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Elon musk: I'm trying to avoid nuclear war
Zelensky: why do you love Putin and hate Ukraine
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"Incompetent to stand trial" is made up nonsense. If you can't stand trial, you can't have civic rights. You can't be free.
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Every time I feel like I could consider the vaccine just so that I have access to cafes, gyms, and travel, I start to resent so deeply the coercion that I become more steadfast in my refusal to acquiesce.
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A British judge walks out of the courtroom, laughing loudly. A colleague asks, "What is it you laugh about?"
"Ah, I just heard an excellent joke," the judge says, sweeping tears of laughter.
"A joke? Tell me!"
"Are you crazy? I just sentenced a man to ten years for that joke."
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makes you fully understand fascists, totalitarians, illiberals, and everyone else who is sick of the Western world taking every occasion from the cradle to the grave to shove their perversions into your face. not everything has to be constantly queer, fat, retarded, and satanic
I’m truly speechless. So disrespectful towards many athletes from other nations at the #OlympicGames.
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Peter Thiel said there are three visions of the future and none of them is particularly good or inspiring: Greta Thunberg environmentalism, Islamism, or Chinese surveillance state. I think the new American tech renaissance provides an inspiring fourth option.
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There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. -Nietzsche
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Jordan Peterson is one of the good guys. That's not a difficult call. Listening to an interview with him now and there's no question.
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Plato said that when you habituate people to love ugliness and not beauty, everything falls apart.
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gaining 70lbs during covid: get a lifestyle article written about you. hitting the home gym during covid: get a "you must be a nazi" article written about you
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Aristotle said tyrants make sure their people are poor, busy, lonely, distrustful, heavily taxed, distracted by trivia, spied on, and at war.
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Cerno makes the point that Fox can fire its biggest name because corporate profits aren't what matters anymore. That reminds me of James Burnham's point from the Managerial State. He says, well, big orgs don't nee to be profitable in a post-capitalist society. They've other goals
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People who thought the coronavirus is dangerous enough to shut down society for two years are cavalierly encouraging nuclear confrontation between Russia and NATO. The stupidity of our times is quite amazing to behold.
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"I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucidydes, for Newton and Euclid, and I find myself much the happier." -Jefferson writing to Adams
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The reason people think Dugin is a fascist even though he has said many times he is not one is because they believe that if you're not a liberal and you're not a communist, you're a fascist by default. They use a model of three political theories.
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Trump was less blinded by the sun than Clinton was by a working class apartment.
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I got blacklisted from academia for studying political philosophy critical of liberalism from the right (despite perfect teaching reviews and top of class grades). So I started my own school.
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Do you regret getting the covid vaccine?
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Yes
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Didn't take it
37,562 votes • Final results
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When Sam Harris said he wouldn't care if Hunter Biden had corpses of children in his basement, he was making it clear that Democrats and other liberals believe they can commit or excuse ANY crime, even the most grotesque, for the sake of stopping "fascists"
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I hope everyone is learning from @christopherrufo how to pick a fight and win it.
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When I was an undergrad philosophy student, one of my profs saw me wearing a jesus and mary chain shirt and said "aren't they a bit before your time?" and in an inspired drop the mic moment that I've never been able to repeat, I replied: "isn't plato a bit before yours?"
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"Liberalism is when you do what I want. Fascism is when you do what you want." -the government
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There is nothing more democratic than cancelling elections because the wrong guy won
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BUKELIZE NEW YORK
BUKELIZE THE WORLD
CRIMINALS IN JAIL
BITCOIN COLD STORAGE
PHILOSOPHER KING
GOLDEN AGE
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Leo Strauss argued in the 40s that the Marxist desire to overcome inequality and the division of labor implied the project of overcoming the sexual difference altogether. The class laughed. He said "don't laugh."
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.@MaximeBernier is Canada's official opposition. The only anti-lunacy leader.
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Everything is Harry Potter. Everything is Handmaid's Tale. Everything is the Iraq War. Everything is some other thing. Nothing is what it is. Everything is what you remember about something else.
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Plato's dialogues did not grow out of the Bible, and all Western philosophy is "footnotes to Plato."
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I'm going to have to start offering courses for high school and grade school kids whose parents pull them out of public school for the sake of their hearts and minds.
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They're reading Plato. They're reading Nietzsche. Some of them are even reading Heidegger. They're lifting. They're starting families. WHAT'S GOING ON
MSNBC analyst Mara Gay: Young men are in a crisis and need to get therapy. They just listen to Joe Rogan and are being converted to fascism.
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My father passed away over the holidays. He was a close friend to me and a dear grandfather to my children. He left behind three children, eight grandchildren and countless memories. My advice is to take care of your health and each other while you can. ❤️
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Lindsey Graham called for assassination. Michael McFaul said no innocent Russians. Many prominent voices want a no fly zone so NATO will shoot down Russian planes. Biden calling for regime change. You think that kind of thing is helping?
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Trump must do some horrible things to bad people to prevent horrible things being done to good people. There's no other way.
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How about not passing bad laws against anti semitism that will have the predictable outcome of increasing hostility towards jews and Israel while depriving Americans of basic free speech rights
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Aristotle said that to preserve a democracy, you have to educate the people about the dangers of democracy. Most democracies, though, don't do that. They educate their people in radical democracy until an excess of freedom leads to tyranny.
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I strongly encourage you not to worry about climate change as part of your decision whether to have children.
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In other words, "cannabilism is just a matter of taste"
Nothing in nature has a purpose and nothing that exists is unnatural. Happy International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.
#Darwin #LGBTQI #InternationalDayAgainstHomophobia
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The law against Jews doesn't force you to do anything. You can always convert. Don't want to? Your problem.
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"I have been teaching in small liberal arts colleges for over 15 years now, and in the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch. For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation—sometimes scaling up for purely expository readings or pulling back for more difficult texts. (No human being can read 30 pages of Hegel in one sitting, for example.) Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding. Even smart and motivated students struggle to do more with written texts than extract decontextualized take-aways. Considerable class time is taken up simply establishing what happened in a story or the basic steps of an argument—skills I used to be able to take for granted." -Adam Kotsko
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This is extremely good, which makes it all the more gut-wrenching that the author and his wife committed suicide the day after it was sent to the publisher.
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Jordan Peterson changed more people's lives for the better than all his haters combined, probably. That of course does not automatically mean that he doesn't make mistakes, etc. But it shouldn't be ignored.
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Musk is showing you one great reason to be wealthy. Wealth facilitates grand gestures. Magnificence at scale.
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pretty convenient how young people are so distracted by questions of gender that they don't notice their future being stolen from them
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"No Spartan deliberates about the best constitution for the Scythians." -Aristotle, reminding countries to mind their own business.
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some people are living in a world in which the right to abortion is sacred but the rights to self-defence, free speech, worship, and association are not.
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aristotle intimates that any regime in which "all men are created equal" will eventually expel/ostracize its best citizens.
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democracy is what oligarchs call oligarchy. fascism is what oligarchs call democracy. everyone lies and the lies are getting more boring each year.
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Getting called a "grifter" by a university academic with a cushy 6-figure salary that is completely independent of their quality as instructors has the same sort of vibe as anti-bourgeois commie larpers with large inheritances and luxury tastes taking about eating the rich etc.
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Unvaccinated Canadians still can't leave the country or travel domestically by train or plane.
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if you were in the mood to give a monocausal explanation of everything that's going on, what would be your one big cause?
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Do you agree that we are witnessing the end of the unipolar world and the onset of multipolarity?
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Then she goes on to sleep w Heidegger lol women r crazy
In 1932 Leo Strauss asked Hannah Arendt on a date, only to be rejected for his conservative politics chronicle.com/article/hannah…
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Has Trump read Evola? Probably not, but Bannon has. Has Trump read Yarvin? Probably not, but JD Vance has. Has Trump read Strauss? Probably not, but Peter Thiel has. By probably not I mean of course not. By my other comments I mean that Trump's circle is reading and thinking.
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NOTHING has a purpose? NOTHING is unnatural? Be careful what you wish for! Live by the sword biological nihilism, die by the sword of biological nihilism...
Nothing in nature has a purpose and nothing that exists is unnatural. Happy International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.
#Darwin #LGBTQI #InternationalDayAgainstHomophobia
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She is having an orgasm over dead Jews. What kind of peace can you expect to have with a person like that?
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I have heard the horrible news from today. I send my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Darya and her father.
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