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“Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.”
“I wish it need not have happened in my time …”
“So do I… and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
“Other evils there are that may come… Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”
“And better so than to perish nonetheless – as we surely shall, if we sit here – and know as we die that no new age shall be.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Jack Darby retweeted
this is all well and good, until one starts asking why we have such massive differences in living standards across the globe
the good news is that we know why, the bad news is that people get really angry if you say it
Fighting to preserve the West as we know it is "the fight of our lives." This is a key point, and can help us avoid falling into a depression about what's happening. Every day is a new day, and this fight will go on long after we're gone.
Their long march through our institutions will not be undone in a few years.
Saving the USA, and bringing back a free and virtuous West with competent institutions is the fight of our lives.
Glad to have smart, optimistic voices like @ZubyMusic who understand what's at stake.
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Jack Darby retweeted
How can we be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it? How can this strange cosmic town give us at once the fascination of a strange town and the comfort of being our own town? - GK Chesterton
I saw this was over 13 minutes long, and wasn't going to watch, and then I did, and it actually brought a tear to my eye. Re his conclusion, I really hope he's right.
Jack Darby retweeted
Dear @sapinker, You are yet again unnecessarily bringing @realDonaldTrump into the conversation. Try to process the contents of my book without invoking your political orientation. The open border immigration policies that have taken place in the West are perfectly suicidal. You need to have the imagination to extrapolate from current realities to a far-away future to recognize the death spiral. You grew up in the warm succour of the West; I grew up in the Middle East. As a Jewish man, you may wish to reconsider your immense kindness and empathy toward those who would eradicate you in a heartbeat once the demographic realities are in their favour. I live in the real world and not in the ecosystem of the ivory tower where ideas are fully decoupled from reality. Shabbat shalom.
The slow creeping feeling that Western civ is on a downward trajectory (and has been for years) such that our greatgrandchildren will live in a world dominated by the CCP and Islam, enabled by the hopeful "grandmas" that Devon describes is...depressing. Would love to think that I'm wrong. Maybe someone can persuade me.
Have you ever watched a horror movie with vampires?
Not sexy vampires for middle aged dumpy wine aunts to masturbate to, but actual lore accurate vampires?
The kind of movie where your grandfather is scratching at the window asking why you won't let him in, but there's something wrong with his eyes and the tone of his voice, and either that's not him, or worse yet, maybe it is him, but with everything that made him love you stripped away and replaced by insatiable hunger?
The main character is never stupid enough to let him in, is he?
It's always grandma.
About halfway through the movie.
And she's always the first to die, slaughtered the moment she opens that window, but almost everyone else sheltering in the house quickly, follows, leaving the protagonist and his scantily-dressed girlfriend to flee across the moors at night, pursued by the blood-hungry corpses of everyone else they ever loved.
You've seen that movie, right?
Well, I feel like I'm in that movie.
It's not that I hate grandma. She's nice. Loves people. Bakes cookies.
But she keeps trying to open the goddamned window.
Every time I point out that some institution of our former society is being worn as a skinsuit by corrupt self-interest masquerading as socialism masquerading as compassion, there's always those guys who are shocked and betrayed that I attacked their beloved thing.
No. Your beloved thing is gone. It doesn't matter what it did for you 30 years ago. It's not 30 years ago now. The soul of your beloved thing was eaten by a monster, and now it has become a monster itself.
It doesn't matter whether I'm talking about the Catholic church, Christianity in general, the Republican party, the American Medical Association, the NRA, Disney, whatever.
It's always the same. There's always the guy who is shocked, angry, and betrayed, because we're both supposed to be "right-wing", and here I am, attacking his beloved grandpa.
I must be an evil nihilist straight from the bowels of reddit.
But I am not trying to rob you. I am trying to help you.
That is not your grandpa.
That is a vampire.
What's almost worse is that there are some guys who do, eventually, understand. After they yell at me a bit and call me a grandpa-hater or something.
But the first thing they say, when they figure it out is...
"Can't we save the skinsuit?"
They're still hoping, on some level, that grandpa is still there. That there's a cure. That they can have their beloved institutions and traditions back.
Well, I'm not hopeful. I mean, I can't say for sure whether they can or can't, but that's not important. That's the wrong question.
We can't worry about saving Grandpa right now, because we have to save ourselves first. We have to survive the night.
And if you're not willing to stake Grandpa through the heart for that, or, worse yet, if you try to stop the rest of us, yelling "Grandpa! Noooooooo!", grabbing at someone's wrist as he's trying to raise the big wooden mallet, then...
Well, then you're not an enemy, but you are a liability.
And so we have to put you in the back seat. We can't stop attacking Vampire Grandpa to spare your feelings.
The hour is too late for us to listen to friends who can't tell the difference between us and the enemy.
Jack Darby retweeted
When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US.
France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.)
Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors.
NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.
Jack Darby retweeted
Islam's moral ceiling is fixed. It was set 1,400 years ago, by Muhammad and the Qur’an.
You can’t go higher than Muhammad. He’s the limit. The ceiling.
Muhammad married a child, took slaves, ordered executions, waged wars, lied, raped, hated, and stole.
So how can anyone say those things are wrong if the man who did them is still your highest example?
That’s why Islam doesn’t change, not because Muslims don’t want it to, but because they’re not allowed to imagine anything better than what’s already been given.
The West, shaped by centuries of Judeo-Christian moral struggle, leaves space to climb. It admits mistakes. It reforms. It questions. It separates power from holiness.
Islam doesn’t.
That’s why it doesn’t evolve, and why, when it enters a modern society, it doesn’t integrate. It collides.
Because a faith that locks morality in the 7th century can’t live peacefully in a world that keeps growing.
Jack Darby retweeted
By refusing to submit to the Islamic project and insisting on a sovereign nation-state, Israel forced the region to accept the legitimacy of nation-states.
Without Israel, without a single sovereign, non-Islamic state planted in the Middle East, the path to reestablishing a caliphate would have been wide open.
A caliphate is more dangerous than the Nazis ever were. The caliphate once stretched from Spain to India, launching invasion after invasion into Europe.
If the Ottoman Caliphate had simply been replaced by an Arab one after its collapse, the West would have lived under constant threat.
That’s why Israel’s existence matters. Its very presence blocks the return of the caliphate.
Israel gives legitimacy even to the Arab nation states.
That's why Israel is the stumbling block in the eyes of the Muslim Brotherhood.
That is why they are obsessed with erasing Israel: without Israel, the dream of resurrecting the caliphate becomes possible again.
This is why the free world must stand with Israel, not just for Israel’s survival, but for its own.
Jack Darby retweeted
Balaji is a bright guy but he fled the USA and has set his mind totally against our future success.
He lives in a world where US is losing and China is winning. This is his fixation. It’s dangerous, and it’s wrong. And this war has embarrassed China, destroyed their 100 cargo planes of war materials and their military ally, and frustrates them.
It’s fair to disagree about the attack. But saying that its architects are guilty of any downside is childlike nonsense. They should be proud of their work and their courage to take on this evil.
If you’re against the war, do you get credit for the last two decades of literal mass torture and mass rape and repression by this regime, and its terror funding and death around the region? Do you get credit for “supporting” the billions it spends on social media bots and information operations to polarize the US against ourselves, and weaken the west? Do you also get credit for what would have been the next twenty years of that?
Are you, Balaji, responsible for that side of it? No?
But if you are for it, you get zero credit for fixing any of that, but blamed for ALL the possible downsides? Total BS.
The mullahs holding the region hostage shouldn’t get your help to blame others for the damage they do.
Geopolitics and war is complex and there are risks on all sides. There is risk in acting, and in not acting.
I’m really glad we are taking advantage of the massive innovation and competence gap that exists at this moment, and finally eliminating so much evil.
I hope for freedom for the Iranian people and know that the situation is hard and complex, but either way it is good to stop the bad guys and eliminate so many of the worst groups, who have done so much damage, from history. Nobody should get away with what those bastards did for so long; this was long overdue.
I'm going to make some obvious points.
(1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war.
(2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East.
(3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked.
(4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy.
(5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately.
(6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty.
That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area.
(7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people.
[a]: reuters.com/business/energy/…
[b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene…
[c]: reuters.com/sustainability/c…
Jack Darby retweeted
Cesar Chavez, Mao, Marx, Che Guevara, George Floyd: the left makes icons out of evil men who lie, cheat, steal and rape.
Theirs is the philosophy of nihilism and decline; they do everything they can to tear down the truth, the good, and the beautiful.
Embrace liberty and light.
MUST READ: A bombshell NYT investigation shows that Cesar Chavez sexually abused young girls.
Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her.
So much more from Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes —>
nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/ce…
Jack Darby retweeted
Millions of Europeans throughout history were enslaved and abused by this same source; our US Navy was created to oppose and punish their terrible abuse of our sailors.
History shows that there is nothing we can do other than being stronger than them, and firm against this evil.
Jack Darby retweeted
¡IMPRESSIVE!
Did you know... To be born we needed:
2 Parents
4 Grandparents
8 Great-grandparents
16 Great-great-grandparents
32 Great-great-great-grandparents
64 Great-great-great-great-grandparents
128 Great-great-great-great-great-grandparents
256 Great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents
512 Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents
1,024 Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents
2,048 Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents
Just in the last 11 generations, a total of 4,094 ancestors were required, all of this in approximately 300 years before you or I were born.
Stop for a moment and think...
Where did they all come from?
How many battles did they fight?
How much hunger did they endure?
How many wars did they live through?
How many hardships did our ancestors survive?
On the other hand, how much love, strength, joy, and encouragement did they pass down to us?
How much of their strength to survive did each of them have and leave inside us so that we are alive today?
We only exist thanks to everything each one of them went through.
Credits: Víctor Frias
Everyone needs to know: The power of just 40 senators to effectively block regular legislation in the Senate isn't some sacred Founding-era feature. It only became routine in 1972.
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Jack Darby retweeted
The trans kid who murdered over ten people, and injured more, also killed his mother and younger brother. Turns out, supporting your children in their sexual delusions will probably get you killed too.
Jack Darby retweeted
Every invocation of "universal love" is always invoked to legitimize a very particular form of hatred.
The Left does this thing where it denies the existence of its own ideology as being political at all. It's just "love". It's just morality-as-politics, or simply "being a good person".
And Leftists insist this is all they're doing, even as they engage in the most aggressive and ruthless forms of politics imaginable.
Nothing is ever depicted as a power struggle between competing worldviews. It's always a crusade against social ills, pathologies, and evil itself.
"Conservatism" doesn't exist to these people. There's no legitimate opposition, only a criminal element that has to be destroyed because Leftists have already declared themselves to be the universal manifestation of morality, peace, kindness, love, progress, and everything that is good and just in this world.
But everyone can see just how utterly hypocritical these people are. We continuously see examples of these same people exhibiting the most immoral, disgusting, and downright evil manifestations of hatred and violence against people and factions that they despise.
They just call it "love" as they do these things.
Jack Darby retweeted
I am a single issue voter for “not this”. This issue - anti-Whiteness, mass immigration, race communism, they’re all the same thing - overrides everything else. We are under attack and have been for decades. We can have debates about tax policy once the enemy is defeated.
Jack Darby retweeted
Here’s how this Super Bowl ad should’ve gone:
We stand tall, we keep building, and we bring light to the world.
Hate against any group is wrong.
Hate against Jews has exploded over the last decade.
Builders channel the hate and resentment from others as FUEL to make us stronger.
We refuse to be Victims.
We are Protagonists in our own lives.
Builders - of all religions, ethnicities, races and nationalities - join to Build a Better World Together.
Builders turn darkness into light
#BeABuilder @BuildersMvt
Jack Darby retweeted
For a while, I mostly ignored Elon’s narrative about Dems wanting to strategically import people to the USA to win elections. Just seemed too conspiratorial to me and not interesting.
But after seeing all of the polling coming out showing overwhelming bipartisan consensus on voter ID laws, and still seeing big Dems push their “voter ID laws are racist” propaganda, it’s hard for me to ignore. It’s extremely odd to me how hard some Dems are pushing this agenda when almost none of their constituents want it. Why? If not to do something fraudulent, I don’t understand why. It’s obvious that most Americans don’t agree with their reasoning, but they are still trying for it.
Insanely shady. Can’t think of any reason other than a desire to do something fraudulent. Nobody thinks voter ID laws are racist. It’s honestly way more racist to argue that minorities shouldn’t be expected to produce identification. Offensive af.