Apophatically
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Orthodox Christian ☦️ Anti-Fascist, TTRPG Nerd, Leftist
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What the heck is “Western civilization” anyway?
Because the loudest self-proclaimed advocates disdain most Western philosophy, art, culture, institutions, and people. The only parts of Western civilization they seem to actually like are gothic architecture, ancient statues, and Camp of the Saints.
Because the loudest self-proclaimed advocates disdain most Western philosophy, art, culture, institutions, and people. The only parts of Western civilization they seem to actually like are gothic architecture, ancient statues, and Camp of the Saints.
February 15, 2026 at 4:29 AM
What the heck is “Western civilization” anyway?
Because the loudest self-proclaimed advocates disdain most Western philosophy, art, culture, institutions, and people. The only parts of Western civilization they seem to actually like are gothic architecture, ancient statues, and Camp of the Saints.
Because the loudest self-proclaimed advocates disdain most Western philosophy, art, culture, institutions, and people. The only parts of Western civilization they seem to actually like are gothic architecture, ancient statues, and Camp of the Saints.
Rod is only interesting in the sense that he spews all of his inner demons onto the page while being unaware of what he is writing. He wrote a whole article about how he had homosexual tendencies but like all men had to be taught to have heterosexual tendencies instead.
rod dreher is not that interesting. he is a guy very clearly filled with self hatred tied to repressed feelings related to his gender and sexuality, and rather than deal with them, he blames “modernity” and “secularism” for why he’s unhappy. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Rod is only interesting in the sense that he spews all of his inner demons onto the page while being unaware of what he is writing. He wrote a whole article about how he had homosexual tendencies but like all men had to be taught to have heterosexual tendencies instead.
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. Then they will go away to eternal punishment.”
HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News
History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.
news.westernu.ca
February 13, 2026 at 1:23 PM
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. Then they will go away to eternal punishment.”
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Analysis | The fact that Joe Biden isn't in the Epstein files shows how politically and culturally irrelevant he has become.
February 13, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Analysis | The fact that Joe Biden isn't in the Epstein files shows how politically and culturally irrelevant he has become.
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Yes, NBC out-rated us this week, but it’s completely unfair to compare us when one of their anchors’ mothers was kidnapped and none of ours were.
by Bari Weiss
by Bari Weiss
February 12, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Yes, NBC out-rated us this week, but it’s completely unfair to compare us when one of their anchors’ mothers was kidnapped and none of ours were.
by Bari Weiss
by Bari Weiss
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I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here's why I hate Jesus and the Pope.
February 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here's why I hate Jesus and the Pope.
A great book & film. I wrote my thesis on exploring the similarities between it and Black Panther. Specifically how Sam Greenlee & Ryan Coogler approached critiquing the dominant ideology while also making a cultural product they wanted to be commercially successful.
If you’re into books written by people instead of assembled by AI slop, I just finished this one, which is about a Black guy who quits the CIA to train Black freedom fighters in Chicago, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
February 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
A great book & film. I wrote my thesis on exploring the similarities between it and Black Panther. Specifically how Sam Greenlee & Ryan Coogler approached critiquing the dominant ideology while also making a cultural product they wanted to be commercially successful.
I've been doing this for the last week and it has improved my experience significantly
Your Bluesky experience will be immensely improved simply by browsing Will Stancil’s replies and blocking everybody being a freak. This takes out like 90 percent of the shittiest people on the site and makes everything better.
February 8, 2026 at 3:43 AM
I've been doing this for the last week and it has improved my experience significantly
Class solidarity is strongest amongst the elites. Tucker supposedly hates Hunter & demonized him nightly on his show yet he felt confident in asking for this favor.
remember when Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for help getting Tucker's kid into college?
February 5, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Class solidarity is strongest amongst the elites. Tucker supposedly hates Hunter & demonized him nightly on his show yet he felt confident in asking for this favor.
The threat to the polls this year is serious, however as others have pointed out ICE & DHS only have so many people. People also don't realize how many polling locations there actually are. I live in Fairfax County, VA which is 395 square miles with a population of just over one million... 1/2
February 4, 2026 at 8:07 PM
The threat to the polls this year is serious, however as others have pointed out ICE & DHS only have so many people. People also don't realize how many polling locations there actually are. I live in Fairfax County, VA which is 395 square miles with a population of just over one million... 1/2
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
Helen is going to suggest quotas for the Ivies, probably wants to limit Jews & Catholics attending them too.
We only want the good immigrants who study hard and don't commit crimes, unless they try to take little Brayleigh's (28 ACT, 1350 SAT) God-given slot at an Ivy away by being smarter, in which case Korematsu didn't go far enough
February 3, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Helen is going to suggest quotas for the Ivies, probably wants to limit Jews & Catholics attending them too.
If someone actually cared about opsec they wouldn't be on social media.
February 2, 2026 at 10:20 PM
If someone actually cared about opsec they wouldn't be on social media.
Besides the interview part of this I was just deeply saddened by this line early on in the introduction: "Despite awful reviews, the film grossed an estimated seven million dollars in its first weekend, the best opening weekend for a documentary in more than a decade." We need more documentaries.
i don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
What a “Melania” Cinematographer Hoped to Accomplish
Dante Spinotti has had a legendary Hollywood career. Why is he making propaganda for the Trump family?
www.newyorker.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Besides the interview part of this I was just deeply saddened by this line early on in the introduction: "Despite awful reviews, the film grossed an estimated seven million dollars in its first weekend, the best opening weekend for a documentary in more than a decade." We need more documentaries.
I was a 911 dispatcher for six months, I worked 40 hours a week, and I received five calls about one individual during that time, always the same issue. Other dispatchers received calls about this individual during the same time. One regular was Billy Skywalker who called everyday.
Of course it depends on the jurisdiction but most cops spend most of their time dealing with the same few hundred people in a city who are broadly just severely mentally ill and/or on hard drugs that are general public nuisances that the courts refuse to convict and the city refuses to house.
February 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM
I was a 911 dispatcher for six months, I worked 40 hours a week, and I received five calls about one individual during that time, always the same issue. Other dispatchers received calls about this individual during the same time. One regular was Billy Skywalker who called everyday.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
Critical Race Theory (I actually studied CRT and wrote a published paper about it and Afrofuturism)
African American and African Diaspora
Art History (In Florence)
European Politics (Also in Florence)
CIS 311 (Learned SQL)
Critical Race Theory (I actually studied CRT and wrote a published paper about it and Afrofuturism)
African American and African Diaspora
Art History (In Florence)
European Politics (Also in Florence)
CIS 311 (Learned SQL)
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Calc II
Irish drama
Bertolt Brecht auf deutsch
Poetry writing
Race in America
Calc II
Irish drama
Bertolt Brecht auf deutsch
Poetry writing
Race in America
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
Political philosophy
Women’s studies
Sociology of education
Psychoanalysis
Water polo
Political philosophy
Women’s studies
Sociology of education
Psychoanalysis
Water polo
January 30, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
Critical Race Theory (I actually studied CRT and wrote a published paper about it and Afrofuturism)
African American and African Diaspora
Art History (In Florence)
European Politics (Also in Florence)
CIS 311 (Learned SQL)
Critical Race Theory (I actually studied CRT and wrote a published paper about it and Afrofuturism)
African American and African Diaspora
Art History (In Florence)
European Politics (Also in Florence)
CIS 311 (Learned SQL)
Everyone thinks they're in The Battle of Algiers but they're actually Bob from One Battle After Another laying on his couch watching The Battle of Algiers.
Yep. Our PTA chat is a WhatsApp group so that's where the organizing is happening. The entire point is that we are organizing openly by the thousands, not that we're building secret resistance cells by the 5s and 10s
Multiple people have told me "They should use Signal instead"
Folks.
No one is posting home addresses here.
And "Fed agents infiltrated/subpoena'd the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School PTA discord" is the kind of headline that generates exactly the response in voters that you want
Folks.
No one is posting home addresses here.
And "Fed agents infiltrated/subpoena'd the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School PTA discord" is the kind of headline that generates exactly the response in voters that you want
January 30, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Everyone thinks they're in The Battle of Algiers but they're actually Bob from One Battle After Another laying on his couch watching The Battle of Algiers.
When I was working at 911 I would get at least one call like this a shift. I once had an individual call in because they thought a restaurant wasn't busy enough so it must be a front for selling drugs.
Please remember that everyone you see online or meet on the bus etc. who is telling you about how Tom Hanks has tapped their phone because they've figured out the truth about how he drinks adrenochrome is also sending this to the police, the government, the local news, etc. all the time.
January 30, 2026 at 8:13 PM
When I was working at 911 I would get at least one call like this a shift. I once had an individual call in because they thought a restaurant wasn't busy enough so it must be a front for selling drugs.
I just finished reading a book on the American founding and lots of people talk about anti-Irish & anti-Italian racism but there were people pre-Revolution who talked about how Anglo-Saxons were inferior to the Normans. It is all about hierarchy with these people, which is made up!
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I just finished reading a book on the American founding and lots of people talk about anti-Irish & anti-Italian racism but there were people pre-Revolution who talked about how Anglo-Saxons were inferior to the Normans. It is all about hierarchy with these people, which is made up!
I will say one of the things I miss about D&D is the tactical combat. I'm starting a Daggerheart campaign soon and am sitting here calculating damage tables to get the combat balance just right. I'm really hoping that Daggerheart is just the right balance between narrative & mechanics.
January 30, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I will say one of the things I miss about D&D is the tactical combat. I'm starting a Daggerheart campaign soon and am sitting here calculating damage tables to get the combat balance just right. I'm really hoping that Daggerheart is just the right balance between narrative & mechanics.
Rod expecting a random nurse to know who he is is almost as funny as him expecting the Pope to know who he is
lol Rod Dreher is ascared of nurses because of Minneapolis. Maybe this will begin his transformation to a full anti-vaxxer!
January 30, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Rod expecting a random nurse to know who he is is almost as funny as him expecting the Pope to know who he is
Leftist who talk about opsec & burner phones are our equivalent of Reactionaries wearing tacticool gear. Be safe & watch out for each other. Don’t be the French 75 from One Battle After Another. Be Sensei Sergio.
Everyone stop saying opsec right now
January 30, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Leftist who talk about opsec & burner phones are our equivalent of Reactionaries wearing tacticool gear. Be safe & watch out for each other. Don’t be the French 75 from One Battle After Another. Be Sensei Sergio.
A friend sent this to me and I nearly died laughing
January 29, 2026 at 11:24 PM
A friend sent this to me and I nearly died laughing
My current board game obsession is The Old King's Crown by Eerie Idol Games. A lane battling, bidding game, with tactical elements. It is gorgeous and the same person did the art and game design. Check it out www.eerieidolgames.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:14 PM
My current board game obsession is The Old King's Crown by Eerie Idol Games. A lane battling, bidding game, with tactical elements. It is gorgeous and the same person did the art and game design. Check it out www.eerieidolgames.com
His guest claimed that it is impossible to determine if systemic racism exists because you can’t have a control group of individuals who aren’t experiencing systemic racism. This is the brilliant mind in charge of deciding which scientist get funding.
Extremely on brand for Douthat to bring on the guy who is demolishing American science research to whine about public trust in science.
January 29, 2026 at 3:07 PM
His guest claimed that it is impossible to determine if systemic racism exists because you can’t have a control group of individuals who aren’t experiencing systemic racism. This is the brilliant mind in charge of deciding which scientist get funding.