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Posted - December 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM

Saved - December 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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The left will pretend the woke craziness never happened by demanding you provide on-the-spot citations for every memory of the woke era you have, and then calling you a liar if you don't have large numbers of citations committed to memory. When they do that, show them this:

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I can’t decide if the fact that so many mediocre white men are touting this article while people who can do math with decimal points can’t get through it without guffawing until their stomachs hurt at the author’s stupendous ineptitude is good or bad Imma go with bad.

@matthewschmitz - Matthew Schmitz

Beginning in 2014, prestige industries decided they urgently needed to diversify. They didn’t purge established Boomers. Instead, they did everything possible to avoid hiring white millennial men. This is the story of a generation derailed by DEI. https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

The Lost Generation For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career. compactmag.com

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Posted - August 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM

Saved - August 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM

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The left often escapes scrutiny for its history of political violence, which includes numerous bombings from 1971-1972 that have largely been forgotten. Figures like Susan Rosenberg and Rasmea Odeh, who engaged in violent acts, later found acceptance in mainstream leftist politics. This pattern continues, as leftists tend to downplay or excuse the actions of their extremists, framing them as youthful indiscretions. The mainstream left has a history of rehabilitating violent individuals, allowing them to integrate into institutions while their pasts are conveniently overlooked.

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The left gets away with violence because it has the capacity to memory hole and cover up all it's violent behavior. For example, from 1971-1972 leftists carried out 5 bombings per day, every day. By the end they carried out more than 3000 bombings. And nobody remembers... https://t.co/lkZnCYzzIj

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And many people who did that would be welcomed into mainstream leftists politics. IE: Susan Rosenberg helped a communist group bomb the Capitol building in 1983-for which she was convicted. She went on to sit on the board of the parent organization for Black Lives Matter. https://t.co/9FGN8OS2O1

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Example 2: Rasmea Odeh was a convicted terrorist who admitted bombing an Israeli supermarket back in 1969, killing 2 civilians (see pic 2). She helped found "the women's march," and co-wrote a manifesto that got published in national outlets to great applause. (pic 3) so.... https://t.co/02KNGsMvYC

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There is a long history of leftists engaging in political violence and terrorism, never apologizing and doubling down on what they did, and then having their history of violence get memory holed when they join mainstream institutions when they get older.

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When leftists in their 20's engage in political extremism it gets treated as a youthful indiscretion to looked back on and laughed at as young foolishness and nothing more, even though the people who did these violent acts never apologized and even doubled down on what they did https://t.co/OfcgR1yKah

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Leftists (and some left-liberals) look at violent extremists on their side and say "they may be violent extremists, but they're our violent extremists," then do everything they can to protect, rehabilitate, and give cover to those in their ranks who engage in political violence.

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And by political violence I don't mean minor stuff that happens in the heat of a moment like someone getting pushed or protestors throwing water on people. I'm talking about premeditated political terrorism in the form of bombings that destroyed buildings and killed people...

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And yet the left treats this with complete nonchalance. They act as though leftist political violence is just a normal part of the natural life cycle of the leftist radical (like growing pains for a child) and we all just need to accept it like it isn't a big deal.

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No one who joined an explicitly Nazi group and engaged in bombings would ever be allowed with 1000 yards of a mainstream conservative institution, but leftists join explicitly communist groups and bomb buildings and still end up at the top of leftist institutions.

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This happens because the left gives cover to their radicals, and rehabiliates even the most violent of their political extremists by memory holing the violent actions of those people, covering up their extremism, are re-framing their acts of terrorism as "youthful indiscretions"

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So all of this stuff gets forgotten and violent extremists are given free reighn to join mainstream institutions and bring their extremism with them. This is part of why everything went so crazy in 2020: the lefts leadership was full of actual literal convicted terrorists.

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The left has always had its mainstream wing give cover to its extremists, and has always found clever ways to rehabilitate the name and reputation of any violent extremist that they thought could be useful to them. The mainstream left has always played nice with it's extremists

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I'll close with one of my favorite anecdotes that I found while doing research for @realchrisrufo's book: While Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers were in the weather underground, a group that carried out several bombings) they lived on a pink houseboat paid for by a wealthy lawyer

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@realchrisrufo So even while they were engaged in political violence and agitating for political extremism, they were having their livelihoods funded by wealthy benefactors. Because the mainstream left has always played nice with the violent extremist left. /fin

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@DeborahKnox That is a great book. One of the main inspirations for this thread is that book

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Posted - June 9, 2025 at 5:55 AM

Saved - June 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM

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The recent riots in LA are not spontaneous; they are highly organized and funded actions by trained activists. The use of shields, which resemble cardboard signs but are made of plywood, indicates significant planning. Tactics include creating "decision dilemmas" for authorities and using sympathetic figures to manipulate public perception. The goal is to provoke an overreaction from law enforcement, which would play into the activists' narrative. To counter these tactics, authorities should avoid overreacting, focus on arresting violent offenders, and frame the protests as disruptive to public safety.

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1/ The riots happening in LA are not organic or spontaneous. They're designed to look chaotic to cover up the fact that they're well funded, exceptionally organized, and carried out by well trained activists using intelligent, highly developed tactics. Here's a primer:

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2/ First, notice the protestors have shields (pic 1) These types of shields were used by the 2024 pro-Hamas rioters (pic 2), and 2020 BLM rioters (pic 3) Each shield takes 3 hours to make, and activists spend all day making them (pic 4) That's not spontaneous, it takes planning

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3/ Those shields are not cardboard signs. They are designed to *look* like cardboard signs. They're in fact made of plywood and have metal handles (as seen in the pics below). They have a cardboard sign attached to the front to disguise the fact that they're made of wood.

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4/ In 2020 these shields were brought in and distributed to rioters in organized drops (video 1) In LA we see the same strategy. They hand out protective equipment to rioters (pic 2) who then use them in their attacks (pic 3). Note the same home depot bucket in pics 2 and 3

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They came with a U-Haul for war, indicating a strategy. Their presence on this street suggests a planned approach. This is organized. Some white people don't even know where they should go.

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Speaker 0: They they came with a goddamn U Haul for war. So you actually see they came this way for a strategy. You gotta actually see that they came here for a strategy why they came to the street. Okay? This shit is really organized, you guys. Alright? You guys, this shit is really organized. I said, like, other dude, why don't you just cut downtown? Well, there are some white people that don't even know where they should go.

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5/ It isn't just the shields that are planned, everything is, from what rioters wear to the tactics used in each situation They're implementing highly developed theory of protest violence in order to create pressure and try to force politicians to give in. I'll show you...

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6/ To see how this works we need to understand the TACTICS they're using. The first strategy is to put their target in a "decision dilemma" by implementing a method of protest that leaves the person with no good options. No matter how the target reacts they look bad. https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/put-your-target-in-a-decision-dilemma

Put your target in a decision dilemma - Beautiful Trouble Design your action so that your target is forced to make a decision, and all their available options play to your advantage. beautifultrouble.org

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7/ That strategy is paired with: "the real action is your targets reaction," in which Rioters use people's reactions to the protests against them. The goal here is to try to force the authorities to overreact so rioters can play martyr for the camera. https://t.co/GvYhMmrUUU

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8/ The final move is "lead with sympathetic characters." They put sympathetic people out front to garner sympathy and make them look like sympathetic underdogs fighting an uphill battle. This is why they brought a baby to the protest. It was an INTENTIONAL pre-planned move. https://t.co/OybWZdcXID

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9/ Putting it all together, by blocking a road using benches as barricades they give the authorities no option but to use force, but by having a baby they force the police into an impossible situation: using force without harming a baby. It puts police in an impossible situation https://t.co/rq4Pb8PXaI

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10/ The principle at work behind this entire strategy is "play to the audience that isn't there" Activists pick their tactics and strategies based on *OPTICS*. They want to make themselves look like sympathetic underdogs to the audience seeing it on youtube or watching the news https://t.co/ckntX3KiUO

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11/ All of these strategies and tactics are used to create actions which activists can turn to their advantage. When they do this correctly they can paint themselves as the sympathetic powerless underdogs even when they are the aggressors. It's social and political jiu-jitsu

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12/ That isn't to say they aren't also intentional in doing damage. They are. The book Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent by author AK Thompson is the starting place for their theory of what counts as violence, and when violence is justified.

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13/ Alex Hundert defended "a diversity of tactics" which is a euphemism for allowing violence at protests. Hundert explicitly states a commitment to non-violence is "dogmatic" and "stifles debate" about which tactics to use. Violence is part of the strategy as we will see... https://t.co/jhqyLZBcxj

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14/ Leftist academics theorized about how violence could be used to build political leverage. Oberlin professor Jenny Garcia explains how violent protests "make it a more salient issue and provide greater pressure on elected officials and candidates" https://t.co/CeUVQw2465

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Protests, even those involving violence, can make an issue more salient and pressure elected officials. Political science research indicates that protests matter, and destruction of buildings or violence by either police or protesters can lead to a greater response from elected officials. Sustained efforts, like a ten-day protest, increase the pressure on officials. Elected officials respond to pressure when they feel their electoral prospects are threatened. Nominating candidates and placing extraordinary pressure on officials can also be highly successful strategies.

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Speaker 0: As a result, I think that there are some good opportunities for actually placing sustained pressure on the institutions themselves and elected officials. So one of the ways that we need to do this is through the continuations of protests and protests, even when there is violence, right, actually can make it a more salient issue and can provide greater pressure on elected officials and candidates. So being able to place extraordinary pressure on these officials, nominating your own candidates can prove to be highly successful. What we know in political science is protest matters and actually when we see destruction of buildings, when we see violence either by police or either by protesters themselves, we actually see greater response by elected officials and when we see the sustained effort, so even over this ten day period of time, that's an extraordinary feat and so when we see this sustained effort, we see elected officials feeling more and more pressure and while it certainly takes a lot of time and a lot of effort, what we do know is that elected officials do respond to pressure, right? If they feel their electoral livelihood is based upon this, they will respond. And we've seen in

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15/ These tactics are not new. David Graeber explains that in 2000, protestors at the Summit of the Americas had Green, Yellow, and Red zones of protest. Each color represented a level of violence allowed. Green was non-violent, Yellow was "obstructive," red was "disruptive". https://t.co/V0tbn8CdIu

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16/ Just so we are clear, "obstructive" is a euphemism for blocking road, entrances, and so fourth; and "disruptive" is a euphemism for the use of violence and property damage to try to shut things down. The use of sophisticated pre-planned violence goes back a long way...

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17/ and it is backed by a set of academic theories about how violence, property damage, blockades, and so fourth can be used to put pressure on the authorities and create political leverage that can be used to extract concessions from politicians, businesses, and other groups.

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18/ As @DataRepublican has shown (see her thread for details) these protest are created, funded and organized by people with large networks and resources My goal is to explain the theoretical foundation that the rioters tactics and strategies are built on https://t.co/E0u4Oj2VZV

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🚨🔥 WHO'S BEHIND THE ANTI-ICE RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES? 🔥🚨 Hundreds took to the streets this weekend: blocking roads, attacking federal officers, even burning flags. But this wasn't "spontaneous outrage." This was organized. Funded. Coordinated. Here’s a breakdown of the groups, the money, and the people pulling the strings. Patience as I assemble the thread and verify information in real time 👇🧵

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@DataRepublican 19/ These riots implement a set of very specific tactics and theories which operate according to a theoretical foundation built by radical professors for the purpose of helping woke activists manipulate, create, and control the cultural narrative in order to get political wins.

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@DataRepublican 20/ The worst thing that we can do right now is to overreact. The entire point of these riots is to make the police, the mayor, and the other authorities to overreact. They are absolutely, 100%, baiting the police and the Trump administration into overreacting. That's the play

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@DataRepublican 21/ I know this because the book that all of these tactics comes from is called "Beautiful Trouble" and one of the Co-authors lived in my city. He used to run activism camps and made appearances at the University I attended **while I was there** I know these people first hand. https://t.co/7twhUKTx1i

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@DataRepublican 22/ Co-Author of Beautiful Trouble, Dave Mitchell, was the Chief of Staff to the leader of the Leftist political party in Saskatchewan while I working in the Legislature for one of the government ministers. I am telling you I know *EXACTLY* how these tactics are used. https://t.co/5hOK7x8E5o

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@DataRepublican 23/ Mitchell was arrested in a protest at the Summit of the America's in 2001, the same Summit the I mentioned earlier in which there were Red, Yellow, and Green zones. I'm telling you from experience that they are trying to force the Trump administration to overreact... https://t.co/XsOf09pBag

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@DataRepublican 24/ You can't win the battle here with a brutal crackdown since that only gives the protestors what they want: a chance to look like underdogs being abused by police. Since I know the people who created the tactics, I'll tell you the strategy to beat all of these tactics...

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@DataRepublican 25/ The first thing is to refuse to overreact. In the battle for optics the team that looks worst loses, and the way the police lose is by overreacting. The second thing is to recognize that protests run on energy and momentum, so you need strategy to drains their momentum.

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@DataRepublican 26/ The way to do this is two-fold: First, begin making arrests of only the worst and most violent offenders. The goal is to get the most dangerous people of the streets while highlighting the most violent elements of the protests. That second part of VERY important.

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@DataRepublican 27/ By highlighting the worst offenders you begin to build a narrative about how violent the protests are. Normal people don't like political violence, and a steady stream of announcements about the arrests of violent protestors frames the protests are violent.

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@DataRepublican 28/ This will both decrease the political pressure to restore order (because people will the arrests as proof the police are doing something without overreacting) while simultaneously framing the protests as violent and making it harder for the protestors to recruit normal people

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@DataRepublican 29/ By the time you are finished arresting the worst protestors the people will already be sick of the riots and disorder. Then you can begin arresting the rest of the violent people, and the people who are engaged in "non-violent obstruction" of things like roads and bridges...

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@DataRepublican 30/ People will have lost their patience for road blocking. People usually give road blockers a few hours, or a day, to "make their point" before they get sick of blocked roads. So then you can begin to arrest the road blockers, while using EXACTLY the following messaging....

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@DataRepublican 31/ "The right to free speech in America does not mean protestors can prevent Ambulances and Firetrucks from reaching the people that need them. Protesters have no right to make Firetrucks sit in traffic while buildings burn, or make ambulances sit in traffic while people die."

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@DataRepublican 32/ This framing makes the protestors look like they are taking the city hostage (which they are) and makes them look even worse in light of the violence that LA has seen. When you hit this stage, you will begin to notice public opinion shift very quickly...

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@DataRepublican 33/ Once the people see the protests as violent and see that the protestors are holding the city hostage they will begin to turn against the protestors, and (more importantly) the CAUSE the protestors support Once that happens, the protests begin to backfire on the protestors...

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@DataRepublican 34/ When protestors realize public opinion is turning against them it will begin to destroy their energy and momentum and the protests will begin to die out. At this point we have to make sure that this never happens again. Here's how we do that...

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@DataRepublican 35/ What you want to do is avoid the J6 mistake. The authorities charged people who were peaceful just for being there, and this made it look like the authorities were overreacting. What you want to do is start charging and convicting everyone involved in any violent action...

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@DataRepublican 36/ The goal is to create a steady stream of convictions over the next couple of years. This is so that the public sees a steady stream of "protestor convicted of assault" stories in the news. Two years of such stories will solidify the narrative that the protests were violent.

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@DataRepublican 37/ Don't press charges against people who were just there...only the people who were violent or blocked roads. By getting a long series of undisputed convictions you solidify the narrative that the protests were violent without looking like you overreacted.

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@DataRepublican 38/ By not charging people who were just there you avoid falling into the trap of looking like you arrested people for speaking their mind. Arrest their violent shock troops, show them for what they are, and win the narrative battle while putting away the most violent people.

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@DataRepublican 39/ Don't go for revenge or a "show of strength," because that will backfire. Stay strong, stay calm, go in stages, and let the attrition and natural decline in momentum make the protests die out with a whimper. That's how you beat their strategy. Thanks for reading :) /fin

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Posted - May 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM

Saved - May 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM

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The NOAA is funding research that critiques capitalism, promotes environmental justice, and emphasizes Latinx allyship, which I believe reflects a shift towards political activism rather than pure scientific inquiry. They are using resources to advance leftist ideologies, as seen in various papers and documentaries that advocate for social equity and recognition based on identity. This trend has been ongoing, with the agency participating in initiatives that prioritize social justice over traditional scientific objectives, undermining its role as a neutral scientific body.

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1/ The United States National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration is funding research about: -How capitalism is oppressive -Environmental racism -Latinx Allyship in Atmospheric sciences -Latinx community recognition The corruption of government science agencies, A Thread 🧵 https://t.co/METGaBkLbr

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2/ The NOAA is supposed to: -forecast weather -monitor ocean and atmospheric conditions -conduct deep-sea exploration -manage fishing and protection of marine mammals However, the NOAA now uses it's resources to spread and advance woke politics and ideology

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3/ Here is an article funded by NOAA partners which is specifically about how to use government initiatives, NGO's, Grassroots activists, and education to accomplish explicitly left-wing political and social change. This isn't science, it's political strategizing for leftists. https://t.co/md2UKOZgg1

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4/ The NOAA also host a documentary by a self-described "Social Justice Entrepreneur." Social Justice is not a neutral descriptor, it is the name of the leftist political program that seeks full social equity rather than liberal equality. And the NOAA is participating. https://t.co/vH42HsfKfH

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5/ Here is another paper that seeks to advance Critical Social Justice/Woke. This paper says that Oppressive social structures like capitalism, racism, and ableism, are the reason that lots of people do not have healthy microbes in their gut. https://t.co/m3KgeNQgqH

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6/ That same paper calls for research into "neo-liberal racial capitalism" and it also says that scientist ought to make Social Justice the standard by which all health solutions are judged. This is straightforward social and political activism dressed up as scientific research. https://t.co/F53nvcXBNM

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7/ The hijacking of the NOAA is not new. In this paper from 2018, the NOAA was telling the state of California to focus on environmental justice and racial equity. Again, this is using the NOAA to advance a Social Justice political agenda. https://t.co/6jwUZEm2Iq

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8/ The NOAA discovered that California Coastal Commision had staff from its agencies go through "racial equity" training. The NOAA considered this focus on Social Justice to be an accomplishment. https://t.co/v7cR3Nhf9M

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9/ Of course, the NOAA did a symposium to support the Biden Administrations Justice40 initiative. This symposium focused on Environemental and Social Justice, and included the NOAA presenting on their DEI program. https://t.co/ngkJ10l76A

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10/ Another paper in the NOAA repository is about "Recognition of the Latinx community by nonprofit leaders" This paper is about the Critical Social Justice concept of "recognition" wherein communities are understood by their salient political identity in terms of race, class, gender, ability status etc, and then have those identity characteristics "recognized" as being important by some other group.

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11/ Recognition is essentially the opposite of colorblindness. The liberal idea of colorblindness is to ignore things like skin color, race, ethnicity, and so fourth and to instead judge people by their values, beliefs, and behaviors. These authors are arguing for the opposite of colorblindness.

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12/ We also have this paper in the NOAA repository on "Active Allyship" Allyship is a concept from Critical Social Justice says that people with privilege (white straight males) have an obligation to "use their privilege" to aid the cause of marginalized people (everyone else) https://t.co/eTQj7xF8vU

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13/ The paper claims that when a hispanic person is the only hispanic perosn in their class, program, lab, etc, they can end up with mental health challenges. Being the only hispanic person in the class is a threat to that persons wellbeing. https://t.co/oXE6LV0Irk

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14/ Another paper in the NOAA repository claims that the since funding rates across the NSF are not exactly the same for each racial group, that the white supremacy is being maintained at the NSF. https://t.co/gEycDaYQfD

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15/ I want the point here to be clear: The science agencies of the U.S. government are no longer neutral observers and communicators of science. They have adopted the woke worldview and politics, and are using their institutional resources to advance woke politics. /fin

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Posted - March 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM

Saved - March 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM

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There's a certain type of working-class guy, often blue-collar and union-affiliated, who shares the same resentment and cynicism as some on the left. He believes that his lack of success is due to the unfair advantages of the wealthy, attributing their fortunes to luck or systemic cheating. This guy, who once formed the backbone of the Democratic Party, feels alienated by the current political climate. The "woke" movement aims to reconnect with him by emphasizing economic grievances and proposing that the rich need to be taxed to support the working class.

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1/ There's a type of guy...working class, blue collar, probably in a union, loves sneakers and sports...who is filled with the same resentment, envy, and cynicism as woke leftists. He's the guy at the bar so thinks everyone who is more successful then he is must have cheated...

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2/ This is the guy who thinks he works harder then all the millionaires and billionaires and the only reason they got rich and he didn't is because "they got lucky," or "they don't pay taxes" or "their buddies control the system" or "they inherited it from their dad" or whatever

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3/ He's the guy at the end of the bar whose pissed off because someone else made more money than he did so he sits around coming up with theories about how those people must have cheated. He's the guy that wears ball cap and a football Jersey but votes for Bernie Sanders...

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4/ Basically, it's the kind of guy that this man represents... https://t.co/AGCGMITdeT

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5/ This kind of guy used to be the foundation of the democratic party, got kicked out during the woke revolution. The entire point of the woke "material turn" that focuses on economics, wages, etc, is all about reaching out to this guy and telling him what he wants to hear...

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6/ That he's been cheated, that his failures are the fault of the system, that the rich stole his money..... That's what is happening right now. The woke need to bring sneaker sports guy who blames "the suits" for his misery back into the fold...

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7/ And the way they do that is by adopting a Bernie Sanders style "all of the problems are the fault of the rich and they need to be taxed so that the money can be given to you." This is where the Democrats are going to pivot to the first opportunity they get. Get ready. /fin

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Posted - November 18, 2024 at 9:22 PM

Saved - November 19, 2024 at 1:43 AM

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1/ This teacher admits she doesn't know when America was founded. She also says she doesn't teach her students the curriculum, but instead teaches about protesting anti-racism, activism, and Black Lives Matter. So....Let's talk about the Department of Education. A Thread🧵 https://t.co/WL9TtMPNuu

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I was a 7th grade civics and government teacher, while she teaches elementary school. We often discuss our teaching experiences. I focus on social studies beyond the curriculum, emphasizing anti-racism, protests, and movements like Black Lives Matter.

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Speaker 0: So I was a 7th grade civics, teacher, government teacher, and she is an elementary school teacher. What year did we get our independence? 17 something. We're teachers. Speaker 1: I actually don't teach what's in our curriculum. I'm teaching children social studies that's not in our curriculum, teaching them things about how to be an anti racist. I taught them about protesting. I taught them about black lives matter. I taught them about black lives

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Posted - December 19, 2023 at 11:22 PM

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1/ There are a few reasons why Harvard is refusing to fire Claudine Gay. First, firing her is publicly admitting that a medicore plagiarist can climb the ladder of the academic world just by having the right political views and belonging to the right minority groups.

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2/ The second reason Harvard won't fire Claudine gay is that doing so and admitting they made an enormous and embarassing mistake will lead to calls for an investigation into how such a mistake was made. And that will show Gay was hired for her political views instead of merit.

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3/ In other words, if Harvard admits to making a huge mistake that will lead to calls for transparancy, and real transparancey will show that Gay was hired on the basis of her political views, her race, and her gender rather then on the strength of her academic record.

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4/ Harvards reputation rests on the assumption that Harvard only hires and advances the best and brightest, and that Harvard graduates are excellent because Harvard is ruthless about hiring only the smartest, most rigorous, most intelligent, most innovative professors...

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5/ If Harvard admits they hired a medicore plagiarist as their president because she has the right race, the right gender, and right political views the reputational damage to Harvard would be incalculable. Harvards reputation, built over 400 years, would be gone overnight.

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6/ As @realchrisrufo point out here, Harvard is depending on leftist cultural power to help them out as they make excuses and muddy the waters as a way of trying to minimize Harvards reputational damage. https://t.co/ebPpj1VCOD

@realchrisrufo - Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

Harvard is trying to run Disney/Bud Light playbook: deny, delay, obfuscate, blame conservatives, rely on left-wing cultural power. This might have worked a few years ago, but the game has changed. Conservatives have learned how to put a price on institutional corruption.

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@realchrisrufo 7/ Harvard is using a tactic called a "limited hangout" where they only admit to a small amount of what happened while acting like they have come clean about everything. The goal is to manage the damage by making it look like the small stuff they admitted to is all there is.

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@realchrisrufo 8/ This way they hope to minimize the damage and keep the real damaging revelations from getting spread too widely through the public. They want to run interference until the issue exits the news cycle and people have moved on, then have her to resign for a phony reason.

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@realchrisrufo 9/ Finally, Harvad can't fire Claudine Gay because that would be admitting that @realchrisrufo broke the story, got the facts, and proved the case. Adnitting that Rufo got the story right increases Rufo's reputation as a journalist and the leftists at Harvard don't want that.

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@realchrisrufo 10/ Harvard is a totally politicized entity at this point, and so they won't do anything that will "empower" a figure on the right or give the right credibility, prestige, clout, and so fourth Admitting Rufo got it right would give Rufo credibility, prestige, and clout...

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@realchrisrufo 11/ Harvard would rather have a medicore plagiarist as a president then admit than give @realchrisrufo credibility by adnitting he was correct about something. That is how corrupt Harvard is. So here is what we must do:

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@realchrisrufo 12/ He have to follow @realchrisrufo's strategy and get centrists and leftists to report on the story. Doing so forces Harvard's hand. If we do that and Harvard is FORCED to act then that will increase the reputational damage to Harvard by... https://t.co/yN2YHTO9pV

@realchrisrufo - Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the Right. The next step is to smuggle it into the media apparatus of the Left, legitimizing the narrative to center-left actors who have the power to topple her. Then squeeze.

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@realchrisrufo 13/ Proving that Harvard has no principles are integritg and they Harvard only does the right thing when it suits them. It also makes Harvards strategy backfire by using Harvards attempts to downplay the issue as a way to increase the attention that the issue recieves.

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@realchrisrufo 14/ If we do this correctly we can maximize the attention the issue recieves and therefore maximize the reputational damage to Harvard. We do this by using social media to make the issue a big deal and thereby force mainstream outlets to cover the issue. That is how we win.

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@realchrisrufo 15/ We have to keep the pressure up, by investigating, telling people to stop biring Harvard grads (h/t @ConceptualJames) and making the drumbeat of revelations louder until Harvard is forced to act. Then we parade the results around maximizing the reputational damage.

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@realchrisrufo @ConceptualJames 16/ The only way to fix Harvard is by forcing the people with power at Harvard to make chsnge by threatening the power, prestige, clout, and influence of Harvard. So that's what we have to do. Keep going!!!! /fin

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Posted - December 6, 2023 at 8:01 AM

Saved - December 6, 2023 at 12:12 PM

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Universities have been criticized for prioritizing left-wing ideology over truth and education. Activists have taken over, using campuses to advance their agenda. This has resulted in an unthinking left-wing orthodoxy, with the humanities departments teaching that the US is inherently evil. Marxism, discredited by events, found refuge in literature departments as a tool for social change. Activists reject objective truth and view education as a means to indoctrinate students with leftist ideology. Academics' timidity allowed this takeover. The moral and intellectual decay of universities is now exposed, demanding action.

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1/ The response to the Oct 7 Hamas attack exposed universities for the morally and intellectually bankrupt institutions they are. They have been hijacked by activists who are using them as vehicles to advance left-wing ideology, rather than using them to seek truth and educate.

@RepStefanik - Rep. Elise Stefanik

🚨🚨🚨Presidents of @Harvard @MIT and @Penn REFUSE to say whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” is bullying and harassment according to their codes of conduct. Even going so far to say it needs to turn to “action” first. As in committing genocide. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND ANTISEMITIC. They must all resign immediately today.

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The speakers question whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates the code of conduct at MIT, Penn, and Harvard. The responses vary, with some saying it depends on the context and others stating that it can be considered harassment. The speakers argue that calling for genocide is unacceptable and dehumanizing, and they believe it should be a clear violation of the code of conduct. They express their disappointment with the answers given and call for resignations.

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Speaker 0: Doctor Kornbluff Yes. Does m at MIT, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate MIT's code of conduct or rules regarding bullying and harassment? Yes or no? If targeted at Speaker 1: individuals not making public statements? Speaker 0: Yes or no? Calling for the genocide of Jews does not constitute bullying and harassment? Speaker 1: I have not heard Calling for the genocide for Jews on our campus. Speaker 0: But you've heard chants for Intifada? Speaker 1: I've heard chants, which can be anti Semitic depending on the context, When calling for the elimination of the Jewish people. Speaker 0: So those would not be according to the MIT's code of conduct or rules? Speaker 1: That would be investigated as harassment, if pervasive and severe. Speaker 0: Miss McGill, at Penn, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's rules or code of conduct? Yes or no? Speaker 2: If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment. Yes. Speaker 0: I am asking specifically calling for the genocide of Jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment? Speaker 2: If it is directed and severe or pervasive, it is harassment. Speaker 0: So the answer is yes? Speaker 2: It is a context dependent decision, congresswoman. Speaker 0: It's a context dependent decision. That's your testimony today, calling for the genocide of Jews is depending upon the context. That is not bullying or harassment. This is the easiest question to answer. Yes, miss McGill. So is your testimony that you will not answer yes? Speaker 2: If it, is Speaker 0: speech or no? Speaker 2: If the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment. Speaker 0: Yes. Conduct meaning committing the act of genocide? The speech is not harassment, this is unacceptable, miss McGill. I'm gonna give you one more opportunity for the world to see your answer. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's code of conduct when it comes to bullying and harassment? Yes or no? Speaker 2: It can be harassment. Speaker 0: The answer is yes. And Doctor. Gey, at Harvard, Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment? Yes or no? Speaker 3: It can be, depending on the context. What's the context? Speaker 0: Targeted as an individual? Targeted as an individual? It's targeted at Jewish students, Jewish individuals. Do you understand your testimony is dehumanizing them? Do you understand that dehumanization is part of anti Semitism? I will ask you one more time. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment? Yes or no? Anti Semitic rhetoric when it crosses Speaker 3: And is it anti Semitic rhetoric? Anti Semitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct That amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation. That is actionable conduct, and we do take action. Speaker 0: So the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard code of conduct. Correct? Speaker 3: Again, it depends on the context. Speaker 0: It does not depend on the context. The answer is yes, and this is why you should resign. These are unacceptable answers across the board?

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2/ As John Searle pointed out in 1999, in the humanities departments of our most prestigious universities the dominant view is that the United States is inherently evil. And this is what they teach the next generation of professors, lawyers, teachers, and political leaders. https://t.co/elaphyC6GK

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3/ Searle also pointed out that the result of this is "unthinking left wing orthodoxy" by people who see their role in the university as being to carry out a left wing political agenda. And we are now seeing the fruit of this on university campuses and in the larger society. https://t.co/xh8oEucVCW

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4/ 1993 Searle pointed out that Marxism was "refuted by events" which had discredited it. So m Marxism retreated to literature departments where people who wanted to use culture as an instrument for "social change" (AKA advancing leftist ideology) used it as an interpretive lens. https://t.co/w1OrNQHJU7

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5/ Searle went on to show that the activists no longer believed in objective truth, and believe that thebpurpose of educstion is not to pursue truth. The activists think education is always primarily political and ought to be used to inculcate leftist ideology into students. https://t.co/MlgFuBOdSx

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6/ So how did this happen? How were unjversities takr over so easily? One reason Searle provides is that academics are timid and weak. They refuse to stand up for the truth and thus are easily defeated by activists who will run them over to gain power. https://t.co/y68FYgOPt8

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7/ Many of us have been screaming about this for years, and nobody believed us. Now the truth can no longer be hidden or ignored and stench of the moral and intellectual rot in our universities is being exposed for the world to see. Now let's do something about it. /fin

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Posted - November 16, 2023 at 1:55 AM

Saved - November 17, 2023 at 3:41 AM

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Bin Laden's letter is a masterful example of political propaganda. It cleverly attacks America's moral authority by appealing to both the left and right, highlighting their grievances. It then scapegoats the Jews and claims moral authority based on religion. The goal is to demoralize Americans and undermine their faith in their own nation. This propaganda is having an impact, as seen on TikTok. Americans are not accustomed to such confident moral posturing, making them susceptible to its persuasion. America must be prepared for the propaganda war.

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1/ The letter @yashar is talking about here is attributed to Osama Bin Landen, and it is a masterpiece of political propaganda. Maybe the best example of propoganda that I have ever seen. Let's go through it so we can see what's happening here /🧵 https://web.archive.org/web/20231115091400/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver…

@yashar - Yashar Ali 🐘

Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States. The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Many of them say that reading the letter has opened their eyes, and they’ll never see geopolitical matters the same way again. Many of them — and I have watched a lot — say it has made them reevaluate their perspective on how what is often labeled as terrorism can be a legitimate form of resistance to a hostile power. This is not limited to TikTok; similar videos have been posted on other social media platforms. The Guardian had a copy of “Letter to America” posted, but once these TikToks went viral, the Guardian took it down, which has only led to more interest in the letter and conspiracies from TikTokers who say this is part of the media and the powers that control it trying to silence the truth.

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The speakers in the video are urging viewers to read Osama bin Laden's letter to America, expressing their shock and disillusionment after reading it. They describe it as mind-blowing, eye-opening, and a source of existential crisis. They emphasize the importance of reading the letter and invite others to share their thoughts and feelings about it. Some speakers mention the connection between terrorism and the failures of the US government in other nations. They urge viewers to read the letter and come back to discuss it. The video ends with a sense of relief and the mention of Palestine.

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Speaker 0: This morning, I read Letter to America, which is Osama bin Laden's letter to America explaining why he attacked Americans. And I am ashamed to say that I not only have never read this letter, but I didn't even know this letter existed. It's wild, and everyone should read it. If you haven't read it yet, read it. However, be forewarned that this has left me very disillusioned. And I feel the same exact way I felt when I was deconstructing Christianity. I feel, a little bit just confused. Like, I have entered into another timeline. What is this? And yeah. So go read it. Speaker 1: So I just read a letter to America, and I will never look at Life the same. I will never look at this country the same. I will never I please Read it. And if you have read it, let me know if you are also going through an existential crisis in this very moment. Because in the last 20 minutes, my entire viewpoint on the entire life I have believed and I have lived has changed. Please read that entire letter. Speaker 2: Everyone, stop what they're doing right now and go read. It's literally 2 pages. Go read a letter to America, And please come back here and just let me know what you think because I feel like I'm going through, like, an existential crisis right now, and a lot of people are. So I just need someone else to be feeling this joke. Speaker 3: I need you to stop what you're doing and go read a letter to America. It is literally the craziest thing I've read in a while. And while I say that I'm that surprised. I am pretty shocked. So go read it and tell me what you think because I really also need to talk to other people about this. And actually, before you even read the letter, I did wanna mention, in reading the letter, I could only think of this tweet that I saw the other day. Under settler colonialism, any kind of resistance is branded as terrorist because the only acceptable violence is violence by the occupier. Speaker 4: So this is fucking insane. I just read Osama bin Laden's letter to America, which I will be going through right here, but It's actually so mind fucking to me that terrorism has been sold as this idea to the American people and, honestly, just so many western inhabitants within certain nations that this group of people, this random group of people just suddenly wakes one day and just fucking hates you. Just wants you dead, wants you gone, and this is all because they believe that they're better than like, that is the root of terrorism. It's doesn't make sense. They just Hate your fucking nation, but reading this letter, it becomes apparent to me that the actions of 9/11 and those acts committed against the USA and its People were all just the buildup of our government failing other nations. Of these situations, and this letter was insanely eye opening. I really urge everybody to Google and read it because I thought that I had Quite a lot of media literacy, but this takes it to a whole another fucking level where I was just like, holy shit. Like, propaganda is genuinely so deeply embedded into our fucking DNA. Speaker 2: Red alert to America. You're probably waking up. Speaker 4: You probably have a lot of questions. Welcome to the club. Speaker 2: But we don't have a lot of time to sit and talk about everything because there's still so many puzzle pieces that we just do not know about. Speaker 5: Go read a letter to America. Like, seriously, go read it. Type a letter to America in Google or whatever you use, then come right back because this makes a lot more sense. It explains so much. And I guarantee you it's going to blow your mind. And let's talk about it. So go read it. Come back. It's a lot. It's a lot. Faith does not Speaker 3: oh my god. Oh my god. Speaker 6: Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Speaker 7: Are you even paying attention to me right now? Speaker 3: I read Osama bin Laden's letter to America. Speaker 8: The way this letter is going viral right now is giving me the greatest sense of relief. If you're Muslim and you've lived in the US since 911, you know more truth than the typical citizen. Now it's all coming to light because of Palestine. Speaker 6: Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Speaker 7: Are you even paying attention to me right now?

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2/ The writer adopts a brilliant strategy: using the ideas of American moralists (both left and right) to attack America's moral authority. The goal is to use moral complaints that he knows will resonate with Americans in order the undercut America's moral goodness.

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3/ The attack proceeds like this; He uses the language of the moralists of the American right to attack American social morality. He attacks gambling, homosexuality, and sexual immorality generally; all of which are complaints that resonate with the American right. Then.... https://t.co/hQkDdL3Ah4

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4/ the writer uses the language of the moralists of the American left to attack America on left-wing grounds: He accuses America of poisoning nature, stealing oil, harming the poor, and occupying other nations. All of these complaints resonate deeply with the American left. https://t.co/hIlv5gbQ0S

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5/ Appealing to both the right and left creates the appearance of being positioned above the fray and judging in a non partisan way. This is a clever trick as it attacks America from all angles, and from the inside on the basis of American Hypocrisy. It's very clever. https://t.co/v0NXR4Ba5Z

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6/ Having appealed to left and right, and having subverted American moral authority, he then suggests a scapegoat, a common enemy, a group which can be blamed for this whole mess: The Jews. This js propoganda against the Jews and blaming them for the worlds problems. https://t.co/NzZdFTsooY

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7/ The author clearly is claiming moral authority, and he uses his religion as the basis for his moral authority. He build up their form of Islam as though it were just and pure and true. In this way he can adopt the posture of moral indignation; a powerful rhetorical posture. https://t.co/A7xcHkUsm1

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8/ But remmeber: all of this is propaganda. The author is not arguing honestly, he is trying to push the buttons of Americans in order to demoralize them and get them to turn on their own nation. This isn't an honest letter, he's trying to get people to lost faith in America...

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8/ As an example, the letter (attributed to Bin Laden) decries the American sex industry, while Bin Laden himself had a compound filled with enormous amounts of pornography See the point? The author doesn't believe any of this, he's trying to tickle the ears of anyone listening https://t.co/RoXhqtqJjT

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9/ The goal of this letter is the use the internal conplaints of Americans as a way to undermine American moral authority and demoralize Americans. The writer selectively chooses things thay resonate with Americans and uses those to justify himself, while at the same time...

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10/ Propagandizing against Jews and blaming them for everything. The letter is, now, having it's desired effect on people. Here, Yuri Bezmenov, a former Soviet spy explain the theory behind communist propaganda and subversion tactis. Many of which are present in this letter. https://t.co/khfSQMHV1s

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Ideological subversion is a slow process aimed at changing the perception of reality for every American. The goal is to prevent people from making sensible conclusions to defend themselves, their families, and their country. This brainwashing process occurs in four stages, starting with demoralization. It takes about 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation by exposing multiple generations of American students to Marxist-Leninist ideology without counterbalancing American values. The demoralization process in the United States has been completed for the past 25 years, surpassing expectations. Lack of moral standards allows Americans to demoralize each other, rendering true information ineffective. Only a physical shock can make a demoralized person understand the truth.

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Speaker 0: Mean by it? Ideological subversion is is the slow process, which we call either ideological subversion or active measures, in the language of the KGB, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country. It's a great brainwashing process, which goes very slow, and it's divided in 4 basic stages. The first one being demoralization. It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years which requires to educate 1 generation of students in the country of of of your enemy exposed to the ideology of the enemy. In other words, Marxism Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of of at least 3 generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism. The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already, for the last 25 years. Actually, it's overfulfilled because demoralization now reaches such areas where previously not even Comradhan Dropov and and all his experts would would even dream of such a tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans, thanks to lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures, even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him concentration camp. He will refuse to believe it until he he's going to receive a kick in the in his Fed bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls, then he will understand, but not before that. That's the tragic of the situation of

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11/ The goal of the letter to to turn Americans against their own nation by causing them to lose fsith in their own society and civilization. This will lead them to become demoralized, to not know what is true, and to turn on America. This is what we see happening on tik tok.

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12/ Forces on our culture have been attacking American cinfidence as unwarranted and just disguised power games and all the rest. As such Americans are not used to seeing moral strength, they are used to woke whining, or apologetic tail-between-the-legs conservatism. So...

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13/ That sort of strong, ardent, confident, moral posturing is new to many Americans, and they find it attractive and persuasive There's a lesson in there To close, that letter was pure propaganda, and what these tiktoks show is that America is not ready for the propaganda war https://t.co/oBwFVi1PmU

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Posted - November 8, 2023 at 9:39 AM

Saved - November 8, 2023 at 1:31 PM

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Many universities are no longer liberal, and the problem is worsening. The radicals who have taken over are not persuaded by our ideas. We need a realistic and effective strategy to fight back against this illiberal, authoritarian takeover. John Searle's 1971 book "The Campus War" offers detailed suggestions for university reform, but we need to adapt them to the current situation. Searle, an ardent liberal and free speech defender, foresaw this problem as early as 1993. We must acknowledge the deep-rooted issue and confront the weak academic arguments put forward by leftist activists. The question remains: what do we do about it?

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1/ I like Rikki, and I like the fire; they want liberal values to win. So do I. But, most of the major universities are actually anti-liberal, and fixing that is actually very difficult and no one seems to have a plan which is both realistic and efffective.

@RIKKISCHLOTT - Rikki Schlott

I’ll take the fairy of liberalism over the demon of reactionary authoritatianism any day

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2/ The fact is many if not most of our universities are no longer liberal, and this trend is worsening. These institutions are populated by people who do not support or defend liberalism. The radicals who took over are not persuaded by our ideas. So now what?

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3/ What @realchrisrufo is trying to figure out, and what I am also trying to figure out, is simple: "What is a realistic and effective strategy for fighting back agajnst the illiberal, authoritarian, leftists take-over of our Universities." And I ask everyone "What's the plan?"

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@realchrisrufo 4/ The plans put fourth by most people are either ineffective, or unrealistic. The most detailed set of suggestions for university reform was put fourth by John Searle in his 1971 book "The Campus War." But that was 50 years ago, and I am not sure that strategy would work today https://t.co/BmMYm5Ug6x

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@realchrisrufo 5/ As I am sure @RIKKISCHLOTT and @glukianoff are aware, Searle was the first faculty member at Berkley to join the free speech movement, and he spoke at those rallies in 1959 (pics below) Searle is an ardent Liberal and free speech defender. https://t.co/li61V9z6r0

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@realchrisrufo @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff 6/ As far back as 1971 Searle was concerned about how universities were being sieged by radicals, and in 1993 he wrote about this problem in great detail. I see very few people reading Searle on this in spite of the fact he is perhaps the most cited philosopher of his generation https://t.co/YO33xP2EwF

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@realchrisrufo @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff 7/ As much as I appreciate @Yascha_Mounk @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff @JonHaidt and others doing intellectual geneologies of wokeness, Searle saw all this coming...in 1993 The rest of us, and I include myself here, are embarassingly late to the party. https://t.co/qKaMVbo2rD

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@realchrisrufo @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff @Yascha_Mounk @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose @JonHaidt 8/ The problem here is far deeper than most people are willing to look. Searle pointed out just how deep the rot goes in several published academic articles in the 90's and also in his book "Mind, Language, and Society." He has the same diagnosis @realchrisrufo and I do...

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@realchrisrufo @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff @Yascha_Mounk @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose @JonHaidt 9/ Namely that the academic arguments put forward by the leftists activist-scholars and professors are spectacularly weak and are not out forward in the name of truth and inquirey..they are only put forward for the cynical purpose of achieving leftist political change. https://t.co/19XbzbJJUe

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@realchrisrufo @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff @Yascha_Mounk @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose @JonHaidt 10/ If that is correct, and I think it is, then @realchrisrufo and I are in good company in saying that the problem goes right to the bone of education, and it was cynical leftists laundering ideas who did it. The question is....what do we do about it?

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@realchrisrufo @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff @Yascha_Mounk @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose @JonHaidt 11/ Searle put forward an answer in 1971, but I'm not sure that is programme for university reform would be very effective today. Things are much worse, and I think a much stronger medicine is needed. The question remains "what do we do?" I am open to suggestions. /fin

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Posted - September 1, 2023 at 5:44 AM

Saved - September 1, 2023 at 11:33 AM

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The Logos, a transcendent fixed point of reference, is making a comeback in our culture. Western civilization was built around this central idea, providing objective meaning to the cosmos. However, postmodernism removed the Logos, leaving us without a guiding principle. Without it, we lack objective standards of goodness and orientation. The rejection of postmodernism has sparked a search for meaning and truth. Restoring the Logos can bring back objective standards and the highest good. We must emphasize its importance and demonstrate how its absence leads to absurdity and nihilism. By recognizing the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, we can break free from relativism and embrace transcendent principles. Jordan Peterson and others have advocated for the Logos, and we should follow their lead in reestablishing it as the cornerstone of our culture.

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1/ Oliver Anthony (@AintGottaDollar) reads the bible on @joerogan's Podcast, and Andrew Huberman (@hubermanlab) discusses his practice of prayer on @lexfridman's podcast The Logos as the transcendant fixed point of reference is returning to prominece in our culture A thread 🧵

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The speaker reflects on his journey of finding peace and purpose through faith. He shares how he turned to scripture after feeling hopeless and made a commitment to change his perspective. Instead of focusing on himself, he decided to prioritize serving a higher purpose. He discusses the concept of false idols and the importance of letting go of ego. The speaker emphasizes the guidance he finds in the Bible and how it has helped him restructure his thoughts and habits. He mentions specific verses, like Proverbs 4:20, that have had a profound impact on him. Overall, he views scripture as a source of wisdom and guidance, akin to a father's advice to his child.

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Speaker 0: I'm not the guy that can play in front of 12,000 people on guitar. I would be like I mean, I had never played a paid gig when we when we played the show at the farm market where Jamie Johnson showed up. That was my 1st paid gig. Like, I'm not a guy to go out and play live shows, but I can tell you I was so, like, I was just so at peace being up there. Like, it just felt like that's where I was supposed to be. And that and with all this, it has been like, there's no way that Chris from 6 months ago could handle what's gone on the last 2 weeks, but I feel just so empowered from all of it. And, I don't know. I'm telling you, like, again, I'm not I'm not anybody special, and I'm certainly not here to preach to anybody, but just from coming from somebody who was just really just in a really just fucked up plays, like, and I use that word, like, with discretion. But in this case, it describes, like, where I was, like, that guy found a lot of peace, like, from this book Speaker 1: and from Looking at things in a different way. Yeah. From looking at things through the eyes of Speaker 0: the scripture. And I think for me, it was like I had been in, you know, I'd been in church growing up, and I had been I'd been exposed to all that, but I'd found a lot of, a lot of theatrics and a lot of politics in church and in religion when I was younger, and so it just immediately turned me off to it. So Speaker 1: if you can, take us to, like, what was, like, the day you picked it up? What what was the feeling that you had? Like, what caused you to act? What what was it like when you did it? Speaker 0: Yeah. I mean, I've been reading it here and there off and on, and I had for, like, off and on for a long time, like, because I again, I was introduced to it as a kid, but it was really just like, I remember I'd went to the I went to the ER for everything that was going on. I mean, I thought I was seriously gonna die, like I was having were shooting pains up under my jaw, down in my wrist, in my leg, like just cardiovascular 101 symptoms. Course, I'm 31, I had been, like, I could run 4 miles without stopping, no problems. Like, I knew my heart was strong, but I just Speaker 1: You were just freaking out. Speaker 0: Yeah. But I went and did that, and, I remember being in the truck after that, just like and I just yeah. I just had a breakdown moment. I was just were just crying and, was just just I just felt hopeless, like like, almost the way a child feels hopeless when they, you know, like, you can't find your parent or something. Like a like a 4 year old that can't find his parents or something. I was just like just didn't have anything left in me and, I don't know. I just, I just decided, like, right then and there. I was like, I know I can't do this anymore and but I know I know that I can I know there's things that I need to do, and I just I just just told God? I was like, just let me do it. Like, and I'll give all this shit up, I'll give up the weed, and I'll quit getting drunk, and I'll quit, I'll quit being so angry about things, and I'll just like, well, I'll just call it good. Whatever I've done up from from up until I was 30 or whatever, 31, like, I will just call got good, and I'll start over again, and I'll make him the focus and not me. And I just tried to tried to let my let my ego and everything that I was, just let that go and just focus on because because obviously, like it's not just me, I've seen it with even other people I know, and I see it with celebrities and everything, but I don't know. I just feel like, we're in such a weird place right now in the world, but I feel like God's working through inadvertently through certain people to get to get His point across. Speaker 1: So take me to what what you did. Did you start reading the Bible? Like, what did you do? Speaker 0: I just changed my perspective. Speaker 1: You changed Speaker 0: you you you I quit worrying about me, and I started worrying about what what it is that I'm supposed to do. You know, like it talks in the Bible about, about being a servant and, you know, giving up, I guess my desire and my will and whatever it is that I that I want to do, like, I don't I don't know the best way to describe it, but it's about it's about trying to use what I have as a tool versus doing what I can in the moment to give what give myself whatever satisfaction that it is I'm trying to get, you know. It's about letting trying to let go of your ego, I guess, in a way. And I mean people people pursue that mentality without faith, I mean, it's the idea of there being something bigger than you, but I think inherently all human beings idolize something. Like, it talks in the Bible about false idols. We all have false idols, like whether it's our phone or it's a celebrity or it's something we do or it's our addiction to food or drugs or whatever, but, like, it's very difficult for a human to be the biggest thing on their hierarchy. There's always something above us. Right? Because we're always in pursuit of something bigger than whatever it is in that moment. And I think for me, it was just about taking everything else, all the distractions and all the other things in my life away, and just ensuring that at least and look, I'm we're all we're all we all sin, and we all do stupid things, like, we're all just people. Nobody's special or righteous. People sometimes act like they're special and righteous, but we're all just the same thing, like, but it's just about trying to make that make that my idol. Make make make God in the concept of what it is that He wants done on this earth my idol versus anything else, you know? Like, we all serve we all serve some master whether we realize it or not, so why not let it be the master that it's above Speaker 1: all. And so when you made this transformation in your mind, did you then start reading scripture, like, regularly, like, what did you start doing? Yeah. Well That was different. Speaker 0: Well, what's what really I guess it's like now I don't read it. I don't read it because I feel like I should read it. To be a better person, it's like now I I try to read it for the guidance within it. And I'm still in the infancy stages of a lot of this, like I've read a lot of Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes, and Luke, and, there's other good books, but just trying to, I don't know, like trying to restructure, I guess, on a granular level, like, I guess the neural pathways in my brain that certain habits and certain ways of thought, like I've tried to retrain that, you know, like there's there's things that says like, and I'll be very brief with this, I promise, but like one thing ironically it's, Proverbs 4/20, which I thought you like. So if there's anything better, preach. My son, pay attention to what I say. Turn your ear to my words. Do not let them out of your sight. Keep them within your heart, for they are life to those who find them and health the one's whole body. Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Keep your mouth free from perversity, keep corrupt talk far from your lips, let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you, give careful thought to the past for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. Do not turn to the right or the left. Keep your foot from evil. But, Speaker 1: that's pretty fucking profound. Speaker 0: But the whole book of Proverbs is like that, like it's not preachy, it's not it's not what you think, like it's it's like it's good guidance. It's like good guidance that you would want a father to give to his son.

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In this video, the speaker discusses a meditation practice where they reflect on the different roles they play in life. They list various roles, such as being an animal, a man, a scientist, a teacher, a friend, a brother, and a son. They find this practice helpful in understanding the different contexts they exist in and the roles they still want to fulfill. The speaker also talks about their prayer practice, which they were initially hesitant to discuss. They explain that prayer helps them address aspects of themselves that they couldn't resolve on their own. They pray to a higher power to help remove their character defects and allow them to show up better in their various roles. They emphasize that prayer is a personal and individual experience, and it has brought them clarity and helped them be better to themselves and others. The speaker believes that believing in something bigger than oneself is important to avoid self-destruction. They acknowledge that prayer operates at a deeper and more powerful level than other tools like meditation. The speaker concludes by sharing a personal experience of how prayer helped them navigate a difficult situation and find the right answers. They emphasize that asking for help is not about expecting a magical solution but about seeking guidance to take right action.

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Speaker 0: And I have a a meditation that I do that actually is where I think through what the different roles that I play. Mhmm. So I like I start very basic. I say, okay, I'm an animal like we are. We are like biologically animals, right? Human. You know, I'm a man. I'm a scientist. I'm a teacher. I'm a friend. I'm a brother. I'm a son. I go through this I have this list, and I think about the different roles that I have and the roles that I still want in my life going forward that I haven't yet fulfilled. It just takes me it's sort of an inventory of where I've been, where I'm at, in where I'm going, as they say. And I don't know why I do it, but I started doing it this last year, I think because, It helps me understand just how many different, contexts I have to exist in and and and remind myself that there's still more that I haven't done that I'm excited about. So within each of those contexts, there's, like, things that you want to kind of accomplish to define that. Yeah. And I'm ambitious, so I think, you know, I'm a brother. I have have an older sister and I love her tremendously. And I think I want to be the best brother I can be to her, which means maybe a call, maybe just, You know, we do an annual trip together for our birthdays. Our birthdays are close together. We always go to New York for our birthdays as we've gone for the last 3, 4 years. Like, really like reminding myself of that role, not because I'll forget, but because I have all these other roles, I'll get pulled into. I say the first one, I'm an animal because I have to remember that I have a body that needs care. Like any of us. I need sleep. I need food. I need hydration. I need that I'm human, that that the brain of a human is is marvelously complex, but also, marvelously, self defeating at times. And so I've been thinking about these things in the context of the roles, and the the whole thing takes about 4, 5 minutes, and I just find it brings me a certain amount of clarity that then allows me to ratchet into the day. The prayer piece, Yeah. I'm a little I've I think I've been reluctant to talk about, until now, because I don't believe in pushing religion on people. And, and I think that, and I'm not, it's a highly individual thing, and I do believe that one can be an atheist and still pray, or agnostic and still pray. But, for me, it really came about through understanding that there are certain aspects of myself that I just couldn't resolve on my own. And no matter how much therapy, no matter how much and I haven't done a lot of it, but no matter how much plant Plant medicine or other forms of medicine or exercise or, podcasting or science or friendship or any of that, I was just not going to resolve. And so, I started this because Someone close to me, said, a male friend said prayer is powerful. And I said, well, how? And he said, I don't know how, but if you can get it can allow you to get outside yourself, Let you give up control and at the same time take control. I don't even like saying take control, but the whole notion is that Again, forgive me, but there's no other way to say it. The whole notion is that, you know, like God works through us, whatever God is to you. He, him, her, whatever, life force, nature, whatever it is to you, right, that it works through us. And so I do a prayer, I'll just describe it where I ask, I make an ask, to help remove my defects, my character defects. I pray to God to help remove my character defects so that I can show up, better in all the roles of my life, and do good work, like to which for me is learning and teaching. Learning and teaching, and and so you might say, well, how is that different than a meditation? Well, I'm acknowledging that there is something that bigger than me, bigger than nature as I understand it that I cannot understand or control nor do I want to, and I'm just giving over to that. And Does that make me less of a scientist? I sure as hell hope not. I certainly know. I there's the head of our neurosciences at Stanford until recently. I you should talk to him directly about it. Bill Newsome has talked about his religious life. For me, it's really a way of getting outside myself and then understanding how I fit into this bigger picture. And it's and the character defects part is real. Right? I'm a human. I have defects like I got a lot of flaws in me like anybody, but, and trying to acknowledge them and asking for help in removing them not magically, but through right action through my right action. So I do that every morning, and, I have to say that it's helped. It's helped a lot. It's helped me be better to myself, be better to other people. I still make mistakes. But it's a it's becoming a bigger, bigger part of my life, and I never thought I'd talk like this. But I think It's clear to me that if we don't believe in something Again, it doesn't have to be traditional standardized religion, but if we don't believe in something bigger than ourselves, we At some level will self destruct. I really think so. And it's powerful in a way that All the other stuff meditation, all the tools is not because it's really operating at a much deeper and bigger level. And, Yeah, I think that's all I can talk about it, mostly because I'm still working out. The scientist in me wants to understand how it works, and I want to understand and the point is to just go, you know, there's For lack of a better language for it, there's higher power than me and what I can control. I'm giving up control on certain things. And somehow That restores a sense of agency for for right action, better action. I think perhaps a part of that is, just the humility that comes with acknowledging there's something bigger and more powerful than you. And then you can't control everything. Yeah. It's I mean, that you go through life as a hard driving person, forward center of mass. I remember being that way since I was little. It's like in Legos. I'm like, all the Legos. And I was like, on the weekends, Learning about medieval weapons and then giving lectures about it in class when I was 5 or 6 years old. We're learning about tropical fish and cataloging all of them at the store and then organizing it and Make my dad drive me or my mom drive me to some fish store and then spending all my time there until they throw me out all of that, but I also remember my entire life, I would secretly pray when things were good and things weren't good, but mostly when things weren't good because it's important to pray. For me, it's important to pray each morning regardless, but when things weren't right, I couldn't make sense of them. I would secretly pray, but I felt kind of ashamed of that for whatever reason. And then it was once in college, I distinctly remember I was having a hard time with a number of things, and I took a run down to Sands Beach UC Santa Barbara. And I remember I just I was like, I don't know if I even have the right to to do this, but I'm going to just praying. I just prayed for the ability to be as brutally honest with myself and with other people as I possibly could be about a particular situation I was in at that time. I mean, I think now it's probably safe to say. I'd gone off to college because of a high school girlfriend. Essentially, she was my family more frankly, more than my biological family was at a certain stage of life. And we'd reached a point where we were diverging and it was it was incredibly painful. It was like losing everything I had. And it was like, what do I do? How do I manage this? Do I You know, I was ready to quit and join the fire service just to support us so that we could move forward. And, and, you know, it's just but praying, just saying I can't figure this out on my own. It's sort of like I can't figure this out on my own, and how frustrating that is that no number of friends could tell me or and Inner wisdom couldn't tell me, and eventually it led me to to the right answers. And she and I are are friendly friends to this day. She's happily married with a child, and, we're on good terms, but I think it's a Scary thing, but it's the best thing when you I can't control all of this. And asking for help, I think is also the piece. You're not asking for some magic hand to come down and take care of it. You're asking for the help to come through you, right, so that your body is used to do these right works, right action.

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2/ As @jordanbpeterson explains here, the logos was the central idea around which western civilization was developedThe "LOGOS" : it is the divine thing around which the cosmos is ordered, which gives the cosmos objective meaning, and makes the cosmos intelligible. https://t.co/jnXRt7JGcg

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Western society has its roots in two main sources: the Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions. The Greeks believed in an intrinsic order in the world, an objective and benevolent structure that could be understood through intellectual inquiry. This idea, known as the logos, formed the basis for the Greek proposition that the cosmos is comprehensible. The Judeo-Christian concept of the logos added the notion that humans have a divine element as courageous exploratory communicators. The combination of these two ideas laid the foundation for the emergence of science, as it recognized the intelligibility of the universe's fundamental structure and the ability of human logos to interact with it.

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Speaker 0: You know, Western society really derived from 2 sources in some real sense, 2 fundamental sources. Suppose you could add Rome as a third, but there's a Greek stream and a Judeo Christian stream. And they both developed the idea of the logos and logos is the root word of logic. And so forget about the Judeo Christian logos for a minute. On the Greek side, there was this deep idea developed by Greek philosophers that the world had an intrinsic order. That at the bottom of of reality itself, especially on the objective front, the more objective front, there was a palpable, discernible and benevolent order that would make itself accessible to the imagination and intellectual inquiry of human beings so that we the cosmos was comprehensible. Right? That's a that's a great Greek proposition and and that's the proposition of this intrinsic logos. Now on top of that was laid the Judeo Christian idea of the logos, which was something like the notion that the divine element of the human being was that of courageous exploratory communicator. That's the Logos idea. And so you can see out of the combination of those 2 ideas that something like science could emerge because you'd have the notion that the universe was intelligible in its fundamental structure, that's the intrinsic logos of reality. And then that the human beings' logos could interact with that and produce intelligible order. And so, anyways, I got to talk about the Greek idea of the logos, insofar as I understand it, at the foot of at the steps of the Ephesus

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@jordanbpeterson 3/ The issue our culture has been struggling with most is the issue of *MEANING.* Both the sense of telos/purpose (aka the meaning of life, or why are we here?) and semantic and linguistic meaning. The reason for this is that postmodernism ejected the logos from the culture.

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@jordanbpeterson 4/ The logos is the divine reason implicit in the cosmos, ordering it and giving it form and meaning. Without the logos there is no transcendant principle to order reality and render it intelligible, and no fixed point of reference for us to use to navigate reality.

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@jordanbpeterson 5/ Without transcendant principles there is no way to decide which things are objectively *GOOD.* With no fixed point of reference there is nothing objective by which judge whether we are moving forwards or backwards. Without the logos there is no way to orient ourselves👇 https://t.co/7rsF58Y9EP

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In this video, the speaker wraps up with an analogy from George Carlin. Carlin talks about moments when we get disoriented, like picking up an empty suitcase by mistake. He then uses the example of sitting in a car next to another car that starts moving. To figure out if it's your car or the other one, you tap the brake and look for something stationary. Carlin compares this to postmodernism, where nothing is fixed or stable. There are no absolutes, no eternal truth, and everything is constantly changing. In postmodernism, meaning, truth, perspectives, knowledge, and morals are all fluid. There are no immovable foundations or fixed points to rely on. This is the philosophical situation in America.

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Speaker 0: So where does that leave us? Well, I'd like to use to wrap this up with 1 last analogy from mister George Carlin, of all people. Mister Conductor. Okay. So he's doing a comedy special, and he he's doing a little bit about things that we've all done, and he uses an example of, like, Have you ever gone to pick up an, a an empty suitcase, but you think it's funny and go, He's talking about little moments like that that we all share, the little times we get It's oriented, and he uses this argument, and he says, have you ever been sitting in a railroad station? There's another train sitting right next to you, and one of the trains starts moving, and you're not Sure which one it is? Well, I'd like to do something with that. Imagine you're in a car, and the car next to you begins to move, And for a brief second, you're not sure whether it's you or the car next to you. So you tap the brake and the car is still moving. So what do you do? You're gonna look around at, like, a building or at a mountain or at a street sign, something that's not moving, so you can get your bearings. You're gonna say, okay. I'm not moving. K. Now imagine you are in your car, and you are sitting next to you you are sitting there, right? And next to you, the car starts moving, and for a split second you are not sure whether it's you or the car next to you and you tap the brake. So now you go looking around for something to get your bearings, you look at the building, and the building moves. And then you look at the streetlight, and the streetlight moves. And the mountain moves, and the sun moves, and the Street moves and everything is moving. That is Postmodernism. Nothing is fixed. Nothing is stable. There are no movable pillars. There's no absolutes. There's no eternal truth. There's no absolute meaning in language and no absolute frame of reference. In postmodernism, everything moves. Meaning changes. The truth is ever shifting. Perspectives are constantly altering. Knowledge is ever changing. Morals are ethereal and subject To whim, nothing has any objective, universal, absolute, fixed meaning and when you try to catch your bearings, There's no immovable foundations for you to lean on. There's no conceptual bearings. There's no immovable pillars, and there's no fixed point for you to use to catch your bearings. And this is the philosophical situation in America.

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@jordanbpeterson 6/ What we are seeing now is that in the arts (represented here by Oliver Anthony/@AintGottaDollar) and in the sciences (as represented here by Andrew Huberman/@hubermanlab) is the return to transcendance...to something that is greater than us, that is beyond us, that orients us.

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@jordanbpeterson @AintGottaDollar @hubermanlab 7/ We have seen that the rejection of postnodern philosophy that rejected the logos from our culture. The relativistic, nihilistic, hopeless, meaningless situation that the philosophy of postnodernity created has created and enormous search for meaning...and truth.

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@jordanbpeterson @AintGottaDollar @hubermanlab 8/ The deconstructive philosophy of postmodernism left us with no fixed point of reference to oreint ourselves, and no transcendant principles to determine what is good. And thus postmodernism leaves us with nothing to aim at. And this leads to nihilism....

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@jordanbpeterson @AintGottaDollar @hubermanlab 9/ With nothing to order reality, and nothing objective to aim at, we lose objective meaning and a are left with a society of absurd nihilism. And the only thing strong enough to pull the sword of objective meaning from the stone of a nihilistic postmodern world is the LOGOS.

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@jordanbpeterson @AintGottaDollar @hubermanlab 10/ If this continues the logos will return to prominence in our culture, and thus we will have the return of objective standards for truth, goodness and morality In that case the stage will be set for the re-emergence of the "Summum Bonem" (aka the highest good) in our culture

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11/ If the LOGOS returns to prominence and the idea of *The Highest Good* re-emerges in culture we will be more back than we have ever been before We will reach unfathomable levels of being back in art, science, law, technology, and philosophy We will have never been so back.

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12/ We may see the sort of being back that has not been seen since Aristotle. However, all of this hinges on re-establishing the Logos as the locus of western civilization... Ths opportunity is there, and people hunger for it. So what do we do? Well...

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13/ We must advance the doctrine of the Logos by stressing it's the importance, value, and necessity. We must show how the loss of the logos lead to the absurd and nihilistic 🤡🌍 we see around us Then we must have a way of showing people how the logos shows up or manifests...

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14/ We can do this by pointing toward examples of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. I think humans are, as @ChrisWillx says, "meaning machines." I think that by our very nature and what we are as humans we are able to recognize the true, good, and beautiful.

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@ChrisWillx 15/ Once the spell of postmodernism is broken and people are freed from the grip of it's relativism and nihilism, they will recognize the transcendant principles and fixed point of reference which lie at the heart of the true, good, and beautiful and make them what they are.

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16/ As I mentioned before, @jordanbpeterson has done excellent work of espousing the doctrine of the logos. Here @PageauJonathan does excellent work expositing the doctrine of the Logos👇 https://t.co/INNaLUO4lC

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According to Saint Maximus, all things have a logos, which is their reason for existing, purpose, origin, and end. Each thing also has multiple logi, which are the different qualities of things. These logi come together to sustain the existence of the world and create a map of meaning. They don't exist independently but rather as they are joined together in our encounter with the world. For example, a sunset has various logi like light, color, and the elements involved. The unity of these logi is what makes the experience real, and human beings are seen as the laboratory where the world finds its cohesion. They are a microcosm, condensing the cosmos and giving it meaning.

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Speaker 0: And so Saint Maximus explained that all things have a logos which are which is its reason for existing, its purpose, and its origin all at once, and even its end. So it's all those things at once. And on top of that, each thing has a multitude of logi. That's a word you've probably never heard before. The logi is the plural of logos. And so the the the logi, they're like the different qualities of things. So the the blueness of the blue, or the slowness of the slow, and all of these logis are brought together. They're woven together, we could say, to sustain the existence of the world. It's really a map of meaning, to use George's words. Now these logi, these essences, let's say, of things, they don't exist independently in the same way that scientists believe things exist out there. Rather they they exist as they come together, as they are joined together in our encounter with the world in a pattern, we could say. So we could say for example, like that a sunset has a certain amount of log view. Maybe even an indefinite amount of characteristics of a sunset, but as they come together to be the experience of the sunset, that's how we experience reality. That's how we become into contact with reality. So all these qualities, let's say light, color, vertical, horizontal, and the things, the the sun, the the sky, the earth, all of these things and I could go on. There's an indefinite amount of them. What's important in making that experience real is how all those logis are united. So and in a way, they're they're united within us. And human beings, for Saint Maximus, are seen as this laboratory where the whole world finds its cohesion. And he expresses it in the sense that the human being is a microcosm. You could say a condensation of the cosmos, the place where the cosmos comes together to make sense.

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@jordanbpeterson @PageauJonathan 17/ We need to follow these examples and begin the work of restablishing the logos as the lynch pin of our culture. /fin

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@jordanbpeterson @PageauJonathan PS/ I do not claim here that @AintGottaDollar @hubermanlab @ChrisWillx are im agreement with me. My only claim is that, as far as I can tell, these guys recognize something transcendant, something beyond themselves...and *I* am suggesting that the logos is that thing.

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