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@AntiCommieBecca Just an example - we used to have the Boy Scouts. Now, it's "Scouting" and it's full of girls. Many such cases.

This is actually really illuminating. He’s basically saying young men are sort of naturally aggressive, angry, resentful & see themselves as superior beings. BUT it’s just their hormones that are fueling this. The vast majority of men grow out of this and that explains why there is such a HUGE difference between older and younger men. I don’t think women understand this, and I don’t think older men are taking the time to mentor younger men explaining to them they’re insatiable horniness & rageful anger is just a hormonal thing that will mitigate with time. It’s a shame there aren’t resources to help young men understand these feelings all men have felt, it’s not environmental it’s hormonal & will pass. They just gotta get safely through it! This seems like a positive message. Why isn’t this being articulated more? 🤔

@JTAlexander_ After Henry VIII, Queen Mary brought England back into communion with Rome. Only for Elizabeth I to reverse that. Elizabeth I is the founder of Anglicanism, not Henry VIII. But that's too inconvenient for your divisive attitude.

"I'm gonna make my own Church, with divorce, declare myself Defender of the Faith, and kill 50,000 people for daring to stand in my way. I do this so that 500 years later my divorced adulterous heirs can wish Mohammedans a Happy Yum Yum Feast and pretend Easter doesn't exist."

Panicans seem to think that unless you have ZERO CASUALTIES, you're losing. Wow, a plane got shot down during a war. Wow it's over. Pass the estradiol.

@BabakTaghvaee1 Call me skeptical for now. That ejection seat sitting up like that is highly unlikely if it fell from the sky. Also, no footprints. Maybe the pilot parachuted someplace else. Or he levitated away. They've made lots of claims so far. Propaganda possibility is very high.

BREAKING: Unfortunately, one ejection seat has been found next to the wreckage of the downed U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle of the 494th Fighter Squadron in Iran. Based on the condition of its parachute, it appears the crew ejected at low altitude. One crew member may have been killed unfortunately, while the other may have survived. U.S. Air Force combat search and rescue teams are currently searching for the surviving crew member, most likely the weapons systems operator. Statements from the Islamic regime are already claiming that they have captured the surviving crew member. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

@sentdefender Sitting up quite nicely. Soft landing for the ejection seat, it seems. No footprints either. Pilots trained to levitate after they eject to hide their tracks.

A McDonnell-Douglas ACES II (Advanced Concept Ejection Seat) from a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle has been found by residents in Southern Iran, the whereabouts or status of the pilot and weapons officer is currently unknown, with unconfirmed reports that one or both of the crewmembers have been captured by members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

@Osint613 A-10 go brrrrrt

Report: Hundreds of Iraqi convoys have entered Iran.

@washingtonpost Strategic leak

Breaking news: The U.S. military gave the president a plan to seize nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium in Iran. The mission would require the airlift of potentially hundreds or thousands of troops and could take weeks. wapo.st/3PWVRzs

@JasonAtwell14 Tactical leak

Whoever leaked this ought to be in prison for the rest of their life.

Let’s be real here. Europe has spent decades freeloading on American security. Even now, with every NATO member finally hitting the 2% GDP target in 2025. But beyond the financial contributions, the real rupture is philosophical and the Iran crisis has shown a spotlight on it. Europe worships process. Endless committees, consultations, and “predictability.” Macron actually calls it a virtue. For Trump, this is paralysis as his style is to articulate a threat, fix a target, and act. The Americans are men of conviction and purpose. Europe on the other hand lives by bureaucratic liturgy and in high-minded abstractions. Sure, Americans might make mistakes when acting. But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are. Just look at how their nations are doing on various fronts, especially on the border crisis, and you see the same cancerous rot that undergirds their foreign policy approach play out domestically. It's the same problem on a different scale. Iran is currently holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, choking 20% of global oil and spiking prices past $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the regime is bleeding from strikes, its nuclear ambitions are still alive despite degraded capability, and its proxies are firing missiles at allies and oil tankers. If this isn’t a clear and present danger to the global economy - of which Europe is a part - then I don’t know what is. Yet when Washington asked to use European bases to finish the job - bases the US has defended for generations, the response was hesitation and hand-wringing. The US did strike from RAF Fairford, but only after warnings that British soil could become a “legitimate target.” If you cannot agree that a theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions who have shown no restraint in hitting out at Gulf countries and threatening the world’s energy jugular is an enemy worth confronting, then what, exactly, are we allies about? Europe loves to preen about being tough on Russia. They issue condemnations and speeches and slap sanctions that hardly work to cripple the Russian economy. Now here was a chance to do something concrete: let the Americans use the bases they already pay for, help clear the Strait, and actually degrade the Iranian war machine that arms Moscow’s proxies. Turmp didn’t ask for boots on the ground or any kind of more offensive action. All he wanted was permission to operate from the infrastructure America has underwritten for decades. They couldn’t even manage that. So can you blame the Americans for seeing NATO for what it is? A paper-tiger alliance that expects Washington to bleed and pay while Brussels and London convenes and deliberates. If Europe refuses to treat Iran as the threat it is while happily letting American power keep the Strait open and the lights on, then the alliance is already dead. Trump is simply stating the obvious and the Americans are becoming very reluctant to subsidize the European delusion any longer.

@robertlufkinmd Smoking cessation. Next question.

What happened in the 1980's so that everyone, everywhere, of all ages started getting fat?

@KickPistons Don't do this. It does not build up the body of Christ.

How to be Protestant: Get a Bible. Delete 7 books to save on printing costs. Skim the rest. Take note of the word "you." When it says something nice about you, it means "you personally." When it criticizes you, it means "other people, probably Catholics." That's it.

When it comes to the perpetual virginity of Mary, do you agree with the Catholic view or with the view of Protestant reformers Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Wesley?

@VivaldiVril Evolutionary psychology hardest hit.

Modern women's thorough superficiality has created a two-tiered relationship narrative, where the most sexually attractive men are perceived both sexes as not marriage material, and "husband material" implies male weakness. Great job everyone! 👏👏👏

@_Link_ The underlying assumption is that everyone is a degenerate sexual sinner, so there are only those who have repented and those who are still pretending.

Most young men would love to know where all these pastors/feminists/simps are hiding these proud and haughty virgins. The assumption that in today's culture, a 20-something virgin female is wildly wicked, and the harlot virtuous, is laughable. These men have been blinded.

🚨NEW: Stephen A. Smith: "You got a lot of d*mn nerves to say for numerous admins, 'Iran is a problem. They have to be dealt with.' & then Trump deals with them. & then all of a sudden you're complaining about him now. It doesn't really make sense." BILL MAHER CROWD: 👏👏👏

@JoshuaTCharles @TexasPreacher Loud enough for those in the back x.com/ryanburge/stat…

@TexasPreacher I’ve met many. I make it a point to ask them basic questions about the Faith. In EVERY single case—so far—they knew almost nothing. Where are the many respected, orthodox Catholics who in recent days became protestant? Indeed, we can name many who went the other way.

In any given Protestant church, you'll find scores of people, astronomically so in fact, who were once papists. Their conversion was rarely complicated or dramatic. They just started reading their Bible.

@GarbageHuman24 Bwahahahaha. Stratify by "never married" and see if that still holds.

What could possibly be the cause of this phenomenon?

@TomBuck Woah woah woah. Don't you bring sober-minded, biblically grounded guidance to this discussion!

For the record… Someone’s past should always be heavily factored in when deciding to marry someone. Biblical standards always direct who you marry. God can radically change someone who had a sordid past. No one is obligated to marry him/her. No one should be shamed for doing so, if he/she evidences a transformed life and they seek and heed godly counsel to think through the decision biblically and thoroughly.

@kangminlee Westminster confession and 39 articles are based. Read them.

I am now seriously inquiring Catholicism, Orthodoxy, or High-Church Protestantism after this whole fiasco. Modern evangelicalism is compromised & detached from apostolic faith, swapped for subjective feel-good fluff instead of Scripture-rooted truth & historic Church tradition.

@Brian_Peotter Let's see if this gets as many likes as the other one!!!

I married a pure woman. The Bible says: “An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.” (Proverbs 31:10) I met her the very first day of freshman year in college. We instantly became friends. Both of us were on the Division 1 swim team — two brutal practices a day, every single day. I wasn’t a Christian yet. She invited me to church anyway. She stood right there the day I got baptized. I told my buddies, “If I ever get the chance, I’m marrying her.” She had already decided: no dating in college. She never put herself “on the market.” Junior year I finally took her out. I didn’t even call it a date… but she loved it. When we talked afterward I laid my cards on the table. She looked me in the eye and said, “I’m not kissing anyone until my husband.” I told her I was 100% okay with that. Eighteen months of dating later, we got engaged… and shared our very first kiss. I loved her then. Thirteen years and five kids later, I love her more than ever. In today’s world, everything we did to guard her purity gets called “extreme.” I’m telling you this for one reason: It CAN be done. And it’s worth being that “extreme.” If this story hits you, repost it. Someone out there needs to hear that real love still exists — and that waiting is still worth it.