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I made a bunch of tweets like a year ago describing how I thought it was the extremist right (genuine racial nationalists, not what leftists call far right) that was the most dangerous, but I find it hard nowadays to justify that position especially after...

VICTOR GLOVER: "My faith, my science, and my career are interwoven. I've been in the military for 26 years, and I have done these increasingly challenging things. All of that is built on a foundation of faith."

The “Christians are anti-science rubes” line is getting old. And it just got blown out of the sky, literally. Meet Victor Glover, pilot of Artemis II. This dedicated man of faith just completed the first crewed mission around the Moon since 1972. While looking back at the Earth from deep space, he didn’t have a crisis of faith. He said the view reinforced his belief in creation. And he’s not new to this. Glover has already taken communion cups and a Bible into space on previous missions. He’s been open about his faith the entire time. He’s not the first either. Back in 1968, the Apollo 8 crew, the first humans to leave Earth orbit and circle the Moon, read from the book of Genesis on live television on Christmas Eve. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…” Millions heard it. The world didn’t collapse. Science didn’t shatter. The mission succeeded. Funny how the guys literally orbiting the Moon never got the “faith equals dumb” memo. Real faith lasts under pressure while the “Christians are anti-science” stereotype crumbles. The same people who mock believers as backward rubes have no answer for the long line of men and women of faith who have pushed the frontiers of science and exploration precisely because they believed the universe was orderly, intelligible, and created by a rational God. From the Apollo 8 crew reading Genesis to Victor Glover carrying Scripture and communion into lunar orbit, the pattern is clear. The more some people see of the cosmos, the more convinced they become that it didn’t just happen by accident. This is what real faith looks like. Not the version that hides from hard questions or fears the data. The version that looks at the Earth from 240,000 miles away and sees the hand of the Creator even more clearly. The version that carries a Bible into space because the same God who hung the stars is the same God who hung on the cross. To every atheist who loves to trot out the “anti-science” insult. The evidence keeps stacking up against you. The men and women who have actually left the planet and looked back don’t seem to agree with your narrative. And to every believer who’s ever been mocked for holding both faith and reason, keep going. Keep exploring. Keep speaking truth when they ask. The King who set the stars in place is the same King who rose from the grave. He is risen. He is risen indeed. All glory to the King who made the heavens and the earth, and who still calls men and women of faith to the very edge of it.

This was designed by God. All the glory goes to Him.

@pureMetatron It's technically not a sphere because it bulges around the equator.

The earth is a sphere. Prove me wrong.

The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks. Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility. The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903. So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done. A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence. The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.

@YouTubeROCKDUM @IMAO_ It's tidally locked to Earth, meaning it rotates as fast as it goes around the orbit of Earth. This means that when we look up to the moon, we always see the same side of it no matter where in its orbit it currently is.

@IMAO_ Wait does the moon not rotate??

It still makes me laugh thinking of when mankind first saw the far side of the moon, hoping to see cool new things, but nothing was there. Everything interesting was on the side we could already see.

@extradeadjcb I don’t actually think Artemis is a good platform but by god I will defend it against anyone saying we shouldn’t spend any money on space at all

Artemis is an absurdly expensive boondoggle & it will cost the same as ~14 hours of Medicare/Social Security spending

@2ray_degenemax 'Murica has been called, and 'Murica shall answer!

アメリカ人からのリプライが1776件くらい届いています。嬉しくて涙が出そうです。

@Icekiller369 @shank_life @Michaeldudufudu K

@Strat_White @shank_life @Michaeldudufudu race traitor

Its hilarious how not a single white person will see this and start bringing up pearl harbor and making excuses like other races do.

@djscottlong @SubRosaMagick Huh. Learn something new everyday I suppose. Thanks!

@Strat_White @SubRosaMagick It's in the 'Sound of Music', "How do you Solve a Problem Like Maria", they call her that. She's literally walking down the Aisle to get married while they call her flibbertigibbet.

Be honest… does ANYONE actually use these words in real life? 🤣 Bamboozled Flabbergasted Discombobulated Shenanigans Cattywampus Lollygag Malarkey Kerfuffle Brouhaha Nincompoop Skedaddle Tomfoolery Flibbertigibbet Pumpernickel

@dmmsell For a second I forgot "grass" was the equivalent of our LOL because of the lol at the start (included in the translation). So I was rather bemused and confused.

@AviFelman I'd reframe it as Uncomfortable Truth vs Polite Lie Politeness is not sacrosanct. Kindness is, but telling an uncomfortable truth over a lie is in-fact kind. It's just not polite.

Once again this graph has a hold on me

@shank_life @Michaeldudufudu Bro don't even try it.

@Michaeldudufudu Ill take one for the yte team This is reparations for pearl harbor

@DaveShapi Sitch I think is a Canadian. He's a political commentator on YouTube and translated his words into Japanese here. Idk if he actually speaks Japanese but tbh I wouldn't be surprised.

Part of it requires realizing the enemy doesn't care if it's true or not. Decent and polite societies tend to try to think of the other as also decent and thus believe such accusations are being made in good faith. But they are not. They're being made to tear you down. The other part is relentlessly defending yourself isn't necessary as well. Instead go on offense. Both require a decent amount of exposure to the problem for the antidote to manifest.

これに対するアメリカニキたちの反応で「もう気にしないことにしたぜ！」と言っているのが結構あるのが味わい深い。多分ポリコレに対して一番効く、我々が今日からでも実践出来る対処法の一つは「みんなでガン無視」なんだろうな。でもそういう合意形成が、現代民主社会においては一番難しいのだが。

@5ducks5 "How to tell someone your friend is a quintessential American without saying he's a quintessential American"

🇺🇸人同僚「カーネルサンダースは65歳でKFCを立ち上げて成功したんだ」 私「すごいよね」 🇺🇸「でも彼はそれまでに40回以上も別業種に転職して異業種の経験を積み、何度も起業して失敗したんだ」 私「挑戦だらけの人生だったんだな」 🇺🇸「全ての失敗を経験したからこそ、65歳で成功すべくして成功したわけだ」 私「なるほど」 🇺🇸「つまり、失敗ルートを全部塗り潰せば、成功だけが残る」 私「おお、なるほど」 🇺🇸「だから次はドラムセットを買うことにした」 彼はサックス、トランペット、バイオリン、ギター、ベース、ウクレレの奏者。 全部上手いんだけど、どれも納得が行かなかったっぽい。

@MericaCulture Someone, quick, relau this to the Japanese frens!

Small Town Nationalism

@E_Capman As they often say... Go big or go home!

「より多くする」とか「倍増させる」とか「もっと頑張る」とか曖昧な言い方じゃなくって「四倍」っていうクソデカ倍率を明確に出してきてカウボーイの気概を感じる……