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@Heidel_bro1563 Always +1 a good chiasmus!

“I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need.” -Charles Spurgeon

@jaysonyork That's what Sunday School is for, isn't it?

Unpopular pastoral opinion: Until the evangelical pastors and their congregations learn that a 30 min, 3 bullet point sermon, one morning a week is not enough Bible teaching to help us walk in a manner worthy of our call, the church will continue to foster biblically illiteracy

@ColinBrazierTV It hath been ever thus...

As a young man I retained a sense that Britain was run by grown-ups, politicians and civil servants capable of making tough choices when required. I cannot believe they would, for instance, have allowed the situation we are now in, where a malevolent regime like the Iranian mullahs might have ballistic missiles capable of striking the UK, which we cannot shoot down. This has been coming for years, and yet - for reasons of cost or strategic neglect - Britain has no missile shield. The technology exists and several other Western nations are developing or deploying it. We have fallen behind in the most basic, profound and existential sense. Time was when such an epiphany would’ve resulted in drastic action. But there is absolutely no sense that our current crop of Labour MPs grasp what’s at stake. Many of us are resigned to managed decline. But this is something worse. In years to come we risk growing ever more vulnerable to hostile powers who wish us harm, and have the wherewithal to visit death at will to almost any part of our once impregnable island. The situation is not irremediable. The money could be found. Hard choices could be made which wouldn’t further drain the country of brains, talent and ambition. But our current Government will pass the chalice and waste years in the process. This goes way beyond party political point-scoring, because this is a failure that is a stain on our entire leadership class. Some will say nothing has changed: the Soviets threatened us with nuclear annihilation for decades. True. But they cleaved to a grim logic of deterrence. The world we are entering is one where truly rogue actors, who don’t care if we respond in kind, may already be capable of destroying the village, town or city where you and yours live. This is new. And our children will reap the whirlwind of our indolence and indecision.

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@reddit_lies @midwestern_ope There are gigantic starfish shaped intersections in my nearby city which should be roundabouts.

@midwestern_ope Roundabouts are an IQ test

Something snapped in 2014 and then every Midwest city planner decided roundabouts were the answer to this nations problems

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“Corporate farming methods” are why you don’t have to do backbreaking work as a farmer anymore and why starvation is the exception rather than the rule around the world today

THOMAS JEFFERSON: "It was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged the Mahometan's authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoner."

@ShadesOfRani @maiamindel

@maiamindel that would be why "The Halls of Tripoli" is mentioned in the Marine Hymn. Seriously, the first overseas mission of the Navy and Marines was to deal with the islamists who were demanding jizya from the US.

the founding fathers saw islam as a really cool foreign religion and catholicism as basically a mental parasite commanding a legion of violent fanatics

@doloyeung youtube.com/watch?v=L-8h89…

"The Sopranos is goated" "Breaking Bad is the best TV show of all time" "The Wire is unrivalled" I just watched an episode of Kojak that starred Eli Wallach, Michael Gazzo, Jerry Orbach, and Murray F. Abraham

@MohamoudGaildon @JohnCleese Bullshitting the infidels is part of Jihad too. "War is deception," as the hadith says. And we know all about the abrogation of the conciliatory verses by the later violent verses.

‘"There is no compulsion in religion" (لاَ إِكْرَاهَ فِي الدِّينِ) is a fundamental Quranic principle from Surah Al-Baqarah (2:256).’ Just in case you’re interested, Islam doesn’t allow forcing non-Muslims to accept Islam. Nowadays, I acknowledge, there are those like ISIS who kill non-Muslims, and Muslims too by the way, just because they don’t share their Muslim faith or practice it the way the terrorists see fit. That’s not what Islam is about. Communities of faiths predating Islam have kept their faiths under Islam for many centuries.

Does this silly little man not understand that Islam is a very aggressive belief system, threatening death to anyone who does not convert to Islam The Buddhists, the Taoists, the Scottish Presbyterians, the Hindus and the Sikhs and the Confucians and the Catholics don't go around shouting about beheading people they disagree with Is this too much for your tiny little brain to take in ? Oh. The doorbell rang. The police I assume...

@intothefuture45 Likewise, V. S. Naipaul noted that secularists couldn't comprehend being the object of a Third World religious war, which is why they kept framing terrorist attacks as the poor rising against the rich.

I can't find the exact quote, but historian of Islam Bernard Lewis argued that our elites struggled to understand that the jihadists like Al-Qaeda really said what they meant and meant what they said because of our baseline secular worldview.

@colmflynnire Should also ask if they've ever heard of Theo Van Gogh.

Belgium’s publicly funded youth radio station, Studio Brussel (VRT), featured a sketch in which its breakfast presenters smashed various items on air, including a statue of Our Lady and Jesus. I asked if they were concerned it would cause offence, and if they would do the same to a symbol of Islam or Judaism.

@colmflynnire They know that if they mock the wrong prophet, they'll die bleeding in the street.

@SOFXnetwork Defense contractors can't be happy with that!

A U.S. Marine Corps release on March 23, 2026 detailed how Lance Cpl. Eirick Schule developed a 3D-printed replacement for the MUOS antenna mast in April 2025, cutting costs from $5,644 per unit to about $10 and reducing delivery time from over 7 months to 10 hours, with 107 units produced and an estimated $600,000 saved.

@hicsuntleones02 @AndrewKolvet Very welcome news, but did ICE actually staff the screening stations? If not, what accounts for the wait time falloff?

So not only did ICE fix the wait lines at Atlanta's airport, now leftists are coming to protest them!! This is an important microcosm of modern America. Democrats screw things up. We try to fix it. Leftists protest you trying to fix the problem they created. They hate you and want you to suffer.

@libsoftiktok What a lot of "bad luck"!

JUST IN: New study reveals that Gavin Newscum's $20 minimum wage hike in California is BACKFIRING, resulting in slashed hours, increased costs for customers, lack of hiring, and store closures. It's almost like forcing companies to pay high wages doesn't work! Who could have possibly guessed that?!

@Defendthewest17 The most erudite thing I've ever seen on television. I love it so much I ripped the audio track and listen to it in the car on longer trips.

You need to watch Kenneth Clark’s 1969 docuseries, Civilisation. He covers the fall of Rome up to the mid 20th century. It’s 13 parts and 11 hours long, but it’s incredible.

@deelo190 @JustViewsX @Turbinetraveler It was nighttime; maybe they were just momentarily dazzled by the zillions of flashing lights everywhere? Momentary lapse of focus?

@JustViewsX @Turbinetraveler There’s no way they didn’t see it. It may have been obscured to some extent; maybe due to water on the windows combined with low visibility… But there is no way they didn’t see it -

Here’s CCTV footage capturing the exact moment Air Canada Express Flight AC8646, a Bombardier CRJ-900, collided with a Port Authority fire truck at LaGuardia Airport last night.

@APLeDeluge @ThomBrady5 I was aware of that in Pakistan, didn't know it about India.

@BruceThompson51 @ThomBrady5 You realize that women are prosecuted for their own rapes in India, right?

would you rather be an African slave in 1840 antebellum American South, or an Indian beggar in the modern world? Objectively the standard of living in India is overcrowded, dirty, dangerous, and poor.

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