"A criticism of centralization presupposes that decentralization is a good thing. But why is that?"
If there is one author I wish my comrades would read it is Donald Livingston. He informs my thinking about the current nationalist populist wave deeply.
@RyLiberty
@sneako
I remember a black rap producer speaking to our conservative group at university a couple decades ago.
He was puzzled why gangster rap got such a huge push.
He made it clear that this did NOT come from the blacks in the business.
"Someday America will not be a white, Christian country. Then we'll be safe."
– Abe Foxman, ADL
Paul Gottfried on why you're a "Nazi" and so mass immigration must continue.
“Oh we used to laugh at those corny communist propaganda posters. We are western, we are liberal, we are free, we would never fall for such obviously manipulative drivel.”
– Morgoth
For 50 years, we've had a legal choice over who to love. For a decade, we've had a legal choice over who we can marry. I'm calling for a Parliamentary inquiry & free vote on assisted dying.
Read my piece with my constituent, David Minns, in The Express👇
This map shows states whose Governors issued the Joint Statement Supporting Texas’ Constitutional Right to Self-Defense.
Link to the statement follows…
My moment came in Rome.
I had studied Latin for years. I translated letters from fathers to their sons.
It hit hard to stand in the ruins of the Forum.
I thought “In bustling Rome, would they have imagined that goats would be grazing here someday?”
We can lose it all.
Random critic of homeschooling: "How do you socialize?"
Our 17yo daughter: "I'm talking to you right now."
Funniest response she's gotten: "Well, but… It might not happen again!"
(She further comments that another response would be: "You're an adult out of school. How do you…
See those pieces sticking out to the sides of this boar-hunting spearhead?
That’s to keep the impaled boar from pushing up the spear and attacking you.
With Trump reinstated, I feel like I’m the main winner in all this.
I don’t care what his TruthSocial contract says, Trump will not be able to resist this megaphone.
So he’ll be back.
And hilarity will ensue.
And that’s all I want.
This is what hit me so hard when I first walked among Roman ruins after spending years translating Latin. I’m sure, with the Forum buzzing with activity, that it seemed like Rome would be there forever.
But we really can lose it all.
Read the short thread from
@spandrell4
…
People really thing that things will sort themselves out and in 100 years all European nations will still be around. No, nations go extinct *all the time*. Celts used to rule all Europe from Ireland to Thracia. Romans and Germans destroyed them.
“The political prosecution of dissidents by the Democratic establishment is not a violation of norms, it is the establishment of new norms.”
@AuronMacintyre
on democracy reaching its final stage in the US.
ADL recently published a study to help bots identify "far right" people by their language.
So they needed a control group. Who did they choose to represent normal people?
Redditors.
I'm not making this up.
😂
I’m not allying with either side.
My stance:
1. I will not cheer for another war for Israel.
2. I will not support the genocide in Gaza.
3. I will not be manipulated by name calling (Third Worldist, etc.)
Didn’t work on me in 2003. Isn’t going to work this time.
@RadicalLib
Too many members of the “Sensible Centre” are so consumed with their hatred of Israel that they would ally with the Woke, Bioleninist Third World-ists. Very disturbing.
This was one of my earliest breaks from “boomer truth”.
I was at the Mises Institute listening to Ralph Raico make these very points about nuking Japan.
One aged boomer got up and stalked out.
I realized that I had been fed lies.
Japan was militarily defeated, though. It was only our unprecedented demand for total unconditional surrender that put us in position to choose between invading or nuking the home islands. Their navy was sunk, their air force was destroyed, their manpower was decimated, they’d…
“…her role in shaping U.S. policy around the world under six presidents and 10 secretaries of state.”
Horrifying career of non-stop evil.
She’s only 62. So even though this is being announced as a retirement, I wouldn’t assume she’s done getting people killed.
"Kentler's goal [in promoting pedophilic guardianship] was to develop a child-rearing philosophy for a new kind of German man. Sexual liberation, he wrote, was the best way to "prevent another Auschwitz.""
–
@BDSixsmith
Link...
Biden has often bragged about being the architect of the Patriot Act. He'd written the original text years earlier for a bill that was rejected due to civil rights concerns, then 9/11 happened and they rolled it out with astonishing speed.
"The ones who are emotionally committed to it, the true warmongers... I know all of them, and I can say this about them: Not one of them has a normal sex life."
– Tucker Carlson
🤣
‘Another tactic, taken directly from rule 13 in Rules for Radicals, was labeling those who disagree with leftist ideology as hateful bigots standing in the way of progress…a tactic which would help usher in the polarized politics we see today.’
My wife couldn’t sleep last night and heard what sounded like chanting outside.
She went out at 01:00 and found that the ducks were all quacking in unison.
Is it normal for ducks to form cults?
We’re all sick. And I’m quite displeased with the sentencing of Sam Melia in England. But here’s something that brightened our day!
Two kids were born here last night!
Congrats to our 18yo daughter who has been working towards this day for three years.
I can prove to you,
@OGRolandRat
, that students today are smarter than back in the 1940s.
“Reports from Harvard and Yale reveal that about 80% of students at both institutions receive As, with mean GPAs reaching 3.7 at Yale and 3.8 at Harvard.”
Link…
"these men soon find that to achieve their aims they would need reforms so extreme that revolution and maybe even civil war would be inevitable. So they give up, and the process then continues until the next crisis. But it doesn't end and can't end, until it all ends."
– BAP
Rule by experts started at least a century ago. We have all been inculcated into this since we were young.
So even those who think of themselves as “based and red-pilled” must destroy their inner boomer.
"The empire hates Assange because he punches holes in their ability to control the narrative, and thus control the public, and they have silenced him to deprive him of the ability to control his own narrative about himself."
@caitoz
on the silencing.
“the message sent was unmistakable: If you kill Christian children, we will shower your preferred group with money and attention."
@AuronMacintyre
on a new level of darkness.
Best response I’ve seen to the “line go up” bean counters of the IMF (or whichever “multilateral institution” it was ).
Really worth your time.
7 1/2 minutes.
“Yes, de jure, an adult exposing themselves to a minor is a crime that places them on the sex offender registry. But, de facto, there is a protected class who are celebrated by our ruling elites for doing exactly that.”
@AuronMacintyre
on anarchotyranny.
Jesus taught that sometimes dialogue is a trap.
Remember his shocking response to Peter trying to talk him out of going to the cross:
"Get thee behind me, Satan."
Sometimes that is the right response.
And never forget the second part of "pearls before swine"!
Strange how native birth rate is treated as an independent variable separate from immigration.
Housing costs go up, crime goes up, homogenous culture destroyed… Native family formation falls off a cliff…
The proposed fix is more mass immigration which causes… 🔃
I continue to hear from small businesses (informal conversations) that they are struggling to hire/retain.
Younger guys in particular quit once they realize that, say, working on a loading dock is long hours & hard work.
They also consider themselves too good for manual labor.
"A consistent but almost never noted theme of American foreign policy is that it is always the Christians who suffer. When there's a war abroad that the United States is funding, it is Christians who tend to die disproportionately. And this goes back a long way, 60 years really,…
Ep. 91 How does the government of Israel treat Christians? In the West, Christian leaders don’t seem interested in knowing the answer. They should be. Here’s the view of a pastor from Bethlehem.
all women should grow their hair out to ridiculous pinterest rapunzelmaxxing length at least once in their lives. we’re historically v lucky to live in a time that permits this kind of impractical aesthetic indulgence, would be a shame not to take advantage of it
1. “Love your neighbor” for me means loving my fellow Americans. They are my neighbors.
2. We will not save the third world by moving billions here. We’ll just re-create the third world.
3. Besides, the whole point of mission work is to save peoples, not destroy them.
So…
The US is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to America...
It’s really uncanny how the British establishment sees criticism of the British establishment as hatred directed at minorities and therefore a crime.
A cynic might say they use minorities as proxies in order to persecute dissent
BAP needs me?
My father was a Christian missionary to the Jews. Later the church he co-founded started working with black children in inner-city St. Louis. Of course many short-term and long-term missionaries were sent and supported.
What has turned me against mass immigration?
Will anyone address the substance though. I don’t care about abortion. But 90% of the replies to Zero were celebrating the expansion of that population. It shows the religious right is delusional and will falter on the crucial question of migration restriction.
The reality of evil came home hard today.
A young woman’s body was found in a burning house this morning with her four young children in Ferguson, MO.
We knew her from the alternative schooling community.
We suspect the fire is not how they died.
Evil is real.
"Some of your greatest opposition will come from Christians."
My father was told this when preparing for the ministry.
I know that many brothers have found that church leaders have a greater devotion to boomer truth than to the cause of Christ. Some have experienced spiritual…
“Oops! I systematically deconstructed the foundation that science, and everything I love, was standing on.”
(The foundation of science in the Middle Ages continues on my channel this week. Link…)
It is sad really.
Wikipedia could have really been something extraordinary, something historic.
Another great institution destroyed by the never-ending French Revolution.
Such a great piece by
@tdadler
@Wikipedia
’s tarnished reputation continues to fall further as they let far left activists control their site.
The main editor of my page and many other conservatives REMOVED any mention of violence from Antifas page.
My mother, who died two months ago, was an only child. I remember my Grandma saying they wanted to have more but never telling me why they couldn’t.
My Mom just had me, my brother and my sister.
But she has 14 grandchildren.
“Demographic decline” isn’t Fate.
It’s a choice.
"This is not a terrorist event," Waukesha Police Chief Daniel Thompson says during a presser one day after an SUV rammed into bystanders and participants at a Christmas parade.
"We are confident he acted alone."