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Jokes aside, this type of humor is precisely what the right needs. Restacked the note and the post for visbility. Amazing stuff

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This is something we need in the era of surveillance. We need small high-trust groups that can branch out to one another. If one is compromised it's only a single node in the network that is lost. The goal is large dynamic networks with strong-points in the form of trusted groups, book clubs, martial arts clubs, things like that. The active clubs are particularly effective.

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Very cool!

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Couldn't agree more. Book club is the foundation we need. Without it, any effort for real change is just a temporary fix. True transformation comes from reshaping the systems that mold us, and this is where it starts.

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You've just inspired me. Thank you very much

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Based take per usual

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Good article but speaking for most of my fellow USMC infantry officers, war is hell but somebody has to do it. Nobody really craves it.

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disagree. Men crave adventure, glory, and a heroic rite of passage.

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Yes but not necessarily at war.

FYI I deployed to Herat, Afghanistan with Blackwater after retiring from the USMC infantry.

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perhaps for some, but war is the pinnacle of those experiences, and thus why men and boys of all ages are fascinated and drawn to it. Why for instance did you join the infantry and then retire to blackwater?

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Because of the October 1983 bombing of our Marine barracks in Beirut.

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One may not be so drawn to war if during it his side always gets its entire male population's collective arse kicked by the opposition team or even if your combat medics/ corpsmen don’t have any medical supplies.

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This post has made my entire day. I now feel the need for read.

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Fantastic. Inspiring!

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Book clubs are a fabulous idea! Perfect for the time. I just finished the Loeb edition of Cicero's "On Duties" myself. Wish I had a book club with whom to talk about it.

Reposted on my own site:

https://patrick.net/post/1339878/2021-06-28-reading-paper-books?start=219#comment-2102522

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What about snow skiing, scuba diving, baseball and men’s softball leagues instead of book club?

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That's the beauty of "book club". It can be anything that attracts like-minded individuals. It can be a D&D or WH40k club for all we know

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Actually "book club" specifically is mimicking the ideological programing and intensive study you see in radical highly organized groups who make good criminals like Orthodox Jews, or Muslim fundamentalists, or Marxist-Leninists/Maoists/Anarchists, or Military officers.

There's something very intensive about a group of people sharing cultural, ideological, historical and martial programming through intensive study together for months on end.

It's just instead of lame books like that, the Far-Right would be reading literally the greatest works ever written and giving themselves the classical-educations they never got.

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One thing for sure, that's the most effective method to filter out those infected with TikTok brainrot

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Am I understanding you to say US military officers become good criminals after their service to country?

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P.S. It ain’t Book Club unless there are translations from and into Latin. Just sayen'

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This is real. Your prophecy is out of date.

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