GS Musings

@DrFawcett1925 When the thief on the cross was saved, Jesus didn't heal his wounds, whisk him down from the cross and set him free. He still died, he just went to heaven afterwards. People seem to forget this in regards to the "easy women -> Christian" debate.

Yes, okay but why would I want one with a past?

@Dykes4Congress @IanCarrollShow I just want someone who will vote for America First principles, not someone that spends all their time fighting the Jews. Best way to handle them is to donate to Christian ministries in Israel and turn the Holy Land holy again, not grandstand against Trump in pyrrhic victories.

@IanCarrollShow We need every last man we can get in Washington who WON’T sell out Massie is one of the best

If you’re within driving distance of Kentucky go help save Thomas Massie. Tiffany’s beaten the billionaires before and she’s about to do it again.

@ChristianHeiens These things are so easy to swing right wingers should start organizing around them. There aren't that many, all it takes is one autist to build a spreadsheet and we could have exclusively good candidates on our side to choose from in the main elections.

Incumbent Delegate Laura Kimble (part of the populist/MAGA faction of the West Virginia GOP) appears to have lost her primary by 3 votes. Huge blow for the Right flank of the GOP.

@learning_yohei Movie is more casual, film tends to be a little more... not quite pretentious but on its way there? At least in America.

日本からこんばんは🇯🇵🌟 英語を勉強している日本人です。アメリカ人とイギリス人に質問があります🙋🇺🇸🇬🇧 映画の話をする時、どっちの英単語を使えばいいの？😳

@TheNorfolkLion This was life changing for me. Talks about how to know your saved. Turns out I always just thought I was: youtu.be/Bxt_33zcdk8?si…

As some of you who have known me for a while here know, I’m an atheist. However, I’ve also said that I wish I could believe. I was christened as a child and used to believe. As I’ve got older, I’ve become adamant that there’s no such thing as God. But over the last few years, I’ve been softening and trying to believe again. I’ve asked for so-called enlightenment, but nothing has happened. I read the Bible when I was a child but not since, so I’ve decided to start reading it again. It’s now my nightly ritual before bed. Please send prayers 🙏🏻 let’s hope some enlightenment or something meaningful happens. If God or Jesus don’t come to me after that, I’ll have to carry on being an atheist/realist.

@heywildrich I think he would stick to party lines for the save America act (the voting fraud one). I don't think he would support any direct limits to immigration though but we can always elect somebody else in a couple years

@GammaSheets Zero chance he would do anything that limits the amount of foreigners here. You think he’s on team America?

I don't see a single downside to having a democrat governor with a GOP legislature that get nothing done. it actually seems to be the highest IQ option available here. i feel like many people are failing the prisoner dilemma we have going on here.

@OLarper59646 @GreenTextRepost It's at least low enough that the point went right over your head.

@GammaSheets @GreenTextRepost 115 is not low it's normal I am not saying I am some kind of genius but I am Just normal But the people around me They can't understand light switches

@OLarper59646 @GreenTextRepost That IQ is still pretty low dude. But let's offer an olive branch and say it isn't. Then the issue moves from "IQ too low to consider religious and cultural values" to "no relevant religious and cultural values to consider in the first place." The 2nd is a MUCH bigger problem.

@GammaSheets @GreenTextRepost Hey hey hey Don't lump me with the Brain Dead watered brain lead poisoned indians Who have 75 IQ max I am an anomaly here With a tested 115 IQ i just don't feel Depressed after nutting I feel great I don't understand why procreating function will give you depression

@OLarper59646 @GreenTextRepost Unironically, it's the higher brain function that does it.

@GreenTextRepost I don't get post nut thing I feel great after nutting and I just wanna nut again What is wrong with people are they mentally ill or something how is the primal function is Depressing to you fucking loosers Is this some religious morality cuckolding or what

@TheRealKitty019 What goes into self publishing and how much does it cost? You said Amazon self-publishing was no good so I was curious what you would consider good?

I'm an author, so I'll give the author's perspective on this. The publishing industry is not interested in producing anything that appeals to either young women, or to men. The Western publishing industry is instead focused on self help (tm) books, pornography and ideological affirmation texts. In a vacuum these genres aren't themselves bad, but when they encompass the entire literary world, when they're literally the only thing you find in book stores, you start looking elsewhere. For my part, I write what can be described as "dark fantasy", but I consider to just be traditional fantasy with regards to its themes and maturity. Worlds that are in turmoil and filled with suffering, but have light at the end of the tunnel if only the heroes can push through and prevail. Nobody is perfect, but everyone is trying their best, despite their flaws. But, I'm a man, and I prefer to write male protagonists as a result and worse yet- I'm a white man. Non-diverse! So getting my fantasy literature, centred on male characters saving the day, getting an agent to just look at my work is impossible. They tell us outright, "we're looking for diverse voices" - meaning they want non-white, non-male writers. Well, OK, surely then there's some young-adult, male-oriented literature being produced then, right? Produced yes, published no. See the agents are the first filter, blocking new writers from entering the scene altogether if they're the wrong demographic, the wrong "voice". Then the publishers decide what gets picked up. Your agent can shill your book about a band of plucky adventurers but then the editors need to decide whether it'll appeal to their target audience and right now that's just adult women between 25-60. The "50 Shades of Grey" demographic. Why's this you ask? Well it's because they stopped trying to appeal to men altogether in the 2010's when the "self help" genre took off, and a half-decade later their sales figures show marginal male audiences. Thus, the assumption is that men just don't read. I can explain why this is false, but I can also explain a bit of why it's true. I'm a prolific reader, but I'm also a gamer and books do have to compete against video games for male readers. That's why, the fiction that men do read, tends to either be really good, or specifically tailoured for their demographic and interests. So then, what are the three genres that get pushed actually comprised of? Well, of them, self-help is the "male"-oriented one, largely consumed by young men trying to figure out why life isn't working for them. Most of these books are, quite frankly, bad for you to read and consume and generally boil down to a bunch of vague rules you have to follow and a grindset mindset that'll ruin your enjoyment of life. The least offensive are the "manosphere" type ones but even then, they poison the way you think about and handle relationships. The "pornography" are books like the aforementioned Fifty Shades of Gray. You might also recognize them as "romantasy". For a general cross-cultural analogue, think of all those borderline pornographic shoujo game isekai novels/manga and take them like ten steps further. Full-on sex scenes, explicit dialogue and some actually, genuinely extreme content that shouldn't be on the shelves of Chapters or Indigo. The primogenitor of this genre, though not a "romantasy" book in and of itself, is "Bear". It's about a woman. And a bear. You know what they do together. And this is a very, very popular- if not the most popular- genre for publishers to exploit. Millions of women with actual honest-to-God porn addictions, girls in middle school (that fujoshi sub-plot in Prisma Illya hit close to home ngl) just utterly addicted to reading about hardcore werewolf sex. And these stories and writers are, largely, coming from a site called AO3, a fanfiction site where people order and tag their work down to granular fetish levels; and a lot of it is genuinely, utterly and irredeemably repulsive. Cool that people like it, whatever, but again it should not be on the shelves of major book stores and CERTAINLY not for sale in drug stores or supermarkets where an unsuspecting child might pick it up. The final genre, the ideological affirmation texts, is more varied and is more of an umbrella-category. It contains everything and anything, but the purpose of these works is, universally, to reaffirm someone's ideological worldview. They can be fiction or non-fiction, journalist pieces or a slop expose. Ghost-written garbage or an old woman's oppression porn. It doesn't cater to one aisle or the other, but everything within it is utterly fucking useless to a young man looking to get away from the world and enjoy a story. So, he's left reading old books that're probably too advanced for him given how poor literacy has become in the West, or looking overseas at translated works written for his target demographic. Thus, the young men turn to anime, manga and light novels to find interesting stories, admirable heroes and aspirational goals. A lot of what gets produced over there is... well, it's slop. But slop is OK, slop is entertaining enough, and people are allowed to like and enjoy their slop. The important thing is that everyone can have a bit of slop just for themselves, and that's what's sorely lacking in the Western literary publishing industry. Oh and self-publishing on Amazon or via a publishing house is NG. Literally millions of AI "books" have been published to Amazon this year alone, there's just no point to uploading anything to it, and a lot of those self-publishing houses are just scams. Like actually just scams, stay far the fuck away from them. So anyways. I hope this has helped clear things up. For my part I'm trying to provide that niche, but again, I just can't find a publisher and I don't have the money to self-publish so I'm kinda just stuck. Kadokawa opening up submissions to English-Language authors is, then, a viable route for someone like me but something about it doesn't sit right, I'm worried it'll have a bad effect on the Japanese media landscape if we all go too hard.

@AcSK1LLies More condemning and generally easy enough to understand is that none of the people that were accusing him of anything tried to seek damages for the fake crimes. It was a pretty typical "ruin this guy's life because we disagree with his religious views," situation.

@AcSK1LLies Vic was never found to be anything other than innocent. To sue he would've had to prove that every one of those was false/malicious AKA provide texts where the witnesses claim that "I'm just doing this to hurt Vic because I hate him," for all of the malicious accusations.

It was rumored years ago that Vic Mignogna was about step into a Director’s role at Funimation before he was falsely MeToo’d by Monica Rial and Jamie Marchi. (Fellow VAs at Funimation.) This meant that a straight, white, Christian male would have an increased level of authority over them on the projects they worked on together. They could not let this stand. And so, when an ERRONEOUS TWEET (that wasn’t even referring to Vic) went viral around the premiere of Dragon Ball Super: Broly essentially accusing Vic of being a pedophile, they set the plan in motion to get him fired from Funimation and black listed from the Con Circuit. Unfortunately, he was not successful in his legal attempt to clear his name. Though anyone that paid attention to the trial knows beyond a shadow of a doubt he never did what he was accused of.

@ElymaReligion My pleasure! I often found that because sometimes the English translations would have one word that was kind of ambivalent, that having somebody that explained it based off of the original languages was very helpful

@GammaSheets Thanks for your sharing! These commentary is so useful to better understand the deeper meaning if the Bible.

おはようございます！ 今から教会の聖書の学びに参加します。

@avrilamaka Congratulations brother, good choice

I've decided to give my life to Christ.

@Colin_P_A_Jones @DataRepublican

First, Japan does not have “immigration” in the American sense, at all. In other words there is no visa category that enables you to get off a plane and live there permanently. You get a one year visa, or a three year visa depending on the category and after many years with good behavior you can apply for permanent residence. Many years after that you can apply for citizenship IF you give up other citizenships. Citizenship comes through descent; there is no birthright citizenship (except for orphans with no known parents). Second, the specific skills visa program was the latest version of a side used to get manual workers in for a limited period of time. The visas do not permit family accompaniment or conversion into permanent resident. Third, it is not unusual for people to have studied at American universities. Fourth, foreign ministers come and go in Japan. 20+ people have been minister of foreign affairs since 2000 alone. Who is in the post at any time may not be nearly as significant as you think. Fifth, you are assigning undue importance to the timing of when things are passed….

🧵 THREAD: How mass immigration came to Japan's shores 𝕏 saw a lovely cultural exchange between Americans and Japanese this past week, which got me wondering how and why Muslims came to Japan... so I spent the weekend looking into it. Japan went from officially having "no immigration policy" to a formal system with a cap of 820,000 foreign workers. Japan's Muslim population has gone from ~110,000 (2010) to ~420,000 (end of 2024). There are now 149 mosques. The bill that created this was passed at 4:00 AM in December 2018. The opposition called it a "carte blanche." Deliberations were compressed. It passed anyway. What I found: 🔹 Three consecutive foreign ministers trained at American universities. 🔹 A foundation run by a Trilateral Commission member and a former US intelligence chief. 🔹 A $69 million fellowship network seeding 69 universities in 44 countries. 🔹 A UN framework signed the same month as the 4 AM vote. 🔹 Sixteen bilateral labor agreements managed through a single coordinating body. 🔹 A Japan-specific immigration program drafted by a Japanese national while he was interning inside the US Senate. In July 2025, a party that didn't exist before COVID won 14 seats and finished third in the popular vote. By February 2026, the LDP won its biggest parliamentary majority since 1955, running on tighter immigration. Unfortunately, Americans and Japanese have more in common beyond love of BBQ. They have the mass migration problem in common. Receipts below. 👇 As always, patience as I pull together the thread.

It's a money game. If 1 million populists outspend 1 billionaire, the politicians become our slaves instead of theirs. So: -look for "vulnerable" politicians who aren't getting as much donor money -organize a non-profit with a trusty head to represent you. -donate to the non-profit. -have him directly lobby the politician, representing your needs as written in whatever contact you make with the non-profit. -if you can't afford senators, support local politicians/judges instead.

I have never been a Democrat. My views align more closely with Republicans, but after the last 24 hours my disgust is paralyzing. I have not supported a third party because I remember when it handed Bill Clinton the presidency. I signed the petition for the Convention of States but remain skeptical because there will be no agreement. What's left? I love our country. What can we do besides shout on X which doesn't seem very effective?

@UmariTomoe It's one of your selling points that you should be proud of.

As a confession of sorts, the fact I'm unable to bring myself to make sexual jokes and such on stream is a bit embarrassing for me. It's just not in my personality to do so but I do feel bad when it seems like an expectation of EN VTubers. I promise I'm not trying to be seiso. 😭

Unironically, if the Republicans aren't allowed to go home for long enough they might just pass the Save Act so they can have a vacation