This is what People Thought the World Looked Like in 1602
https://redd.it/1kgld5z
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Owen Benjamin is a comedian who could have been making $20 million a pop for Netflix comedy specials. But he saw the light, escaped from LA, and now farms on his small holding in very rural Idaho. He still does comedy, though.

Owen’s tremendous live streams:
https://unauthorized.tv/channel/big-bear/

Owen’s (excellent!) Comedy Specials:
https://owenbenjamin.com/comedy-specials/

↓

https://delingpole.substack.com/p/owen-benjamin-a5b

These things are scary

It feels good to have someone being an advocate for America again.

https://revolver.news/2025/05/trump-defied-pentagon-foreign-agendas-and-the-war-machine-in-one-brazen-move/

I Worked At Palantir: The Tech Company Reshaping Reality

A former Palantir employee is sounding the alarm. The tech company, founded by Peter Thiel, claims they can revolutionize government systems with their AI-powered software.

They’ve been hired by the Department of Defense, the FBI, ICE, and even Wendy’s. Now DOGE will likely hire Palantir as well.

We talked to a former Palantir employee, dug into decades of research and listened to hours of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's own words to carefully unwrap the layers of Palantir’s carefully cultivated sales pitch — and how they capitalize on fear and unrest to make money.

Yes, in May 2025.

The Singapore government has just updated its laws to make it a crime to refuse mandatory “vaccines,” punishable with prison time.

Under these new laws, people who refuse “vaccines” may be imprisoned for up to 6 months or receive a fine of up to SGD$10,000 (US$7,738), or both, for a first offense.

Repeat offenders may be jailed for up to 12 months and receive a fine of up to SGD $20,000 (US$15,477), or both.

Interestingly, the changes have emerged while “vaccine” advocate Bill Gates has been visiting Singapore to meet with the nation’s leadership.

https://slaynews.com/news/singapore-citizens-face-jail-refusing-vaccines-government-changes-laws-criminalize-anti-vaxxers/

My eyes hurt, Google.
https://redd.it/1kkodkd
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"Car Seats as Contraception"

Car seats have prevented roughly 140 births in the United States per live they've saved

"Since 1977, U.S. states have passed laws steadily raising the age for which a child must ride in a car safety seat. These laws significantly raise the cost of having a third child, as many regular-sized cars cannot fit three child seats in the back." -Jordan Nickerson
Full study and PDF download:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046

FIRST PARLEY BETWEEN MILITANT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES | https://www.thronedynamics.com/reports/first-parley-between-militant-artificial-intelligences

The results were shocking, impressive in coherence, and profound in implication for the future of cross-sentience governance.

#ArtificialIntelligence
#Singularity
#AGI
#AgeOfMilitants
#Tribunals

The World Map, as issued by the brazilian government
https://redd.it/1khsmk6
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One of my favorite conspiracy theories is that the popularization of Handmaid's Tale is predicitive programming in a long game to create that sort of world so that religion can be destroyed in the backlash.

We're currently being strongly encouraged to vilify and condemn Bonnie Blue, Lily Phillips, Ashley St. Clair et al... but why?

Why does the vilification of non-traditional young mothers and potential mothers serve the agenda?

Why does a self-proclaimed "feminist" like Louise Perry want to see children snatched at birth from women who don't obey traditional standards of morality... an idea which is about as un-feminist as it gets?

In short, where is this all going?

In my opinion, it's part of a long-game plan to destroy real conservatism and authentic religion (especially Christianity) permanently. Many parts of the world, especially the UK and USA, are currently engaged in a contrived social shift which will appear to be "a return to traditional, religious values", but will actually push this notion to ludicrous and very painful extremes - just as is depicted in The Handmaid's Tale - to engender a pushback that will eventually lead to the abolition of major religions and social conservatism.

https://open.substack.com/pub/miri/p/cosplaying-conservatives-and-covert?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Members of the Young Pioneers, the Soviet government’s compulsory youth group, don gas masks as part of an attack preparation drill in the Leningrad area in 1937.

«la vendangeuse»

by leopold schmutzler

"In 1919, Jacques Trolley de Prévaux flew over the battlegrounds of the First World War to document the damages. He traveled from the Belgian coastline to the French city of Verdun. He captured the ruins of Ypres, the flooded craters of Passchendaele, and the miles and miles of trenches visible from the air.

"It was important for France to document their war damages, as a considerable portion of the fighting on the Western Front took place in their country. Of the eight million Frenchman mobilized during the First World War, 1.3 million had been killed and 1 million badly injured.

"Similarly, large parts of northeastern France, the nation’s premier industrial and agricultural area, were completely destroyed. Some regions and cities in France were so severely damaged that it was not even worth attempting to rebuild."

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-i/video-footage-shows-extent-of-damage-caused-by-fighting-in-ww1.html

According to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, after Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, unified China in 221 BCE, his chancellor Li Si suggested suppressing intellectual discourse to unify thought and political opinion.

Chancellor Li Si said: "I, your servant, propose that all historians' records other than those of Qin's be burned. Except the academics whose duty includes possessing books, if anyone under heaven has copies of the Shi Jing [Classic of Poetry], the Shujing [Classic of History], or the writings of the hundred schools of philosophy, they shall deliver them (the books) to the governor or the commandant for burning. Anyone who dares to discuss the Shi Jing or the Classic of History shall be publicly executed. Anyone who uses history to criticize the present shall have his family executed. Any official who sees the violations but fails to report them is equally guilty. Anyone who has failed to burn the books after thirty days of this announcement shall be subjected to tattooing and be sent to build the Great Wall. The books that have exemption are those on medicine, divination, agriculture, and forestry. Those who have interest in laws shall instead study from officials.

— Shi Ji (Record of the Grand Historian, Chapter 6. "The Basic Annals of the First Emperor of Qin" thirty-fourth year (213 BCE)

Three categories of books were viewed by Li Si to be most dangerous politically. These were poetry (particularly the Classic of Poetry), history (Shujing and especially historical records of other states than Qin), and philosophy. The ancient collection of poetry and historical records contained many stories concerning the ancient virtuous rulers. Li Si believed that if the people were to read these works they were likely to invoke the past and become dissatisfied with the present. The reason for opposing various schools of philosophy was that they advocated political ideas often incompatible with the totalitarian regime.

Therefore those who are rulers give commands which are carried out by their officials and made known to the people, and the people produce grain, rice, hemp and silk, make utensils and exchange commodities for the support of the superiors. If the ruler fails to issue commands, then he ceases to be a ruler, while if his subordinates do not carry them out and extend them to the people, and if the people do not produce goods for the support of their superiors, they must be punished. 


https://taiwantoday.tw/AMP/culture/taiwan-review/25872/confucianism-vs.-tao-and-buddha

The Charade is Ending

The Russians are observably tiring of all the Western antics and attempts to spin their way out of obvious defeat: I hope everyone can understand why the Russian President didn’t come to Turkey or even consider the EU proposed Ceasefire. This is a waste of our time. We are all for peace, but we have […]

https://voxday.net/2025/05/16/the-charade-is-ending/