2025-12-22T10:33:04Z https://nostr.now SamuelGabrielSG https://nostr.now/npub1dw6jfptle68dl6uv3ce2vft2p7y89m6uaj2d7txuv6vykaf4mxlqf2eya5 https://blossom.primal.net/af6cf146171d44270485b3866887781e66d3e27851acab9530c8e131d1f15c6c.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/af6cf146171d44270485b3866887781e66d3e27851acab9530c8e131d1f15c6c.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr230ahhxqt3cd3ncx9zpnk945yxukalq6hrgplzxpssfqz8px3cczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuapuuwf This is the kind of analysis that ages well. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-soviet-exit-why-a-superpower">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-soviet-exit-why-a-superpower</a> 2026-10-27T17:04:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfgjdghpd8vva723srwy0nhgjpqcg5zza0p8jtar8ll5eyj9g3f5szyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu426ll5 A perspective worth considering. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/dissidents-as-state-products-the">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/dissidents-as-state-products-the</a> 2026-10-26T18:01:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz9jtk7aqddc0t9yu3wlrxmwmwddya6aj264gxq2kzcwxz80690zszyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu0w6euu For decades the Soviet Union forced biology to follow doctrine, wrecked its agriculture, and proved that a state which owns the truth will destroy the truth tellers. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/lysenkoism-when-a-state-made-science">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/lysenkoism-when-a-state-made-science</a> 2026-10-25T17:37:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvx89c4hxghvkkzkt3m0k369efez4mw23veqxh38pvs7d6v3ppr4szyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuaf963z This one&#39;s worth a read. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/chernobyl-and-the-culture-of-secrecy">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/chernobyl-and-the-culture-of-secrecy</a> 2026-10-24T17:34:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyre0qmw5kpme6cd0rdupa2atjr8qrrr0gcmzxajt9m5kfps8lwkszyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu40cp94 Good read on where things are heading. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-soviet-empty-shelves-the-economics">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-soviet-empty-shelves-the-economics</a> 2026-10-23T17:01:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8fdep3vf7vcryj0uamsxvkw4y296vytnzua445u70zct7avqpdcqzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmunkvy26 A perspective worth considering. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-long-game-reclaiming-our-civilizational">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-long-game-reclaiming-our-civilizational</a> 2026-10-23T03:19:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsddynjltlvrgp9h74ta4n2ru7q5vgkmlwecamg9dzvja64cktvkugzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuk4zvck Here&#39;s something that stuck with me today. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/north-korean-prison-camps-a-society">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/north-korean-prison-camps-a-society</a> 2026-10-22T17:17:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfw967tfwghae6rtm6gfljusrstaupq96u4p84nlxc854ew0ptxxqzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu4w6s5r This made me stop and think. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/north-korea-the-famine-the-world">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/north-korea-the-famine-the-world</a> 2026-10-21T17:19:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspax6nx962g2gqn2uqymg6d0qy3cz6gmtal7egqhu3m8xx6vr94aqzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmusfjjx0 This made me stop and think. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-list-the-marxist-plan-to-build">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-list-the-marxist-plan-to-build</a> 2026-10-21T07:27:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8jn69w43v90320psnutqeudx0aasrhpxuzm9gdtxmfst2jr5f23qzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmugzh8jh In 1980, 125,000 Cubans left by sea in the largest single act of political judgment the regime could not silence, and Havana called it a prison release. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-mariel-boatlift-when-people-vote">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-mariel-boatlift-when-people-vote</a> 2026-10-20T17:24:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8036juplhnp4wx2nmvx7xrgwg0dyygqrk7tg0j0kwjpt2yxc6jlgzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmud4hr2s Fidel Castro&#39;s revolution replaced a corrupt order with a permanent shortage state, and sixty years later the island still queues for what the system cannot make. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/cuban-communism-an-island-blockaded">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/cuban-communism-an-island-blockaded</a> 2026-10-19T17:19:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgwlw2shefjnxz0erge9pk4a8q6hpnfwduryla4gzg8yapt8gw0tqzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmua5yn05 Drought was the trigger, but it was Mengistu&#39;s collectivization and forced resettlement that turned a natural disaster into a famine measured in the millions. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/ethiopia-1984-marxist-famine-and">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/ethiopia-1984-marxist-famine-and</a> 2026-10-18T17:08:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvm5ecth0dat9q60nzvgpnwa96tnau9d3vzr2ch5t33k67qeh04hczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu24vxnc When a failed ideology cannot convince its people, it imprisons them to be reformed, and the reeducation camp is the system&#39;s confession that its doctrine could not win consent. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/reeducation-camps-the-states-school">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/reeducation-camps-the-states-school</a> 2026-10-17T17:04:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyx2cwqp772pan8e9sv6wl9xlmdhalrmsntssq3e04aglpsmeu5eqzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu5mrrx8 After the fall of Saigon in 1975, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese chose the open ocean over life under the new regime, and the exodus was the system&#39;s most honest referendum. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-boat-people-vietnams-people-vote">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-boat-people-vietnams-people-vote</a> 2026-10-16T17:51:10Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx9rwx2j6994lncx4kfx4fcguq30dd4d0u4xrdyurev5cuqa9v9kczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmugatcrq This one&#39;s worth a read. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-emerald-flex-how-european-aristocrats">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-emerald-flex-how-european-aristocrats</a> 2026-10-16T10:50:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdf7qnuvtflgcaguanwhrs4jydxlvadmv0dlsd7skhl56zhrlwtjczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuclck4m A revolution that promised to end scarcity instead produced rationing and empty shelves, and the hardship was not the work of its enemies alone but the product of its own controls. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/nicaragua-under-the-sandinistas-a">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/nicaragua-under-the-sandinistas-a</a> 2026-10-15T17:17:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrqawn6nvzjde5ewl6k9uesrvznyyny8zmhr3ay0yzjc0pup52umczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuvf7snz The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to install communism by force and spent the next decade discovering that a revolution imposed on an unwilling people could destroy the empire that imposed it. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/afghanistan-1979-exporting-revolution">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/afghanistan-1979-exporting-revolution</a> 2026-10-14T17:23:26Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxnwtf8dzcm538arzl2tfckcq2mgv0j8q9c609yt8hcc7xelaag8szyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmux6kygd Interesting breakdown worth sitting with. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-daughter-draft">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-daughter-draft</a> 2026-10-14T08:22:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswwwfplx9cd4krdwkqv9m2222u70x3mh46jwyzcpdq6y8vvx2jjaczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu4pn4va In a small country sealed shut, with no exit, no opposition, and no outside check, communism had every advantage and still produced a genocide of its own people. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/killing-fields-communisms-cleanest">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/killing-fields-communisms-cleanest</a> 2026-10-13T17:19:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfamtjam3rssdehtlfh4u0xv6y243t874avqpud57vrtjzjwk7erczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuxwk7ee A regime that emptied its cities and abolished money turned a small nation into the site of a genocide of its own population, and called the destruction a new beginning. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-khmer-rouge-year-zero-as-a-real">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-khmer-rouge-year-zero-as-a-real</a> 2026-10-12T17:06:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs95p4ermsp2x4tw2tz08hysz7qzzl04wpqgcderjprxlpq3anq39czyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuglzzcd When one in fifty citizens reports on the other forty nine, the surveillance apparatus has stopped being a tool of the state and become the state itself. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-stasi-the-state-that-watched">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-stasi-the-state-that-watched</a> 2026-10-11T17:47:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrmlq5d6wnuafp3ee5rly6stjlzkj00t2ncl5edac7r6g5qhm473qzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuqhwugg Worth the few minutes. Genuinely. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-berlin-wall-the-exit-route-was">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-berlin-wall-the-exit-route-was</a> 2026-10-10T17:34:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdmdth9q44757k5w2ey6cdk8dwgdp64dts7y6rtu9q33c2wmlhg2szyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuzkqrfc After 1945 the Red Army turned wartime allies into protectorates bound to one party rule, and the difference between ally and satellite became the single clearest measure of what communism demanded of nations. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-east-bloc-satellites-not-allies">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-east-bloc-satellites-not-allies</a> 2026-10-09T17:19:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgtyfu7c09y67f6rdar4j90vzrkx0g394tukta57z6w6rp0k5w88czyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu2q766d State education and media ensure the famine and the Cultural Revolution are never taught at home, so a new generation inherits the myth instead of the memory. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/why-chinese-youth-do-not-know-the">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/why-chinese-youth-do-not-know-the</a> 2026-10-08T17:05:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswhk2nz6naea7pegsxsnj695ngqdxw4qs2stfzadjtatz6pye8j7gzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuytl2g3 Worth your time. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-personality-cult-as-a-control">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-personality-cult-as-a-control</a> 2026-10-07T18:11:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswgf96gtfr8m6xw9wh40k2lwkyr2ucp3rk0k2e6t9rns3zyl7sqzgzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu325yyg In 1989 the students of Tiananmen Square met the army of their own state, and the Communist Party made explicit the line it would never let its people cross. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/tiananmen-1989-the-regime-names-its">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/tiananmen-1989-the-regime-names-its</a> 2026-10-06T17:03:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfamllascme8jchtl5937c6rsdjnexzddfnd4pw5056fzdf9607tqzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmujy8x6x When Deng Xiaoping declared that it did not matter whether a cat was black or white as long as it caught mice, Mao&#39;s planned economy was quietly admitted to be a failed design. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/deng-xiaopings-reversal-the-admission">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/deng-xiaopings-reversal-the-admission</a> 2026-10-05T17:09:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszffqckjeqx6rpnmpqlrk3466e6fspyjef3wrwgyv8unqttfkp0cgzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuznkhg6 The trial of Mao&#39;s inner circle in 1980 showed a system preparing to devour its own mythmakers, as the architects of the Cultural Revolution became its defendants. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-gang-of-four-the-end-of-the-cults">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-gang-of-four-the-end-of-the-cults</a> 2026-10-04T17:26:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxn5v8hdek3536zu0udec3dqvpku9qkc9zraexk9wr7dgzlgv2s6gzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu6dj7yh Thoughtful piece. Take a look. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/demoralizing-your-own-side-with-nihilism">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/demoralizing-your-own-side-with-nihilism</a> 2026-10-04T09:24:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw07aktp6gpsym3jfpvexrakw4r9m7vmugjl7aasscz2m0w2sj3zczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu2ydw5f This is the kind of analysis that ages well. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/men-need-to-mobilize">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/men-need-to-mobilize</a> 2026-10-04T07:24:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfdnuxz8vlnjp6nx3f3njr2gxghjtn74u7x0765u7w6zqa664llnczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu62phpd This one&#39;s worth a read. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/beyond-globalism-the-rebirth-of-europe">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/beyond-globalism-the-rebirth-of-europe</a> 2026-10-04T00:32:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst6u5cfrdcvwe0tfpwv35y6ywtrw069xxzana3wskfhz039g6uq2czyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuwkn7n0 The death of Mao&#39;s chosen heir in a plane crash over Mongolia exposed what the personality cult was built to hide: a system where loyalty and terror rotated around a single throne. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/lin-biao-and-the-crashed-flight-power">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/lin-biao-and-the-crashed-flight-power</a> 2026-10-03T17:03:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszhsjameycyaa5gk0zsjc0msamyl3zupykjhzz65tcxg38lll243czyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuqurzle The Cultural Revolution armed students with doctrine and set them on teachers and families, showing how a cult turns its youngest believers into its enforcement arm. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/red-guards-youth-as-an-instrument">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/red-guards-youth-as-an-instrument</a> 2026-10-02T17:54:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstfte4g9haprh5msqc5ha075kptuv3zkm7ycj9fndyqf2f9n49jmqzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuqln5tl A perspective worth considering. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/women-dont-want-us-in-a-room-thats">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/women-dont-want-us-in-a-room-thats</a> 2026-10-02T10:53:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs83pz3gf68uf0thj9j2ewzapg5dnt4gu7ddwfn77ll8yj0y4kdnpszyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuh33p27 From 1966 to 1976, Mao turned China&#39;s youth into an instrument of terror aimed at teachers, officials, and their own families, a state devouring itself in the name of renewal. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-cultural-revolution-a-revolution">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-cultural-revolution-a-revolution</a> 2026-10-01T17:44:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv8ak8rcglf68l2n7s5x7xn05xg6vq6exfdlvarwanypxzhz7dcnczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuegnptg While tens of millions starved between 1958 and 1962, grain still left China and honest cadres were punished for telling the truth, because the party could not afford to lose face. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-chinese-famine-why-the-party">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-chinese-famine-why-the-party</a> 2026-09-30T17:38:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdyxgfcx94hpmz09u25mlkrtemztf0wvafwfvuras0zwnr3qzf7rqzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuefezvn Mao&#39;s steel and grain quotas turned a false contract with nature into the deadliest famine in human history, and the system never once admitted the arithmetic was wrong. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-great-leap-forward-a-human-accounting">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-great-leap-forward-a-human-accounting</a> 2026-09-29T17:17:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdrl2ut9p22lu6rwgn4phts3uuyjlqjhkfwr8kkhucxktk8jjcajgzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu842mam Thoughtful piece. Take a look. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-brotherhood">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-brotherhood</a> 2026-09-29T07:40:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf8q2c2g7njwr7q0uayple6py8d98skaqnu22nakrmpgq0crcsyeszyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmujxweh0 A state that promised to defend its people declared captured soldiers traitors, punished their families, and sent the survivors to the camps it called reeducation. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/soviet-pows-and-the-great-patriotic">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/soviet-pows-and-the-great-patriotic</a> 2026-09-28T17:40:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdvpf6qvn9kpwhl9jv5a9ns56sj75py8g4enusxcthz03lcwt7h8qzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu9wfmqn Somewhere in a glass office tower, a woman in her late thirties updates her résumé, logs out of three different dating apps, and eats dinner alone in her apartment. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/americas-leftover-women-the-quiet">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/americas-leftover-women-the-quiet</a> 2026-09-28T06:44:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgkp6dh4hm4q2dphuze84w5q95zllmy0wqrc32ex5hhl6c8ga475szyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu0przej The self-declared anti-fascist power signed with Hitler in a single night and divided Europe with him, showing that doctrine bends to convenience the moment the party&#39;s interest requires it. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-molotov-ribbentrop-pact-ideology">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-molotov-ribbentrop-pact-ideology</a> 2026-09-27T17:38:44Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz6lr5fhngtum0ckz74sj9px5quw3y3c2mvcvzgjcnp9ljmpdl8yqzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu34ruty This cuts through a lot of noise. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-sweeney-standard-how-feminism">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-sweeney-standard-how-feminism</a> 2026-09-27T03:35:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0uh3z2wwqvskyjuyrf96czkekc6n7802gulq864kce6e9c38shaszyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuexguct This is the kind of analysis that ages well. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/stakhanovism-the-quota-that-measured">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/stakhanovism-the-quota-that-measured</a> 2026-09-26T17:30:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqgz0rdj6fgdptak8cq8vghnfnvf288gnxc44wa8eq5hkt0pehy0gzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuxmdm6y The camp system was advertised as reeducation and operated as an extraction industry, an archipelago of slave labor running on the fiction of improvement. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-gulag-labor-not-correction">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-gulag-labor-not-correction</a> 2026-09-25T17:19:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw9kvtfsgujq88vjy5fwf6g6scpktzakzhhxsvkywsdwqkjgwjt9czyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmup5mvj6 In 1937 and 1938 the Soviet state destroyed its own founders, officers, and administrators, proving that a machine built on enemies will always need more of them. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-great-purge-how-a-party-eats">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-great-purge-how-a-party-eats</a> 2026-09-24T17:09:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszhf5v94s6rvjjh50czrsuzay4s89jpu42wupaddf8eec5p5kkdvgzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmujsrff7 Sharing this — some sharp thinking here. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/us-vs-them-the-war-women-declared">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/us-vs-them-the-war-women-declared</a> 2026-09-24T13:03:19Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstxrnnxxdzfaeg0q7wee4mh6fav9zugl2nat3jdd6d46yjkgsrp7qzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmujewu53 This cuts through a lot of noise. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/collectivization-and-the-holodomor">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/collectivization-and-the-holodomor</a> 2026-09-23T17:35:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstx444hpqnfcegrlk38wsjpvmw7x4ene8zhsta2kllznnm48sssrqzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmukjjjnj Lenin&#39;s retreat to money, trade, and private plots proved that the theory could not feed a country without the very mechanisms it had declared obsolete. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-new-economic-policy-when-communism">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-new-economic-policy-when-communism</a> 2026-09-22T17:43:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqlpwjnwr96jwtjl6ym5vpve8x22g3tfvx5sfrhaawfyaej469c9szyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmunyspc2 The sailors who made the October Revolution were declared counter-revolutionaries for asking for the freedoms they had been promised, and the answer came as cannon fire across the ice. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/kronstadt-1921-the-revolution-turns">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/kronstadt-1921-the-revolution-turns</a> 2026-09-21T17:38:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgal8chp2gwpeuwjfp5ep4kjw4slakwk7wgnlp6k8d8zrxjgengwczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu5tqa24 Grain requisition, class rationing, and the Cheka: how the first communist economy manufactured famine out of fertile land, and why Americans should remember who fed the survivors. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/war-communism-1918-when-a-theory">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/war-communism-1918-when-a-theory</a> 2026-09-20T17:21:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8nzvq44vv2vtklqlslse9wxnnzqeuyjvs76lpmqdjv9w8x3uenugzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmugc3r5n This made me stop and think. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-utopian-contract">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-utopian-contract</a> 2026-09-19T14:03:10Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvfr58qhvdjthzhx8j9su4ll57x5l2w9fwem36w5e8242tzprjhyczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu6r77gd The manifesto from Dario Amodei, titled “Machines of Loving Grace” and published in late 2024, provides a window into the internal world of the Silicon Valley elite. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/darios-building-a-deity-the-messianic">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/darios-building-a-deity-the-messianic</a> 2026-09-19T10:57:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqaa54yfccm5ty4rp4xjmd3tn8j58ld4wcks4u25fg7u2qxa7lutgzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmujpzxel Here&#39;s something that stuck with me today. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-new-scarlet-letter-lindsay-clancy">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-new-scarlet-letter-lindsay-clancy</a> 2026-09-17T06:05:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqf77fe45ux5p720k0dqkl9mtjcxukgaxusexyhv73epzgegvqr2czyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmulz7che Good read on where things are heading. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/one-man-v-the-matriarchy">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/one-man-v-the-matriarchy</a> 2026-09-16T05:57:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr0anwdqylagj0wklfwkgxk3mww63d77nrkkn05ekdmgft8rc4x9qzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmujq6azq Thoughtful piece. Take a look. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/why-the-clancy-tragedy-demands-the">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/why-the-clancy-tragedy-demands-the</a> 2026-09-14T23:42:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdtq33z3kgw6d56f3858yqjqg82kuuuhfvhw580p0fzsvrzll9t5czyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmul3xysy This cuts through a lot of noise. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-permission-slip-to-kill-how-the">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-permission-slip-to-kill-how-the</a> 2026-09-13T23:34:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0t797lzg442gjwqrm22t3r8vm5u8ugjc2hc648uk49yfu27mky3gzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmu4wmulh This is the kind of analysis that ages well. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/feminisms-deliberate-survival-strategy">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/feminisms-deliberate-survival-strategy</a> 2026-09-13T04:20:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs29l4nhjhjcgkucns2jmtu5n5fww89p2mv4h8vqh83rlwkryezvyszyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuma3mmp A perspective worth considering. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/tech-oligarchs-collaborate-to-kill">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/tech-oligarchs-collaborate-to-kill</a> 2026-09-13T02:20:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8a6h4ssp3wa2vxnnjp7vsg8aywmw3jd8t34k4fqcp9whgfunyn6gzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuz78k2w <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/tech-oligarchs-collaborate-to-kill?r=4mou2g&amp;utm_medium=ios">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/tech-oligarchs-collaborate-to-kill?r=4mou2g&amp;utm_medium=ios</a><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/ee02b0ddad4db14b05ddef9a80ca0f7b7260682d029955fe61ef9cf095658765.jpg"> 2026-09-13T00:39:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf5jtdqdwkrcdtsnqhd03r506qtxclkje270ghkuaz44cyl4r009czyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuedtvyk This made me stop and think. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/america-alone-is-not-america-first">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/america-alone-is-not-america-first</a> 2026-09-11T06:17:31Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd6fny3dun6cjzstn3mzu0eaqa0f654znasehkzume666lkdlsfuczyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmuyx3gda On August 7, 2026, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, creating one of the most consequential new security arrangements in the Muslim world. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-mecca-pact-what-it-is-who-it">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-mecca-pact-what-it-is-who-it</a> 2026-09-10T08:07:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9knhmrftwzp5ayedxydd49dmcdalljqgm0t7n560pcrsar35hr0qzyp4m2fy90l8gahlt3j8r9f39dg8csuh0tnkffhevm3nfsjm4xhvmue7z3jz Interesting breakdown worth sitting with. <a href="https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-united-front-origin-and-the-making">https://samuelgabrielsg.substack.com/p/the-united-front-origin-and-the-making</a> 2026-09-09T07:58:12Z