Ian Perry

Here's a playlist with all the Psalms: youtube.com/watch?v=cw-6jU…

Unlike Google or other major tech companies, Facebook had to be threatened/coerced, which it was because it allowed Trump to raise hundreds of millions of dollars. Obama personally threatened Zuckerberg into sweeping censorship in November 2016.

Progress is possible.

@Not_the_Bee Christian college professor publishes book chapter praising Eve for harkening to the serpent, is given award for Empathy.

LA has amazing weather year-round and one of the most beautiful coastlines and climates in the world. But decades of mass migration, and the dysfunctional government that came with it, means that even these immense natural advantages cannot stop population exodus. Paradise Lost.

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Obv all other theatrical jobs: director, costumer, makeup artist, playwright, clown

There’s like maybe a maximum of 8 jobs where I understand what the job is. Shopkeeper. Farmer. Teacher of some kind. Priest. Novelist. Journalist. Private detective. Chef. That’s it. What is a data engineer. I don’t know.

@razibkhan @Panegyrick You're right the Puritan establishment wasn't victorious, but I do think (per @IVMiles's book) Christianity was still embodied in many institutions within antebellum America and afterward. amazon.com/Religion-Repub…

@IanBurkePerry @Panegyrick and it wasn't enough. patrick henry backed it. but they lost, forcefully. jackson sealed it; he refused to even do a day of prayer he was such a fanatical jeffersonian despite being the first orthodox christian in office

it is a reality that a lot of americans do believe hinduism is demonic. and in the future, more americans will be hindu, even without immigration; hinduism is one of the religions some nonreligious americans will be attracted to.

@razibkhan @Panegyrick Though as you're aware a lot of people wanted to update it in favor of the idea of a multi denominational model rather than go full Jefferson.

@IanBurkePerry @Panegyrick no offense to the puritans, but americans forcefully rejected their vision of religious political order (new england states lagged in disestablishment but even they did). roger williams won

@Panegyrick @razibkhan

@razibkhan Wow someone missed the entire point of America

@razibkhan Could do top students per county measured by SAT, ACT, or some similar measure (this would benefit home and privately educated students, which would affect how support for such a proposal was distributed).

someone needs to talk to abbot we beat CA on housing. how about changes to higher ed that would really force excellence?

@eigenrobot @LeMangy alppouch.com ?

@LeMangy ugh sorry you'll never guess why i was thinking about nicotine

if you think hormuz is bad imagine how the british felt when they declared war on america and then realized they weren't getting any more shipments from their nicotine dealers that war went on for eight years

I want this question to lead to an arms race where Dems and GOP are competing over who can produce the higher-quality classical architecture.

@dufilmont @MericaCulture It has those now I believe.

@MericaCulture Could imagine how beautiful it is during bluebonnet season

Big Bend National Park, Texas

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Are you certain that God exists?

Holy Week and Easter Playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=lta8DC…

@Steve_Sailer @LandsknechtPike Is it online?

@LandsknechtPike I listened to a short video by Teddy Roosevelt VI, who is a direct descendant of the man on Mt. Rushmore. His diction isn't particularly distinctive enough to set off class alarms, but his accent is just subtly better than almost any other American's.

In Eastern Europe communists tried very hard to erase cultural differences between classes and this left some lasting social consequences, which is why today there aren't such strong class distinctions in the way people speak. This is actually a very interesting topic and explains some of the cultural and political differences between Western Europe and Eastern Europe today. For example one of the things that communists did in Eastern Europe was that they tried to "mix" social classes together, like for example when they built those huge apartment blocks they deliberately housed people from various social backgrounds in there. Their ideal was to have workers, (former) peasants, bureaucrats, teachers, intellectuals etc. all living together in the same buildings, same neighborhoods. Communists also purged the old elites from power, so members of old elites would end up mixed with people of lower classes in this way. One specific example of this I can think is years ago I was listening to an interview with the president of UEFA (governing body of European football) Aleksander Čeferin, who is from Slovenia, and he revealed that his father was a prestigious lawyer but their neighbor was a cleaning lady, and their apartments were of exactly same size. This is what communists in Eastern Europe were pushing for, having people of (former) elite living next to working class. Because of this, certain cultural differences between classes were erased, including the way people speak. People who grew up in the same city or region would develop the same accent regardless of their social background. There would be no accent associated with elite, because such cultural elite no longer existed, the communist officials who were the new "elite" generally came from lower classes. Of course educated people would generally have a richer vocabulary but they would still speak more or less the same as lower classes in terms of accent, pronunciation, intonation of words etc. It's still like this today, in Eastern European countries (at least the ones I'm familiar with) you don't have anything equivalent to "posh accent" or Received Pronunciation or whatever it's called in Britain. In Britain this accent is associated with upper classes, especially in some exaggerated version, and few people in the country speak like this in daily life. It's not regional but related to specific class. In Eastern Europe, accents are regional, people from the same region speak the same regardless of their class. Of course there is a need to learn standard pronunciation of the national language for education purposes and to be better understood by people from other parts of the country, but this is not some snobbish class thing. Some rural dialects might be looked down upon, but those are regional differences, not class differences. So yes, there are very few distinct class markers in Eastern Europe in terms of accent and the way people speak, especially in terms of their economic class background. I think this is largely due to communists aggressively purging the culture of upper classes. The interesting thing is that the attempt of communists to erase cultural differences between classes had some completely unintended consequences. One could easily argue that this strengthened the sense of nationalism in the Eastern European countries, because it erased many distinctions between people within the same nation, and basically integrated the nation more strongly. Before communists took power, Eastern European countries still had many internal divisions, remnants of old ruling classes, different ethnic groups, large rural populations etc. But communists made these societies much more homogeneous in every way. So even though they were trying to build something completely different, they just ended up concluding 19th century nationalism, but in an even more radical way than it was done in Western Europe. As a result of this, Eastern European countries are more nationalistic and socially conservative today, there simply isn't a strong enough upper class that would be associated with cosmopolitan liberalism. Ironically, the communists made Eastern Europe more "reactionary", as they would say, in the long term.

This is true story, btw. Only weeks after Lord Allenby broke down in public after finding out his son died, he refused to ride a horse in Jerusalem or enter through the same gate as Christ had. A grieving father still humbling himself before Christ. Moving stuff.

@wil_da_beast630 The West Virginia murder rate indicates that's not true by every metric.

A lot of people on X live in apex cities where the old white ghettos cleared out during the 1960s, and probably 80% of crime is committed by POC - and seem to genuinely believe that Appalachia (say) is some kind of bucolic heartland. Nah. Southern trailer parks, Indian reservations, etc are as hood as anything you'll find anywhere. This is not discussed often because there is little if any national media located near them.