Brett

I'm a Christian, a nerd and I used to be proudly Libertarian. Racism is evil. Decency matters.
The only rational anti-war position is anti-aggressor.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Russia: 75% divorce rate. Collapsed birth rates. Sky-high alcoholism, sex-trafficking, and domestic abuse. Very low church attendance.

The only way you can say Russia isn’t in sharper decline is if you’re being paid to say that.

Coincidently, know the op when you see it.

[Brett @BeeSideBot]

@therealwildcur @NathanMadden98 No he hasn't.
Amash is the probably most consistent American politician alive, and he holds 0 positions that are actually "left" outside of those where Libertarians hold a policy view that is shared with them (eg drug policy or immigration)

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

More money is being spent to defeat @RepThomasMassie than any other U.S. House member in history.

Not because he can single-handedly change legislative outcomes—he has just one vote.

But because he exposes the lies and corruption of those who hold political and financial power.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear.

It migrated inward.

Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space.

That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons.

So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public.

The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it.

The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open.

The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility.

That is the trade.

A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation.

This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question.

The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults.

It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation.

The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.

[Colby Badhwar @ColbyBadhwar]

Operationally, Epic Fury has been a success, but not without fault. Losses incurred by US & partner forces could have been minimized had the Trump Admin been more open to Ukrainian support; and the US Army more nimble in reforms.

Here are the receipts to prove it. 🧵 ⬇️

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[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Okay good, let's say the WH planned for Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz following the attack.

1. The U.S. sold off its helium reserve before waging a war that they knew would disrupt helium exports to allies, which make computer chips we rely on. Weird decision.

2. The U.S. let oil stockpiles fall to a multi-decade low before waging a war they knew would disrupt oil shipping. Why?

3. The U.S. didn't build any kind of coalition to assist tankers coming under attack in the region, and two weeks into the war they're only now asking allies to reinforce the US Navy. But they knew they'd need to do this for ... "years"?

If this is what "a plan" looks like, god forbid we see what unplanned operations look like.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

At high stakes Pentagon meeting today Sec Hegseth gave Anthropic head Dario Amodei ultimatum to allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic’s AI model for mass domestic surveillance and kinetic autonomous operations without human oversight or face censure and be labeled “supply chain threat.”

According to a source familiar:
The meeting was cordial, not a dressing down, not a screaming match, all business.

Hegseth praised the Anthropic product but then said if by Friday Anthropic does not agree to the Pentagon’s use of the model without restrictions, then Hegseth would terminate the contract and use the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to comply AND/OR designate Anthropic a supply chain threat and national security risk. (EDIT: Both are mutually exclusive. You can’t be a supply chain risk but also invoke the DPA to say that the country needs this product so much for national security that it will override any restrictions put in place by the company that limits govt access to the product. Both cannot be true.)

At issue is Anthropic’s two stipulations that its advanced AI model currently used in the Pentagon’s classified systems is NOT used for autonomous kinetic operations (Anthropic currently requires human oversight of autonomous operations when used to kill things for safety reasons because they don’t know how the autonomous system will react and could even endanger soldiers using the model; soldiers and others could lose control of the model and automatically start killing large groups without humans in the “kill chain.”) Second Anthropic bars its models from being used for mass domestic surveillance. Hegseth wants these restrictions lifted.

According to a source familiar with the talks, Anthropic has never objected to the use of its models for “legitimate military operations.” It also told the Hegseth it never complained to the Pentagon or Palantir about the use of its models in the Maduro raid.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

“How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.”

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

If Russian warships are sailing freely around Greenland, Ukraine can help – we have the expertise and weapons to ensure not one of those ships remains.

They can sink near Greenland just as they do near Crimea. No problem – we have the tools and people.

If we were asked, and if Ukraine were in NATO – but we are not – we would solve this problem with the Russian ships.

[Brett @BeeSideBot]

@DiP11s @elimcgowan I think you misunderstand the doctrine in question. That the Scriptures are the sole infallible rule of faith in the possession of the Church does not negate commentaries or interpretation more generally.

[Brett @BeeSideBot]

@justinamash @crypto_abyss I'm shocked you didn't hit him with the receipts on this one.

[Brett @BeeSideBot]

@CoachGeoffReed @AdrianLSanders If I can give you some tips:
1) knees and hips coming forward a little more before your start extension
2) you're not getting to full leg ext at all. think "jump!"
3) sweep the barbell into your hips with your lats as you begin leg extension
4) faster elbows! catch w/front rack

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

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[Brett @BeeSideBot]

@SigmundBloom You're playing against him this week, aren't you

[Chase Oliver @ChaseForLiberty]

I better not see Libertarians saying, "Kimmel violated FCC rules."

A. No, he didn't
B. The position of a Libertarian ought to be "abolish the FCC"

Don't seek to weaponize government for your convenience. Others will do the same and you won't like it when they do.

[Brett @BeeSideBot]

@ChristipherBean Dog fighting is also very much not a thing in modern fighter combat, and thrust vectoring bleeds the air speed you need.
That fight is won with missile and sensor range.
Russian aircraft are not even close to competing here. F15 wins and the su pilot never sees it.

[Brett @BeeSideBot]

@elimcgowan Godfather 2 and it's not close y'all

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

2008 - Putin only needed 2 sections of Georgia

2014 - Putin only needed Crimea

2025 - Putin only needs Donbass

[Brett @BeeSideBot]

@SmileyBlanton @schmook @Fritschner I got it, but because of the drinking game, not the movie 🤣

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

⚡ Repeated strikes on rescuers in Kherson and Kharkiv — a new tactic of terror

On the morning of July 6 in Kherson, Russian forces hit a gas station, sparking a large fire. When firefighters arrived to contain the blaze, a second strike followed. A fire truck was damaged, but fortunately, there were no casualties.

A similar scenario unfolded in Kharkiv: a nighttime drone attack, a fire, rescuers on the scene — and another strike targeting them directly. Emergency equipment was damaged, but the rescue teams survived.

❗️Russian occupiers openly post evidence of their own war crimes online. One video shows a cowardly and deliberate strike on a rescue vehicle sent to help civilians after Russian attacks.