Trump Thread

[Montmorency]

Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat," the president wrote. "It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!

Jesus Christ, they may not keep him from moving on services. Raving madman. At least there's always the 'maritime exchange'.

Some interesting quotes from a certain Romanian presidential candidate, you know, the one who's been getting banhammered in the middle of elections.

This gentle-seeming New Age mystic has praised Ion Antonescu, the Romanian wartime dictator who conspired with Hitler and was sentenced to death for war crimes, including his role in the Romanian Holocaust. He has called both Antonescu and the prewar leader of the Iron Guard, a violent anti-Semitic movement, national heroes. He twice met with Alexander Dugin, the Russian fascist ideologue, who posted on X a (subsequently deleted) statement that “Romania will be part of Russia.” And at the same time, Georgescu praises the spiritual qualities of water. “We don’t know what water is,” he has said; “H2O means nothing.” Also, “Water has a memory, and we destroy its soul through pollution,” and “Water is alive and sends us messages, but we don’t know how to listen to them.” He believes that carbonated drinks contain nanochips that “enter into you like a laptop.” His wife, Cristela, produces YouTube videos on healing, using terms such as lymphatic acidosis and calcium metabolism to make her points. Both of them also promote “peace,” a vague goal that seems to mean that Romania, which borders Ukraine and Moldova, should stop helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian invaders. “War cannot be won by war,” Cristela Georgescu wrote on Instagram a few weeks before voting began. “War destroys not only physically, it destroys HEARTS.”

(It's little consolation that the next president of Romania is somewhat likely to be George Simion...)

Leaving aside RFK Jr. and a host of others, remember when Hegseth revealed that he doesn't wash his hands because microbes don't exist, and doesn't wear a helmet when riding a bike (because external objects do not exist, perhaps)? And how most of what Elon Musk's DOGE has actually succeeded in dismantling is America's world-class government-funded scientific agencies and investments? It's a further illustration of the centrality of "woo" across 20th-century political lines in rejecting modern science, philosophy, and civilization in general. Ten years ago, I imagined a resurgence in fascistic politics later in the 21st century. Even then, let alone 20 years ago, I could never have imagined that woo would be winning, or that it would unify around ultra-reactionary politics.

Literally this as a worldview while still demanding all the fruits and luxuries of modern civilization - not even having the honesty of anarchoprimitivism.





In related news, it is estimated that England, the original birthplace of mass atheism, is on course to become plurality Catholic for the first time in 500 years somewhere around the point where Brazil is set to become minority Catholic for the first time in 500 years. Shit, and I'm supposed to be worried about immigrants changing cultures lol. @rory_20_uk

Is this what being caught in the teeth of the Great Filter looks like?