Raymond Chatwin

Pursue education. Practice relentlessly. Everything is a learnable skill.

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

@jordanbpeterson I trust no man of this earth, but if I were pick one man whom I come the closest to trusting, it would be Dr. Jordan Peterson.
No other man has changed my mind so much.
At 20, I was turning liberal, and it was only through his arguments that I changed course & turned to Christ

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

@PhoenixLady51 @Cr7Godbrand You're a real one, my friend

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

@KrisztinaMaria Well articulated argument 🙏

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

@Andercot Why not just sunscreen?

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

@AvianOdy @anishmoonka Exactly what I was thinking. I flipped a coin, and half the time, it landed on heads over tails 😂

[Jesús Enrique Rosas @Knesix]

It's well known at this point that some self-proclaimed podcasters have been "just asking questions" about a grieving widow to the point that she had to cancel a TPUSA appearance yesterday.

Let me translate "just asking questions" for you: it means "I'm going to throw increasingly unhinged accusations at someone while maintaining plausible deniability by framing everything as curiosity."

The grift here is wicked in its simplicity: Target someone who's been through unimaginable trauma. Assume they're too broken to fight back effectively. Build your brand by "investigating" them with the dedication of Columbo solving a murder, except Columbo actually had evidence and wasn't just farming engagement for clicks and profits.

These people looked at a woman who lost her husband and thought, "You know what this situation needs? Me inserting myself into it for conspiratorial content! yeah!"

The really sick part is how they frame it as noble truth-seeking. Like they're doing humanity a service by relentlessly hounding someone who's trying to grieve in public. As if their podcast has suddenly become the Nuremberg trials and they're the chief prosecutor bringing justice to... a widow talking about her dead husband.

And it has resonated with an audience that fits their morals (or lack thereof) to a T.

It's the same energy as ambulance chasing, except instead of car accidents it's human tragedy, and instead of legal settlements it's subscriber counts.

The stupidest irony? These are the same people who'd lose their minds if someone spent weeks "just asking questions" about their own personal trauma. But somehow when it's profitable content, suddenly they're 'investigative journalists".

I have said this before, and I'll say it again: Enjoy the karma. Because the same way you're driving your hordes of mindless mouth breathers to harass Erika Kirk, the same way your sin debt is piling up.

But you chose that path yourself...

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

@bryan_johnson @grok summarize this

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

@PathToManliness I think you're right about a lot of these symptoms, but i don't think it's fair to paint women's entering the workforce as the ultimate cause here. I think it is both a cause and a symptom. It is not obvious how women choosing to enter the workforce made that a necessity.

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

I've been doing construction labor since my teenage years. If you devote yourself to manual labor and become good at it, you can easily get to a 6 figure income in yhe current economy.
There is absolutely a shortage of Caucasians willing to do manual labor well.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

Elon, no. This is the worst opinion you have, and it’s going to alienate you from the 50% of Americans who still like you, and leave you politically homeless.

America does not have a shortage of workers. We have a shortage of companies willing to train American workers and pay them fairly. They want to bring in foreigners and pay them shit.

This is the number one thing tearing our country apart. It’s the cause of the immigration crisis, the fentanyl crisis, the collapse of the middle class, the hatred of the rich, and the rise of socialism.

I’m all for changing the regulatory environment to make it easier for companies to recoup the cost of training American workers.

But saying there’s a shortage of Americans who can and will work hard is insulting and, worse, false.

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

Blind empathy is a cheap and fallacious way of obtaining a perception of ones own moral superiority.

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

There's a fine line between empathy and stupidity. As a general rule, if you want to feed the neighbors, you should bake more cake rather than giving them your own kids' plate.

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

If your goat tries to climb in the fire, you shouldn't blindly grant him his wishes. Clearly, he lacks the wisdom that would warn him of the pain that is sure to follow such an endeavor.

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

Productivity anxiety sucks

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

That is, many people can do it. Other forms of fulfillment typically center around ‘changing the world’ in some way. The problem is that there are a lot more people than can practically have a macro-level impact on the world. This form of fulfillment is only available to a few.

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

Men, be ambitious. Be intelligently aggressive yet gentle and compassionate. Find a calling and pursue it ruthlessly. The word find is a little misleading here; really, you have to make a calling for yourself. It’s too easy to just exist in the modern world.

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

For all people, raising children is the most reliable path toward achieving fulfillment available right now. Raising good children can be your calling. The reason for the reliability of children as a means to fulfillment is that it does not require macro-level change.

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

@MichiganJustin @elonmusk @grok Isn't this better than the outcomes for men in a society that doesn't practice monogamy?

[Raymond Chatwin @RaymondChatwin2]

When I'm sleep deprived, I'm dumber, more emotional, less happy, and my attention tends to focus outward. I become less interested in what I am doing and more interested in news, politics, etc. Sugar consumption also goes up and self-control goes down.