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Philosopher : "Truth is the highest glory"
Gardener : I grow things I can eat
I BLOCK ALL ADS

[Cicero @marionebridge]

The Church of England was always a fraud. Conceived in lechery. If this latest edition is what it takes for people to realize the simple truth, so be it.

[Novus Ordo Watch @NovusOrdoWatch]

In the case of the male Anglican 'archbishops' of Canterbury, the invalidity of their orders is accidental, as it were, since they have the *capacity* to receive holy orders but their attempt at ordination did not work. But in the case of Sally, it's impossible in principle for her to receive holy orders. That is a huge difference, even though the result - invalidity - be the same.

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@mikee_degen @Steve_Sailer And Goaltenders ?

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@MikRec You ell me a pro soccer player cannot execute a short pass with both feet ?? I coached youth soccer 16 years and always encouraged my players to build up their secondary foot to make short accurate passes and even scoring shots.

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@ClimbingCoachX Better yet, learn to bloom where you are planted.

[F. A. Hayek Quotes @FAHayekSays]

George Orwell, reviewing The Road to Serfdom in 1944:

“Professor Hayek’s thesis is that Socialism inevitably leads to despotism, and that in Germany the Nazis were able to succeed because the Socialists had already done most of their work for them, especially the intellectual work of weakening the desire for liberty.

By bringing the whole of life under the control of the State, Socialism necessarily gives power to an inner ring of bureaucrats, who in almost every case will be men who want power for its own sake and will stick at nothing in order to retain it.

Britain, he says, is now going the same road as Germany, with the left-wing intelligentsia in the van and the Tory Party a good second. The only salvation lies in returning to an unplanned economy, free competition, and emphasis on liberty rather than on security.”

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@PaulCarr If they start with 64, they should just go single knockout from the start.

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@PedriFCB Mbappe is a little smarter than Embolo. He dives when there really is contact.

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@Nicocantor1 Diving needs to be firmly discouraged. This harsh result may drive the lesson home.

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@Imstilljon Common sense says diving is a disgrace and it merits a yellow card whether the player already has one or not. in this case, the consequnce is being sent off. Justice.

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@SiavoushF @GaelQaquta If the referee had made the right initial call, that would have been a yellow card for diving and Embolo would have been sent off. The review procedure arrived at the same result. What is the problem ?

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@SiavoushF No. The soccer needs a firm deterrent to diving which is a cancer that undermines the beauty of the game.

[Cicero @marionebridge]

That's why Mbappe nevr gets called for diving - he only does it when there is real contact.

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@_matt_invests_ @JacobsBen It's one thing to dive when you are actually tripped, even though you could have stayed up, to make sure you get the call. It's another thing to dive when nobody touched you.

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@_matt_invests_ @JacobsBen It's one thing to dive when you are actually tripped, even though you could have stayed up, to make sure you get the call. It's another thing to dive when nobody touched you.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1918: they sold radioactive water as a health tonic. It was radium, and it dissolved men's jaws.

1898: they sold heroin as a children's cough syrup. It was heroin.

1863: they sold cocaine wine as a daily pick-me-up. Popes and presidents put their names to it.

1946: they sold cigarettes on a doctor's recommendation. Whole campaigns ran on which brand physicians preferred.

1960s: they sold margarine as the heart-healthy fat. It was loaded with the trans fat that actually stops hearts.

Every one of these came with an expert's blessing and total confidence.

The people telling you today which fat to fear are the institutional descendants of the ones who put radium in your water and a doctor's face on a cigarette packet.

"The experts recommend it" has a body count going back a century.

[Handre @Handre]

Rome fed 200,000 families free grain by 46 BC, and it called this generosity. Julius Caesar inherited a dole of 320,000 recipients and trimmed it, not out of principle but because the treasury was bleeding. This was the annona, the grain distribution that started as emergency relief under the Gracchi in 123 BC and hardened into a permanent entitlement. Once free grain became a right, no politician could touch it and keep his head.

You already know how this works, because you watch the same play run today. A subsidy arrives as mercy. It stays as an expectation. Then it becomes the thing men vote for instead of working for.

The Roman citizen once farmed his own land, served in his own legion, and expected nothing from the state but courts and roads. By the time Trajan was staging 123 days of games in AD 107, slaughtering 11,000 animals and pairing 10,000 gladiators for the crowd, that citizen had become a spectator. He no longer fought Rome's wars: hired auxiliaries and Germanic mercenaries did. He no longer fed himself: Egypt and North Africa did, shipped in on the public account. He no longer chose his rulers in any meaningful sense: he cheered them in the Colosseum and collected his ration.

The free grain and the free games purchased compliance, not compassion. A man dependent on the state for his dinner and his entertainment does not organize resistance to that state, and every emperor from Augustus onward understood the arithmetic. Panem et circenses was a bribe paid in exchange for civic surrender, and the mob accepted the terms gladly.

Here is the mechanism the welfare enthusiast never grasps. Virtue is not a feeling. It is a practice, and practices atrophy when the incentive to perform them disappears. Take away a man's need to provide, defend, and decide, and you domesticate him rather than liberate him. Rome spent four centuries proving it, then handed the ruins to Odoacer in AD 476 without much of a fight, because the men who might have fought had long since learned to wait for the grain ship instead.

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@jasonrmcintyre It's red because THE RULE SAYS a player who has committed a cautionable offense commits a second one then he MUST BE sent off.

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

He faked a dive to get Paredes a second yellow card, knowing he was already on a yellow.

Embolo should only blame himself for that stupid dive.

The referee gave Embolo a second yellow card for simulation, and he was sent off.

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@JeffFcb14 He looked tired at the start and never changed.

[Cicero @marionebridge]

@mstribbo @LfcNuel

[Kevin 🪔🇮🇱✝️ @KevinInHR]

Agreed.