Raleigh Davidson

Christian. Girl dad. Husband. 🇺🇸🇹🇼🇮🇱🇺🇦

[ᴛʜᴜǫ🀄️ @_Thuqn]

The 16 year old kid bagging my groceries asked me how my day was going and I said "can't complain" and he responded "probably wouldn't do any good if you did" and honestly that kid is a straight shooter with upper management potential written all over him.

[U.S. Ministry of Truth @USMiniTru]

Don't think you're making the point you think you're making, sugarplum.

[Raleigh Davidson @AmericanRemont]

@AnaleighBell @tanyaelisabethh Might makes right?

[Zoomer @ZoomerHistorian]

What a bargain!

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

CS Lewis on why “dumb blue collar people” usually do not fall for the same terrible ideas that the “educated elite class” so often does:

“Why, you fool, it’s the educated readers who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem: we have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the highbrow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.”

– CS Lewis, That Hideous Strength

… Or Romans 1: “Claiming to be wise, they became fools.”

[Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher]

Heard the best joke about Franco in Spain: an American arrives in the airport in Madrid under Franco, and takes a cab. He asks his cab driver what he thinks about Franco, to which the cab driver gives him a meaningful look, puts his finger to his lips, and turns off the freeway. He drives down a bunch of back roads until they come to a lake. Wordlessly, he gestures to the American to follow him, and they walk some time along the edge until they come to a small boat. The driver gestures to the American to step in, and they row together until they are at the very center of the lake. The driver takes a careful look around the empty lake, leans over, and says… “I kinda like him.”

[autumn @adrusi]

theres this move that philosophers do where theyre like "if P is true then Q follows, and Q is ethically terrifying so P must be false" and if baffles me that anyone would think this way

[Illegitimate Scholar🧭 @ill_Scholar]

Scythians used HUMAN LEATHER for quivers

Herodotus claimed this ~450 BC but it was long assumed myth

Once again, Herodotus was right, 🧵thread below with details and images

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

The US has one of the most progressive tax schemes ever devised in human history.

The top 1% pay for 46% of ALL taxes collected.

The bottom 50% pay only 2%.

When socialists complain about our tax system, they are either stupid, lying, or both.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

The relationship between IQ and online activism.

https://t.co/ENWa0cCA5R

[2A History @2aHistory]

Canada euthanizes it's vulnerable citizens at a rate 800% higher than the US homicide rate.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Sweden did not lock down

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Conservatives think Liberals are misguided and should think harder.

Liberals think Conservatives are monsters who should be destroyed.

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

The most politically engaged religious groups in 2024:

The Episcopal Church
The United Church of Christ
Jews
Atheists

Respondents were asked which of these political acts they had participated in over the prior 12 months:

Attend local political meeting,
Put up a political sign,
Work for a candidate,
Attend a protest or march,
Contact a public official,
Donate money to candidate

[doomer @uncledoomer]

single women, single men, and married women earn roughly the same, and it's just married men that out earn everybody else. insane. what could possibly cause a married man to want to earn more money so badly he will do anything to make it happen? it makes no sense.

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

I think people very much overestimate how much proselytizing is really going on.

This is a survey of CLERGY.

Only 32% of Catholic priests and mainline pastors say that it's important to try and convince others to accept their religion.

Evangelical pastors are at 82%.

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

The share of CLERGY who agree that:

"All the great religions of the world are equally good and true."

Evangelical: 1.5%
Black Protestant: 9%
Mainline: 38%
Catholic: 47%

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Why are conservatives happier and less mentally ill than liberals?

When you control for belief in "therapy culture," ideological differences in mental well being go away.

This implies that liberals are sadder because they believe humans are fragile. https://t.co/RSKoJlRW4W