Great societies are created by incentivizing productivity and preserving purchasing power. Excessive money printing and political opportunism destroy them.
My opinion is that Mythos is the current best model but not actually some world-changing dangerous model, and that anthropic did their usual song and dance about safety largely because they didn’t have enough compute to serve it at scale
So then they launched Fable because they still have to think about the IPO, but they are still somewhat compute limited so they put all sorts of restrictions on it
Around the same time, because they are trying to get regulatory capture and not because things are actually dangerous, Dario did more scaremongering and published his honestly confusing white paper that offered no real solutions
So finally they succeeded, they managed to freak out the government, their cynical plan backfired, and now it’s a giant pain in the ass
You sure as heck can if it aligns with Just War Theory set down by St Augustine.
And present circumstances many battles we ARE NOT fighting meet every single tenant of Just War Theory, furthermore some of the wars we ARE fighting meet none.
In order for a war to be considered just in the eyes of the Catechism it has to meet a few requirements
“• the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
• all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
• there must be serious prospects of success;
• the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.” ~ Source Catholic League.
The only section I personally disagree with is the “there must be serious prospects of success” because in that, major Biblical battles would’ve never taken place like with Gideon, nor would later miracles like the Battle Of Covadonga, nor the first Siege of Constantinople have taken place, nor the Siege of Malta with the 700 Knights of St John.
When 300 men are seriously thinking of fight against an army of 180,000.. the “logical” mind would think that isn’t going to end well. When the 700 Knights of St John were under siege by 40,000 Ottomans.. the “logical” mind would say that isn’t going to end well. When Constantinople was surrounded by the Ottoman navy and enemies were at the gates.. the “logical” mind would say give up. But then the Holy Mother herself comes in like a hurricane and wrecks their entire navy overnight.. See my point?
Anyway, just my two cents.
It is criminal that our government enabled a bat virus to infect and spread between humans. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a bigger betrayal of our species.
It is equally troubling that the mad scientists who did this then gaslit all the people of the world about it, including those who CORRECTLY interpreted the evidence.
Then, of course, the very same monsters amped up fear of the Covid frankenvirus and steered the panicked public away from safe medicines, and toward an obviously dangerous gene-therapy which they falsely called a vaccine in order to lure us into acceptance.
These are among the greatest crimes EVER committed against humanity. We now have persuasive evidence of everything I have said above.
If we don't correct the record and hold the perpetrators to account, this pattern will happen again, and again, and again--shortening our life expectancy, and degrading our quality of life each time that it does.
This is our Nuremberg moment. We can not simply move on from this ghastly chapter of history. We must finish it.
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In his Summa Theologiae, St Thomas Aquinas laid out one of the most charitable yet practical arguments concerning immigration that effectively shaped the West for almost 1,000 years.
1. Immigration must always be proportionate so that foreigners can properly assimilate into the culture and mode of worship of the state.
2. Citizenship – and associated rights – should only ever be granted after the third generation to preserve the culture, mode of worship, and constitution of the state.
3. The common good of the citizens must remain the highest priority of the state, meaning, the state's obligation to provide aid to its neighbours can never be at the expense of the citizens.
However, Aquinas ends with the sobering reminder that some peoples and states are incompatible with one another, and these must be held as "foes in perpetuity".
These little girls will birth an army of Muslim men who will try to dominate and destroy your American, Christian children in 20-40 years.
That’s how this works.
Note that once again, the design is a Crescent Moon, symbol of Islam, to prove that Islam is triumphant.
(See also the original Flight 93 memorial and an attempted memorial at Ground Zero.)
If a pregnant monkey murdered her own child scientists would study that monkey.
If a male monkey cut off his pecker and pretended to be a female monkey, scientists would study that monkey.
If some monkeys refused to go get their own bananas and just expected free bananas from other monkeys, scientists would study that monkey.
But when humans do it, we just call them Democrats.
These blue states pay homage to every bizarre foreign holiday under the sun but can’t be bothered to show up to the nation’s capital when it’s time to celebrate Independence Day. Anti-American trash.
This is genuinely the second most important issue facing the West after immigration. Even the UK backed away from mandatory digital ID, and snakes like Mike Lee continue to push it here. If the White House gives into these evil scumbags and starts us on the path to digital ID, it’s not an exaggeration to say that that would counteract and make irrelevant almost every single good thing Trump has ever done.
Digital ID is such an insanely pernicious policy, and politicians giving into the lobbies supporting it are genuine traitors, the likes of which haven’t been seen since Judas. Mike Lee is a worse traitor to the U.S. than Benedict Arnold or Ilhan Omar or anyone we have ever seen before. He’s genuinely the worst and most dangerous politician in America right now, he’s a taipan snake in 5 foot tall grass.
If the White House pushes forward with this digital ID scheme, then it’s not an exaggeration to say that in 100 years Trump will be remembered only for digital ID, the way Starmer will be remembered only for two-tier justice in the UK. Everything good he has done will be forgotten and swept to the wayside, and we’ll be a police state like the UK, except our youth won’t go out and riot. Digital ID is going to be the single most important issue facing the West very, very soon, and it has to be stopped right now.
And then they all proceeded to bring enough Muslims into the U.S. to conquer entire cities, while sending our best men to die in the shitholes we plucked them from.
Can somebody please tell me why Webster bank outsources their fraud department to India and when you call them they ask for your Social Security number? Shouldn’t they have that? The people can barely speak English and they’re going to lift charges off your card once you tell them that it’s not fraudulent but you have to tell them how to pronounce what they’re saying This is not America anymore. I’m pulling my money out of this POS BANK
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
https://t.co/pLMD0krc69
Understanding Western Civilization is understanding that these were built by the same type of people.
The most righteous and terrifying force in the world is a people who understand when to pray and when to fight.
This is what happens when you stop believing in evil as a reality and start viewing it as something merely abstract. In other words, this is what happens when the only evil you recognize is poverty.
Unbaptized Christian-hating enemies become "brothers and sisters".
The horror at the thought of unconverted souls going to hell is replaced by worrying merely about their physical wellbeing.
The stranger is being put before your own kin simply because the stranger claims poverty.
Well-founded fears of your actual brothers and sisters are being dismissed. Their suffering means nothing because they apparently have better economic opportunities. To you, poverty has replaced sin as the greatest enemy of souls.
You cannot imagine evil actually existing in people. The only evil you see is not letting anyone go wherever they want in order for them to earn more money.
You don't believe in violent ideologies, demonic religions and uncivilized communities. This is why you have a hard time understanding why others won't just open their doors and let strangers sleep in the same house with their sons and daughters.
Your preoccupation with the idea of human dignity being wholly dependent on one's material circumstances endangers the lives of your spiritual children. Still, this is something you cannot believe because to you, those who do not struggle with abject poverty should have nothing to complain about.
Our Lord told us to help those in need. He never said to endanger our children in order to do so. Even the good Samaritan failed to invite the stranger into his house. Instead, he helped him and sent him on his way, as it should be.
Muslims should be converted, not given free housing and mosques to practice their false, dangerous religion in.
The actual tragedy isn't people dying while illegally trying to access other countries. The actual tragedy is those people dying unbaptized while Christian girls in Europe are being raped and disabled men being beheaded.
Amazing. Wall Street Journal (!) opinion piece lambasts Pope Leo as “frustrating,” “overconfident,” lacking “humility,” making “assumptions” because the Pope teaches AI is & always will be merely dead, soulless matter, possessing no real intelligence, no experiences, no feeling, no relationships, no judgment, no grasp of meaning, etc.
The author claims his own research argues for AI being (or soon being) conscious, and he says that in the future, the Catholic Church is going to have to “apologize” for not acknowledging AI as conscious.
These are the same exact condemnations that have been hurled at me for many years for saying the same thing as Leo.
So, I’ll repeat another warning I’ve issued many times: Soon, accepting the most outrageous diabolical sci-fi deceptions (particularly sentient AI/AGI and ETs) is going to be mandatory, and contradicting this “official narrative” on these points will be forbidden.
We’re already seeing the rumblings of that persecution with the pushback from Big Tech psychos (like the author of this article) against Pope Leo, and with the firing of Monsignor Rossetti by Cardinal McElroy because he linked ETs/UFOs to the diabolical.
But it will get far worse soon. So, settle it in your mind now that Only Man Bears the Divine Image. And commit to never waiver from that absolute truth even when rejecting it becomes mandatory.
Remember the lessons of 2020. That was only a practice run.