brianpcf

@brianpcf

Dallas YIMBY Former USMC USNA Grad St. John’s College Grad Pod host: Combat & Classics

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brianpcf@brianpcf· Jun 30

To build on this: Voters aren’t using data, they’re voting based on how they feel.

brianpcf@brianpcf· Jun 26

brianpcf@brianpcf· Jun 24

We must return once more to this subject, already touched upon in Chapter Three of Book Two1 since the moral elements are among the most important in war. They constitute the spirit that permeates war as a whole, and at an early stage they establish a close affinity with the will that moves and leads the whole mass of force, practically merging with it, since the will is itself a moral quantity. Unfortunately they will not yield to academic wisdom. They cannot be classified or counted. They have to be seen or felt. Clausewitz, On War

brianpcf@brianpcf· Apr 8

The script writes itself.

brianpcf@brianpcf· Apr 5

The total surrender of a distinct self is a prerequisite for the attainment of both unity and self-sacrifice; and there is probably no more direct way of realizing this surrender than by inculcating and extolling the habit of blind obedience. When Stalin forces scientists, writers and artists to crawl on their bellies and deny their individual intelligence, sense of beauty and moral sense, he is not indulging a sadistic impulse but is solemnizing, in a most impressive way, the supreme virtue of blind obedience. All mass movements rank obedience with the highest virtues and put it on a level with faith: “union of minds requires not only a perfect accord in the one Faith, but complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and the Roman Pontiff as to God Himself.”45 Obedience is not only the first law of God, but also the first tenet of a revolutionary party and of fervent nationalism. "The True Believer," Hoffer

brianpcf@brianpcf· Apr 5

brianpcf@brianpcf· Apr 1

OFC

brianpcf@brianpcf· Mar 27

brianpcf@brianpcf· Mar 22

As I currently sit 16th from the bottom, I feel that whoever ends up last (and it may be me) must read and liveskeet one of these train wrecks

brianpcf@brianpcf· Mar 18

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brianpcf@brianpcf· Jan 13

Live look at FL and TX ICE activity

brianpcf@brianpcf· Jan 7

Me at croquet wearing my “Beat the Johnnie’s” and “Beat Navy” buttons, explaining why my Alcibiades jokes are funny

brianpcf@brianpcf· Dec 12

I will trade you this rec for another rec:

Book cover of “you’re stepping on my cloak and dagger”

brianpcf@brianpcf· Nov 10

brianpcf@brianpcf· Nov 5

Textbook envelopment: Massive CIA backed force from the south and a bold local populist campaign from the north against a weak Soviet backed government.

brianpcf@brianpcf· Nov 2

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brianpcf@brianpcf· Oct 30

The Social Conquest of Earth

Edward O. Wilson
We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology

brianpcf@brianpcf· Oct 18

Long Beach #NoKings protest

brianpcf@brianpcf· Oct 6

What happened after 2001 that may have impacted the number of disabled veterans @washingtonpost.com? wapo.st/3VN0qw9

brianpcf@brianpcf· Sep 23

Photo cover of the book “the Nuremberg Trial”

brianpcf@brianpcf· Aug 1

E.O. Wilson has a very similar point in his book (that I highly recommend)

brianpcf@brianpcf· Jun 18

brianpcf@brianpcf· Jun 14

@lapd bring in the pros

brianpcf@brianpcf· Jun 12

The God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson

About 1560 or 1570, Etienne de la Boetie, the friend of Montaigne, filled with despair by the Wars of Religion, wrote: "What think you of the dire fate that has brought us to birth in these times? and what are you resolved to do? For my own part, I see no other course than to emigrate, forsake my home and go wherever fortune bears me. Long now the wrath of the gods has warned me to flee—showing me those vast and open lands beyond the ocean. When, on the threshold of our century, a new world rose from the waves, the gods—we may well believe—destined it as a refuge where men shall till free fields under a fairer sky, while the cruel sword and shameful plague doom the ruin of Europe. Over there are fertile plains awaiting the plough, a land without bourne or master—it is there I will go.

brianpcf@brianpcf· Jun 12

brianpcf@brianpcf· Jun 11

Yesterday in LB. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

brianpcf@brianpcf· Jun 4