Ardent Crusader

Stranger amongst the modern world. Anti-democracy. Reactionary. Catholic Supremacist.

[Ardent Crusader @ardentcrusader]

This is actually the authentically Catholic position on marriage. I know he was raised Catholic so maybe it rubbed off on him. I hope he returns to it again. 🙏

[William Pete @Willie_Pete_VT]

This is the greatest @Asmongold take OF ALL TIME.

The fact that the roach king can better articulate the purpose of marriage better than any "Christian" or "Conservative" Influencer has in 30 years is why "our side" is loosing.

A CONSERVATIVE, traditionalist, etc. Party would make the ability of our young American Citizens to form families as THE PRIORITY, EVERYTHING MUST BE FRAMED IN HOW IT SERVES THAT GOAL.

-"We need another billion for Israel"
-"Okay explain plainly how this is going to help John doe get a good paying job and take sally on their 3rd date?... Oh you can't? THEN KICK ROCKS!"

[MR MAN. @MrAdolf88]

Its happening.

[Kisaki @KisakisHusband]

sounds like a skill issue

[Marty O'Donnell @MartyTheElder]

I’m very disappointed that SacAnime has disinvited me from a Halo 25 reunion at their conference next month. If you thought we defeated Cancel Culture in 2024, guess again!

[❤️‍🔥 Ember Paradox ❤️‍🔥 @ember_paradox]

There's something that very few, if any, people mention when talking about illegal immigrants.

Every time there's a discussion about the hoardes of illegal migrants invading into any Western nation, it's always the same reason/excuse. We heard it most recently with the invasion of Ceuta, Spain, but if you look at video footage for the last roughly 15-20 years where anyone has been able to record an interview with one or multiple people illegally entering into a Western nation from a third world country, they always have the same reason for doing it:

"There's no food/there's no work."

Now, whether or not this is true is immaterial for the moment. Do you know what you DON'T hear from any of these people?

"I wanted to come here because I think this is a great country that I admire and want to become a part of (or some variation of that sentiment)"

THAT is the point that everyone very conveniently chooses to ignore. None of these people illegally invading Western countries have any intention of becoming a part of the culture and country they're swarming into. They just want to drain them of their resources, destroy the very foundation of their conquered country, and turn them into the hellscapes that they came from. And once that's done, they'll move on to the next country whose leaders are either blinded and obsessed with virtue signaling and "being on the right side of history", or have already been infiltrated by these hostile nations in high government positions.

People like this are not "victims". They're parasites, they're leeches, they are a hostile invading force that not only has no problem using Western values of kindness, generosity, and helping others against them, they've actively integrated them into their tactics.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

You are held hostage by the bottom 1% of society infinitely more than the top 1%.

Elon Musk is not the reason the store shelves are locked up, and cities are setting up Flock cameras on every street corner.

If we didn't have a violent and impulsive lumpenproletariat underclass destroying everything around them, there would be no argument for treating the rest of society like potential criminals when they're out in public.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

If these people had their way, nothing grand would ever be built ever again and 100% of society's productive capacity would be oriented towards pouring an infinite amount of resources into the black hole that is the bottom 1% of society.

And I’m not talking about people who are down on their luck. I’m talking about the most dysfunctional, degenerate, violent, impulsive, low IQ, criminally-inclined losers who suck up endless state resources for all the social workers, police officers, prisons, welfare spending, and public attention they inevitably require.

We are held hostage by these people in a way you couldn’t even begin to fully appreciate.

[Slim Haley @SlimHaleyLP]

It's Friday night in 2007 and the boys are online

[Ardent Crusader @ardentcrusader]

How does someone look at this and not conclude that this is a movement of the severely mentally ill?

[Gay Not Queer @Gaynotqueer1]

How can this be real life?

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

Woke white lady: "Some people loathe you... Do you think what you're doing is helpful for Western democracy?"

@ElonMusk: "Maybe some people do loathe me. That's probably true. I don't care. I think a lot more people hate you and the media than you realize."

Damn that's cold. 🤣

[LagWasReal @LagWasReal]

"FLY! FLY YOU FAT FUCK! BOTH OF OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT! FLY!"

#Palworld

[Monte Auseva 🇪🇦 @monte_auseva]

Y España respondió:

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Unrelated but one of the best speeches in video games ✝️

[Drake @theelderdrake]

We know. They turned Chani into a scowling girlboss. In the books, she was one of Paul’s most loyal supporters. The one who saw him clearly and stood with him as he stepped into destiny.

And yes, it’s obvious what they were trying to do. Undercut the hero. Reframe the story through a more modern lens. But reality is, there are older truths at work here… truths neither Herbert nor Villeneuve can fully suppress.

Why? Because no matter how much you try to deconstruct it, the core of the story remains intact. The call to adventure still beckons. A young man is summoned out of obscurity into greatness. He faces trial, suffering, sacrifice. He becomes something more than himself. Courage. Heroism. Purpose. Destiny. Those truths prevail.

You can try to frame that as a warning. You can try to surround it with doubt, irony, or critique. Herbert himself tried to do exactly that. He wanted Paul to be seen as dangerous, as a cautionary tale about charismatic leaders and messianic power. But audiences don’t experience it that way. They feel the ascent. They recognize the pattern because it’s older than the author. Older than the genre. Older than the medium itself. It’s myth. And myth doesn’t bend easily to intention.

You see the same phenomenon in Starship Troopers. The director made it as satire… an exaggerated parody of militarism, nationalism, and propaganda. It was meant to be absurd, even grotesque. But what do people actually take from it? Duty. Brotherhood. Sacrifice. Service.
The idea that citizenship is earned through commitment to something greater than yourself.

The deeper layer wins. Because again, these are not modern constructions. They are ancient truths. The desire for meaning. The pull toward struggle. The admiration of courage and sacrifice. The instinct to follow strength, to rise, to become… more. You can dress it up in irony. You can try to subvert it. You can even openly argue against it. But if the structure is there, if the archetype is present, it will assert itself. The audience will feel it, whether they’re supposed to or not. The arc still resolves in the same direction: Toward greatness, destiny, and transformation of a man into something more.

The story is not ultimately Villeneuve’s. And it was never fully Herbert’s either. It belongs to something older: myth and legend. The story escapes its author, because it points to something ancient and true.

[Pelagius 🦁 @pelagiusreborn]

Two very ancient phenotypes will be at play this Saturday

[Henry Holloway @lz4202]

How much of this is purely cultural?

Americans tend to be hyper practical. If something is broken, fix it. If there’s a problem, call it out. Something doesn’t make sense? Change it. Do whatever needs to be done.

Europeans tend to be more rules / precedent focused and fatalistic. Bad call? Too bad, that’s just the way things work. Unless you’re Portugal - and by the way, we don’t approve of Article 27 for Ronaldo, but thats just garden variety FIFA corruption which we all hate but are going to do nothing about and won’t lose any sleep over. Totally different from the Balogun situation…

Not that soccer matters all that much. Cultural constraints are vastly more impactful when you get to innovation (or lack thereof) at an economic level. And some of these self imposed constraints maybe be a driving factor for why Europe - which is absolutely full of brilliant, well educated people - has been unable to compete in the most impactful and competitive high tech spaces.

Regardless, this cultural interaction will be chalked up to ‘the ugly American’ for posterity and no one at any point will learn anything from it.

[Mark Valorian @markvalorian]

Once you fully debunk the “technical justification,” the argument against Balogun’s reinstatement collapses to an irrational cling to normalcy:

“This has never happened before, therefore it is unfair.”

I can understand the gut reaction, but this is just as fundamentally illogical as the technical justification.

If we concede the red card was undeserved, why is it a bad thing for FIFA to adapt and correct a wrong? Is it preferable to deliberately allow an unjustified suspension to be carried out?

And why is it fundamentally unfair for this to be the first time they do it anyways? There is “legal” precedent; FIFA has the documented ability to review disciplinary measures and suspensions. Just because this scenario happened to play out at this stage of the tournament doesn’t change the fact that the red card was totally undeserved.

If there were another immediate example in this tournament of an egregiously incorrect card being applied that was NOT corrected by FIFA, then there would be an issue. But as it stands, there is simply no rational argument for why this should not be the first.

Of course, when you boil it down, the argument is not really about either the technical justification or the normalcy, but more that it’s just the USA that is the beneficiary. And I’m sorry to say, but if that is driving your sentiment, you need to get over yourself.

The facts of the matter are clear: this was an unjustified red card that should have been corrected, regardless of the team it was applied to. FIFA absolutely made the right decision, and the game and tournament is better for it.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

They act this way because "the nation" is a people, not a piece of geography.

They remain Mexican even if they were born here. And I’m not making an accusation. I’m making an observation.

These people will go out of their way to demonstrate over and over again that their allegiance is to Mexico, not America. Just look at the Mexican national team. They had a bunch of players born in America, and yet they intentionally chose to play for a “foreign” team because from their perspective, it isn’t foreign at all.

It’s their real team for their real nation that they have real feelings of loyalty for. They’re only in this country for the financial benefits, and “better pay + welfare” is never a solid basis for developing feelings of patriotic attachment.