Jedediah

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

These videos from the past are immensely radicalizing because they show that we're living in the collapse

A different world used to exist, one characterized by refined beauty and vitality painstakingly cultivated for centuries

That took a great deal of work. Cultivation is difficult. It requires intentionality, no small degree of expense, and glorifies greatness while eschewing equality--after all, what is the point of cultivating mediocrity?

That is what made the world of the past work, particularly the world of the pre-Great War period, but even the last glimmers of it that were still barely around in the 80s, having survived the Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s

The enchanting beauty and dignity that can be seen in these videos existed because they knew equality was as false a god, and so they rejected it, and instead showed through their dress, manners, and habits that there was something higher than mere existence

Such is why everyone in these videos is well-dressed, whether rich or poor. The working class of those days, though far poorer than that of today, was guided by the elite into understanding the importance of showing one was also on the ascent through dress, manners, etc., and so did so. Even the working men wore suits, particularly when about town on their time off. They were married, had kids, and dressed well, as that is what civilized people did

All of that was destroyed. It didn't just decay, or rot, or fall apart. It was destroyed, intentionally. That glorious world was crushed by the preachers of equality

So now we have Brutalist architecture, a slovenly populace, and legislation that demands equality in outcome and opportunity

To those who lived in the world of even century ago, but particularly a century and a half ago, it would be self-evident that the world had already fallen, the collapse and end of times has already come, and we are living in the Rome that followed the Visigoths

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@BasedAmCru @PerfInjust For political reasons, not theological ones.

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@polplotting Have you ever tried the escalating somebody with a deadly weapon?

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@joelrainey Extremely gay and dishonest chart

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@thisisfoster The chart is garbage

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@elimcgowan @reformed_ba Not in the sense that you speak of here.

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@AlphaTrader00 Do you actually share pics and predictions or just keep it mysterious?

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@BowTiedRanger That guy was also super retarded.

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@elimcgowan Covenant is notoriously compromised.

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@DeepValueBagger I’m sad you’re close to retiring lol. I wish had been following your takes more closely earlier.

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@KatrinaMan23168 @Protestia Common liberal talking point.

Rejecting Christ’s voice is the opposite of what faith in Christ does.

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@KatrinaMan23168 @Protestia An unsaved theological liberal is a practical atheist.

You’re not saved if you don’t think the Bible is the Word of God.

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@KatrinaMan23168 @Protestia You missed my point. The whole field is corrupt.

I love scholarship and learning, but the modern academy is full of losers, and godless atheists.

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@KatrinaMan23168 @Protestia You meant: “scholarly consensus among gays and atheists”

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

If Africa can’t figure it out after this much money has been sent their way, they either need to be colonized again or the charity structure needs to change in such a way that it stops enabling corruption and dependence.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

So true.

[D G Hart @ReallyOldLife]

Dear Christian magistrate,

Please suppress bad worship.

Sincerely,
Really Old Life

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@paulg Can you explain what was bad here?

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

@sarahtexe Yes.

[Jedediah @LexRexEst]

“If you’re a Christian genuinely wondering why it’s bad for the state of Texas to <promote a good thing>, imagine how you’d feel if your family lived in New York City and Mamdani required <a bad thing>”.

Sorry no I still don’t get it.

Are religious acts the only category of “good and bad” that act this way in a syllogism?

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

If you’re a Christian genuinely wondering why it’s bad for the state of Texas to require Bible study in public schools, imagine how you’d feel if your family lived in New York City and Mamdani required Quran study in public schools.