Truth illuminates the path for those who are willing to hear it, and it burns those who reject it. It isn’t the truth-speaker’s job to decide others’ response.
Carry it and don’t snuff it out.
If I include you in my home, I fully expect you will honor my home, my family, and our culture and traditions. I won’t ask you to copy us, or to become us, but neither will I expect you to make demands on us.
I will not tolerate you coming into my home to disrespect me or my family, or worse, to cause destruction.
For me to tolerate that, would be a handover of my home to you and your whims, be they for good or for evil, and a failure on my part to love my family, and to hold healthy boundaries as a standard.
Inclusion and abject handover are not the same. One invites others into our space as additive. One pretends our space isn’t worthy of honor, respect, keeping, or even existing, as destructive.
Too few understand
Oh man don’t even…
I coach HS ball. Last year we had a game against a top 4 team in our state/class. Early in the game, I’d called time with the ball at full court, and we got jumped by a press. We were fine but I wasn’t giving their coach that chance again.
Fast forward
Late in the game, they’re shooting free throws, we’re down 2. I tell ref- when we get over half court, I’m calling time- to make sure he knows. Can’t advance the ball on a t.o. In HS or i’d have gone that route.
We come across half, i’m walking toward ref with my arms out, signaling a full t.o., screaming “time! Time! TIME!!”. He blows whistle as a player of mine hits a game tying 3 with 9 seconds on the clock.
Crowd goes crazy. Ref: “no shot! No shot!” Player stares daggers at me. I draw up a play for an open look. We miss. Game over.
I did the logical thing as a coach. Yet I felt TERRIBLE. It happens
Thankfully the player had my back in the locker room. All was well but to this day that one stings.
The issue with people like the OP is they apply it selectively to one side of an equation and, thus, the equation is by definition rendered incorrect.
She wants the aggrieved to live by law, while the criminals…criminal
The “you can just do things” people like Bukele long ago realized, if you let people who can’t do societal math, tell you how to run society, the math will never math.
Tl:dr- we don’t have to accept broken ways
The issue with people like the OP is they apply it selectively to one side of an equation and, thus, the equation is by definition rendered incorrect.
She wants the aggrieved to live by law, while the criminals…criminal
The “you can just do things” people like Bukele long ago realized, if you let people who can’t do societal math, tell you how to run society, the math will never math.
Tl:dr- we don’t have to accept broken ways
BREAKING: The US Department of Justice is reviewing the forceful ejection of fans wearing XX-XY t-shirts at Friday's Portland Thorns game.
"The Justice Department is aware of these reports and will review the matter thoroughly. Where the facts and the law warrant action, the Department will not hesitate to act."
A DOJ spokesperson also told me, "Based on what is known so far, the conduct described appears to raise viewpoint discrimination and First Amendment questions rather than sex discrimination. The Department is reviewing it."
But not if they support keeping men out of women’s spaces right? Then they’re not allowed?
Way to go enacting your totalitarian forced groupthink and allowing violent rejection of anyone with a different pov than the militant culture warriors you call fans
I used to be a fan when it was about the soccer. Now that it’s about enforcing ideologies… not so much
Imo- you’re sleeping on the simplest of concepts on the Blazers (don’t worry- not a soccer mom here but yeah blazers fan).
Spacing
In the NBA if you have at least 3 shooters on the floor you can space the defense enough to cause issues.
The blazers have 4.
Dame, Deni, Clingan, Camara
That spreads defenders out for Ja to drive and for Clingan to use his size 1-on-1. Key on Deni, Dame makes you pay. Cover the shooters, Ja drives. Stay true man to man, Clingan is bigger inside. Etc.
You guys really dismissed them in your over under pod. I think you forgot the concept of spacing and shooting.
We’ll see
Ps- you’re not wrong on the defensive end. Ja and Dame is…uh… interesting (and by that I mean not good).
So many in the entertainment industry mistake their wealth and ability to attract fans as identification of unique intelligence in completely unrelated fields.
Because they get paid for bringing in viewers of film, listeners of music, watchers of sport, or readers of books, they assume this means they understand politics, economics, culture, civics, science and morality.
This is a HUGE logical fallacy. So bad that it, ironically, defies logic.
Financial success for entertaining people creates a bubble, in which it is nigh impossible to rightly understand the lives the masses face.
Without realizing it, these celebrity activists overwhelmingly espouse policies, positions, and virtues which are damaging to those least able to opt out.
Normalize thanking entertainers for their gift to our lives, while politely ignoring- or at least critiquing- their ill informed, bubble-created views
Fascists silence people they disagree with. Often with violence.
For saying women are…well…women, this woman was expelled by force from a women’s sporting event and subjected to violence and mob behavior.
The “love wins” / “protect democracy” crowd is the biggest farce we’ve seen in many generations
They’re bigoted, uneducated bullies.
This is why I’m not being quiet to appease them. They’re misguided, evil, ignorant and do not have any moral or civic authority
Julie, a 57-year-old lesbian, was shoved down by a male @ThornsFC fan and tumbled over two rows of chairs. All for wearing an @xx_xyathletics shirt. He later apologized and said he didn’t know why he did it, he was just following the crowd. She has filed a police report.
It’s hereeee!!!
#DunePartThree’s pre-sales causing havoc at the UK #BoxOffice, with exhibitors running trying to keep up, as British chain #VUE announced more screenings at their EPIC Premium auditoriums being added due to insane demand.
#Dune3 debuts in the UK on DEC 18, with previews starting from DEC 15.
Pretty sure a movie or a streaming series just wrote itself
It’s sitting right there
1 Genetically enhanced dogs self organize and (fill in the blank) ensues
2 follow (macho name) as he and his highly specialized and supremely loyal war dog try to survive being stranded behind enemy lines. But who is the real enemy? Dun dun duuuuun
Warhound, a defense‑tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey and Ben Lamm, has raised $200 million in seed funding to genetically engineer war dogs for the U.S. military.
Lamm is responsible for the de-extinction of the dire wolf which died out ~10,000 years ago.
Warhound will find top dogs and then biobank their genetic material before cloning the proven dogs.
The company will take the cell lines for top breeds like Belgian Malinois and German Shepherd before editing the genes to make the dogs perform better and improve “things like speed and agility or enhance olfactory sensors for bomb sniffing and whatnot.”
Luckey’s Anduril will supply the dogs with advanced body armor, ear coverings, and other military technology like EagleEye, an artificial intelligence military helmet.
Anduril is also reportedly working with META on battlefield augmented reality eyewear.
Lamm says the genetically modified dogs with advanced equipment will not only make the dogs safer, but will also make the human handlers safer.
The first Warhound puppies will reportedly soon be cloned and incubated and will be born in early 2027 and then will begin training.
The land of the Magna Carta and of Amazing Grace is arresting kids for posting bunny filters
This is why I am telling Americans to stop worrying about being “nice”. Nice is a weapon that has been used to silence the masses into submission, until a police state arrests your kid for posting a bunny filter on a politician
Meme like you’ve never memed before
Rebel against the totalitarian statists with your voice
JUST IN: UK police arrest 15 y/o boy, seize his devices, & collect his DNA after he posted photo of a local politician edited to look like a rabbit.
hatred pales
It is but a faint shadow
In the blinding light
Of eternity’s echo
an imitation
A mirror
A mockery
A lesser
never original
Not creative
Only mimicking
Thus it loses
To the light
Every
Time