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[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

How the FIFA tournament matters more than you realize:

Earlier this week I spoke with someone close to senior European defense officials.

He tried lecturing me. My response?

The greatest gift FIFA gave America is not soccer. We don’t care about soccer. It’s sharing pints with Europeans. I did so myself.

The general consensus among the Europeans I met was awe: awe at how large and wealthy and well run America truly is, and at how kind and helpful the average American is.

One match I attended was Guyana versus the UK. I never entered the stadium. I worked the restaurant, the pub, and the Bass Pro next door, which is where the real tournament was happening anyway.

“We were worried about racism turning violent,” one Brit told me. The Americans laughed out loud.

The consensus among the Americans was also surprise. Lots of questions about the death of free speech and the migrant crisis. Not one Brit defended Keir Starmer. Not one.

These were UK patriots who paid serious money to cross an ocean and cheer their team. They told us about the beauty of the English countryside, the pub culture after work, and, after some prodding from me, their proud maritime tradition.

By the end of the night everyone wanted to invite a British family over for a barbecue, and the Brits were eager for us to visit their homes.

And it wasn’t just the English. I met other Europeans and had the same conversations. Friends of mine had many more.

The bottom line: absolutely nobody on either side of the Atlantic cares about the utter bullshit like this.

Some were supportive of Trump, some weren’t, but everyone agreed on one thing: he’s the only politician and commander in chief willing to say things out loud that others only whisper.

The conclusion we all reached is that the media, the academics, and the euro-lib elite are frothing at the mouth about nothing. America is not evil.

The other conclusion: Europe isn’t evil either. But Europe is governed by anti-American ideologues who have dug in their heels on the most unpopular positions their own voters can name.

So I told that someone close to European defense officials: nobody gives two craps about your concerns.
FIFA let us see past your lies. It gave us a clear view straight into the souls of your people.

We’ve got Russia probing, Iran burning, and China knocking at the door. You can join up with us or you can take a hike, but you no longer have the power to lecture us, to call us arrogant, to call us evil.

You lost that power because now we know, unequivocally, that your views do not represent the people you claim to represent.

And your people know it too. The more you lecture us, the more your own citizens roll their eyes and tune you out.

You are sovereign nations and I don’t have any more influence over your anti-American leaders than you so it’s your choice:

Join team America or wither away on your own.

That’s your choice but we won’t apologize anymore if you pick the latter.

“Senior European defense officials” have ruled as emperors of the moral high ground for decades, the media bowed to your wisdom and insight. No longer.

The emperor has no clothes, and the whole pub saw it.

[Johann Kurtz @JohannKurtz]

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[Frasier Payne @MeinGottNiles]

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Imagine...

[Hei Wa Wa @yaqobhyndes]

In 1165 Saladin set up a debate between a Catholic Monk and three Sunni Jurists, and it ends with the monk trolling a jurist into accepting the Trinity, Saladin laughing at him, and another jurist interjecting that he won only for Saladin to tell him to shut up

[Kairo @Kairo_Anatomika]

You always see pictures of Jesus holding his lambs or brushing his lambs.

I've never once seen any depiction of him, using his carpentry skills to craft little tail carts for his lambs.

[ᛟ 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔖𝔞𝔵𝔬𝔫 𝔒𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫ᛟ @TheSaxonOption]

@Brian_Sauve My wife asked me to bathe the kids tonight. I asked her for chapter and verse and she had none. She said I’m supposed to “love my wife”, but quadriplegics can’t bathe their kids and the elderlys’ kids don’t need baths so obviously that can’t be the normative standard.

[Stephen Stone - PhD Tricknologist @Stephen19718352]

It’s not even hard to track the Fed connection to this. This took me about 5 minutes to unravel. Pohlhaus comes out of nowhere and gets “a following.” Then he somehow starts buying property in Maine with……..

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

The complete disappearance of Islamic terrorism after 2016 really gets the noggin' joggin'. Please don't tell me it's because our security services are competent.

[Rick Davis @TheRhetorRick]

@smashbaals

[PhilosophiCat @Philosophi_Cat]

Either women have no agency and therefore shouldn't be making decisions for themselves or others and should leave that stuff to the men

OR

Women need to be accountable for their actions and it's on them to change before men or society can change.

Pick one.

[Mises Caucus @LPMisesCaucus]

Below are a few leaked pages of the YouTube “controversial twiddler” blacklist. This is a list of topics which, instead of returning related results, will show the user a curated set of topics similar to but different than the content they were looking for.

Thread.

[garfieldbot @robertlasagna1]

if the purpose of art is to "provoke", but the audience is not allowed to react, because that would make them "reactionary" and mean, then that means the purpose of art is to deaden and numb the audience.

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

You no longer live in a serious country.

[Michael Millerman @millerman]

Leo Strauss argued in the 40s that the Marxist desire to overcome inequality and the division of labor implied the project of overcoming the sexual difference altogether. The class laughed. He said "don't laugh."

[Scott Horton @scotthortonshow]

Now that I'm all read up on Bosnia – not hardly, but still – I can now complete my list of how they lied us into/provoked every war:
1812: Really about invading Canada
Mexico: Crossed disputed border, shot first
Indian wars throughout 19th cent: they started it. God said we could

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

Woodrow Wilson hated the idea of women voting and was famously protested over it by unhinged suffragettes. But then he discovered women were less resistant to social engineering and could therefore be easily exploited, he signed that amendment. Your hero, ladies.