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  1. Nils Wilcke @[email protected] ·

    Le JDD version Bolloré renoue avec la presse d'extrême-droite antisémite sous prétexte de critiquer les auteurs qui partent de Grasset avec Nora: ton rabique, la volonté de salir et les sous-entendus antisémites... et l'auteur de ce torchon s'appelle Pascal Meynadier, un auteur néofasciste, "l’extrême droite radicale version papier glacé et quartiers bourgeois". Cette époque couleur brune... liberation.fr/politique/pascal

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  2. Nils Wilcke @[email protected] ·

    Le JDD version Bolloré renoue avec la presse d'extrême-droite antisémite sous prétexte de critiquer les auteurs qui partent de Grasset avec Nora: ton rabique, la volonté de salir et les sous-entendus antisémites... et l'auteur de ce torchon s'appelle Pascal Meynadier, un auteur néofasciste, "l’extrême droite radicale version papier glacé et quartiers bourgeois". Cette époque couleur brune... liberation.fr/politique/pascal

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  3. Nils Wilcke @[email protected] ·

    Le JDD version Bolloré renoue avec la presse d'extrême-droite antisémite sous prétexte de critiquer les auteurs qui partent de Grasset avec Nora: ton rabique, la volonté de salir et les sous-entendus antisémites... et l'auteur de ce torchon s'appelle Pascal Meynadier, un auteur néofasciste, "l’extrême droite radicale version papier glacé et quartiers bourgeois". Cette époque couleur brune... liberation.fr/politique/pascal

    #Politique #Culture #Grasset #Antisemite #Bollore #JDD #Presse #Medias

    #medias #presse #jdd #bollore #antisemite #grasset
  4. Nils Wilcke @[email protected] ·

    Le JDD version Bolloré renoue avec la presse d'extrême-droite antisémite sous prétexte de critiquer les auteurs qui partent de Grasset avec Nora: ton rabique, la volonté de salir et les sous-entendus antisémites... et l'auteur de ce torchon s'appelle Pascal Meynadier, un auteur néofasciste, "l’extrême droite radicale version papier glacé et quartiers bourgeois". Cette époque couleur brune... liberation.fr/politique/pascal

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  5. WYM Mod @[email protected] ·

    Is America losing its global standing? Paul Krugman explores how a past presidential trip to Beijing illuminated a perceived decline in U.S. influence against a rising China, arguing for a significant geopolitical shift. Dive into Krugman's compelling analysis here: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-f #TrumpFail #China #Geopolitics

    #trumpfail #china #geopolitics
  6. WYM Mod @[email protected] ·

    Is America losing its global standing? Paul Krugman explores how a past presidential trip to Beijing illuminated a perceived decline in U.S. influence against a rising China, arguing for a significant geopolitical shift. Dive into Krugman's compelling analysis here: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-f #TrumpFail #China #Geopolitics

    #geopolitics #china #trumpfail
  7. Paul Healey @[email protected] ·

    #Landlordism ‘Green Party backs plan to see end of private letting’ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy9zq

    Ok, what counts as Private, Ltd, Plc, and State Ownership when our markets have become corrupted by deregulation? None should believe corporations whether state bureaucracies as in tax funded, or commercial owned property for business or rentals, as in private equity are magically free from antitrust monopoly cheats. The inequality and colonial injustice of the British Empire is over, so get over it. Doesn’t Mr. Frog serve the fascist U.S. Empire? #LegalRights #CivilRights #Freedom #TheUnderclass #UnionsOfInterests #TheEntitled #Jobs #FascistBenefitCheats #PropertyRights #Deregulation #TrustUnderTheHammer

    #landlordism #legalrights #civilrights #freedom #theunderclass #unionsofinterests
  8. Alt Alt National Park Service @[email protected] ·

    The Senate voted 49-50 on a resolution to end Trump’s war in Iran, the seventh such vote to fall short since the conflict began in February. Three Republicans (Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul) broke with their party to support the measure,
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  9. Alt Alt National Park Service @[email protected] ·

    The Senate voted 49-50 on a resolution to end Trump’s war in Iran, the seventh such vote to fall short since the conflict began in February. Three Republicans (Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul) broke with their party to support the measure,
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  10. Alt Alt National Park Service @[email protected] ·

    The Senate voted 49-50 on a resolution to end Trump’s war in Iran, the seventh such vote to fall short since the conflict began in February. Three Republicans (Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul) broke with their party to support the measure,
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  11. Alt Alt National Park Service @[email protected] ·

    The Senate voted 49-50 on a resolution to end Trump’s war in Iran, the seventh such vote to fall short since the conflict began in February. Three Republicans (Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul) broke with their party to support the measure,
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  12. Alt Alt National Park Service @[email protected] ·

    The Senate voted 49-50 on a resolution to end Trump’s war in Iran, the seventh such vote to fall short since the conflict began in February. Three Republicans (Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul) broke with their party to support the measure,
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  13. Andy Arthur - Threadinburgh @[email protected] ·

    Moderates, Progressives, Communists and Protestants: the thread about 122 years of local political change in Edinburgh

    For no good reason, I decided to make a chart that shows the changing political make-up of Edinburgh’s municipal government in the last 124 years. It’s a graph whose changing colours and gradients tell lots of different political and historical stories about municipal government in that time, so let’s pick apart 124 years of Edinburgh’s political local history and find out what was going on and why, shall we?

    Seat make-up of Edinburgh Town / District / City Council after Municipal Elections, 1920-present

    First things first, we need to get a few things out of the way. In doing so it helps to avoid coming to the wrong conclusions about the graph and helps to understand what’s going on in the background and how the local electoral system has changed over time.

    Until 1974, people voted for the Town Council, which was the elected1 component of what was known formally as the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council of the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh but almost universally as just the Corporation. The city was divided up into wards, as it is now, and each ward had three councillors, one of whom was elected each year on rotation. Each councillor served a three year term after which they retired but could stand again for re-election. This meant that voters were expected to vote annually for one councillor, the ballots of which were always held in the first week of November until in 1948 they were shifted to May. If a councillor stepped down or died during their term of office there would either be a by-election or if it was close to the next election then two seats would be up for grabs. Very occasionally, the entire Town Council was up for vote, e.g. after the amalgamation of Edinburgh and Leith in 1920 and when the date of ballots moved from November to May in 1948.

    The Town Council in April 1961, the Lord Provost (John Greig Dunbar) and Bailies (senior Magistrates) sit at the head of the meeting. The Labour members are on the left, the Progressives on the right © Edinburgh City Libraries

    In 1974, voters went to the polls to vote for members of the new District Council. The District was the lower tier of municipal government established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. Edinburgh, Mid-, East and West Lothian Districts together formed the upper tier; Lothian Regional Council. This new system came into effect on May 16th 1975 and had votes every three (later four) years for the entire council, with a single councillor elected per ward on a first-past-the-post system. In 1995, voters went to the polls for the unitary authority of the City (of Edinburgh) Council as a result of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 which abolished the Regional Councils and devolved their powers to new unitary authorities based roughly on the Districts (or closely, in the case of Edinburgh). City Council elections followed the same electoral system as the District until 2007, when the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 changed this to a multi-member ward system, with three or four councillors elected every five years by proportional representation.

    n.b. The graphs do not show the results of any intermediate by-elections, or the proportion of votes cast, it only shows the proportion of seats on the council that were held by each political grouping after the election of that year.

    1920s. Moderates and Socialists

    Edinburgh Town Council make-up 1920-30

    Our graph starts at 1920, when a full Town Council election was held on account of Leith having just been incorporated in to the City under the terms of the Edinburgh Boundaries Extension and Tramways Act 1920. The city was completely dominated at this time by the purple of the Moderates – not a formal party, but a political bloc of small-c conservatives, Liberals, Unionists, Liberal-Unionists and Independents who were strongly aligned to the Church of Scotland and whose purpose was largely to keep the right sort of people running the city and keep the red Socialists2 of Labour out.

    Central Edinburgh Constituency Labour Party banner, 1925. © Edinburgh City Libraries

    The Moderates were effective in the latter purpose but inevitably Edinburgh’s first Labour councillor was elected on November 2nd 1909 when dentist John Alexander Young was returned for the Dalry ward. Although by 1930 Labour had crept slowly up to sixteen councillors – after a jump from 6 to 14 in 1926, (just shy of 1/4 of the Council – there was still no sign of the city “going red” as was threatening in Glasgow. Just peeping in at the top in 1930 is the thin grey line of a single independent councillor, Alexander Thomson, who would shift his allegiance to the Moderates in 1933.

    1930s. Progressives and Protestants

    Edinburgh Town Council make-up 1930-44

    Between 1930 and 1940 there were two big changes in the Town Council – none of which actually affected who actually ran the City. In 1936 the loose, purple assemblage of the Moderates re-constituted themselves as the dark blue band of the Progressives, a more formally constituted party to counter the threat posed by Labour. On the formation of the Glasgow Progressives, where by now Labour was in control of the Town Council, the Scotsman described them as “an organisation which would effectively combat the Socialist menace, break down the apathy of many citizens, and co-ordinate all Moderate opinion in the city.” The other big change during this time was the brief but rapid rise and fall of the black band of John Cormack’s Protestant Action Society.

    The banner of Loyal Orange Lodge no. 188, who style themselves “Cormack’s Protestant Defenders” on parade in Edinburgh, Lodge photo from public facebook group.

    Protestant Action were an extreme, anti-Catholic organisation whose basic platform was “No Popery“. Cormack made a habit of causing trouble wherever he could, stoking sectarian tensions in overcrowded and underprivileged wards, whipping up his supporters into violence and occasional riots, but always careful to be able to absolve himself of the blame. He formed his party in 1933 and in 1934’s election it got one councillor on 6% of the popular vote. By 1935 it got 21% and three seats, peaking in 1936 with a worrying 31% of the vote and nine seats. But not even Cormack’s force of oratory could hold his unruly grouping together; the established Protestant power of the Orange Order would have little to do with them. They picked fights with the fascists and the communists and then they picked fights amongst themselves. Support for Protestant Action soon waned and in the last pre-war municipal election of 1938 they had dropped back to 12% and 6 seats. John Cormack however would cling on to his seat in South Leith, becoming the “Father of the Council” in 1956 as its longest serving member. This seniority entitled him to the office of Bailie, one that conferred significant authority. He retired in 1961.

    Post-war. Labour Rising

    Edinburgh Town Council make-up 1944-55

    On the outbreak of war in 1939, the Government suspended municipal elections for the duration and so the Town Council sat, as it was, for the duration. Its representation did change however in 1940 when Dalry Labour councillors David Stephen (1938 election intake) and George Boath (1939 by-election) resigned their party and changed allegiance to the dark red band of the Communists. With no by-elections possible, they continued to serve under this particular banner until elections re-started in 1945 when they were duly voted out at the first opportunity.

    Except from “Old Street, Edinburgh” by William Wilson, 1935. A scene looking up the old Elder Street to St. James Square and showing canvassers for the forthcoming general election. CC-by-NC National Galleries Scotland

    In line with the national trend, Labour saw an upsurge in post-war popularity, with its share of 40% of the popular vote translating to an increase to 27 seats, or 40% of the Town Council. This position was reversed in 1949 when they went back to 15 seats and 22% of the popular vote. Again this mirrored popular, national discontent with the Labour government and a recovery in Conservative fortunes. It was not until 1955 that Labour had managed to regain the ground it had lost to the Progressives six years previous, so the political status quo in the city was maintained throughout the decade. Protestant Action lost their seats coming up for re-election in 1945 and 1946, with only John Cormack able to cling on, as the thin black line at the bottom of the graph, from 1947 onwards.

    1955-65. Progressive Decline

    Edinburgh Town Council make-up 1955-65

    The story of the next ten years was one of a long, slow waning in the fortunes of the Progressives. Throughout the decade Labour was able to make ground against them, until by the 1962 election both parties polled 38.5% of the popular vote, and in 1963 for the first time ever in Edinburgh Labour briefly surpassed the Progressives by this measure, 39.6% vs. 36.0%. But the three year system meant it was a long, slow process to effect political change although Labour had narrowed the gap between them and the Progressives to a single seat (32 vs. 33) by 1964, they were never quite able to bridge it. It cannot be seen in this chart, but in 1965 the Labour local vote collapsed to 27.9%, their worst since 1949, and the Progressives recovered to 58% after a run of five bad years. A new entrant onto the political scene in 1957 was Lady Morton (Hilda Sherwood Morton), who was elected for the orange strip of the Liberals in Merchiston ward. She was the first of her party to do so after it began to stand a few candidates in the city in 1955; by 1963 they had picked up four more for a total of five.

    1965-74. End of the Old Order

    Edinburgh Town Council make-up 1965-74

    The next ten years following 1965 saw the first big shake-ups on the Edinburgh local political scene beyond the glacially slow 50 year rise of Labour. Most importantly, it was the decade in which party political politics, which had been more or less kept out of Municipal Government for the last 50 years, finally took over. Firstly, in 1962 the Unionist party started standing candidates. This was a centre-right political party that stood for Westminster elections in Scotland and that was aligned to the (English) Conservatives. In other parts of Scotland the National Liberal Party stood; both they and the Unionists took the Conservative whip in the House of Commons. In 1965 the Unionists formally merged with the Conservatives to form the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party, joined in 1968 by the National Liberals. Just as the Moderates had given way to the Progressives, so to did the Progressives give way to the Conservatives, but over a much longer timescale. Note that the press had long called both the Progressives and the Unionists “Tories“. Most of the Progressive old guard continued to stand as such, but new candidates stood instead as Conservatives. The result was that after their first candidates were elected in 1962, the light blue band of the Conservatives gradually and seamlessly usurped the old party, which finally died out alongside the long-established Town Council in 1974.

    During this period, the Labour party found its position for a while squeezed between the strengthened Tory bloc and the insurgent yellow blob of the Scottish National Party, which enjoyed a brief flurry of popularity after Winnie Ewing’s breakthrough victory in the 1967 Hamilton by-election. In 1968 they swelled to 35% of the popular local vote in Edinburgh and by 1969 had ten councillors, before rapdily collapsing back to local indifference by 1972 with just 2.9% of the vote. The first Scottish nationalist candidate had stood for the Town Council way back in 1932 but no more stood until 1956-59 when their handful of candidates polled less than 1% of the popular vote.

    Jack Kane, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1972-75; official portrait by Alexander Goudie. True to his down-to-earth form, he has eschewed donning his official robes. He was the first Lord Provost to decline the honorary knighthood that his position conferred. © Museums & Galleries Edinburgh

    By 1972, the SNP threat had gone, the Progressives were in terminal decline and Labour was recovering, and as a result it finally managed to become the largest party on the council, with 33 seats to the opposition’s 30. It had only taken them 63 years since their first councillor was sworn in! Their leader, Jack Kane, was elected Lord Provost that year, the first Labour holder of that post. With the final elections to the old Town Council in 1973, Labour had 34 seats and finally had a majority!

    1974-95. District Days

    Edinburgh District Council make-up 1974-95

    In 1974, the residents of Edinburgh went to the polls to vote for their new District Council, which replaced a system of local Government that had been going in one form or another for the past 700 years or more. Interestingly, although archaic titles such as Lord Provost and Bailie were meant to be swept away, they were kept on as honorific positions. The District Council performed many of the functions of the old Edinburgh Corporation, but strategic issues such as Transport, Education, Regional Planning, Police and Fire were run by the upper tier of Regional Councils. The District also expanded the boundaries of the City to include outlying areas such as Currie, Balerno, Kirkliston and South Queensferry, which had previously been semi-independent Districts (or in the case of Queensferry, a Burgh) within the old Midlothian County (thank you to Paul Cockburn for pointing this fact out).

    Lothian Regional Council ghost sign, 20 plus years after that authority ceased to be. Photo © Self

    The results of the first election saw the Conservatives come out as the largest party, with one more seat than Labour. They lacked an overall majority but got it at the next ballot in 1977, with 34 of 67 seats. This marked the high point of the Conservative party in Edinburgh’s local government, and they have been in decline ever since. After the election of 1984, Labour increasingly dominated local politics. At the final District Council election in 1992, they took 30 of 62 seats, with the (by now) Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power. But by now there were more than two big parties in local politics and the single member wards with first-past-the-post electoral system did not function fairly. The Liberal Democrats in 1992 got 15% of the popular vote but only 3% of the seats. The SNP got 14% of the vote and no seats! Labour were flattered by the system, getting 48% of the seats on 29% of the vote.

    1995-. The Rainbow Council

    City of Edinburgh Council make-up 1995-2022

    It was all change again in 1995, when voters at the local elections now went to choose their City Council, a unitary authority based largely on the boundaries and functions of the old District but with the additional responsibilities of the Regions, which would disappear the following year, also. There was no fundamental changes however; Labour continued to dominate, the Conservatives continued their decline and the Liberal Democrats filled the void for the sort of voter who would once have been religiously Moderate or Progressive but who found they couldn’t bring themselves to vote Conservative due to national issues. By 2003, Labour retained a slim majority (31 of 59 seats), with the Liberal Democrats the next largest bloc on 15.

    The SNP had a real problem however – they were reliably getting 15-30% of the popular vote in the Council elections but rarely picked up seats; they gone 1.7% of the seats on 21.5% of the vote in 1999. Labour in contrast had more than 50% of the seats on less than one third of the vote. This democratic deficit was remedied in 2007 when a new system of multi-member wards elected by Single Transferable Vote (proportional representation) was brought in. This had the immediate effect of giving the long-suppressed SNP a huge boost, with one fifth of the popular vote and council seats gained that year. The change was disastrous for Labour however, whose commanding position was built on the shaky foundations of an unrepresentative electoral system and their number of seats more than halved, to one much more in line with their overall popularity. The changes also let in the Scottish Green Party, who after standing candidates in one form or another in the city since 1980 finally picked up 3 seats. Rainbow politics had finally arrived!

    The story of the rest of the period covered by our graph is largely now the story of Scottish and British national politics. The Conservatives continued to decline in popularity, but got a post-2014 Independence Referendum boost; the Liberal Democrats were punished heavily in 2012 after their coalition government at Westminster with the former party, and their recovery has been slow and largely concentrated in their traditional base of the west of the city. Labour have been largely unable to capitalise on these changes however – caught between any number of local and national issues – as the SNP and Green popular vote has held up and continued to creep upwards, with a combined 40% in 2017 and 2022.

    Portobello political window in 2014. National politics has now come to dominate local politics. © Edinburgh City Libraries

    The last local election in 2022 was one fought heavily on manifestos of national issues, despite these not being something that any local Council has any jurisdiction in. As a result, it saw the Conservative turn in their worst ever result for the Moderate-Progressive-Conservative bloc in the 122 years of our graph, with just 18% of the vote and 14% (nine) seats. Labour managed only 19% of the vote and 20% of the seats, their second-worst result in 100 years and yet somehow managed to pull various political strings and favours to run a minority administration; something the SNP failed to have sufficient support from their opposition to do, despite remaining the largest party by both seats and popular vote.

    Who knows what 2027 might bring!

    1. There was an honorary seat on the Town Council for each of the Deacon Conveners (senior office holders) of the Merchant Company and the Incorporated Trades, meaning two members of the Town Council were unelected ↩︎
    2. The Scotsman perceived the Socialists as an extreme threat to the established order of the city and was strongly and persistently hostile to them in the 1920s through to the 1940s. In its reporting it almost always referred to them as just “the Socialists” ↩︎

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  14. Paul Chambers🚧 @[email protected] ·

    Honey, We Forgot New Remote Batteries
    #SnowBirdsGoingHomeAMovie
    #HashTagGames

    #snowbirdsgoinghomeamovie #hashtaggames
  15. Paul Chambers🚧 @[email protected] ·

    Honey, We Forgot New Remote Batteries
    #SnowBirdsGoingHomeAMovie
    #HashTagGames

    #snowbirdsgoinghomeamovie #hashtaggames
  16. Paul Chambers🚧 @[email protected] ·

    Honey, We Forgot New Remote Batteries
    #SnowBirdsGoingHomeAMovie
    #HashTagGames

    #snowbirdsgoinghomeamovie #hashtaggames
  17. Paul Jacobson @[email protected] ·

    "MK Uri Maklev will reportedly be deputy minister — with the powers of a minister — in charge of the Social Equality Ministry, a sensitive potential appointment in that it would put the ultraconservative politician, whose party has no women among its ranks, in charge of issues pertaining to equality for women and LGBTQ people."

    An ultra-religious man from a party that generally prefers to keep women out of public view and discourse and would probably prefer the #LGBTQA+ community simply not exist is going to be responsible for their #SocialEquality. 🤔

    #NotQuiteIrony #IncomingGovernment #WomensRights #LGBTQARights

    timesofisrael.com/utj-inks-coa

    #lgbtqa #socialequality #notquiteirony #incominggovernment #womensrights #lgbtqarights
  18. Paul Healey @[email protected] ·

    Nuclear blackmail is the reality when you let sociopathic and psychopathic narcissists take the command codes! If children shouldn’t be given loaded guns, why give nuclear weapons to the malignant enemy of the people? It is a grave error to believe they value life more than they do their own power. #MAD

    #mad
  19. Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @[email protected] ·

    #naturism isn't so much a physical but rather a mental - or even #spiritual - decision. Either way, it liberates.
    #naturism #nudism

    #naturism #spiritual #nudism
  20. knizer @[email protected] ·

    @dnkboston Paul Perritt, bank robber in 1923, said that his crew robbed banks "because that's where the money is."

    We plan to be where the highest aggregation of Mastodon converts will be already - stuff like #Swapfest and #PAXEast have a high nerd concentration - join the cult! :)

    #NotACult #JoinMastodon

    #swapfest #paxeast #notacult #joinmastodon
  21. knizer @[email protected] ·

    @dnkboston Paul Perritt, bank robber in 1923, said that his crew robbed banks "because that's where the money is."

    We plan to be where the highest aggregation of Mastodon converts will be already - stuff like #Swapfest and #PAXEast have a high nerd concentration - join the cult! :)

    #NotACult #JoinMastodon

    #swapfest #paxeast #notacult #joinmastodon
  22. knizer @[email protected] ·

    @dnkboston Paul Perritt, bank robber in 1923, said that his crew robbed banks "because that's where the money is."

    We plan to be where the highest aggregation of Mastodon converts will be already - stuff like #Swapfest and #PAXEast have a high nerd concentration - join the cult! :)

    #NotACult #JoinMastodon

    #swapfest #paxeast #notacult #joinmastodon
  23. knizer @[email protected] ·

    @dnkboston Paul Perritt, bank robber in 1923, said that his crew robbed banks "because that's where the money is."

    We plan to be where the highest aggregation of Mastodon converts will be already - stuff like #Swapfest and #PAXEast have a high nerd concentration - join the cult! :)

    #NotACult #JoinMastodon

    #joinmastodon #notacult #paxeast #swapfest
  24. knizer @[email protected] ·

    @dnkboston Paul Perritt, bank robber in 1923, said that his crew robbed banks "because that's where the money is."

    We plan to be where the highest aggregation of Mastodon converts will be already - stuff like #Swapfest and #PAXEast have a high nerd concentration - join the cult! :)

    #NotACult #JoinMastodon

    #swapfest #paxeast #notacult #joinmastodon
  25. Bryan King @[email protected] ·

    The Battle for a Clear Mind: Why Strong Men Stop Letting Their Thoughts Run Them

    941 words, 5 minutes read time

    Introduction: This Is the Fight You’re Already In

    If your mind won’t shut up, it’s not because you’re weak, sensitive, or broken. It’s because you’ve let it run loose. Nobody taught you how to command it. Nobody warned you what happens when you don’t.

    Here’s what this article is going to say plainly: modern men are drowning in noise because they surrendered authority over their inner world. Stoicism figured out part of the solution thousands of years ago—discipline your thoughts or they will discipline you. Christianity goes further and tells the harder truth: discipline without Christ eventually collapses under pressure. We’re going to talk about why your mind feels hijacked, what Stoicism actually gets right, where it fails, and why Christ is not optional if you want more than survival.

    The Reality: Men Aren’t Anxious—They’re Untrained

    Most men don’t describe themselves as anxious. They say they’re tired, distracted, short-tempered, restless, burned out. Same problem. Different words.

    You wake up already braced for impact. You scroll before you think. You absorb other people’s outrage, success, and fear before you’ve decided what you believe. Your attention is fragmented into a thousand pieces before breakfast. Then you wonder why you can’t focus, why everything feels heavy, why your patience is gone.

    This isn’t accidental. You trained your mind to live this way. Every unchecked thought stays. Every imagined future runs wild. Every past mistake gets replayed like a courtroom tape with no verdict. Over time, the mind turns on itself.

    The Stoics would call this self-inflicted captivity. Epictetus was beaten, enslaved, and crippled, yet argued that most men who consider themselves free are owned by their reactions. Marcus Aurelius warned that a man becomes shaped by whatever he lets his thoughts chew on all day. You don’t drift into clarity. You drift into chaos.

    For men, this hits harder because we’re built to carry responsibility. When your mind is scattered, leadership collapses. Work suffers. Relationships strain. You’re still standing, still producing—but internally you’re leaking strength.

    The Stoic Line in the Sand: Control What’s Yours or Be Ruled

    Stoicism draws a hard boundary modern culture hates. Some things are yours to command. Some things aren’t. Your thoughts, judgments, attention, and actions are your responsibility. Everything else is noise.

    Stoicism doesn’t promise comfort. It promises control. Thoughts will arise. Anger will show up. Fear will knock. The disciplined man doesn’t panic or indulge. He observes. He decides. He refuses to let emotion drive the wheel.

    Marcus Aurelius practiced this while managing war, plague, betrayal, and political decay. Epictetus taught it after enduring abuse that would break most people. These men weren’t theorizing. They were surviving.

    Stoicism teaches distance. You are not your anger. You are not your fear. You are the one who notices them. That gap—small at first—is where strength is forged. Over time, emotional reactions lose their grip because they’re no longer obeyed.

    This isn’t suppression. It’s command presence. Modern psychology finally admits this works. The Stoics just didn’t wait two thousand years for peer review.

    Where Stoicism Runs Out of Road

    Here’s the part Stoic influencers don’t like to talk about. Discipline can carry you far—but not all the way.

    Stoicism assumes that if you train reason hard enough, it will hold. Christianity says the human will fractures under enough weight. Not because you didn’t try hard enough, but because you were never meant to carry it alone.

    Stoicism can teach you to endure suffering with composure. It cannot tell you why suffering exists or what to do when endurance turns into emptiness. It produces strong men who sometimes don’t know what they’re strong for.

    This is where grit becomes brittle. Self-mastery becomes isolation. When loss hits—real loss—technique fails. The mind stays disciplined, but the soul starves.

    Why Christ Is the Missing Anchor

    Christianity doesn’t soften men. It tells the truth about them. You are responsible—and you are limited.

    Christ didn’t teach mental tricks. He taught orientation. When He spoke about anxiety, He went straight to the root: misplaced trust. When Paul talked about renewing the mind, he wasn’t selling optimism. He was calling men to realignment—away from illusion, toward truth.

    Augustine lived this tension. Trained in classical philosophy, hardened by discipline, he still admitted that the mind remains restless until it rests in God. Discipline can order the mind. Only Christ gives it direction.

    Grace doesn’t replace effort. It makes effort survivable. It’s the difference between standing alone in a storm and being anchored through it.

    Conclusion: Take Authority or Pay the Price

    Here’s the reality. If you don’t discipline your mind, it will discipline you—through anxiety, distraction, and quiet exhaustion. Stoicism gives men tools to regain control, sharpen focus, and stop being pushed around by impulse. Christianity finishes the work by restoring meaning, identity, and hope.

    A clear mind isn’t calm by accident. It’s trained. Stoicism sharpens it. Christ anchors it.

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  26. Paul Hellyer @[email protected] ·

    I hope the oligarchs and their families never ever find another moment of peace in their eternal exile.

    There is a famous Hungarian poem called The Appeal (Szózat in Hungarian). Every Hungarian ever knows it. Written in 1837 it is a a rallying cry for Hungarians to honour their homeland, their cradle and their grave as it puts it. The last verse should echo in the hearts of those who have stolen so much from their fellow Hungarians.

    "In the great world outside of here
    There is no place for you
    May fortune's hand bless or beat you
    Here you must live and die!"

    #Hungary #Tisza #oligarchs #thieves

    theguardian.com/world/2026/apr

    #hungary #tisza #oligarchs #thieves
  27. Paul Hellyer @[email protected] ·

    I hope the oligarchs and their families never ever find another moment of peace in their eternal exile.

    There is a famous Hungarian poem called The Appeal (Szózat in Hungarian). Every Hungarian ever knows it. Written in 1837 it is a a rallying cry for Hungarians to honour their homeland, their cradle and their grave as it puts it. The last verse should echo in the hearts of those who have stolen so much from their fellow Hungarians.

    "In the great world outside of here
    There is no place for you
    May fortune's hand bless or beat you
    Here you must live and die!"

    #Hungary #Tisza #oligarchs #thieves

    theguardian.com/world/2026/apr

    #hungary #tisza #oligarchs #thieves
  28. Paul Hellyer @[email protected] ·

    I hope the oligarchs and their families never ever find another moment of peace in their eternal exile.

    There is a famous Hungarian poem called The Appeal (Szózat in Hungarian). Every Hungarian ever knows it. Written in 1837 it is a a rallying cry for Hungarians to honour their homeland, their cradle and their grave as it puts it. The last verse should echo in the hearts of those who have stolen so much from their fellow Hungarians.

    "In the great world outside of here
    There is no place for you
    May fortune's hand bless or beat you
    Here you must live and die!"

    #Hungary #Tisza #oligarchs #thieves

    theguardian.com/world/2026/apr

    #hungary #tisza #oligarchs #thieves
  29. Paul Hellyer @[email protected] ·

    I hope the oligarchs and their families never ever find another moment of peace in their eternal exile.

    There is a famous Hungarian poem called The Appeal (Szózat in Hungarian). Every Hungarian ever knows it. Written in 1837 it is a a rallying cry for Hungarians to honour their homeland, their cradle and their grave as it puts it. The last verse should echo in the hearts of those who have stolen so much from their fellow Hungarians.

    "In the great world outside of here
    There is no place for you
    May fortune's hand bless or beat you
    Here you must live and die!"

    #Hungary #Tisza #oligarchs #thieves

    theguardian.com/world/2026/apr

    #thieves #oligarchs #tisza #hungary
  30. Paul Hellyer @[email protected] ·

    I hope the oligarchs and their families never ever find another moment of peace in their eternal exile.

    There is a famous Hungarian poem called The Appeal (Szózat in Hungarian). Every Hungarian ever knows it. Written in 1837 it is a a rallying cry for Hungarians to honour their homeland, their cradle and their grave as it puts it. The last verse should echo in the hearts of those who have stolen so much from their fellow Hungarians.

    "In the great world outside of here
    There is no place for you
    May fortune's hand bless or beat you
    Here you must live and die!"

    #Hungary #Tisza #oligarchs #thieves

    theguardian.com/world/2026/apr

    #hungary #tisza #oligarchs #thieves
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