MagicPuncher

Gameplay engineer for Star Atlas and solo dev of Sunken Realms

[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

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@localwhiteape @TeeplesCY Joseph Smith ordained blacks to the priesthood himself during his lifetime

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@Pancakes_Good1 @TeeplesCY There was nothing simple about Joseph Smith. Love him or hate him, he is a very complex character, whose fruits cannot be easily dismissed

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@KamenRiderFresh @Pirat_Nation I'm not sure I agree that "Most people don't care about AI usage for small dev teams." That is certainly true globally, but US gamers have a markedly higher intolerance of AI usage. I use AI to make item icons in my game, but I'm afraid of being review bombed if I disclose that.

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@JoshZach @forallcurious TDS

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@SEXYVlLLAlN You're a monster

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@BonnerAl25577 @darren_od80 @archeohistories Muslims did more slaving than Europeans ever did, and it's not even close. And treated their slaves way worse. Get your facts straight.

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@xMBGx Live service games show no sign of slowing down? Are we living in the same 2026? Live service is a graveyard of a genre. It's the new MMO.

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@CultureCrave Coward. He'll take a paycheck based on the world he created while backhanding her.

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@kariwarburton Hiiiiii

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@fasc1nate All well-dressed and well-behaved. We are savages compared to the people of those days.

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@BennettCartoons You're right in the fact that if the administration buckles to the lawless communist rioters in Minnesota, the entire country will end up looking just like Minneapolis. They need to learn the hard way that you can't support lawlessness and expect no consequences

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@BillyJames51204 @Mama4Freedom2 @Sim1Jose @BerniceKing You got nothing so you resort to personal insults? Pathetic

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@ShingieMushope @stats_feed Trump has already published multiple autobiographical books. So we know he can write. Question is if you can read.

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@cosmic_marvel Jiu jitsu seems like the last martial art Spider Man would need to know. If Spider man is grappling on the ground, he effed up.

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It's amazing to me how a lot of the same people making the argument that the left calling conservatives "Nazis" is a way to dehumanize them and justify violence against them, are the same people that will call the LDS church an "evil cult" and not see the hypocrisy

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@Jude3Rev2217 @royalserf You should have kept the first 2 sentences and the last two, and cut out the middle. Because as you said, it's not a day to discuss our differences.

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@finloc31587 @royalserf We do disagree with the trinity. However the trinity is a man-made idea that is not biblical, that didn't show up until 500 years after Christ, in attempt to merge the biblically Hebrew view of God with the Greek understanding of God that was popular at the time. Look it up.

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@Acts_1711 @royalserf I think you mean "they're"

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@jaredadairbell I had the same thought, unfortunately