Nick Randall

@CynicalPublius They wrap evil things in the nicest sounding words.

One of the greatest evils of modern Leftists is their penchant for taking a benign or virtuous word and secretly redefining it to have a fundamentally different meaning. This practice means Leftists hide behind the virtue of a word’s common understanding as a veneer to disguise their truly evil intent. Nowhere is this practice more obvious than in the highly illusory term “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.” When a Leftist says these words, what they really mean is as follows: “Diversity” = rigorous homogeneity of thought and speech backed up by quotas. “Equity” = Marxism. “Inclusion” = exclusion of groups deemed undesirable.

There is such a thing as edge case true market failure, such as the classic tragedy of the commons, when thinking about air and water pollution, which ironically traces back to lack of individual ownership of the air and water. There are also market outcomes which are deemed socially unacceptable, such as natural income levels of the sick or disabled. A ton of academic economics is preoccupied with solving these issues that laissez faire can’t handle.

You’re not describing a flaw in markets, you’re rejecting how value is determined. Yes, markets follow effective demand. That’s not a bug, it’s the mechanism. People can only trade what they have. The alternative is giving someone else the power to override those choices and decide for everyone. ‘Bargaining power’ just means options. The solution to weak options isn’t abolishing markets, it’s expanding them so people have more ways to earn, move, and trade. Externalities and bad information are real, but replacing voluntary exchange with centralized decision-making doesn’t remove them, it concentrates them in people with far less accountability. And pointing to pet rocks proves the opposite of your point. People are free to make bad trades. That freedom is the same condition that allows good ones. You’re comparing imperfect voluntary choices to imagined perfect control, while ignoring that control just replaces dispersed errors with centralized ones.

I'm sorry but I'm about to be rude and sweary again. Free-market apologists are f*cking simpletons. Just the basic flaws are enough to blow this juvenile nonsense out of the water. Of course, rich people's 'votes in the market' count more than poor people's, especially when poorer people want unprofitable goods like clean air. 'Value judged by others' completely ignores imbalances in bargaining power and the fact that in many cases alternative choices don't exist. Markets reward sellers based on the structure of effective demand - poor people who could benefit from better healthcare contribute relatively less to effective demand at scale because their demands are relatively unprofitable, therefore sellers either ignore their value-judgements or sell them low-grade crap that wouldn't meet anyone's value-judgement. Financial speculation and asset-inflation can even create negative value for everyone but the financier, but they're funded to the hilt and keep causing crashes. Trades are never entirely isolated from externalities - uninformed voluntary choices given to unscrupulous sellers can cause massive environmental damage. Individual choices can easily be manipulated by advertising, cultural norms and cultural fads - in 1975 Californian consumers spent $6 million on pet rocks rather than contribute to essentials like accessible healthcare. Etc. etc. Simplistic crap.

@GOLDBABYO The homeless need heated cinder block shelters with a lockable door. Access to a facility with washrooms, showers, food, medical care. They are too feral to live under any rules.

My brother is homeless. Addiction. Mental illness. Streets for five years. I tried everything. He won’t accept help. Last winter he called. First time in months. Said “I’m cold. So cold.” I drove around. Found him. Under a bridge. Freezing. Brought him home. Hot shower. Clean clothes. Food. Bed. He stayed one night. Left before sunrise. Back to the streets. I cried. Felt like I failed. Week later. Man came to my door. Homeless. Said “Your brother sent me. Said you help people. I’m cold.”

@marycdes @GOLDBABYO Part of mission work is wise self protection.

@GOLDBABYO I think you need to stop letting complete strangers stay at your house

@StefanMolyneux Maybe a great cure for woke female relatives is to start having Sharia themed family gatherings. ; - )

The betrayal of Western liberal women who spent 150 years complaining about misogyny and patriarchy - only to turn around and invite in - and give endless respect to - massively misogynistic and patriarchal foreign cultures, will never be forgotten. You blew it ladies.

@QuanticASI Thomas Warren Campbell “My Big TOE “

we urgently neeed new physics and new philosophy

I assert that inside baseball legal proofs are less persuasive than pointing out the self-evident power of trying out Jesus’s hyper-cooperative approach to relationships. Dialing back primitive ego wins us authentic loyalty and abundant love from others. Stepping back from clingy small stakes materialism, wins us strategic alliances that scale prosperity. Converting persuadable enemies to be friends, reduces risk, and acquires one more group to trade with and socialize. Meeting our duties to parents, and first wives, eliminates the rot of guilt. and so on.

Yeshua is the Source of Life (the Sap), the Jewish people are the Covenantal Root (the Foundation) that God used to bring Him into the world. If you cut off the historical, physical root of the Jewish people, the "Jesus" you are left with is a character floating in mid-air with no legal or prophetic right to the throne of David.

@jakobe291 I really don’t understand the habit of turning to someone who was not a student of Jesus, to argue a point.

This disagreement comes from a failure to understand the core distinction Paul draws in Romans 9–11 between salvation (by faith in Christ for everyone, Jew or Gentile) and God's irrevocable national calling and covenants with ethnic Israel. Romans 11 is not ambiguous. Paul asks, “Has God rejected his people?” and answers “By no means! He calls the current hardening “partial” and “temporary” (v. 25) — until “the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,” at which point “all Israel will be saved” (v. 26). The olive tree metaphor is decisive: the natural branches (unbelieving ethnic Israel) are broken off temporarily, the wild branches (Gentiles) are grafted in, but Paul expects the natural branches to be grafted back in (vv. 23–24). The root (Abrahamic covenants) stays intact. This is not “replacement”; it’s restoration of the original tree. “Irrevocable” is not a suggestion (Rom 11:29). The gifts and calling to Israel as a people are not cancelled by unbelief. The New Covenant itself was made “with the house of Israel and the house of Judah” (Jer 31:31; Heb 8:8) — not “with the Church instead.” Yeshua inaugurated it at the Last Supper with Jewish disciples, and the prophets tie its full realization to national repentance and the land (Ezek 36–37; Zech 12:10). No one is claiming unbelieving Jews get a back-door salvation. Every serious view (including yours) agrees: faith in Christ is the only way for anyone. The debate is whether God still has a distinct national purpose for the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in redemptive history — land, throne, and “life from the dead” (Rom 11:15) — or whether those promises were entirely spiritualized and transferred. Paul’s logic in Romans 11:12, 15, 24 is that Israel’s future fullness will bring even greater blessing to the world than their current fall did. That’s the opposite of favoritism; it magnifies God’s faithfulness to all believers. The “Calvinism” comparison doesn’t land. Calvinists debate individual unconditional election to salvation. The biblical election of Israel was corporate/national, for the purpose of blessing the nations (Gen 12:3). It never meant every Jew was automatically saved apart from faith. Equating the two is a category error.

@jakobe291 @GadSaad A theological challenge is that Jesus himself had no personal survival instinct.

To reach a Christian audience, Gad Saad’s evolutionary data needs a theological soul. Science can diagnose the "parasitic" nature of suicidal empathy, but it cannot provide the moral compass to fix it. Biology tells us to survive; Christ tells us to be transformed. While science describes the world as it is, only the folly of the Cross explains why a culture is worth saving in the first place. We don't need fewer convictions; we need the serpent's wisdom to see the threat and the dove's heart to remain Christ-like while we face it.

Bingo.

@Pro__Trading Hispanic vote too

I am becoming of the opinion that Marco Rubio would be harder for the Democrats to beat in 2028 than Jd Vance. I like both men and I will vote for whoever wins the primary. But, Rubio's combination of experience and respectability makes him a very hard target for the Democrats. There's almost no opposition research that would work against Rubio. Most attacks would bounce right off him.

@JustinWStapley Conservatism has a long history and evolving contexts. It’s not helpful for analysis. Contemporary conservatism is more Whiggish reform to correct unmeritocratic encroachment on market forces, and correct socially degenerate encroachment on the nuclear family.

Conservatism defends even the imperfect status quo because the sober conservative mind sees chaos as a far worse alternative. So how can populism ever be a form of conservatism?

@rabbriansamuel Balderdash

For my weekly sermons, I’m doing an in-depth study on the gifts of the Spirit. This coming weekend, I’ll be covering the gifts of tongues and interpretation. From your perspective, the gift of tongues is: A) The supernatural ability to speak in a legitimate, earthly language you have not otherwise known B) The supernatural ability to speak in a heavenly language that is not understood by any human without supernatural interpretation C) Both D) Neither

@TristinHopper There’s something to be said about keeping your head down and charging forward.

If you aren't regularly having thoughts of giving up on Canada, it's probably because you're not realistically engaging with the state of your own country. But it's that very engagement that this country needs more than ever.

@PatrickC1995 Wage sellers only understand labor selling. The other classes also benefit from this ignorance. Moving beyond labor selling is a threat to labor buyers.

One of the biggest mental blocks of the left is their inability to think about value creation in any way other than manual labor. A good counter-example is the professional athlete, or pop-star. Who did Tayler Swift exploit to become a billionaire?

@tacosylibertad Market systems are cash gate keeping, socialist systems are relationship gate keeping.

Talked to a friend in Canada today. Told me he’s going in for back surgery this week. I asked him how long he had to wait for the surgery. He said that he sped up his appointment by 4 months by visiting the place in person, being nice to the staff there and giving the receptionist a Starbucks gift card.

@TristinHopper I don’t think it’s the assimilation. Also need to parse out importing socialistic voting underclass versus nation destroying religion.

If you take a classroom of 30 children and drop in one foreign kid a year, he's going to assimilate at warp speed (several of them are reading this post right now). Now try dropping in five a year. Or 10.

@TristinHopper @jean_tavare45 The street prayers in of themselves are not the problem, if they were benign. The problem is where all this leads, as documented by Gad Saad.

@jean_tavare45 Yes, but we forget just how foreign and scary they were in the context of the time. An illiterate Galician might as well be from a different planet.

There was a British fear during the First World War of "losing the war in an afternoon." You could lose hundreds of battles on the Western front and the line would hold, but if you lost one major naval battle the jig was up. This concept is why I worry so much about immigration. You can blow out the debt , destroy the economy and even burn down whole cities and the damage is ultimately repairable. But in only a few months, a badly mismanaged immigration file can do existential damage.

I wonder if assimilation matters at all. No one minds the old order Mennonites, Amish, Hutterites, Hasidic Jews, Mormons, and so on. I actually LIKE seeing them in the community. No one minds private beliefs and practises limited to ethnic cultural institutions and home. What’s a few honor killings between friends? But, something changed about two years ago. Coordinated menacing illegal public intimidation on the streets, specifically targeting Churches and Synagogues. Signs and public spaces advertising religious instruction and religious segregated sports. The phenomena is magnified by public security not enforcing the law.

I think often of how Canada prevailed despite overwhelming Irish immigration just before Confederation, and overwhelming Central European immigration before the First World War. But the circumstances just aren't the same. There was no welfare state, and newcomers ran into a culture with extremely high expectations of assimilation.

@jakobe291 Part of love is sustainability and duty to guarding civilizational order.

Love is an intentional choice, not a naive emotion. While loving an enemy means refusing personal vengeance and praying for their transformation, it never requires us to ignore their capacity for harm or to abandon our moral clarity. Scripture and Jewish tradition emphasize that protecting life is a sacred duty; as the sages taught, if someone comes to kill you, you have a duty to rise and defend yourself. This creates a clear hierarchy of responsibility where the safety of your own family and community must take precedence. The biblical principle of prioritizing the "poor of your own city" suggests that a believer’s first obligation is always to the security and well-being of their immediate neighbor and kin. As followers of Yeshua, we must develop a vigilant faith that refuses to be passive in the face of ideologies that seek to destroy Western values and human rights. While the Bible commands us to love the stranger, this historically refers to those who integrate into the community’s legal and moral framework, not those who seek to subvert it. Because God is a God of both love and justice, we must seek peace while actively defending the vulnerable and maintaining the boundaries necessary for a secure society.

@TristinHopper Cash does not cure mental illness. Relocation to a well supported glamping site would restore urban cores, and provide the feral life they crave. Anything beyond a self secured cinder block cell would get destroyed.

Remember when donations were pouring in to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral, and you had leftists whining that the cash should have been used on the homeless? Notre Dame got rebuilt. The billions thrown at homelessness in BC alone have only increased human misery.