This is my great-granduncle, Giordano Bruno Granzarolo. He was one of the 11 pilots who took part in the "mad flight" (il "pazzo volo") over Vienna in a WWI air raid with poet and nationalist Gabriele D'Annunzio in which 400k propaganda leaflets were dropped over the city.
A 🧵
Google: 12000
Microsoft: 10000
Amazon: 18000
Meta: 11000
Twitter: 4000
Salesforce: 8000
200,000+ laid off in tech since the beginning of 2022. And for no reason other than "everyone else is doing it".
Tech workers need a union.
Tonight Argentina didn't just win against France. Nationalism triumphed against Globalism, Belief in God against secularism. Every Argentinian player possessed by a desire to bring joy to their People, to make history for their country, to bring Glory to a Nation.
I'm reading a book a week in 2023. Classics, sci-fi, nonfiction, or anything people highly recommend. I'll keep adjusting the list. Start on Monday, done by Sunday. Might make lowkey videos of takeaways. If you want to read along, the current list is here:
One thing I like about Jordan Peterson is that he often talks about the dark/narcissistic side of compassion. Here’s a boy (in red) humiliated for the pathological need for self affirmation of delusional adults.
Nothing reminds you of the existence of the deep state in the West as much as listening to leaders like Bukele or Orban tell you how they solved their issues: "I stopped the crime wave by putting criminals in jail", "I stopped immigration by turning immigrants away at the border"
Every conservative think tank in America should print these two tweets, hang them on the wall, and have fellows stare at them for 4 hours every day before entering the building.
Look at this image of Montiel, moments after he scored the winning penalty for Argentina. You can feel the joy, the gratitude, the emotion of knowing that an entire country and his family are proud of him, for fighting with pride to the very last minute, for bringing them joy.
Peterson’s attack on anonymity is no different than Claire Lehmann’s decision to leave Twitter under the pretext of the platform becoming too right-wing. Both sense a vibe shift and secretly wish to return to 2016 when opposing gender pronouns was regarded as the highest virtue.
The ultimate blackpill is realizing that what the Regime is doing to our societies is capitalizing on people's desires, not suppressing them. This, the Lockdown regime, the mask-wearing police, etc., is a tyranny born with people's consensus, let's not forget.
It’s highly likely Tucker’s team follow anon accounts. Almost all views on the Right worth giving a damn anymore originate from here and he seems to be increasingly catching up to them. Wouldn’t be surprised if every morning’s meeting starts with “what’s anon twitter saying”
Now compare that with this image of 19-year-old Mbappe, after scoring in the 2018 final against Croatia and moments after the final whistle. No joy, no emotion, no pride, no love for anyone but himself.
Lawmakers like Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz have called for Dr. Fauci to step down and be prosecuted over the course of COVID-19. Fauci scoffs at such threats, calling it "noise."
"They're really criticizing science because I represent science. That's dangerous."
@JebbYoung
It doesn't matter if he found joy or not (I'd hope he has, though I doubt it), he's still being humiliated. This whole thing only reminds people of how less capable he is. If you want to give him joy and make him feel normal find something he can actually do, maybe even excel at
Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and one of the largest individual donors in US politics, just referred to Greta Thunberg as part of the “autistic children’s brigade” in his Oxford address.
.
@im_1776
beating the New York Times, WaPo and NPR at Twitter engagement despite having 0.01% of their audiences combined. The wonderful things that can happen when you don't consist of spouting liberal propaganda like broken records and attempt to go beyond the superficial.
Was listening to a podcast with Beattie earlier in which he said how much of the US foreign policy is actually a way to control politics at home. None of the hatred directed towards Putin today is about helping Ukraine for ex but about justifying control of information in the US.
Incredible that doing something as simple as smiling at someone on the street today can get a girl 15+ million views. Normal things people used to do on a daily basis now have become so rare we treat them like gems when we witness them.
I've had the pleasure to talk with
@bgmasters
on
@im_1776
about Kyle Rittenhouse, Justice in America, the Republican Party, Big Tech, Woke Capitalism, and the Regime. Please share and send him your support in any way you can.
The thing I liked the most about the whole Speaker of the House drama is how it managed to produce some of the most Baroque-like photography in recent memory. Peak Washington DC aesthetic.
My interview with Mike Anton on
@im_1776
is now out. We talked about the founding, the failures of conservatism, BAP, anonymity, the Regime, and what the Right can learn from the left.
When people argue that anonymity = no accountability, they’re conflating anonymous with pseudonymous accounts. What most people are doing here is writing pseudonymously, not anonymously. The difference is an identifiable “personality”, which can be attacked and held accountable.
Conservative/anti-woke liberals, columnists and the likes have this delusion that we can just overthrow status quo by getting everyone to “speak up”. Worst, they put their own efforts in such regards at the same level of "normie" types using their real name on social media. 🧵
(a friend who is a literary agent told me that he cannot even get editors to read first novels by young white male writers, no matter how good; they are just not interested. this is heartbreaking for writers who may, in fact, be brilliant, & critical of their own "privilege.")
Starting from today, the "Green Pass" (proof of vaccination) will be effectively required in Italy to travel by train, sit inside restaurants, attend weddings and even outdoor events. Every single politician that agreed to this should be in jail.
If you’re against abortion, don’t get one.
If you’re against contraception, don’t take any.
If you’re against same-sex relationships, don’t have one.
If you’re against same-sex marriage, don’t marry someone of same gender.
Do not impose your beliefs & religion on all Americans.
DEI is a specific set of policies that has to be fought at the political level not an abstraction like “wokeness” or “leftism”. People like Weinstein want to call it mental illness so that they never have to do the actual work and just podcast instead.
@JDHaltigan
@EricRWeinstein
No, he’s saying it’s a mental illness. But that’s silly. It’s a coherent ideology and an entrenched bureaucracy. You have to engage with it as such, not simply hand wave that it’s mental illness. And he’s saying liberals and progressives don’t support it, which is simply false.
Nice to see
@spectator
engaging with and acknowledging online dissident culture, including mentions to
@im_1776
,
@L0m3z
's Prize, and of course BAP and
@0x49fa98
. Though very Normie-like understanding from the author, honored to be mentioned among friends.
Interesting that Peterson is defending Fridman on this, though at the same time makes perfect sense. The reason why Lex has been getting so much criticism for the reading list is that it's a pretty good window into what he is/does, and Peterson lately is not much different. 🧵
I have rarely read a response to a good- faith request this thoughtless.
@lexfridman
is an excellent and careful interviewer--and what exactly is it about his reading list thst earned your derision?
"After the Roman Empire lost at the Battle of Cannae, the Senate became 40% undermanned, because Roman leaders actually served in the defense of their Republic. Today, America’s elites spend their time on Wall Street or in think tanks gathering degrees and attending conferences."
MUST-READ: "How did America go from winning the Cold War to the state of disarray that we find ourselves in now? Why are US policymakers and the Pentagon unable to innovate effective military solutions? It doesn’t have to be this way." —
@realErikDPrince
"Leadership is not about one person doing everything, it is about inspiring many people to do good and necessary things. In that respect, Masters is already providing leadership to his generation by showing that there are still Davids taking on Goliaths." —
@GraduatedBen
NEW: "When Blake Masters released an online video announcing his candidacy for U.S. Senate in Arizona, I sat up and took notice. Here was someone with a vision of a better future..." —
@GraduatedBen
on following
@bgmaster
's campaign trail in Arizona:
A good way to sort out which profession is inherently corrupt is to imagine having to positively represent it in an artwork. No matter how creative and open-minded you are you wouldn't be able to beautifully capture a bureaucrat in a painting, for instance.
I wrote in defense of anonymity, responding to
@jordanbpeterson
’s claims that it’s motivated solely by cowardice, and drew the important distinction between anonymous accounts and pseudonymous authors.
MUST-READ: "The right to post anonymously online is vital in fighting the culture war, and an essential part of maintaining the internet as it was initially conceived. For this reason alone it should be protected."—
@markgranza
responds to
@jordanbpeterson
“My name on Twitter is Benjamin Braddock, I’m a right wing bro scientist, and yes, I tan my balls.”
😂 😂 😂
This is the greatest thing I saw on this website.
"Conservatives care more about rules than about victory, which is valuable for building high-trust societies but very bad in our particular moment, when their enemies own every institution that interprets and enforces the rules."
As Mike Anton says, the Regime's rhetoric will lead to the point where they'd be essentially telling people "we’re not going to kill you, but we're also not going to allow you to live." This is a perfect ex. of how conditions such that people will starve to death will be created.
Losing my job over mandatory vax is turning out a true blessing in disguise. And even if it doesn't at the end and I'll end up living in the streets I'm pretty sure I'll still manage to be happier than all the miserable functionaries of this sad and pathetic Regime put together.
We can learn a lot from the left. Desecrate, mock, and topple your enemy’s idols. Fund the creation of your own. Unapologetically display power at every chance you get. Instead conservatives will look at this, moan about how precious beauty is and start a podcast.
A new statue atop a New York City courthouse. The artist says it’s part of an “urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway as New York reconsiders traditional representations of power in public spaces and recasts civic structures to better reflect 21st-century social mores.”
I interviewed
@thierrybaudet
, founder of Forum for Democracy, on
@im_1776
. We talked about the dangers of the new regime, the European populist Right’s weak response to lockdowns and mask mandates, and what future might lie ahead for the West.
By far the most surreal experience of my life so far has to be taking my phone out while picking cheese off the shelf at the supermarket and being like, “Mr Kennedy?”
"It’s a sad thing to see Indiana Jones’s rugged manliness reduced to misery, regret, and the position of a punching bag for yet another silly female character deus ex machina. But this is what’s necessary to make liberals happy."
Brilliant from
@titusfilm
This is the way. If you enforce the Regime's mandates you are part of the problem and you deserve to fail. Have no sympathy, boycott, and rub the alternatives in these businesses' faces too when possible.
I'm proud to announce the Manhattan Institute Logos Fellowship, through which I will be teaching 10 fellows the strategies of culture war and helping them launch independent journalism, media, and activism projects.
Learn more and apply now:
It doesn’t matter how many Covid restrictions your country has lifted, you’re not free anymore. The institution of Lockdown has been created and it isn’t going anywhere. What we have now is a permit to leave our house, not the freedom.
"Though it might not make headlines, the Quiet Right represents a key social shift. Its adherents believe that human life is not cultivated primarily in the abstract, but in the flesh. They sense the danger of captured institutions & are determined to build viable alternatives."
Conservatives are quietly building a new counter-culture in the face of left-wing institutional capture. They're creating meaningful alternatives in education, arts, and community—and offering families a way forward.
Here's my paean to the "Quiet Right."
So apparently there's a Japanese artist who, as her village (Nagoto) is dying because of low fertility rates, is replacing the residents with life-sized dolls replicas as they move out or die. The place is known as "Japan's Scarecrow Village".
@JebbYoung
You’re missing the point entirely. First of all, your analogy is not valid because while (sounds like) you had some disadvantages like strength etc your competition was a real one. This ain’t. It’s just a show that highlights his disability. That’s the humiliation part.
Sharing this again, which is the best thing you'll ever read on the IDW crowd. "The IDW is a spent movement subsisting on podcast sinecures, fractured by Trump, incapable of accepting America’s tribal realities & lacking the understanding to resolve them."
This piece is meant to show you how AI can’t make good art since art requires genuine connection with humanity, nature and potentially the divine, but only succeeds in reminding you how most artists today are too corrupted to be capable of either, not that differently from LLMs.
Lex is the ultimate podcaster, producing conversations that go nowhere. The worst type of centrist, refusing to take a clear stand while scorning you for doing so. An "elitist" (in bad sense), pretending to care about making🌎a better place when he's clearly just after influence.