IknowBob

I like and do lots of things. Licensed contractor&plumber by day. 3D printer and soil detective by night. Lover of philosophy, film, and the absurd.

[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

@Lukewearechange There is evil in the world. No country wants the Iranian caliphate to prosper. Sucks. But that's reality.

[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

@kathae909 That was fun. We're writing a movie now, lol.

[Courtenay Turner @CourtenayTurner]

This is 10000% correct! I’ve been saying this for a long time and I feel like I howl at the wind. 💨

Left - Right are dialectical poles churning towards the same “becoming” project.

Being anchors rights inherent in fixed nature and dignity conferred by our creator! The imago dei anthropology possess rights that no government nor system can revoke because they never granted them in the first place! Until this is understood by more than a few and by those willing to to defend the metaphysical firewall we were blessed by our founders to have codified into a political legal document, the dialectic will churn towards the omega point, world Geist, singularity etc. that the becoming lineage uses humans as biological substrate nodes to create.

I recently had this back and forth regarding the Digital Bill of Rights for the States that Patrick and I drafted! It was incredibly concerning to see how few Americans understand the metaphysical firewall 🔥 that our initial Declaration of Independence codified!!

“The Declaration requires a transcendent, antecedent source capable of placing rights beyond every institution and historical process.

Unalienability depends on a radical asymmetry between Creator and creation: a source antecedent to the created order, complete in itself, and not dependent upon the world’s unfolding. That is what places the right beyond the jurisdiction of anything within the order. No state, institution, majority, technology, or historical process can revoke what none of them conferred.

Process theism reconfigures that asymmetry in precisely the place that matters here. Its God is relationally implicated in the world’s becoming and, in important respects, affected by that process. However sophisticated the model, it does not provide the same immutable ground standing prior to the order whose powers we are trying to limit.

That has political consequences. Once the ground of the right is metaphysically implicated in becoming, rights themselves can more readily be construed as historically developing realities — capable of reinterpretation, renegotiation, and administration as the process “advances.” That is precisely the Becoming-lineage move this document was written to refuse.”

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[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

@WesternLensman I almost feel sorry for this cohort. Almost.

[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

While you aren't wrong, i find that most people who aren't actively anticommunist are actually working people laboring to bring value to their clients. They have neither the time nor patience to wade through the absurdity of their opposition, to their detriment. But not unreasonable

[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

@AGDugin Completely asinine perspective. It simultaneously implies there are only zero sum games. The parable of the talents condemns exactly your position — the servant who saw only zero-sum was the one cast out

[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

@JohnCleese Good on ya... you weren't alone. Takes courage to admit. It'll take even more courage to stand in opposition.

[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

@therobertbrooks Way to go.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

I spent years asking one question.

Why did countries like Singapore, New Zealand, and Denmark become prosperous while countries like mine stayed poor?

People gave me every answer you can imagine, from colonialism and education to natural resources, culture, and the ugliest theories about Africans themselves.

But none of those explanations answered the part that bothered me most.

Why do the same Africans who get stuck back home suddenly build, work, and thrive when they move to a country like the US?

The answer was sitting right there.

Africa is the hardest region in the world to do business, and we keep pretending the problem is our people instead of the rules around them.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

I didn’t get cheated.

You did.

[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

Believe people when they tell you who they are

[DSA Watch @DSA_Watch]

DSA Members: "The most important thing we can do is take America down from within"

[FreeStateColorado @FreeStateColor1]

Hey Colorado! The @ProtectKidsCO ballot measures are the best opportunity this November to change the direction of our State!

The truth is, the Colorado Government is refusing to protect kids.

Laws to ensure that child predators are locked up have been shot down at the Democrat-controlled Legislature.

Not only that, but bills to protect girls’ sports and stop harmful surgeries on children have also been blocked by Democrat lawmakers.

Thankfully, Colorado has @Erin4Parents and the team at Protect Kids Colorado.

Protect Kids Colorado assembled an army of over 3,000 volunteers to collect a record breaking number of signatures to put three important ballot measures in front of voters this year!

Colorado voters will have the opportunity to protect kids without relying on a government that has no interest in doing so!

In this video, Erin Lee explains what it took to get these initiatives on the ballot and how they would change Colorado if voters approve them in November.

[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

@Van_Blogodidact @thepalmerworm Thank you Van!

[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

@thepalmerworm @Van_Blogodidact Thank you kindly

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

@disclosetv That's the best speech an American president has given since Gettysburg.

[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

Happy Birthday America, you crazy beautiful thing!

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@RepBeccaB @CommunityNotes is this politician telling thr truth? Did the Supreme Court ban trans kids from sports?

[IknowBob @IknowRobert]

@LostInFilm That's pretty cool