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The Matthew Principle retweeted
Pre-modern Germanic historian 1500 years ago were able to more accurately describe movements of his people than 20th century historians who instead worked hard to deny it until ancient genomes made it impossible.
Many such cases.
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The Matthew Principle retweeted
New numbers from Denmark about second generation immigrants from the Middle East:
They are exceedingly criminal and violent.
More than 5% of second generation immigrants from Syria aged 20-24 are convicted for grievous assault within a 4 year period.
The Matthew Principle retweeted
There's just no serious doubt that the "rape" prosecution of Russell Brand, for which he has now been convicted and jailed, was first precipitated by his very public turn toward vaguely right-wing (and admittedly often wacky) political and religious commentary.
In 2022, the Times (UK) published a big feature lambasting him for his purported transformation into some sort of dodgy right-wing "conspiracy guru."
Then in 2023 comes the big expose about Brand's allegedly sordid history of "sexual assault" and "abuse." The Times claimed they first started hearing of such allegations in 2019, but apparently had little urgency to follow up for several years.
Then all of the sudden, in "autumn 2022, Channel 4’s Dispatches formally began collaborating with The Sunday Times to investigate Brand."
Another notable event that occurred in "autumn 2022": Russell Brand was announced as a featured broadcaster on the right-wing (ish) video platform Rumble, alongside the likes of Donald Trump Jr. and Dan Bongino.
Soon enough, boom — here comes the newly frenzied "investigative" activity by the joint Times/Channel 4 task force — eventually yielding the big splashy 2023 "documentary" (more like "slopumentary”) which today they are bragging "led to" Brand's conviction in London for various sexual assault and rape offenses.
(He was also acquitted on multiple counts, in a very curious mixed verdict. NONE of the allegations aired in that 2023 propagandocumentary were ultimately charged at trial.)
Really makes U think...
The Matthew Principle retweeted
Young men with kids voted to the right of men without kids by 40 points.
Young women with kids voted to the right of women without kids by 35 points
ALT Bar chart: vote margins of voters 18-44 by sex and kids. Source: CNN Voter Poll, Nov 4, 2026. @smirkley
The Matthew Principle retweeted
Roughly 6% of Trump voters switched to Dems, 3% of Kamala voters switched to GOP for a total 3 point gain.
But Dems won the midterms by 16 points! Almost all through turnout of non voters, Dems and independents.
The Matthew Principle retweeted
Women are 5x more likely than men to exhibit in-group bias (meaning that women are substantially more likely to automatically prefer another woman for things like job hiring, political candidates, etc.).
Black people are also more likely than white people to exhibit explicit in-group preference (favoring other black people over white people in the situations listed above).
This even extends to things like jury decisions. Female jurors and black jurors are more likely to return a not-guilty verdict when the defendant is a member of their own group, while white men do not show the same level of in-group bias.
White men are the least tribalistic and the least likely of these groups to make decisions based on race or sex, yet they have become the most vilified in our society.
The Matthew Principle retweeted
Assimilation is when the natives vote for one guy and the immigrants vote for a different guy on ethnic grounds
The Matthew Principle retweeted
I'm going to be totally frank in the moment about where I think we are right now. This isn't a black pill, it's just an honest assessment of how hard everything is about to become. It's me telling you the house is on fire, so you have a chance to save what's most important to you.
You see, the thing about "decline is a choice" is there comes a point, after you've imported or tolerated or indulged so many people who hate you, and so many people who just want to rob or take advantage of you, that the choice is no longer yours. It's theirs. That's what a democracy with indiscriminate suffrage is and ours is entrenched.
Everything is going to start to change, starting right now, as you read these words. This was not an election that Republicans merely lost. This was the implosion of the Republican party and the total discrediting of the MAGA movement as an electoral force. I'm not going to cast blame or point fingers, because it doesn't matter. There's no point in an election post-mortem because you are never again going to get the chance to vote your way out of this anyway. That window closed tonight.
The GOP's current brand is dead. When they rebrand, which they will, because it's a party run by cockroaches, it's going to be surrender packaged in platitudes. From today forward, if you're a normative white person under 60, a right winger, an America First type, you will no longer have viable or serious electoral political representation. They won't let you have it. Neither party. There will be the left moving the center to them and there will be some cuckhold pumping a fake set of brakes from his chair in the corner as he greedily feasts on his last meal.
The takeover of the GOP has failed. We didn't have the critical mass and all rushing the cockpit got us was a smoldering crater in a field and promises of more pain to come. The people who cheered Charlie Kirk getting shot in the neck are in the driver's seat now. They're never going to forgive you for disrupting their great arc of history. They are going to kill, imprison, ruin, and crush you. Then, they're coming for your kids. This is non-negotiable for them. They are going to salt the earth and make sure nothing like MAGA can ever grow here again. I promise you this.
Nothing resembling the America that was is coming back. Everything after after the 120th Congress is seated will be something new and unprecedented. The American nation's continuity with our ancestors will be severed, just like they wanted.
Be ready. Collect friends. Make plans. Execute on them. Nobody is coming to save you.
The Matthew Principle retweeted
The Star Wars story accidentally contains the seeds of this transcendence btw. The galaxy is not saved when Luke conquers his hate and becomes a pacifist. The galaxy is saved when Vader turns his hate towards the Emperor and kills him out of love for his son.
Yes, Star Wars at its most mythopoetic would have transcended both the Jedi and the Sith. Luke would have gone through the Freudian integration of the id and superego by the ego, becoming the kind of man Nietzsche called a “Caesar with the soul of Christ.” This is what the final trilogy ought to have been. Unfortunately for us, no one (and especially not George Lucas) has any idea what that man would be like.
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The demonization of memorization is one of the top ~3 reasons that we have become retarded as a society.
Memorization is like pumping iron for your brain and you inevitably also come to understand/internalize what you memorize.
It shouldn’t be limited to vocabulary and times tables either. It should be poems in foreign languages, the ability to trace maps by hand from memory, timelines and dates, etc.
The Matthew Principle retweeted
When I was growing up, Australia didn't have Africans macheting people to death, carjacking them, breaking into their homes.
Crazy how much things change with mass immigration. 🙃
The Matthew Principle retweeted
In the United States, white people earn significantly more than black people on average.
But as soon as you compare blacks and whites with the same IQ, that gap disappears like magic...
This is one of the clearest pieces of evidence that systemic racism isn't what's driving the raw overall income disparity between the two groups.
The Matthew Principle retweeted
Aesthetically Alexandre de Moraes must easily be in any Top 5 International Villains list. Liquid Castlevania-core in his iconic trademark cape. Where else would you get shadowy éminence grise lusotropical commissars who dress like vampires? Nowhere else but Brazil - what a treat
Judge Alexandre de Moraes signed an order demanding Bolsonaro hand over his passport WITHIN SEVEN MINUTES of the close of voting. Before votes had even been counted.
What did he know about the vote results that enabled him to make this order within seven minutes of polls closing - seemingly confident that Bolsonaro had already lost?
The Matthew Principle retweeted
There's some evidence east asians are resistant to blue light and how it can effect on circadian rhythms.
Which may explain heavy bright white interior lights at home, LED cities in China or asian restaurants. And their heavy screen and cell phone use isn't disrupting them like it is disrupting other people.
The Matthew Principle retweeted
Ce qui est inquiétant en France, ce n'est pas tellement la situation économique ou politique, mais le profond décalage entre la réalité et le logiciel mental des français.
Personne n'est mentalement préparé à ce qui va arriver. Le breakdown mental sera cataclysmique pour beaucoup, comparable à celui d'un communiste convaincu vivant la chute de l'URSS.
🇫🇷 France's protests are turning into something MUCH BIGGER than a weekend of unrest.
Huge crowds are flooding the streets over soaring living costs and concerns about democracy.
In Paris alone, police counted 110,000 demonstrators.
And the movement isn't winding down.
Protest organizers are already building toward a nationwide GENERAL STRIKE on November 5.
What started as street protests is becoming a sustained challenge to the French government.
Writer: Oliver
The Matthew Principle retweeted
The older you get the more you realize that politics are psychology: the vast majority of people believe what they do as an extension of their ingrained personalities.
They don’t reason from first principles, or adjust policy based on data: they’re woke lefties or tradcons or AI doomers or accelerationists because the political shoe fits the mental foot. Few ever change sides, and if so only after contact with the results of their politics (and usually not even then).
Because to do so wouldn’t be updating an opinion, but changing their entire self, and nobody intentionally casts themselves into that confusing abyss.
The Matthew Principle retweeted
"Hispanic" is an administrative categorization and not a real ethnic group.
Cubans are very different phenotypically and culturally than Mexicans. This should not be shocking.
The Matthew Principle retweeted
Seriously. By “trooning out” (non-derogatory), Elon’s daughter indirectly killed like 14 million people.
The Matthew Principle retweeted
Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign is another counter-example to the claim that prohibition doesn't work. It massively reduced mortality among men, but also crime and various other alcohol-related problems. They only reverted to previous levels after it was abandoned.
Sure, it was a huge mistake in the context of the time because it destroyed the consumer market and the state budget, but this was due to the specific Soviet context, with extreme reliance of the budget on the turnover tax for revenue and the rigidity of the planned economy.
Excise taxes on alcohol are already pretty high in most developed countries, but as much as I enjoy drinking, there is probably a good case for raising them even more. This is arguably true even in countries that are past the point where the elasticity of tax revenue they generate with respect to the rate has become negative.
