Camille

Baptized into Christ 2010 | Partially reasonable | Amateur at everything, expert at one thing (it’s breathing) | LCMS | Conservative | Coloradoan | Hungry

[Camille @Camillian_C]

@lovinglyprolife 😭 Noooooo!

[Camille @Camillian_C]

At least the left is honest about how much they hate Christians and conservatives. The right doesn’t even bother with us either way. They disrespect us to our face and still expect us to vote for them because our alternative is people who despise our ideals and want us dead.

[Camille @Camillian_C]

I hope and pray after this wipe-out, that Republicans will listen to conservatives and stop calling us intolerant prudes just like the left does and realize it’s Christianity that created and upholds the West.
No more platforming, pagan, humanist, or secular garbage as policy.

[Camille @Camillian_C]

I voted this election, but it honestly felt pointless (more than because I’m in a deep blue state). Nobody on the right seems to think keeping promises or even listening to conservatives like me is part of their job in governance.

[Camille @Camillian_C]

@LibbyLouLeo How does this attitude manifest and how would you suggest the church help big families?
I grew up in a family of five kids and other than large get-togethers at church and kids groups, I don’t remember us receiving any particular help. What would that look like?

[Camille @Camillian_C]

@wrowclif Only 139,600 more to go before you’re mentioned in the book of Revelation!

[Camille @Camillian_C]

The Narnia stuff is making me want to become an overly loquacious obnoxious poster. I hate everything about it and want to shout my hatred from the rooftops and the social media apps.
I’ll be so glad if it turns out to be good, but I have no doubt it will be bad, even evil.

[Camille @Camillian_C]

@RogueCenturion It’s a combination of a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of the body, a desire to fit in with the crowd (because ALL women wear stuff like this and if you don’t you are automatically frumpy and self-righteous), and a desire for male AND female attention.

[Camille @Camillian_C]

Birds wake you up in the morning.
Trill issue.

[🦬 𝕸𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖜 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕷𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖗 🦬 @DarthHarryson]

"Where are my keys?"

Run-of-the-mill issue.

[Camille @Camillian_C]

@LibbyLouLeo How can women be more approachable? What would help more men approach more women?

[Camille @Camillian_C]

@wrowclif I don’t understand the hullabaloo. 😂 Any family with several kids just threw the beef in the pan. My mother did and I’ve survived to adulthood. 🤷🏻‍♀️
She would throw it in a bowl of water for twenty minutes if she had the time, otherwise, straight in the pan.

[Camille @Camillian_C]

@MrsCMFrancis @WonderWomaNinja In my tradition, the Sabbath is a gift to us. It’s not about necessity, but about God’s loving gift of peace with Him and rest from work and the routine of the world. That, along with the resurrection being on the ‘eighth’ day, is why we have church on Sunday.

[Camille @Camillian_C]

@becomelutheran Wow that’s very diligent. 😂
When I was there we held a couple movie nights in the girls dorm but it was movies like Ford Vs. Ferrari and Amadeus.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

Great to remember that George Washington was focused on his dress and appearance, not because he was vain or obsessed with his looks, but because he understood that creating an aura of dignity and respectability was key to his political career and was thus something he ought do

So, much like fellow great Virginian and American Robert E Lee, he was meticulous about what he wore and how it looked, from famously showing up in uniform to the Second Continental Congress to the American-made broadcloth suit that he wore to his inauguration

Such things matter. Looking sharp matters. Dignity and presence matter, and bring out the best in you and others. Adding that genteel layer to soften the edge of being out in public is a good thing.

Civilization consists of doing the little things and doing them right time and time again

[Camille @Camillian_C]

@libsoftiktok @UofSC This one is from Denver, Colorado. 😕

[Camille @Camillian_C]

Isn’t it already gay to have a best friend if you’re a man? 😂

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Gay? This Man Just Remembered His Best Friend's Birthday https://t.co/OQbglBF18x

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:

Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie

Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.

This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.

Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.

The Words We’re Missing

The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:

Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.

These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.

And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.

The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism

What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.

That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.

This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.

The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.

Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It

People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.

The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.

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[Camille @Camillian_C]

@crochet_mom314 Maybe Vance is trying to reduce the federal funds that go to daycares (which the government shouldn’t at all be supporting). I’d rather the government just stopped spending anything on education or child care altogether, but if this is the best we can get. 🤷🏻‍♀️😕