James

Think local, act local. | Top 4% of Dave Matthews fans | The only reality that *can* exist is the reality that *does* exist. Act accordingly.

[James @jameslj]

God’s fingerprints are fractal.

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@BasedMikeLee Because they reject creedal Christianity and follow a false prophet who, if I’m being charitable, was tricked by a regional demigod that enjoyed its existence absent Christianity. It’s basically American Islam.

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@Polymarket Decadence

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@LearnToToad @Benedicta_Bee TOAD!

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@JoshuaBarzon @heathroi It’s B for me, dawg

[James @jameslj]

@jeremykauffman Ideology is for activists and philosophers, not legislators.

[James @jameslj]

@AP4Liberty Don’t join a team if you’re not going to be a team player.

[Austin Padgett (LudwigNeverMises) @LudwigNverMises]

The threat of globalism is dismissed because it reveals alternate foreign policy motives outside of Israel.

Victim consciousness towards Jews is dismissed because it makes it easier to blame Israel.

The two biggest ideological rots are dismissed so people can maintain the false narrative that Israel controls us.

[James @jameslj]

@redsteeze @Oilfield_Rando @BillKristol My entire adult life life, nobody has been more wrong about more issues than Bill Kristol. At least Krugman opposed Iraq…

[James @jameslj]

@eliotranch Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson said of mass immigration, “This is the labor movement.” This is the same concept Bernie Sanders called “Koch Brothers stuff” just a few years ago.

[James @jameslj]

@LudwigNverMises @OldeWorldOrder “I thought I liked Milei, but it turns out he’s just another authoritarian statist.” -Libertarians, whose whole brand is about how much they love being sad and dejected

[James @jameslj]

@LudwigNverMises Ideological individualism is cancer.

[James @jameslj]

For decades, courts required states to carve out congressional districts based on their racial makeup, in direct violation of the 15th Amendment and VRA. Several Supreme Courts allowed it, but they made clear the practice of privileging certain constituencies over others based on race would eventually need to end. That happened yesterday.

[James @jameslj]

@SwipeWright @elonmusk Bootleggers and Baptists, redux.

[Austin Padgett (LudwigNeverMises) @LudwigNverMises]

The founding fathers were not Calvinists, the Massachusetts bay colony was.

Specifically High Calvinists

That cultural group wasn’t able to stamp a singular vision on America until the progressive era

This is another way the left uses half truths to undermine your foundations

Instead of recognizing how the progressive era was colored by a specific sect of puritanical Protestantism so we can reverse those errors, they want to confuse it into tainting the revolution

The revolution was about federalism and liberty

The Massachusetts bay colonists were theocrats. They tried and failed to take over the Church of England and so started their own. But they had no intention of dominating the US, they specifically wanted state independence so they could maintain their highly exclusionary society.

They later became influential in the bureaucracy cause they founded the university system and rode the wave of Yankee dominance.

But not all Calvanists are bad and the founders weren’t the High Calvanists associated with modern progressivism.

I’ll include more on the history of the Massachusetts bay colony below

[Austin Padgett (LudwigNeverMises) @LudwigNverMises]

The libertarian movement had the trajectory of a dying star.

First it emanated outward spreading its light throughout the universe.

Everyone was learning about inflation, the folly of forever wars, constitutional originalism, real history.

Then it exploded into a black hole.

They valued anti elitism over a better elite and so the movement has no choice but to die of irrelevance, but not without pulling everyone in its orbit into the wormhole.

The gravitational force will be impossible to resist for those invested but the movement will become increasingly consolidated around that core, and smaller, no longer able to emanate outwards.

The good news is the positive ideas will continue but they will be enacted by those who are able to integrate them with the responsibility of managing a system… rather than taking a purely critical deconstructive approach that fails to adopt any skin in the game.

If you find yourself saying the only solution is to dismantle the system or to root for Americas enemies in war to humble your supposed political opposition (even if you agree with the Babylon Bee on 80% of issues) then you are no different than a communist.

Aside from the fact communists have an actual path to political power through the Dems, which you are ironically facilitating.

But it doesn’t matter cause we’ll beat the left anyways with or without the people who should know best how bad they are.

[James @jameslj]

Found @countyhwy in the wild.

[James @jameslj]

@ConceptualJames @BridgetPhetasy That was the last “big event in history” that I was alive for but don’t have memory of because I was too young.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying local alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Just incredible but strangely predictable: energy lockdowns mapped out by the International Energy Agency. You can read the report https://t.co/4jrswvdJyq
https://t.co/JVSB3J1wlS

[J.T. Alexander @JTAlexander]

I'm an American Imperialist by virtue of the fact I am a Civilizationalist, an American, a Nationalist, and a Realist.

We have an Empire. Unless we are willing to surrender it to the Chinese Communist Party and plunge the world into widespread war and famine, the Empire must be maintained. We are the light in the darkness.

Maintaining that Empire requires utilizing useful allies and destroying disruptive enemies.

America and Israel are not BFFs. The idea that there's any religious connection between America and Israel is American Reformation drivel. Nation-states do not have friends; they have interests. We are two nation-states who happen to have very similar objectives and interests in the region—largely because of the fact we were both opposed to/by Iran.

Our economy is based in the Middle East. Unless and until that changes, we're there to stay. If we're going to stay, then we need decent allies.

The single reason I like having Israel as an ally is because they are extremely competent. Pound-for-pound, the IDF is the best military in the world; America just has a lot more pounds—that's our way. Their intelligence, targeteering, weaponeering, precision strike capability, its all just absolutely beautiful as a military man.

Anyone who denies the efficacy of the IDF should be disregarded on all matters military. They are seriously a work of art in that arena.

I completely understand people who get really annoyed with the fact it seems like you're not allowed to criticize Israel in most places or on most platforms. I think that's extremely stupid and needs to stop—if for no other reason than the fact that these policies generate more antisemites than they stop by probably a 20:1 ratio.

I completely understand people who are sick of American politicians sucking up to Israel. Ted Cruz actually makes me want to throw up when he starts talking about having some duty to Israel. Anyone who attempts to clothe Israel in my Catholic Christian faith is immediately suspect to me as a likely enemy.

But none of that changes the fact that our interests in the Middle East are deep, very hard (if not impossible) to remove, and that Israel is by a wide margin the most competent ally the United States has had since World War II.

For those of y'all not really paying much attention—if we don't have Israel as our ally, we really don't have anybody. The GCC is militarily useless, Britain and Canada seem to actually be an enemy state at this point, the rest of Europe gobbles Russian balls/energy while simultaneously waging a proxy war against them, and Japan has no military.

We may have other allies on paper, but in the field the vast majority of our allies are next to useless.

There's a reason rival powers want the top two militaries in the world to be enemies and its not because they have an earnest desire to see America free of bankers and entertainment producers.