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Humanity is trapped in an eternal discourse loop. Every question has been answered. “What if women dress like whores at the gym?” Plato speaks of this! Republic, Book V!
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I see a based Pole, I click like and retweet, because I am civilised and shit.
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In 2010, when the Nobel Peace Prize went to the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, Navi Pillay, then the UN’s top human rights official, stayed away from the ceremony in Oslo. Beijing was pressing governments and institutions to boycott it, and according to Foreign Policy, she gave in. Liu never walked free. He died of liver cancer in 2017 in a hospital in Shenyang, still under guard, after the regime refused to let him go abroad for treatment.
Now the same committee is giving Pillay the same prize. I think it’s fair to expect that anyone with a shred of decency will do for her ceremony what she did for Liu’s: stay away.
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
#NobelPrize
Prussian_Fella retweeted
تصور میکنم یه روزی میشه که آیندگان ماجرای حمله طرف ایرانی به سه کشتی نفتکش در جریان اتش بس رو، همپای داستان رد آتش بس بعد از آزادی خرمشهر، بعنوان یک فرصت سوزی تاریخی تلقی کنند و داستانها رو بشه که چرا چنین کردند و چه کسانی پشتش بودند.
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It was a German judge and 2 lay assessors (Schöffen) who decided Abdul Ballout should be sentenced under youth law and that his 20-month sentence should be probated. Had they not reached this decision, Ballout would not have been free to carry out the attack.
Yet there is no criticism of the judges in the mainstream German media; the talk is only of reforming laws. Even conservative outlets refuse, as if by instinct, to tell us who the people were who decided Ballout should go free.
I personally don't see a problem with contacting these judges and asking them to justify their decision in public. In a democracy, every branch of government is accountable to the people, whether directly or indirectly.
If the judicial branch reaches a decision which *predictably* endangers public safety, as here, it should be subjected to critical questioning and accountability. Not harassment, not intimidation, just honest, open debate. They've got lifetime civil-service jobs, they'll face no practical consequences from public criticism. But it may cause them to think much harder about releasing convicted terrorists on probation, and that would be a good thing.
Every court should publish all of its decisions immediately online, but in Germany, most are still kept secret. It should be completely normal for journalists and ordinary people to ask judges critical questions about their rulings. After all, they're public servants doing the public's work in the public's name.
Judges aren't demigods, and they should be held to account in the form of legitimate public criticism when they screw up.
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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey may be the most pro-Western civilization film Hollywood has made in decades - not because it flatters the Greeks, but because it understands civilization as a moral achievement rather than an ethnic possession.
The identitarian far-left and far-right share a premise: that the Western canon is ethnic property. One side condemns it on that basis; the other guards it on the same basis. Nolan refuses the premise, populating Homer's world with various identities while treating the story with absolute seriousness. That’s not a repudiation of the canon but evidence of its triumph: Homer can be inhabited by, and speak to, anyone.
The film’s deepest commitment is to individual moral agency. Odysseus cannot hide behind Greece, military orders, or victory. His choices are his own, and so is his guilt. No collective cause dissolves individual moral responsibility; his final heroism lies not in conquest, but atonement.
That principle extends to hospitality: treat the stranger as you would wish to be treated. When the Greeks violate it, they become the barbarians they fear. Penelope's devastating realization - "You're the people from the sea" - underscores that the enemies of civilization are sometimes its self-appointed defenders, exempting themselves from the principles they claim to uphold.
This is Western civilization at its best - not an ethnicity or a triumphalist myth, but a tradition built around the dignity of the individual, moral responsibility, and atonement. And a civilization strong enough to preserve stories that judge its own heroes remains a civilization worth defending.
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As a teenager reading about the decline of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires, I couldn't understand why they mostly just let it happen. Why not reform urgently, slash the bureaucracy, race to adopt the new technologies?
Much less confused these days.
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The problem with the UK is we have an electorate that wants a Japanese approach to immigration, Nordic welfare, an American tax system and a political class that would rather pander to this delusion as opposed to levelling with public about the necessary trade offs. This approach will continue to produce failed leaders until it fundamentally changes.
