Riley Blanton

Intel Officer | Conflict & Culture.
Watchtower Intel (Substack) + @geekystoics
(Views my own, not Not DOW Endorsed)

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

That others may live

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Former CENTCOM commander Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie:

“It takes a year to build an aircraft — and 200 YEARS to build a military tradition where you don’t leave anybody behind.”

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

@sentdefender

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

Based

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

I brought the family to see Mandalorian and Grogu and everyone enjoyed it. Brought me back to seeing the originals with my parents.

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

@MikeConti929 @SoccerDownHere @Longshoe @929TheGame

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@StephenKentX

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

Ok I saw it.

It’s the best Star Wars movie featuring Rotta the Hutt.

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

@StephenKentX U should write a book about it

[Stephen Kent @StephenKentX]

When people roll their eyes at you for taking fairytales and stories really seriously, they’re neglecting how reality shapes fiction, and then fiction enters reality in a cyclical fashion. Man motivated by Catholicism, writes fantasy, future Pope cites in church canon 🔄 so cool

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

@FoxNews America is healing ❤️‍🩹

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@StephenKentX

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I legit thought this was AI generated

[sailor thats no moon @mirandaiiisms]

I can’t with how bad the acting is on the part of the influencers. Fake shock!!!! Wow!!! 🥴

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

@laceygilleran @SteeleWars That community note 😆

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@SteeleWars

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I talk about it with @ryfun on a new Watchtower Intel Podcast!

https://t.co/dWGuz5CdVF

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

Everyone keeps asking if we “won” Operation Epic Fury like it’s the Super Bowl, not a campaign inside a decades-long conflict.

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

@CMiller_Artist @ryfun @PaulRMQ Love the lighting!

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

I'm back. (to podcasting) https://t.co/lddQbBb4ft

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

@kevinobryan8 lol

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

It's crazy that Holiday and Moyer hold up Ted Lasso as a legit source of moral formation for secular parents.

The assumption underneath is clear: religious people outsource their moral reasoning to priests and prophets.

"If you're not going to church... where somebody else is doing that for you..."

AKA Christians can't think for themselves. The superior secular humanist, by contrast, arrives at objective morality through pure enlightened reason.

It's a condescending premise. And it's wrong.
@andrewklavan has a great YouTube video on Ted Lasso. His takeaway: that specific brand of unshakeable American optimism, and belief the show is built on? It's historically rooted in faith. Pull the faith out, and there is no foundation.

The show treats Ted's divorce as a mature, selfless act. Klavan calls it what it is: Hollywood's version of decency, where divorce is painless, sophisticated and normal, minimizing the true cost, particularly to children.

Here's the real irony... Hollywood inherited the blueprint for a good man from a faith tradition it despises.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

“As modern progressives not going to church we have to do more to inculcated moral lessons in our kids,” Ryan Holiday

“We watch Ted Lasso with our kids,” NYTimes science reporter

“Yes!"

🥴🥴

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

@biasbreakdown @TheMiddleborne Dang

[Riley Blanton @therileyguy]

@Fsubucs1 Fair, I meant more Hollywood’s perspective that the show itself (which portrays it it as a necessary good)