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The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry. The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine. The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true. The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either. The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought. The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to. The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer. Now it is today. Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus. He is confident. He has always been confident. The confidence has never been the problem. The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

My far left millennial brother in law loves what's happening in NYC. He gets his views from Twitch (Destiny, Hassan, etc) & Reddit, so I'm confident he's similar to other leftists. I picked his brain and here's what I can tell about the normies on the left: 1) He's glad not to live in NYC and pay those taxes. He admits this is completely hypocritical. He seems to view the state as a means to punish enemies. 2) I told him these types of tax seizures have failed in every country when tried, over all of human history. He doesn't care. I'm unclear if he can't think of 2nd order effects, or the punishment of his enemies is the point. 3) He plays dumb / pretends not to understand when there's something that makes liberals look bad. "Huh, I don't know about that, ." I don't know where liberals learned this, but it's weird when you trip it. 4) Woke not only isn't gone, it's stronger than ever. The difference now is liberals don't share their opinions as openly as before. I think they understand, on some level, their views can't withstand reality. I experience this when traveling, too. Liberals keep their thoughts to themselves if they hear I'm from Florida. They'll wrap up their mentally ill conversations when I walk up. In previous years, they assumed everyone held their views. 5) DEI is still their god. My brother in law was a huge Kanye fan. We made fun of him because Ye came up in every other conversation somehow. So when seeing him recently, I asked when we were going to a Kanye concert to HH as a family. My brother in law disavowed ever liking Kanye. And then the conversation got contentious. 😅 (BTW: defending Kanye's song HH directly to a liberal is some of the most fun you'll ever have. Highly recommended.) My overall impressions talking with him and other IRL liberals recently: -They don't care about the destruction they're causing. They just want others to feel pain. -Liberalism is their religion, and they pray daily. Every interaction or conversation is a chance to reaffirm their liberal beliefs and spread the word. Nothing deters them on their holy mission. -Modern liberalism is about tribal allegiance, not outcomes. I don't think they believe good outcomes are even possible. They never mention this utopia they're striving for, only the pain they inflict on others. -They don't believe fraud is real. They believe the government is a righteous organization that also has perfect accounting. The only flaw of government in their minds is non-liberal views are allowed to persist. My conclusion: we can't share a country with these people. And we won't. Conservatives have long held their beliefs quiet, and now liberals are doing the same. Less dialog with each other only leads to diverging views. The smart will eventually lead an exodus, likely when the nation-wide wealth tax comes (they're already planning it!). We see that with tech bros abandoning the west coast. CA lost 1/2 of it's billionaire wealth in literal days, and the CEO of Starbucks left WA the day they introduced an income tax. I don't think Balkanization happens (the breakup of the country), as it would just lead to the federal government seizing any leader who tried to propose it. Liberals love what's happening in NYC. Soon it'll be in your town. Plan your escape now, anon.

@JRobFromMN @seanmdav It’s not retarded, its the goal. It’s a humiliation ritual for taxpayers to show you who’s in charge.

Minnesota is so retarded We give hundreds of Billions of dollars to daycares and autism centers and they don’t verify they are an actual business or have kids or clients there Meanwhile, I’m getting my kitchen remodeled. My licensed and insured contractor had to get a permit to unhook and rehook my sink Then we had to have a city inspector verify the work The Government literally does more auditing on a citizen installing a sink than they do to verify that learing centers getting Millions actually have kids there

If you are a Protestant who feels the need to deride individual Catholics as members of a Satanic cult who are all going to Hell, know this: many Catholics think YOU are the ones going to Hell. In my journey out of and back to the Roman Catholic Church, I spent YEARS in multiple evangelical "Word Churches," and I promise you that the cults of personality that arise in those churches are every bit as evil and ungodly as anything one sees in the Catholic Church. When you go out of your way to demonize people who belong to the Church founded by Jesus Christ in AD 33, you serve only the purposes of Democrats, who viciously seek to create hatred between Christians as a means to regaining political power. Members of Christian denominations need to respect each other's beliefs, or at least not demonize them, because to do otherwise is to do the bidding of Barack Obama and David Axelrod (who created this crisis of faith intentionally).

@KeenanPeachy It’s really simple. The church attendance is almost perfectly correlated with the proliferation of homosexual clergy, especially in positions of power. Communism has historically weaponized homosexuality to destroy society. This is no different.

This is what Cardinals Cupich, Tobin, McElroy, and Prevost presided over. This sad decline pre-dates Donald Trump and deportations. They were bequeathed riches and threw it away on liberal political obsessions. A slow motion tragedy also reflected across Europe. The solution is simple: Catholics, lay and clergy, must return to tradition and the old ways. Parishes where this is happening are bursting at the seams.

The most racist man you know would still save a brown man from a burning building. The least racist woman you know would laugh at your funeral if you voted wrong

@RoofKorean7 Bingo. People have an innate desire to be told what to do. Life is easier that way.

What I "conspiracy theorized" in 2020, and took heat through 2022 with many others in Los Angeles. At Covid protests, we had people holding signs regarding the dangers of this "vaccine" as people were driving by and flipping us off. I haven't met anyone who regrets not taking it. Not a one.

@adamcarolla I was just in Clearwater Florida, a beach town. As opposed to home in SoCal.. not one homeless junkie, no graffiti, no trash. Every picture like this is a choice of the majority of Californians.

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Gavin Newsom's wife is awesome. She's the perfect feminist. Not only because she's constantly out babbling about how men are evil. Also because her husband is trying to achieve something great (becoming president) and she is determined to put herself at the center of the story and absolutely destroy his dream in the process. If Newsom's presidential ambitions are dashed, his wife will be the main reason. It's great. A very instructive cautionary tale for young men. Never marry a feminist. She will ruin your life. Guaranteed.

After last night’s Easter Vigil, I feel genuine hope that the Western world may be healing. Most of the new converts are in their twenties. ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🔥 When I was in my twenties, kids listened to Nirvana and raged against anything tied to Christian culture. But this isn’t generational fashion, it’s much bigger than that. If it’s part of a cycle, the cycle began with Martin Luther. But maybe it’s bigger than even that. We have a world of social media in our pockets, nukes that can level cities, and constant polarization and distraction. What’s missing is the historic truth, the truth our ancestors knew, the truth that was always true before everything went bonkers. What’s missing is virtue, real virtue. Not virtue signalling. What’s missing is beauty, real beauty. Not porn-ified internet slop. More people are seeing it. I see it. I need it. Christ started a Church so that we could belong in such a place. Christ is King!

@creation247 Agree. But I’d add one thing… obligation. Men yearn for it. Protestantism has one decision that removes a lifetime of spiritual obligation. Anything that requires work will make you better. Your soul is no exception.

The problem with modern man is that he has no access to rituals. They’ve been systematically stripped away over time. Marriage. Brotherhood. Sacraments. Without them, he drifts listless… This is why the church is experiencing a Revival.

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

What many people might not realise is that Western men and women my age (30-40) came to Catholicism with almost no direction or guidance. Our parents weren't catechised and didn't go to church because they were the children of the Revolution. We grew up in a time of degeneracy before there was any conversation about its impact on us. There was no conservative social media platforms. There were no conservative influencers. There were no religious podcasts. We had teach ourselves everything from scratch from the handful of priests and parishes that still knew the way. We were the last generation of wanderers. We re-discovered tradition and made it strong and popular again. We left the old world behind, got married in the Church, had children and gave them the faith we never received. We paid that price. It's the next generation that's going to save the world, we were the vanguard that prepared the way. This has always been our purpose. Now, there's nothing more gratifying than seeing an old friend you grew up with that went down the wrong path with a family of his own on a Sunday morning. We made it, brother. Let's do it for them.

@KeenanPeachy No. They’ll capture him torture him and kill him. The Muslim world doesn’t want freedom. They never have and never will. The entire world is tribal and Americans (especially white, wealthy Americans) refuse to acknowledge this stubborn fact.

Ever notice how the Constitution was utterly powerless to stop everything from COVID lockdowns to the explicitly anti-White/anti-Male DEI regime of the last dozen years, but it's now constantly being invoked to defend everything from giving citizenship to the children of illegals and CCP spies to sending unlimited sums of taxpayer money to the Progressive NGO complex?

Facts. 💯

You know, if all those old hippie Democrat white women had not aborted all their babies, they could be spending their Saturdays enjoying their grandchildren instead of protesting imaginary kingdoms.

@st_louis_stan @Babygravy9 I shrug my shoulders at this. Most of these strivers are conspicuously absent from major influence later in life because they learned to be perfect soldiers with no innovative skills to become generals.

I think I hate Asian Striver Culture more than anything else in the world

Al nacimiento de Lutero en 1483 toda Europa era católica. A su muerte en 1546 un tercio de Europa había abandonado el catolicismo y se había unido a nuevas denominaciones. A partir de sus ideas se produjeron decenas de guerras de religión, se reforzó la fuerza de los Reyes y los Estados, desencadenaría la Revolución Francesa y daría origen a las ideologías políticas, y su individualismo subjetivista hizo que hoy mucha gente no sepa si es hombre, mujer o perro. Si Lutero nunca hubiese existido, seguramente hoy Europa y América serían completamente católicas, los Estados no tendrían tanto poder sobre los ciudadanos, y no habría gente disfrazada de perro por la calle.

Anything from Democrats or other gun control groups regarding videos like this, of which they are many? Yes I'm being obtuse. We all know that gun control is not about saving lives. The end game is to disarm Whites, so that a full-scale, Rwanda style genocide may be initiated.