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Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱
@Kristof_Poland · Jun 9, 2026
What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:
Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie
Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.
This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.
Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.
The Words We’re Missing
The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:
Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.
These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.
And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.
The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism
What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.
That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.
This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.
The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.
Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It
People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.
The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.
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Audrey Crews
@NeuraNova9 · Aug 27, 2026
Here's a little more of my incredible story! Thank you @neuralink for sharing! I can't believe this is real life and just think I'm just now 1 year into the journey of a being Neuralnaut. Check out my website
Neuralink@neuralink· Aug 26, 2026With Neuralink, Audrey is creating art with her mind.
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DogeDesigner
@cb_doge · Aug 27, 2026
BREAKING: SpaceXAI has released a new and improved update for Grok Build.
v1.0.12 — 2026-08-27
Performance:
• Worktree creation is faster by skipping stale reflog copies.
Bug Fixes:
• Copying wrapped table cells no longer inserts unwanted spaces at line breaks.
• MCP server connections that fail transiently now retry instead of staying unavailable.
• Waiting on subagents after an interjection no longer blocks on unrelated background work.
• Prompt blocks now show friendly hook descriptions instead of internal IDs.
• Truncation error message no longer suggests asking for a shorter answer.
• Context estimates for conversations with reasoning are now more accurate.
• Token usage after rewinding or switching modes now matches the actual server-reported count instead of overestimating.
• Context bar now updates immediately when auto-compaction begins instead of waiting until it finishes.
• File system monitoring for .NET projects no longer creates excessive watchers on Linux.
• Auto recap no longer appears while a background task or monitor wake turn is streaming.
Download Grok Build:
Update to the latest Alpha release: grok update --alpha
Update to the latest Stable release: grok update
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
Very troubling indeed
Shaun Maguire@shaunmmaguire· Aug 27, 2026America’s schools have been ideologically captured
and it scares the shit out of me
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DogeDesigner
@cb_doge · Aug 27, 2026
Neuralink is one of the greatest technological breakthroughs of our time.
A woman paralyzed from the neck down is creating paintings just by thinking. Patients are controlling wheelchairs and moving a robotic arm just by thinking.
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DogeDesigner
@cb_doge · Aug 27, 2026
Neuralink 🧠
How it started v/s. How it's going
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Glenn Beck
@glennbeck · Aug 27, 2026
Amazing update! Thanks to this incredible audience, @SpaceX has just fulfilled another one of Liv Perrotto's final wishes.
I spoke with her mother @rebeccaperrotto earlier this year, and she shared the list of questions that Liv planned to ask @elonmusk just days before she passed away from cancer. After this audience made that post go viral, @elonmusk answered every one of them, including whether he would make Asteroid, the space-loving Shiba Inu she designed, the mascot for SpaceX.
Well now, SpaceX has just added an official plush of Asteroid to their website!
YOU played a huge role in bringing Liv's story to light and making this happen. Thank you!
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Tesla Owners Silicon Valley
@teslaownersSV · Aug 27, 2026
BREAKING: Grok 4.6 from SpaceXAI is now available in Microsoft Foundry Models. 🤖⚡
Organizations can now build with Grok 4.6 on Foundry, compare frontier AI models, run workload-specific tests, deploy managed endpoints, and use enterprise security and governance controls.
Grok 4.6 is expanding further into the enterprise AI ecosystem.

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Hunter Ash
@ArtemisConsort · Aug 27, 2026
If we made a random 105 IQ Oklahoma small town sheriff the king of San Francisco for a year, he could fix everything.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
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Naval
@naval · Aug 26, 2026
To love is to gain joy from another’s well-being.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
This is how you know it’s true
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
Yes
Paul Graham@paulg· Aug 27, 2026I believe the most qualified person should get the job.
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Naval
@naval · Aug 26, 2026
To love is to gain joy from another’s well-being.
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DogeDesigner
@cb_doge · Aug 27, 2026
Starship. Human for scale.

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Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
@DrewPavlou · Aug 27, 2026
This Melbourne bookstore “Amplify” only stocks non-white authors.
So I went there to ask if I could get a book in their store as somebody of Greek Cypriot ancestry.
Unfortunately she told me that they could not sell my book as I was too white for the store.
Shocking new
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
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darrennn
@genzzztrade · Aug 26, 2026
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says donating to charity is net negative
"The common view is that philanthropy is this noble cause, and Bill Gates is like 'I'm going to go rehabilitate my image and do philanthropy.'"
"A lot of charities and philanthropies are actually net
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
He’s right
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Ligma Deez
@BankOfDevo · Aug 27, 2026
just throw all the variables into ai and let it output a patch that allows every character to be powerful but yet balanced, it can't be that hard
allow the ai to give 1 or 2 characters a slight edge, but overall every character should pack a punch
we just want to SLAY monsters
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
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Rothmus 🏴
@Rothmus · Aug 27, 2026
The original Antifa helped Hitler take power.
Moscow ordered communist parties to treat social democrats as the main enemy under the “social fascism” line, so Antifaschistische Aktion spent its energy fighting the SPD instead of the Nazis.
Their street fighters clashed with socialists more than with the SA, and in 1932 they even coordinated pickets with Nazis against an SPD-run transit company in Berlin.
The two biggest parties that could have blocked Hitler were at war with each other, the left stayed fractured, and by January 1933 there was no united front left to build.
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus· Aug 26, 2026Communists and Nazis are two sides of the same totalitarian coin.
After Stalin’s commies had spent years promoting themselves as true “anti-fascists”
>they signed a non-aggression pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop) with the Nazis
>a secret protocol to carve up Eastern Europe
>they
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SpaceX
@SpaceX · Aug 27, 2026
SpaceX engineers spent several days inspecting Ship 40 in the waters off Christmas Island. They collected heatshield samples and gained vital insight into how the vehicle handled reentry with improvements now planned on future vehicles




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Ron DeSantis
@RonDeSantis · Aug 26, 2026
That this could reach nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars is mind blowing…

Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
It’s just a big scam
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Matt Griswold
@griswold · Aug 26, 2026
Magellan's ship was only 77 feet.
In 100 years, our great-grandkids will marvel at how anyone ever thought to sail to Mars in such a small rocket.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
True
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