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6hr ago
I always felt sure this was a false-flag. The idea that someone could get away with doing that in DC, the most surveilled place in America, next to the most surveilled political offices? It’s just impossible. It doesn’t work like that. Especially not in the AI age. Every street is surveilled, so even with no facial features or DNA they could figure out who did it through brute force process of omission.
I suppose the reason for this is that if the protesters managed to actually secure the building, they could make a whole show of the bomb in order to justify lethal force against the protesters. Maybe they would even let it explode so that they would have footage to put on repeat.
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1d ago
In the period you’re talking about, the West has been 25-50% replaced with migration from conservative regions of the world with no real signs of slowing down, especially among the upper classes. We have record levels of female neuroticism, female unhappiness, female delayed marriage.
Afghanistan
I can recall a few very important historical events that have interfered with Afghanistan’s ability to become a powerful state. None of these events had to do with their rules on the fairer sex whatsoever. It’s not their fault that empires keep invading them or funding insurgent groups to destabilize them, but they’re doing a very good job pumping out more children to replace all the deaths.
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1d ago
The data is very convincing, thank you for posting it. I suppose I have to take the evangelicalpill now.
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2d ago
But how much of evangelical popularity traces to their own surrender to secularism? If you’re turning the religion into pop culture, with amphitheaters and self-help books and guitarists and fashionable speakers with private jets, then you’re losing to secular culture all the same. They may nominally believe that Christ was crucified but they never actually experience the spirit of that. They are allergic to solemnity; no mourning, only saccharine merrymaking. If you were to place behind the jocular evangelical some traditional scene of the Passion, the mismatch would be immediately obvious and the sermon would be shameful. The vibes are all off. Not all of them are doing Avengers-themed musical renditions of the crucifixion but they all seem somewhere down that path. And the lack of centralization leaves them defenseless against bad actors manipulating greedy pastors; they will be steamrolled in the future by more organized and serious competitors who will exploit their glib docility.
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3d ago
I consider “insular community formation” to be the only way forward for Christianity. Christianity was engaged in this even before Constantine, with Tertullian forbidding Christians from enjoying pretty much any Pagan leisure activity. The rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire coincided with the religion becoming more insular and exclusionist than before, which is important to recognize: the disciplina arcani meant that little about Christ was told to outsiders and only gradually taught to catechumens over an elaborate three-year initiation process. Catechumens had no knowledge of the Eucharist except late in this process and only learned the Lord’s Prayer days before their baptism. It was in this period of secrecy and insularity that the church grew from 1% to 50% of the empire. This was the period of the agape feasts: the most important weekly leisure activity of the Christian with meal and wine and prayer was totally forbidden from mention to outsiders. I imagine if we went back in time and saw the early Christian community of 150ad we would be shocked at how insular they were; so much of what they do would have been explicitly Christian.
This is optimal for a number of practical and psychological reasons. If you have your own schools, you can disseminate your culture and values more readily to your own children while increasing their retention to the faith, and you can ensure they aren’t reading things that are bad for them. If you have your own town, you can invest in it longterm because you know no one will take it from you, and you’ll actually love the inhabitants; this means a return to traditional architecture and beautiful design. If you have your own feasts and rituals, then you can stave off the demons malevolent spirits socially-infectious vibes that lead the youth down bad paths, eg binge-drinking and gambling and nihilism, while promoting the good path [cf “you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons”]. If you have your own dress code, you will be saving boys endless distraction and girls ~5 hours of thought on their appearance a week (at least!). It’s really in its social form that religion successfully improves people; today it is essentially antisocial.
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3d ago
Fuentes has been in the mainstream of younger conservative political culture for years now imo. Even in the “normie mainstream” he was a trending after his “your body, my choice” remark. He’s definitely becoming more mainstream recently though.
I attribute some material amount of Trump’s political rise to the mainstream media covering him so much
I attribute more to the Fuenteian proto-groypers at 4chan and the_Donald who meme’d him into popular support, pure populist energy against the wishes of Ben Shapiro who conspired with Michelle Fields to create fake controversy to topple his campaign, leading to their resignation from Breitbart. How quickly we forget! Ben Shapiro was very late to supporting Trump and actively fought against him.
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5d ago
The Ancient Egyptian Satire of the Trades was written in 2025 BC, and a portion of it was appropriated in the Book of Sirach, a Jewish / proto-Christian work written in 200BC which later influenced the gospels. I love the thought that people in 200BC were reading an ancient Egyptian work in the same way that we read their 200BC work.
https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/disability/chpt/satire-the-trades-2025-1700-bce#
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5d ago
the papal attitude was that even these efforts were far too harsh
That was the opinion of one pope in 1482, and for just a single year before he bent his knee to the Spaniards, allowing Spain full reign to carry out their inquisitions. The inquisition lasted ~350 years.
when an explorer bumps into a whole new civilization sitting on some of the biggest silver mines in the world […] the inquisition had nothing to do with any of that
The inquisition had nothing to do with Spanish Catholics monopolizing newfound trade opportunities? Sephardic Jews had previously dominated regional trade. The Inquisition ensured that all new profits stayed within the Catholic realm. Today, Lev Leviev and Dan Gertler direct their diamond trade profits to their own communities, and it would have been the same in a less-inquisitive Spain. It’s a zero-sum resource competition between two distinct communities.
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8d ago
The Inquisition coincided with the Spanish Golden Age, the height of the Spanish Empire, the height of Spanish music and art, and the expansion of Spain into the New World where now hundreds of millions are Spanish-descended Catholics. If God worked in superstitious ways, you can hardly imagine an act more commended by Him than the Inquisition. Would there have been a flourishing of Catholic Spain if a larger percent of the rich were Sephardic Jews? No. They did not fund any music and barely any pictorial art, let alone Christian music and art, but directed their profits to their own communities.
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8d ago
Israel does not get our support because the gentiles are doing some dispassionate analysis on the benefits of supporting Israel. If that were the case, there would be nothing to criticize. Israel is getting our support because Zionists who consider Israel the most important country in the world relentlessly lobby for Israel, and have been doing so for decades, sometimes smearing opponents as antisemites. Truman complained about their advocacy, Nixon complained about it. Congressmen in the 80s who criticized Israel would lose their seat. “They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby” was written in 1985! We are not talking about a new thing. Mearsheimer’s analysis on this has gone uncontested. Israel gets our support because of advocacy networks (including media influence) and, at least in one recent instance, a secretive cabal of billionaires that likened itself to the Sanhedrin, the leader of which funded Epstein’s child trafficking blackmail operation that ensnared Bill Clinton, Trump, and British Royalty.
Even if you love Israel, you should want America to have the upper-hand in deals. We can continue to support them if they gradually pay us back. Israel has subsidized synagogues, healthcare, and education. When America funds Israel we are funding some Israeli’s man’s lavish parties and vacations, because he doesn’t need to pay as much in taxes for his nation’s defense. We are funding Rabbis, as they benefit from Israel’s subsidies for religious institutions; this includes Rabbis in America who studied in Israel or are funded through an Israeli organization. Meanwhile, Israel is applying tax pressure on the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem; they are required to pay taxes while not receiving the same subsidies as Jewish institutions. Meanwhile, Israel-connected billionaires are putting down funds to get rid of Thomas Massey. To me this is all offensive on principle, not because of the dollar amount.
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10d ago
The first one to begin distrusting is the Perfidious Journalist.
Justifiable homicides by civilians increased 59% from 2019 through 2024 in a large sample of cities and counties in those states, the Journal found, compared with a 16% rise in total homicides for the same locales.
Potentially-justifiable homicides in 2019 were adjudicated in the mass hysteria of 2020-21 BLM courts. 2021-22 courts were more likely to be biased against justifiable homicide claims when the assailant is Black, ie a large portion of the total homicides where justification claims are likely to be made. Even 2019 courts had social justice sympathies. As such, a higher rate of justifiable homicides when compared to 2019 tells us nothing on its face. The Journalist needs to take this into consideration or else clarify if they are talking about cases adjudicated in 2019 or cases occurring in 2019. They would also need to look at the number of gang-related shootings. According to Grok, there were 20% fewer gang-related homicides in 2024 than 2019. Given that almost no gang-related homicide is justifiable (and the clearance rate is hilariously low, and the perpetrators can’t mount a good legal defense), this fact on its own would make the increased rate of justifiable homicides seem larger even in the absence of an increase in justifiable homicides. As, if the total number of unjustified homicides have decreased, but justified homicides stay the same, then justified homicides will make up a higher percentage of total homicides — telling us nothing except that we got better at combatting gangs. Maybe due to deportations?
”Only two people know what happened,” said Kathleen Hoy, the dead man’s widow. “Unfortunately, my husband is dead.” In many stand-your-ground cases, authorities are left to rely on the word of survivors. The laws are written to protect those who tell authorities they feared for their life.
Yes, the laws are written this way because justice is written this way. Take it up with God. It’s unjust to jail people without evidence. This is a settled matter of justice. For most of civilizational history we didn’t even have DNA or recording devices, and no one freaked out about this. Perhaps the Journalist inhabits a social world filled with other journalists where everyone is constantly lying for gain and no one has honor. In such a world, it is assumed a priori that someone is lying, as a kind of default way of life; they are actually more likely to lie than otherwise. Or maybe this Journalist constantly wants to kill us but lacks the courage to do so, and consequently they imbue this urge on the common flock. But normal people aren’t like this. And even if they were, this assumption defeats the journalist’s own logic. If there are evil people constantly looking to kill others and get away with it with legal standing, then we would want to make it easier to make a justifiable homicide claim, because there’s a bunch of people constantly trying to kill us. Remember the fact of justice that it is better to let nine killers go than jail one innocent person as a murderer. This was Blackstone’s Ratio, Blackstone being the most important legal writer at the time of America’s founding.
I hate the Antichrist Journalist.
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12d ago
IMO there is so much implicit bias favoring a young brown socialist Muslim candidate against an old white candidate, that if there were definite proof Mamdami is a genuine radical Islamist, he would still win the election. The only thing I can imagine reducing his chances if it came out that he’s really an Italian putting on makeup pretending to be a brown Muslim. I just get the sense that the implicit bias runs this deep.
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13d ago
Someone is productive if they increase the sum total longterm wellbeing of the citizen directly or indirectly. A homeless man who gives out compliments in exchange for alms is productive; a tech CEO who outsources to foreigners or designs an addicting endless scroll algorithm is only parasitic. The guy who made billions selling sugary yogurt under the pretense of it being healthful is parasitic; the retiree who allows his neighbor to eat an apple from his tree is productive. The unemployed musician who lives off welfare is more productive than the most effective worker at Nike or Labubu International or whatever, because his efforts are at least toward the common good.
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15d ago
Awesome write-up.
I watched some of Danya’s videos a long time ago and was struck by his verbal intelligence. His speech was filled with brilliancies; he would deploy a phrase from a 19th century chess book the way Magnus would deploy its tactics. He was fun to watch just for his way of talking. But I remember thinking at the time that his mind was wasted on chess.
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17d ago
Ahh you beat me to all the best insults in the Bible. Paul’s emasculation insult is genuinely hilarious
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17d ago
as a Christian
Christ also mocked his outgroup. He called them stupid, the children of vipers, blind, ravenous wolves, criminals. The funniest insult in the Bible is when Paul tells advocates of circumcision that they should go one step further and castrate themselves. If Christ wasn’t polite than neither should you be polite. What do you gain by politeness? Christian perfection is brotherly love, and brothers who love each other insult and fight each other. They just don’t take it too seriously.
And as an American you should especially love insulting people. The patriots would kidnap loyalists, pour hot tar on them, and then throw hundreds of feathers to them so they would look like a chicken. Hilarious.
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19d ago
Kirk was affiliated with a heavily Zionist Church. They have sermons where they teach that every Christian has to support Israel politically to be on favorable terms with God, that Israel has a divine right to the entirety of “Greater Israel” (large swaths of neighboring countries), and that America will go to war with Iran sometime soon to spark the End Times.
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19d ago
I have no understanding of that field so I’ll take your word for it. But if you look at open source contributions on GitHub as recently as 2021, which is far from theoretical computer science but is at least something technical and important, women make ~5% of contributions. This study looked at names, and there are many transgender programmers active on GitHub, and they seem to love Linux… so the number of real female contributors may be as low as 1-3%. This is a good metric because it’s technical work for the pure love of technical work.
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20d ago
The nannies are not breastfeeding in crucial early life years, or providing the skin contact and natural maternal affection that leads to healthy offspring. And because women are averse to pairing with men below their income unless the men compensate with unusual attractiveness, they have a lower rate of marriage than they would otherwise have. And because the school years are intense, they are delaying marriage. This dysgenic effect is more serious than the economic inefficiency effect, because you can’t easily produce more high iq citizens. In a pronatal culture, high iq women have more children than average, learning the skills of husband-acquiring and homemaking at an earlier age.
Putting women in law and medicine is also dumb for another reason, which is that you force the most intelligent women to have a lower TFR than they otherwise might have. And you force them into a dysgenic and unhealthy motherhood environment, because stress before and during pregnancy increases the risk of all sorts of impairments in children, and a stressful occupation prevents the kind of loving mother-child bond that is essential during the first three years of life. Your milk will be filled with stress hormones, and your mood will be too stressed for your child to feel safe in the world, and your child will forever have a slightly autistic unease because they did not sustain sufficient skin contact to modulate oxytocin, like the wire monkeys. We have screwed up an entire generation of intelligent adolescents this way, though the effects are almost impossible to study (who is willing to do this to a twin?). And I think a lot of modern ills (overuse of smart phones, parasocial relationships, etc) are consequences of an impoverished bond to the mother during early life.
Also, it seems to me that women just don’t think up interesting ideas at the same rate men do. As someone who ravenuously pursues interesting ideas and thoughts (as I imagine many themotte users do as well), about 99% of interesting ideas I read are produced by men. And if you look at the places where interesting ideas proliferate without the allure of a secondary reward (social attention), it’s overwhelmingly men, like on the anonymous humanities or political board of 4chan (which like it or not has had an enormous influence on today’s online culture). And the games which focus on creative problem solving, strategy or Minecraft style games, are overwhelmingly male, whereas the cosmetic and nurturing games are overwhelmingly female. This tells us something because what people do in their leisure is what they like to do without the watchful eye of society. So, women can do systems-oriented creative problem solving, but will they if they don’t have a structure involving secondary rewards of cogent social reinforcement (degrees and peer competition), by which they can feel superior to their pretty peers? I’m going to say usually not, most just don’t do that, but that’s an issue if we want people who intrinsically love problem-solving in every kind of role like that — such people require less mentoring, less extrinsic reward infrastructure, might come up with a novel insight out of the blue, etc
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22d ago
I thought it was just the latest absolutely retarded iOS update
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22d ago
The former marketing director of the American Jewish Congress leaked a bunch of private text messages to hurt a number of gentile Republicans, painting them as neonazis. What are these supposed “neonazis” doing? Are they using an extensive advocacy network to defend the starvation of children and the expansion of lebensraum for a chosen people? Well, no, that’s the folks over at the American Jewish Congress just this year.
It just seems like a joke. We are excommunicating people for juvenile humor, while ignoring the sophisticated agents who carry water for genuine Hitler-lite activity. How about we expel everyone associated with any organization that just this year excused or defended the conscious starvation of children, whether that be a religious organization or a secular organization? How about we no longer trust anyone with superseding ethnotribal allegiance in positions of American power? Isn’t that a better place to start?
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26d ago
Abiah Folger, Benjamin Franklin’s mother. She had ten children.
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27d ago
For a person with maximum love for others and maximum love for wisdom, these things being chief enjoyments superseding all others, is there ever a scenario in which the most moral decision conflicts with the most hedonic desire?
CIA in conjunction with DC police. Like, they wanted a contingency plan for if the protesters had somehow hardened their position; it may require the use of lethal force to disperse them; this requires an emotional justification for the public (the bombing).
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