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male version of me 😌

Never seen a number this high before. We have to get the hell off fossil fuels.

Looks like PF has been completely hijacked by the Christian Nationalists. Rousseau had an opportunity to steer his guys to proper folkish messaging like Thomas Sewell - looks like he has been captured by the Jesus freaks.

Are Canada’s forests made of plastic? This smoke does not smell natural at all.

1/ IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? Charlie Kirk was once challenged on the Christian foundations of America, and delivered this classic unrehearsed riff. There's actually lots more to be said on this topic, but for now I'll just add 4 things to what he said. Read this and watch the video: 1. Upon our founding, it was actually 12/13 states that required a Christian religious test for office, and 9/13 states that had state-backed Christian religions funded by taxes. 2. The American concept of "government of, by and for the people" & our particular version of self-government is the literal and direct outgrowth of the Protestant concept of the priesthood of all believers that our Protestant congregations throughout the 13 Colonies practiced from the very beginning of their settlements in America. 3. The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution and Bill of Rights did not create this Nation. PEOPLE constituted and created this Nation, and devised systems & documents to govern their Nation. The PEOPLE came first, not the documents. The NATION arose first, not the government. 4. To truly understand the purpose of the First Amendment, you have to remember that fights and quarrels over religion in the Old World led to centuries of war. You also need to understand that the inter-ethnic European rivalries also led to endless wars. Europe fought over race and religion for 2500 years. Maybe more. The First Congress of 1790 solved both of these problems in nearly identical ways: 1. The Naturalization Act of 1790 made all White people citizens, thereby making all White ethnicities EQUAL. Anglo Saxons weren't superior to Germans weren't superior to Frenchmen, weren't superior to Scandinavians, etc etc etc, (at least not in the eyes of the government or law. Lol). All White people were thus placed onto EQUAL footing. This eliminated the long-time European need & urge to fight wars over ethnic rivalries. 2. The First Amendment, proposed in 1790 & ratified in 1791, made all Christian denominations EQUAL. Lutherans weren't superior to Presbyterians weren't superior to Congregationalists weren't superior to Quakers, weren't superior to Anglicans, etc etc etc. In fact, 11/14 states had official religious tests for public office, requiring a variety of Christian denominations. A few states still had official Christian religions funded by state taxes. Not only did the 1st Amendment preserve the freedoms of worship and conscience—two of the biggest reasons Europeans came to America in the first place—but it eliminated the long-time European need & urge to fight wars over religious differences. And just to really drive the point home for the haters & the ignorant: obviously, the 11 states that had Christian religious tests for office when they passed & ratified the First Amendment didn't do so in order to negate or abrogate their state-sponsored religions or religious tests—quite the opposite: they did it so that they could KEEP their unique state-backed Christian religions & Christian religious tests without being overruled by the federal government or brought into conflict with their fellow states. DUH. ******* When John Adams said our Constitution was meant only for a moral & religious people, he wasn't speaking abstractly about morality or religion in general, he was specifically referring to Christian morality and the Christian religion. The fact is, America is Christian from the ground up. From the beginning, it grew up around the Christian churches. It was built by Christians. And it was Christians who conceived, conceptualized and created our forms of government and institutions. You can say the same about our White European heritage genetics and culture. America is White. America is Christian. They are inseparably connected and indisputably fundamental to this nation & our founding. And the First Congress recognized both of these vital factors. That is why even in 1965, when Congress decided to overthrow the White Christian order (by passing the new Immigration Act against the will of the American people), America was still about 89% White and 93% Christian. Because America placed all European ethnicities and Christian denominations onto equal footing, our broad European racial & cultural similarities along with our common general Christian beliefs UNITED us here, rather than DIVIDING us as they had in Europe—which was itself a Christian realm, or "Christendom." IOW, America became the real European Union—largely because of the Naturalization Act of 1790 and the First Amendment (1790-91). America was never meant to be non-White or Non-Christian, and to believe otherwise is just ignorant and absurd. Now, watch Charlie. Sources in next tweet.