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18hr ago
https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2059310640037269628?lang=en
It’s Iran and CENTCOM vs Trump admin. But Trump Admin is pretty much always lying. So why would you trust the Admin on this? Ships destined for China may be passing through without escort as part of an American-Chinese deal. Do you really think America would blockade things destined for China? How do you think China would reply to that?
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20hr ago
The ships we see going through are for Iran-allied countries, eg China. I don’t think the US military would be escorting ships carrying oil for China.
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20hr ago
Video game industry will continue shift toward mobile and freemium. Movie studios will make deals with short-form video apps for the rights to “micro movies”. Vanilla WoW will remain the best mmorpg of all time. Someone will begin combining porn, lootboxes, short-form video (on the corner of the screen like a minimap) and flavored vapes into one singular video game product (they use Amazon Prime to mail you flavored carts relevant to your video game progression within 24hrs), a Gesamtkunstwerk of vice. Schools will try to teach language in schools not with phonics, but with ebonics, using rap-a-along content.
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20hr ago
during the last closure the US military escorted many ships
The problem is that we don’t really know if this is true or not. The Admin has an interest in pretending that this is occurring, both to buffer the economy and sow confusion in Iran.
Iran is apparently deeply divided
We also don’t know if this is part of Iran’s negotiation tactic, allowing them to renege on previous promises while blaming it on a rogue faction, like how America can blame things on Israel while also having the ability to stop them at threat of force.
NGOs on the ground teaching Iranian clerics to embrace hashtag Black Girl Magic
This is not typically the criticism of our previous excursions, but that they cost trillions of dollars and led to many casualties and caused other problems down the road. All the black girl magic in the world likely did not exceed $100mil.
I still predict boots on the ground eventually. Trump does not have the temperament or neural plasticity to change course.
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1d ago
We should aim to treat 10 with psychological interventions. I highly doubt we have exhausted the possibilities for treating the disorder. Have we tried psychedelics, like ecstasy and LSD, to nudge them toward loving themselves? As a last resort, maybe we allow them to neuter themselves, but there is as much relation between “sever junk” and “I’m a beautiful woman” as there is between “sever limb” and “I’m a butterfly”. There is no reason to think that 10 is closer to being a woman than 1. The most adamant transgenders are often the most masculinized behaviorally. In what sense does a 10 who is a video game speedrunner or a fan of Paradox games plausibly know what being a woman involves? It’s likely that they know less about the inner life of women than the average rugby player whose name is literally Chad.
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2d ago
I can hardly find anything on it. Seems like an interesting neo-Confucian syncretism religious movement that may or may not be extinct.
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2d ago
Does anyone have any thoughts on so-called Chinese Salvationist Religions?
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2d ago
I’d argue Kirk was the most well-known politically-active non-politician for Americans for under-25. If you typed “politics” into tik tok you would see either Kirk, someone trying to dunk on Kirk, or someone criticizing Kirk. All of the other contenders (Hasan, Withers, Nick Fuentes) were responding to something Kirk-related on a weekly or monthly basis. His videos were everywhere.
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2d ago
The Right of the entire West, it seems.
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2d ago
Robinson was part of a leftist community online, which is why his bullet had the words “O Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Ciao, ciao” on it. I’m sure more information on this will come out after or during the trial. Christians do consider soldiers martyrs, depending on the cause. Also denomination dependent. There are many cases of American martyrs whose stories are just completely made up, like Matthew Shepherd who died from a meth-related incident.
Widows should wear black and take on the role of a victim, but she wore a white girlboss suit and presented herself as a new leader. This is not the liberal’s doing, it was just a tasteless and irresponsible choice. Also, the addition of conscious artifice to mourning is old. Like ancient Babylon and Old Testament old, where the family of the deceased would hire ritual female weepers. The problem is not so much that Erika was artificial as that her artifice was tasteless. Not to blame someone going through the worst event of her life, but her team should have stepped in and commanded her what to do.
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3d ago
The Right does not know how to do martyrdom culture. It’s sad because Kirk could have been a great conservative martyr. But we just don’t know how, apparently. We lost the technology. The, the spirit of a martyr should be carried through reverent rituals and heart-moving music. They tried to carry it with pyrotechnic displays, a colorful widow in too much makeup, really silly events, etc. Just terrible. Tasteless and senseless. You needed a song like Horst Wessel Lied that could be sung in a mass gathering under reddish hued lighting. You needed dedicated photographers to only present the experiences in the most powerful frame. You needed to associate his death with weeping women. George Floyd was effectively martyrized because the Public consumed his image intermediated by emotional actors (TV anchors), saddened women replaying his death, and cool people telling you to join them in a march. But the Left immediately de-martyred him through a face-swapping meme and the intentionally humorous “we are Charlie Kirk” anthem. Just plain social engineering that the right can’t compete with.
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6d ago
The claim seems like nonsense. From what I can find, the only verified evidence of the supposed assault is this 2023 Facebook conversation:
“I feel morally obligated to warn you if you were anything more than friends with Graham,” she wrote in a message reviewed by CNN. “He’s not all bad, but I ended up in a bad situation with him and I will just very politely call him consensually careless at times.” When the other woman asked if “he forces himself on people?” Racicot replied “doesn’t listen when drunk…”
This is extremely strong evidence that he did not commit any assault. A raped woman is unlikely to convey her experiences like this. He’s not all bad??? Bad situation? Not providing a yes/no when asked directly if he committed assault? No woman since the end of the Ottoman Empire has characterized her rapist as “not all bad”
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8d ago
Algorithms feel more patriotic to me, inorganically so, though I don’t really mind.
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10d ago
The Society of St. Pius X, also known as SSPX, rejects many modern ways of living, requiring modest dress for women, enforcing strict divisions between genders and encouraging large families. As members of the group have gotten into political leadership, they’ve imposed those beliefs, jettisoning books that mention LGBTQ+ people from the public library and shutting down a municipal swimming pool.
This seems awfully close to authentic post-Apostolic Western Christianity. The church fathers are unanimous that women should be clothed and veiled, that genders should be separated, and that there should be no communal pool usage. This latter thing is funny because it’s like straight out of patristic writing. Romans would attend baths that acted as community leisure, and the Christian authorities forbade attendance because of gender mingling and opportunity for lust.
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10d ago
The Parable of the Good Samaritan is about how to treat schismatics, if anything, not about how to treat the strictly foreign and alien. The take away from this parable would be: “maintain neighborly love for a group like the SSPX”. The Samaritans were Israelites, existing within the borders of Israel, of the same blood and history as Jews, with scriptural and ritual overlap but large departures in orthodoxy and orthopraxy. The Jews were able to engage in some rituals with them, according to the Talmud, but otherwise they were treated as a heretical group. For an example of Catholics attempting to practice the meaning being this parable, see how they responded to yesterday’s excommunication of the SSPX. You will find a lot of malice and spite. Yet the SSPX is 99x more similar to the Vatican than the Samaritans to the ancient Jews.
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11d ago
Maybe already noted ITT, but the Catholic Church has been losing members for decades among citizens, and now 36% of their members are Hispanic. A large fraction of that is illegal migrants and their children. So there’s a clear financial, parish solvency conflict of interest in addition to the other issues. They would have otherwise had to shutter ~30% of their churches or something.
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13d ago
These things were moving incredibly fast in and out of clouds, very high in the air, maybe a mile up, and a mile or two in front of me. I suppose it could be a searchlight / spotlight plus strange atmospheric conditions, but it did not seem to be reflecting off of the clouds as much as passing through them, there was no beacon leading up to the light source, and it was changing its altitude consistently. The day before I took this a plane near me encountered a drone and then three days later a plane hit a drone. At the end of that video, when they stall in unison, that’s not an artifact of the video but just what they did. But maybe it really is just a searchlight and weird visual tricks because of overcast weather? I don’t know.
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13d ago
I recall there were some users here really into UFOs. Are they still on the forum? I’m ~80% sure that I saw “UFOS” the other day, which I assume is always just some weird government drone exercise. If they’re still here I’d like to upload the video somewhere to get their opinion.
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14d ago
The heuristics it teaches about life and history are inaccurate.
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14d ago
In Halo 3, the Master and Savior of humanity sacrifices himself in the “gravemind”, says “it is finished”, and is then entombed cryogenically frozen and later “resurrected”, all of which is very Biblical. But this is shallow because most things in our culture are shallow. To Kill a Mockingbird? Lord of the Flies? Not just shallow but actively detrimental to cultivating wisdom. Just worthless slop.
“Christianity done for political aims” is the traditional form of Christianity. The State has been invested in Christianity and using it for her own influence since Constantine. Remember that America got Pope John Paul II elected as an anti-Soviet measure.
Russia has mass muslim migration
You mean the central Asian migrants that will not receive citizenship? Who cares? The problem has always been political enfranchisement and replacement. Moscow is 90% White while NYC is like 30% White.
already fairly Muslim
Because the North Caucasus was always Muslim, and they took it over. It’s not because of migration. Russia’s cultural capitals are way more Russian than ours are White American.
the whole anti LGBT thing seems to miss out a lot - Russia is just repressed, not some trad paradise
This is like NAFO propaganda. No, they are not all secretly gay or doing secret mass rape in the military; no, the new ayatollah is not gay either. They do not have 1% of the gay culture that America has, neither do they have gay mafias in their arts scenes or in tech like America. I would prefer that we “bash the gays” than allow them the kind of power they have in the West. I know two straight men in the classical arts who have been prevented from advancing in the industry because they aren’t gay. This is common where homosexuals get into power and I am personally envious of Russia’s ability to throw them back into the closet. I actually want straight men in all influential positions, but perhaps this is a matter of cultural taste, ie I like their cultural products and their conservatism and do not like to see homosexuality celebrated in our major cities.
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14d ago
The Bible’s influence is everywhere in our culture. The year’s biggest game so far is Resident Evil Requiem. The most anticipated launch next month is Halo, about the savior “John 117” and a covenant, flood, and ark. The most popular movie this year is Project Hail Mary. Not to mention that the Bible is essential for understanding Western music and literature before 1900. If we were thinking objectively about what readings to include in public education for the purpose of cultural literacy, easily half the readings would just be the Bible. Probably more like 80% of the readings.
The "earlier claim" tweet was written right after the MOU ended (june 17th to July 8th). Your OP assertion is "we know that during the last closure the US military escorted many ships through". The "since early May" in the CENTCOM tweet may be doing a lot of work here: do they mean that, technically speaking, between early May and until June 8th there were escorted ships, all of which occurred during the MOU phase? If they mean, as the phrase suggests (versus what it technically includes), that there were ships passing through in early May, this would go against CENTCOM’s May 26 post:
I mean, at least one of their posts must be misleading. They are correcting the claim that America is escorting ships (on May 26) with “project freedom has not resumed”. But project freedom stopped on May 5th. So this tweet suggests that from the 5th to at least the 26th, there were no escorted ships.
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