Matt

Husband; Father; Engineer; Philosopher; Scientist; Information Warrior; Rōnin
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I'm here to yell at people but influence nothing. An old soul in the new world.

[Matt @grghost]

Hosea 8:7 - “They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”

A principle that feels more relevant than ever.

I made a visual essay pairing this ancient text with classical art to show how it operates through natural law and why Stoic detachment can be the wisest response.

Also an experiment in AI workflow. Made with Grok, Gemini, and ChatGPT.

[Matt @grghost]

Of course. I've accepted America's fate. You all should too. The majority will raid the currency like they raided the Treasury and then burn things down when there isn't enough to go around. The news will always explain it away because that's how majorities operate.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

“Musk cited the political establishment’s lack of will as the main reason for the difficulty in reducing the fiscal deficit. He argued, “No one in the White House, Senate, House, or judiciary has the will to cut spending,” and claimed that except for a few like Republican Senator Rand Paul, there are virtually no politicians willing to reduce government spending.

https://t.co/PgNtIIH6vi

[DeLeteo @deleet0]

They hate him cuz they ain’t him

[Matt @grghost]

"People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people."
- 2 Timothy 3:2-5

[Matt @grghost]

When Genesis spoke of the Tower of Babel, this is what they were talking about.

[Sweeenie @sweeenie]

Almost forgot to watch this today.

[Matt @grghost]

"Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the Man of Lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God."
- 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

[Matt @grghost]

So much wisdom in here. Old Testament vs New Testament, forgiveness, bureaucracy, moral hazard, etc.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Chris Rock just nailed one of the biggest problems with wokeness.

Helping people who feel marginalized is good. He says so himself. The trouble starts when a good cause becomes an institution.

The first few witches were real. Then you open a witch office. Now there are salaries, budgets and pensions to justify, and the office needs a steady supply of witches to keep existing.

That’s the trap. Once a cause becomes a career, solving the problem means losing your job. So the problem never gets solved. It just keeps getting redefined.

A system built to find wrongdoing will keep finding it, whether it’s there or not.

[Matt @grghost]

@ConceptualJames Lol, et tu Brute?

[Matt @grghost]

@Shrike_DeCil Yes, it's very Orwellian. Memory holes and the Ministry of Truth.

[Jacob Shell @JacobAShell]

I'm saying that no, the right is not also "forgetful" like the left is. The right actually does have a different modus operandi than the left, including how it evolves in its positions and "remembers" the positions it's passed through. "Rival schools of thought" exist on the right. They have separate if overlapping organs and stars and these openly fight with each other. Libertarians vs social cons vs maga nationalists, etc. If you find your attitude about immigration makes people in maga circles angry, you can go to the libertarians or to the churches. It's all formalized and institutionalized, and on the right there is actually a shared sense of the geneology of these various fights.

The left, by contrast, moves from issue to issue via "consensus drift." Arguments are not formalized and actually people who bring up anything against the consensus of the moment get punished with the insults of the moment ("white nationalist!" "neocon!" "pedo!"). People "remember" (erroneously) that "these are the things we have always believed" which of course couldnt possibly be true with something like the trans issue or "COVID zero" politics--but that's what people "remember" anyway. It's not like there's a leftist organ or school of thought which thinks Gaza is much more important than climate, but another, rival organ or school of thought which thinks the reverse. Instead, there is a drifting consensus, a shared "feel" for when it's time to move from one issue to another; in turn, there is a lack of mnemonic interest in previously stated priorities.

[Matt @grghost]

For the record, here was my last reply that didn't get out in time:

FISA undermining elections, full scale UA invasion, SWIFT sanctions, EU purchases of Russian energy, dark fleets, Indian "neutrality," dedollarization, Iranian weapon sales, North Korean soldiers, cyber attacks, asymmetric warfare, propaganda, false fronts, shipping wars.

The list of actual real consequences for the War we're living in everyday goes on and on. We can blow up fleets of ships and fight proxy wars as fronts of WW3 for as long as the tax base holds out I guess. We can see which one gets to the cheapest most lethal AI-powered weapons first.

The dumbasses are the ones who thought this was a matter of embassies or some giant blockade of the Eurasian landmass (as if that were possible).

[Matt @grghost]

He blocked me. DKE confirmed. 🤣👋

[Matt @grghost]

It seems like you think warfare is as simple as a flying Tesla roadster. It's not.

Let me break it down for you since no one on the news ever will.

For one, this actually started in 2014 as a war between the European Union and Russia. Despite what anyone says, it was to retain control of Crimea and their naval base. You can't have a strategic naval base in your adversary's territory. Since the EU and NATO overlap considerably, this put the United States on a collision course with Russia. Oh and we all have nukes.

Next, Russia supplys energy to half the world. The Soviet strategy was to make everyone dependant on cheap energy. Up through 2024, the members of the EU were paying Russia more for energy than they were sending to Ukraine in military aid. That vexed me as an American. Thats absurd. This war of attrition went on from 2014 to 2024 with the Europeans paying for it!!!

Then, you have a new Axis of Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China all working together to pool resources and military technology. A major arms race. Drones, satellites, missiles, tactics, atrocities, propaganda, diplomacy. In other words:

__World War 3__

And you think Musk doesn't talk enough shit about Putin. You're basically just saying the same thing as the pro-Ukraine "Fellas" who think we can shitpost our way to victory over Russia.

I think its a massive case of Dunning-Kruger Effect to think that we can win this thing without a major escalation that engulfs most of the planet.

Meanwhile, Russia has one go-to strategy: War of Attrition. It works for them very well throughout history.

I want Ukraine and even Volodymyr Zelenskyy to win, but they've been a pawn in all of this.

[Matt @grghost]

It seems like you think warfare is as simple as a flying Tesla roadster. It's not.

Let me break it down for you since no one on the news ever will.

For one, this actually started in 2014 as a war between the European Union and Russia. Despite what anyone says, it was to retain control of Crimea and their naval base. You can't have a strategic naval base in your adversary's territory. Since the EU and NATO overlap considerably, this put the United States on a collision course with Russia. Oh and we all have nukes.

Next, Russia supplys energy to half the world. The Soviet strategy was to make everyone dependant on cheap energy. Up through 2024, the members of the EU were paying Russia more for energy than they were sending to Ukraine in military aid. That vexed me as an American. Thats absurd. This war of attrition went on from 2014 to 2024 with the Europeans paying for it!!!

Then, you have a new Axis of Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China all working together to pool resources and military technology. A major arms race. Drones, satellites, missiles, tactics, atrocities, propaganda, diplomacy. In other words:

__World War 3__

And you think Musk doesn't talk enough shit about Putin. You're basically just saying the same thing as the pro-Ukraine "Fellas" who think we can shitpost our way to victory over Russia.

I think its a massive case of Dunning-Kruger Effect to think that we can win this thing without a major escalation that engulfs most of the planet.

Meanwhile, Russia has one go-to strategy: War of Attrition. It works for them very well throughout history.

I want Ukraine and even Volodymyr Zelenskyy to win, but they've been a pawn in all of this.

[Matt @grghost]

@space_stations @nutzati @elonmusk DKE on full display. Thinking we'll shame the Russians into submission is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

[Matt @grghost]

@space_stations @deleet0 @Shrike_DeCil @elonmusk This has been going on since 2014.

[DeLeteo @deleet0]

@space_stations @Shrike_DeCil @elonmusk This has been going on since 2014 man

[Matt @grghost]

It seems like you think warfare is as simple as a flying Tesla roadster. It's not.

Let me break it down for you since no one on the news ever will.

For one, this actually started in 2014 as a war between the European Union and Russia. Despite what anyone says, it was to retain control of Crimea and their naval base. You can't have a strategic naval base in your adversary's territory. Since the EU and NATO overlap considerably, this put the United States on a collision course with Russia. Oh and we all have nukes.

Next, Russia supplys energy to half the world. The Soviet strategy was to make everyone dependant on cheap energy. Up through 2024, the members of the EU were paying Russia more for energy than they were sending to Ukraine in military aid. That vexed me as an American. Thats absurd. This war of attrition went on from 2014 to 2024 with the Europeans paying for it!!!

Then, you have a new Axis of Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China all working together to pool resources and military technology. A major arms race. Drones, satellites, missiles, tactics, atrocities, propaganda, diplomacy. In other words:

__World War 3__

And you think Musk doesn't talk enough shit about Putin. You're basically just saying the same thing as the pro-Ukraine "Fellas" who think we can shitpost our way to victory over Russia.

I think its a massive case of Dunning-Kruger Effect to think that we can win this thing without a major escalation that engulfs most of the planet.

Meanwhile, Russia has one go-to strategy: War of Attrition. It works for them very well throughout history.

I want Ukraine and even Volodymyr Zelenskyy to win, but they've been a pawn in all of this.

[Matt @grghost]

@space_stations @elonmusk Attacking Musk as a pro-Russia when Starlink saved Ukraine at least a few times since the invasion is petty and dumb.

Ukraine is a victim, but the war is not the lens of moral focus people keep making it out to be. Virtually everyone speaks with little facts, mostly propaganda.

[SMX 🇺🇸 @iam_smx]

Elon Musk showing off his first-generation cherry-red Tesla Roadster, his daily driver back in 2012.

Six years later, he sent that same car into space aboard Falcon Heavy’s first test flight in 2018.

It’s still out there, orbiting the Sun.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Watching that Tesla demo made me think of Elon Musk's time in government. Can you even imagine his frustration? He had earlier taken over Twitter, fired 4 in 5 employees, and transformed the thing into the world's most powerful news app that is now in the processing of reinventing money transfer and banking. Tesla just made the flying rocket car real. The idea that he wants anything to do with the reactionary pillaging, poisoning, and devaluation scheme called government is preposterous. It's only there as an annoyance, an impediment to progress. He simply could not stick around; huge waste of his time.