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@CaseyinAlaska

Airline Captain, Retired USMC(R), Catholic, Outdoor Adventures. :)

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Casey@CaseyinAlaska·
If you think these goals and ideas are weird or whacko or a bit out there, you definitely need to re-examine your principles in life. You are off base. Not @charliekirk11
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@findveritasx Praying for your Strength &!Wisdom.
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Sean@findveritasx·
Told my very anti Catholic family member I’m Catholic now. Had a fun impromptu debate until midnight, but that was last reason I hadn’t been public about my conversion. Now no reason not to be open about it to everyone now. A great feeling, but also a bit of a weight to know my life is going to be a very public testimony to the Catholic Church. That is, if I do stupid things, people will say “see he never was a real Christian” and if I am noticeably a better person, I hope it would be seen as a credit to the Church and the grace for sanctification God gives through the sacraments.
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Casey@CaseyinAlaska·
True? @NEWSMAX
Ricardo@Ric_RTP

Big Tech is destroying American farmland to build $700 BILLION data centers filled with chips that will be worthless within 3 years. They're literally lying to you about what the math actually looks like: Nvidia releases a new chip architecture every two years and now ships upgrades annually within each generation. Every release makes the previous generation economically dead for cutting-edge AI. Jensen Huang literally said it on stage: "When Blackwell starts shipping in volume, you couldn't give Hoppers away." The next generation, Vera Rubin, ships later this year. 10x the performance per watt. 10x cheaper inference. A Princeton study found that GPUs running standard AI workloads physically survive one to two years, three at most, before thermal stress destroys them. So the chips die fast and become obsolete even faster. But here's the accounting trick that makes the whole thing look profitable: Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon are depreciating these chips over 5 to 6 years on their books. They used to use 3 years but they extended the schedule right as AI spending exploded. Meta alone extended its depreciation timeline 3 separate times in 3 years, each extension conveniently boosting quarterly earnings by billions. If you depreciate a chip over 6 years but it becomes worthless in two, your reported profits are FAKE. You're spreading the cost over years where the asset generates zero value. Your earnings look incredible on paper while the actual hardware sits in a rack burning electricity for no economic reason. Michael Burry ran the numbers on this: He estimates that from 2026 to 2028, depreciation across the hyperscalers will be understated by $176 billion. That means these companies are overstating profits by over 20%. He put 79% of his final portfolio into bets AGAINST Nvidia and Palantir before shutting down his fund entirely. Now here's where it gets criminal... These data centers need to go somewhere. And Big Tech is shoving them into rural communities that have ZERO power to fight back. 67% of new data centers are being built outside cities on farmland and in small towns. Trump signed an executive order streamlining permitting for any project over $500 million, which effectively lets developers bypass local opposition entirely. A Michigan farm town just found out what that looks like in practice: Saline Township voted NO to a $16 billion OpenAI-Oracle data center. The board rejected it 4-1. But two days later, the developer sued. And the developer is Related Digital, founded by billionaire Stephen Ross, and one of its vice presidents is married to Michigan's Secretary of State who is now running for governor. The township couldn't afford a legal war against OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank. So they settled - and construction started immediately. Over 100 communities across 12 states have tried to block data center builds this year. Electricity rates are up 32% in 5 years. And every few years the entire computing infrastructure inside these buildings gets ripped out and replaced with the next generation, consuming more power, more water, and more of the local grid each cycle. The buildings are permanent, the disruption is permanent, but the chips are disposable. These towns are not hosting infrastructure. They're just absorbing the physical consequences of a financial model that needs permanent construction and permanent replacement to keep quarterly earnings looking right. The executives will simply move on and throw away the chips. But the damage will stay.

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Casey@CaseyinAlaska·
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Cameron Riecker@riecker

In 1634, the Virgin Mary appeared to a nun in Ecuador and told her exactly what would happen to our world. She said it 400 years ago. It's coming true right now. And almost no Catholic alive has ever been told about it. The apparition is called Our Lady of Good Success. The local bishop investigated it. Declared it supernatural. The Church approved it. And the seer — Sister Mariana de Jesús — has an open cause for canonization. Here's part of what Our Lady said: "The sacrament of matrimony will be thoroughly attacked and profaned... the enemies of the Church will focus principally on the children... In those fateful times, childish innocence will hardly be found." She said Satan would reign after the middle of the 20th century. She said he would attack from inside the home. She said the target would be the children. Read that again. Slowly. Because she said all of that in 1634. Now — before you decide if she was right about our time, look at what else she predicted in that same apparition. She said one single pope would define both papal infallibility AND the Immaculate Conception as dogma. Pope Pius IX did exactly that. 1854 and 1870. She said that same pope would become a "prisoner in the Vatican." When Italian forces seized the Vatican in 1870, Pius IX refused to accept the seizure and called himself — word for word — a prisoner in the Vatican. She said a Catholic president would consecrate his nation to the Sacred Heart and be martyred in a specific square. Gabriel Garcia Moreno of Ecuador. Consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart in 1873. Ambushed by Freemasons with machetes and revolvers leaving Mass on August 6, 1875. His last words? "Dios no muere." God does not die. Pope Pius IX called him a martyr for the faith. Every specific prophecy she gave. Every one. Fulfilled. So when Our Lady of Good Success warns us that Satan would invade the home and target the children — we should probably pay attention. Here's how it's coming true in real time: In 1950, about 9% of American households owned a television. By 1960, 90%. Mother Teresa called the television "Satan's tabernacle." Now it fits in your pocket. It sits on your nightstand. It wakes up your children. It tucks them in. The home has been invaded. Not with armies. With screens. With divorce normalized. With contraception rebranded as freedom. With fatherhood mocked. With motherhood treated like a career obstacle. Look around. Childish innocence is hardly found. But here's what almost no one tells you about the prophecy: Our Lady of Good Success didn't end with the warning. She ended with a promise. She said that when everything seems lost — when matrimony is profaned, when the children are corrupted, when Satan seems to be reigning — that will be the arrival of her hour. Her words: "In a marvelous way I will dethrone the proud and cursed Satan, trampling him under my feet and fettering him in the infernal abyss." And decades after Quito, Our Lady appeared again — at Fatima — and gave Sister Lucia a final message that sealed everything she warned about 400 years earlier: "The final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family. Don't be afraid... Nevertheless, Our Lady has already crushed his head." Do you understand what that means? The serpent is already defeated. The outcome of this battle was decided the moment Christ rose from the tomb. The moment the woman from Genesis 3:15 said fiat. The moment the cross stood on Golgotha. The enemy is loud. The enemy is everywhere. The enemy looks like he's winning. He is not. He has already lost. So tonight — please — pray. Pray a Rosary for your family. Our Lady is asking for this hour. She has been asking for it for 400 years. She is the woman who crushes the serpent's head. And she is asking us to stand beside her while she does it. Do not be afraid. Send this to a Catholic friend who needs to hear it.

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I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸
Woman who went to work for the social services department said she started out as a full liberal, but by the time she left the job, she came out a Republican. She says that through anyone’s Social Security number who applied for benefits, she was able to tell whether a person was working, owned property or cars, the status of their bank accounts, and their salary. However, she says there is a loophole that allows illegal aliens without a Social Security number to also apply for benefits such as food stamps, healthcare, housing, WIC, and childcare. If these illegals had children, their kids would receive benefits as well. According to her, the department had no way to verify whether these immigrants had income, owned property, or how much money they made. She claims that illegal immigrant parents would receive $1,200 per child, plus $275 per person in cash assistance and food stamps, not mentioning free housing or other benefits. She also says that some people applying for benefits would show up with their hair and nails done, carrying expensive accessories and driving luxury cars. Meanwhile, American citizens often would not qualify for the same benefits. She added that this exists especially in liberal-led states like California, where leadership does not put regulations in place and allows this kind of fraud and abuse, while hard-working citizens are left to pay the bill. If this doesn’t make you angry, I don’t know what will.
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Casey@CaseyinAlaska·
Agreed.
Chad Crowley@CCrowley100

America is a people, not an idea, not a marketplace, and certainly not a “creedal nation.” The modern absurdity of the “creedal nation” thesis, endlessly repeated by hostile elites and the managerial class, including people like Neil Gorsuch, rests upon the belief that America is fundamentally held together not by a continuous historical people, but by adherence to abstract constitutional propositions. A constitution is not a mystical tablet suspended above history, nor a set of abstract propositions existing independently of the people, and thus the civilization, that produced them. It is the political expression of a particular people shaped by a continuous cultural inheritance and a shared conception of legitimacy. The American constitutional system did not emerge from universal abstractions floating in a vacuum; it arose from a distinct Anglo-American founding population and the cultural hegemony it established, rooted within the broader continuity of the European peoples who settled and shaped the early republic. Their understanding of liberty and sovereignty had already been formed long before the Declaration of Independence gave formal expression to those assumptions. The American founding was not the birth of an abstract creed for all mankind, but the formalization of a political order already embodied within a particular civilization and the people from whom it emerged. Once that continuity is severed, once the founding people for whom the constitution served as a reflection of their own character begin to fade from history or disappear altogether, constitutional interpretation becomes increasingly unstable, because the text remains while the community that once gave it coherence gradually recedes from existence. The words survive, yet their meaning shifts according to the assumptions of those interpreting them. “Liberty,” “equality,” “rights,” and even citizenship itself become endlessly elastic concepts, detached from the framework that once constrained them. Under such conditions, the creed ceases to function as a real foundation and instead becomes a rhetorical instrument through which competing factions impose their own political preferences while cloaking them in the language of constitutional inevitability. The constitution itself slowly ceases to function as an inheritance and instead becomes a battleground over who possesses the authority to redefine the nation. This is the contradiction at the center of the “creedal nation” thesis. A creed cannot sustain a fixed national meaning once severed from the people who produced it. If the White population from which the constitutional order emerged is transformed beyond recognition or disappears altogether, then the creed itself becomes untethered from any stable interpretation. The constitutional language remains, but its meaning shifts with each successive population interpreting it through different assumptions about society and legitimacy. Under such conditions, the nation no longer possesses a stable constitutional identity, because the historical community from which that identity emerged no longer exists in the same civilizational sense. What remains is not fidelity to a permanent constitutional inheritance, but an endless struggle over the power to redefine the nation itself.

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Tony Seruga
Tony Seruga@TonySeruga·
🚨 WE ARE OBLIGED TO SEIZE YOUR AUTHORITY AND IMPOSE SHARIA — PEACEFULLY IF POSSIBLE, BLOODSHED IF NECESSARY.” Muslim Cleric’s Candid Admission Just Torpedoed the “Religion of Peace” Lie. 💥 “We are obliged as Muslims to take the authority away from the people who have it and implement the Sharia. Now I hope that can come in a very peaceful way… no bloodshed.” That wasn’t a slip. It was doctrine unmasked. Classical Islamic jurisprudence — from al-Mawardi to Ibn Taymiyyah — has always taught that the ummah’s ultimate duty is to replace man-made law with Allah’s. “Peaceful” is simply the tactical choice when numbers are low; history from the Ridda Wars to the fall of Constantinople shows what happens once the balance tips. Sharia is not “personal faith.” It is a complete political-legal system: hudud amputations, jizya subjugation of non-Muslims, death for apostasy and blasphemy, and the explicit rejection of equality and secular sovereignty. Our Constitution is built on the opposite premise — individual liberty, not communal submission. You cannot square dar al-Islam with the First Amendment any more than you can square Marxism with private property. This is not “Islamophobia.” It is pattern recognition. Texas already said it: Not on our watch. The West must now choose — enforce borders, ban Sharia courts, demand assimilation — or watch the gradual, “peaceful” erosion of everything our ancestors died to build. Civilizational survival isn’t bigotry. It’s sanity. Many of my X followers are not seeing posts like this one. If you are reading this, you are the exception. 👉 Boost the algorithm, fight the throttling, and get more 👀: bookmark, share, reply, repost, like, and follow @TonySeruga #ShariaFreeAmerica #NotOnOurWatch #ShariaSupremacyExposed #ConstitutionOrCaliphate #PeacefulConquestIsStillConquest #BanShariaNow #WakeUpWest #IslamIncompatible #DefendTheRepublic #NoDhimmitude
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Casey@CaseyinAlaska·
Worth a share.
☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩@SecretFire79

When Michelangelo designed Saint Peter's Basilica he was building over something🇻🇦 He didn't know exactly what. Nobody did. But ancient tradition had always insisted that the great basilica in Rome stood on the site of Peter's martyrdom and burial, that somewhere beneath the marble floors and the papal altars were the bones of the fisherman from Galilee. In the 1940s Pope Pius XII authorised excavations beneath the basilica floor. What archaeologists found 20 feet beneath the altar stopped them in their tracks. A first century necropolis, an ancient Roman cemetery, running directly beneath the length of the basilica. And at the centre of it, beneath the main altar, a monument that ancient sources had described for centuries. Surrounding it were walls covered in ancient graffiti, pilgrims who had come to this spot for centuries scratching prayers and names into the stone. On one of those walls, in a niche, was a box of bones. And scratched into the red wall beside it in Greek… Petros Eni. Peter is here. The bones were examined. A robust male. Aged between 60 and 70. First century. Wrapped in a gold threaded purple cloth consistent with someone of great honour. In 1968 Pope Paul VI made the official announcement, the relics of Saint Peter had been identified beneath the basilica that bears his name. The fisherman who asked to be crucified upside down because he wasn't worthy to die like his Lord, was buried in the dirt beneath what would become the centre of the Christian world. And for 2,000 years pilgrims have been walking over his grave without knowing it. Share this with all the “there’s no evidence Peter was EVER in Rome” crowd and those of goodwill might receive it. "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church." — Matthew 16:18🇻🇦

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Casey@CaseyinAlaska·
Great clip
Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost@Ne_pas_couvrir

Gorsuch misses the harder point: America’s constitutional creed was not designed to float above culture. It was built by an individualist people and assumed citizens capable of living under common, impersonal rules. It did not anticipate a demographic shift toward a majority of permanent competing collectivist ethnos blocs treating politics as group bargaining. America’s creed was built narrowly by and for a people in line with individual rights, impersonal rules, local self-government, property and restraint after losing political fights. The founders assumed a citizenry capable of thinking of itself primarily as individuals under common law, not as permanent multi-ethnic blocs each competing for group ethnos advantage. Sure, the founders understood faction. But ordinary factions in a constitutional republic are not the same as permanent, self-enforcing multiple ethnos blocs treating the state as a prize system for in-group benefit. A creed is a rule set, not a magic essence. It governs power only when enough people, especially ruling coalitions, treat its limits as binding even when inconvenient. The Declaration, Constitution, slogans, holidays, and institutional names can all remain while the real operating system changes underneath. So, the question is whether the creed still limits what winners do. Large-scale immigration and demographic change matter because they alter the political habits inside the system. If the historically individualist majority thins into a minority, and if many incoming populations retain stronger kinship, patronage, religious, ethnic, or group-centered political instincts, then the center of gravity shifts from individual rights toward organized bloc bargaining. The issue here is political habit and coordination, and that is where game theory matters. In this system, organized ethnos blocs have built-in advantages over diffuse individualism. A thick in-group has dense social networks, identity discipline, internal enforcement, moral boundaries, and reputational pressure. It can coordinate turnout, money, messaging, institutional pressure, and social sanctions. The organized ethnos blocs can bargain hard because they can coordinate hard. A rights-based individualist population is weaker in that environment. It is fragmented, cross-pressured, harder to discipline, and harder to mobilize at scale. It may share broad preferences in the abstract, but cannot act as one player. So it gets outorganized and outplayed. Public choice intensifies the shift. Each bloc seeks concentrated benefits for itself while spreading costs across everyone else. Over time, the state adapts. It distributes access, exemptions, carve-outs, regulatory favors, staffing, selective enforcement, and moral legitimacy through organized groups. If you do not show up as a bloc, you do not get a seat. That is the deeper danger. The individualist citizens either loses influence or reorganizes into a counter-bloc. But once everyone has to become a bloc to survive politically, the creedal premise has already eroded. The founders did not design the constitutional order as a neutral arena for permanent ethnos competition over state resources. They designed it for a people capable of operating through impersonal rules and restrained citizenship. When a durable coalition stops treating constitutional limits as legitimate, the system starts to bend. Courts become enemy veto points. Administration becomes spoils to staff and purge. Rights that block preferred outcomes become optional, selectively enforced, or reinterpreted into irrelevance. Opposition stops being a legitimate rival and becomes an illegitimate faction. America can remain creedal on paper while ceasing to be creedal in reality. Elections can continue. The Declaration and Constitution can still be quoted. But if organized group power becomes stronger than constitutional restraint, the operating system changes. The creed survives only if it binds the winners.

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Casey@CaseyinAlaska·
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Handre@Handre

The Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster stands as history's most vivid demonstration that collectivism breeds tyranny and starvation centuries before Marx penned a single word about class struggle. In 1534, radical Anabaptist preachers seized control of this German city and immediately declared their "New Jerusalem" built on complete communal ownership. Private property vanished overnight. The new regime confiscated all money and demanded citizens pool every resource for the collective good. Sound familiar? The self-proclaimed "Tailor-King" Jan van Leiden ruled this proto-socialist paradise with absolute authority, enforcing his vision of equality through systematic terror. Dissenters faced immediate execution. The state mandated polygamy as official policy while abolishing individual economic choice entirely. When you destroy price signals and property rights, you destroy the coordination mechanism that feeds cities. Münster's collectivist experiment delivered exactly what economic theory predicts: rapid collapse into famine and chaos. Within months, residents ate rats and boiled leather to survive. Reports of cannibalism emerged as the egalitarian dream transformed into a living nightmare. The most predictable element? Elite hypocrisy. While ordinary citizens starved in their enforced equality, van Leiden and his inner circle lived in luxury, enjoying the finest food and accommodations the collective could provide. Centralized power inevitably corrupts those who wield it. The economic logic remains bulletproof: without private property, individuals lose incentive to produce efficiently. Without market prices, planners cannot calculate resource allocation. Without voluntary exchange, coercion becomes the only tool for organizing complex society. Münster's rulers discovered these iron laws the hard way. The starving city collapsed from within as its communist economy proved incapable of sustaining basic human life. When Catholic armies finally retook Münster in 1535, they found a wasteland of economic destruction and human misery. The victors tortured the surviving Anabaptist leaders and displayed their bodies in iron cages hung from the city's main church. Those cages remained there for centuries as a warning about utopian schemes that promise equality but deliver only death. Modern advocates of wealth redistribution and collective ownership prefer to ignore Münster's lessons. They insist their version of centralized control will somehow escape the economic laws that doomed every previous attempt. But human nature and market forces operate independently of ideological wishes. The Anabaptist experiment reveals the fatal flaw in all collectivist thinking: the assumption that abolishing property rights creates abundance rather than scarcity. In reality, property rights exist because they solve the fundamental problem of resource allocation in a world of competing needs and limited goods. Münster's collapse took just sixteen months to complete. The city's descent from Protestant reform to communist tyranny to economic wasteland offers a perfect case study in how quickly good intentions can destroy functioning societies when they ignore basic economic principles. You can find those iron cages in Münster today, still hanging from St. Lambert's Church after nearly five centuries. They serve as permanent reminders that collectivism's promises always end the same way: in starvation, tyranny, and death.

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