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[AYFKM @Knowmorenoless]

We've now reached the point where every solution to a civilizational problem will make white women sad, and the degree to which such solution will make life objectively and substantially better is in direct proportion to how sad it will make them.

[Anthony Sanchez @Wheelchairpapii]

Using the @Tesla CyberCab as a paraplegic! 10/10!! @robotaxi #spinalcordinjury

[Jay Fivekiller @JayFivekiller]

We should have glassed Mecca on 9/12, and then worked outward from there until every surviving Muslim agreed to become an Evangelical Christian.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

Ten years ago a decision was made that white men just weren't going to be allowed to succeed. Doesn't matter how hard you work. Doesn't matter what you accomplish. Doesn't matter how good you are. You're a white man, and It's Her Turn.

[Mr. Reply Guy @GenericSnarky]

So much of leftist politics is them having the ideology of an 8 year old, but being proud of that.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

R.I.P Uber, Waymo, and Lyft.

I’m sorry. The Tesla Cybercab is going to takeover.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

There's a reason all these stupid commies think Elon is just Scrooge McDuck diving into an ocean of gold coins. Elon didn't inherit his wealth. Elon's "wealth" is predicated on the value of the companies he built that employ 140K people. All these DSA dorks are rich kids, born into wealth they could never earn. Deep down, they resent their parents for being more successful than they could ever be, so they project their "I HATE YOU DAD" self-loathing onto everyone else.

Because socialists aren't capable of accomplishing anything, building successful companies, providing value, employing 140,000 people, making thousands of others multi-millionaires...they don't understand how Elon Musk has done that.

Humans always presume of other people what they see in themselves...because these entitled dorks didn't earn anything in life, they can't accept that Elon earned his. Once this communist mind virus infects more than 3.5% of the population...well, we know how this always ends. And it's quite dark.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is how Christianity failed.

Believers see Christianity as revealed truth, but whether you believe or not, religion serves an earthly purpose, and that purpose is to hold civilization and the family together.

Understand this — we can argue all day about whether a creator god exists. You think yes, I think no, we debate.

But that debate is inconsequential. It's just the high-IQ equivalent of a pick-up game of basketball. Because it's not important what you believe... it's important what your beliefs make you do.

For over a thousand years, Christianity held the family together by tying sex to family responsibility, through marriage.

And for over a thousand years, Christianity held civilization together by tying marriage to male productivity and prosocial behavior.

These two links forged a chain that ran directly from "building civilization" to "getting laid".

Men who helped civilization along got laid. Men who didn't, didn't. This supported civilization in two ways. First, in the individual lives of men, it was motivational. Men worked hard and did useful things because that was how you got a pretty wife who was nice to you. Second, across generations, it was eugenic. Anti-civilizational men didn't get to have as many children.

That's how Christianity helped build civilization in the West.

Now, any religion could have done this, so long as it had certain traits. And in other places and times, other religions did do this. But in the West, it was Christianity in particular that did this job.

So why is the non-believer praising Christianity? Because I'm a non-believer, not an angry reddit church-hater. I'm interested in what's actually going on. If Christianity does a good thing, I'm going to say so.

Unfortunately, the praise stops here, because the reverse is also true. We have to fearlessly look at where Christianity failed, and why it no longer serves the civilization and family preserving functions that it once did.

Having created these two causal links:

"If you get married, you can have all the sex you want."

and

"If you work hard and do the right thing, you can marry a desirable woman."

... Christianity's responsibility was to preserve them.

The driving force behind civilization wasn't religious zeal. It was always the male libido.

(And yes, later, also love for your children. But that's a different topic for another day.)

So long as these two things remained true, the powerful engine of male libido would continue to pull the train of civilization.

The responsibility of Christianity, as an earthly institution, was to make sure these two things remained true forever, regardless of what changes technology wrought.

It failed.

Christianity failed to preserve the second link in its chain. Here's how and why.

In any agrarian society, from the neolithic era to early America, a teenage boy is functionally a man. He can do farm labor, he can fight wars, he can serve an apprenticeship and become a craftsman.

So if he wants sex, and what teenager doesn't, he can get married. Because he is a productive, respected member of the community, and all the women are socialized to want exactly that.

This is no longer true.

Christianity failed to defend marriage, because it thought "defending marriage" meant lecturing young people about getting married, instead of making sure they could.

Christianity sat by while women entered the workforce and earned as much as men. It sat by while women amassed more political power, social status, and respect than men.

When this happens, men can't marry, because women are genetically programmed to marry up.

Not down.

Not across.

Up.

If the average woman regards the average man as her equal, weddings are going to become increasingly rare. And the average Western woman does not regard the average man as her equal. She regards him as her inferior. She is egged on in this by every Hollywood movie, every show on television, every book in the bookstore, every story in the newspaper, every speech by every politician, on both sides of the aisle.

Christianity failed to stop this.

Worse yet, Christianity allowed the age where a man could even afford to marry to increase from 15 to 20 to 25 to 30.

With enough lectures and social pressure, you can stop teenagers from having sex until they are 15. In strict religious communities full of zeal, you might even hold some of them back until 18 or 20.

But if dudes can't afford a home or a wife until 30 or 35, what the hell do you expect them to do? Of course they're going to fornicate.

But Christianity did nothing about this either, because that would have meant taking on people with serious economic and institutional power, the scribes and Pharisees of our day.

It was much easier to lecture young people, because young people don't have any power.

So the Christians fought a culture war with the left, a war of condom-based sex education versus abstinence-only sex education, over who was better at preventing "teen pregnancy".

And no one stood up and shouted the obvious truth, like this:

"Teenage girls are supposed to get pregnant, you fucking noodle! What the hell do you think they get horny for?"

Nature, or god if you like, programmed teenagers to be horny so that you can have more humans. The command is right there in the bible "Be fruitful and multiply."

But somehow Christianity, the earthly institution, twisted this into "keep it in your pants".

No religion can fight human genetic programming and win.

It's not supposed to. It's supposed to work with that programming, not fight it. It's supposed to channel those instincts into healthy ways of life, not suppress them.

But lectures were easier.

Christianity forgot that traffic laws are not a highway. You cannot drive on a lecture about traffic safety and get to where you are going. You have to actually maintain a fucking road.

The path forward for young men's sexual urges no longer runs through work, marriage, and children. It runs though pickup artistry and looksmaxxing and hookup culture.

Christianity is perfectly willing to take on all of these things, but it is unwilling to pick a fight with the real political, economic, and institutional powers that gave rise to them.

This is why young people abandoned the church in droves, generations ago. Churches simply no longer had answers to the problems that they really had, and the needs they really felt.

Now they're all on reddit making edgy posts about how god is a monster, but that's only what they think they mean.

What they actually mean is that the church failed them.

[Handre @Handre]

Sixty-two years and $22 trillion later, the U.S. poverty rate sits at roughly 11 percent, almost identical to where Lyndon Johnson found it in 1964. The government ran the most expensive social experiment in human history and produced nothing measurable. Bureaucracies perpetuate themselves, and this policy worked exactly as designed.

When Washington transfers purchasing power to the poor through SNAP, Medicaid, housing vouchers, and 126 other overlapping programs, it doesn't eliminate scarcity; it relocates decision-making from individuals to administrators. Those administrators develop career interests in perpetuating dependency, because a solved problem eliminates their department.

Free market thinkers identified this perverse incentive structure before Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act. Every dollar taxed from productive activity carries a deadweight cost before it reaches anyone's dinner table.

Capital formation lifts people out of poverty. You build wealth through savings, property rights, and voluntary exchange, none of which $22 trillion in redistributed spending actually produced.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

Just sweep away the vagrants

That's all it would take

Tell them to get lost, bulldoze the encampment toss it in a landfill, and arrest those who won't leave

There is no right to blight a public place. They are vagrants. They can and should be arrested

This is all a problem of will, not some intractable predicament. This is why this sort of thing is not a problem in Singapore

It's also an argument against such devices as Flock cameras. You pay taxes so that the government can erect cameras that it won't use to deal with the massive camp of violent drug addicts who are illegally living on what should be a public place (it has no intention of dealing with them), but will use to fine you for rolling through a stop sign

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

I saw this and I had to look up what happened to 19 year-old Kenneka Jenkins.

Kenneka went to attend a party in a hotel room at a Crowne Plaza hotel near Chicago on the evening of Sept 8, 2017, and was found dead in the hotel’s walk-in freezer the next day.

The cause of death was determined to be hypothermia — there was no evidence of trauma or foul play. She had a blood alcohol level of 0.112%, as well as the epilepsy drug topiramate in her system and it appears she had become heavily intoxicated, somehow stumbled into the freezer, passed out and froze to death.

The credit card used to book the hotel room for the party Kenneka was attending was fraudulent and connected to identity theft, and the people who were hosting the party were members of a Chicago gang. And the walk-in freezer where Kenneka died did not lock and was equipped with a working safety latch that assured it could be opened from the inside so no one could be stuck inside it.

However, her family sued the hotel for $50 million arguing that the hotel was negligent in not locking the kitchen area to keep drunks from staggering into it, and the hotel settled for $10 million. After her family got that payday, they installed the custom gravestone in the picture last year, on what would have been Kenneka’s 27th birthday.

[Daily Gondor 📰 @DailyGondor]

Small boat crossings into Osgiliath deemed "unsafe" for orcs, prompting calls from Isengard and Mordorian charities to secure "safe and secure" passages to allow the Uruks to flood the lands of Men legally, writes Thomdra Sapphiredustsniffer

[Department Of Deportations @DoDeportations]

A bit controversial, but this is overall a good thing.

Showing the world that hot women love Men with the balls to stand up to the longhouse will help us win - tremendously.

One of the strongest angles we can push is “the left is the party of ugly fat freaks”.

[Deep.State.Cringe @DeepSt8Cringe]

“Come for the acrylics. Stay for the eyelashes. Leave before the floor plan becomes negotiable.” -Attenborough’s Algorithm

#PalmBeach #Florida #NailSalon #DeepStateCringe #AttenboroughsAlgorithmExplains

[Casey Krol @CaseyKrol]

A question to the French...

At least we're not speaking German, right?

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Perfect

[Gryphon @Gryph911]

This man is a genius. I never would have considered this if the purge was real.

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

If my kid got a job at the CATO Institute I’d probably tell people they were working as a janitor at a truck stop glory hole or something to avoid the embarrassment of admitting what they were actually doing for money

[PsychoMath (hoe_math) @itispsychomath]

Q: Why should we let Haitians live here?

A: Because Haiti is bad.

Q: Why is Haiti bad?

A: Because it's all black.

Q: Why is it all black?

A: Because they killed and ate all of the whites.

Q: If that's how Haitians are, why should we let them live here?

A: Because Haiti is bad.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

Almost everyone would agree that door locks are deeply unjust if they didn’t have a house but wanted to live in somebody else’s house.

See how retarded that sounds?