mmirate

'Live Free or Die. Death is not the worst of Evils.' - Gen. John Stark. 'The institutions of private property are the machinery of freedom.' - David D. Friedman

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In 1934, Leftists rammed a law thru Congress. This law has damaged the hearing of probably tens of millions of Americans, for merely exercising their right to bear arms (peaceably or in the military).

That buys them 10x more suffering than the Christian First-World can fathom.

[Cedar🌳 @CedarReloaded]

@ReviewsPossum What exactly did the left do to you, genuinely? How did Leftists hurt you in any undeserved manner?

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@alwystired33 @BrownellsInc "Bob Ross of gun guys"? That's Steve, not Caleb.

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@captive_dreamer Out of current immigration: yes. Out of previous immigration: perhaps. Out of runaway entitlements spending: no, Trump has conspicously declined to do anything but accelerate it.

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@fwmarqix @pangram slop?

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@ronrule @gc22gc There's also the fact that these physical facilities (even the Targets and Walmarts) attract certain populations whose crimes we aren't allowed to punish.

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@freestatepty Ha! Just like you could spot the false-flag "mass shootings" by the fact that some insane weirdo had the funds to buy a brand-new rifle from Daniel Defense. Which stopped after we defunded USAID. Maybe, for the same reasons, the next fake documentary crew will be using Androids.

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@spikesguides Change the mount for ADM's Recon-X.

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@XJosh @FuddBusters

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@SallyMayweather The US Marines who stormed the Barbary coasts to stop the resident Muslims from enslaving Americans and other Europeans, would disagree.

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@PositivFuturist Are these the more literal kinds of cults who live proximally? (plus Amish et al)

Or the metaphorical ones, whose members live wherever they can afford to, amidst normies, spread so thin that weaponized ISes can strike one member knowing the nearest defender is >1mi away?

[Roko 🐉 @RokoMijic]

I think we need to take seriously the idea that a significant fraction of the additional disability isn't psychosomatic, it's caused by several generations of dysgenic selection and low infant mortality, plus better conditions for viruses and environmental toxins.

When you build a medical system that is very good at preventing lethal illness but basically doesn't care about chronic illness or eugenics, it shouldn't surprise you if over time more and more people have chronic conditions.

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@pegobry_en Even when the population in question is the child-sacrificing Aztec savages?

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@DelusionPosting Educating smart young ladies into girlbossery, is civilizationally myopic.

A smart lady's children, being plural, will accomplish more than she alone would've - the only cost is waiting ~20 years.

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@skscartoon In 1934, the Left all-but-banned the Maxim Silencer, thus taking responsibility for all premature hearing damage caused by ordinary peaceable use of unsilenced firearms. In that moment, the Left ceased to deserve reason, conversation or ideas.

[funnygamedev (mouse) 🐀 @funnygamedev]

I was promised a 6fig job and a career by the colleges I went to. This happened to millions of us. They didnt deliver. No young man is going to uproot their lives for a job that doesn't pay for shit in the area it is by some trailer trash stranger they never met. Hopes this helps

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@malleus_returns @VerMemeIstan To be fair, Kemp was sufficiently pro-liberty that there were pro-lockdown protestors during Covid. Then again that maybe just an artifact of home rule.

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

There's an important piece missing here.

I think Devon's account of how Christianity failed is correct as far as it goes, but he's leaving out the effect of an important change in its competitive environment.

Religions combine cosmology, moral claims, and accounts of human psychology into total explanatory systems. Because human beings are pattern-seeking animals that are desperate for explanations that might give them some kind of grip on reality, total explanatory systems exert a very powerful draw.

Starting about 350 years ago a new total explanatory system began to appear: mechanistic philosophy. It's convenient to date this from the moment when Newton's discovery of the universal law of gravity broke the distinction between the inaccessible heavens and what used to be called the sublunary sphere.

Mechanistic philosophy does something religions don't. It has visible, testable consequences in the observable world. This enables technology - you can build telescopes and steam engines and eventually airplanes and skyscrapers and nuclear reactors.

It is extremely difficult for religions to compete with this - especially once mechanistic philosophy develops the theory of the evolution of life. The history of religion in the west since then is one of a long withdrawing roar as it gave up territory that it used to hold.

Devon's account is that Christianity failed because it didn't have practical and moral answers to the problems of modernity. This is not wrong, but the loss of authority has at least one more layer. Any belief system that has to be sustained by a tremendous emotional investment of belief in things unseen and untestable is at a very serious disadvantage against a competitor with consequences everyone can see every day.

This is not a problem limited to Christianity of course. But I don't think Christianity's failure can be fully explained without it.

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@AnCapZoomer @LPNH @AKermodeBear The 2d art we see so far, probably. The words of the text? Certainly not!

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@DoomerTapes Wouldn't it be easier if you could consistently bring your eye into the eyebox by plopping your nose onto the charging handle?

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@Joganbclr @Mike_McD5511 He must be deaf already. You can tell because he can't overhear us talking about him.