You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality

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The reason why traditional news media sucks these days is because 'objective reporting' requires a masculine-coded respect for unyielding reality, even if that reality hurts people's feelings. Journalism was the fourth estate of society when it was still masculine coded and required — adversarial questioning, strict adherence to facts and rigorous investigation. Since the 80s, legacy media has mass-hired women and adopted a feminine preference for social harmony over adversarial truth-seeking. Now they are crying that the walls of their narrative-controlled safe spaces have been breached, and they actually have to compete for audience trust.
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The cost of gas is not higher than the cost of Communism.
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Communism, Marxism, yes “progressivism” is infantile thinking
Every one of us started out as a mental communist. A very small child believes that wishing makes it so. The world revolves around him. Food appears, toys appear, someone else pays for everything. When reality says no, he cries: "It's not fair!" And when something breaks, it's someone else's fault. Normally, children figure out around four that it isn't so. The mental communist doesn't. The rest of us learn it from reality. The stove is hot. The toy breaks. The friend leaves. Wishes don't move the world; work does. Freud called it the passage from the pleasure principle to the reality principle. It is called growing up. The mental communist never made that passage. He is fifty years old, and still four. Why? Because he was protected from reality for too long. A comfortable home, endless studies, a job in an institution where being wrong costs nothing, and a state that plays the parent. Peter Pan was the boy who wouldn't grow up. Today Neverland has a campus, a newsroom and a ministry. And so the fantasies became delusions. A child's fantasy is soft. It gives way when reality pushes. A delusion is hard. It survives every piece of evidence – that is what makes it a delusion. You recognize the grown child easily. The tantrum when reality says no – today we call it outrage. Rights without duties. Someone else always pays – only the parent has become the state. Every failure is someone else's fault: he started it. And the imaginary friend – "humanity," "the people," "history" – who always agrees with him. Here is the danger. A child's fantasy is guarded by his parents. A grown man's delusion is guarded by power – and paid for by everyone else. What grows people up is what it always was: consequences, work, responsibility for someone other than yourself. And nothing ends a fantasy faster than your own baby crying at three in the morning. A civilization is built by adults. It cannot be run from Neverland.
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Starting a band. What should we name it?
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I honestly do not understand how any American who is not already a literal Communist or a literal Jihadist could vote Democrat after hearing what Slotkin said below. This is LITERALLY totalitarianism. It's not the fake "fascism" the Left likes to accuse the Right of, it is the REAL THING. Undeniably. Irrefutably. This is a sitting member of Congress who was in the CIA saying that dissent from what she believes will result in imprisonment. This is straight out of Solzhenitsyn. Straight out of Orwell. This is something an early Nazi would have said in 1932 under the Weimar Republic. Please please PLEASE share her words with everyone you know. The Democrat/Media Complex will try to bury this. It is up to us on social media, on blogs and via texts and emails to get the word out. The only way to stop these monsters is to make sure that voters who don't really keep up on politics understand the actual threat, see it with their own eyes and hear it with their own ears. Please. Spread the word to anyone who will listen. And even those who won't listen.
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics. @ElissaSlotkin
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Shane Gillis after telling one joke on SNL.
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NEVER GO FULL MORON ! Vote RED 🇺🇸
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Milton Friedman discusses five great myths of our time: 1. The Robber Baron myth 2. The Great Depression myth 3. The Big Government myth 4. The Free Lunch myth 5. The Robin Hood myth
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If they were obese, blue haired rainbow tatted slobs, liberals would be praising them for being brave, authentic and standing up for, “body positivity”.
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Nope. The make believe world is of the left - blank slate theory, ppl are basically good, gender fluidity, love is love, constructed reality Nothing in line with reality and when it fails , it’s never rethinking, it’s the evil oppressors again.. need more love, money, need to battle hegemony even harder
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Gramsci was right. Not about the economy. About the fortress. He understood something the 1917 people missed: in the West you do not take power by storming the palace. The palace is already protected by something thicker than walls. Schools. Newspapers. Churches. Courts. The words people are allowed to use without being ruined. He called it a war of position. You do not charge. You occupy the ground where meaning is manufactured, and you wait. The state comes later, almost as a formality. Rudi Dutschke gave it the name everyone now uses: the long march through the institutions. Same idea. Hire in. Teach. Review. Promote. Rewrite the handbook. Two generations later the institution still has the same logo and a completely different soul. That is what the last fifty years were. Not a movie conspiracy. A staffing process. The 68 generation entered the universities. Then the newsrooms. Then the foundations, the NGOs, HR, the civil service, medicine, law, the cultural funds. Each cohort hired the next cohort in its own moral language. After a while you did not need a secret meeting. The filter did the work. If you did not speak the language, you were “not a culture fit.” If you did, you rose. They captured the allocation layer: who gets published, who gets funded, who gets licensed, who gets to teach children, who gets to define harm. Once you own allocation, you do not need to win arguments. You just decide which arguments are allowed to exist. The people inside are not cartoon villains. Most of them think they are protecting the weak. That is why the software spread so well. A bad idea that flatters your virtue travels faster than a true idea that demands courage. Peter Thiel saw the install while it still looked like a campus fashion. Stanford, early 90s. He and David Sacks wrote The Diversity Myth in 1995. The thesis was already adult: this is not diversity of thought. It is a monoculture wearing the mask of kindness. The agenda is not non-Western. It is anti-Western. Thirty years later he said almost every point in the book was right, which is both satisfying and depressing. Then he built a seeing-stone. Palantir is named after Tolkien’s palantíri: instruments that show what is actually happening, at a distance, without the priestly paraphrase. The bet is simple. Capture lives in opacity. Committees. Budgets nobody can audit. Words that mean their opposite. If you make the flows visible — money, cases, outcomes, contradictions — corruption becomes expensive. Not illegal in a speech. Expensive in daylight. That is the real weapon: not a manifesto. A dashboard the cathedral cannot gaslight. In 2016 he did the other unforgivable thing. He was the first major Silicon Valley figure to stand up in public and back Trump. Ugly. Costly. Socially suicidal inside his own class. It was also the correct read. A captured institution does not reform itself because you published a careful essay. It reforms when something outside the hiring committee arrives and stops pretending the consensus is sacred. Thiel understood that before it was fashionable, before it was safe, before half the people now quoting him had permission to notice. Elon arrived later, the way builders often do: not from theory. From a wound. Covid showed him the stack as a single machine. Public health, media, platforms, ministries, all reading from the same sheet, punishing the same questions. Then it became personal. He has said he was tricked, during the fog of that period, into signing off on medical steps for his son. He has said he lost him to what he calls the woke mind virus. “They call it deadnaming for a reason,” he said. “My son is dead.” After that he stopped treating the thing as a debate club. He bought the town square. He vowed to destroy the software. You can dispute his framing of a family. You cannot dispute the pattern he named. An ideology that reaches into the school, the clinic, and the feed, then tells the parent he is the abuser for noticing, is not “kindness.” It is institutional capture wearing a medical coat. That is why they are in trouble now. The long march assumed time was their ally. Hire, wait, repeat. Slow compound interest on cultural power. Acceleration broke the interest rate. X ended the local monopoly on the story. A narrative that used to take three news cycles and a ministry can now die in an afternoon. AI compresses expertise that used to live only inside the credentialed guild. Builders ship faster than committees can write the ban. Trust in the captured institutions did not decline politely. It fell off a cliff, because people can see the gap between the sermon and the result. They still have the buildings. They are losing the spell. A university takes forty years to occupy and four years to lose legitimacy. A media organ can keep the tone and lose the audience in one product cycle. Bureaucracy is analog. It allocates by meeting. The new world allocates by feedback, at software speed. That is not a fair fight, and they know it. The panic is the tell. The enemies are not demonic people. They are people running a moral operating system that rewards denunciation over construction. Bad ideas kill their believers first: anxiety, sterility of thought, institutions that cannot tell the truth about crime or borders or children without a glossary. Reconversion is possible. It always was. You change the software. You do not need to burn the human. The 21st century will not be won by the best press release from inside a captured ministry. It will be won by the people who build the next seeing-stones, the next town squares, the next companies that make opacity expensive. Gramsci was right about the method. He was wrong about the ending. They marched for fifty years. The clock just started running the other way. Now go build.
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We can't conceive of what's coming? Why are they like this? These are adults, turning up the temperature on angry kids for political clout, which ends in disaster every single time it happens. Cultural Revolution Group shit. But, we know how that story ended, don't we?
DEI in college admission DEI in hiring DEI in promotions DEI in home loans The entire system is biased against heritage Americans and for third worlders. Gen Z impacted the worst. Most people cannot conceive of what is coming.
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She wasn't supposed to say this on camera. "You have no idea what's coming" — that's how Jillian Michaels opens this clip, and it only gets heavier from there. She goes there: breadlines, stolen freedoms, a government that takes everything from you before you even notice it's gone. This isn't a rant — it's a warning. Some are calling it fearmongering. Others are calling it the truth nobody wants to say out loud. Watch the full episode on my YT channel! Link is in the comments 📷
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I do not condone reporters throwing coaches in the air #HookEm
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What’s Sydney Sweeney have to do to get the approval of white women? Strangle three kids?
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🧵Invisibility & the Reclassification Sleight of Hand Suppose I know that there is a table in the room. Someone can disagree with me. Someone can insist that there is no table. Someone can produce an elaborate theory explaining why my perception of the table is ‘culturally conditioned’. None of that makes the table disappear. Originally, therefore, the dispute remains answerable to the object, which is something neither party controls; a table being there. But now make an apparently‼️ small change. Instead of saying; ‘Christine says there is a table’, say; ‘Christine believes there is a table’, then ‘Christine’s tradition teaches that there is a table’, then; ‘within Christine’s worldview, this is understood as a table’. Finally add; ‘other traditions construct the object differently’ ……. Can you see the trick yet?! The table has disappeared from the adjudication‼️🪄. We are no longer being asked to discover what is there. We are being asked to compare what different people say, believe, experience, construct or interpret about what is there. So the question has now changed from; what is true? To; what do different people believe to be true? Knowledge has not necessarily been refuted - it has been reclassified🪄.
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“Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” Nike slapped that shit on Colin Kaepernick like they’d found God. They weren’t being deep. They were writing their own fucking obituary. This used to be the company that owned American sports. Jordan. Bo. Barkley. Tiger. Just Do It. Swagger. Greatness. Shoes people actually wanted to wear. Then they ripped the spine out of the brand and stuffed it with sermons. Kaepernick kneeling his way into a payday. DEI as a “core value.” Black Lives Matter check-writing. Dylan Mulvaney ... a man ... modeling women’s sportswear like biology was a branding inconvenience. Executive floors packed with people who clearly thought they were running a social movement that happened to sell sneakers on the side. Then the bill showed up and it was brutal. Nike peaked around $178 a share in 2021. By September 2026 it was circling $38. More than $200 billion in market value torched. Now this once-untouchable brand is getting kicked out of the S&P 100 after nearly 18 years, like a drunk thrown out of a club it used to own. Carve that slogan into the fucking boardroom wall. Believe in something. Sacrifice everything. Mission accomplished, you arrogant assholes. The contempt for the customer was breathtaking. Nike decided America needed lectures, political homework, and a shopping model dictated from headquarters. They yanked a Betsy Ross shoe because it might “unintentionally offend.” They did not yank the Mulvaney ad. That tells you who they feared and who they were happy to spit on. Customers had a simpler response. They walked. They cut the Swoosh off their socks. They bought somebody else’s damn shoes. Nike already knew the formula. Make great shoes. Put them on great athletes. Shut the hell up and let greatness sell itself. Then the consultants, activists, and corporate priests got hold of the altar. They wanted to change the world. They changed the stock chart. The market does not give a flying fuck about your feelings. (article below)
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