in britain there are no restrictions on ex post facto laws nor against bills of attainder, so it would be trivial for parliament to draw and quarter these people, including and especially the police and the call handler, if they even cared

the missing link is "obviously they are all in on it, either literally, or they are being paid off to cover it up". the befuddled "oh man I just cant believe it, isnt it Cruuuaazzzyy how something SO BAD got swept under the rug out of these noble intentions/cowardice/a weird result of british propriety-politeness-culture and class culture, doesnt it just boggle the mind that their particular politeness weirdness culture made them accidentally en masse cover it up" is, they obviously didnt. a literal organised mafia, a criminal organisation, is in control of large swarthes of the police, politics, government, finance, and they are running human sex slave trafficing operations as part of it. the big "oh man can you even believe that" moment is not that it all went on right under your noses and it was all this just, random, decentralized cavalcade of oversights and slip ups that all just snowballed out of control, a comedy of errors. its: there is a massive organise crime organisation that has embedded itself across all your public institutions, and everything you want to call oversight or lapses of judgement is actually: corruption. they are involved, they got paid, in either gass grass or ass. you know what you do when you have thousands of sex slaves and millions of pounds in drug money? you fucking trade sex and drugs and money for favors. its ridiculous that the "conversation" still just goes around the same loop every year, nothing happens. they keep releasing new reports, it keeps being the same thing "oh man I cant believe it, they let this horrible stuff happen because they were afraid of being called racist". reduces it to a thought terminating culture war slogan. it's an international mob running guns, sex and drugs. its mexican cartels, like you know from your funny american tv shows. you are mexico and the cartels control half your police and half your local governments

Herodotus is the nosy American tourist who keeps bugging tour guides with random-ass questions. Thucydides is a CIA spook

Tell me muse, of a complicated man, maybe showed early promise, went down a few rabbit holes & didn't really accomplish much, but turned it around in his thirties and created great work. Please. Rank order. Make no mistakes

All of the UFC gladiators at yesterday's fight should immediately be freed, they've earned it.

Fat California boomers are so sedentary, so disconnected from their own bodies, that they truly believe it is equally difficult to deadlift and to one-handed overhead press a given weight.

You can pretend Scots belong to a third Worldist coalition if you want but you still don’t have protected characteristics because of your white skin and Scots happily and enthusiastically partook in Imperialism with us. You’re a grovelling worm trying to ingratiate yourself with what you see as the winning side, contemptible.

I think about this line a lot

The terms "right wing" and "left wing" exist because the people who supported the church and the king sat on the right and the people who wanted to destroy Christianity and kill the king sat on the left in French government. These are the only two political positions in modernity

In the prequels even the Chancellor is brimming with life. It is the world of the Renassance condittiori, hidden hands, a Great Game, generic engineering, what lies behind the curtain of Politics, the past and the future. Full sweep fo human history. Andor is dated already.

The Last Samurai angered cultural commentators not because it was “cultural appropriation” (no other production had so lauded Nippon) but due to the shameless depiction of strength and valor in defeat, and even of victory in death, annihilation.

One of my dangerous realizations from Charlie Kirk's assassination is that assassinations work The left mocks the "great man" theory but it is basically true. If you kill a uniquely powerful or effective person, you can decapitate a movement Ken wants his opponents decapitated. He is eager for someone to "misunderstand" his words and take inspiration from his desires and shed blood. There isn't really a good solution to this outside of stripping him of his license to practice law for this encouragement of murder. But most of his colleagues agree with him because every institution is hopelessly corrupt.

I convince you “comparative advantage” is real and that you’re comparatively better at growing wine and I’m better at manufacturing. Year 1: You produce 10k barrels of wine, I produce a couple cars. Year 100: You produce 10k barrels of wine, I produce 10M space lasers.

I think most accusations of racism by black people are a cynical power play but I also think they believe some of them. They are told by the media that they receive a constant torrent of racism and when nothing racist ever actually happens to them, they square the circle by thinking "well, the Puerto Rican lady at Raising Cane's who didn't ask to take my order when I was standing at the other end of the restaurant must hate black people"

Chattanooga's new courthouse. The style is called "Greco-Deco". We're taking this worldwide. We're taking this to Mars. This is the answer.

Only one man on here has ever truly embraced the Bronze Age Mindset

If Austin Metcalf had put down the feral animal (whose name is not worth mentioning), the highest penalty the ‘justice’ system could have handed him would have been the death penalty. (Let the reader understand.)

Further to this, during the Epping protest, the protesters attempted to block the migrant hotel using the court system. They had some initial success, but this was quickly overturned by a judge whose explicit reasoning was essentially "Damn what the law says, the government has a positive interest in housing migrants, which overrides whatever concerns locals may have." Voting didn't work, petitions didn't work, protests didn't work, and the courts didn't work. These peaceful avenues were patiently pursued for decades, and despite being very successful - elections won, legal challenges won, petitions and rallies with massive turnouts - the regime stymied them at every turn. So now they get war.

IRL there were a bunch of bucktoothed monks and scribes jotting down what everyone’s rights and obligations were right from the Fall of Rome and the early Dark Ages

Burning down buildings & causing targeted property destruction is just the North Irish “local way of knowing” and we should respect their cultural traditions