NavyDigi

@politicalmath I think I know how future generations will look on abortion as a whole, but I'm not certain. I'm 6-sigma certain that when they read about what we did in 2nd and 3rd trimester, to viable fetuses / babies, they will look on us as worse than slaveholders. And they're right.

@selentelechia @ThymeToBeBorn You'd have expected better, earlier documents to lead to significant changes in the text, when what actually happened was extremely minor.

@selentelechia @ThymeToBeBorn It's such an unfortunate framing in part because it ends up hiding one of the coolest miracles in the faith: somehow the KJV, with very limited access to early copies, manages to be *extremely* accurate

Does anyone remember the moral panic about Dan Brown books? Did anyone have a crisis of faith or something because of a Dan Brown book? I read most of them but my mom was pretty chill about that stuff, let me read Harry Potter despite peer pressure not to let me.

@selentelechia @ThymeToBeBorn (Text doesn't convey tone. I'm not trying to be mean nor a pedant)

@selentelechia @ThymeToBeBorn This isn't quite correct, but I understand how people get there. The Bible in its modern form is *confirmed* by committee, but rather than "Hey, we need a book", it was "Hey, there's a need for us to clarify what we've already accepted as cannon, and when to close it"

@delipoyrazz90 @MarioNawfal If 60% of the people in Iran support the mullahs, then they're in for an unbelievably bad decade, with results that will look like Syria. But I sincerely doubt that number.

My friend, I’m telling you, this is a people with a 2,500-year history. Sixty percent support the regime. You really don’t know this region or its people. After Iran’s oil refineries and children were targeted, support for the regime has actually increased. I’ve been talking to my friends. They say, “We didn’t want the regime, but after this oppression by America and Israel, we’re supporting it now.” Because they say, “This is our internal matter.”

If the Iranian regime capitulates, the U.S. will come out stronger than ever as it gains control of the world’s most important energy chokepoint If the Iranian regime survives militarily, the American empire could begin its decline as it gets dragged into another forever war

@OVTweetmarck (This is true for all Christians, not merely the RCC. And if it isn't, their faith is in something other than Christ.)

My faith is infinitely more important than a temporal nation, yes

@delipoyrazz90 @MarioNawfal It's 2500 years since 1979? I must have been asleep much longer than I thought.

@NavyDigi @MarioNawfal 2,500 years have passed. I don’t support Iran. I don’t support Israel either. But I just can’t seem to make sense of this situation. No one understands this region. There will never be a surrender.

@delipoyrazz90 @MarioNawfal The government of Iran is 47 years old, not 2500.

The U.S. will quietly withdraw, claiming that its business here is done. How could Iran possibly surrender? I just can’t see the logic in that. How could a country with a population of 90 million and a history spanning 2,500 years possibly surrender? I’m asking out of genuine curiosity—how could that possibly happen?

@eigenrobot And vice versa. Mostly versa.

good news is that once the gulf states no longer have to run influence ops in the US they can use the savings to repair their slagged energy infrastructure

@margbrennan Finish the thought here.

Secretary Hegseth says Iran's navy is no longer a factor. “And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in World War II, we’ve decided to share the ocean with Iran,” Hegseth said. “We’ve given them the bottom half.”

@RyanMaue This, apparently, has bled over to form the backbone ideology that has created the immigration crisis in Europe.

Even though the founding scientists are mostly American, why did this neo-Malthusian ideology catch on so well across Europe with Net Zero? In short: The Americans supplied the ideological blueprint in 1975. Europe turned it into binding law and policy faster and harder because its institutions and culture were perfectly suited to it. That’s why Net Zero feels almost sacred across much of the continent, even as the costs mount. The irony: Europe is paying the highest price — deindustrialization, sky-high energy costs, and lost competitiveness — while the ideology was born in America. The US never embraced Net Zero with the same religious fervor because it lacks Europe’s centralized bureaucracy, strong Green parties, and post-Russia vulnerability.

"Yes — the same network of population control advocates (Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, and their circle, amplified by the Club of Rome and figures like Margaret Mead) effectively launched the organized alarmist phase of modern climate change advocacy in the mid-1970s." Really?

The climate movement didn’t “hate” nuclear because of Chernobyl or waste (those were convenient talking points). It hated nuclear because it was the one technology that could have falsified the neo-Malthusian premise that humanity must be restrained to stay within planetary carrying capacity.

This is the precise moment the same network (Ehrlich’s disciples Holdren, Schneider, Woodwell, convened by Mead) pivoted from pure overpopulation panic to climate alarm as the new enforcement mechanism for the neo-Malthusian agenda. It predates the IPCC by 13 years and shows the ideological scaffolding was already in place.

🧵 1/14: Just days after Paul Ehrlich (the man whose 1968 book “The Population Bomb” predicted billions would starve) passed away, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate the scientist who proved Ehrlich and other doomsayers spectacularly wrong. Meet Norman Borlaug, the Iowa farm boy who launched the Green Revolution and quite literally saved a billion lives. This is the ultimate story of human ingenuity triumphing over scarcity.

@CompanyHooch "Is Jesus accurately quoted when He said 'I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me'?"

I think I’d like someone to ask Talarico very basic NC questions. We keep letting him steal the base that he embodies the liberal version of the Christian ethic. But he pastors and has said things that run afoul of basic creedal orthodoxy. Did Jesus rise from the dead?

@NavalDrones Good question. Because dynamic executive decision-making is extremely important to the fighter mission, and where you're going, you have to be *certain* everything works. Give the pilot the very best tools, including AI/Autonomy/etc. But don't pull him until you are *certain*

@NavyDigi Why a manned F/A-XX?

The air war in Iran provides a great opportunity to talk about the future of Naval Aviation, and why we cannot rest on our laurels. So: Why F/A-XX? And why ASAP?

We can deliver the most capable, focused, and effective fighter in history. Let us.

The designs are ready. The teams are ready. But while we delay, our enemies do not. It would be a great mistake to have to fight a war without being able to control the skies, and certain opponents are working hard to counter our fielded capabilities, in order to ensure this.