The central enlightenment idea is that the individual is the locus of suffering and of potential. If you can’t refute or agree with that, your ideology is wrong.

The reactionary hysteria that seems structurally inherent in social media is becoming exceedingly tedious. Especially from people on “my side.” If you want normies to disengage, keep it up.

Nuking the filibuster is NOT the only option for passing the SAVE America Act There are other ways to break a filibuster that involve neither “nuking” it nor 60 votes They all involve exhausting the obstructing senators—by making them speak We haven’t done that We should—now!

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History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet. Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years. And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor. You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

Make senators speak Make them debate the SAVE America Act Restore the talking filibuster

The belief that you only keep promises if the person continues to earn it is a logical fallacy. It also means you don’t know what a promise is.

A life of self-serving is a shallow horrible haunting place. Marriage gives you the opportunity for something far greater.

This account is one of the best on here. And it gets zero play. That’s how I know X is dogtrash

I think black holes are a concentration of anti-light matter where, unlike in the rest of the universe, antimatter exceeds matter.

Weekly reminder: Decline is a choice.

If she has a husband this is definitely what he's thinking about. 🤣

I recently had a cordial conversation with a Gen Z guy I consider more radical than me by far, and he was pretty insistent that older generations need to come to Gen Z and meet them where they are. I don't know why that should be the case, though. That's what the Democrats did, and it is an abominable failure. In fact, this is the same inverted model that we see in the Leftist education program called "Critical Pedagogy," which has taken over our schools. The students are supposed to be the equals or even leaders of the classroom. They call these things "democratic classrooms" or "student-led classrooms," in fact, and they don't work. The truth is that younger people, especially ones who have had to go through what Gen Z has had to go through (Covid, BLM, Woke demonization, etc.), need mentorship. They need to be seen and respected, have their inherent dignity and potential recognized, but they do not need to be met there. They need to be mentored away from the follies, passions, and vicissitudes of youth into productive, moral, and healthy convictions. They need to be given boundaries to operate within and opportunities to test their edges with clear instruction on when they go too far, with plenty of forgiveness, treated as teaching opportunities. So, this lurch in the youth is concerning because it has been common in mass-scale destabilizations of societies that get taken advantage of by the worst kinds of actors leading to the worst kinds of human-made catastrophes. It is also not correct to believe the older, more stable generations should compromise their values to meet these youthful dalliances. Instead, the youth should remember the commandment to respect their elders and to learn from them the ways they should go such that they will not depart from them. We older people, in our fear and frustration, can forget to see the potential, opportunity, and inalienable dignity of our younger, angrier, more rambunctious, and deeply misled and even groomed younger generation, who are just entering into the world of being our junior peers. That, though, is where we should and must reach them. That's where we meet them, but nowhere else.

Here's your harsh truth: Inflation isn't the problem. You just think you're entitled to every luxury. - You don't want to live in a 1000 sq ft house, it has to be 3000 sq ft - You need to drive a new car every 4 years - Vacation has to be at a nice hotel with room service - Dinner has to be Door Dashed because you're tired - I need a new iPhone every 18 months - Everyone goes to Disney World, so I deserve to as well No you don't. Make more money or be quiet. You're not entitled to eat out every day. Growing up, we ate out 2x a month, and it was a bag of burgers and a few large fries we split. "We shouldn't have to live like they did in the old days" No luxury is an entitlement. You still have to put in the work to afford it.

People often confuse what they want to happen with what should happen. These aren’t the same thing. Relatedly, you aren’t really that important at scale. Walk with that. You’ll be happier

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If you ever feel yourself becoming too collectivist utopian (right or left) just take a second to read the comments on an innocuous Elon post. Checks and balances is the only way to go

I’m a “Ben Shapiro conservative.” I accept that I’m part of a dying generation of conservatives, and I lament it because I know what’s rising in its stead. It’s a radical and revolutionary reactionary force that you helped create through years of demonizing and dispossessing white men. From making them scared and desperate. From trying—and often succeeding—in destroying the most milquetoast of conservatives for daring to question your Woke orthodoxy. I was one of those casualties. It cost me everything as a teacher and I’m still a pariah amongst the Leftist ideologues that run our schools—unemployable in public education. I have every reason to hate people like you—and perhaps if I possessed a different temperament I’d be part of the new revolutionary Right. But I’m not, because I know that the polemic wars of the far Left against the new far Right will do to this country that I love. And I should warn you against reveling in Ben’s diminishing audience, because what is replacing it frightens me, and it should utterly terrify you. You’re going to reap what you sowed, and one day, you’ll pray for the return of conservatives like Ben,

Rubio’s right:we’ve all been marinating in Marxist indoctrination for decades—usually without even realizing it Marxism offers no workable solutions It’s only tool is class conflict and perpetual revolution aimed at redistribution of wealth

Marxism—in all of its forms—is deadly “Don’t try this at home”

“We must undo the renaissance” is a new one for me. Eventually they’ll all one-up each other until they’re advocating for a RETVRN to some ancient primordial state of man. Classic occultic Duginism. Leftists are looking for the Garden of Eden by moving forward. The Postliberal Right is looking for the Garden of Eden by moving backward. Christians, (and the Founders) knew this won’t come until Christ returns and creates a new Heaven and new Earth. Until then, we have to work with what we got.