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Bill Maher is now what I once was.
I no longer am a “Shadow Christian,” for I have seen the path that awaits me and my children should I coast on Christian morality without fully endorsing it, and it is death:
- Death of the family, as money and status replaces children and grandchildren
- Death of the community, as families disintegrate
- Death of a nation, as the values that birthed it are replaced by a vacuum, and that vacuum filled by whoever exercises power for power’s sake
To the three people reading this, my intention isn’t to promote “doomerism,” but rather to spread a message to all other shadow Christians, in tech or otherwise, to recognize the danger their grand children face if their morals are shaped by whatever political leanings their high school classmates and teachers have. Becoming intimately comfortable with the Bible is the best defense against future brainwashing.
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Steven Pinker will believe Marxist politicians when they say “my ideals are based on Marxism,” but will not believe the Christian politicians of the West (for ~1600 years) when they say “my ideals are based on Christianity.”
I spoke with @LaulPatricia about Marxism:
One is: What’s remarkable is that Marxism has been tried. Now, of course, defenders of Marxism say it hasn’t really been tried anywhere, but certainly the people who implemented it claimed they were implementing Marxism.
And this is a massive experiment—a global experiment—with a very clear outcome. Namely, the Soviet Union was a disaster. The imposition of communism on Eastern Europe was a disaster. The imposition of communism in Venezuela was a disaster. The imposition of communism in Maoist China was a disaster. Disaster in terms of both poverty and oppression and genocide and stupid wars. So the world has told us what happens under communism, and it’s a sign of how out of touch intellectuals can be that there are still people who defend it despite the entire world giving a very clear-cut answer.
One more is: would you rather live in North Korea or South Korea? Would you rather live in the old East Germany or West Germany? We have an experimental group and a matched control group in terms of culture, language, and geography, and the answer is crystal clear. So this is a sign of, I think, the pathology of intellectual life—that Marxism can persist.
The other is, you did call attention to one of the appeals of Marxism, though, and more generally of heavy, strong influence of government guided by intellectuals, which is that there are certain kinds of reforms that you can state as principles. You can articulate them verbally as propositions—like equality, human rights, democracy—but there’s other kinds of progress that take place in massive distributed networks of millions of people, none of whom implements some policy. But collectively, there is an order, an organization that’s beneficial.
So that can happen organically through, for example, the development of a language. No one designed the English language. It’s just hundreds of millions of English speakers. They coin new words. They forget old words. They try to make themselves clear. And we get the English language and the other 5,000 languages spoken on earth.
Likewise, a market economy is something where knowledge is distributed. You don’t have a central planner deciding how many shoes of size 8 will be needed in a particular city, but rather information is conveyed by prices, which are adjusted according to supply and demand. And you’ve got a distributed network of exchange of information that can result in an emergent benefit.
Now, intellectuals tend to hate that. They like rules of language—of correct grammar. They like top-down economic planning. They like cultural change that satisfies particular ideals described by intellectuals. And so rival sources of organization, like commerce, like culture—traditional culture—tend to be downplayed by intellectuals.
And this can be magnified by the fact that many dictatorships give a privileged role to intellectuals, which may be why, over the course of the 20th century, and probably continuing to the present, there has not been a dictator that has not had fans among intellectuals—including the mullahs and ayatollahs of Iran, but also the communist dictators: Mao and Castro, even Stalin in his day. And every other dictator has had, actually, often fawning praise from Western intellectuals.
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Along with many others, I was appalled by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s giggling dismissal of “Woke 1” as “crazy.”
In case you’ve forgotten, she herself was one of the most passionate advocates of de-funding the police, tearing down statues of American heroes, establishing racial quotas, dividing the country between oppressors and oppressed, etc.
I quite agree that these policy recommendations and policies were “crazy,” but she has to own up to endorsing them.
More to the point, Woke 1 was not only misguided; it was cruel.
One of the bitterest fruits of Wokeism was the cancel culture that resulted in armies of people losing jobs, reputations, and careers because they didn’t correspond to the reigning orthodoxy.
I happen to know several people whose lives were devastated by Woke crusaders.
But now it’s just “ha-ha, wasn’t that crazy.” No, it was brutal and inhumane.
"Wasn't it just crazy that time we declared your country to be irredeemably racist, caused mob violence and a massive crime wave across the country by waging a war against law enforcement, ruined peoples' lives if they made a joke in a private groupchat, and reoriented every American institution so they discriminate against white men?"
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Here is why @paulg’s position is absurd: he neglects the moral right of Sovereignty.
Sovereignty is the moral right of self determination. America was founded on this principle. Paul is suggesting we cannot choose who enters our country if we desire meritocratic corporate culture, lest we be hypocrites.
No, Paul. Immigration is not a moral axiom. That is a category error. I’m not required to dilute mine and my children’s voting power simply because a foreigner codes better than I can.
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People like Mehdi will pretend like they are assimilating into America and then be outraged when people express very normal American opinions like Islam is bad and a threat to our way of life.
But they are not going to win the rhetorical battle or the hearts and minds of millions of Americans. In fact, heritage Americans will be radicalized against them. It will be demonstrated that their presence inspires division and conflict. We have to fuel the flames of conflict and tension against the enemies of our country.
We live in a country where the entire political and media class talks about antisemitism every day, conflates antisemitism with criticism of Israel, meanwhile prominent Republican members of Congress are saying this with zero pushback from political or media elites.
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Well done Spain. You successfully countered Argentina’s strengths: their physical aggression, and their midfield pushes.
I noticed a lot of young faces on Spain’s team, presumably they will have a shot at a third star next World Cup.
As for us Americans, now we return our focus domestically. We have much more existential problems to work on.
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I’ve mostly been watching Argentina during the World Cup, but watching the FRA vs ESP game right now, it feels like there’s something missing.
Then I realized that Argentina incorporates a more violence into their play style. They’re certainly a lot more entertaining to watch
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Like many others, I have been alarmed by the success of certain politicians in our country who identify as extreme socialists or communists.
This is not a matter of classical liberals triumphing over standard-issue conservatives; this is the victory of people who stand athwart the fundamental principles that undergird our country.
There are many reasons why I detest Communism, but I want to draw attention to just one issue of supreme importance.
Karl Marx said that the first critique is the critique of religion. He meant that, before a complete re-working of the politics and economics of a society can take place, religion has to be taken down.
This is because religion, as he saw it, is the “opium of the masses,” a drug taken to dull our sensitivity to the suffering caused by economic exploitation. As long as the suffering populace is lured into complacency by fantasies about God's providence and the promise of eternal life, they will never rise up and throw off their chains.
But there is a second reason why the elimination of religion is of paramount significance for Marx.
Communism aspires to be a totalizing system, involving the government's control over education, entertainment, communication, politics, and especially economics.
What stands resolutely athwart this ambition is religion, which declares that all of these societal expressions are finally under the judgment of God. So, if you want Communism to succeed, religion has to be stamped out.
If you doubt me on any of this, I would encourage you to read the recent histories of China, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Venezuela. Revisit those histories and tell me I'm wrong about the attack on religion.
Might I encourage my fellow believers in God not to be complacent in the face of this very troubling development in the American body politic?
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Third world communists are the enemy. They've taken over our greatest American city. They're taking over one of our two major political parties. They hate this country. They hate white people. They hate our heritage and traditions. This is the fight. Get in the game or go away.
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Genuine question: Is the organized rape of 250,000 Brits by a foreign national group considered an act of war?
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For the unaware, in nature, it has never been observed that information (DNA) has ever been created spontaneously. The source of information is either prior information (copying) or a designing mind. Ergo God must have existed to design the first life forms.
no other field of science lets you examine God's handiwork better than molecular biology. Perfect synthesis of beauty and engineering. Wonderful
"For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made"
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Hello Mr. Hunter Biden,
You're getting six-digit likes on every post lately. I don't have any hope to ratio you or whatever through traditional "Hello" means.
But for those uninitiated, those who are captivated by your fake-humble persona obviously PR-engineered to capture unsuspecting disaffected Republicans:
You are not some humility, witty guy turning over a new leaf. You are the ultimate proof of nepotism, everything that the so-called "Epstein Class" is supposed to represent.
Let me explain - off the top of my head.
You were a board member of USGLC. U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. The most powerful NGO that nobody's ever heard of. Last year, I documented in several threads, how Liz Schrayer, USGLC lead, took credit for ramming through a 90 billion dollar bill for Ukraine in 2024, even as @mattvanswol demonstrated that Western North Carolina got zero help in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene because FEMA threw up their hands and said they ran out of funds.
USGLC, arguably, is the most powerful NGO that nobody has ever heard of. It includes a bunch of corporations, a bunch of nonprofit leads, and ... for some magical reason, I documented, extensively, linked, that Liz Schrayer started pursuing you in 2012. During the Obama years, when you were Biden's son. Are you a former Secretary of State? No. Are you a CEO of a Fortune 500 company? No. That puts you below the average USGLC board member, by a good tier.
So what DID get you on USGLC? The only reason: that you were the son of a sitting Vice President known for corruption, and you yourself were known for corruption.
You are not "folksy." You are the worst of the worst of the elite. Most of the elite, at least, get their credentials through Georgetown/George Washington/Harvard Kennedy. You got yours purely on nepotism. Any photographs you have of yourself at motels is proof that you are so incompetent that you waste all your money, not that you come from humble beginnings. Because others like @MarcoPolo501c3 have thoroughly documented that you benefited a great deal from your nepotism.
You even tried to bait those in with saying you prefer to keep immigration "legal" - but we all know the trap that keeps illegal immgrants here: outlaw deportations, and make every immigrant case "asylum", and magically, everyone who might've been here illegally a few years ago is legal.
You may get 175K likes on your semi-subverting, PR-designed photographs. But those of us who know, know you're fake.
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🏛️ USGLC Recruited Hunter Biden... before Burisma 🏛️
Credit to @MarcoPolo501c3 for assistance with emails.
In 2012, two years before Hunter Biden joined Burisma, Liz Schrayer, CEO of the Gates/Soros-backed US Global Leadership Corporation (USGLC), personally recruited him to their board.
❓If not for influence peddling, why was the sitting Vice President's son such a priority?
Here’s the timeline:
👉 June 25, 2012: Schrayer invites Hunter to be a special guest at a USGLC gala honoring Senators Lindsey Graham and Patrick Leahy (with Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell in attendance).
👉 July 17, 2012: Hunter attends the event.
👉 July 26, 2012: Schrayer schedules a call with Hunter to discuss a "C-3 Board" position.
👉 August 21, 2012: Schrayer sends a formal letter: Hunter is unanimously nominated to the board, despite USGLC typically filling seats with CEOs and former senior officials.
Again, all of this happened before Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014.
📌 It looks like strategic access to influence peddling while his father, the Vice President, held office.
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Traveling across the United States, I’ve come to appreciate American culture very much. America is full of great people and great communities. No matter the state, there is always *something* uniquely impressive about it.
But this affinity is not only driven by how interesting other places are, it is primarily driven by shared cultural ties - we speak the same language, we value the same freedoms, and we (generally) pray to the same God (Christ). This cultural underpinning transforms how I see fellow Americans: not as foreigners but as *neighbors.*
And it is with this sense of “brotherly love,” or “tribal affinity” that causes me to get upset when I hear other Americans, or immigrants, consider American culture so “bland” that it needs “diversity” or infinite immigration to “spice it up.”
American is just as special, exciting, and moral as any other culture in the world. It’s such an easily verifiable claim, too. From teetotalers to tea party, from cowboys to explorers, from movie makers to miners, from our leaders to our laborers, from preachers to protesters - America is full of incredible culture that could have ONLY come from this one nation under God.
I can excuse the youth who have not yet explored the world for not thinking this way, but the adults should know better. Dismissing American culture is at best laziness, at worst it is America-hatred.
Now if you, Dear Reader, are an American who does not share the same Love of Country as I do, I don’t hate you. But I urge you, the next time you travel the country that you start up a conversation with the shop owner, or the waitress, or the museum usher. Ask them if they like living where they are, ask them for local recommendations and visit them. Be a good neighbor, and have faith in yours.
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This is true. And it begs the question: How does one solve corruption? - Enforcement.
How does one solve enforcement in a way that’s is stable long term? There is only 1 way: changing the culture to be more virtuous.
Enforcement requires the entire government (and by extension the entire country) to agree that lying and stealing are devil. That’s not policy, that’s morality.
Adopting Christianity is the fastest way to adopt this kind of virtuous culture, because it’s true. Adopting Islam only works if you choose a peaceful sect.
Nayib Bukele started with a predominantly Christian nation that was held captive by a satanic minority. He just had to imprison the Satanists, but even that task was incredibly difficult. Now imagine starting with a religiously split nation like Nigeria? Forget building jails to fix the country, you just might have to go to war.
Nigeria can get here. Nigeria can do this.
Nigeria has the money to replicate this in every state
But Corruption will never allow us achieve this.
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How are Democrats cheating in L.A.?
Let me show you…
There are 26 registered voters at this toilet in Los Angeles.
I’m not kidding. I have the voter records. See for yourself. The only thing here is a stinky port-a john inside an empty parking lot.
No homes. No mailboxes. No businesses. Yet TWENTY SIX ‘people’ are casting ballots here.
Straight-up voter fraud out in the open. This just a glimpse of what’s happening under Gavin Newsom.
This is why California desperately needs Voter ID — and we must pass the Save Act NOW.
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The problem I have with perspectives like this is that they never give any consideration to WHY Trump (and most of his supporters) wanted him to go on offense. There were real problems with international trade before Trump, pretending they didn’t exist is immature.
Trump could have presided over a very strong economy. All he had to do was...nothing: Inflation was trending downward, the AI boom was raising growth.
Instead, he engineered a global trade war and energy shock, while shrinking America's labor force. vox.com/politics/489397/infl…
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