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this is so embarrassing

One thing I won’t do is hide behind vague commentary and hedging. I said what I said. My predictions are clear. If I’m wrong I’ll eat the loss and mea culpa. You can ask Grok to compare every prediction I’ve made since Liberation Day No one bats a thousand. But so far my track has been tracking. “Brazil to the right next. Iran will escalate and regime change. Cuba probably just for fun. Midterm Republican sweep 🫡”

It’s my strong suspicion that the Marxist dialectic hasn’t taken hold in Euro-America and Russia in the way it has in China, Vietnam, and parts of the Caribbean and South America because a dialectical current already runs through the ancient philosophical and spiritual traditions of those societies, including their African and Indigenous inheritances. That current is largely missing from the dominant Euro-American worldview, which makes our task much more difficult: we’re trying to introduce dialectical thinking into societies thoroughly captured by metaphysical idealism.

If there is one lesson the professional class needs to learn about the last 15 years, it is this: There is *nothing* more radicalizing in modern politics than a middle-middle class person observing somone on public assistance outbidding them for middle-class experiences

This is the sort of stuff you can accomplish when your country is run by a Communist party

I want to invite people into a thought experiment, one that I suspect many will find insane. The thought experiment: China is more democratic than the US. Numerous *Western* surveys have now found that the Chinese government enjoys more public support than the US government. On the question of legitimacy, China fares better. China also does better at securing basic economic freedoms and meeting the material needs of its poor. What's the point of the ballot box when politics becomes performative and politicians aren't held accountable when they fail to deliver universal housing, healthcare, or education? I suspect a big part of the explanation for the Chinese government's commitment to public service is that top-level politicians in China need a proven track record in the domain of public service delivery. The Chinese political system is highly meritocratic, unlike the American one. Becoming a top-level politician in the CPC requires decades of bureaucratic progression. Of course, China isn't more democratic than the US on every measure. The US has a free press and open competition for political power, although both of these are highly influenced by corporate interests. While I am not convinced there's a clear answer to this thought experiment, dismissing China as a tyrannical dictatorship is ignorant. There are examples of failed authoritarian states around the world (I've lived in one), and China is not one of them.

One thing I won’t do is hide behind vague commentary and hedging. I said what I said. My predictions are clear. If I’m wrong I’ll eat the loss and mea culpa. You can ask Grok to compare every prediction I’ve made since Liberation Day No one bats a thousand. But so far my track has been tracking. “Brazil to the right next. Iran will escalate and regime change. Cuba probably just for fun. Midterm Republican sweep 🫡”

War kick.com/infrared/videos/01a… @InfraHaz is correct. The moon landing was fake. I actually don't doubt that we may have been to the moon; but the way in which that was presented to the public in the 60s, 70s and 80s was entirely fictional. I am absolutely convinced that the technology that allegedly got us there, absolutely could not have got us there. If we've been there, we used the tech that was developed at Area 51. Not that stupid ass lUnAr MoDuLe. Outside of that, intellectually riveting stream about the connection between the ancient sea economies, and how that laid the foundation of speculative investment, nihilism, chattel slavery, and Cartesianism. One of his better lectures.

In nearly half a century, China hasn't dropped a single bomb on foreign territory. If China has become imperialist without coercion, without war, then we're throwing Lenin's theory out the window. socialistchina.org/2026/10/0…

The older and oldest colleges/universities that used to be the champions of liberal arts education in America - Harvard chief among them - are no longer epicenters of liberal education. They haven’t been so for the better part of the last century. Their self-conscious institutional rejection of classical liberal arts is well documented. See, e.g., Harvard’s 1945 report, “General Education in a Free Society,” which described education as developing “the good man, the good citizen, and the useful man.” American philosophical pragmatism, championed by secular humanist John Dewey, eclipsed liberal arts education in almost all of the oldest and (formerly) best colleges and universities in America. TAC, Christendom, U Dallas, Franciscan U (honors program), Belmont Abbey (honors college), St John’s, U of Chicago (the Core), and a handful of others are the last remaining institutions offering a truly liberal arts education.

Our ruling class is trying to import the south Korea gender wars model, and create endless cultural divisions as societal collapse accelerates. We must not let Cornell become the catalyst for this process. Instead we have to galvanize a revived movement against Epsteinite abuse.

Ah I found the article lol. Even worse than I remembered. There's basically zero musical substance to it at all, just whining. Surprise surprise, the author appears to have no musical training and his attempts to engage formally with music are risible thomasaquinas.edu/news/dr-jo…

The real reason why Tiananmen is censored in china is to protect the US from the embarrassment of a failed colonial coup. The bilateral relationship was considered more important for chinese development.