Lafayette Lee
American // Heir to the Ruins of Corotoman // Contributing Editor @im_1776
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(Re: recent thread) Turchin’s right. We have an elite overproduction problem, and unless we fix it, America as we *knew* it ends. I’m not being hyperbolic. It’s game over. This len...
Message to aspiring elites (thread)... Maybe you're like me, a sharp kid from the lower middle-class who left a deep-red area for a good job and elite education and is now doing b...
The charge itself is misleading. Regardless of your feelings about the CRA, it’s undeniable that these laws have expanded dramatically since 1964 and been used to attack the very f...
When I was in the Army I worked with sophisticated tools and equipment systems worth hundreds-of-thousands, if not millions, of dollars. These technologies, with enough mastery, co...
"Communism is the synthesis of all the traditional revolts of matter against spirit, and of barbarism against civilization. It is the 'great heresy' of our time.. https://t.co/lPo6...
One of Jacob Golos’ recruits was Elizabeth Bentley—a highly educated New England Yankee who had joined the CPUSA in 1935 and began working for the NKVD in 1938. At the time Bentley...
All bureaucracies have shadow systems: informal, self-organizing networks that operate outside the formal structure. These shadow systems often arise in response to structural inef...
Old thread: We know that modern technology amplifies the most sinister elements of human nature and threatens to disfigure and tear our world apart. We know crucial moral question...
Ten years ago today… 1. In 2011, Muammar Gaddafi—the deposed leader of Libya—fled Tripoli after the capital fell to NTC forces. He was soon captured by the rebels, beaten and sodo...
"...it serves to link the Revolutionary generation to our own in the most intimate way." https://t.co/dMmNC7w24Z
The home is where we learn patience and forgiveness—where we rediscover love even after anger, disappointment, and betrayal have had their say. The home is where all pledges to ext...
The American Founders often warned against the “spirit of innovation”—or rather, Reason unconstrained by habit, custom, manners, or law. This spirit, they argued, emboldened ideol...