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@r0ck3t23 Utopian ideology is deadly because it ignores the elephant in the room: human nature. More accurately, human depravity. This push will produce more mass graves than Stalin & Mao combined.

Eric Schmidt just called AGI the most important event in a thousand years of human history. Then the interviewer brought up radical abundance and UBI. Eric Schmidt: “You tech liberal you.” Every traditional economist already knows the rebuttal. UBI means printing money. Printing money means inflation. End of discussion. Their math is not wrong. Their math is obsolete. The old rule is simple. Print dollars without producing goods and prices explode. Every hyperinflation in history confirms it. But that rule has a hidden assumption buried inside every model. Human labor is the bottleneck of all production. AGI removes the bottleneck. Permanently. Autonomous machinery pulls raw materials from the earth. No operator. Self-driving trucks haul those materials across continents. No driver. Automated factories turn them into goods. No worker. Humanoid robots load the freight, stock the shelves, wire the buildings. No hands. When those robots break, better robots design, build, and replace them. No engineer. No technician. No human anywhere in the loop. From the mine to your front door, the entire chain runs without a single paycheck. Labor is the largest cost hidden inside everything you own. When it hits zero, the price of everything chases it down. Not cheaper. Not discounted. Functionally zero. This is where the inflation argument dies. UBI inflates only when printed dollars chase scarce goods. That is the textbook answer. And the textbook is correct. But inside a fully automated loop, goods stop being scarce. Machines produce faster than humans can spend. GDP does not grow linearly. It goes vertical. For the first time in recorded history, supply will outrun demand at every price point in every market on earth. Ten thousand years of civilization. Every empire. Every war. Every famine. Every economic theory ever written. All downstream of two words. Not enough. AGI does not solve that problem. It makes the question obsolete.

@Sam_Masemula @cb_doge This is a truly uneducated take 😂

@cb_doge "Connecting 5000 rural schools with free internet ". Why don't you just connect American rural schools???? why do you force the idea in South Africa? You just sound like a politician

A lot of misinformation from legacy media about Starlink’s entry into South Africa. Here’s the truth 👇 • ❌ “Starlink wants to bypass B-BBEE” ✅ False — it supports transformation via EEIP, a legal framework already used by companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon Web Services. • ❌ “Starlink is asking for special treatment” ✅ No — it’s asking for equal rules so ALL satellite operators can compete fairly. • ❌ “EEIP is less beneficial than equity deals” ✅ Reality — Starlink’s plan would connect 5,000 rural schools with FREE high-speed internet, impacting millions of students every year. • ❌ “It won’t create local impact” ✅ It will partner with local businesses, create jobs, and boost the economy (broadband growth = GDP growth). • ❌ “It will become a monopoly” ✅ Impossible — Starlink operates globally in a competitive market across 150+ countries. • ❌ “Security & privacy risks” ✅ It will fully comply with South African laws like every other country it operates in. • ❌ “Starlink is already operating illegally” ✅ Wrong — it is NOT operating because it is still waiting for a license.

@rosellini_lisa @megbasham @DavidAFrench There are times where kindness was replaced by genuine godly wrath. Jesus displayed that several times in His invectives against the religious leaders. And see Paul’s excoriating of the Judaizers.

@megbasham @DavidAFrench He is right about kindness being Christ like though. We do need more of that.

Notice what @DavidAFrench never references in his willingness to treat Talarico as a true Christian brother. And that is what scripture says. Talarico says God is nonbinary and has denied the exclusivity of Christ as the only means to eternal life. French is in clear disobedience by treating Talarico as a Christian. —1 Corinthians 5:11–13, But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one…God judges those outside. ‘Purge the evil person from among you.’ —2 Thessalonians 3:6, In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us. —2 Thes 3:13-14, Take special note of anyone who does not obey our instruction in this letter. Do not associate with them, in order that they may feel ashamed. (Also, this is a repost so that people can see the video).

@Knick_RSA The population of South Africa was almost entirely the Koi people just a few hundred years ago. The Nguni migration only established some foothold from the 1500's. Oh, and you're typing on this on a phone. Invented by?

South Africa Survived for thousands of years without Whites and 90% of their produce!

@imPenny2x You're forgetting one crucial thing. The same thing Marxists always forget. Human nature. Utopianism is the most dangerous ideology. By far.

99% of people really do not understand abundance as Elon describes it. The fundamental reason is that they don’t understand compound growth. Same people who would probably pick 1 million dollars today over a penny that doubles in value every day for 30 days. It’s a bad choice by the way. You lose out on millions. Imagine if that doubling object was a labor producing robot instead of a penny. Compounding labor. It’s actually crazy if you try and wrap your mind around it. So Elon mentions Universl High Income and the midwits flip a lid. “The elites won’t share” You don’t get it. They won’t need to share. They will make everything so cheap, it is effectively free. Charities will have immense resources to distribute. Unfathomable intelligence will exist to help optimize production and distribution. An unfathomably large labor pool will exist that operates on solar power exclusively. The public work projects that are erected will be unseen before levels of breathtaking. I think we are incredibly blessed to steward this new age of abundance. Can you see it now? Can you see the future?

@Factlenzs @farmingandJesus @Islam435 Who is trying to wipe out the Christian population of Northern Nigeria?

@farmingandJesus @Islam435 Who drop nuclear bomb on japan ? Was Hitler a muslim? Who is killing innocent kids in Gaza?

Muslims are not terrorists. If you are a Muslim, please repost let's pass the message.

@TheDilemmaLama @athenaeumbc Pathetic.

@athenaeumbc Except morality IS subjective. If cannibalism was viewed as a net positive for humanity we'd all be eating people right now. The only thing that defines right and wrong are good and bad outcomes.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn gave the most controversial speech *against* Western Civilization at Harvard in 1978. As a survivor of the Russian Gulags, they expected him to praise the West. Instead, he made a jarring accusation: The West is a dying civilization. If it doesn't change its ways, it is doomed to collapse. In fact, he said this has been the case for 500 years, when the West made a crucial mistake: "How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present debility? ...the mistake must be at the root, at the very foundation of thought in modern times. I refer to the prevailing Western view of the world which was born in the Renaissance… I refer to humanism — the proclaimed autonomy of man from any higher force above him." Solzhenitsyn said humanism made man autonomous from God, Truth, and objective morality. If all morality is subjective, then man has nothing to live nor die for. Naturally, he loses his courage, embraces materialism, and grows effeminate to modern evils. So, what is the solution? A return to belief in a transcendental morality under God: "If, as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual… The fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one’s life journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it." All cultures live, or die, based on their respect of the True, Good, and Beautiful. To save the West, Solzhenitsyn says start with beautifying your soul, for that is both how you live well, and begin to make civilization itself beautiful again.

@AimSaysHi @taco_talks This answers things fairly well: gotquestions.org/baptism-salvat…

@alphavfxer @taco_talks The thief died before Acts 2:38 was ever preached. Jesus, while on earth, had authority to forgive sins directly. Mark 2:10. After the cross and resurrection, the command is clear: “Repent, and be baptized… for the remission of sins.” Acts 2:38

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@AimSaysHi @taco_talks Ok, in the Greek, it is not only valid but the context clearly renders it "...be baptized because of the remission of your sins." Peter says "baptism saves" then explicitly states that it's not water baptism, inferring Spirit-baptism.

@AimSaysHi @taco_talks So... did the thief on the cross go to heaven? Before going through your proof-texts, tell me why he could enter heaven without baptism.

@taco_talks Baptism is necessary, the New Testament confirms it multiple times the one thing it doesn’t confirm is the word Trinity that’s not necessary. Jesus is God….

@JamesDitto12 Precisely. They mistake a thermometer for a thermostat. The church “hears the voice of the shepherd” it certainly doesn’t convey authority to the voice.

The Word of God didn't obtain authority from Rome's collation. It had authority when it preexisted the world, it had authority when it created the world; it had authority when it was breathed by the Spirit. Nothing Rome has done has given the Word authority it didn't have.

@Aldamir @ShadowbanSlam @jonharris1989 This. If you want specifics look up the public writings of both on the subject. It’s extensive.

@ShadowbanSlam @alphavfxer @jonharris1989 This was a big part of the rationale for the readmission of Jews to England under Cromwell. England would become an elect nation by helping to restore *the* elect nation to its lands.

There are three primary reasons for the current attacks on evangelicals. First, many right-leaning political elites do not clearly distinguish between evangelicals, fundamentalists, dispensationalists, Christian Zionists, or even Protestants in general. They know these labels are unpopular in their social circles, yet they still need evangelical votes. To them, evangelicals are embarrassing because of their strong support for Israel. As elite support for Israel has declined and many young conservatives have turned toward Catholicism, being openly evangelical is no longer seen as sophisticated. Second, evangelicals remain genuinely conservative, which makes them a natural target for liberals. Any successful attack on evangelicals weakens the broader conservative coalition. Third, Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians see an opportunity to draw former evangelicals into their ranks by recycling long-standing anti-Protestant arguments. At bottom, evangelicals are the theological rebels of modern Christianity. They are rooted in the frontier revival movements of the South and Midwest. They largely avoided the theological liberalism that swallowed the mainline denominations. They are overwhelmingly middle-class Americans whose vision of the good life closely matches that of ordinary Southerners and Midwesterners. They tend to provide leadership in local churches and often serve in the military. While some smaller Anabaptist-leaning groups avoid power, most evangelicals simply do not aspire to elite status. Neo-evangelicals tried to reclaim lost cultural ground for Christianity, but they often pursued the wrong strategies. Fundamentalists, by contrast, adopted a defensive bunker mentality. Many of their critiques of neo-evangelicalism were valid, yet their movement fragmented through excessive purity spiraling and struggled to grow. Meanwhile, mainline Protestants compromised so thoroughly with secular culture that they became nearly indistinguishable from liberal Catholics or Jews. It is worth noting that until the 1970s, mainline Protestants were among the strongest advocates of Christian Zionism. They only shifted when they began viewing the Palestinian cause as an underdog struggle against Western colonialism. In the end, evangelicals—the “God said it, I believe it, that settles it” crowd—were left as the last major group holding to traditional views on sexuality, abortion, and the restoration of Israel, positions long embedded in the Anglo-Protestant tradition. The evangelicals certainly have their grifters, prosperity preachers, and kooks. The nice thing about the rank-and-file though is that they are generally willing to have a conversation about what the Bible itself says. This is part of what makes them stand apart. Their influence has been diluted, along with Protestants more broadly in the face of immigration policies that mainly benefit Catholics, Jews, and now Muslims and Hindus. But, evangelicals have shown more resilience in growth than any other Christian group over the past few decades.

@findveritasx @megbasham @HwsEleutheroi Hahahahahaha

@megbasham @HwsEleutheroi He makes people Catholic. Be warned. Many of us former Protestants started with him in desperation.

You mean a video series specifically on Roman Catholic claims? I've done about fifty debates against their leading apologists back to 1990, and we have gone pretty in-depth on the Papacy, Mass, priesthoods, scriptural authority, over the years. Our website now has a page that allows you to search like 3,000 Dividing Line episodes by key word. Sorta depends on what specific topic you are looking at.

@ShadowbanSlam @jonharris1989 How about Oliver Cromwell. How about Edwards who taught that Israel would be saved and restored. There are many examples.

> "restoration of Israel, positions long embedded in the Anglo-Protestant tradition" Darby started preaching this at the end of the 19th century. Essentially none of the "Anglo-Protestant tradition" brfore 1900 thought about yhe "restoration of Israel," most believed Israel refered to all of Christendom, and that Rabbinical Judaism was heretical. I'd like to see *one* pre-Darby Protestant theologian who thought that Jeruselum needed to be returned, not to Christians, but to Rabbinical Jews.

@TheLaurenChen Atheists are pretty much irrelevant. Jesus Himself aimed his ire at false religion, particularly those closest to the truth (the Pharisees). A false Christianity has damned more souls than rank atheism.

Why are Catholics and Protestants fighting on my timeline? You all realize there are atheists out there, right?

@SolanaSniper999 @TheLaurenChen @grok Dumbest take today.

@grok pls explain that Protestants have a hard time understanding we catholics canonized the bible, peserved scripture and ancient texts from early Christianity and the crusades were 100% justified to further preserve catholicsim and chrisitanity we see today. Also their protestant Bible wouldnt even exist without catholics. We basically gave them their whole religion

@JLee2028 @KMGGaryde Retard here. You try stop and search someone’s car. Cops have a job and particular authority.

@KMGGaryde Cops need to obey the laws as well. If you or I did this, we would be charged and rightfully so.

“A tear rolls down the cheek of NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran, 38, who was sentenced yesterday for the death of Eric Duprey as he tried to flee from a 2023 drug raid. Duran threw a picnic cooler at Duprey, which knocked him off a scooter, killing him. Lefty Judge Guy Mitchell claimed Duran could have just let him go and arrested him later, and justified the jail time by saying he was sending a "general deterrent" message to police.” "It's a huge miscarriage of justice” former NYPD boss Ray Kelly told The Post.”

@BasedJT95 @Gavin_McInnes @RazorFist Like every leftist, youve finally found your boogeyman.

@Gavin_McInnes @RazorFist You have lost the plot. You are in the wrong side of history. Us “antisemites” will be proven correct just like we’ve been prove. Correct about literally everything else I like I Gavin so I won’t talk shit and hopefully one day u will see the light and jump off Israel’s cock

So, you jumped off the Trump train and onto the anti-Jew train. Fuck you, pussy. censored.tv/watch/shows/fr…

@michaeljknowles I know you're flexing the 'ol James 2:24, right? But that's theologically ignorant - v17 shows us that James is comparing living and death faith. The question at hand is faith vs works, which Paul addresses directly. So let's not play silly word games like the JW's.

How many times does the phrase "faith alone" appear in the Bible? And what specifically does the Bible say about "faith alone"?

@lilbernadette @Joseph_Spurgeon I've studied the early church extensively. Why does the magisterium call their overwhelming consensus eschatology heresy?

@Joseph_Spurgeon Man, I am so grateful to be Catholic. To have the interpretation that corresponds to the early church’s interpretation. I used to be Protestant. It didn’t make any sense after a while. Be careful. Don’t read the early church or you might become Catholic.

Roman Catholics are always telling me sola scriptura is not in the Bible. That is cute. I thought you people were not supposed to interpret the Bible for yourselves. I thought that was the whole speech. The ordinary Christian cannot rightly understand Scripture. The individual believer is not authorized to settle doctrine. You need the church. You need the magisterium. You need Rome. And yet, somehow, every Roman Catholic on the internet becomes a one man magisterium the second he wants to tell a Protestant what the Bible “really says.” So here is my new rule: I do not take Bible lessons from people who insist they are not competent or authorized to give them.