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“And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal non-participation in lies!“

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Stephen E. Petty explains exactly why masks are not a solution in the real world and how there are, and have been for years, real solutions that do work.

Stephen E. Petty, P.E., C.I.H, C.S.P. EES Group, Inc.
Speaking to the Senate Health and Human Services (03/30)

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@TRobinsonNewEra It would be normal to detain both while they figure out what happened. What was the final outcome? Is there more video?

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@GigglingGanon This is not uncommon. Teach in a respectful manner. We need people to understand WHY these rights are needed, otherwise they learn to hate them and then seek power to take them away.

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@libsoftiktok @kwstewart94 Need more context. Please provide the full video.

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

This is why there will never be another Charlie Kirk.
He teaches a master class on homelessness, illegal immigration, and socialism in under three minutes.

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@DesireeAmerica4 It is a shared hose issue.

First purge the fuel in the hose, then rerun your test.

Driver 1 selects ethanol.
Driver 2 selects non-ethanol, but gets a little ethanol because the length of hose still holds ethanol, so the 1st small amount contains ethanol.

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@almostthere88 @saylor @adam3us Look at btc on a log‐log scale. It is still on track.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

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@elonmusk Making the audio match the environment and the perspective of the camera would be a good step forward also.

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@XVanFleet @jacksonhinkle Also, perhaps show the rest of China?

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Minnesota Fraud.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Today, the task force and the DOJ announced a massive take down of two of the largest Medicaid fraud cases in Minnesota state history, as well as the largest autism fraud scheme ever charged by the federal government. Our message is simple: if you’re committing fraud, we will find you, and we won’t rest until justice is served.

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@JesslovesMJK @missyTHX1138 Will the replacement be better or worse?

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@Lily4Liberty Driving yourself will become illegal. "In the name of safety", only self driving vehicles will be allowed. It will start with higher fees for real drivers, and politicians saying "we are not taking your option to drive away. It is just a fee".

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Yes, **Dostoevsky's core ideas align closely with the Christian Bible**, especially through his deep Orthodox Christian faith. He carried a New Testament with him in the Siberian prison camp and read it constantly for the rest of his life. His novels are soaked in biblical themes.

Here's how each of the main ideas we discussed matches up with Scripture:

- **Humans are messy and not machines**: The Bible says the heart is "deceitful above all things" (Jeremiah 17:9) and that we are born with a sinful nature (Psalm 51:5, Romans 3:23). Dostoevsky's view that perfect systems can't fix people lines up perfectly with this.

- **Suffering has meaning**: This is one of his strongest biblical echoes. The Book of Job, which moved him deeply as a child, shows innocent suffering. The New Testament teaches that suffering produces perseverance, character, and hope (Romans 5:3-5), that God disciplines those He loves (Hebrews 12:5-11), and that Christ's own suffering was redemptive. Dostoevsky saw suffering as a path to humility and spiritual growth — very much like the Bible.

- **Freedom is dangerous but sacred**: The Bible presents free will as a real gift with real consequences. Deuteronomy 30:19 says "choose life," and the Garden of Eden story shows that God allowed Adam and Eve to choose disobedience. Dostoevsky's warning that taking away choice destroys humanity echoes this — freedom is burdensome, but it's what makes love and morality possible.

- **Without God, everything is permitted**: This is almost a direct echo of Judges 21:25 — "In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes." Dostoevsky's line "if God does not exist, everything is permitted" captures the Bible's view that moral law comes from God, not from human reason alone.

- **Redemption is always possible**: This is the heart of the gospel. Jesus says He came "to seek and to save the lost" (Luke 19:10), and stories like the prodigal son (Luke 15) or the thief on the cross (Luke 23:39-43) show that even the worst sinners can be redeemed through repentance and God's mercy. Dostoevsky's belief that no one is beyond redemption is profoundly Christian.

**One gentle note of difference**:
Dostoevsky sometimes emphasizes suffering and active love as paths to salvation in a way that feels closer to Orthodox spirituality than to "faith alone" Protestant teaching (Ephesians 2:8-9). But even there, he never contradicts the Bible — he simply lives inside its stories and characters more than in systematic theology.

Overall, his ideas don't just agree with the Bible — they were shaped by it. He was trying to show the world what happens when people live out (or reject) biblical truth in real, broken human lives.

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Here's a gentle summary of Dostoevsky's core ideas and why they still matter.

**His big ideas in plain words:**
- People aren't machines. You can't "fix" human beings with perfect laws or perfect systems. We're messy, we're selfish, we're capable of great evil, but also great love.
- Suffering has meaning. Pain isn't something society should try to eliminate completely; it's often the very thing that forces us to grow, to repent, or to truly connect with others.
- Freedom is dangerous. Real freedom means people can choose evil as easily as good. If you take away that choice (even for "good" reasons), you destroy what makes us human.
- Without God, everything is permitted. If there's no higher moral law, then power becomes the only real truth. This is why he was terrified of both communism and unchecked capitalism.
- Redemption is always possible. Even the worst people can change, but only through genuine suffering, genuine love, and genuine responsibility – not through therapy, laws, or social programs alone.

**How these ideas benefit society:**

Dostoevsky gives us a much more honest picture of human nature than most political or economic theories. He warns us that utopias are dangerous because they always require forcing people to fit the system. His books show that when societies forget that humans have souls, they end up building prisons disguised as paradises.

He reminds us that crime and cruelty aren't just "social problems" to be solved with better policies. They're spiritual problems that need spiritual answers. That doesn't mean we ignore poverty or injustice – it means we understand that fixing material conditions alone won't fix broken hearts.

Most importantly, he offers hope without lying to us. He says yes, humans are capable of terrible things, but no one is beyond redemption. That balance – clear-eyed about evil, but never hopeless about people – is exactly what societies lose when they swing too far toward either cynicism or naive idealism.

His ideas push us to build a culture that values conscience, responsibility, and mercy, not just freedom or equality on paper.

[Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet]

@MichelleMaxwell @RealBrittHughes Government can’t offer free stuff. It taxes us, takes money from one group, and gives it to another—then calls it “free.”

Government-sponsored benefits are theft and a scam.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

“They are running out of people who want to be euthaniz…..errr….. immunized…”
Is this the Freudian slip of the decade on live TV ?

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Ai: Yes, both Renee Good and the ICE agent Jonathan Ross are human beings, and both matter.
Jordan Peterson's point about successful people treating everyone with basic dignity isn't about pretending bad actions don't have consequences. It's about not reducing people to cartoon villains or heroes based on which "team" they're on.
In this case:
Renee Good was a 37-year-old mother who was shot and killed by an ICE agent during an immigration operation.
The agent claims she tried to hit him with her car; videos and autopsies are being argued over by both sides.
The real test of that mindset is this: Can you look at the dead mother and say "she mattered" without excusing whatever risky thing she did? And can you look at the agent who pulled the trigger and say "he matters" without excusing any mistakes he may have made? Most people fail that test immediately — they pick a side and dehumanize the other.
Treating both as human doesn't mean "no one should be held accountable." It just means you don't cheer a mother's death, and you don't automatically call a federal agent a murderer before the facts are clear. That's rare in politics right now, but it's how you keep your soul intact no matter which way the story ultimately breaks.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interesting

[Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet]

@AmiriKing The problem? She was white who was killed by a black criminal.