Comments on: Neves Valente – remember him?

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:03:48 +0000

@ John Galt III > “The new housing gal in NYC who says private property should be abolished but breaks down in tears publicly when it is pointed out to her that own her Mother lives in a $1.4 million Craftsman home in Nashville, TN.”

Another Bernie-of-the-three-homes Socialist, clamoring to Tax the Rich and so forth, but making exceptions for themselves.

To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin’s maxim on legal and illegal rebellions: “Wealth is always acceptable in the first person — our wealth. It is only in the third person — their wealth — that it should be confiscated.”

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Original quote from “1776”: “Rebellion is always legal in the first person — our rebellion. It is only in the third person — their rebellion — that it is illegal.”

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:31:31 +0000

Like I said old snowy can explain it to someone else.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:26:46 +0000

Valente was apparently depressed most of his life.
He was reportedly quite intelligent, but that’s no armor against depression. Don’t know if he was ever diagnosed or treated. Many depressives commit suicide, and a few take others with them. A tragedy anyway you look at it.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:31:59 +0000

It fascinates me that from Valente’s account he made these big decisions about life and people when he was barely consciously aware.

How does that happen?

I wonder if his intelligence worked against him here.

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:46:02 +0000

He can explain it to someone else.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:21:12 +0000

there are still more questions, than answers (some unfocused anomie) that came to rest in providence,

By: John Galt III

John Galt III — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:36:26 +0000

Valente sounds like every disaffected Leftist I have known or read about.

A normal person gives thanks to God every day for what they have. A Leftist is full of envy and hatred that someone, somewhere has more than they do and not only is that not fair but we need to take their stuff away from them – for Social Justice.

The new housing gal in NYC who says private property should be abolished but breaks down in tears publicly when it is pointed out to her that own her Mother lives in a $1.4 million Craftsman home in Nashville, TN.

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:36:06 +0000

@CICERO: Neves is clearly one of T.S. Eliot’s men, in his poem “The Hollow Men,”

Wow. That’s either a misreading of Eliot or of Claudio Neves Valente or both.
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Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men

–T.S. Eltot, “The Hollow Men”
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Clearly Valente was a lost violent soul, eaten up with mistrust, resentment, anger and hate from an early age.

If one requires a quote from a famous poem to hang on Valente it would be:
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

–W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”
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The Hollow Men fit the first clause, Valente the second.

“The Hollow Men” ends “Not with a bang, but a whimper” — not with multiple gunshots.

By: CICERO

CICERO — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:03:28 +0000

Neves is clearly one of T.S. Eliot’s men, in his poem “The Hollow Men,” which describes spiritually empty, post-WW1 figures lacking substance and purpose. Written one hundred-plus years ago, so they have long been among us.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:22:56 +0000

I sadly have a sister who is somewhat like this, though not, I don’t think, prone to violence (though in our thankfully limited interactions with her we prefer not to be alone, just to be safe). She never married or had children, and has told us in no uncertain terms how much she hates all of us (her siblings), our spouses, and our kids. She blames all of her failures in life on us, though as best as I can tell, it’s all just resentment.