People in Britain keep messaging me.
They want me to post something.
They cannot post it themselves.
Not because they are wrong.
Because in their country, being right about the wrong topic can end your job, your reputation, your freedom.
So they ask a Japanese account to say it instead.
That is not a small thing.
That is what a country looks like when free speech is already gone.
@SkylarSkye3 The average blue-collar worker after being at an employer for five years we have three weeks of paid vacation, but in addition to that they will get off with pay all of the federal holidays, which that has another seven or eight days.
Joey Aguilar was denied an injunction for an additional year of eligibility after only playing three seasons of D1 FBS football.
Brendan Sorsby placed at least 40 bets involving Indiana as a quarterback for the Hoosiers, and used sportsbook accounts registered to family members and friends to wager roughly $90,000 over four years.
One was denied. One is playing.
America's cultural ideal has been the self-made entrepreneur while Europe's was rooted in aristocracy, with status inherited rather than earned. Europe's inheritance laws show this divide.
Many European countries have "forced heirship" laws that require people to leave 50-75% of their estates to their children. Want to leave the majority of your wealth to charity? not allowed. Your kids are estranged from you, struggling with addiction, or irresponsible? still required to give them the money. Want your kids to avoid a life of entitlement? tough.
Incredibly, these laws look back at transfers made during your lifetime. If you have 3 children in France, you're required to bequeath them a minimum of 75% of your estate. Because French law calculates this based on your assets at death plus all lifetime gifts, giving away more than 25% of your wealth while alive means your heirs can legally sue to force charities or foundations to return the funds. This has limited the development of the nonprofit sector on the continent.
The cultural gap between an entrepreneurial society and one shaped by dynastic wealth is enormous. If you make it yourself, you tend to want your kids to do the same. If you inherit it, the primary goal is protecting the estate for the next gen.
Countries like Spain, France, and Italy legally entrench family dynasties, while America has historically sought to limit them through estate taxes. The result is not only a weaker culture of philanthropy and civil society in Europe, but also less economic dynamism.
🔥 BE PENTECOSTAL! 🔥
A message to my Pentecostal family:
I love every expression and style of worship within the Christian family that points to Jesus. When people visit our churches they’ve already googled you and know what you are therefore just be Pentecostal! You don’t need to fix it or polish it up just be who we are!
Let them hear speaking with tongues!
Let them experience vibrant praise an worship!
Let the sick be healed and miracles take place!
Let the Holy Spirit move!
Let your preaching be fiery!
Receive the offering boldly!
Let the power of God be on display!
If you’re Pentecostal then embrace it and just be Pentecostal!
@chris_haxby@RishiSunak If life here in America with as bad as what you just described, our borders would be full with people trying to leave the country instead of trying to enter it