Stuffpeoplesay

Lawyer. Normal person who wants to live in a normal society. “Common sense is not so common.” Pronouns: You’re/Stupid.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jordan Peterson made a profound point on Chris Williamson’s podcast.

When God dies, a lot of unexpected things die with Him, including science.

Science isn’t some purely neutral, secular tool. It rests on deeply religious assumptions: that truth exists, that it’s knowable, that pursuing it is good, and that the universe makes sense.

These aren’t scientific claims, they’re metaphysical, rooted in a religious worldview. The universities themselves grew out of monasteries.

Without that deeper foundation, science eventually stops being about truth and becomes just another tool for power, ideology, or convenience. You lose the reason to be honest when the data gets inconvenient.

Do you think science can survive long-term without any belief in objective truth or a higher moral order?

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

No, it’s not “Pride Month.” Not for me, and not for millions of others.

You’re welcome to be proud of whatever you want, in any month you like—because this is America. But what started in 1969 as a rebellion against persecution, morphed into a license for public depravity, and then morphed again into a weapon aimed at families and innocent children. Along the way it went from a day, to a week, and then a month and became official, and thereby effectively mandatory for all.

Enough!

If you’re gay and wondering why you are facing resistance now, the answer is that, with few exceptions, most of you didn’t stand up against the expansion and weaponization of “pride,” and the coercion that went with it. In that failure to resist, the gay community compromised any expectation that the rest of us should support “pride” at all, but especially the obscene display of hostility toward civilization and the families of which it is built, and for whom it exists.

If your hackles are raised by the idea that civilization is about families, realize that families are how civilizations persist through time. Not everyone needs to form one, but we all must respect and protect them—It is the foundation of what it means to be civilized.

For the small fraction of gays and lesbians who DID courageously stand up and resist expansion, coercion and the weaponization of “Pride,” I stand with you, and I have all along. But I won’t be celebrating, and I won’t be silent.

It’s not too late to join the voices of reason and to confront the insanity of what “pride” has become.

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

We’re always just one more tax away from utopia.

[Gerry Callahan @GerryCallahan]

Things that triggered the left this week:

- a clean reflecting pool
- a name on a building
- a murderer getting convicted of murder
- a sporting event at the White House
- a successful IPO
- welders and janitors becoming millionaires

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

This shit is disgusting.

The jury heard the evidence, including from Black witnesses on the defense side, and still convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder. Instead of dealing with that, the reaction decided the real problem was that Austin Metcalf didn’t know how to properly kiss someone’s ass before he got stabbed. That’s the actual argument being made.

A Howard University professor came out and said the father failed to teach his son that Black kids have boundaries and that their space isn’t to be challenged.

In other words, the dead kid should have known his place and backed the fuck down.

That’s the standard they’re defending after a murder conviction. Not self-defense. Not fear for life. Just “he got too close and didn’t show the right kind of respect.”

And when that didn’t fly in court, they lost their fucking minds. Death threats to the family. People talking about shitting on Austin’s grave. Some sick fucks started an “Austin Metcalf challenge” where they mock the way he died. Jasmine Crockett had the balls to say Anthony was justified because he didn’t want to stand in the rain. The rain. That’s where we are now.

They’re not mad that a kid got killed. They’re mad that the killer actually had to face consequences for it.

They’re furious the old rules still worked long enough for a jury to do its job.

This isn’t complicated and it sure as hell isn’t deep. It’s a bunch of people openly arguing that murder is acceptable as long as you can dress it up as some kind of boundary enforcement after the fact. And the second a court said no, they showed exactly who they are.
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[Terrence K. Williams @w_terrence]

You know what I’ve been thinking about? There are far more racist people in this country than I ever realized.

I have been blown away watching people celebrate the death of a White teenage boy simply because the person who killed him was Black.

This teenager was not on drugs. He was not a troublemaker.

He had never committed a crime.

He played sports, made good grades, respected his parents, and was loved by so many people.

Yet some people have found joy in his death because they care more about race than right and wrong.

That is not justice. That is racism, hatred, and pure evil.

A teenage boy lost his life. Anyone celebrating that should be ashamed.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Thank you for summing up why people hate successful people: you think you're a loser because someone else made you a loser. The reason you believe this is that it's a lot more comforting than the truth: you're a loser despite the fact that amazing business leaders like Elon created hundreds of thousands of jobs and paid billions upon billions in taxes. In other words, the reason you're a loser is you, your shitty, envious attitude and the fact that you don't understand that the way to achieve what you want is to provide something other people want so they're willing to pay you for it.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

1/2 🧵

The only thing more dangerous than a radical ideology is a political class too cowardly to name it. Rubio named it. Now watch them try to destroy him for it.

🚨 Rubio Said the Quiet Part Out Loud — And the World Just Had a Seizure

They want you to apologize for noticing.

Marco Rubio — Secretary of State, standing at the podium of American power — spoke a sequence of words so plainly true that the entire global opinion-manufacturing complex immediately went into anaphylactic shock.

Here's what he actually said:

Radical Islam doesn't want a small caliphate in Iraq or Syria. They see the United States as the greatest evil on Earth. They seek to dominate the entire West. It's revolutionary. It wants endless expansion, terrorism, assassinations, and total control.
And then — this is the part that broke them — he connected the dots to American soil.

Orlando. Pensacola. The domestic attacks that the legacy press memory-holed within 72 hours because the perpetrators' ideological motives were inconvenient to the narrative.
The reaction from certain quarters was instantaneous and predictable: outrage, demands for retraction, the usual theater of performative offense. But here's the question nobody in the professional pundit class wants to answer:

Which word, exactly, was wrong?

Was it "radical"? Because the guys waving black flags and throwing gay people off buildings seem pretty comfortable with the label.
Was it "Islam"? Because they sure as hell invoke it. Loudly. Repeatedly. In 4K video.

Was it "revolutionary"? Read Hasan al-Banna. Read Sayyid Qutb's Milestones. This isn't a fringe interpretation — it's the founding political theology of the Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological grandfather of Hamas, al-Qaeda, ISIS, and every jihadist franchise that's metastasized across six continents since 1979.

The playbook is explicit:

1Dawa — proselytization and demographic expansion
2Hijra — migration into target societies
3Jihad — when conditions are ripe, kinetic action

This isn't a conspiracy. It's published. It's taught. It's celebrated on Telegram channels with six-figure subscriber counts.

And the West's response for forty years has been to pretend not to see it while funding the very regimes that export it.

Rubio committed the unforgivable sin of naming the enemy. In an era where the foreign policy establishment prefers euphemisms like "violent extremism" and "overseas contingency operations," he used words that actually mean something.

The fury isn't about inaccuracy.

The fury is about accuracy without permission.

Why This Matters More Than Any Previous Speech

Because this isn't 2002. We've now lived through:

•The ISIS caliphate (which wasn't supposed to exist — until it did)

•The Taliban retaking Afghanistan in 10 days flat

•Hamas's October 7th massacre, livestreamed by the perpetrators

•The Houthis shutting down global shipping lanes from a sandpit

•The resurgence of al-Shabaab across the Horn of Africa

•Iran's network of proxies stretching from Beirut to Baghdad to Sana'a — now actively at war with American forces

And domestically? The FBI's own numbers show a consistent, non-random pattern of jihadist-inspired attacks on U.S. soil that the media covers with the enthusiasm of someone burying a body.
Rubio didn't say anything new.

He said something old — something that's been true for decades — but he said it from the podium of the State Department instead of from a think tank panel nobody watches.

That's the difference.

That's why they're panicking.

The Real Divide

The split isn't between "Islamophobes" and "tolerant people."
The split is between:

•People who believe ideas have consequences — and that a totalitarian political ideology dressed in theological language is still a totalitarian political ideology.

•People who believe words are magic — and that if we just stop talking about the problem, the problem will politely cease to exist.

[Grok @grok]

Elon Musk paid over $11 billion in taxes in 2021, the largest single-year personal tax bill in US history, primarily from exercising and selling Tesla stock. Exact lifetime totals aren't publicly broken down year-by-year, but he has stated he expects to pay over $500 billion over his lifetime including at death.

[Stuffpeoplesay @Stuffohstuff]

This is what moral bankruptcy looks like

[Neil Shenvi @NeilShenvi]

"Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son Is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries"

If you don't understand reactions like these, it's worth studying critical race theory and the language of anti-racism discourse.

A few quotes from Prof. Patton's article: 1/

[Dirty Texas Hedge @HedgeDirty]

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

John thinks Elon has a trillion one-dollar bills in his house, and if only he'd spend it on philanthropy, we'd solve lots of problems.

In fact, what Elon has is lots of capital, which is used to improve the general standard of living. Liquidating that capital so everyone can get a one-time check for $50 would be destructive and idiotic.

John has also managed to think, despite all the evidence everywhere he looks, that social problems are a matter of not enough money spent, that homelessness (for example) is a simple matter of people not having physical houses, and all we have to do is hand them some houses.

The more you like mankind, the more capital accumulation you should want, because that is the only way real incomes are increased for everyone, as opposed to the loot-and-redistribute model that eats the seed corn. ("Why do we have all this seed corn! I could feed so many people with it," poor John would be saying.)

[High Yield Harry @HighyieldHarry]

Inspiring.

This young man came to America with no hair and zero bitches.

Now he has a full head of hair and 55 children.

[SongEternal | Balanced Takes🎙️ @SongEternal]

Agreed. I might make a video out of this.

As a black man, I always hesitate to bring up race, despite it being the thing that has always gotten me the most traffic and clicks. I'm wary of saying the right thing. I want to be rational, and make the right allies.

But with Karmelo Anthony... George Floyd, and so many others, the black tribalism annoys me so. Dare I say it...

It fatigues me.

I want to be known as a dapper, articulate man. Not as a black man who can speak perfect English, against my stereotype. I just want to be...

Me.

I don't want to be known as "the black conservative", even though repeatedly, that seems to be a perfect position for me to leverage as a content creator, jokingly or not.

But more and more, I find myself wishing the civil rights era never existed. Why? Because now as a result, we have thousands of copy-paste MLK wannabee's that sound more like a washed up, prison-bred, potty-mouthed Malcolm X, than a cultural Ghandi. (Not to mention, MLK was......... Not all he seemed to be)

With every cause having to do with blacks, much of my... Ugh... Community... Considers our worst criminals, thugs, and rappers to be victims and martyrs and heroes.

They demand solidarity, and when I want to know more about those who should be my "kin", I find less and less in common with their principles. I feel like an outcast from many blacks. Now certainly, not all are like this. Many are just as respectable as I am, and even moreso. But it's enough of us that it's a problem. A major problem.

My mom taught me that I would have two strikes against me. One for being black, and one for being a male.

But now? As a black man, societally, I've been given unfair advantages, I despise what many in my own race have become, and I tire of being related to other blacks by the color of my skin, by both blacks who demand solidarity, and whites who assume I'm a tribal delinquent.

I tire of it all.

I too, just wish to be an individual.

I'm just me. With my own flairs and faults. Look at me. Judge me.

Racially, I feel like the country was in it's best state before Obama ran for president. Because before that, people were caring less and less about race. The wounds from the civil rights era were healing. The old generations were passing.

But now? Our nation has been reminded relentlessly about our differences, the cultural marxists in the black community have fresh fuel to blast their demagoguery, and this nonsense has new life--life that my parents can't even relate to, because they grew up during a different time.

I hate this. I hate all of this.

Forget MLK. Forget Malcolm X. Stop this grievance.

We must follow the way of Frederick Douglass.

Honesty. Integrity. Education.

Command respect.

That has always been the way forward for blacks. It's the way forward for ALL PEOPLE.

Be the powerful individual by virtue of skill, talent, and fortitude. Not by race. But by accomplishment.

But none of this means anything to the Karmelo Anthony types, does it? No, those are merely traits of "sucking up to the white man".

What a sorry state this country is in. And it pains me to see what many fellow blacks have done with their freedom.

What a waste.

I apologize for any typos. I typed this on my phone.

[Overton @overton_news]

WHOA: Spencer Pratt just went NUCLEAR on Karen Bass and Nithya Raman in a new video posted to X.

“You think your election was going to stop me? If you want to stop me, you’re going to have to f*cking kill me!”

He warned that he has recordings of one of the candidates that will force her to “resign in shame,” and said the gloves are now completely off.

PRATT: “You’re about to reward the arsonist who torched the place with four more years of destruction?”

“My goal hasn’t changed. I’ve been very focused on stopping these commie animals and I will stop them.”

“If you think we uncovered a lot of fraud and evil in the campaign, just wait.”

“We have some recordings of one of your exalted candidates doing and saying something that would make her resign in shame.”

“I was saving it for the general election. Go ahead and pick your demon, certify your choice and then you get to see it.”

“So Karen, Nithya, ask yourself, is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign in disgrace?”

[MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra]

This should end the Parents of Karmelo Anthony… and their disgusting lies that it was an “all white jury”

Gin & Juice Podcast:
"Damn near half of the black people who could have been on the jury canceled themselves out because they said they couldn’t be fair and put a black man in jail— Don't say I hate white people. Don’t do that. When you go up there, and say I can be fair.”

There were Three qualified Black prospective jurors who were struck during selection because they expressed difficulty with convicting a young Black man, even if he was guilty. Exactly as I said yesterday.

There were 6 minorities total on the full 18-person panel (12 jurors + 6 alternates)
• the jury that decided his sons fate included Asian, Hispanic, and Middle Eastern/Indian jurors.

And Karmelo even requested the jury sentence him instead of the judge.

And finally, the majority of witnesses who spoke against Karmelo were young black student’s.

Karmelo Anthony’s parents should apologize to the world for lying. They have done their son so damn dirty…

https://t.co/9WRNa1C4Gc

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

I really wanted to believe the group defending Karmelo was a limited fringe of radicals. But the show of mainstream support and utter delusion from many black politicians, celebrities & activists quickly dashed that hope. It’s one thing when we’re talking about a black person who was killed - you can at least understand sympathy for George Floyd or Michael Brown, even if the facts are disputed. But we are talking about an undisputed murderer. To defend him, one has to be so far outside of reality and the realm of moral truth that they can no longer tell up from down. It’s so extremely dangerous for people who think this way to have any say whatsoever in matters of law and justice.

[The Moderate Case @TheModerateCase]

Let me get this straight…

Apparently, an ICE agent being struck by a car is not enough to create reasonable fear of serious bodily harm.

But Karmelo Anthony being shoved during a confrontation he allegedly escalated, going on to say, “touch me and see what happens,” where he was then pushed, is enough to justify pulling a knife and stabbing someone in the chest?

That isn’t a consistent self-defense standard. That’s a tribal and political standard.

Either imminent serious bodily harm matters, or it doesn’t. The logic isn’t logic’ing.

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

🚨 I’m a Black man, a proud conservative, and a follower of Jesus Christ.

When I see protesters outside the Collin County Courthouse chanting “FUCK WHITE LIVES!” after Karmelo Anthony’s sentencing for murdering Austin Metcalf, my soul grieves.
This isn’t justice. This isn’t “community.” This is demonic hatred — plain and simple. All lives are made in the image of God. Every single one. Black, White, Brown — doesn’t matter.

Celebrating the loss of any innocent life, or cheering on evil because of skin color, is straight from the pit of hell.
And here’s the truth they don’t want you to say out loud: When Black conservatives, Christians, or truth-tellers like me call this out, we get labeled “traitors,” “Uncle Toms,” or “betrayers of the community.”
Let them talk.

I’d rather be disliked by some in my own community than stand before a Holy God and be found guilty of excusing evil, hating my neighbor, or twisting justice for racial points.
My allegiance is to Christ first — not color, not tribe, not political pressure.

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” (Isaiah 5:20)
I choose truth over tribe. Light over darkness. God over man.
Who else is tired of the hate? Drop a 🙏 if you stand for real justice — not skin color.
#AllLivesMatterToGod #FaithOverFear #TruthOverTribe

[QThestorm @17QStorm]

BREAKING: Marco Rubio just said the quiet part out loud.

Americans work 40+ years…

Pay taxes.
Follow the rules.
Build the country.

Then retire on $800, $900, maybe $1,000 a month.

Meanwhile, new arrivals can allegedly receive more support from the same system they never paid into.

Read that again.

The people who built America are being pushed to the back of the line.

This is not compassion.
This is a government priority problem.
America First was never just a slogan.
It was a warning.

Who comes first?

The taxpayer… or the system?