Chamath explains the political calculus behind Obama’s anti AI speech
“This is a very important moment for a very simple reason, which is that the world is about to endow 3-6 companies with about $10 trillion of wealth.”
“And what Obama knows very well is that most of those companies are overwhelmingly left leaning. And what he also knows is that there is a huge portion of that money that will then get put into philanthropic and charitable causes that then he and the people around him will be beneficiaries of."
“That is the truth. We already know this because we know that some of these frontier corporations actually ask you to sign up DAFTs and have a portion of your stock that you're willing to pledge. So this money is going to go to things other than consumption or savings. It's going to go into PACs, it's going to go into political movements, and they stand to disproportionately benefit."
“So this has nothing to do with prosperity. This is a very simple political calculus. If you freeze frame the economy the way it is today, a handful of organizations that will disproportionately be able to affect the Democrats will win, they will capture the lion's share of the economic gains. And then they will help the Democrats win power. That's all this is."
Fitness icon Jillian Michaels recently invited Jesus into her life after Christian author David J. Harris Jr. led her in a prayer of salvation during an episode of her podcast, Keeping It Real.
The man who died next to Jesus had nothing.
No baptism.
No communion.
No confirmation.
No speaking in tongues.
No mission trip.
No volunteering.
No financial gifts.
No church clothes.
He couldn't even bend his knees to pray.
Nails through his wrists meant no folded hands.
No sinner's prayer crossed his lips.
No altar call for a dying criminal.
He was naked.
Bleeding.
Worthy of death under the law.
Jesus didn't remove his pain.
Didn't heal his broken body.
Didn't silence the crowd mocking them both.
Didn't bring him down from that cross.
The thief had no testimony to share.
No before-and-after transformation story.
No time to prove his faith was real.
No chance to clean up his life.
Just a dying breath used to say:
"Lord, remember me."
And Jesus blood running down His face
Turned to this worthless criminal and promised:
"Today shalt thou be with me in paradise."
No theologian's spin needed.
No brilliant sermon required.
No worship team or mood lighting.
No haze machines or hip pastor.
No coffee bar in the lobby.
No small group sign-ups.
Just a naked man dying on wood.
Unable to move.
Unable to serve.
Unable to give.
Unable to perform.
Unable to impress.
Unable to earn.
All he could do was believe.
Believe that the bloodied man next to him
Was who He claimed to be.
That was it.
That was everything.
He entered paradise the same hour as Christ.
Not because of what he did.
Because of who Jesus is.
This criminal understood in his final moments
What religious men spend lifetimes missing:
Salvation isn't in your performance.
It's in His promise.
"For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish,
but have everlasting life."
A thief.
A cross.
A Savior.
A promise.
THAT IS ENOUGH.
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The Holy Spirit is moving. REVIVAL is here! Praise God that Jesus is coming back for us very soon. Are you ready? Where will you spend eternity?
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