Stephen Schwinn

My former account, @theRchitectMN, was hacked at the end of July, and is now posting from Hong Kong. Anything posted from August 1st, 2025 and later is NOT mine.

Socialist redefinition of terms to sound compassionate despite being parasitic and authoritarian. Stealing = sharing Forced redistribution = compassion Government dependency = safety Censorship = protecting people Speech restrictions = fighting hate Authoritarianism = democracy Mob rule = the will of the people Envy = justice Confiscation = equity Political favoritism = fairness Punishing success = accountability State control = cooperation Obedience = social responsibility Collective guilt = progress Violating rights = protecting rights Economic failure = greed’s fault Failure of central planning = not real socialism Using others as resources = human rights Parasitism = mutual aid Destroying incentives = sustainability Demanding sacrifice = empathy

@SamsaraSings 🙏🙏🙏

Please pray for my best friend Theresa in MO. She has battled endometrial cancer twice in the last 4 years with chemo and immunotherapy that caused a severe reaction. Today, she is having a stent replacement and they keep changing the time! So now, it’s at 11:30 am EST. She’s feeling anxious. If we all hold her up in prayer, God will surely send her strength. 🙏🙏🙏 She’s hoping to go to a family reunion party tomorrow if she’s well enough. Please ask the Lord to make this procedure easy on her so she can go. I love her as if she was my sister. There is no better person on God’s green Earth. ❤️❤️❤️ This is from last week. Her hair is finally growing back beautifully.

@lisavsworld I know I’m old, but the way many men today - those that claim Christ - talk about women is just outright disrespectful. “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” Proverbs 31:30

What are the "crazy" standards? I have zero idea what his expectations are here, I only know my own experience with Christian dating. Perhaps conservative Christian women have changed since my early to mid 20s. Maybe they're the "no kissing before marriage" types and that I would get as being far too neurotic. Maybe it's more religious ritual OCD? I can't say. We don't know. He didn't tell us. The biggest one is obvious for most Christian women and it's the "no sex before marriage" standard. A lot of Christian men "pull" secular women for sex and try and convince her to convert later on. Sometimes he's successful. Sometimes he's not, but he "returns" to the church 10 years later and talks about how he "regrets" his decisions. He's now looking for that nice Christian girl.

@libertyfor1 @GlowSurfing 867-5309!

@GlowSurfing Wait, your name isn’t Jennie is it?

Any takers?! 😆😎

@GlowSurfing I was going to say the lack of any integral makes this trivial! Then I saw the bottom, and thought “I’m out“! 🤣 hey, wait a minute… that ending summation is over “k”. Easy! 😁😁😁

I’m sure you all remember Avery Jackson, the “trans girl” who, at 9, was on the cover of National Geographic in January of 2017. Avery was given the gold standard in gender affirming care: he was chemically castrated and sterilized with “blockers” to hold off male puberty. Now Avery has come out as “nonbinary” and chosen not to pursue transition, meaning that his puberty was blocked for no reason — but that’s not the worst part. He also identifies as asexual, meaning that he doesn’t experience sexual attraction. This is undoubtedly the result of the medication used to delay male puberty. The president of WPATH, Dr, “Marci” Bowers, has said on camera that so-called puberty blockers, which are used to chemically castrate sex offenders, chemically castrate the young boys who take them as well, leaving them incapable of arousal or orgasm. For adult sex offenders, the process is reversible. For boys like Avery, the effects are permanent. He will never feel sexual attraction, or any of the experiences that accompany it. He is also completely sterile; he will never father a child, and his own childhood was spent in the national spotlight. The blockers he was given have also stunted his physical and mental development in irreversible ways. We know from the experiences of other “trans” children that he will never sexually mature - neither physically nor emotionally. All of these things were stolen from him, and he has said that transitioning “ruined my life.” It’s high time that we stop pretending that children can make an informed decision to transition or take blockers, even if their doctors are honest about the risks and consequences — which most are not. Blockers are not a pause button. They are not reversible. The intellectual deficits they cause will never repair themselves, and neither will the damage done to the child victim’s body, or to their emotional intelligence and maturity. This will, of course, make it easier to push them into transitioning; ie, to sell them hormones and provide surgical alterations. Parents like Avery’s, who try to monetize their child’s struggles with gender identity, belong in prison, not on television, and so do the doctors and politicians who were complicit in his chemical castration and sterilization.

@lisavsworld 💔😢

I should have just stayed off X. I didn't even intend to be on here for as long as I was today. I'll be back tomorrow briefly. And then probably not again until the weekend.

@MrAndyNgo Suicidal empathy is strong in MN culture. It’s from the same source that created “MN nice”, but was radicalized by the left.

Why did Minnesotans allow their state to become like this?

It is ok to "disagree agreeably" with other Christian leaders, especially when you make it primarily about *ideas* rather than *individuals* (yes, there is a rare place for the 2nd one)... But, if your "thing" is basically mocking contempt and thinly-veiled hatred that you label 'being a prophetic voice' and you expect the Spirit to fall on that in power, good luck.

Pratt lays it all out. As I've been saying here in Minnesota, Medicaid billing factories are the low-hanging fruit. The full scope of fraud includes "respectable" NGOs and for-profits that benefit from human misery, perpetuate and accelerate it, while posing as benevolent.

@GlowSurfing @carolmswain @Motivatedtweet

@carolmswain @Motivatedtweet Wow Liberals are delusional, pathetic narcissists who actually believes they are morally superior over anyone who disagrees with them

After testifying before Congress to demand accountability from the SPLC, I was rewarded with a barrage of threatening, foul-mouthed emails from progressives — exactly the kind of intimidation their leaders encourage by distorting the truth. “No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord. — Isaiah 54:17 (NIV) @JudiciaryGOP @Jim_Jordan

“Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man’s right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.” — Ayn Rand

Acabo de terminar la lectura de Historia de la civilización de Will Durant. Once tomos, más de trece mil páginas. Durant no es de mi palo ideológico, es un historiador liberal en el sentido clásico del término, no tiene agenda ideológica explícita. Y sin embargo, en el tomo sobre Roma, documenta algo que yo hubiera firmado sin cambiarle una coma. En César y Cristo, Durant describe la política económica de Diocleciano, siglo III, con una precisión que corta. Primero el Estado sustituyó el sistema de precios por una economía administrada. Después controló el grano, el aceite, el hierro, la sal. Después dictó precios máximos para todos los bienes y servicios del Imperio, el Edicto de Precios del 301 d.C. Resultado fue qu los bienes desaparecieron del mercado. Lo que no puede venderse a precio libre, no se produce ni se ofrece. El mecanismo es tan simple que da vergüenza tener que explicarlo, y sin embargo dos mil años después los gobiernos siguen aplicando la misma política con la misma cara de sorpresa cuando llegan los mismos resultados. Pero lo más demoledor no es el Edicto. Es lo que vino después. Para evitar que la gente huyera del campo y de las ciudades escapando de los impuestos y las regulaciones, el Estado romano ató literalmente a los campesinos a la tierra. Durant lo llama servidumbre de hecho. El feudalismo medieval, argumenta Durant, tiene su raíz principal en las restricciones que Diocleciano y sus sucesores impusieron para impedir que la gente se fugara. La servidumbre medieval fue la consecuencia lógica del intervencionismo romano. Y para financiar todo esto, los impuestos subieron a niveles que Durant describe como de continuidad ubicua sin precedentes. La burocracia, el ejército, las obras públicas y la dole tenían que financiarse con los ingresos del año en curso porque Roma aún no había descubierto el endeudamiento público para disimular el despilfarro y postergar la rendición de cuentas. Esto es clave y Durant no termina de verlo del todo, el endeudamiento público no resuelve el problema. Los modernos sí lo descubrieron, y por eso la deuda reemplazó al impuesto como mecanismo de extracción, con el plus de que el costo se le carga a generaciones que todavía no pueden votar en contra. Durant lo sintetiza así en el epílogo del tomo: el costo creciente de los ejércitos, las dádivas, las obras públicas, la burocracia en expansión y una corte parasitaria; la depreciación de la moneda; el desaliento de la capacidad productiva y la absorción del capital de inversión por parte de una tributación confiscatoria; todo eso conspiró para socavar las bases materiales de la vida italiana, hasta que el poder de Roma fue un fantasma político que sobrevivía a su propia muerte económica. Un fantasma político que sobrevivía a su propia muerte económica. Durant escribió eso en 1944. Lo que describe es exactamente el orden de operaciones, intervención de precios, fuga de capital, servidumbre regulatoria, debasement monetario, colapso de la estructura productiva. No hay ningún misterio en la caída de Roma y tampoco lo hay en ninguna de las que vinieron después. Aún me falta seguir leyendo mucho sobre la Historia de la civilización de Will Durant, son muchos tomos.

@BubbyBlu29353 Was this a private group using the school building or is this school run / sponsored? It’s important to be clear about who this is. (I don’t like it either way but we need to know who is responsible.)

Keep this crap out of schools! This is Osseo.

@RockChartrand “The fight often isn’t against privilege. It’s over who gets to wield it” ALWAYS

I think a lot of anti capitalist propaganda intentionally tries to blur the line between capitalism and cronyism because properly defining the terms weakens most anti capitalist arguments immediately. If government favoritism, subsidies, bailouts, monopolistic protection, lobbying for privilege, and regulatory capture are forms of political control rather than free markets, then many of the things blamed on “capitalism” are actually examples of the state interfering with voluntary exchange. And the uncomfortable implication is that many anti capitalists aren’t opposing cronyism itself. They just want different cronies and different political favoritism benefiting their preferred groups instead. The fight often isn’t against privilege. It’s over who gets to wield it.

@redheadranting @jbeam123 The only thing that should be made permanent is STANDARD time.

@jbeam123 I don't want it. I need something to look forward to and I've reached the age where it's the time change. Please don't take that from me.

It's not mass arrests or cheap gas but I've wished for this for decades. I'm not calling it a win until it actually passes. Too many rug pulls.

@SamsaraSings Great move putting it in the sun! (Cold/blooded, ya know. ☺️)

I went out on the patio to watch the sun set earlier. I have this USB fan on a small table that keeps the bugs off me. (Noseeums are always out biting at sunset.) Absentmindedly, turning it on without looking, I heard a noise in the fan and became very alarmed. I immediately turned it off. I was so upset to see this little guy in there. I was really concerned I might have hurt him. They’re anoles, a type of small lizard. I talked softly to him apologizing, almost in tears. He moved as I turned off the fan, but then, became very still. I was so worried. His eyes were on me though and as I looked, I could see he was still breathing. I know they go into shock and stay very still. Then, I gently moved the fan to a very sunny spot on the ground, softly telling him what I was doing and that he could run away when he was able. Lo and behold, almost immediately after I said that, he squeezed out of the fan grid and took off. He was fine! I was so relieved. People think I’m crazy but I swear animals sense me and know I mean them no harm. I think he knew my intentions for him. I love these little guys. They are so much fun to watch, especially when the males try to impress the females. Actually, I love all God’s creatures with all my heart (well, okay, maybe not some horrible humans 😜). Run free cute little anole!

@RockChartrand @AzPetrich “people would rather everyone become poorer together than tolerate unequal success while overall living standards rise.” Truth!

That’s not even what he said. He explicitly said you can tax him more if you want, but that people should actually expect measurable results instead of blindly assuming higher taxes automatically improve society. And somehow asking for accountability became the outrage. A lot of modern socialism has drifted into resentment economics: people would rather everyone become poorer together than tolerate unequal success while overall living standards rise. If the priority were prosperity, the focus would be on how to make more people wealthy, productive, and upwardly mobile, not on emotionally fixating on tearing down whoever currently has the most.

Jeff fucking Bezos going on a media tour to tell everyone they shouldn't tax him and other billionaires because it won't help, is EXACTLY why we need to tax them into oblivion. Fuck ya'll.

@A_J_Bake @Riley_Gaines_ So you’re cool with killing someone in a coma?

@Riley_Gaines_ Ill challenge anyone on this, we humans do not protect life, heartbeats, or even brain function. We protect the ability to deploy a conscious human experience. The potential of this experience is not the same thing, and there is no moral harm in aborting something without it.

2.2 million views is a heck of a lot more than the ~30 students in her class. What the teacher meant for bad, God used for good. Bravo to this brave girl!