"Form The Line!"
by John Wilder
"Spartans were known to be brief with their words, mainly because metal left a longer-lasting mark. When getting ready for battle, it’s likely that the commander had to say only a single word. "Paratattein" (παρατάττειν) is one likely command that Leonidas may have yelled out to prepare his men for battle at Thermopylae. It’s simple in that laconic Spartan way, and it means, roughly, “Form the line.” No bullshit. No pretty-please. No flowery prose. “Form the line!”
Fast forwarding to yesterday... “I just heard that Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah.” The text was from a good friend that I’d known for decades. I checked it out: /pol/ and X® were already on it. It was true.
In our world, it’s not unusual to get real-life events in nearly real-time, if you know where to look. /pol/, which does not shy away from unfiltered reality, had two videos – one from a distance, and then one from the fourth row. The one from the fourth row was clear: Charlie was dead nearly instantly. The world changed with that shot.
Why Charlie Kirk? Most readers here would consider Charlie a moderate voice on the Right. He wasn’t edgy at all – you couldn’t even see the edge from most of his positions. That’s mainly why I didn’t pay him much attention, he was a nice, normal guy with normal opinions. He engaged in polite discourse with people and asked them to engage with ideas in a reasoned debate.
I honestly think he had a shot at the big prize: being the president that came after the Great Tumult of Civil War 2.0 in 20 years or so, perhaps being the one that worked on reconciliation after the coming strife. But this isn’t about me and what I believe. It’s about you. And that feeling you had yesterday?
That’s called passing the point of no return.
The GloboLeft foot soldiers consider you to be a Nazi. You might be a Jew. You might be a Christian. You might be an atheist libertarian. You might be any variety of the spectrum of beliefs of the TradRight. To them, you are a Nazi. And what do they want to do with Nazis? Well, that’s clear.
There are certain subjects that I believe in that I don’t cover here, and that’s for a reason. Never push people out of the tent who are on your side. Never shoot Right. The Right are generally much more able to live with people of differing opinions than the Left. This is mainly due to the people on the Right having a belief system in a higher power, mainly Christianity. Mainly. The beauty of Christianity is that my faith doesn’t depend upon you believing any of what I believe. An atheist believing in something else doesn’t shake my belief, at all.
This is not true of the GloboLeft. They desperately need you to believe in them, not just obey them. Communist regimes set up re-education camps, not compliance camps. They need you to believe what they believe, no matter how often it changes. They want you to hate what they hate, no matter how often it changes. And love? Love is replaced in their world by lust or greed.
So, yes, I skip topics that would divide us. I see in the comments people who agree on 90% of things fighting each other for no particular reason. Let me be clear: you guys are people who the GloboLeft has already put into the same foxhole. If you want to fight, fight them. Enough with the damn purity spirals where we let minor differences divide us. The point for that type of knitting circle bickering is over! If you didn’t notice, the exclamation point on that sentence came spilling out in a gout of blood on September 10, 2025. If they hated Charlie so bad that they had to kill him rather than talk with him, what do you think they’d do with you?
For thousands of years, the main structure for armed warfare was something like the Spartan phalanx, which morphed into the shield wall and Napoleon’s fighting squares and the position Lt. Chard set up at Rorke’s Drift. These formations required discipline and trust in the comrade beside you. You were, after all, fighting for your very survival against an enemy that saw you all the same.
Wake up. That’s where we are, fighting for survival against an enemy that sees us all the same. These people want you to die, preferably in the most degrading way possible. They want your children to curse your memory and your values. Let me emphasize the point: WAKE THE F*CK UP.
Quit fighting each other over trivial crap when the consequences are having your children castrated and brainwashed. You’re all in the same crosshairs with an enemy that won’t stop, and that includes every single moderate like Charlie Kirk, who they also despise. Form the line!"
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