El Gato Luterano

[El Gato Luterano @revklh]

Go figure

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

"We banned kids from social media and forced everyone else to give the government their ID if they wanted to use social media and now no one criticizes the government's policies."

Huh.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Leftists need total control of info.

Their policies are so bad that truth threatens control.

When Elon bought X they lost control.

People weren’t supposed to see truth.

It was devastating for the Left and
lifesaving for mankind.

Now they’re trying to regain control.

Simple.

[El Gato Luterano @revklh]

@AntiLeftMemes Sure. When does he move to another country?

[El Gato Luterano @revklh]

“SpaceX’s IPO created 4,400 millionaires, according to the New York Times. Critics like Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Elizabeth Warren have created one each — themselves.” https://t.co/rW96He8kac

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement.

Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier.

Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème.

Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs.

Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours.

La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[El Gato Luterano @revklh]

70 Fury III ragtop spotted in the wild

[El Gato Luterano @revklh]

Out and about

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

They used Covid to nuke small businesses, opened up commercial real estate and then brought in 20 million people in 4 years while giving them federally backed loans Americans didn't qualify for to buy up those businesses and any available housing.

You should be furious about this.

[Friends of Narcissus @cultofnarcissus]

@CynicalPublius Credentialism is the flailing emotional outburst of midwits discovering their epistemic boundary.

An inevitable consequence of the democratization, thus mediocritization, of an education system that, similarly, relies upon titles to avoid confrontation with critical thought.

[El Gato Luterano @revklh]

Almighty God, by Your great goodness mercifully look upon Your people that we may be governed and preserved evermore in body and soul; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

[El Gato Luterano @revklh]

The Strange Afterlife of Fascism https://t.co/UnDRIHJV9f

[El Gato Luterano @revklh]

I heard the voice of Jesus say,
"Come unto Me and rest;
Lay down, thou weary one, lay down
Thy head upon My breast."
I came to Jesus as I was,
So weary, worn, and sad;
I found in Him a resting place,
And He has made me glad.

—I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (LSB 699:1)

[El Gato Luterano @revklh]

I found my IROC Daytona models. I have 4 of the 6 they made

[El Gato Luterano @revklh]

Bunnies galore in my neighbor’s yard

[El Gato Luterano @revklh]

Comfy kitty

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

One of the most successful and insidious political strategies of the 20th century was summed up in a single phrase: “the long march through the institutions”.
The slogan was coined by German socialist student leader Rudi Dutschke in the 1960s. It deliberately referenced Mao’s Long March of 1934–35 and called on the radical left to abandon immediate revolution; instead, they should infiltrate and subvert the key institutions of Western society from within - government, media, schools, universities, courts and corporations - while outwardly working inside them.
Herbert Marcuse, the left’s intellectual superstar of the mid-20th century, enthusiastically endorsed this approach. He described it as “the only effective way” to bring about radical social change in advanced capitalist societies.
Indeed, the strategy worked with remarkable success – and nowhere was it more effective than in the universities. The social sciences and humanities were gradually captured by radical academics who replaced the pursuit of truth with ideological activism. Over decades, this long march transformed those institutions into ideological training grounds for successive generations of activists, journalists, teachers and civil servants.
Today the result is obvious: many of our most important cultural and educational institutions no longer serve the public; they serve a political project. The “long march” quietly replaced liberal education with ideological indoctrination and open inquiry with enforced orthodoxy. The consequences of that conquest are still unfolding today.

[El Gato Luterano @revklh]

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

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