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21 Sep 2025
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H.L Mencken is now live on amazon
The book is newly typeset with my additional notes, commentary, and a few corrections
Please follow @bastard_books, where I will be tweeting more about upcoming books/publishing projects
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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley retweeted
Letters from Burckhardt’s youth
1. To himself:
“[I am] entirely possessed by one thought: you not worthy to tread this ground; you are in a holy land. The debt I owe to Germany lies more heavily than ever in my soul.”
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The hard problem of consciousness is infinitely easier than the problem of values. Language models say more about man than ‘the world’. The perfect capstone to the past century. A revelation of nothing that ought throw the question of ‘why intelligence’ back at man for his answer
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A contemporary commenting on Jefferson and his quality of universal genius: "A gentleman of 32, who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, and play the violin."
One of the greatest men to ever live
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One of the greatest men to ever live
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I've spent too much time trying to defuse the unmoored concepts of 'status' and 'prestige' and their application to politics, but Nietzsche on 'vanity [as] an atavism' is far more acerbic and succinct.
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Odysseus:
"Never, as I am a man, did I fear Death ahead, but went in foremost in the charge, That was my element, war and battle. Farming I never cared for, nor life at home, ... I loved polished lances, arrows in the skirmish,
the shapes of doom that others shake to see."
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In the past, normies got radicalized on Twitter--now they're arriving here pre-radicalized and pre-attuned to some reel-brained ecosystem of beliefs I don't even understand
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It's kind of like being at the beginning of the line in some million-person game of whisper down the lane, wondering what the fuck happened along the way
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A lot of these "enjoy capitalism" people are basically irrational market participants who think only about the immediate impact on their wallet and never consider the downstream effects of market choices.
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Capitalism is great
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They think, in essence, capitalism only functions when Coca-Cola and doordash and starbucks make money. When consumers voluntarily choose anything else, that's somehow a kind of subversive leftism--they aren't exactly sure how, but it is
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there are, obviously, "anti-capitalist" reasons you could oppose big business, but you could also oppose them simply because they are ugly and overpriced and poor quality, and the people who work at reason magazine have never figured out how to distinguish between these things
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“If a woman participates in basic conversational courtesies like shaking hands or smiling or making eye contact with someone she must be a thousand-cock-stare whore who is secretly cucking you.”
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Sydney Sweeney will flirt with any man who talks to her I have never seen anything like this before
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Revealing your deranged psychosexual paranoias like this is perhaps even more humiliating than actually being cucked
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Rejecting a job by saying "I don't want to work for a Jew" is extremely unprofessional and shows extremely low impulse control. Was it bad of the company he interviewed with to "dox" him. I guess but if you send an e-mail under your real name that says "I don't like Jewish people" to a Jewish person, what did you expect to happen?
Cornell student Austin Franco was doxxed by Jewish business leaders after explaining that he “didn’t want to work for a Jew,” claiming his experiences with Jews were not “pleasant,” after a NYC startup he had applied to reached out to him three times.
After one of the cofounders, Gabe Einhorn, posted Franco’s reply with his last name blocked out, Franco was quickly identified.
Einhorn said he did not “want to ruin his life,” but wanted to “raise awareness” of antisemitism.
Franco, in a now-deleted post, said that in his personal and professional experiences, Jews were tribalistic and vengeful, and tended to ruin and bully others who opposed them.
Franco stated, “I am sure that if you indicated you didn’t want to work for someone who was White or Christian this would not have blown up…”
Franco claimed that the actions by Einhorn and the Jewish community, posting his reply, doxxing him, and then trying to investigate and uproot his personal life, vindicated his concerns that Jews do not work with others politely.
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Very neiss frend retvrn. Follow
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Nietzsche doesn't denounce pity entirely. Indeed, he acknowledges that there are nobler types of pity which he calls "our pity." Nevertheless, he ultimately concludes that a morality of pity is an insufficient basis for philosophy
Nietzsche railed against pity as weakness and then had a nervous breakdown and wept over seeing a horse be whipped in the street. There's never been a greater example of a man incapable of living by the ideology he preached
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Ok, I'm rooting for the orcs now
The orcs are in the shire right now raping and killing the hobbits and any hobbit who complains about it is sent to prison.
WTF!!!!
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