A company with infinite wealth can "restore" a single vehicle? Noooo way

Cyber truck of Theseus

I keep telling you guys not to visit da UP.... Look at what happens when you don't listen to me....

Lib alert

Lake of the Clouds October 2022

🇺🇸🔥⚡️- Apocalyptic scenes of the Los Angeles skyline due to the ongoing and expanding wildfires.

Par: 2 Hours
Pro-Tip: Harken back to Algebra 1 and its 10 minutes

Fasting is good for you and you should probably do it more often than you do.

Restaurants should not be allowed to let their patrons customize entrees.

Today's word of the day is miscevoration: the deviant, anti-nomian practice of consuming food from multiple restaurants in a single meal

Someplace special, eh. TV 6's 2024 in review

Today's the day.... Just went for an hour walk with no shoes. Not even close to getting frostbite.

Daily Poor - 1
Science - 0

What are some of the worst archetypes in the far right online space?

I'll start with "liberal but racist."

Inb4 "poor but owns a sauna."

We have actually contrived to invent a new kind of hypocrite. The old hypocrite, Tartuffe or Pecksniff, was a man whose aims were really worldly and practical, while he pretended that they were religious.The new hypocrite is one whose aims are really religious, while he pretends that they are worldly and practical.

— G.K. Chesterton

Nationalism — that great banner of the supposed right — began as pure revolutionary poison. The "nation" was invented specifically to destroy proper authority, replacing divine right and natural hierarchy with a nefarious abstraction: "the will of the people."

Consider: When revolutionaries spoke of "the nation," they meant precisely the destruction of traditional order — the elimination of proper regional distinctions, the abolition of natural social classes, the replacement of concrete loyalties with abstract citizenship. The "nation" was created explicitly to destroy the very things modern nationalists claim to defend.

The nationalists saw their kings as enemies of "the nation," and fought bloody wars to usurp them. Furthermore, even when early nationalists tolerated kings, they did so only insofar as monarchs could be reimagined as "servants of the nation" rather than divinely appointed rulers. A king's legitimacy no longer stemmed from God or dynasty or genuine authority and rulership, but from his supposed embodiment of national will — a profound demotion wrapped in superficial deference. The nation itself became the true sovereign, with the monarch reduced to a symbolic figurehead or administrative functionary. This was nationalism's twin assault on kingship: for those who resisted, the guillotine and the firing squad; for those who submitted, a more insidious death — stripped of true authority, paraded about as mere servants of an abstraction, their divine right replaced by the fickle approval of "the people." Whether through blood or humiliation, nationalism meant the death of kingship, a degradation of proper authority into revolutionary chaos, i.e., democracy, leftism.

When someone wields nationalism as a supposed right wing principle, ask them to explain why they're wielding a blade forged specifically to cut the throats of kings.