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[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

Fulton Sheen, summarizing the reason for using a crucifix instead of an empty cross: “Keep your eyes on the crucifix, for Jesus without the cross is a man without a mission, & the cross without Jesus is a burden without a Reliever.”

[Ross @ross_neuberth]

Honest explanation: (1) in a corporate environment you can justify 5 years of salary with one move. Save the company millions or make the company millions. A lot of time your existence is justified with just a few wins a year. (2) full timers with a lot of experience are very important to ongoing operations. There entire livelihood is tied to the well being of the business, they know how it works and how it should work. Outsiders (such as outsourced contractors or vendors) will always have an incentive to push devisions that benefit them, not necessarily the business. (3) some companies still reward loyalty. (4) the best employees have a tendency to “work themselves out of a job”. If you are actually good at what you do, you make problems go away. So really effective people can seem “not busy” because they effectively clear their plate. Oftentimes the worst employees make mountains out of molehills and love tedious processes that keep people “busy” even if it isn’t effective. My two cents.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

For a short period of time, there will be incredible alpha in bankers, lawyers, consultants or advisors who make it a marketing point to not use AI in any of their work

[Tuor Eladar @AgitpropMaster]

@GreeneMan6 Hunters should not take hunting advice from prey animals.

[Matt Forney @mattforney]

Casey Putsch has been defeated in a humiliating landslide.

It's not even close. Vivek Ramasmarmy buried Putsch by 70 points.

We need to talk about the Retard Right and why they fail. It pains me to say this as I like Casey and believe he had genuinely good ideas that would have economically revitalized Ohio, such as his infrastructure plans. But he failed for a reason, and unless people understand the reason, this will just happen over and over.

1) Don't attack Trump.

The image of Casey Putsch burning his MAGA hat doomed him right out of the gate. I don't care how disappointed you are with Trump, how many blackpills that Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes have fed you. Donald Trump IS the Republican Party. He runs the show. You need his blessing or at least his neutrality to get anywhere.

The majority of Republicans---the people Casey needed to win over---support Trump. There is no constituency for being Based and Anti-Trump, it's a less popular position than Liz Cheneyism. Casey Putsch could have cleared this up with an immediate apology: "I was wrong to turn on Trump. I have my problems with him, but I believe in what he's doing. I'm running to support his MAGA agenda and help him finish the job." Pride, foolishness, or Internet poisoning kept him from humbling himself. Even Thomas Massie has had to pivot his campaign to lying about how he's best buddies with Trump, because his actual connections with the Squad etc. are electoral poison in Kentucky. Just trust Trump! It's not that hard!

2) Get off social media.

Vivek Ramasmarmy is an incredibly weak candidate, off-putting in person, has a deep contempt for white Americans, and wants to flood Ohio with Indians. He should be as easy to knock over as a feather in the wind. Vivek practically wrote Putsch's campaign messaging for him.

So what did Casey do? Did he hit the streets, post ads telling Ohioans that Vivek hates them and wants to replace them? That should have been the front and center of everything he did. No. Instead, he kept posting about how AI told him that Israel is Satanic. He kept wading into the Epstein files swamp. He went to Anti-Semitic Fyre Fest and shared the stage with a fat anchor baby and a Muslim hijabi, both of whom openly hate white Americans, destroying any credibility he had in attacking Vivek for his anti-white views.

Social media is not real life. The heady days of 2016 or even 2024 are over. As @Freedomalternat pointed out in his post-mortem on the Hungarian election, Twitter and other social media sites are so overrun with bots and AI slop that they do not represent public opinion anymore. Stunting on the hoes online cannot help, it can only hurt. Ed Gallrein is already using Anti-Semitic Fyre Fest clips to attack Thomas Massie. Vivek himself realized how damaging his X posts were to his political ambitions, so he got off social media to focus on retail campaigning. This is why he won.

3) Stop talking about the Jews.

Israel, pro- or anti-, is not an important issue for the kinds of voters you need to win a Republican primary. They want to hear about jobs, inflation, crime; meat and potato issues. Not only that, a governor's ability to influence Israel, Iran etc. is fuck all.

Mouthing off about how much you hate Israel cannot help in a Republican primary. Again, it can only hurt, because you look like a deranged moron to the people who actually vote and you take away valuable space that could be used for important issues, issues where you shine. Casey Putsch SHOULD be known for his anti-immigration stance and his ambitious plans to revamp Ohio's infrastructure. Instead, he's known for palling around with hijabis and treating ChatGPT like an anti-Semitic magic eight-ball.

Before anyone responds with "Casey Putsch is an idiot influencer, of COURSE he was gonna lose," I have two words: Brandon Herrera. Herrera, like Putsch, is a YouTuber. Unlike Putsch, Herrera won his primary and is almost certainly going to be elected to the House. What's the difference? Herrera didn't "campaign" by camping out on Twitter to stunt on them Jewish hoes. He hit the campaign trail, made friends and allies in local GOP organizations, focused his messaging on how he wanted to help his constituents and what he planned to do in office. Herrera also didn't turn on Trump and now he has Trump's endorsement. Learn from Brandon Herrera.

I feel confident in predicting that this is the beginning of the end for the Retard Right. Thomas Massie, James Fishback, Dan Bilzerian will all lose their primaries and the retarded anti-Zionist element will be purged from the right forever. It has no constituency, as Casey Putsch's landslide defeat shows. Candace Owens is already talking about joining forces with the left to form some kind of Anti-Zionist Popular Front. Nick Fuentes has said that he is a "moderate Democrat." The Retard Right are functional leftists in the process of becoming actual leftists. And the best part is that they ruined themselves by not knowing when to shut up.

[The Catholic Engineer @TheCatholicEngr]

I don't remember where I watched it, either YouTube Shorts or Instagram reels, but I saw a video of Dave Ramsey on a podcast sharing how for one Christmas he bought $10 million of medical debt that belonged to other people, and he told each employee in his company, their Christmas treat this year was to call 10 debtors each and tell them their debt has been paid off

They happily did so, and the employees cried with the callers when they shared the news

The employees reported back saying that that was the best Christmas gift they ever received

Dave Ramsey could've easily called the debtors himself or sent out a mass email, but he allowed his employees to share in the joy of helping people

Now I'm thinking about how this anecdote applies to God and the saints in heaven.

God can easily snap his fingers and grant every request, but the reason He assigns saints in heaven as Patrons of things (like St. Anthony of Padua for lost items, St. Gianna Molla for infertility etc.) is because God is allowing His followers to share in the joy of helping people

God is always the source, but the saints are the conduit

[Faye L Root @littlebayschool]

My grandpa was too young to go off to WWII, but his three older brothers went. My grandma told me that while he was home with his parents during those years, a teenager, his room was in the attic of the house. And in the summers, it would get so hot up there, he would move his bed things and sleep out on the porch.

He grew up on a farm. I used to love to ask him questions about all the animals he had. I remember sitting across from him at a restaurant eating burgers together and asking him what his cow's name had been. "I don't know, I don't think she really had a name," he said. And I just couldn't believe you wouldn't name your cow.

He told me how they got water from a pump outside and how his mom would hold a chicken by its head and twirl it around her head to kill it for dinner.

He passed away just a few months after his first grandchild was born, my son. He was very sick and really, barely conscious, but we drove home that winter before Covid to see him. And put my little son close to him so they could meet.

My mom was just talking about him the other day. He was her father-in-law. She said one of her favorite things he would say—usually before embarking on some sort of project—was: "Well, we've got to do something, even if it's wrong."

He and my dad and uncle built a cottage we used to go to every summer on an inland lake. I swam there every day. We had a rope swing, and you'd grab the tail end, walk partway up the hill above the beach, climb on this old rusty upside-down metal garbage can, and jump and try to grab the highest knot you could. He would go down and watch me so I didn't drown and I was always so nervous to jump, but he'd just look at me so stoic-like, kind of smiling. I'd say I can't do it Grandpa. And he'd say yeah you can.

In the evenings, I'd want to catch frogs, so he'd go down to the water again with me and lift up the paddle boat. There were always tons under there.

He liked coffee and chocolate and the Detroit Tigers. He was left-handed. When I was in college, he always slipped a folded up twenty dollar bill into my hand when we were saying goodbye after a visit. And I'd say nooo grandpa you don't have to do that. And he'd say yes, yes just take it. And we'd go back and forth until finally I'd take it and I'd say thanks a lot Grandpa. A great man.

[Sulla @spqr_sulla]

Wow really ? I didn’t know that. You’re telling me now for the first time. I wonder if you could apply this to anything else

[Tridentine Brewing @TridentineBrew]

It doesn’t matter your perspective on the SSPX: the double standard is a horrible & scandalous look for the Vatican.

Rome reserves all rights to green light all consecrations, which is just fine. That being the case, it should enforce the penalties for ignoring this uniformly.

[Pablo Antonio @PabloAntonio]

I'm interested in making spaces that feel from the future and are inspired by the past.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

The house below is a 1,152ft² brick townhouse on a stone foundation. Built in 1890 but the upper floor looks like it was rebuilt/converted in the mid 20th century. You could build this in solid brick, in which case it would be a feasible DIY project or in brick veneer on a timber frame or even 2x4s. If solid brick it would set you for example $10,000 depending on quality/type of brick you used, location etc. Far less or potentially free if you could salvage your own brick or make your own (adobe) for the interiors. Mortar etc. is cheap. The cost of the main materials for wall and structure is about 0.5% of the asking price for this particular home.

[Prome @GoodPrometheus]

@myth_pilot Started watching Isaac Arthur about six years ago when I broke my elbow and needed something interesting to watch while sitting around all day. Absolutely amazing and incredibly enjoyable.

[𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (Golden Age Arc) @myth_pilot]

Autist alert 🚨

Two of my favorite YouTube channels for the topics of space colonization are Isaac Arthur and Anthrofuturism.

Isaac Arthur is wide eyed optimism, an exploration of a future could travel to other planets, terraform, and even move stars at will.

Anthrofuturism is a detailed breakdown of how we’d go about building lunar infrastructure, including mass drivers and trains on the moon.

[Marigold @Jonmad]

What it feels like to be an educated Puerto Rican of predominantly Spanish descent, and having an illiterate mystery meat bisexual become the face of your entire ethnic group.

[Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes]

People always say that nineteenth-century cities were built by unplanned, competitive, private enterprise. This is usually meant as a criticism, but since I admire nineteenth-century cities, I always thought it was a strong argument for deregulation, competition and privatisation.

Actually studying nineteenth-century cities has greatly changed my view of all these points, making me (1) more pro-planning, (2) less fussed about privatisation, and (3) more sympathetic to monopolies:

1. Nineteenth-century cities actually had lots of planning, and this was clearly a good thing. Spanish, German and American municipalities planned their street networks. All municipalities everywhere planned drains. Most cities had single operators that planned transit and utilities. Cities that didn't plan these things tended to be more dysfunctional.

2. Private infrastructure can work, but so can public. German cities owned most of their transport and utilities in the nineteenth century, and they were regarded as distinctively efficient. Britain and Austria increasingly emulated them.

3. Competition in urban infrastructure sectors generated endemic market failures. As a result, most nineteenth-century governments promoted and required monopolies. Nineteenth-century France, Italy, Spain and America generally required citywide private monopolies. Germany and often England had municipal monopolies.

My new article for Works in Progress: https://t.co/Bxh15greDS

[Magical Spain @Magicalspain]

«Muy Noble, Muy Leal, Fidelísima, Siempre Heroica y Jamás Conquistada Ciudad de Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza del Rojo Desierto, Cabeza de los Valles, Llanos y Montes del Olimpo»

[Officer Frenly (High IQ) @FrenlyOfficer]

I’m not Jewish but the fact that I’m circumcised makes me feel like I’m not exactly a Gentile either.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

These direct taxes, namely the death and income tax, are meant to force those who ought be focusing on political leadership and investing in the nation with multi-generation time horizons to instead chase an income

Those who could be leaders are instead bankers and consultants, much to our detriment

Both Britain and America were long governed so well, particularly at the local level, because those who did the leading had been there for generations, lived off their investments in the community, and had a reason to care about leading it

But death and income taxes destroyed those illiquid investments, forcing selling and asset transfers into very liquid assets that severed the connection between wealth and community, and pushed those who could and should be leading well to instead try to find high-income jobs, namely banking, law, and consulting, that suck up their time but provide the lifestyle they want

That didn't used to be the case, and the shift has been an utter disaster, as now we are ruled by types like Jerry Nadler instead of gentlemen like the Washingtons and Lees

[Otto Von Tweetmarck @OVTweetmarck]

I’m telling you we already solved this by bundling thousands of marital debts into a series of subprime marriage backed securities.

It can’t go tits up.