Jeff Maughan

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Il faut avoir l'honnêteté de reconnaître le coup de génie de la gauche, parce que c'en est un. Le plus grand hold-up rhétorique du siècle tient en un seul mot : raciste.

Voici le mécanisme.

Après 1945, après les droits civiques, l'Occident a fait du racisme le mal absolu. À juste titre : c'est une de ses plus grandes conquêtes morales. « Raciste » est devenu le mot le plus radioactif de la langue, l'excommunication moderne, la mort sociale instantanée.

Le coup de génie a été de détourner ce capital moral. Pas pour protéger des personnes : pour protéger une idéologie.

L'égalitarisme des résultats ne gagne jamais un débat sur les faits. Il produit l'inverse de ce qu'il promet, partout, à chaque fois. Alors plutôt que de gagner le débat, on a rendu le débat impayable. Tu questionnes les résultats de l'immigration sans assimilation ? Raciste. Tu défends le mérite ? Raciste. Les maths avancées ? Racistes. Les frontières ? Racistes. Le mot a cessé de décrire un comportement pour décrire une position sur l'échiquier.

Et regardez la beauté technique du dispositif. Pas besoin d'arguments : l'accusation suffit. Pas besoin de procès : la dénégation aggrave le cas (votre défensivité prouve votre culpabilité). Pas besoin de police : la peur fait le travail, chacun se surveille lui-même et surveille son voisin gratuitement. Il suffit d'exécuter publiquement quelques exemples par an pour tenir des millions de gens. Une idéologie irréfutable, protégée par un mot imprononçable. Les deux pare-feux du même système : la French Theory avait aboli la vérité, l'accusation a aboli le débat.

Est-ce qu'un comité s'est réuni pour concevoir ça ? Pas besoin. Les idées subissent une sélection darwinienne : celles qui survivent sont celles qui se défendent le mieux. Marcuse avait quand même déposé le brevet dès 1965, noir sur blanc : tolérance pour les mouvements de gauche, intolérance pour ceux de droite. Le reste a évolué tout seul. Il faut l'avouer : c'était génial.

Mais ce dispositif génial avait un coût, et le coût a un bilan. À Rotherham, le rapport officiel Jay a établi que des fonctionnaires britanniques ont laissé plus de 1 400 gamines se faire exploiter pendant seize ans, en partie par peur d'être traités de racistes s'ils nommaient les faits. Relisez cette phrase. Des enfants ont été sacrifiées à un mot. Voilà ce que veut dire idéologie mortifère : pas une métaphore, un bilan.

Et maintenant, regardez ce qui s'effondre sous nos yeux.

Une insulte ne fonctionne que si elle fait peur, et une monnaie ne fonctionne que si elle est rare. Ils ont imprimé le mot comme Weimar imprimait le mark. Quand tout est raciste, plus rien ne l'est. Résultat : des tweets qui commencent par « traitez-moi de raciste si vous voulez » récoltent des dizaines de milliers de likes et l'approbation de l'homme le plus riche du monde. Il y a dix ans, cette phrase était un suicide professionnel. Aujourd'hui, c'est un haussement d'épaules. L'hyperinflation a tué la monnaie.

Et voilà la vraie tragédie, que les faussaires devront porter : en imprimant le mot sans limite, ils l'ont brûlé pour tout le monde. Y compris pour nommer le vrai racisme quand il existe, car il existe. Les faux-monnayeurs ne détruisent pas que leur arme. Ils détruisent le mot dont une société honnête a besoin.

Privée de son mot magique, l'idéologie va maintenant devoir faire ce qu'elle n'a jamais su faire : gagner un débat sur les faits.

Elle ne le gagnera pas. Au travail.

[Justin Hart @justin_hart]

So in 1829, a 23-year-old farmboy dictates the Book of Mormon in about 65 days — no notes, no rewrites.

In 1980, statisticians ran it through a computer. Not the doctrine — the tiny words every writer uses without thinking. a, of, the, and. The fingerprint you can't fake.

The verdict: two dozen DISTINCT authors inside the book. Odds of one author writing it all — under 1 in 100 billion.

How did Joseph Smieth fake two dozen fingerprints in 65 days? Unless....

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

As a young socialist, Hayek read Ludwig von Mises’ 1920 paper “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.”

Mises showed that socialist central planning isn’t merely inefficient, it’s impossible.

Without private property and genuine market prices, planners lack any rational way to allocate scarce resources or determine real costs and needs.

Even Oskar Lange, a leading socialist in the calculation debate, effectively conceded the point.
While he promoted “market socialism” with trial-and-error pricing by a central board, real-world socialist planners in Eastern Europe quietly relied on world capitalist market prices as a guide.

Without external free-market price signals, pure socialism would be economically blind and coordination would collapse.

Mises went further, arguing that interventionism, the “middle way” of government meddling, is inherently unstable.
Each intervention creates problems that invite more interventions, eventually leading to full socialization.
Price controls cause shortages, subsidies distort production, and the cycle continues until the economy is fully planned.

The lesson is clear.
Rational economics requires genuine market prices emerging from voluntary exchange and private property.
Half-measures don’t stabilize the system. They accelerate the drift into central planning.

The Austrian School understood this decades before the collapse of the Soviet bloc proved it in practice.

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

America the Beautiful 🙏🏼🇺🇸

Don’t write checks with your tongues that your conduct cannot cash.

Good Sunday morning.
@elonmusk

[Jeff Maughan @geophmon]

@brucedeez This looks like the building I grew up attending. O-town on 8th East?

[Jeanine Elsholz @JeanineElsholz]

As I have been pondering the changes made within the church over the past decade, I thought of something that Neal A. Maxwell said about the Church being "scaffolding", that would one day be removed. As I was looking to find the exact quote, I was given more insight from a grok search..

"Several LDS leaders have addressed the idea that the scaffolding (representing the Church's programs, aids, organization, or administrative functions) is TEMPORARY and will eventually be removed or taken down once its purpose-- building strong individuals and eternal families-- IS FULFILLED."

Harold B. Lee originally said:
"Much of what we do organizationally in the Church is scaffolding, as we seek to BUILD the individual, and we must not mistake the scaffolding for the soul."

From L. Tom Perry
“There are two principal reasons why I appreciate President Lee’s metaphor for the Church—as scaffolding for our eternal families.

First, it helps me understand what the Church is. Second, and equally important, I understand what the Church is not.”

That’s an interesting perspective, isn’t it? Although the Church plays a pivotal role in proclaiming, announcing, and administering the necessary ordinances of salvation and exaltation— all of that, as important as it is, is really just the scaffolding being used in an infinite and eternal construction project to build, support, and strengthen the FAMILY.

And just as scaffolding is
eventually taken down and put away to REVEAL the final completed building, so too will the mortal, administrative functions of the Church eventually fade as the eternal family comes FULLY INTO VIEW.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell taught:
“The true believer... sees that some Church aids are, in a sense, scaffolding for the soul, which scaffolding one day will be REMOVED— like water wings or training wheels.”

Again from my grok search—Teachings on "home-centered, Church-supported" gospel learning (from the 2019 Come, Follow Me adjustments and related addresses by President Russell M. Nelson and others) reflect the same principle:

The Church provides support that helps families increasingly STAND ON THEIR OWN, reducing reliance on centralized programs over time.

The metaphor underscores that while the Church remains essential for ordinances, covenants, and community, its organization "scaffolding" aspects are means to an end- NOT the end itself.

As individuals and families GROW STRONGER, some administrative elements naturally become less central."

Home CENTERED, church supported.

As I was walking around the temple grounds, I noticed one small piece of scaffolding remaining on the north side. Just one small piece remained.

I thought of how we rejoiced as each piece of scaffolding came down, revealing more and more of the beautiful temple we love. We appreciated the restored beauty even more, as we had to wait so long to have it revealed to us.

So it is with our own individual lives!

The scaffolding of the Church is being slowly removed, a little at a time, and will eventually reveal to us the beautiful work that God has CREATED in EACH of our lives. He knows what He is doing!

So as the changes come, as prophets continue to lead us, we can TRUST that God is creating something more beautiful for us than we can imagine.

Through His prophets, He is preparing EACH of us for GREAT THINGS ahead… and in His own time He will reveal it to us. And we might just be surprised at how beautiful it is!

We can TRUST HIM!
#SaintsOnX
#HearHim

[Jeff Maughan @geophmon]

@Manhattva I’d like to give this a thumbs down to indicate that I have not yet received it… but alas…

[Jeff Maughan @geophmon]

I was like, no way is he only number 5 on this list… 🤪🤣🤣🤣

[Norcalhoodie @YIN_and_YANG_oo]

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[Jeff Maughan @geophmon]

@so_i @LDS_Dems @DocStrangelove2 I was just coming here to post something similar. Do you need to present those forms of id when purchasing a firearm? No. But you DO need to present them or their equivalent in order to obtain the id card that IS required when purchasing a firearm. So indirectly, yes.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 I just learned about a concept, I can't stop thinking about.

The Four Burner Theory.

It destroyed Elon Musk's first marriage.
It explains why Bezos is jacked but divorced.

And why Zuckerberg has no real friends.

Once you understand it, your life will never be same:🧵

[Jeff Maughan @geophmon]

@FiredUpCoug Easy choice. Lemon Crème.

[Jeff Maughan @geophmon]

@Wisdom_HQ I am Groot.

[Jeff Maughan @geophmon]

@spencerjblake Congrats Spencer! We miss you guys!

[Jeff Maughan @geophmon]

@sput_nick Yep these are my OG’s.

[Jeff Maughan @geophmon]

@Titanium147 @Qwertyuiopslad @Manhattva So close, but you left out the two most important words.

[Jeff Maughan @geophmon]

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[Anthea @Anthea06274890]

@elonmusk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤔 😂

[Jeff Maughan @geophmon]

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