Michael Riegert

Nuclear Engineering

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

@Clabel_ @Jason_Gilliam05 NASCAR needs to stop trying to compete with the NFL. The guy sitting next to me at Martinsville was watching the Bills/Dolphins game.

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

“men who want power will always find a religion that licenses them and call it devotion.”

This fits in so many places.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

This plea is not merely heartbreaking. It is theologically indicting.

Every religion that elevates a historical figure invites an obvious objection: you have imported the limitations of his century along with his wisdom.

Christianity is not immune to this on its surface. But the question is not which century your prophet came from. The question is whether the man you elevated transcended his century or merely inhabited it.

Jesus touched lepers in a world that quarantined them. He held public theology with women when the rabbinical tradition refused them. He stood inside Roman imperial power and refused every offer of it. He told his disciples that greatness looked like a servant and that the meek, not the militarily dominant, would inherit the earth. He did not import 1st century Rome. He confronted it at every structural point.

Muhammad worked within the gender architecture of 7th century Arabia. He occasionally softened it. He did not dismantle it, he codified it. Surah 33:59 does not emerge from divine aesthetics. It emerges from a situation where his men were harassing women in Medina’s streets, and the solution offered was not to discipline the men but to mark the women.

Distinguish your wives so we know which ones we can abuse.

That is the textual sociology behind the hijab. You can argue across fourteen centuries about jurisprudence and interpretation but you cannot erase the situation that produced the verse.

When a founding figure does not confront the power structures of his world but works within them, those power structures become sacred. The 7th century gender architecture does not stay in the 7th century. It travels forward dressed as revelation.

This is why the Taliban are not an aberration. They are the answer to a sincere question: what does serious, uncompromising application of the external enforcement paradigm look like when you remove the moderating pressure of Western political shame? Afghanistan is the answer. Those men are not distorting Islam. They are implementing it without apology.

Christianity is structurally different. Not because Christians are morally superior but because the architecture is different by design.

The compliance mechanism is inward. The law written on the heart, not enforced at the school gate. This means God chose that the most devout believer and the most flagrant sinner face each other in the same invisible courtroom, and He alone presides. He gave us the mandate to preach and persuade. He did not give us the authority to coerce. When men try to, they are not being more Christian. They are being less. The architecture resists them.

Islam’s architecture does not resist them. It licenses them. And men who want power will always find a religion that licenses them and call it devotion.

So that girl’s cry is a theodicy in one sentence. She is right. Whatever god demands this cannot be the creator of women.

The left refuses this conversation because it forces a choice between feminist commitments and the reflexive defence of Islamic exceptionalism. They will choose the latter, dress it in the language of anti-colonialism, and leave Afghan girls crying in the dark.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

There is a profound, and almost terrifying irony embedded in the architecture of Psalm 2 and Psalm 110.

Earthly empires sweat, mobilize, and conspire. They believe themselves engaged in a cosmic war against the Almighty. Then the text cuts to heaven and reveals a staggering asymmetry. YHWH is not panicking, He is laughing.

He doesn’t call a war council or mobilize a defense of his own borders. His supremacy is such a permanent, bedrock axiom of reality that it is not even a question in either psalm. Hebrews 6 is the footnote both psalms were waiting for: when YHWH needs to make an oath, he looks across the cosmos for something greater to swear by and finds nothing, so He swears by himself. There is an absolute vacuum of equal authority in the universe. His throne has no external frame from which to mount an attack against it.

What he does instead is point to his proxy and declare: “I have installed my King.”

God doesn’t honor human rebellion with a direct response. He recategorizes the entire geopolitical tantrum as a dispute with his Son, signaling that the true theater of contention has never been heaven. It is earth. And he will have his way there.

This chain of divine delegation is the precise blueprint for how dominion operates beneath the throne. Christ does not administrate every square inch of historical territory directly. He populates it with sub-regents chosen to mirror his order in the midst of chaos. Kings under the King, given territory by appointment, whose authority derives from assignment rather than acquisition.

This is why the mechanics of warfare shift so dramatically by Revelation 19.

Christ enters that final confrontation wearing a robe already dipped in blood before a single blow is struck. The name on his thigh, King of Kings, was not earned in that moment. He rides FROM the throne, not toward it. His weapon is the word from his mouth, which is the Melchizedek pattern completing its final arc. What Revelation 19 depicts is not a competitive engagement. It is a judicial enforcement action against a verdict rendered at Calvary.

The logic is absolute. YHWH fought for Adonai. Christ, now enthroned, fights for those under him. The assignment was prior. The interceding priest-king stands before the Father on their behalf. The security of what has been given is not their burden to establish.

The hardest discipline in Psalm 110 is not the enemies. It is the sitting. To hold the posture of secured appointment rather than desperate conquest. The enemies are not the crisis here, the real crisis is forgetting that the throne was never yours to win.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

You know how in the New Testament, Jesus was always hanging out with the tax collectors?

That's because at the time, tax collectors were the lowest form of human life. Absolute filth. Greedy, mendacious, parasitic liars who the broader society rightfully condemned and shunned.

Jesus hung out with them to show that God's grace is available to everyone.

However, if Jesus were starting his ministry in 2026, he would be hanging out with journalists.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

The Only Real Existential Risk: the female problem

https://t.co/CQ1mVR82jX
I saw this video the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it.

A young woman celebrating that 52 percent of women aged 20 to 39 are now childless, that she is finally “part of the majority” and “the men are gonna crash out about this because they are so worried about the birth rate, and let me make this clear, I don't care".

It is true that this is the best indicator of feminism’s success but the girl, as most women celebrating this, is not the enemy. The real problem is the mismatch between women and the modern world.

Women evolved in environments where social exclusion meant death. You cannot hunt pregnant or fight nursing, so a single woman's survival depended on the tribe's acceptance, and a few hundred thousand years of that programmed her to see consensus as safety. It is the same trait that made women the thing that makes families work, what makes them a good mother and a good wife. It’s not that they are better or worse than men, they just evolved differently.

Which is why women do not really know what they want. Not because they are stupid but because of how they evolved. What a woman says she wants is mostly what she thinks the group wants. For two hundred thousand years the group was right and disagreeing meant death. The problem is what the group is now.

The group that decides what a woman wants is the average of millions of strangers an algorithm pulled together because they got a reaction out of them, tuned for outrage and sadness because that is what is engaging and sells ads. The wanting still feels like hers because the group wants it, but it’s the feed's.

We built a global consensus engine, pointed it at the half of the species that sees consensus as survival, and hoped for the best. Add to the algorithms a world that never existed before 50 years ago, the new career ladder, the adversarial institution, the hyper-individualism, built by men for men and then imposed on women as liberation.

Two transitions destroyed the family. The first was the decade between 1960 and 1973: the pill, no-fault divorce, Roe, and the beginning of adult daycare. IQ tests for hiring basically became illegal, college became the proxy, and college plus “career progression” became the norm eating away the entire fertile decade. In just 13 years, sex decoupled from reproduction, reproduction from commitment, commitment from permanence, and hiring from intelligence.

The second transition was in 2012, when smartphones with social media and dating apps went into every teenager’s pocket. Family was first destroyed, and then women were told they never wanted one to begin with, and if they *really* wanted one they should have waited.

They took her most fertile decade, the one stretch of biology that does not come back, and filled it with an extended adolescence. Eighteen to twenty-eight first in a classroom and then an office, children labeled burdens, the thing you get to later once you are established and it is responsible. Later arrives and the good men are gone (so are the eggs). She did not waste those years. They were taken from her by the people who were supposed to care for her.

This is what feminism actually accomplished.

The destruction of womanhood from the inside. Everything feminine, the relationships, the mothering, the holding-together of a community, labelled as low status, and the hole filled with a masculine dream she was told would set her free.

Feminism is the spiritual and philosophical rape of what it means to be a woman.

Women have been getting sadder for forty years while every objective measure of their lives improved, and the women who still report the most meaning are married mothers (shocked_pikachu_face.jpeg). Incredibly, the life they were told to run away from is the one that works.

And that’s why elections are going how they are going.
The same empathy that makes a woman a good mother is programmed to answer to the suffering it can see, the face in front of it, never the abstraction behind it. And that is what the whole political machine exploits. You take the most sympathetic case, give it a face, and let that face carry the entire policy without reason behind it. The raped woman becomes the proxy for every abortion, so the rare horror and the change of mind become the same thing, healthcare, and the child that is murdered never counts, because a fetus has no face and the woman in the ad does. She is not lying when she refuses to call it killing her own child. For women, an abstract victim never registers as a victim.

The child in a war zone becomes the proxy for every migrant, so one photograph carries a policy about millions of grown men, and the country that has to hold them is too abstract to weigh against the kid. Every time, the visible sufferer now beats the invisible one later. Run that instinct at the scale of a whole country and the conclusions are fairly obvious, the more a society allows women to be politically involved, the lower the fertility rate goes (this is truer for single women than for married ones).

The parallel problem is that men first allowed this, then were removed from the conversation, and now they ran. After allowing this to happen, a feminized society told them that masculinity was toxic, a lot of them obeyed and checked out into porn and games, built nothing worth joining, and the ones who refused got punished for it. Either way the supply of men worth marrying collapsed. "I can't find a good man" is true and self-inflicted at once.

So this is the female problem of our generation.
It was never that women were the problem. It is that female nature, the consensus-reading, the empathy, their radar for the room, the good stuff that built every family that ever held together, is the part most unfit for the modern world.

You cannot fix a nature. You can only build a world that works with it instead of against it. We built the one that works against it.

And this is the only existential risk that actually counts.

If we can’t fix the female problem, fertility will remain below replacement, which means extinction, no matter what. AGI or automation or any other possible existential risk does not matter if there is no one left to use it. Abundance in an empty room is just an empty room.

The woman in the video will get her wish, she will be the majority, she’ll cherish her childless life and realize her mistake when it’s too late. But the problem is that being the majority of a generation that does not continue is not a win. She cannot get out of this alone. Her nature is not the thing that can move first. Unless men start doing something and become worth choosing again and rebuild the thing worth joining, it only gets worse from here.

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

Agree. This is not good.

[Unite CT @ct_unite]

🚨 GAME OVER — Connecticut Republicans 🦅

**THE TIME HAS COME. REPUBLICANS MUST DEMAND ERIN STEWART DROP OUT OF THE GOVERNOR’S RACE TODAY. NOW. IMMEDIATELY.

This morning’s Hartford Courant just dropped the final nail in the coffin.

Candidate charged $200K in goods to city-issued card.

While Mayor of New Britain, Erin Stewart used her taxpayer-funded city credit card to buy her husband’s entire 40th birthday party — just days before the big day in 2022.

Birthday candles. Cocktail napkins. “Let’s Make 40 Great Again” Donald Trump gag cards. Balloon arch. Vest. Hat. Swim trunks. T-shirts.

All purchased on her personal Amazon account, paid for with the city P-Card, logged in city records as “office supplies,” and delivered straight to her house.

This wasn’t one mistake.
This was thousands of purchases totaling $200,000 — from 2012 until she left office last year to run for governor.

And now reports confirm she allegedly tried to pay it back using campaign funds.

There is no walking this back.
There is no spin.
There is no “oops.”

Chairman Proto — this is no longer a request.
Demand Erin Stewart DROP OUT of the Connecticut Governor’s race RIGHT NOW.

Connecticut Republicans deserve a candidate who hasn’t turned the mayor’s office into their personal Amazon wishlist.

The people of Connecticut deserve better.

This scandal ends her campaign. Today.
@erinstewartct

@CTGOP
@ryanfazio
@Betsy_McCaughey

#DropStewartNow
#CTGOP
#ErinForPrisonNotGovernor 🦅

Repost. Share. Make it impossible to ignore.
The time for excuses is OVER.

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

@CoachNickerson And affordability!!

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

@TheMuppetPastor @quesadaaa_ A person’s god can be themselves.

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

@docchai2022 Wow

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

Yes!

[Frontierism @frontierism]

Red button pushers are the same ones returning shopping carts btw

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

@ConceptualJames “I strenuously object!”

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

@ChrisMurphyCT What about all the money sent to Ukraine? What about that?

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

If Americans want to buy fuel made from corn and put it in their car, they should be able to do so

But the government shouldn’t force it, subsidize it, or punish those who don’t want it

It makes fuel and food more expensive

Time to end ethanol tyranny

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[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

@tjm585 That sucks.

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

@ConceptualJames The game where the only way to win is not to play.

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

@NapoleonBonabot Exactly my thoughts as well.

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

Exactly. You just described human nature in stating that “people will not just press the button you want”, this “test” is an attempt to invert human nature by trying to force people to push a certain button.

[Parag Agrawal @ParagAg90210]

@NapoleonBonabot Because people WILL press blue, dumbass. Therefore if you press red you ARE killing them. Because people WILL NOT JUST press the button you want.

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

Which works better: collectivism or individualism? In collectivism it only works if enough people think the right way, which requires some central control, and therefore puts power into the hands of a few. But those that don’t vote the right way can then be cast as the bad peeps.

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press? BE HONEST.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

If you are a "liberal" out there who actively hopes President Trump is murdered, or that Jimmy Kimmel's "joke" to that effect was somehow funny, you are the victim of a Leftist psychological operation that has slowly stripped you of your humanity and perspective, like it or not.

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

@BurtMaclin_FBI @jeff_gluck Yes. Get rid of the stages.

[Michael Riegert @riegertmr]

@KellieBlundell @jeff_gluck Remove the stages all together. If teams know when the caution is gonna happen, they adjust to it.