t recommend him to most. It takes a certain pedantry to like him

But the key lessons are both clear & more important than anything else I see: (1) that certain things are no longer possible & (2) the West is DIFFERENT The first is a too much of a pill for many to swallow, so they won’t swallow it. We will get endless fix-alls, snake oil, magic potions and there will always be an excuse as to why [thing] did not work. Chasing symptoms is another eternally popular genre of “solutions”

I find Dune interesting. The world building is interesting. I even like some of the psychology he gets fixated upon. But an editor speeding things along and challenging him on some of his indulgences would have been better Entire chapter: Gurney learns a bunch of shit the reader already knows, he scowls and plays a dumb song on balliset

Next chapter: Baron Harkonnen is still fat, still likes sex with boys

Next: Jessica thinks something to herself for the 10,000 time - it’s the sign of ADEE-ASH!

Achilles -Iliad first half

First thing to know is that “honor” is a BARBARIC concept that gets slowly warped as a civ carries on, often getting blended with “duty” (seen in Rome, Victorian era)

Honor at its barbaric core revolves around insult to ur sense of self/integrity Duty is an obligation related to an org/fam/social structure-it is to commit to thing beyond urself

A savage can have honor but duties are often alien to him. At the end of a civ, men can understand duties but honor fades -we find it alien

If minor twatter beef went to pistols

Leading moving targets with AR15, a rough primer

“Lead” in ft = target speed (ft/s) * time of flight (sec) [base formula is for movement perpendicular to you]

55gr out of a 16” barrel (a common set up) is ~1sec TOF to 900 yards

Walking speed is often 4ft/s

So, example: Assuming target is walking perpendicular to you, about 300yds away, u get:

Lead in ft= 4*(1/3)= a little over a foot (so roughly a body depth of lead needed)

If target is running hard multiply lead x4

If 600yds, flight time is 2/3s

If moving obliquely (image) then x1/2 lead

Of course there was fraud, of course some big wins still happened - but ppl must remember the historically bad fundamentals here and what that should have resulted in

Inflation, comically senile POTUS, deranged tranz spreading everywhere, pointless war threats energy prices skyrocketing, debt, standards of living plummeting, constant threats of even worse coming

This was an environment that should have been near-revolutionary

And it turned into a duck fart

The apathy and sapped will to live, will to struggle are the biggest stories

There were no Presidents on coins until the 20thC - &other than Lincoln (1909) it was all a creation of Great Depression. In Prog Era we decided that we needed to be a proper Imperial power & therefore needed a proper Imperial mythos. So the “Founding Fathers” cult was fabricated

https://twitter.com/findenom/status/1538146172111552515

Now I love my homeland, this is the Land of Providence, but the truth is from the new gov-established cult we got a revised, partially-fabricated history, new coins, Mt Rushmore civil worship site, new term of reverence: “Founding Fathers”, etc

It is understandable, but wrong, that many can ONLY see Christianity as promoting weakness -they were brought up in some form of this in church, as we have for centuries now. Or they get it from reading bookcels who were

So when they read of Alaric pausing pillage for Easter When they read of medieval CONQUERING kings building magnificent lofty cathedrals at massive expense

When they read of Hernan Cortes, who uncovered his head and bowed whenever addressing a priest

They see it all as PARADOX or else cope that such men didn’t “really” believe

Prussian War Machine

Humiliated by Napoleon at Jena in 1806, throttled by rigid high nobles that failed miserably, King appoints Scharnhorst - modest origin officer - to drive reforms

He creates merit based promotion system, limited corporal punishment to codified system, Begins modern military administration, seizes control over the Army from the ancient noble faction, creates the basic tiered education system still used today in armies worldwide

In addition to mil subjects, Os studied languages, philosophy, geography, chemistry, physics, logic