@japan_nobunaga As many as want to come here and assimilate into western culture and earn their own keep. No government handouts. We want and need more hard-working, honest people.
Shortly after Charlie Kirk was killed on their campus, UVU faculty members were privately emailing the university president demanding that the school reject any attempt to memorialize him. They claimed that Charlie "appealed to the worst of us," and preyed on the fears of "impressionable youth." What's insane is as these private conversations were going on, the university’s administration was out front parading a public campaign on civility and dialogue.
The sheer cowardice and hypocrisy on display here is sickening.
So I figured if your faculty can take the time to write private letters targeting Charlie, then I can take the time to write a public one back. This open letter is for you, UVU.
@Primary_Pianist Creedal Christians: The good fruits of Mormonism are Satan's tool to deceive.
Jesus: "... neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit."
@RadderdaySaint Coming from a theater family, I used to harbor opinions about the performances of the actors as I watched the temple films. Now, I focus on the covenants. For me, it’s better this way.
People say:
"I wish one middle-class income could support an entire family like it did in the 1950s."
Okay. Then take the entire 1950s package—not just the parts you romanticize.
• No Netflix, Disney+, Spotify, or endless subscriptions
• One small TV with 3 channels, if you're lucky
• One basic car for the whole family
• No yearly vacations or cheap flights across the country
• No smartphones, laptops, gaming consoles, or internet
• Every meal cooked at home from scratch
• Kids sharing bedrooms
• A house under 1,000 sq. ft. for a family of 4–6
• One bathroom for everyone
• Little to no air conditioning in many places
• Clothes repaired, reused, and handed down
• Eating at restaurants was an occasional luxury, not a weekly habit
The comparison isn't just income.
The average household today consumes far more space, technology, entertainment, travel, convenience, and services than the average household did 70 years ago.
That doesn't mean housing, healthcare, and education aren't more expensive today—they are.
But when people compare lifestyles across generations, they often compare a 1950s income to a 2020s standard of living.
Those aren't the same thing.
If you want the economics of the 1950s, you have to accept the lifestyle of the 1950s too.
Trump Pledges That If Voters Defeat Socialism In November, They Will Each Get An Equal Redistribution Of Wealth From The Government https://t.co/qe16k9ucsf
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I believe murder should not go unpunished, whether or not the murderer was mentally ill at the time (aren't they all?). I also believe that saying "post-partum depression is just selfishness" makes it harder for women to reach out for help (see: Matt Walsh).
I had to read this three times before I could believe it was real.
Rotherham. A small town in northern England.
For sixteen years, at least 1,400 children — some as young as eleven — were raped, gang-raped, and trafficked between cities by organized groups of men.
Eleven years old.
Petrol was poured on them so they would stay quiet.
Their families were threatened with death.
Photos were taken and used as blackmail.
The police knew.
The council knew.
The social workers knew.
For sixteen years, not one of them moved.
Why?
Because officers were afraid of being called racist if they acted on what they were seeing.
That was the whole reason.
While children were being sold, adults were protecting their own reputations.
That is the moment something in you breaks.
And here is the part that makes it worse.
The TV networks did not report it. The papers did not chase it.
When the journalist Andrew Norfolk finally broke the story, even he thought maybe 150 girls had been hurt.
The real number was 1,400.
He was staggered.
This should have been the biggest story of the decade. It was not.
The networks looked away. The advertisers preferred safer topics.
The cover-up did not end when the report was published — it continued in the silence of every newsroom that refused to chase it.
Then Elon Musk bought X.
The advertisers fled.
The press declared the platform finished.
X almost did not survive.
But it did.
And on X, the names of those towns started trending.
Rotherham.
Telford.
Rochdale.
Oldham.
Towns the country had been told to forget.
Britain understands itself differently today.
Not because the politicians confessed.
Not because the broadcasters apologized.
Because one platform refused to let it stay buried.
X almost did not survive.
1,400 children almost stayed forgotten.
That is worth saying out loud.