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Has there ever been a time in history when the good guys were for restricting speech? No, there has never been a clear, unambiguous case in history where the side widely regarded today as the unambiguous "good guys" (in the sense of advancing liberty, truth-seeking, human flourishing, or moral progress without major caveats) were the primary advocates for broad restrictions on speech. The historical pattern shows the opposite: those pushing for systematic censorship, licensing, or suppression of dissenting ideas have overwhelmingly been authorities, majorities, or entrenched powers seeking to maintain control, enforce orthodoxy, or silence challengers—often later viewed as regressive, tyrannical, or mistaken.

Every single Democrat in California just voted to pass the Stop The Nick Shirley Act!!! Hey @nickshirleyy, have your attorney on standby kid!! You’re about to become a VERY RICH YOUNG MAN! 🇺🇸 💪🏼

@BabyD1111229 We live in an era where corruption is so widespread that many do not even try to hide it anymore.

Democrat governor announces a $1.27 billion expansion of her husband's company L3Harris Technologies - in which she approved $18 million in incentives that will be paid for with taxpayer dollars. #Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger approved: 🔷️$12.5 million and $500,000 grants from the Commonwealth’s Opportunity Fund (COF) to help Orange County with the project. 🔷️A $5 million grant from the Virginia Investment Performance Grant Governor Spanberger is sending the money to help the company where Adam Spanberger, the governor’s husband and Virginia’s First Gentleman, works as a lead software engineer. He has held the role since July 2019 and continues in the position from the executive mansion. Critics say this creates an obvious conflict of interest: A sitting governor approving millions in state incentives for a major defense contractor that directly employs her husband raises serious questions about favoritism. These kinds of economic development incentives are said to be standard in Virginia and other states to lure or keep big employers. However critics argue they still represent corporate welfare, picking winners with public money while ordinary taxpayers foot the bill. 🎩ChristinaAguayoNews✨

@GuntherEagleman I have yet to hear what is a "fair share" of the government forcibly taking someone else's money.

😂 Watch this clown Commie Mamdani strut around NYC at night like a socialist superhero. ‘When I ran for mayor, I said I was gonna tax the rich… Well today we’re taxing the rich. I’m thrilled to announce we’ve secured a pied-à-terre tax, the first in New York history!’ Bro really thinks slapping an annual fee on luxury penthouses owned by people who don’t live there full-time is some brilliant masterstroke. He’s out here celebrating a tax on Ken Griffin’s $238 million penthouse while the city crumbles under crime, migrants, and failing schools. This is peak leftist brain rot

@thesohom2 Thank you, my friend. Let's hope all altruistic societies can avoid repeating history.

@Mossosopo man loved reading this. internal decay preceding collapse is a great historical observation.

The fall of great empires throughout history rarely stems from a single cause but from a combination of interconnected factors that compound over time. The most common recurring conditions include: 1-Internal Decay & Institutional Weakness Bureaucracies become corrupt, inefficient, or parasitic. Tax systems collapse or become unbearably oppressive. The ruling elite grows detached from the population. 2-Economic Decline & Overextension Empires overexpand militarily, creating unsustainable defense costs. Currency debasement (inflation), chronic trade deficits, loss of productive capacity, and reliance on import labor erode economic vitality. Wealth concentrates in fewer hands while the middle and working classes stagnate or decline. 3-Military Stagnation Professional standing armies become expensive and politically powerful (leading to coups) or are replaced by cheaper foreign mercenaries/barbarian foederati who eventually turn on the empire (Rome, late Han China, Byzantium). 4-Demographic Decline & Loss of Civic Virtue Falling birth rates, urban decadence, mass immigration without assimilation, or the replacement of citizen-soldiers with hired foreigners all weaken social cohesion and the will to defend the state. 5-External Pressures Exploiting Internal Weakness Rival powers rarely destroy a healthy empire; they overwhelm one that is already rotting. Examples: the Goths vs. Rome, the Manchus vs. Ming China, the Arabs vs. Sassanid Persia and Visigothic Spain. 6-Ideological & Cultural Erosion Loss of the founding ethos or religion that once unified the empire. Cynicism, hedonism, or fatalism replaces confidence and duty (Gibbon’s famous diagnosis of Rome: “The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness… the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight”). 7-Succession Crises & Civil War Weak, incompetent, or rapidly rotating leadership (often via assassination or capital intrigue) prevents long-term planning and invites constant internal conflict (Roman 3rd-century crisis, late Han warlords, Ottoman sultanate murders). 7-Technological or Environmental Shifts Climate change (e.g., the 535–536 volcanic winter, Medieval Warm Period → Little Ice Age transitions), epidemics (Antonine Plague, Justinian Plague, Black Death), or the empire’s failure to adapt to new military technologies (stirrup, gunpowder, naval innovations) can act as triggers or accelerators. In almost every case (Rome, Han China, Abbasid Caliphate, Spain, Ottoman, British, etc.), the empire is already hollowed out internally when the final blows land. The dramatic “fall” moment, sack of the capital, last emperor deposed—is usually just the visible culmination of centuries of decay. Strong empires can survive enormous external shocks; weak ones collapse under comparatively minor ones.

@BigBrainPhiloso This was mentioned by some guy named Jesus. "For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it." — Matthew 16:25 (NIV)

Alan Watts on why trying harder is often the worst thing you can do. Alan Watts identified a pattern that runs through the heart of Daoist and Zen philosophy, one he called the backwards law. The idea is simple and deeply counterintuitive: "When you would be strong, very often the best course is to be weak. When you would be powerful, the best course is often to withdraw." Most of us are conditioned to believe that the path to any outcome is direct effort. Want connection? Pursue it. Want strength? Force it. Want happiness? Chase it. But Watts argues that many of the things we most want in life are precisely the things we repel through our pursuit of them. He uses solitude as the clearest illustration of this paradox: "It's when you learn to love solitude that, paradoxically as it may seem, you are better able to get on with others." The person who needs company who cannot sit alone, who craves connection and hunts for it is often the most difficult to be around. Their need fills the room. It creates pressure. But the person who is genuinely comfortable with themselves? That ease is magnetic. They don't demand anything from the interaction. And so the connection forms naturally. This is what Watts means by the backwards law. Contrary things come from unexpected directions. The outcome arrives not through the front door of direct effort, but through the side door of letting go.

@dom_lucre I remember when people weren't so self-absorbed and everyone understood.

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: This Allegiant Airlines employee is facing backlash for kicking this family off this flight because their infant was crying.

@MorEdge_Insight I call it the greatest rebranding in the history of marketing.

The Democrats get savaged by this lady educating her audience on historical facts and events. Watch this. She’s incredible.

@GuntherEagleman Actually, it is returning to long time norms.

NEW: Liberal media is melting down because Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hosted a voluntary prayer service at the Pentagon and invoked the name of Jesus Christ. The Washington Post called it "dangerous" and "proselytizing" that breaks longtime norms. MSNBC labeled it "cult-like Christian nationalist rhetoric." Hegseth's prayer asked for wisdom in decisions, endurance for trials, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy, all "in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ." Pentagon press secretary confirmed: the services are 100% voluntary, not mandated. The left freaks out when faith returns to the military. Hegseth is simply leading with strength and conviction.

Has there ever been a time in history when the good guys were for restricting speech? No, there has never been a clear, unambiguous case in history where the side widely regarded today as the unambiguous "good guys" (in the sense of advancing liberty, truth-seeking, human flourishing, or moral progress without major caveats) were the primary advocates for broad restrictions on speech. The historical pattern shows the opposite: those pushing for systematic censorship, licensing, or suppression of dissenting ideas have overwhelmingly been authorities, majorities, or entrenched powers seeking to maintain control, enforce orthodoxy, or silence challengers—often later viewed as regressive, tyrannical, or mistaken.

🔥🚨BREAKING: Brigitte Macron claims"free speech needs limits." Macron: "I do know that I am the United States, a country of free speech. But I think that liberty does have some rules. We have to be free but adapt to certain codes."

@libsoftiktok Demons are real, and they possess people.

Transgender testifying at a bill hearing in NH: “Some women have uteri, some have vulvas, some have XY chromosomes and penises. If you are a woman with a vulva and you are uncomfortable seeing a woman with a penis, too bad! You have to get over it.”

@WellsJorda89710 Do not hate her. She has succumbed to the psyop, as have many.

🚨 Liberal Meltdown of the Day: Woman claims Trump is about to launch a full-on **Holocaust** against Americans. Her master plan? "I'm ready to pack my kids up and get the f*ck out ASAP — we going **back to Africa**." And the history lesson: "This is **exactly** how the Holocaust came about. If you read a history book..." Media brainwashing hits different. 😭 She's out here comparing a guy promising tax cuts and border security to literal genocide... then fleeing to the continent her ancestors were ripped from centuries ago as if that's the escape hatch. Peak TDS. Peak irony. Peak "touch grass" energy. Who needs satire when reality delivers like this? 🤡🇺🇸

@CollinRugg Why have humans judging at all? AI could judge it flawlessly without bias and corruption.

NEW: French judge Jezabel Dabouis accused of rigging figure skating event against the United States to give France a gold medal. Viewers were shocked when France's Laurence Fournier Beaudry & Guillaume Cizeron took gold over America's Madison Chock & Evan Bates. Five of the nine judges gave Chock and Bates the top score, while the other four gave Beaudry and Cizeron the top score. Thanks to the French judge, however, Beaudry and Cizeron were able to take gold, considering she gave Team USA a much lower score than the other judges. "Not only did she judge the French pair 6.45 points higher than the mean, but she undervalued Chock/Bates by -7.19 — giving us a +13.64 delta favoring France over USA in the final score. This represents a staggering 6.37 standard deviation z-score difference across the event," reported SBNation. "There has been a consistent pattern from Jézabel Dabois over multiple events of juicing scores for F. Beaudry/Cizeron in the ice dance, while filing low scores for their opponents," the outlet continued. "When it comes to the Olympic Games, in which France won gold by just 1.43 points, there is no doubt that the scoring of Dabois was the key differentiator in deciding who won the event." During an interview with CBS, Chock and Bates, who are married, called for more transparent judging. This must be investigated.

Just drove past the opulent Elevance Health (formerly Anthem) office building here in town. Quite impressive. Executives make millions. Stockholders make bank. Everyone's happy. Oh, except the rank & file employees and the insured customer. Doesn't work out as well for them. It is long past time to take the for-profit out of Healthcare. You're either in it for the money or humanity. Can't be both. Unfortunately, the feckless politicians can't fix anything, and sure as heck won't stop the golden goose health insurers money tree. Meanwhile, we're dying here, literally. Sleep well.

The form of governance most closely associated with systematically restricting free speech and abolishing or severely undermining trials by jury is an authoritarian dictatorship (or its more ideologically driven subsets: totalitarianism, fascism, or communist one-party rule). The UK is systematically restricting free speech and abolishing jury trials. The UK is moving away from freedom into authoritarian one party rule.

@WallStreetApes Democrats have held the mayoral office in Norfolk since 1962.

Norfolk, Virginia has been quietly installing hundreds of Flock cameras enabling mass, warrantless surveillance that tracks innocent people’s movements A federal judge has sided with Americans and ordered locations public “A federal judge in Norfolk has made the locations of more than 600 flock safety surveillance cameras across Hampton Roads public. The first time such a list has ever been released. Local cities and counties had previously denied requests for this information, citing Virginia's open records law and critical infrastructure protections. But now a federal lawsuit claims the city's use of these cameras violates Fourth Amendment rights, which protects against unreasonable search and seizures. The complaint filed The Flock system, filed in 2024, seeks to stop Norfolk's use of the Flock system and erase the data already collected.” Flock Cameras offer - Privacy Erosion and Mass Surveillance - Indiscriminate Data Collection - National Data Sharing - Unauthorized Access by Federal Agencies - Easy Exploitation for hacking, many using just a USB stick with no mandatory multi-factor authentication and credentials - Lack of Transparency and Oversight

Music is the language of love and reminds us that we're all in this together. Psalm 150:3-5: "Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!"

This discussion taps into a documented rise in family estrangement, with 2024 polls showing 27% of Americans estranged from at least one immediate family member, often due to toxicity, abuse, or differing values. Micah 7:6 (NIV) "For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—a man’s enemies are the members of his own household." This Old Testament prophecy is quoted by Jesus in Matthew 10:36 and speaks to the internal conflict and estrangement within families during times of judgment.

🚨 OPRAH JUST OPENED A PANDORA’S BOX - PEOPLE ADMIT THEY CUT OFF THEIR ENTIRE FAMILIES… AND FEEL “NO CONTACT” IS THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE A wild clip from Oprah Winfrey's new Youtube podcast is blowing up after multiple guests openly admitted they’ve gone FULL no-contact with their own parents, siblings… even their adult children: “I’ve been no contact with my entire family for a year and a half. No calls, no texts, nothing.” Another guest: “It’s been 4 years since I’ve spoken to my parents or siblings. Not a word.” And then this: “I’ve been no contact with my 30-year-old son for 2 years. By choice.” The conversation is exploding across the internet because this isn’t rare anymore. People are saying “no contact culture” is becoming a national trend. Is this a mental health breakthrough… or a society falling apart in real time?

@elonmusk It's as profoundly obvious as men can't become women. Yet they continue to insist despite the obvious. This leads one to believe there is an unstated ulterior motive. The real questions are what is that motive, and to what end?

If you imprison repeat violent offenders, then they will no longer be able to repeat offending violently! That is the simple and obvious truth.

In a representative republic, representatives are chosen to exercise the people’s sovereign power on their behalf while balancing popular will, expert judgment, constitutional limits, and the long-term interests of the republic. The following issues are considered "80-20" issues. Human trafficking opposition Child sexual exploitation opposition Term limits for Congress Requiring photo ID to vote Banning biological males from women’s sports Cracking down on cartel activity Opposing biological males in women’s private spaces (locker rooms, prisons, shelters) Increasing deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records School choice and education savings accounts Banning gag orders on parents at school board meetings Requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote Cracking down on criminal activity Are our representatives representing us or ruling us? These issues should have been long settled. The will of the people within the limits of the constitution is their job.