Unfolding tragedy for Christian’s in #Syria
Pray for Christians living in Syria who are facing persecution under the Al-Qaeda and ISIS jihadists who are taking over the country. I hope the US government has not had any part in this.
“abolish capitalism!”
cool. who grows the food???
no seriously—who’s out there at dawn breaking their back in the dirt, fixing broken irrigation lines, replacing a tractor axle in 110° heat—for free? because you think profit is mean?
who mines the lithium for your laptop, the cobalt for your EV battery, the iron for your train rails? who refines it? who ships it? who builds the ships? who insures them when they catch fire in the middle of the ocean?
who unloads the containers at the port? who drives the truck across 4 states? who services the diesel engine at the roadside stop in Nebraska when it breaks at 3am?
who keeps track of inventory, repairs the refrigeration system, updates the software, cleans the floors, builds the shelves, trains the workers, manages the risk, pays the legal fees, replaces the lightbulbs, handles the theft, the overtime, the breakdowns, the lawsuits?
who coordinates all of this across time zones and continents without profit?
you think the whole supply chain is just gonna keep running because everyone suddenly caught a case of the warm fuzzies???
you think people are going to wake up and go do hard, thankless, physical labor for vibes?
capitalism doesn’t work because people are good. it works because people are selfish and it figured out how to harness that into infrastructure. it’s the only system that survives human nature without needing to rewrite it
you kill profit, you kill production. you kill production, you kill logistics. you kill logistics, and suddenly it’s day four of your anti-capitalist utopia and the shelves are empty, the power’s out, the pharmacy’s closed, and nobody knows how to fix a fucking thing
anti-capitalism isn’t a philosophy. it’s a death wish dressed up as a virtue signal
it’s the aesthetic of rebellion powered by an iPhone, subsidized by Uber Eats, and resting on 400 years of industrial infrastructure you take for granted because you’ve never built a single useful thing in your life
you’re not oppressed. you’re just ungrateful
and the second you get your little no-profit revolution, you’ll find out exactly how long society runs on vibes: about three days, give or take—then the generators fail and you’re boiling rainwater so you can heat up your shitty powdered food
The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers. Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct US military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.
Germany 🇩🇪 voted for a black/blue coalition. If the CDU continues to shut AfD out of government and creates a coalition with SPD, no real and needed change will occur. I’d be surprised if a CDU/SPD coalition lasts more than a year or two.
#GermanElections#AfD#CDU
On this day in 1776, Edward Gibbon published the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a monumental work he would complete in six volumes by 1788.
If you haven’t read all six (which I highly recommend you do), here are the main things you need to know! 🧵
Insulting someone is not a crime, and criminalizing speech is going to put real strain on European-US relationships.
This is Orwellian, and everyone in Europe and the US must reject this lunacy.
Important listen. @DavidBe31099196 specifically describes the situation created by elitists in the UK that makes it ripe for mass civil unrest. Similar conditions exist across Western Europe and North America. I pray it’s not too late for Western Civ. #JDVance#Migration
In the latest episode of @maiden_podcast I spoke to David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World at King's College London, and specialist in the study of insurgency and counterinsurgency, information warfare, cyberwarfare, and propaganda.
We spoke about David's 2023 article titled 'Civil War Comes to the West' and his fear that such a conflict could break out in Britain within the next five years. We spoke about the academic literature on modern civil wars, why Britain is particularly vulnerable, the importance of the rural/urban divide, the vulnerability of British infrastructure, and the errors currently being made by the British government.
It’s available on all podcast platforms, no paywall.
https://t.co/3fOyHU8VfX
I LOVE this from Vice President J.D. Vance - speaking to Europe:
"The threat I worry most about, vis a vis Europe, is not Russia or China, or an external actor... it's the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from its fundamental values."
I was just told by a reliable source that there are serious discussions going on at the top level of the Trump administration about pushing mRNA vaccines for bird flu
39 Greek monasteries issue an open letter in support of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
“Nowadays, when the world is immersed in the violence of weapons and stands on the brink of nuclear catastrophe, we unite our voices and prayers with the voices of many Orthodox patriarchs, bishops, clergy and monks for the cruelly persecuted Ukrainian Orthodox Church, led by Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Onuphry.”
The abbots recalled the bloody storming of the UOC St. Archangel Michael Cathedral in Cherkassy. The appeal was signed by the abbots and abbesses of the monasteries of Greece and of Mt. Athos.
These people, giving glory to God amidst catastrophe, are a sign to us. Brings to mind the scene in "Andrei Rublev" inside the sacked cathedral, where Theophanes tells the grieving Andrei that his vocation is to create beauty to give the suffering hope.
Freedom is messy. It means letting people say things you don’t like, even things that make you uncomfortable. Why are we so afraid of open dialogue in 2025?