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Lawrence of Appalachia Profile picture
Lawrence of Appalachia
@mythanthrope
Reluctant contrarian | Liberty for everyone and everything, except evil and evildoers
Apr 14 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
I believe leftists genuinely do not understand "right wing" thought, so I will explain what I, a "right wing" man, don't like about the goofy office tiktok video (or more accurately, what that video represents, and things brought up in the OP). Having fun at work: I, and men like me, don't want to have "fun" at work. Best case scenario, I find enjoyment in the work itself. We tend to have fulfilling & interesting lives outside work. "Fun" time at work means you don't need us actually working and can send us home early.
Dec 15, 2023 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Okay I'm going to do this as a public service because I know satan-apologists keep posting this and saying "ohhhh what's so bad about this huhhh???"

Thread of why this is stupid and meaningless: 🧵 First of all: a public statement of values is meaningless if public actions do not follow it. The primary public activity of satanists is activism for transsexuality, homosexuality, and abortion. I'm not going to get into these, but I think the point should be obvious.
Nov 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"They don't have to spend another penny on the kid. There's a plane waiting to bring her to Rome. It's not about money at this point, it's about sending a message.

And that message is 'we will kill you for challenging us.' Your life is at the pleasure of the state." (From a good friend in a GC)
Jun 18, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
This is a great example of an art trend I find interesting.

This painting is almost entirely meaningless without the context. Without, it's "just a carpet" as one comment said. With, it suddenly has a very distinct meaning, & once you know, it sticks. Compare with... /1
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Image The Pieta, or this "Sic Deus Dilexit" that I love. Or Cassatt. Or Rockwell. No explanation is required. One may be given, and it may enrich your experience, but the art itself communicates its own message. 2/


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May 15, 2023 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
Tolkien has an incredibly multifaceted view of power, or rather, power and authority.

The ring represents power. The throne of Gondor is one of many symbols of authority.

How characters relate to power and authority is one of the fundamental themes of LOTR. Long🧵 ImageImage Boromir and Sauron represent "potent" desire for power. They are naturally powerful/ruling characters, and they desire simply the power of the ring for their ends--good or bad. Sauron has total desire for power and no care for authority at all. Boromir, however... ImageImage
May 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
You don't have to have any particular position on Daniel Penny. He could be a hero, a man who cracked, or a psycho for all I know.

The problem is that a violent criminal was let loose dozens of times, and the "justice" system didn't do anything until somebody else stopped him. Image The issuance and enforcement of laws in order to regulate human society is the primary function of government. If it can't or won't do that, its entire legitimacy is questionable. Societies (and people) live or die based on the enforcement and legitimacy of law.
May 14, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
I think this (and BAP's observation that American Christian conservatives have unique hangups) fit in well to the recent threads on the origins of American Christianity: it is not Catholic nor European "high church" protestantism, which are both foundationally intellectual. 🧵 American protestantism is truly low church, Unitarian, "folk," etc. There are elements I admire, to be clear, but one thing it is not is richly intellectual. There is a reason that know-nothing and KKK sentiments are American. American anti-catholicism is, imo, unique.
May 1, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Wait until people realize that UberEats, grocery delivery, and restaurants are outsourced cooking and shopping servants and Uber/Lyft are outsourced chauffeurs.

Modern people love having servants and pretending they don't. I think society would be a good bit healthier if we just recognized that having servants isn't a bad thing but that it demands a proper relationship with them.
Apr 30, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
No idea why this thread popped up, but it's interesting. And it accidentally touches on other inscrutable things which are vital and difficult and rare--faith, conviction, and love vs apathy, depression, and despair. This is partially why I think a significant majority of cases of depression could in fact be cured by simply "deciding to not be depressed." It's a meme, but for the depression that arises from loneliness, lack of direction, and apathy--all connected, I think, with acedia--what..
Mar 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This guy: "Today I will come up with horrifyingly anti-human, unrealistic, callous ideas and claim that they are common sense ideals." I won't say that I don't understand how people come up with these ideas, because from a certain highly abstracted proceduralist and rationalist mindset that views humans themselves as interchangeable population units, this *is* sensible.
Mar 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Symbology in the names of the Nashville cops: 🧵 ImageImage Michael:
"Who is like God?" The name of the prince of the angelic host and patron of the police is constant humility. Fitting that he took lead in the action.
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Likely from "collactius:" "with milk:" foster brother, nourished at the same breast. A brother beyond blood. Image
Oct 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This whole thread is basically one truth drenched in condescending cynicism. What helpful advice, what change is suggested? Newlyweds should avoid being optimistic and happy bc life is going to be hard? If you're going to be a jerk, be a *helpful* jerk. I can't speak for statistic averages, but I and the newlyweds I know have gone into marriage with their eyes wide open. They've also experienced loss, abuse, death, opposition, abandonment, they've seen what marriage is like through parents and friends (good and bad).
Oct 15, 2022 • 12 tweets • 1 min read
Be realistic: What would actually happen if the US gov federally lowered the age of consent to 10 years old tomorrow? (Poll thread) What would happen if all they did was reinstate Roe V. Wade?
Oct 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I've mentioned that I believe most places have guardian angels, this is probably the only time I've seen one. But who knows? I knew I had an old thread of my musings on the subject

Oct 15, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
You're deluding yourself if you think the right can restore & preserve morality without explicitly Christian principles. The noblest pagans still lived in infanticidal, homosexual societies. Without recognition of absolute ethics, you end up with the same grab-bag as the left. 🧵 Or to put a more positive angle on it, the moral principles you want to restore are all Christian ones, whether you recognize it or not. Any good ideals in pagan culture are preserved and perfected in the Christian ideal.
Oct 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Modernity is fifteen thousand spineless cosmopolitans cheering the death of a lonely man on a wasteland five thousand miles away; they salivate at a looped clip of his terror and solitude, as profound as any desert.

Whether or not he even *is* a soldier from "the other team" in the spectator sport they call "war" is irrelevant. The thought of one of their enemies in abject terror is enough to entertain them, a subject of their mockery.
Oct 6, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In the aftermath of all this, I basically have one question: can anyone provide a consistent Catholic account of justified rebellion and/or the process by which one can know that a government is delegitimized? Bonus points if you can find it in Aquinas. It seems to be the fundamental issue underlying this whole discourse. I find it hard to believe that America simply has no legitimacy merely because it is deeply corrupt. We live in at least a minimally functional polity. We aren't sovereign citizens.

Oct 5, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I hate to break it to you, but libertarian principles are just more individualist cope, mostly to avoid the fact that you are inextricably bound to things far greater than yourself. “No man is an island.”

You *must* bind yourself to something beyond merely your voluntary associations like friendships. First is your family, but families are not islands either. Your “polis” is unavoidable. Everything is political by nature, which is why I say that “grill dad” isn’t an option.
Oct 5, 2022 • 29 tweets • 7 min read
Alright, this is getting ridiculous, but I'm going to try to make a megathread to, at the very least, clarify what the actual dilemma and disagreement is. So, strap in and read--or don't. First, for context: Dave wrote this thread in response to a conversation we had in a GC yesterday, wherein one of the other guys said that if anyone tried to draft him, he'd give them the Sam Hyde treatment. Most of the GC vigorously disagreed with this.
Sep 1, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
The whole She-Hulk drama got me observing something: Women this feminist age have a completely fabricated, fantastical idea of parity between men and women. (Thread). Of course the physical aspect has been pretty well covered. There's simply no comparison. Women have no idea how utterly outmatched they are in strength by pretty much every man they encounter.
Aug 23, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
WALL-E is one of the most right wing Pixar movies ever made. WALL-E:
Ecological fascism
Man over machine
Do not live in the pod
RETVRN
Fill the earth and svbdve it
Manalive
Hero's journey
Odyssey
Physical prowess