Daryl Shaver

[Daryl Shaver @darylshaver]

@JamesMelville Yup

[Daryl Shaver @darylshaver]

@Bret_Sears Nope

[Daryl Shaver @darylshaver]

@CrazyVibes_1 Nope

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

This is what forgetting Christianity does to a civilization:

“The modern world imagines that it has outgrown religion. It has done nothing of the kind. It has merely forgotten it. And because it has forgotten it, it no longer understands itself.

Men do not realize that the whole framework of their moral judgments, their political habits, and even their intellectual methods were formed within a Christian society and cannot exist long outside it. When that framework breaks, they will not find themselves enlightened, but bewildered; not free, but enslaved; not rational, but confused.”

— Hilaire Belloc, Europe and the Faith

[Handre @Handre]

You know about Einstein and much of his work, yet you probably can't name a single thing Ludwig von Mises did, and that's a scandal.

In 1920 Mises published "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth." He proved, in a few dozen pages, that a socialist economy cannot allocate resources rationally. No private ownership of the means of production means no market for capital goods. No market means no prices. No prices means no way to compare the value of building a steel mill versus a rail line. The planners are flying blind. Seventy years later the Soviet Union collapsed under exactly the contradiction he described, and the men who run economics departments still pretend he was wrong on technical grounds. He called it in 1920. They called it bad luck in 1991.

Then there's "Human Action," 900 pages he wrote in his second language, building economics up from a single self-evident starting point: man acts. He acts to remove felt uneasiness. From that one axiom Mises derived the entire structure of prices, interest, money, and the business cycle without a single regression or pretend-physics equation. Einstein had the decency to work with constants that actually hold. You cannot run a controlled experiment on a human being who learns, anticipates, and changes his mind. Mises refused to fake one. The profession punished him for this honesty by handing Nobel prizes to people who model the economy like a billiard table.

Consider the man's life. He fled Vienna in 1934 as the Nazis closed in, then fled Geneva in 1940, landing in New York with no job and no English-language reputation. Harvard and Princeton, busy hiring central planners, never offered him a paid chair. He taught at NYU on a salary funded by private donors, including the William Volker Fund. Friedrich Hayek, his student, took the 1974 Nobel. Mises died in 1973, one year too early, never having received a dime of official recognition for being right about the largest economic question of the twentieth century.

You were taught to revere the man who explained the stars. The man who explained economic reality got erased.

In a just society, Mises would have received multiple Nobel prizes. Do you agree?

[Pat Condell @patcondell]

Contrary to what King Charles would have us believe, we are not a multifaith nation. We are an invaded nation.

[Walker⚡️ @WalkerAmerica]

Communism is the single most deadly ideology in human history and it’s not even close.

“Socialism” is simply the transitional phase to communism.

If you advocate for socialism/communism you advocate for widespread death, whether you’re too stupid to realize it or not.

It is important to remind people of this constantly.

[Handre @Handre]

Around 600 BC, a king in western Anatolia did something the world had never seen. King Croesus of Lydia struck the first standardized coins from electrum, then refined the process into pure gold and silver pieces of fixed weight. You've heard the phrase "rich as Croesus." This is where it comes from. The genius lay in the standard, not merely in the wealth.

Picture the marketplace at Sardis before the mint. You want to buy grain. The seller wants payment in metal. So you both haggle over weight and purity, dragging out scales, arguing whether the lump in your hand is real gold or some debased alloy a previous trader passed off on you. Every transaction carried a verification cost. Every exchange was a small act of distrust.

Croesus solved this by stamping a lion's head into metal of guaranteed weight and fineness. The stamp wasn't merely decoration, but a claim: this piece contains exactly what we say it contains. Suddenly you didn't reweigh and re-assay every coin. You counted. The cost of transacting collapsed, and trade across the Aegean exploded. The market chose gold and silver long before any king touched them, because those metals were scarce, durable, divisible, and impossible to conjure from nothing. Croesus didn't invent money, he merely certified it.

The earliest function of the state in money was honest: verify the weight, guarantee the purity, then step back. The coin's value came from the metal, not the lion's head. The stamp was a service, not a license to print. Now compare that to what every later sovereign discovered. Nero clipped the silver denarius down to 90 percent by 64 AD. By the third century, the "silver" coin was a copper slug with a wash. The stamp stayed the same while the substance vanished, which is the entire history of monetary debasement in one sentence.

When a central banker tells you fiat is sophisticated and modern, remember that a Lydian king in the seventh century BC grasped what they've abandoned: the metal was the money, and the stamp was just a promise to tell the truth about it.

[Daryl Shaver @darylshaver]

@strombo Same age as trump and clinton and dubya bush

[Daryl Shaver @darylshaver]

@Cath0licP0dcast They used to marry.

[Alberta-Leonidas @AlbertaLeonidas]

The Muslim call to prayer is a hate crime

[Cory Morgan @CoryBMorgan]

People living in downtown Calgary bitching about the 10 day Calgary Stampede party are akin to people who move next to airports and bitch about the noise of the airplanes.

The Stampede was there first.

[Kelsi Sheren @Kelsisheren]

The fatigue is real.
I’m done with the Islamic take over of my country and its soft jihad.

I want my country BACK.

[Kelsi Sheren @Kelsisheren]

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion - Charlie Kirk.

This is Canada now.

[Pat Condell @patcondell]

Apparently Starmer feels betrayed. Now he knows how we feel. He betrayed the entire country by lying his way into power and imposing policies nobody voted for. He attacked pensioners. He tried to bankrupt farmers. He instituted a nakedly two tier justice system which actively discriminates against the white British in favour of foreigners. He played down and covered up the rape of thousands of English girls by gangs of Muslim savages. He’s trying to impose mass censorship, a digital ID, and a surveillance society on people who have made it clear they don’t want it. He’s trying to rejoin the EU by stealth. If there was any actual justice in this country he would go to prison for what he has done.

[Daryl Shaver @darylshaver]

@0ivankaTrump1 Yup

[Daryl Shaver @darylshaver]

@VDHanson When did presidential libraries become a thing?

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

When my oldest was born, they refused to let me hold her because her oxygen levels were low. But I was persistent, and they eventually relented, allowing her to lay on my chest until the NICU nurse came to roll her away. When the nurse arrived, I asked that they check her oxygen levels one more time before taking her. They did. Oxygen: 100%. Perfect. The nurse shrugged and left. Our baby girl was healthy. She just needed me. My heartbeat, my warmth, my touch. She needed her mom.

Stories like this aren’t rare. Newborns need their moms to regulate their oxygen and heart rate. That’s why, when at all possible, most doctors and hospitals give baby to mom right away.

We know this when it comes to normal births, but when it comes to surrogacy - especially the kind when two men are purchasing a baby from a woman - the baby is immediately and intentionally taken away from his or her mom and given to two strangers. It is not surprising that these babies often undergo complications post-birth. Beyond that, we don’t fully know the physiological and psychological effect of robbing babies of their mothers at birth.

It’s worse treatment than we give puppies and kittens, but when it’s for “inclusion,” it’s celebrated.

Adoption is one thing - it redeems a broken situation. But surrogacy is another - it intentionally creates the broken situation.

Babies’ needs will always matter more than adults’ wants.

[Daryl Shaver @darylshaver]

@Martyupnorth I’m choosing Alberta all year long

[Daryl Shaver @darylshaver]

@simonateba @elonmusk No