snaggly @snaggly

Most universities teach a pro communist view. Gender equality, climate change, wealth redistribution, critical race theory, rampant immigration, etc. So we’ve posted the first lecture from Peterson Academy’s course on (actual) Marxism here and on YouTube. Enjoy!

Peterson Academy @petersonacademy

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Given the spread of communism, an ideology few understand, we’re excited to share Dr. Paul Kengor’s first lecture from The Dark Side of Marxism. @DrPaulKengor traces the history of Marxism from the life and ideas of Karl Marx to the ideology’s far-reaching global consequences.

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Right into my veins!💉 Justice Thomas: "Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immutable 'biological' characteristic...it is binary." "To use language to obscure reality—to show 'indifference regarding the truth'—is to lie to the public..."

@JohnCleese Ai slop

@ThrillaRilla369 Angus obviously. Not too over the top

JK Rowling could have used her platform to encourage millions of children to sterilise themselves, but instead she just helped them to fall in love with reading. What a evil Bigot.😡

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS LOGIC 🏳️‍⚧️ MAN: I'm a woman. WOMAN: Humans can't change sex. MAN: But you can change gender. WOMAN: So you've changed gender? MAN: No, I was always a woman. WOMAN: So what "transitioned" then? MAN: Intersex people. WOMAN: They don't change sex. MAN: Clownfish. WOMAN: They're fish. MAN: Sex is a spectrum. WOMAN: So you change frequency? MAN: It's bimodal. WOMAN: What is? MAN: Sex. WOMAN: So you _can_ change sex? MAN: No, but there are more than two. WOMAN: Why are you a woman and not something else then? MAN: There's no way to define what "woman" means. WOMAN: How do you know you are one then? MAN: I was born in the wrong body. WOMAN: Whose body is it and how did you get into it? MAN: My brain is more female than male. WOMAN: So there are only two sexes then? MAN: This is genocide.

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Democratic Socialism. Two words whose individual meanings few can agree on jammed together in a way that makes it impossible to agree on what the compound term means. It will mean what its leaders tell you it means. Whatever they need it to mean. What it really means is: Bow.

Read the Gulag Archipelago. Please, I'm begging you, just read how communist theory caused the deaths of 100 million people across Europe and the world.

Ilektra Mercury 🌟 @wokestalinism

2 weeks ago

Read Marx. Read Engels. Read Lenin. Read Stalin. Please, I’m begging you, just read the theory.

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@michaelshermer There are millions of hd cameras all over the world. The only crap they trot out for the alien nonsense is blurry low res garbage, because anything with more detail could easily be explained by normal stuff.

How I think about UAPs: Null Hypothesis: the default assumption that a hypothesis is false until rejected by evidence. ECREE Principle: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence UAPs as ETIs is extraordinary. So far the evidence does not rise to the level to reject the Null Hypothesis. Eyewitness testimony (I met someone who says they saw aliens or spaceships) is Intriguing but we need to know who they are, where these aliens/spaceships are located, and go there with cameras to confirm stories. A half century of cognitive research reveals how unreliable people are when it comes to reporting what they think they witnessed. Blurry photographs and grainy videos need to be supplemented with better images. "Disclosure" movements demanding better evidence is a good start, but their language often slides into the assumption ETIs are here and the government is hiding them, rather than ETIs are not here until we can all see them ourselves. This is how all science works, e.g., Yeti exists, the paranormal is real, miracles happen, etc.: Scientists start by assuming these hypotheses are not true until evidence becomes extraordinary. Take Yeti: To name a new species biologists cannot have only blurry photographs, grainy videos, and stories about how people while out camping said they saw a bipedal primate. They need a body to show everyone. All good scientists start with the Null Hypothesis and are therefore skeptical. My skepticism is normal science, not denial, not "debunkery", not closed mindedness. Show us the bodies and spaceships, otherwise the Null Hypothesis that aliens are not here stands.

Yes, your rent is frozen. So is the landlord's budget to fix your heat, your leaks, and your broken freezer. But don't worry, when nothing works, at least the number on your lease stays the same. You can admire it while you eat out. And the rent won't rise, true. Neither will any new buildings, because no one builds apartments he's forbidden to price. So enjoy the same aging unit for the next thirty years, paying yesterday's rent for tomorrow's ruins. Freezing a price doesn't freeze reality. It freezes the supply, halts the repairs, and ends the building, while the line of people waiting for an apartment grows longer every year. But feel the warmth of collectivism: everyone equal, shivering together in identical crumbling units, sharing the broken elevator and the dead freezer as one community. The number stays the same. That was the promise, and that is all you'll get.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor

6 days ago

It might be hot outside but the rent is freezing.

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This is a very important and informative thread on why "mental health awareness" efforts not only fail, but actually make people more mentally ill...

Carolyn D. Gorman @CarolynGorman_

6 days ago

For years, mental health awareness efforts have driven me insane. These efforts are COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. Here's EXACTLY why mental health awareness doesn't work: Mental health awareness is a tool of the public health model. The public health model has been the dominate approach

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Open borders, "homelessness," trans, DEI, and other issues appear to have nothing in common, but they do. Each undermines a core pillar of civilization (i.e., law & order, child protection, meritocracy) in the name of compassion. Put them together & you have the end of the West.

Communism through (my) ages: 1) When I was 15, a teacher told me "It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense." 2) At about 19, college friends, "Socialism isn't communism." 3) At 20, on meeting my grandfather-in-law, "They are evil. We escaped in 1949." 4) At 30, "China is a wonderful developing Democracy" 5) At 35, I was sent to communist China on business. It was a crowded, smelly, dirty, factory of despair and hopelessness. This I saw with my own eyes. 6) At 36, "China doesn't count. Successful socialism is in northern Europe." 7) I moved to northern Europe when I was 40. It was much nicer than China, but also felt like I was living in the past. I had to wait 6 months for a hernia operation. 8) When I was about 45, the migrant crisis began. The socialist/globalist/pacifist allowed them entry into every country, regardless how many crimes they committed along the way. Just 20 minutes from my house, in Calais, I was shocked to see migrants jumping onto trucks, breaking open the doors, scattering the contents across the highway, then climbing in. They went through the Chunnel and got out in England. 9) At 52, the soft socialism around me had transformed into globalism. I was told I had to call people by their preferred pronouns, though it was a lie, and even if I didn't know what the preferences were. I quit. 10) I returned to the US, and am now 60. "Socialism" is no longer a dirty word here. People openly espouse the virtues of it. Politicians run as socialists and win. Socialism has taken many forms, from the Bolshevism of Russia, to the CCP in China, the Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy, and the many forms of it found in Latin America. It is one of the two most destructive ideologies on earth. It is designed to deprive, despirit, and murder everything that comes in contact with it. Socialism is a great lie at every level. It helps no one, not even those who benefit the most. This is because the cost is the imposition of one's will on everyone else, and that destroys the soul of the usurper and the life of the oppressed. Socialism always fails on its own, but only after destroying almost everything in its train. It can also be conquered. Those are the options.

The more equal the society, the bigger the biological differences between men and women become. Jordan Peterson explains: Men tend to be more interested in things, women in people. That’s the largest psychological difference we know. So as cultural barriers fall, you see more men in engineering and more women in nursing, even in highly egalitarian places like Scandinavia. Maximizing freedom of choice also maximizes differences in outcome. Large cross-national studies (including in Science and Psychological Science) document the “gender-equality paradox”: In countries with greater gender equality, sex differences in occupational and educational choices are actually larger, supporting stronger biological influences once social constraints are reduced.

I would argue that your life isn’t hard at all, which is why you had invent some retarded nonsense like not having a sex in order to pretend it is

This is the framing of a collectivist. The honest framing is the opposite: never in human history has so much wealth been produced and held by so many. The poorest American today commands comforts no king could buy a century ago. That is the achievement Sanders calls a crisis. And notice the word he smuggles in beside wealth: "power." There is no power over men in a fortune. The men he names cannot tax you, jail you, or force you to do anything. Their only power is to offer you a product and try to persuade you to buy it. You are free to say no. Real power over other men is the power to compel, and that lives in exactly one place: the government office Sanders has occupied for decades. He is describing the producer's freedom and calling it tyranny, while holding the one weapon that is actual force. The inequality he hates is not wealth seized but wealth created. He resents that some men make more because they produce more. That is not the issue of our time. It is the oldest envy, walking around in an angry senator's suit.

Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders

a week ago

Never before in American history have so few people held so much wealth and power. Never before has there been so much income and wealth inequality. This is THE issue of our time. It cannot be ignored and the progressive working-class movement we are building WILL confront it.

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The most dangerous thing in politics is not malice. It's arrogance: the belief that a small group of experts can redesign society better than the countless individuals who actually live in it. Friedrich Hayek had a name for this mistake: The Fatal Conceit. In his final book, Friedrich Hayek delivered his most pointed critique of socialism and central planning. The book’s title refers to the fatal intellectual error at the heart of socialist thought: the arrogant belief that human reason is capable of deliberately designing and controlling the complex order of society. Hayek called this “constructivist rationalism” - the idea that we can scrap inherited institutions and traditions and rebuild society according to a rational blueprint. Hayek argued that this conceit is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how civilisation actually works. The extended order of the market - our system of prices, division of labour, property rights and moral traditions - was not invented or designed by anyone. It emerged through a long process of cultural evolution. No single mind, and certainly no central planning board, possesses the knowledge required to coordinate millions of individuals with constantly changing needs, preferences, and local circumstances. The price system, Hayek explained, is a remarkable mechanism that communicates dispersed knowledge far more effectively than any planner ever could. When socialists attempt to replace this spontaneous order with conscious direction, they do not merely cause inefficiency. They destroy the very foundations that make advanced civilisation possible. The Fatal Conceit goes beyond economics to defend the moral and cultural foundations of a free society. Hayek showed that the socialist project is not just impractical - it is based on a dangerous overestimation of human reason and ability, and an arrogant dismissal of evolved wisdom. The fatal conceit is still very much alive today in every attempt to centrally engineer society, the economy, or human behaviour. Hayek’s warning endures: civilisation is fragile, and those who believe they are wise enough to redesign it are usually the ones who end up destroying it.

USA. A backyard. The sun was going down, and a man named Dale stood before a black iron drum, feeding it wood, the way you feed a fire that must not die before morning. "Brisket," he said. "Gonna be a long one. You're welcome to keep me company." Keep him company. He said it the way a man mentions the weather. But I heard the truth beneath the words, the way you hear a temple bell beneath the wind. He was not inviting me to a meal. He was asking me to stand a vigil. To hold the sacred fire through the dark with him, two men against the whole of the night, so that something worthy could be born by dawn. My heart rose like a banner going up a pole. I bowed, deep enough that he would feel the weight of what I was accepting. He nodded back and adjusted a vent. He gestured at a folding chair. "Sit if you want, man. Gonna be a while." I did not sit. A sentinel does not sit while the fire still lives. He looked at me a moment, then nodded slowly, the way you nod at a thing you have decided not to worry about. I took that nod as the first honor of the night. Where I come from, when a thing of great worth is being made, you do not leave it. You stand the whole night beside it. You do not fill the silence with talk, because the silence itself is the labor. So I stood. I said nothing. He said nothing. We watched the smoke leave the drum and climb into the purple sky, and for the first time in this loud and generous country, I felt completely understood. After an hour, without looking at me, he pressed a cold can into my hand. I received it in both palms and bowed my head a fraction, the way one receives a canteen passed down the line between sentries who both know the night is far from over. I did not drink quickly. One does not drink quickly on watch. A neighbor wandered over with a beer, saw me standing at attention beside the drum, and asked Dale, low, if I was doing alright. "He's good," Dale said. "He's keeping me company." He had vouched for me. Before his own people. I would have walked into the fire for him right then. After two hours, he spoke. Once. "Smell that bark setting up?" I closed my eyes and breathed in, and I will tell you honestly, my chest went tight. Because it did. It smelled like patience. It smelled like a thing no king and no army could hurry, however mighty. "I do," I said, and I said it like an oath. We did not speak again for a long while. A dog came and lay across both our feet, choosing neither of us, guarding the both of us. The stars came out over the fence and the cheap string lights and the plastic chairs, and I thought, with my whole heart, that there are grand temples in this world holding less holiness than this tired man's backyard. Near midnight his wife leaned out the door. "Dale, you two have been standing there four hours. You know you can sit down, right?" "We're good, hon," Dale said. We're good. Four words. He had spoken for the both of us, claimed me as his brother of the watch, and waved away all comfort in a single breath, and he did it without once taking his eyes off the fire. I have heard generals give long speeches that carried less. A fire kept alone is only a chore. A fire kept together is an oath. When the meat was finished, near dawn, he cut the very first slice and laid it in my hands. The guest. The man who had done nothing but stand beside him and honor the work. I have eaten at tables that cost a season's wages, served by men trained from boyhood. None of it ever fed me the way that one slice did, handed over by a weary man at sunrise who had decided, hours before and without a single word, that I was worth keeping the watch with. I do not know Dale's family name. I would stand the whole night for him again tomorrow, and count myself honored.