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Stephen Kotkin explains the real reason Marxism keeps attracting intellectuals and young people, even after the body count. It is not because the theory works. It is because it offers something far more seductive: total, rapid transformation and a special role for the intellectual class. In a market system,... ordinary people make their own decisions. Under Marxism-Leninism, the intellectuals get to make the decisions for everyone. They become the engineers of society. Workers and peasants are treated as people with “false consciousness” who need to be led. The ideology flatters the people who believe they are smarter than the rest of society. That is why the blood does not put them off. The power is worth the cost.show more

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"When I tell you it's time to leave the Democrat Party, I am telling you it is time to get the f*ck out of there!" "The reason why is because the only thing they can offer people is the fact that they believe that white people should be guilty for who they are, and black people are oppressed and they are less than white people." "You don't even want Democrats around your kids!" "Children are taught racism through the indoctrination centers that are our education systems!" BASED!!! Free.as.can.be

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When breeze blow, VDM yansh open 👐🏾 This guy clearly state that we are worst than the politicians and that’s the reason why he rather support and stand on the mandate of Tinubu than to call for a revolution, because the people according to him doesn’t have the right mindset to govern themselves. This is just shifting blame away from those who actually hold power to blame the people who operate within systems created by the people in power. when those systems are corrupt or broken, society reflects it. That’s not proof that the people are worse; it’s proof that leadership has failed. Saying people can’t do better is also false. History shows that when citizens demand accountability, organize, and push for reform, systems improve. Dismissing them outright is not insight but defeatist thinking. VeryDarkMan is now a tool of excuse for the politicians for their inaction. He avoids responsibility and offers zero solution to the problems it claims to criticize.

When breeze blow, VDM yansh open 👐🏾 This guy clearly state that we are worst than the politicians and that’s the reason why he rather support and stand on the mandate of Tinubu than to call for a revolution, because the people according to him doesn’t have the right mindset to govern themselves. This is just shifting blame away from those who actually hold power to blame the people who operate within systems created by the people in power. when those systems are corrupt or broken, society reflects it. That’s not proof that the people are worse; it’s proof that leadership has failed. Saying people can’t do better is also false. History shows that when citizens demand accountability, organize, and push for reform, systems improve. Dismissing them outright is not insight but defeatist thinking. VeryDarkMan is now a tool of excuse for the politicians for their inaction. He avoids responsibility and offers zero solution to the problems it claims to criticize.

Death Note 📝

14,395 views • 4 months ago

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The diplomats were never in charge and that is exactly why this war may not be over. Senator Ron Johnson says the people running Iran are the ones with the guns. They don't want a deal. And until the regime is disarmed or its own people are, it survives. "The people in charge of Iran are not the diplomats, not the ones who wanted to do a deal. The people in charge of Iran are the ones with the guns, and they don't want to do a deal." Senator Ron Johnson

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The diplomats were never in charge and that is exactly why this war may not be over. Senator Ron Johnson says the people running Iran are the ones with the guns. They don't want a deal. And until the regime is disarmed or its own people are, it survives. "The people in charge of Iran are not the diplomats, not the ones who wanted to do a deal. The people in charge of Iran are the ones with the guns, and they don't want to do a deal." Senator Ron Johnson

Mario Nawfal

42,555 views • 3 months ago

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Gabor Maté on why he worries about "very nice" people and the hidden cost of people-pleasing People-pleasers didn't choose to be that way. According to physician and trauma expert Gabor Maté, they gave something up far earlier before they even had the words for it. "People pleasers are the ones who gave up not by conscious choice, but as a matter of survival, their authenticity in order to stay liked and accepted and attached." And once that pattern is set in childhood, it doesn't stay there. "They carry that on in the rest of their lives." And the consequences, Maté says, go beyond relationships they become a health risk. "I always worry for the very nice people." He draws a crucial distinction between two kinds of niceness: "There are two places to be very nice from. One is just genuine human compassion and concern for others but you're still grounded in yourself. That's great." The second kind is where it gets dangerous. "A lot of people are very nice because they are afraid not to be because they weren't liked who they were. They weren't loved for who they were. Being nice was their way of getting the love and the attention they needed." The difference isn't visible from the outside. Both people smile. Both people help. Both people say yes. But one is rooted. The other is running.

Kevin Tanaka

28,613 views • 3 months ago

To everyone who campaigned for the NDC: remember, you sold the party to the people and they bought it. Now that the NDC is in power, if they fail the people, don’t defend them—criticize them. Loyalty belongs to the PEOPLE, not the party (NDC).

To everyone who campaigned for the NDC: remember, you sold the party to the people and they bought it. Now that the NDC is in power, if they fail the people, don’t defend them—criticize them. Loyalty belongs to the PEOPLE, not the party (NDC).

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26,487 views • 10 months ago

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Some leaders talk about the masses only when election is near. Others make the masses part of their journey long before the cameras arrive. That is the difference Shugaba Bello El-Rufai represents. Bello’s politics is not built on empty noise. It is built on resilience, accessibility, mentorship, and genuine concern for ordinary people. In a country where many politicians remember the poor only during campaigns, Bello has shown a different kind of leadership: the kind that lifts people, opens doors, builds confidence, and gives the children of the poor a reason to believe they also belong in the room. Leadership is not only about holding office. Leadership is about impact. It is about how many people can say their lives became better because you showed up. It is about whether young people around you become stronger, wiser, more confident, and more prepared for the future. This is where Bello stands out. He has not only positioned himself as a political figure; he has become a guide, a mentor, and a bridge for many people who would have otherwise been ignored by the system. He understands that politics should not be a private ladder for the privileged. It should be a platform for human development. When the children of ordinary people begin to stand tall, speak with confidence, compete with the privileged, and feel a sense of dignity, that is not ordinary politics. That is social transformation. Nigeria needs leaders who can see potential in people before society sees it. Leaders who can identify talent among the poor and give it structure. Leaders who do not measure people by their background, but by their capacity to grow. Shugaba Bello El-Rufai represents that rare political energy: firm, passionate, people-focused, and deeply invested in raising others. A true leader does not only rise. A true leader raises people with him. And that is why Bello’s story continues to inspire loyalty, confidence, and respect.

ADC Vanguard

16,069 views • 2 months ago

Civic nationalism is globohomo. Doing away with your people and identity to have your entire people's history and existence represented through paper and not blood is retarded. People are not paper. They are made of flesh and blood and are real. Ethos doesn't make the people, the people make the ethos. Your nation and ideals do not survive without the people that created them.

Civic nationalism is globohomo. Doing away with your people and identity to have your entire people's history and existence represented through paper and not blood is retarded. People are not paper. They are made of flesh and blood and are real. Ethos doesn't make the people, the people make the ethos. Your nation and ideals do not survive without the people that created them.

Into the Memory Hole

11,321 views • 9 months ago

"Men do not stay for platitudes. Platitudes do not carry a soul through the winter. When the child is in the ground, when the marriage is in ruins, when the diagnosis comes back and the floor drops out of the world, no one was ever held up by 'be kind and stay positive.' They are held, if they are held at all, by something with iron in it. By a witness that the heavens are real and open, that God still speaks, that the dead are not lost, that there is power on the earth greater than the darkness. The early Saints had that, and they knew they had it, because they had felt it in their own bodies. They were healed under hands. They spoke in tongues. They saw visions and buried their children in the certainty of resurrection and crossed a continent on the strength of a fire they could not have faked. That is what converts a man and that is what keeps him, not a well managed self-help program, but the living evidence that what we preach is true. So the cure is not complicated, and it is not new. It is to be again the Church of our fathers. Stop apologizing. Stop trimming the glorious truth into something the world will pat on the head. Speak with authority and with the hammer, the way Joseph spoke, the way Brigham spoke, the way men speak when they actually believe the heavens have opened over them. Reach again for the gifts of the Spirit, and stop pretending they were a founding era curiosity, because a testimony built on argument crumbles in the first storm and a testimony built on the manifest power of God does not. And above all, live as though the heavens are open, because they are, and they have only ever felt closed to a people who stopped expecting them to answer. The Saints are not leaving because the gospel is too much. They are leaving because we have made it too little. Make it glorious and demanding again, and watch who comes back through the door. The hungry have not gone anywhere. We simply stopped setting the table."

"Men do not stay for platitudes. Platitudes do not carry a soul through the winter. When the child is in the ground, when the marriage is in ruins, when the diagnosis comes back and the floor drops out of the world, no one was ever held up by 'be kind and stay positive.' They are held, if they are held at all, by something with iron in it. By a witness that the heavens are real and open, that God still speaks, that the dead are not lost, that there is power on the earth greater than the darkness. The early Saints had that, and they knew they had it, because they had felt it in their own bodies. They were healed under hands. They spoke in tongues. They saw visions and buried their children in the certainty of resurrection and crossed a continent on the strength of a fire they could not have faked. That is what converts a man and that is what keeps him, not a well managed self-help program, but the living evidence that what we preach is true. So the cure is not complicated, and it is not new. It is to be again the Church of our fathers. Stop apologizing. Stop trimming the glorious truth into something the world will pat on the head. Speak with authority and with the hammer, the way Joseph spoke, the way Brigham spoke, the way men speak when they actually believe the heavens have opened over them. Reach again for the gifts of the Spirit, and stop pretending they were a founding era curiosity, because a testimony built on argument crumbles in the first storm and a testimony built on the manifest power of God does not. And above all, live as though the heavens are open, because they are, and they have only ever felt closed to a people who stopped expecting them to answer. The Saints are not leaving because the gospel is too much. They are leaving because we have made it too little. Make it glorious and demanding again, and watch who comes back through the door. The hungry have not gone anywhere. We simply stopped setting the table."

Kirk Rollins

63,131 views • 2 months ago