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I’ve said this before but I really cannot stress this enough… if you get your geopolitical and warfare information from video games, Netflix, or closeted gay Nazis podcasters, your knowledge on the subjects is elementary at best, flat out based on propaganda at worst.
Also, if my understanding of how the world works makes me a zogbot or a goyslopper or whatever made up insults you learned in your mother’s basements while chatting on Reddit, then so be it.
At least I didn’t fall for propaganda made for peasants that couldn’t even read.
The Reformation was not a denominational squabble.
It was a war over whether you needed an institution’s permission to access God.
The Reformers said no. They said the Word of God is sufficient.
They said the Holy Spirit guides believers into truth.
They said Christ is the only mediator.
And they paid for that conviction with their lives.
That is what this country was founded on.
Soul liberty.
Be proud of your faith. Understand its history and what it has given the world.
I AM the way.
I AM the truth.
I AM the life.
He is enough.
He has always been enough. He will always be enough.
Everything else is someone trying to sell you what He already gave you for free.
It’s very easy to proclaim His name but do you know His character and are you holding that up as your guidepost?
That’s the real question. Not which church you go to.
You two are swimming in a pool of your own elitism! I’m not a bot. I’m not religious at all and definitely a Jew nor am I associated with Israel in any way. I used to follow BOTH of you! MK, I was a daily listener since DAY FREAKING 1 of your podcast! It’s not a paid or coordinated attack. It’s YOU! You support Israel so hard on Oct 8th and shed the tears. You support Erika SO HARD and emphatically tell the world that you are brave and you are doing the live show anyway and Erika is an honored guest. Then the tables turned and the left took hold and those weren’t the popular opinion anymore. You are a fence sitter, not a pioneer.
Piers, your show is basically political Jerry Springer with everyone yelling and talking over each other with Dave Smith condescendingly telling everyone how much smarter he is than them.
It’s YOU! It’s not bots or 7k or coordinated attacks from Israel. I’m a nobody from Idaho and these are my thoughts
We have actual video of a now-identified man screaming “Allahu Akbar” and lighting/throwing an incendiary device.
Not one of these headlines accurately portrays what occurred.
I am seeing a lot of posts about Briahna Joy Gray, Aaron Mate, Ryan Grim and their horrific denial of mass rape on 10/7.
I want to be really clear. It happened. I saw photos of the bodies.
I was privileged to be invited to a private briefing at the Israeli embassy and shown photos that are not open to the public for privacy reasons. What I saw will haunt me to my dying day. I met with members of the Dinah Project. They are honorable, righteous, and true. There is ample evidence. There are eyewitnesses including 10/7 survivors, medics and legal experts who have seen the videos and photos. There are now living survivors coming forward. Most of the public doesn’t understand, we are talking about extreme and very particular types of sexual violence - including genital mutilation, gang rape, and rape as murder - happened simultaneously in multiple locations. That’s not coincidental - that’s coordinated.
What deniers demand as evidence is not consistent with western modern rape law. The standard they are asking for is ever shifting, but would never be demanded in a court of law. Video of rape and murder? A woman who is raped and murdered cannot get justice if she is not alive to testify? Your hatred of Israeli women is so strong it endangers every woman in the world.
The fight to recognize the horrors of rape in 10/7 is critical to global justice. It’s a fight for all women. Deniers are no different than holocaust deniers and should be treated with the same contempt.
“Pedophilia is legal in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Small children are married off to adult men.
Today on International Women's Day, we draw attention to those girls that the feminists don't want to talk about.”
@HAHazony Tucker is a psychopath. Unconditional surrender means raping daughters? Only when the Islamists are on the winning side. When the West wins, it means terrorists who support raping our daughters don’t get to.
Notice the people that “all of the sudden” started hating Jews in the last year or two are also the ones saying the rest of us are being paid to keep the same normal views we have always had.
Propaganda is easy to spot if you aren’t stupid.
Much of what's happening to us is something called "accelerationism," which is the idea of accelerating certain trends and processes such that their high velocity collapses them for radical social and political change.
Historically, accelerationism more specifically referred to accelerating the processes and "contradictions" of capitalism in order to get capitalist systems to collapse from within so they could be replaced, typically by some sort of socialism.
In our current situation, there are two kinds of political accelerationism that are called "L/acc" and "R/acc" (usually l/acc and r/acc in the lowercase, but I want to make the letters clear so I'm using the capitals). These refer to "Left Accelerationism" and "Right Accelerationism."
Both of these models operate under the Rules for Radicals (Saul Alinsky) model of "Your enemy's reaction is your real action." The objective is to get your enemy to overreact politically so it discredits their side and enables your own.
A great deal of the Woke Leftist activism, including how they weaponized cancel culture, was designed to run the L/acc playbook under the Alinsky doctrine. The idea wasn't just to advance their own power but also to trigger an extremist reaction on the Right that they could use to advance their Leftist causes in the next turn of the game.
L/acc is usually phrased "accelerate Right in order to rebound Left." The objective is to anger and provoke the Right so much that they overreact and overstep to justify a rebound to the hard(er) Left than the Left could achieve on its own.
The Groypers and Groyperism, on the other hand, are running the R/acc playbook, also under the Alinsky doctrine. This is why Nick Fuentes is always pushing Democrats and this idea that the GOP and Trump and MAGA are frauds that have failed everyone, while pushing the dynamics of MAGA to an unsupportable extreme.
R/acc is usually phrased "accelerate Left in order to rebound Right." The strategy is to get Democrats elected in the short term, use the problems that causes to radicalize more people to a hard-Right (Woke Right) position and cause so they can get a right-wing dictator somewhere down the line. The Groypers and Fuentes espouse this doctrine explicitly, unlike their Leftist peers.
The mechanism in both cases is to create a sense of existential fear in the other side and to push moderates away. Imagine a Leftist telling people there's only antiracists and racists (e.g., Kendi). Part of the goal of this push is to get moderates who reject their idea of "antiracism" to decide to be racist in a defensive way. They can say they were pushed to become "more right-wing" or "forced to adopt white identity politics to defend themselves." That's L/acc.
What this existential dread, and often anger, hurt, and hate, is designed to produce are people who were formerly reasonable moderates who adopt the friend-enemy distinction in politics to choose a political war-tribe. Reason, truth, goodness, etc., are all thrown out the window for a political war-tribe hellbent on defeating the "enemy."
L/acc aims to weaponize the friend-enemy distinction on the Left in order to operationalize the friend-enemy distinction on the Right.
R/acc aims to weaponize the friend-enemy distinction on the Right in order to operationalize the friend-enemy distinction on the Left.
What we've been referring to as political tribalism or polarization or whatever is in fact the increasing adoption of the friend-enemy distinction by both sides through repeated cycles of this game, which is being run deliberately in order to destabilize our country (you can say it here: Russia, Russia, Russia, or, if you want, color revolution).
It's L/acc to R/acc to L/acc to R/acc to L/acc to R/acc over and over and over again until America is sufficiently politically war-tribalized to become internally dysfunctional and at threat of destroying itself until finally one side or the other gets a dictator.
You might think it matters to either side which side gets their dictator, but that's only for the fools pulled into the game. The organizers of this game realize a dictator is a dictator is a dictator, and a dictator is the end of freedom either way. The details of how the autocracy will be run can be worked out and adjusted after the Constitution is removed and burned and no one has any of their individual liberties secured to oppose them.
In fact, you could argue that these sides, whatever plays out in the streets, are working together, not apart, to rip our countries to shreds.
The answer, of course, is not to play this game at all. Not playing it isn't just avoiding it, though. It's also exposing it. That means exposing the game itself and how its being played to undermine us, including the people playing it, along with its operational goals.
Going further Right due to Leftist provocation is playing the L/acc game, which aims to eventually "rebound Left."
Going further Left due to Rightist provocation is playing the R/acc game, which aims to eventually "rebound Right."
Noticing this game is being played by extremists in a back-to-back iterated fashion is key to understanding how polarization agents (Russia, Russia, Russia) are tearing us apart from within.
"To be ignorant and simple now—not to be able to meet the enemies on their owп ground—would be to throw down our weapons . . . Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. The cool intellect must work not only against cool intellect on the other side, but against the muddy heathen mysticisms which deny intellect altogether. Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion. A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village: the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age." — C.S. Lewis, Learning in War-Time
They get worse every day. It’s like watching brainworms consume people’s minds in real time. They’re so deranged. The internet is a dangerous place for vulnerable people.
In this thread, the Trump Administration has provided 42 posts with evidence for why, just on the basis of past attacks alone, America had ever reason to want to take out the Islamic Republic of Iran and the IRGC within it and to do so in partnership with Israel. Face the truth.