Martin van Nijnatten

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[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

Former atheist Lee Strobel

[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

I frequently think about this prediction..

[Ahmed Khalifa @_A_khalifa]

Nearly 10 years ago, the UAE Foreign Minister warned the West about political Islam. Today, we’re living it.

Your arrogance will cost you dearly!

[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

so joyful

[Rev. Fr. Petros Mwale @fr_petros]

After Mass, it was a joy to interact with our parishioners. The exit procession was filled with great happiness and warmth.

We extend our sincere thanks to Fr. Robert Carlton from the Archdiocese of Chicago, a board member of https://t.co/EPr7F94Bqd, for visiting our parish to appreciate the projects - which are largely funded by our American friends.

[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

😢

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

🔴 Heartbreaking:

The mother of the murdered 17 year old Louis just put out a powerful statement:

"My son, my love, my life…

Since Saturday, life has stopped for me… You fought like a lion, my love, with all the strength I know you are capable of, and I thank you, my love, for giving me the chance to walk with you all the way to the very end, my love…

You came into this world in my arms, and you left in my arms, surrounded by all your loved ones and their love… There are no goodbyes between us, my baby. You are and you will always be with me….

Mom is in warrior mode, my son. You know that I will fight with every ounce of strength I have so that justice is done for you...

I love you, my Boubou, so much that my heart no longer knows how to beat since its metronome has gone… Make me dance with God and the angels to your music, my love."

[Charlie Kirk Forever @CharlieKirk4evr]

The family is the first institution of civilization.

— Charlie Kirk

[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

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[Open Doors UK @OpenDoorsUK]

Please pray – at least 20 people have been killed, including a church leader and a pregnant woman, following another attack in Nigeria.

It happened in the early hours of Sunday (21 June), when an armed group targeted a predominantly Christian community in Plateau State.

Among the victims are Rev. Markus Nyam, who was shot dead outside a church building, and the parents and two sons of one family, leaving one son alive. A pregnant woman and medical staff from a local clinic also died.

A local church leader said security forces have a nearby presence, but their ‘late arrival left the defenceless community entirely at the mercy of their assailants for the duration of the raid’.

Please pray
- For comfort and peace for those affected by this tragedy
- For healing for the 14-year-old who remains in hospital
- That the government in Nigeria will have the willpower and wisdom to provide better protection for vulnerable communities. https://t.co/iH1bKYvRTW

[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

socialism does NOT work.

[Art @ZarkFiles]

Communism through (my) ages:
1) When I was 15, a teacher told me "It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense."
2) At about 19, college friends, "Socialism isn't communism."
3) At 20, on meeting my grandfather-in-law, "They are evil. We escaped in 1949."
4) At 30, "China is a wonderful developing Democracy"
5) At 35, I was sent to communist China on business. It was a crowded, smelly, dirty, factory of despair and hopelessness. This I saw with my own eyes.
6) At 36, "China doesn't count. Successful socialism is in northern Europe."
7) I moved to northern Europe when I was 40. It was much nicer than China, but also felt like I was living in the past. I had to wait 6 months for a hernia operation.
8) When I was about 45, the migrant crisis began. The socialist/globalist/pacifist allowed them entry into every country, regardless how many crimes they committed along the way. Just 20 minutes from my house, in Calais, I was shocked to see migrants jumping onto trucks, breaking open the doors, scattering the contents across the highway, then climbing in. They went through the Chunnel and got out in England.
9) At 52, the soft socialism around me had transformed into globalism. I was told I had to call people by their preferred pronouns, though it was a lie, and even if I didn't know what the preferences were. I quit.
10) I returned to the US, and am now 60. "Socialism" is no longer a dirty word here. People openly espouse the virtues of it. Politicians run as socialists and win.

Socialism has taken many forms, from the Bolshevism of Russia, to the CCP in China, the Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy, and the many forms of it found in Latin America. It is one of the two most destructive ideologies on earth. It is designed to deprive, despirit, and murder everything that comes in contact with it.

Socialism is a great lie at every level. It helps no one, not even those who benefit the most. This is because the cost is the imposition of one's will on everyone else, and that destroys the soul of the usurper and the life of the oppressed.

Socialism always fails on its own, but only after destroying almost everything in its train. It can also be conquered. Those are the options.

[𝕮𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖚𝖘 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 ✝️ 🇺🇸 @allegiantfaith]

Reminder of whose month it really is

[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

Well put

As a European I'm also worried about this as it's a global thing, not just US

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

The Democratic party that you and I both loved no longer exists

It is being co-opted by Marxists who call themselves Socialists because it sounds better

But also by Islamists who are hostile to liberalism

We are electing people who openly hate America

We have insecure elections, open borders, an extremely complex network of NGOs that launders money (oftentimes state funds) to feed this machine

Many in politics and the media are either unaware of what's happening or too cowardly to stand up

A full generation of "educated" kids who were indoctrinated to believe that all of this is good

Etc etc

[Jitse Groen @jitsegroen]

De incompetentie regeert.

[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

good thread on Peter Thiel who saw woke-ism in 1995

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Quoi qu'on en dise, s'il y a bien un mec qui a carry ces 30 dernières années, c'est Peter Thiel.

Remontez en 1987. Stanford. Une foule scande "Hey hey, ho ho, Western Culture's got to go." Jesse Jackson est dans le cortège. Résultat : l'université supprime son cours obligatoire de culture occidentale et le remplace par un programme baptisé "Cultures, Ideas, and Values" — recentré sur la race, le genre et la classe. Un gamin assiste à ça. Il a 19 ans. Il fonde un journal contrarian, le Stanford Review, pour documenter le délire. Ce gamin, c'est Thiel.

Huit ans plus tard, en 1995, il sort The Diversity Myth avec David Sacks. Et ce livre, c'est pas une tribune d'humeur.

C'est un dossier.

Des centaines de sources primaires — le Stanford Daily, les syllabus, les publications officielles.

Une autopsie clinique de la capture idéologique d'une des plus grandes universités du monde.

Ce qu'ils y documentent, lisez bien, parce qu'on est en 1995 :

La grande thèse d'abord : l'attaque ne portait pas sur la qualité des grands textes, mais sur leurs auteurs — coupables d'être du mauvais sexe, de la mauvaise race, de la mauvaise classe.

Le basculement d'un universalisme (les Lumières sont accessibles à tous) vers un particularisme identitaire. Anti-occidental, pas non-occidental.

Une guerre contre la civilisation occidentale elle-même.

Puis le concret, l'absurde, le documenté :

Shakespeare remplacé par Une Tempête d'Aimé Césaire, où Caliban devient un héros révolutionnaire. Les Confessions de saint Augustin relues comme une étude du "corps et du moi intérieur profond." La République de Platon convoquée pour illustrer les "mouvements anti-assimilationnistes."

La Déclaration des droits américaine mise sur le même plan qu'un "Car Buyer Bill of Rights" de Lee Iacocca.

Des cours intitulés "Enjeux de l'auto-défense pour les femmes." Un cours sur "la culture américaine de la drogue et de l'alcool" qui se terminait par une soirée de fin de semestre où on encourageait les étudiants à… boire et se droguer.

Un cours de gender studies au titre que je vous laisse traduire vous-mêmes.

Un "concours de notation de préservatifs" noté sur des critères comme le "goût" et le "sentiment de sécurité." L'administration qui refuse de boucher les glory holes percés dans les toilettes de la bibliothèque.

Un speech code interdisant les "mots qui blessent" — jusqu'à ce qu'il soit jugé anticonstitutionnel en 1995.

À l'époque, le président de Stanford les traite de démagogues et qualifie leur tribune au Wall Street Journal de "caricature." On en fait des pestiférés.

Trente ans plus tard, Thiel résume : presque chaque point qu'on a fait était juste.

Et c'est vrai. Ce qu'ils décrivaient en 95, on l'appelle aujourd'hui le wokisme.

Ils avaient juste vingt ans d'avance.

Cette grille, il la tient de René Girard, dont il a suivi le cours à Stanford. Théorie mimétique, désir copié, bouc émissaire. La clé de lecture de toute sa vie — Zero to One en est imbibé. Amitié à vie, il parlera à sa cérémonie d'hommage.

Et Girard, en retour, signe la préface du Diversity Myth : dénoncer le totalitarisme naissant, dit-il, est le plus haut devoir d'un intellectuel.

Voilà le pattern Thiel. Voir avant. Et prendre le max de risque pour contrer.

Toute la Silicon Valley vote Hillary. Lui monte seul sur la scène de la convention républicaine, défend Trump — "un bâtisseur" —, claque 1,25M$.

On le traite de paria, on fait pression sur YC pour qu'il le lâche.

Il s'en fout. Il avait raison là aussi.

Et aujourd'hui ? Il continue de clean le délire pièce par pièce.

Son protégé JD Vance est vice-président. Son écosystème irrigue le pouvoir.

Vingt ans d'avance. À chaque fois seul. À chaque fois raison.

[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

wow

[Christopher Stanley @cstanley]

My dad used Grok Build to migrate a legacy Windows Server 2008 .NET/MSSQL app to a modern Node/SQLite React/TS stack…

What would’ve taken him weeks, took Grok a few hours.

This is what a step function in software development looks like 🔥

[POOJA!!! @PoojaMedia]

All Ghana's players & officials praying after an impressive draw against England.

#FIFAWorldCupWithPooja

[ESPN Africa @ESPNAfrica]

Benjamin Asare led the Ghana team in prayer after the final whistle 🙏

[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

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[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Catholic priest Fr. Youhanna Al-Amin, who stayed with his parishioners during the conflict in Sudan, has been killed in an attack in the war-torn region.

Image: ACN

[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

AI1 renamed to Starmind

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@xdNiBoR @xai Yes

[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

facts

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

USAID was a criminal organization that funded bioweapons, censorship & global coups with your tax dollars.

It was never about helping the poor. It was a viper’s nest of radical-left corruption, waste, and anti-America operations.

• $53 MILLION funneled to EcoHealth Alliance for gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab - research that created COVID-19

• Pushed censorship laws across Europe and pressured advertisers to boycott any media that wasn’t left-wing

• Funded Smartmatic election systems + color revolutions to interfere in foreign governments (including Poland’s PiS)

• Threatened Sen. Joni Ernst with lawsuits when she tried to audit their books

• Approved $6 million+ in recent shady contracts (including $1.2M to Deloitte for “HR services”) while massively overcharging taxpayers for circumcisions worldwide

USAID was a Deep State slush fund.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Did you know inside the eyes of the Tilma of our Lady of Guadalupe that you can see the reflection of 13 people?

Only recently, with modern technology , this was unveiled.

These details were IMPOSSIBLE to reproduce in the 16th century.

[Martin van Nijnatten @fietske]

NBC, NYT, Business Insider: all liars

Sue them!

[NBC News @NBCNews]

One person is dead after a Tesla on autopilot crashed through her Texas home, authorities say. https://t.co/G1LIBZFesM

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

This blatantly irresponsible reporting does more harm to people than they realize.

Using Tesla self-driving is far safer than manual driving, and this was measured over 10B miles.

Planting such FUD in the minds of general public, who might not know the all the facts, might prevent them from using this technology that makes them safer.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

STUCKEY: “Why should people have hope?”

VANCE: “Because Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He came down from heaven and is ultimately the author of history … If you actually believe that God himself became man and died to give grace to human beings, you just have to have hope.”