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To each their own within reason. Embrace the complexity. For civilization

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What is this place?

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@AGDugin Growing food is success. Did you just call growing food Satanic?

You have failed civilization step 1, food production.

Good luck.

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Your numbers are off. Christians lived in Syria beginning 2,000 years ago. The Muslim conquests through the 600-700s brought the Muslim population of Syria up to around half by 900, and 90% by 1300.

Tensions were high enough in 1850 Aleppo for Muslim rioters to commit the Massacre of Aleppo.

The Aleppo Christian population bolstered through the early 1900s due to Armenian refugees, then largely exited with the rise of the socialist authoritarian Ba'ath regime expropriating trade in 1961. The Christian exodus continued into the 70s as Muslim Syria joined Egypt in attacking Israel.

The Christian population of Aleppo is 1% recently. 98% Muslim. 1% other.

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"It’s easy when you’re young to think that you have all the time in the world, but it’s a hard fact of life and science that [...] you’re wasting valuable time.

The inverted priorities of our current culture encourages women to believe that getting married and having children are weights on an otherwise rich and carefree existence. And yet, young Americans have never felt less happy or carefree.

Children are not an obstacle, they're a gift from the Lord. They give life so much more meaning than you could ever imagine."

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

This @nytimes op-ed completely misses the point on the purpose of marriage and children and completely misrepresents my views in the process. The entire article is laced with viewing family through the lens of money and career as if those things bring fulfillment and purpose. When you’re on your death bed, your money and your career won’t be whispering in your ear “I love you” as you take your last breath. The material goods and fortune of this world mean nothing when we go to our eternal resting place.

The author also conveniently leaves out the part of my Hillsdale commencement speech where I said “marry young, not rushed, but young.”

We serve a God of order and when you live a life ordered there’s a double portion of grace. Meaning marriage first, then kids, and everything else. Timing matters because life is shorter than you might think, and you never know what could happen. The point is, don’t put it off. Don’t rush it or force it if it’s not right, but don’t put it off.

I say this from a place of personal reflection. My marriage with Charlie and our babies are the biggest blessings of my life. I was 32 when I married Charlie, which in my mind is neither young to start a family or old. You just run up against statistics at that point and it just so happened to be the Lord’s timing and He still blessed us with two beautiful children. But I wish we met and were able to start our life and family together much sooner.

There is no such thing as perfect timing to have kids. Financial struggles are a part of life, but the problem is a lot of Americans are self-surviving, not self-sacrificing, and they expect to live a very distinct lifestyle based on what they see online. When Charlie encouraged young people to have more kids than they can afford, he wasn’t saying to recklessly bring a child into this world and have them on welfare. He was saying children aren’t a luxury item to have once you meet a certain tax bracket threshold. You don’t need a mansion in order to build a family.

It’s easy when you’re young to think that you have all the time in the world, but it’s a hard fact of life and science that that’s simply not the case. If you've met your person and you’re checking off boxes based on societal expectations of dating for a couple years, then a long engagement, then adjusting to married life before having children, you’re wasting valuable time. Getting pregnant in your late 30s and 40s is usually a lot harder than in your late 20s. Not always, but it’s a hard reality for many couples.

The inverted priorities of our current culture encourages women to believe that getting married and having children are weights on an otherwise rich and carefree existence. And yet, young Americans have never felt less happy or carefree. Children are not an obstacle, they're a gift from the Lord. They give life so much more meaning than you could ever imagine. When we stop looking at marriage and children as barriers to a happy life, maybe then there’ll be progress in this country.

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There have been many moral codes. Most failed.

There have been many secular societies.

From what culture did your individual freedoms originate?

Why did those same freedoms not make it into secular communist Russia, China, or Cambodia?

Islamic societies are not secular or free.

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@SaltyGoat17 I thought this was sarcasm.

Christmas Vacation and Easter Vacation would like a word.

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@japan_nobunaga Envy is the line. The daughter of pride.

X and truth help to unite, but gratitude and humility are an individual choice.

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@avidseries Closer to truth

Humility, gratitude, diligence, and patience would do wonders for all

Intelligence optional

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@Noahpinion Any ideas on changing the discourse from envy, envy, and more envy to gratitude, production, and theft (redistribution)?

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@UziCryptoo Amused to death.

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@williameijer @rogerwaters, you called it!

Interesting how those protecting the US liberal republic are the ones conserving the liberal society.

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Kids were never an option. They are the point. Man is the measure.

"My great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations"

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"The real [downfall] is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point."

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"We are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future."

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US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"

my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable

the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point

we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it

the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive

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@brivael Well said.

One clarifying note: cartels suffering or falling apart due to too many mistakes is a feature, rather than a bug.

These mistakes are best rectified by new or better performers.

The speed and acceleration of innovation or improvements determines the winner.

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"Fact-checking is no longer a department. It’s a network effect."

Driving towards truth: the best predictor of the future.

Cultural differences now providing weight and perspectives to better the global marketplace of ideas, in addition to the local marketplace.

From France -

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Je crois qu'on ne mesure pas ce qu'Elon Musk est en train de construire avec X.

Tous les médias de l'histoire ont été couplés à une culture, une langue, une bulle géographique. Le Monde parle aux Français. Le NYT parle aux Américains. NHK parle aux Japonais. Chaque média filtre le réel à travers le prisme de sa culture locale.

X est en train de devenir le premier média de l'humanité. Pas d'un pays. De l'espèce.

Je le vis en temps réel. Mes posts en français se font RT par des Japonais, répondre par des Brésiliens, citer par des Américains. Des conversations qui n'auraient jamais existé il y a 5 ans. Un libertarien français qui débat avec un ingénieur de Tokyo et un entrepreneur de Sao Paulo sous le même tweet. Pas traduit par un éditeur. Traduit instantanément par l'IA, en un clic.

Les bulles de filtre culturelles sont en train d'exploser.

Et je pense qu'on sous-estime massivement les effets composés de ça.

Quand une idée peut traverser un océan en 3 secondes, quand un argument sourcé posté à Paris peut être vérifié par un économiste à Singapour et amplifié par un développeur à Austin dans la même heure, le coût de propagation d'une bonne idée tend vers zéro.

Et c'est catastrophique pour un type d'acteur très précis : les médias qui ont construit leur business model sur le monopole de l'information locale. Ceux qui pouvaient raconter n'importe quoi sur "ce qui se passe ailleurs" parce que personne ne pouvait vérifier.

Quand un journaliste français écrit que "le modèle américain ne marche pas", maintenant il y a 50 Américains dans les réponses avec des sources. Quand un éditorialiste dit que "le Danemark prouve que le socialisme fonctionne", il y a un Danois qui explique que le Danemark est 10e en liberté économique mondiale.

Le fact-checking n'est plus un département. C'est un effet réseau.

Les médias honnêtes n'ont rien à craindre de ça. Les médias qui vendaient une narration protégée par l'ignorance géographique de leur audience vont avoir un problème existentiel.

Parce qu'on ne peut plus mentir à l'échelle locale quand le monde entier regarde.

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@TRHLofficial We all did. They all did.

No one alive then or today can say that they have not sinned in their heart and thought.

Jesus died for us all that day.

He selflessly gave himself for each of us for our sin.

All of us. All of our sins.

The team is mankind.

And he is victorious.

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@ChrisMartzWX April Fool's. Good one. You rock.

The US was founded knowing that being less wrong is the best anyone can do, which requires disagreement. And the pendulum is coming back now.

How so many are fooled to believe that totalitarian government is freedom, is a separate question.

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If you cannot name your own sin, you've idolized yourself.

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"It alters how foundations are perceived. Responsibility is made to smell like cruelty, law like oppression, borders like hatred, tradition like danger, history like guilt."

This post is not about ants.

Rather, the need to find truth.

We can all learn to be less wrong.

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There is a species of ant that approaches the edge of another colony, kills a single worker, and then takes on the dead ant’s scent.

For ants, scent is everything. Wearing that scent, the intruder walks in with no resistance. The workers pass by without concern.

The intruder moves inward, toward the queen, then It sprays the queen with a different scent that makes the workers turn on her. Then they surround her and kill her.

The intruder does not need to fight anyone. The colony does the work itself.

Once the queen is gone, the intruder reproduces. The true invader is no longer an intruder. It is the future.

This is how ideological takeover works.

A destructive foreign ideology takes the scent of familiar ideas and walks in as if it belongs.

It speaks the native vocabulary, justice, equality, compassion, rights, progress. It uses these words and quietly changes what they point to.

Then it moves inward.

It alters how foundations are perceived. Responsibility is made to smell like cruelty, law like oppression, borders like hatred, tradition like danger, history like guilt.

At that point, the civilization turns on itself.

Its courts, universities, churches, media, and bureaucracies begin treating their own foundations as threats. They believe they are defending the system.

They are enforcing what now smells legitimate. They do not see the intruder because it sounds exactly like them.

And when the founding principles are finally removed, discredited, dismantled, erased, the foreign ideology does not need to conquer anything. It inherits what is left.

The queen is gone. The colony is no longer itself.

The most effective conquest is the one that convinces a society that its own foundations are the enemy, and that killing them is an act of virtue.

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@ItsLulu_7 Poverty is the default state of all life

Capitalism incentivizes creation reducing poverty

Capitalism cannot solve envy

Communism cannot solve envy or creation

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@mfairhaus @megbasham @JohnPiper Did you just call for the disillusionment of law and government?

The Bible very much distinguishes between the individual heart and government function.

Jesus himself makes this distinction in Matthew 22:21.

Paul elaborates to the Romans in Romans 13:1-7.

Truth is light.

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This is an important point that you've made crystal clear.

The Bible is not the entirety of life and cannot be. The freedom, love, and truth it teaches cannot be theocratic. It is a guide and target - assuming that one believes something beyond spacetime must exist, or appreciates the arc of history over the past 2,000 years, or simply believes in the divine.