When Mr. Poor says you can't swear in chat anymore

"Be a part of the bubble," they said

I’m not afraid to calmly assert today, at 60 years of age, after all my experiences with men and books, with speeches and situations, that the great speech by Donoso on dictatorship on January 4th, 1849 is the greatest speech in world literature. And with that I make no exceptions to Pericles and Demosthenes, nor for Cicero or Mirabeau or Burke.

— Carl Schmitt, writing to Ernst Jünger.

Juan Donoso Cortés' masterfully describes the origin of revolution:

No, gentlemen, it is not in slavery, it is not in misery that the germ of revolutions lies, the germ of revolutions lies in the overexcited desires of the masses, caused by the politicians who exploit and benefit from them:

‘And you shall be like the rich.’ That is the formula of the socialist revolutions against the middle classes.

‘And you shall be like the nobles.’ That is the formula of the revolutions of the middle classes against the noble classes.

‘And you will be like kings.’ That is the formula of the revolutions of the noble classes against the kings.

Finally, gentlemen, ‘and you will be like Gods.’ That is the formula of the first rebellion of the first man against God. From Adam, the first rebel, to Proudhon, the last impious, that is the formula of all revolutions.

Throughout his masterful speech, Cortés builds an understanding of the modern choice between the revolution and the dictatorship; he works through historical examples of both, outlines the roles of countries like England and France within the modern stream of revolutions that has carried us to our present location, describes the relationship between religion and political repression, and argues that liberty came into the world with Jesus Christ, and as religious faith declines, despotism becomes inevitable. The speech ends with a choice not between dictatorship and liberty, which no longer exists in Europe, but "between the dictatorship of insurrection and the dictatorship of the Government, ... the dictatorship that comes from below and the dictatorship that comes from above." He favors the latter because it comes from a cleaner, more serene place; in short, he chooses order over chaos, finding that the dictatorship of the sword is more noble than the dictatorship of the dagger.

If the above interested you, check out the full speech:

https://t.me/PoorReads/31

I have decided to make some high schoolers read this in its entirety.

Who's ready for some good old fashioned American-born communist propaganda?

The question asked of Communists more frequently than any other, if we can judge from the Hearst newspapers, is this:

“If you don’t like this country, why don’t you go back where you came from?”

The truth is, if you insist on knowing, Mr. Hearst, we Communists like this country very much. We cannot think of any other spot on the globe where we would rather be than exactly this one. We love our country.

Hmmmm.

Another communist who loves Lincoln. Color me surprised.

Portraits of Lincoln, Lenin and Stalin displayed at the tenth convention of the Communist Party USA in Chicago, 1938.

Witness Earl Browder, a heritage American and Anglo-Saxon whose ancestors fought against the British both during the Revolution and the War of 1812 and who at one point had his criminal sentence commuted by fellow heritage American Franklin Delano Roosevelt, speak on the nature of America, revealing that communism is as American as apple pie:

The revolutionary tradition is the heart of Americanism. That is incontestable, unless we are ready to agree that Americanism means what Hearst says—slavery to outlived institutions, preservation of privilege, the degradation of the masses.

We Communists claim the revolutionary traditions of Americanism. We are the only ones who consciously continue those traditions and apply them to the problems of today.

We are the Americans and Communism is the Americanism of the twentieth century.

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This is how we American Communists read the history of our country. This is what we mean by Americanism. This is how we love our country, with the same burning love which Lenin bore for Russia, his native land. Like Lenin, we will fight to free our land from the blood-sucking reactionaries, place it in the hands of the masses, bring it into the international brotherhood of a World Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and realize the prophetic lines of Walt Whitman :

“We have adhered too long to petty limits ... the time has come to enfold the world.“

Is this commie tripe, or does he have a reasonable argument backing up his claim? Read the whole essay if you find yourself curious:

https://t.me/PoorReads/44

The origins of woke (1547). The radical regime of Edward VI. The Archbishop of Canterbury eats meat during Lent.

As many then foresaw, in a few hundred years this would lead to child sex changes

If I discovered a beloved family member owned one of these, I would disown them.

Bok Van Blerk - De La Rey

PragerU fails at applying 4th grade math

Classical liberalism was a Pandora’s box…

“Men being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
— John Locke

“The worth of the individual is supreme, and over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”
— John Stuart Mill

…elevating equality and individualism above all, making man sovereign instead of God, has brought the West to the brink.

Yeah... This whole thing smells.

Remember to hold yourself to higher standards when a mob starts to form. It feels good to join mob, but it's not something the prudent do.


Logos... Must... Control.... Thymos.

(And if you do join the mob, please at least don't buy the associated coin.)