HANNAH ARENDT: The ideal subject of such a regime . . . is the person for whom the difference between fact and fiction, between true and false has simply stopped existing, the one who no longer trusts what they saw with their own eyes over what they have been told.

Wisdom from Hannah Arendt here.
Total domination runs on two engines
Terror - isolates people, preventing them from organising together
Ideology - a ubiquitous explanation that is unfalsifiable.
The ideal subject for the regime is not a fanatic, but a person who can no longer… pic.twitter.com/uMXj8diheB

— Edie Wyatt (@msediewyatt) June 28, 2026

Wisdom from Hannah Arendt here.

Ordinary tyranny wants your obedience. It silences you, it frightens you, but it leaves your inner world more or less intact. You may think what you like so long as you keep quiet.

Total Domination wants more than that it wants the inside. It runs on two engines: Terror, which isolates every person until no one will act with anyone else, and an Ideology, a single idea that claims to explain all of history past and future with airtight logic so that no fact can ever contradict it.

And here is the most important sentence I can give you. The ideal subject of such a regime is not the fanatic, not the true believer who burns with conviction. It is the person for whom the difference between fact and fiction, between true and false has simply stopped existing, the one who no longer trusts what they saw with their own eyes over what they have been told.

Once enough people reach that state, anything becomes possible because there is no longer any solid ground from which to say that is a lie. You do not have to make people believe the lie, you only have to wear them down until they no longer believe anything at all. Exhaustion, not conviction, is the goal.

The Origins of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt's Definitive Work on Antisemitism, Imperialism, and the Rise of Authoritarian Power, 1951.

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The physical activity matters, genuinely. But the Hazda walk similar distances and eat almost no saturated fat. The Amish combination of movement and animal food is the point. Isolating the fat as the killer requires ignoring every other variable, which is precisely what the…

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) June 29, 2026

They say “America has no culture” . . .

They say “America has no culture” and what they mean is that the Constitution and Bill of Rights, English common law, the language itself, Thanksgiving and the 4th of July, the nuclear family, the work ethic, rock n roll, country, plus every innovation that turned this place into… pic.twitter.com/I97VTypW88

— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) June 28, 2026

They say “America has no culture” and what they mean is that the Constitution and Bill of Rights, English common law, the language itself, Thanksgiving and the 4th of July, the nuclear family, the work ethic, rock n roll, country, plus every innovation that turned this place into the world’s superpower don’t count as real culture.

It’s just “whiteness,” this blank or oppressive thing that exists only to be critiqued and replaced. And this line has become so dominant, so institutionalized in schools, media, HR departments, and elite culture that it’s now the standard water everybody swims in. Most people don’t even clock it anymore because it’s treated like obvious truth instead of the radical self-erasure project it actually is. But this isn’t a good faith argument at all, and it carries clear ulterior motives to justify the erasure of America’s historic core and the people who built it. Because once you get Americans to accept that their culture is either nonexistent or evil, then mass demographic change, open borders, and tearing down the old traditions suddenly look like moral progress instead of an existential attack on everything that made the country function in the first place. The reality though is that America has one of the strongest and most distinctive cultures on earth, forged from Western and Christian roots and supercharged by liberty and merit. And the World Cup visitors are reminding us of exactly that right now. Germans are going viral saying if you want to hate America watch the news but drive through it and meet the actual people. Europeans are shocked by how genuinely warm, friendly, and generous Americans are in real life and can’t stop talking about the hospitality and customer service. Japanese fans are writing poetry about unlimited free chips and salsa, while others are losing it over Texas brisket, ranch dressing on everything, Waffle House at 2 am, Buc-ee’s, the ridiculous size of Walmart, and free drink refills that never end. These outsiders are cutting straight through the institutionalized narrative and showing us what we’ve been gaslit into taking for granted, and that is an abundant, open, high trust, high energy culture that actually works. Americans built it, they live it every day, and they are not apologizing for it or handing it over.

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— 🇬🇧🇬🇧Ben Jones🇬🇧🇬🇧 (@BenJoRS2017) June 29, 2026

The crab and the bucket and the spiral of silence pic.twitter.com/akpcmdKqHD

— MJ Murphy (@hothingsgirlsay) June 27, 2026