Strat

A sinner whom Jesus loves. Political conservative whose opinions and sins are my own. My intent on here is to illuminate and not needlessly insult and hate.

[Strat @Strat_White]

I made a bunch of tweets like a year ago describing how I thought it was the extremist right (genuine racial nationalists, not what leftists call far right) that was the most dangerous, but I find it hard nowadays to justify that position especially after...

[Strat @Strat_White]

@ChristianHeiens William Jennings Bryan was my first thought.

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@OldeWorldOrder @TheBabylonBee To be fair I don't think Shane has down syndrome. But as he said, he barely dodged it XD.

[Strat @Strat_White]

@The_FrameGame @BipolarDuckie @IndianaBrunner Sure. But as I said I don't agree with the idea that streaming isn't "real work" or doesn't provide "real value" or what not.

[Strat @Strat_White]

I don't even know if ChatGPT agree with me here because I didn't source from any LLMs. There's this guy who made a video on YouTube about this topic about how the Victorians simply valued beauty and associated it with technological progress. So my opinions are sourced from that plus from some of what I know and some reasoning on my end.

Idk how you think what I posted is AI-generated. It's not. It's just how I type and write out thoughts.

But I guess I am a "moron" so🤷

[Southern Accents @AccentsSouthern]

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is a lie pushed on us in order to accept ugliness in society.

Beauty is inherent. Ugliness needs to be explained.

[The Old World Show @theoldworldshow]

Ugliness comes with a paragraph

Beauty requires no explanation

[Strat @Strat_White]

@BipolarDuckie @IndianaBrunner Money he gains from doing streaming...

I don't necessarily agree with this dude, anyway, but money that is taxed comes from somewhere. If he were doing something else, he'd still be taxed. So I don't think it factors into the equation.

[Strat @Strat_White]

@freshleeksoup @Y2SHAF >makes multiple points to argue you're wrong
>"nuh uh"

Top tier discourse.

[Michelle Lesley @MichelleDLesley]

When I was pregnant with my youngest, there was a potential diagnosis of both hydrocephalus and Down syndrome.

Our oft repeated motto for the duration of my pregnancy was: "God is always right, no matter what."

Today happens to be his 23rd birthday. He was born completely healthy, loves the Lord, and I can't imagine my life without him in it.

Tests can be wrong, but God is always right.

And I would have said all of these same things if the tests had been right.💙

God *is* good.
God *does* good.
And all of His ways are good.
Believe it: https://t.co/NeNzhLMMZ3

[𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚 @EudaimoniaEsq]

A lot of people in the anti-abortion camp are criticizing this post. And I get it. I’m not countering them. But one thing I haven’t seen anyone say, at least not explicitly, is how little epistemic humility this guy, and people like him, have. And this complete lack of epistemic humility results in them playing God and making inapt comparison—comparisons they cannot possibly make because they cannot rightly evaluate the two alternatives.

This man and his wife were informed that their child would have a series of medical difficulties, both physical and mental. We know that about Down Syndrome. We know that by almost any metric this is a “harder” life than someone without any such condition. But these people turn around and say “and, thus, it would be better for the child if the child actually just died now.”

But they can’t know that. They can’t actually compare existence with Down Syndrome to non-existence/death, because they don’t know what the latter entails. In order to rightly and ably compare two things, you have to know enough about them. We don’t know enough about death to ably compare it to life—even life with difficulties. So one cannot truly and reasonably say “death is better than living with Down Syndrome.”

It would be like me asking “do you prefer to eat apples or smoogaboogaloogas?” Of course, you don’t know what a smoogaboogalooga is, so you would reply “uh, I don’t know what that is, so I can’t compare it to an apple.” That’s epistemic humility. This guy and his wife have none of that, because they decided that death (which they cannot understand and appreciate) is better than life.

But even now I’m being charitable. I’m assuming a lack of epistemic humility when in reality they weren’t deciding what was “best” for the child (death vs. life). They were deciding what was best for themselves. And they decided killing their child was best for themselves.

[Strat @Strat_White]

These were created arguably when capitalism was at its most pure.

What really changed is what people demanded out of their experiences. No longer do people care for beauty in the way they used to (because we lost our sense of objective beauty). They used to *expect* beautiful things with new technology.

WW1 and WW2 killed it. Not Capitalism. We decided "sleek" and "smooth" designs were good, and companies took that to the extreme.

Also minimalism is not necessarily cheaper. Most of the time it's a style. Mass production makes things cheaper and you can often-time mass-produce beautiful things. We just choose not to.

[Smash Baals @smashbaals]

Down Syndrome babies are created in the image of God and have a right to be born

[Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund]

Simply astounding that God knows all the stars by name (Isaiah 40:26). He didn’t just create them. He *named* them.

This implies not just power, but care. And amazing creativity. Just think about how many unique names are floating around in the divine mind!

[Strat @Strat_White]

@OneArmedBoh He was fired for going to the Press and being a loudmouth about Truman turning him down. He was not fired for suggesting the idea.

[Strat @Strat_White]

@SpaceKoala The thing is this is true of a LOT of past technologies. It's just a lot of people were smart enough to realize future potential is a thing.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Does Japanese X know that kudzu has completely taken over the American South?

I was driving through southern Tennessee this past weekend and virtually every square inch of the roadside looked like this.

We call it “the vine that ate the South” for a reason.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I want the world to hear what we heard.

[Warren Steury @NWSteury]

This was all built in 2021.

Beauty is not a forgotten form, it is a choice.

[Strat @Strat_White]

How else am I to play my map games?

Ah yes the German Entity has just anchlussed Austria while I am going down the Red Vibes path as the USA or something.

Jokes aside, politics in media is fine so long as it's not preachy and/or forcing the story/gameplay into an unnatural direction. But it's fine for games to "argue" a point about society that is potentially political in a similar manner Tolkein "argued" against industrialization in LoTR.

[SrGrafo @SrGrafo2]

You wouldn't understand