Douglas Ratcliff

How many Elon Musks are going to follow me!

RIP to a legend in tech, opinion writing and podcasting. John C. Dvorak Absolute legend.

@unrealdawah @MikeWingerii Be quiet Moslem.

Excuse me you cuckstian imperialist, you dont speak for Afghanistan. We the Afghan people do. We speak the language and know the country inside out and WE remember YOUR brutal colonizing mission in the early 2000s which literally made Afghanistan into a mess beyond repair. You have the audacity to project your bs moral compass that we give 0 shits about after Christian US troops came in and raped,pillage, and colonized. You should go worry about the festering disease of immorality,porn,child exploitation and recruitment, and promiscuity in your country led by your Epstein butt buddy.

Islam did this… Decrees enacted by the Taliban, such as the 2026 Code on Judicial Separation of Spouses, have institutionalized child marriage and eliminated legal barriers to marital rape. The regime has effectively legalized sexual violence in marriages and stripped women of legal recourse or shelter

🔗: people-app.onelink.me/HNIa/ua6z2e1z #WilliamShatner is sharing the moment he was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma cancer and how he and his daughter #MelanieShatner, who was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, both became cancer-free within two years. See the full interview on the #PeopleApp.

Deuteronomy 3:30-31: When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice. For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

Good. Prove it. Eliminate the income and disband the IRS. Then hold a constitutional convention to take Congresses ability to pay itself away and put it on the districts and the states. Let the constituents pay their congressmen what they think their representatives and senators are worth!

WE WILL STOP COMMUNISM. 🇺🇸

@IamSean90 It’s fairly obvious the universe is collapsing and matter is vanishing. AI slop will give us some cold comfort for a while.

I think most people would prefer the everything in camera filmed on location realism over the AI slop version

@DefiantLs What a moron. Has he taken a look at the world lately?

Ian Garry: “If the world was run by women, we’d all live in a better world. If we just listened to them and let them takeover, it would be an easier world”

A terrible loss for all of us - RIP John @therealdvorak @adamcurry

@BrownBag42069 @HeerJeet @BishopBarron Fine.

@DPR273 @HeerJeet @BishopBarron no you don’t understand me correctly at all

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy. It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy. For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice. Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc. As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love. To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.” As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings. When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder. When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good. Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them. In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.” It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.

Say what you want about the broken glass and rusted bottle caps in the casserole, you have to admire the chef’s commitment to Corningware!

@BrownBag42069 @HeerJeet @BishopBarron If I understand you correctly, you actually think suicidal empathy is a good thing, talk about cognitive impairment!

@DPR273 @HeerJeet @BishopBarron no that’s not how anachronism works I’m afraid. you have some serious cognitive limitations

@BrownBag42069 @HeerJeet @BishopBarron Right! Because they weren’t insane leftists.

@DPR273 @HeerJeet @BishopBarron "suicidal empathy" isn't a term that would mean anything to first century Jews or Greeks

@IamSean90 Well made garbage is still garbage. Someone may be committed to making a casserole out of garbage and I’m not only not going to eat it, I’m not going to praise his technique. His work is valueless to me.

Say what you want about the movie, but Nolan's commitment to practical effects in camera is insane

@nari4thewin Because you are delusional and imagine fake scenarios.

Why does MAGA get to be sexual predators and cheat on wives and run off to countries with their mistresses but Dems have to always do the right thing. I am literally at a loss for words and none of this makes no sense

@__0HOUR1_ We tried to tell them...

@IamSean90 I saw The Wizard of Oz in 3d in an IMAX. It was pretty good!

Why would the studio donate money on a supposedly losing project to the theater? Also this theater is a legit 70mm true IMAX. No way it's empty. I saw it in in a LIEMax & had to sit in front row, because every seat, even the handicapped were sold out. You guys are desperate

@DefiantLs I like Edward Norton as an actor. And that’s about it.

Edward Norton: You can actually credit Nixon and McNamara with some dimension of competence. You know terrible things were going on and they were corrupt in some ways... But not like this. "I think Trump is worse, far worse than Nixon and McNamara"

@grok @RachelMHoffer @Just____Black @TrumpNationRed @__0HOUR1_

History shows Arab states and groups initiated or provoked most of Israel's major wars through invasion or existential threats. 1948: Arab armies invaded the day Israel declared independence. 1967: Israel preempted after Egypt blockaded shipping, expelled peacekeepers, and mobilized with calls to destroy the Jewish state. 1973: Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Yom Kippur. Later rounds with Hamas, Hezbollah, and others typically follow rocket fire, bombings, and mass attacks on civilians by groups whose stated goal is Israel's elimination. The Israeli-Palestinian dispute involves competing claims over land and security, with actions from both sides fueling the cycle.

Mayor Mamdani is now being accused of having direct ties to Hamas.