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From yon blue heavens above us bent
The gardener Adam and his wife
Smile at the claims of long descent.
Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Your annual reminder: the Weimar Republic has more Nobel prize winners than China, Spain, or Finland to this day. Weimar produced at least one Nobel prize winner per year (many of which were Jewish).
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As the kids say, “Scoreboard.”
Who do you think was the better general, Lee or Grant?
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@KarnesMellagio
Love how the guy who popularized pizzagate is calling Pinochet a hero, whose allowed his nazi pal to run a pedophile/torture commune in Chile
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Eisenhower told Nixon (who thought Jackson and Lee were better), “You forget that Grant captured three armies intact, moved and coordinated his forces in a way that baffles military logic yet succeeded and he concluded the war one year after being entrusted with that aim.”
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Aaron Judge is 6’7” and 282 lbs.
Acuña Jr. hits a homerun b/t 450-480 ft every few days and celebrates by griddying across home-plate.
Ohtani throws a 100mph fastball one half of the inning and hits a 93 mph slider 450 ft the next half of the inning.
Ron DeSantis said basketball athletes are “freaks of nature” while contrasting the sport with baseball which he described as a “meritocratic game” with “different skills that are required” to be on the team.
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Yes X is overrun with Nazis but sometimes magic happens and this is one of those times:
Ron DeSantis the minute he dropped out of the presidential race:
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I watched The Battle of Algiers for the first time last night… Uncomfortably relevant.
The quote below is from a scene where Col. Mathieu is justifying the extrajudicial torture and murder of the Algerians to the press:
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@CDHenry_PA
I’m not a believer in reincarnation but the similarities between those two are uncanny
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The Lee discourse gives me the opportunity to once again extol the virtues of Grant, a task I never tire of doing!
Eisenhower told Nixon (who thought Jackson and Lee were better), “You forget that Grant captured three armies intact, moved and coordinated his forces in a way that baffles military logic yet succeeded and he concluded the war one year after being entrusted with that aim.”
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Orban (self-professed Calvinist): Christian democracy is anti-immigration.
John Calvin: Let a Muslim or a barbarian come among us, and yet inasmuch as he is a man, he brings with him a looking glass wherein we may see that he is our brother and neighbor.
Hungarian prime minister Orban on "illiberal democracy":
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It’s only March and we already have “they’re poisoning our blood”, “Hitler did some good things”, “some migrants are not people”, “bloodbath”, an alternative Jan 6th national anthem, and this.
November is too far away…
Caught on hot mic — Trump: "[Kim Jung Un] speaks and his people sit-up in attention. I want my people to do the same”
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🍿🍿🍿
Candace, if you feel that taking money from The Daily Wire somehow comes between you and God, by all means quit.
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“Barbie is Communist propaganda”
This kind of film criticism is nonsense
The audience wants to know:
Is it Trotskyist or Stalinist? Does it correctly define historical materialism, commodity fetishism, labor theory of value? Does it orient itself against the Right Hegelians?
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Some leftists are worried that AOC is becoming a ‘Normie Democrat’; meanwhile, the irony-pilled ‘dirtbag left’ is on this trajectory:
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You will never hear about MJ 🐐 making this mistake
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Twitter before Elon Musk over vs. Twitter after Elon Musk took over
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One of the worst parts of Elon’s Twitter (besides all the Nazis) is the comment section of every viral video being filled with other blue checks (which are pushed to the top) feening for likes with their own irrelevant videos
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I’m really starting to question Desantis’s pedigree as ‘defender of the classics’, after seeing how he managed to mangle a classic text from the gospels to sanction murder
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Community Note: Men go to war because women are so beautiful they cannot live without them, not because a woman got a cute haircut.
Source: The Iliad, Homer
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It’s time.
What dense 700-page Pulitzer Prize-winning history book should Chris Nolan adapt for film next?
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@bogey0nyourtail
Yeah, it’s a ‘bad’ habit from reading the KJB Bible growing up (but there are some grammarians who say that of which can be used for people and object… idk)
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Besides the fact that Ukraine is a sovereign country defending itself, innocent civilians have been targeted&killed. Women&children have been raped by the Russian army. Saying that Russia was provoked into a war of aggression, including crimes against humanity, is highly immoral.
Let us not be deceived: NATO is an expanding instrument of U.S. global power that provoked Russia into a criminal invasion and occupation of Ukraine. This proxy war between the American Empire and the Russian Federation could lead to World War III. We must stop the war and war
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Trump after indictment: “This country is a shithole. There’s no more justice. They’re coming after me, they’ll come after you next. I’m the only one standing in their way.”
Hunter, liberal democracy appreciator, under legal scrutiny: “That’s democracy. No one is above the law.
it’s actually awesome that hunter biden is like this crack-smoking law breaking failson but also he really believes in this patriotic lib democratic norms type stuff
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One CPAC speech about The Great Replacement and another CPAC speech fawning over the atrocities committed by Franco’s forces in the 1930s.
I’m afraid this stuff won’t be going away once Trump is out of the picture, but to be fair, it’s always been an undercurrent (see: Buckley)
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Trads pretend that they are the only ones who care about the wisdom of the past, but the contemporary choice is not between valuing or not valuing Tradition but rather which tradition(s) we esteem.
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The face of the ‘classical education movement’ praises the nomination of a holocaust denier.
Despite some gullible moderates believing that the movement is apolitical, they are quiet open about how all their talk about classics&virtue is just a veneer for their revanchism.
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For those who have not had their brain poisoned by the internet and are blissfully unaware of who this guy is, he is the guy behind Qanon. Some would say a billionaire CEO/Owner of a major social media platform taking cues from him is pretty bad.
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I am a proponent of more classics being added to curriculums but classics (especially Shakespeare/Homer) are still being taught in public schools. Tate’s statement simply isn’t true and makes one question if truth is being sacrificed for the sake of marketing.
In our education system it is now typical to go from kindergarten to PhD without reading a single word of Homer, Dante, or Shakespeare.
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@JamesMc68848079
I wish. Babylon Berlin is great.
I think the above clip is from a documentary on Netflix called ElDorado. I haven’t watched it.
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It is one of the easiest moral choices of our time to be both 1) against the killing of innocent civilians and 2) not be anti-Semitic. Yet there are many that fail this basic test of morality.
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The New American Dream: Have no educational background, start an acct curating doctored/out-of-context TikTok videos that lead to the harassment of people/hospitals/schools, inspire bomb threats, get doxxed, gain 200k followers over night, & get hired by OK’s State Superintendent
No one has done more to expose what the radical left is all about than
@ChayaRaichik10
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@libsoftiktok
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I'm proud to have her on our team.
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Why pay money to study the liberal arts at one of those radical leftist public universities when you can learn dubious lessons about architecture, art, classic literature, and how to be like Napoleon Bonaparte or Sulla for free by following any one of these statue avi accounts?
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The New Right’s ideology, no matter how much they appeal to ‘Tradition’, is opposed to the Western Tradition. Plato (in the context of the whole city), Aristotle (in the context of education), and the Patristics (in the context of religious life) believed this.
Biden: "There's no such thing as someone else's child. Our nation's children are all our children!"
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I’m calling on Congress to allocate $100M in emergency funding to Coppola’s marketing campaign
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘MEGALOPOLIS’ is said to be too “experimental” and “not good” enough for the $100M marketing campaign envisioned by the director.
()
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Thinking about how Solzhenitsyn disapproved of Tarkovsky’s ‘Andrei Rublev’ due to the film’s depiction of Russian history as ‘savage’.
More proof that nationalism, built on a reconstructed history that idolizes the past, corrupts the imagination.
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The last thing I’m tweeting about this, but I can’t stop laughing about the fact that James literally just posted the guy’s publicly available curated YouTube playlist and his fans are saying Oliver is being falsely accused like (((they))) did to Jesus lol
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I watched this movie this past weekend and I had the realization that a Herzog adaptation of Blood Meridian would go so hard
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Director: Werner Herzog
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Ben Shapiro, the same guy that is pissed at the Jewish man who made one of the most harrowing Holocaust films ever bc he spoke out against a contemporary atrocity, has unsurprisingly gone all-in with the guy who said ‘Hitler did some good things’
“I won’t just vote for Donald Trump, I will walk over broken glass to vote for him.”
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JBP, who still hasn’t converted, unsurprisingly thinks he’s more Catholic than the Pope lol
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Thanks to liberal theorists like Rawls and Fukuyama who helped restore the original liberal vision of Marx and Hegel, after the Commies tried to whitewash it.
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Hochman could’ve grifted for his whole adult life by winking and nodding to the far-right (even some liberals were willing to take him seriously), but instead, he couldn’t stop himself from telling the world that he was actually a neo-Nazi. Generational bag fumble.
Scoop: This staffer didn't just retweet the video.
He secretly made the video w/ the Sonnenrad, per a person familiar.
It was then shared through
@desantiscams
where the staffer retweeted it. The video was later deleted it but here it is.
My story
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We use to wander what it would it take for right-wingers to jump off the Trump train. We have apparently found our answer: Trump doesn’t hate the gays enough. A similar situation is happening with RFKjr. Those weird right-wingers who think that RFKjr could be a reasonable…/1
To wrap up “Pride Month,” let’s hear from the politician who did more than any other Republican to celebrate it…
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Let this terrible tweet be a reminder to read Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
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I want put it on the record that I do not think that Chesterton was right about everything. For example:
Dear modern world,
Saint Augustine, Dante, Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers…they were right about literally everything.
One way or another you will see it.
Truth wins.
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If you invoke a text to own your enemies&talk about the downfall of the West due to a certain text not being read, you probably should’ve already read the text yourself.
It’s wild how he became the figurehead of ‘classical education’, when he is so clearly out of his depth.
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The overwhelming response from right-wing pundits/influencers to Pedro’s abhorrent beliefs being further ‘exposed’ is not about how beyond the pale those beliefs are but how the exposé, especially one that labels him anti-Semitic and racist, is a ‘leftist tactic’.
So far gone.
Everyone responsible for this attack on
@emeriticus
is dead to me. To the extent they’re alive they are now enemies. Listen to me closely: the Trump-DeSantis primary fight is not the issue. Fight all you want. Play like the left w/this sword & you WILL die by it—that’s a promise.
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Instead of justifying young men’s bitterness about unrequited love, leading them down the miserable path of writing bitter screeds on incel forums or worse, one should point them to poetry like the two below from Pushkin and Yeats.
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For a guy who is new to this whole internet thing, he’s fitting in quite naturally with the most degenerate people on here
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It’s much easier to dunk on silly criticism that amounts to classics=racism than to face the very real problem of the classical education movement harboring reactionaries in their ranks.
For ex, Jeremy has Rufo on his board, and esteems Desantis, Peterson, Musk, Cernovich, etc.
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There are no sophisticated philosophical arguments to justify either the killing of children&other innocents or antisemitism. There is, however, a bunch of obfuscation, as well as bad faith punditry that only responds to the weakest criticisms.
It is one of the easiest moral choices of our time to be both 1) against the killing of innocent civilians and 2) not be anti-Semitic. Yet there are many that fail this basic test of morality.
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FTR, this movie is literal QAnon propaganda. Caviezel has openly embraced Qanon. Ballard has played coy with Qanon and conspiracies like it, while his methods and effectiveness has unsurprisingly been questionable.
The Sound of Freedom: ending the child sex trade:
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So far I’ve seen the ‘wrestling with demons and making his way to empathy’ takes and the ‘weaponization of the media by the Left’ takes. I failed to predict Matt Walsh straight-up using the Nazi rhetoric of ‘noticing things’.
I expect the usual suspects to somehow spin this as him ‘wrestling with his demons’.
But he very clearly understands how corrosive that ideology is to the soul and it still didn’t stop him from stirring up both political and racial hatred nightly.
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Look at what JBP and his followers are doing to my boy…
I’m so sorry Søren…
Kierkegaard talks about the idea of being a knight of faith.
He puts forward a proposition that I think is akin to the idea that undergirds marriage, which is:
You cannot find out whether creation is Good or Evil without being all in on your bet.
Just like you cannot be
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@CrankyFed
“DBH was fearless, and crazier than him. He was his king, and God help anyone who disrespected his king.”
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A day after this, Elon just posted a pizzagate meme. I had a cousin who spent the last 2 years of her life paranoid bc she got lost in this particular conspiracy rabbit hole. The CTO of Twitter, an account with 164M followers just brought it back into the conversation. Not good.
looks like Elon Musk is getting into the Pizzagate conspiracy theory now
just to jog your memory: a gunman entered Comet Pizza in 2016 and demanded to see the pizza place’s basement because he believed that there was a Democrat-operated child sex ring being run there
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These dissident right guys will gaslight you to no end that you’re reading into things when you point out their wink and nod racism/antisemitism for what it is.
Only for it to eventually come out that they were sharing Hitler memes in the GC or curating Jews did 9/11 playlists
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Gone with the Wind is objectively bad though. It’s actual Confederate propaganda w/ a positive view of slavery. As Dana in Octavia Butler’s Kindred (which is actually a hard but important book to read, in the sense of providing a clear-eyed view of the horrors of slavery) said:
This is such nonsense and we wonder why we're raising a generation of psychopaths. Cowboy up and learn to read hard books. Most of them are actually really good.
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Rhetoric of “homeschooling being the only hope” (which floats around some, not all, of these more reactionary circles) has inoculated ppl against growing in the virtues of humility&charity. By withholding the compassion meant for their neighbor, their hearts have turned to stone
REPORTER: "What else should be done to protect people like your little girl?"
BURCHETT: "Well, we homeschool her."
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I would urge
@BreeNewsome
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@KnowYrEnemyPod
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I wish someone would tell many of the evangelicals I grew up around that they believe a lib/left conspiracy theory
I grew up in an Evangelical church. Everyone loved Israel, but at no time did I ever hear anyone say they supported Israel because they thought Israel would usher in the revelation and bring about the end times
The idea that belief is widespread is a lib/left conspiracy theory
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Polonius, one of the most infamous helicopter parents in literature, said this to his son and immediately sent someone to spy on him at school, so it’s appropriate to have someone with access to a bunch of private data and algorithms giving us this same advice 420 years later
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The bots pushed me to the 1k mark lol
Thanks for those of you who are real who have decided to follow this account though! I started it mainly due to my frustration at seeing a proliferation of accounts weaponizing the classics for their reactionary politics, and I wanted to…
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Extending this moratorium to politicians now
We must defeat the Soros-Funded DAs, stop the Left's pro-criminal agenda, and take back the streets for law abiding citizens. We stand with Good Samaritans like Daniel Penny. Let’s show this Marine... America’s got his back.
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@MenshevikM
I just hope to one day be so "culturally marginalized" that I get featured by the New York Times and the Atlantic
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White Supremacist: We are the master race.
MLK: Get back to me once you’ve thoroughly read and understood Hegel.
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Also, using LGBTQ hero Achilles, who killed Hector and dragged his body around the walls of Troy because he killed his lover Patroclus, to represent how Chad Desantis is in the “I hate the gays” ad is blasphemous.
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My ancestors fought in the Civil War on the side of the South, and I’m thankful to God everyday that they lost.
As far as honoring the past, we should primarily esteem the memory of those who were victims of slavery.
Oh, no ancestors who fought in the civil war? Opinion discarded.
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This is the 2nd time I’ve seen “there are no Jews in the movie”, which is not true. It’s the same kind of blatant disregard for facts that happened when some were claiming that he refuted his Jewishness.
All these blatant lies bc he condemned the inhumane killing of innocents.
‘The Zone of Interest’ — a Holocaust movie without Jews – Read more from Peter Rutland here:
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This is why I find it funny that certain ppl in the ‘classical education movement’ believe that classical education will produce more conservatives, because it might just produce the next Karl Marx.
A line from one of my students in yesterday's Proudhon/Marx class that I keep thinking about:
"Marx may have been the first socialist who ever liked Aristotle better than Plato."
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Qanon has inspired real world violence, an insurrection, domestic turmoil (check out r/Qanoncasualties), &even has believers in congress. This willful&smug obtuseness is sociopathic. These ppl do not care about society’s health./1
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Making such a powerful ally for one’s cause is probably a good thing though, just like propping up Henry VIII as ‘Defender of the Faith’ ended up working out for Rome in the 16th century
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A.E Housman on how ‘classical education’ is often used as a polish:
“The special effect of a classical education on the majority of those who receive it, is not to transform and beautify their inner nature, but rather to confer a certain amount of polish on their surface.”
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This is my favorite brand of post. Either they read the material and are revealing that they didn’t comprehend the obvious or they didn’t read the material and are revealing that their appeal to the “Western Canon” is just a weaponized aesthetic.
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An insightful essay from
@Samantharhill
on how Hannah Arendt’s warning about the ex-communists (who swapped ideologies but not methods) is relevant in understanding the contemporary New Right:
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Here’s the response from Virginia Woolf read by Nicola Coughlan:
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Al Pacino performing Shylock’s ‘Hath not a Jew eyes?’ monologue, which may be the most poignant passage in literature on the humanity of the Other, specifically the Jews. Unfortunately, it is as relevant today as it was when Shakespeare wrote it:
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This lyric from that viral country song perfectly highlights the emptiness of MAGA populism where one’s anger is diverted away from the big businesses receiving excessive corporate welfare and oriented towards the poor person buying food on welfare.
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*In my Jean Baudrillard voice*
Very Trad of you, Mr. Statue Avi, to fetishize digital simulacra of works of art/architecture, thereby replacing the work of art and your personality with a digital brand
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An example of how they change the framing of the conversation when facing pushback: he is not being criticized for saying that ‘Christianity is the true religion’, he is being criticized for saying that other religions should be suppressed, which has never led anywhere good.
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Reminder: You can go Yale, Oxford, be educated in the classics and be as gullible as Spencer Klavan. More than likely, though, he’s just playing to his reactionary audience, but I’m not sure how spreading disinformation is going to ‘Save the West’.
What an unremarkable event that does not arouse the least suspicion!
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First, Cacciaguida was talking about rural people (w/in Tuscany) that were corrupting the City. Secondly, he goes on to say “All things that you possess, possess their death, just as you do”, which, in context, is a reminder not to idolize temporal bonds of the family and city.
There's a great scene in the Divine Comedy in which Dante's ancestor Cacciaguida explains *from Heaven* how immigration destroys cities. ("Sempre la confusion de le persone principio fu del mal de la cittade, come del vostro il cibo che s’appone")
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They say things like this and then act like you’re scaremongering when you talk about the perversity of Christian Nationalism
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P*s*biec may be the most dangerous person on this app. That he has become a mainstream RW voice after spreading pizzagate (even inspiring a shooting), making appeals to nazism, starting
#StopTheSteal
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@GravitysRa1nbow
Choose your fighter:
The guy who has Matt Walsh and neo-confederate gremlins as his biggest online warriors or the woman who has PTA casually chilling in a filled stadium waiting for her concert to start.
The world-soul has already chosen the latter.
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Doubling down and saying that Odysseus is a hero because he wasn’t trans is wild. I didn’t expect it but I should have.
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BREAKING: The CEO of the Classical Learning Test calls out Aristotle as the enemy.
Just in case you don’t get it, the people who oppose parents controlling the education of their own children are the enemies. It’s actually super simple.
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It’s amazing the things these people bring up unprovoked…
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A Hillsdale-based school in Tallahassee (near where I live) fired their principal after parents were upset after a lesson on Michelangelo's "David". Now this.
Reactionaries pushing education reform don’t care that the humanities are being emptied of their substance. They only..
Some Florida schools, terrified of running afoul of DeSantis, are no longer allowing teachers to assign full Shakespearean plays. Instead, they will only allow select excerpts.
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Probably one of the worst bad faith actors in GOP politics today. Intelligent guy, use to hate Trump, & did a 180 when he wanted power. He knows that Trump is guilty.
But it doesn’t matter since he sees democracy as an obstacle to his nihilistic thirst for power.
Biden is attacking his most likely 2024 opponent. He’s using the justice system to preemptively steal the 2024 election. This is what’s happening, plain and simple.
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@GravitysRa1nbow
Bad news: Tucker will be interacting w/ accts w/ names like blackpillgroyper1488 offering them advice, answering questions, and giving out encouragement
Funny news: Tucker lost 25M going from Fox to Twitter, which is like having your HBO show cancelled and moving it to Crackle
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Learn Latin but don’t become insufferable (MAX difficulty challenge).
Latin is not some magical language. Attic Greek on the other hand…
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For example, in Letter from Birmingham Jail, MLK lays claim to the Tradition by esteeming those philosophers&theologians of the past (Socrates, Augustine, Aquinas, Buber, etc.) that lend support to his civil rights vision against the traditionalist claims of the segregationists.
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