John A. Mapp, Jr.

In my first article here on X, I argue that America is based on a set of ideas that comprise a civic operating system. I attempt to outline those ideas here. This OS is compatible with any belief system that includes intelligible metaphysical realism and inalienable rights.

@georgehlowrey That’s why the Left won’t support nuclear either.

It's must less a genuine concern about carbon dioxide - which is plant food, after all - and much more about a quixotic, desperate longing to return to a utopian, pre-industrial state of nature a la Rousseau if we could just get rid of all those damned fossil fuels.

@TallRomanStatue @ingelramdecoucy

It is the year 2044, and MAGA just mandated that all of American's nuclear plants become gothicized. As a result, the Harambe School of Nuclear Engineering and Gothic Architecture is founded in Louisville, KY.

@Ne_pas_couvrir Me, noticing the voice frequency.

Laverne here is an elect, and she's awakened to the oppressive systems holding us down. Her goal is to raise a collective consciousness, sublate all those oppressive systems, & return the marginalized back to center of power to restore wholeness at a higher consciousness, maaan.

@data_republican And they are ALWAYS experiencing unusual call volume.

I'm sorry that I have been cranky for the past few days. I'm going to explain the evolution of the using the telephone to conduct business in chronological order: 1) You made a phone call to a business and someone answered the phone and helped you. 2) Then it evolved to you made a phone call and received a busy signal. 3) Then it advanced to putting you on hold (for a very long time... in the case of airlines it was HOURS!) 4) Then you heard a recording directing you to the website. (And if I could have done my business on the website, I would not be on the telephone.) 5) Now you get put on hold, sometimes for a long time, but it's usually not too bad nowadays. Except that you cannot understand the person you are speaking with because they have an accent that barely resembles American English. And after NINE phone calls this morning, my issue is still not resolved. And this is why I am cranky. But I LOVE every one of you! Please accept my apology!🤣❤️

Got off social media in disgust for a bit. Started wondering. Now I wonder, what if what's inside black holes is just light and the event horizon defines the volume of space necessary to contain the amount of photons at some maximum photon density with a given mass equivalence.

@miles_commodore “I Got a Name.”

What’s your favorite song from this guy?

@CynicalPublius @lpnyofficial This appeared on my timeline directly below your own comment, so I take it as a sign:

@lpnyofficial Please explain, using facts and logic, if you are capable of that, how you arrived at the wholly erroneous opinion that I have "no standards." Do tell, Dingleberry.

The ranking of Presidents is certainly a low bar, but when you have no standards, you end up with an opinion like this.

@AP4Liberty Congratulations!!

Announcement: Red headed libertarian Petersen baby number two is due on Christmas day! You're welcome.

@ingelramdecoucy @grahamformaine

One of our nation’s most precious resources is the willingness of young men & women to put on the uniform and lay down their lives for our country. It must never be abused. Susan Collins clearly has no respect for it, though. She blames us for serving in the wars she sent us to.

@serenitynowhere Well said!

@mapp_john14664 x.com/serenitynowher…

Many critiques of “capitalism” (more accurately known as the free enterprise system) are just critiques of human nature, which underlies all human systems. The free enterprise system is fault-tolerant because it disperses power while redirecting the natural flaws of human nature toward the good (i.e., we’re greedy, but we get paid for solving other people’s problems). Socialism destroys price signals and replaces them with raw power, which means the most psychopathic people in the country will seize the reins of power, hijack the system, and create misery for everyone but themselves. 1/2

Jesus explained the baffling alliance between the woke Left, Islam, and the woke Right. “If Satan is divided against himself, how then shall his kingdom stand?”

@MissInformx4f0 Our human nature is just as fallen now as it ever was. The savagery wasn’t bred out of us, it was trained and educated out of us. We are always just one generation away from a return to savagery, as Ronald Reagan famously pointed out.

@mapp_john14664 I like capitalism but the constant justification of it as being based on best fit of human nature is ignorant and naive. Human nature is mindless hordes raping and eating anything that moves. It took a long time to breed a modern man.

@Opperdienaar 💯

@mapp_john14664 Most of these critiques of human nature (greed) are usually followed by the advice to concentrate all power and property in the supreme leader of their favorite political gang.

@kevinnbass @DVanLangenhove The administrative class wants the kind of “democracy” where we get to vote on how the deck chairs are arranged on the Titanic while they steer the ship directly toward the iceberg without having to answer to anyone.

The case of @DVanLangenhove really exemplifies everything that has gone wrong with the West. He told the truth about mass migration using scientific facts. His speech, in turn, has been criminalized. The judge went on record saying that even if everything he said was completely accurate, it was criminal, because it created negative attitudes toward immigrants. Zoom out for a second and consider what this means. What has happened is that an administrative class with a total grip on power in Belgium has unilaterally declared some subjects off limits, subject to criminal penalties. Zoom out a little more. This administrative class can decide, by fiat, which areas of politics the citizens, scientists, journalists, politicians, etc. can lawfully participate in. And it can decide which areas are subject to that class's complete administrative control -- and off-limits for anyone outside of this class to meaningfully participate in. In other words, entire areas of politics have been turned into exclusively administrative domains, managed by bureaucrats. Judges, experts, government officials, etc. determine how society will be managed in those areas, and anyone attempting to question their control in those domains will be criminalized. The Dries Van Langenhove case is really about the metastasis of the administrative state. The administrative state forbids the citizens to participate on questions of critical, even existential, importance to how their own country should be run. This happened during COVID too. It happens in a lot of areas today. Trust the science (even though science is fake). Believe the experts (even though the experts are paid off and/or ideologues). That's misinformation (even though it is true). We are told that entire areas of politics are now cordoned off from our participation, even though these areas of politics are being systematically mismanaged by the people who are telling us not to become involved. The Dries Van Langenhove brought this out into relief in a way that I'm not sure anyone has done before. And for the reason, he should get an award. He hit just the right lever, and the judge was forced either to be silent, or to give an honest response. The judge gave an honest response, and with that, the judge revealed the system for what it is. Globally, we are now locked in an existential conflict with a dysfunctional administrative state that seems deadset on our societies' self-destruction. Only in America have we begun to partly break free with the election of Donald Trump. If a Democrat had been elected instead, the entire apparatus would have swung into action to try to lock in a situation much like the one that Van Langenhove's case revealed in Belgium. In America, we are safe for now. Or becoming safer. But globally, the battle rages on. We must fight. We must fight not just for our freedom to engage in meaningful political discussion about the future of our countries. But we must fight for any meaningful future at all. So long as this administrative class has power, the future of our countries is not safe. We must fight and fight to wrest more and more power away from this administrative class, and prevent it from reconsolidating itself, in America in particular. We must fight so that Western civilization, our children -- and possibly humanity itself -- has a future that we can be proud to pass down.

@OrdoFramework The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. I’m comfortable with both systems, but somehow I sense “kilometers” wouldn’t work here.

America has the mile. Europe the kilometre. But there's s/thing underneath that. Miles suggest place, custom, pilgrimage, road, fatigue, nearness, home. The metric system lost that. It is more abstracted, standardized, administered. I sense there's more to measurement than this.

@MarshallDActual @D00M42 I love to see heretical leftists hoisted by their own petard.

In which @D00M42 responds to a groomer who was arguing that God is nonbinary...

@TRobinsonNewEra @luvsluckdragons @HantsPolice British “police” are like the “firemen” of Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.”

So @HantsPolice laughed as Henry Nowak was dying, they took his and his dad's phones to search for "racism" in a sickening attempt to justify his murder!

Being cogs in a brutalist machine is no way to go through life, and it’s certainly not God’s plan for us. To cultivate renewed appreciation of the free enterprise system, we Americans need to go back to our roots and raise up a generation that recognizes our fundamental nature (imago dei), and which believes in reality, inalienable rights, decentralization of power, and all the other principles that our country was founded on. If that means dynamiting the teacher colleges, the educational bureaucracy, and the teachers unions, then so be it. 2/2

Recall the words of George Soros. They want to “embed [us] in a structure which precludes certain types of behavior.” That’s a euphemism for making elections inconsequential, thus preventing people from voting their way out of national suicide. 2/2

Be warned by this European court case. The censorship-administrative complex is only partially dormant in the US, but it WILL stage a comeback if we let our guard down. This is what awaits us if we fail to heed and act on what @DataRepublican has been writing about. 1/2