[ZERO] We’ve all heard the argument for most of our lives: "White culture doesn’t exist." It’s perhaps the most common racial refrain because it’s the most socially acceptable to repeat. If someone said "Black culture doesn’t exist because black people all herald from different tribes..." that person would be browbeaten as a bigot by the woke mob. When it comes to white culture, such claims are applauded.
The question is, why is it okay to diminish or denigrate white culture while worshiping every other culture? Furthermore, if white culture doesn’t exist, why are woke minority groups constantly trying to hijack white history and accomplishments?
I want to explore this issue a little more deeply, mostly because of the endless targeting of western civilization through the leftist deconstruction of our most popular figures and mythologies. This time, the Hollywood elites have chosen Homer’s The Odyssey, an ancient Greek classic deeply rooted in western history (white history), as their victim.
Hollywood has pulled out ALL the stops for this movie and I suspect it’s because they are desperate. They are desperate for a woke win. They’ve had hundreds of failures both in film and television in the past few years and it’s starting to look like "Get Woke, Go Broke" is becoming the dominant force in popular discourse. The leftists can’t stand it.
In response, Hollywood has stacked the deck — They brought in Christopher Nolan, one of the only directors left in the industry who still has a built-in audience of simps who will go see his movies regardless of their quality. The distributors have focused on IMAX ticket sales for a wealthier clientele, artificially inflating the overall box office take.
The media has been running non-stop interference, promoting the movie heavily months in advance. Evidence also suggests that Rotten Tomatoes is once again rigging the audience score for this film by rejecting most negative reviews (they have done this with multiple woke tent pole movies over the years).
Hilariously, journalists are already declaring The Odyssey "proof" that "Get Woke, Go Broke" is a fallacy. As I write this, the movie hasn’t made a dime in profit yet. What I find most interesting, however, is that these activist journalists are actually using the phrase "Get Woke, Go Broke" in their vernacular. It’s an indirect admission of their agenda.
They are specifically citing our movement as their enemy and declaring us "defeated" because The Odyssey is projected to make money. By default, they are admitting that we are a threat to them, and that The Odyssey is a woke project designed to "silence us." But why does this matter?
It’s important to understand that leftists think like children. They believe that having a "majority" is the same as being right; having a majority to them is the same as having power. If the Odyssey is a box office success, they think this proves that they are the dominant political movement.
They don’t care if their supposed majority is actually astroturf; if they can fool the public into thinking the political left has a social mandate, this will win them control over the culture. In other words, they’re trying to manufacture a consensus.
The Odyssey film is a clear salvo aimed directly at conservatives and western history. It is a multicultural travesty, a joke of a movie filled with historical inaccuracies and based on a deconstructionist translation written by a feminist academic from Oxford (Emily Wilson). The movie explicitly undermines the heroism of the story and makes Odysseus a broken man, suffering from "trauma" and PTSD over his regrets of the war and his "colonist" behavior.
But the spurious additions to the mythology are less interesting to me than the reasons they were included.
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There's another point that is getting missed - The Odyssey will almost certainly be nominated for, and win, Best Picture.
The Academy laid down some rules a year or so back that any movie nominated for best picture had to have certain types of actors and other DEI rules. I'm pretty sure that Odyssey will be the ONLY picture that meets those standards. It'll certainly be the best (a low bar, indeed) that meets those standards.
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These LIBERAL RACISTS need to take 2 mins and do a simple basic Racial FACT check.
The US Gov 2024 reports show which Taxpayer Group generates the most Tax $$$ revenues, and which group is the primary supported group (per 1000 taxpayers.
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Too many reviewers comment that Odysseus is played like a PSTD victim. Nice late 20th early 21st Century view. They didn't have PSTD. They lived with death all around them. Combat was literally butchering the man standing in front of you. You wouldn't be a soldier let alone a veteran if you didn't have that mindset. Simple injuries could result in infections that could kill you let alone serious illnesses or injuries common before 20th Century. Life was hard not some bucolic utopia.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that's caused by an extremely stressful or terrifying event — either being part of it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety and uncontrollable thoughts about the event.
Most people who go through traumatic events may have a hard time adjusting and coping for a short time. But with time and by taking good care of themselves, they usually get better. If the symptoms get worse, last for months or years, and affect their ability to function daily, they may have PTSD.
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We’ve all heard the argument for most of our lives: "White culture doesn’t exist."
I never heard that. I've heard plenty of stupid people criticizing Western Civilization and I always stop listenting to them the minute they do.
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There's another point that is getting missed - The Odyssey will almost certainly be nominated for, and win, Best Picture.
Best Actor...and not to Matt Damon.
Literally a vessel used to hide woke agenda warriors to infiltrate pop culture, burn down the past, and win the battle against 'the chuds'.
Except that is won't, and never could have, because nobody cares about Hollywood self falating themselves with accolades anymore.
And all the shills will miss the irony, because they are dull, stupid people, when Doomsday comes out and their Epic Tale full of Heroes gets embarrassed on the big screen.
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07/24/2026 18:22 Comments ||
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The other day I saw an AI-made story that was meant to be 'left out scenes of The Empire Strikes Back'. It was visually great. Some of the imperial soldiers and commanders looked like Kirk Douglas, Charleton Heston, Bridget Bardot. Unfortunately I didn't understand the plot and it portrayed the imperial storm troopers heroically.
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🔔Deuxième anniversaire de la bataille de Tinzaouatène (juillet 2024) ➡️ PARTIE 1 : Retour sur le carnage qui a bouleversé le Nord-Mali 🇲🇱
Il y a exactement deux ans, les FAMa appuyées par les mercenaires Wagner pénétraient au nord du pays, déterminés à reprendre les… pic.twitter.com/rbNcFjDznF
Second Anniversary of the Battle of Tinzaouatène (July 2024)
➡️ PART 1: Looking Back on the Carnage That Shook Northern Mali 🇲🇱
Exactly two years ago, the FAMa, backed by Wagner mercenaries, pushed into the northern part of the country, hell-bent on retaking the last pockets held by the Tuareg rebels of the CSP-DPA and their JNIM allies. This short but bloody clash, which unfolded from July 22 to 27, 2024, around Tinzaouatène, left behind more than a hundred dead among the FAMa / Africa Corps, several dozen wounded, and numerous prisoners.
🟠Recap of the July 2024 Clash:
⚔️ July 22 – The FAMa, bolstered by 🇷🇺 mercenaries, launch a "stabilization operation" aimed at recapturing the last border villages controlled by the CSP-DPA rebels. The column of armored vehicles sets out from Tessalit, swiftly takes Inafaraq, and presses on toward Boughessa.
⚔️ July 25 – In the heart of the Tinzaouatène plain, the 🇲🇱🇷🇺 column is ambushed by CSP-DPA Tuareg fighters equipped with IEDs. The lead armored vehicle is destroyed, the advance grinds to a halt, and the Wagner forces find themselves without air support due to a fierce sandstorm.
⚔️ July 26 – The encirclement drags on; a 🇲🇱 MI-24 helicopter tries to intervene but crashes near Kidal. The surviving fighters face a second ambush from JNIM, which carries out multiple executions and hostage-takings.
⚔️ July 30, 2024 – Confronted with this dire situation, Mali calls in 🇹🇷 Turkish aid. An Akinci drone takes off from the Saponé base and bombs Tinzaouatène, mainly hitting a refugee camp and a gold mining site. The strikes cause heavy civilian casualties, mostly Nigerien 🇳🇪 and Chadian 🇹🇩.
⚠️ Social media floods the web with videos and photos showing the fighters' corpses, mass graves, and scenes of brutality. CSP-DPA channels release images of their fighters waving the independence flag, while Wagner accounts spread hate messages about the Tuaregs.
🔷 This marks the deadliest attack on the Wagner Group outside the Ukrainian theater since the 2018 Battle of Khosham during the Syrian civil war
[Townhall] The last Democratic candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50 percent of the popular vote because of Ross Perot's third-party candidacy.
Since then, the Democratic brand has lost the white working-class vote in nearly every presidential election. Yet this demographic still makes up 40 percent of the electorate and registers and votes at much higher rates than non-white groups.
Apparently, during the Biden-era influx of 10 million illegal aliens, Democrats really believed their own slogans about an "Emerging Democratic Majority" and how "Demography is destiny." They therefore confidently abandoned most efforts to recruit white working-class voters.
In 2017, the then-neocon—and now leftist Zohran Mamdani supporter—Bill Kristol
…2nd gen. conservative intellectual— his father was, among other things, involved with Commentary Magazine after outgrowing youthful adventures as a Trotskyite. Bill eventually ran The Weekly Standard into the ground, then suckered a number of NeverTrump donors into financing The Bulwark, which is so conservative it advised its several dozen readers to vote for Joe Biden in 2020, and subsequently he formally identified himself as a former Republican…
(who has advocated abolishing ICE altogether) spoke of the need to open the borders to replace the "lazy" American worker: "Look, to be totally honest, if things are so bad as you say with the white working class, don't you want to get new Americans in?"
Ugh. But at least he condescendingly approves of President Trump’s war against Iran — stopped clock, and all that.
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The Democrats spent decades making the white male working class voter the enemy. It seems they are really stupid enough to think we've forgotten that or that we believe they are sincere.
by Hannah Jude-Smith, Shane Praiswater and Brian Leitzke
[MWIWestpoint] For the first time in its history, the United States must plan to deter and potentially fight two nuclear peer adversaries simultaneously. Russia’s persistent nuclear modernization and China’s accelerating strategic buildup together create a complex and fraught environment that existing policy assumptions have not confronted. Into this environment arrives the B-21 Raider and its associated family of systems, platforms with potentially revolutionary conventional and nuclear capabilities that offer planners new tools for horizontal escalation, precision strikes across contested geographies, and the kind of flexible, survivable conventional dominance that previous bomber generations could not reliably provide. And yet the institutional logic governing how the United States employs its bomber force may prevent the B-21 from being used to its full potential.
The nuclear reserve requirement, an ingrained assumption that a meaningful portion of the bomber force must be held back for nuclear contingencies during a peer conflict, risks kneecapping one of the most capable conventional instruments in the American arsenal. But a careful reading of escalation theory, principally the ideas put forth by Thomas Schelling and Robert Powell, suggests that fully committing the B-21 to the conventional fight need not reduce deterrence. In fact, it may strengthen it.
THE B-21 AND THE BOMBER PARADOX
The B-21 Raider, paired with the F-47 and other current and future joint and coalition forces, is specifically suited to countering adversaries that field antiaccess and area-denial capabilities. As peer competitors invest heavily in layered air defenses designed to deny US forces freedom of action, the B-21 family offers lethal, persistent spectrum dominance in pursuit of air superiority, enabling joint forces to deny adversaries territorial gains and to retain the initiative. The ability to strike across contested geographies makes the B-21 family a new and potentially foundational instrument for escalation management.
[Townhall] Here’s my minority position – I think Republicans are set to do surprisingly well in the 2026 midterms and very, very well in 2028. Oh, I don’t put it beyond the Republicans to screw up any advantage they’ve been handed. Republicans have the uncanny ability to squander a good thing, but what the Democrats are handing over is pure electoral gold. If you look at the relative positioning of both parties in terms of future electoral success, there is zero question that the Republican Party is much better situated to begin a lengthy sojourn in power. The Democrats have walked themselves into a minefield, and they’ve got no map.
Let’s take a look at a few of these land mines. Some of them are obvious, some a lot less so. Will they all fully manifest by 2028? No, some will arise in later cycles. What’s important to remember is that even if the Democrats were aware of them, there’s not a lot they can do about them. One of the problems with the Democrats is that, ironically, the liberals are absolutely resistant to change; they not only don’t want to do it, but they can’t do it. They’ve confused their ideology with a religion, limiting the ability of Democrat politicians to exercise a key tool in any effective politician's toolbox – the flexibility to do a 180 on their most deeply-held beliefs when it makes sense at election time.
There’s a procedural land mine that President Trump has been talking about for years – election fraud. Fraud is a huge part of how they win. It is not going to go away in one fell swoop – the GOP simps are too weak to pass the SAVE Act – but it’s going to be curbed over time. Take voter ID – it is unsustainable for the Democrats to keep to the 20 side of an 80/20 issue forever. Nor can Democrat judges sitting in the Tatooine Federal District Court protect the fraud forever. Between the reforms Trump can impose (it looks like his mail-in voting postal regulations are going into effect), the revelations from the multiple investigations, and the reputational damage to Democrats defending shady practices (is California still counting from last June?), we’re going to end a lot of the scams and run down their reputations as the die on the hill of protecting the remaining grifts.
There is also the 2030 census, which will likely put the House out of reach of Democrats for a decade. Democrat failure is driving people from blue states to red states. The coming redistricting, along with the intermittent demonstrations of GOP manhood via gerrymandering, are going to crush the Dems. And if we go for the big enchilada, banning the counting of illegal aliens in the census, the Dems are screwed.
There is another land mine, the baby bomb. Democrats aren’t breeding like conservatives. A lot of them are single women who have no intention of settling down and having children; when they do get knocked up, abortion remains readily available in blue states, and they make use of it. This blends with another problem for the Democrats, which is that a lot of their boomer base is aging out. If you recall those rallies for the Nazi tattoo guy, behind him on stage were always a bunch of gray crones who all looked like Billy Jack’s girlfriend. They’re not going to be around that much longer, and they are some of the Dems’ most devoted voters. Gen X is much more conservative; we have the advantage of being around for another couple of decades.
Immigration is going to continue to be a huge problem for the Democrats because they’re not going to be able to import a brand-new electorate from the Third World to make into welfare clients and electoral serfs. Deportations are ongoing, but the Republican goal isn’t to drag them all out of the country. It’s to drive them all out of the country. Initiatives like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leaning on the banks and other industries not to do business with them, as well as other reforms that make it unbearable to live here as an illegal, are going to make them pack up and go home in numbers that dwarf what ICE is doing.
Then there’s something they really can blame on the Jews. The Dems will have to deal with Jews’ sense of self-preservation as the Democrats fully embrace their new Hamas constituency and work to ensure Israel and the Israelis are annihilated. That’s not putting it too harshly – if you’re Jewish, you can’t take any threat too seriously, and this is a threat. Jewish Democrats are enormous donors to the Democrat Party, and that flow of dollars is going to shrink to a trickle that’s not going to be made up by a bunch of new Dems just imported from Goatbangistan. The money might not go to Republicans – that’s a bridge too far for a lot of liberal Jews – but it isn’t going to the Palisimpian Democrats. We’ve seen massive shortfalls in Democrat donations this cycle, and that was before half of the House Democrat caucus voted to render Israel defenseless in the face of the psychopaths who committed the October 7th attacks.
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Another clip stolen from his article:
"We’re already seeing the fallout in Texas, where the darling of the faculty/Chardonnay set, heretical imp James Talarico, defeated noted particle physicist Jasmine Crockett in the Senate primary. Well, Jazzy C and black Texans aren’t taking that very well. They believe, not without merit, that they have been ripped off. And they have been."
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You know, I've read some of Kurt's SF books. What made an impression is that the MC when armed with a pistol or a rifle uses them in normal manner. But just give him an automatic weapon, and he begins to spray like his daddy owes an ammo factory.
[TomCooper] Where do you start with a disaster like the Sukhoi Su-57? Do you feed the fanboys what they want—the sheer aesthetic thrill of a ‘new’ stealth fighter? Or do you face the grim reality of its conception, which is essentially a Potemkin Village approach to military aviation?
Oh-hoho… you know me by now, all my esteemed 3.89 readers, don’t you?
You see: on paper – or on the glowing screen of your monitor – the Sukhoi Su-57 (ASCC/NATO-reporting name ‘Felon’, so suitable for the times of IQ47) is everything an aviation enthusiast could dream of. With its clean, sleek lines and three-dimensional thrust vectoring – and even more so, if one takes a look at its plan-view – it looks like it was designed by a committee of sci-fi concept artists. It’s the kind of jet that looks fast even when it’s parked on a tarmac, radiating a predatory menace that makes the ‘fat’ and ‘ugly’ F-22 and F-35 look like they were designed by accountants.
However, beauty is only skin deep. Peel back that polyurethane-based paint job – because, let’s be honest: there is no radar-absorbent coating on the Su-57 at all – and you won’t find a cutting-edge aerospace marvel. You’ll find a monument to Russian industrial decay, megalomania, and a procurement system so corrupt it makes a banana republic looks like Switzerland.
And no, no amount of hysterical announcements about export success is ever going to change that reality. To understand why, though... sorry: we’re going to have to do some heavy lifting.
[YouTube] On Thursday's Mark Levin Show, Senator Tim Sheehy
…40, the Republican junior senator from Montana. US Naval Academy grad, Navy SEAL, afterward founded several companies, making him one of the wealthier of the current senators. His wife is a former Marine officer...
delivered a compelling Senate floor speech explaining the long-running war with Iran’s radical Islamist regime in Tehran. Sheehy stressed that the regime, which seized power 47 years ago through brutality and has never stopped, cares nothing about American politics or faith; it seeks to kill Americans and other atrocities it celebrates and rewards. The United States did not start the conflict but must finish it so another generation is not forced to fight the same murderous adversary.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
