Blake Dover
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In 1336 the English Parliament passed an act regulating what foods the various social classes were permitted to consume on different days of the week.
Read that sentence again, because it is doing a lot of work.
The act was one of a long series of sumptuary laws issued across medieval and early modern Europe. It specified that no man whose income fell below a certain threshold was permitted to be served more than two courses at a meal. It specified what kinds of meat could be eaten by whom on which days. It specified that fish was the appropriate food for the lower orders during Lent, and on Fridays, and on a long list of other holy days that totalled something like a hundred and fifty days a year.
The official justification was moral. The actual justification was that meat was scarce, valuable, and the people in charge wanted to control who got it.
Sumptuary laws of this kind appear across European history with remarkable consistency. Edward III. Edward IV. Henry VIII. Elizabeth I. The French monarchy did the same. The German principalities did. The Italian city-states did.
In every case the structure was identical: the upper classes ate freely, the middle classes ate within limits, and the peasants were given a list of days on which animal flesh was prohibited that occupied roughly half the calendar year.
The Catholic Church provided the moral framework. Fasting on Fridays. Fasting through Lent. Fasting on the vigils of feast days. Fasting on the Ember Days. The cumulative effect was that an obedient peasant in the fifteenth century was prohibited from eating meat for somewhere between a third and a half of the year, every year, for his entire life.
The nobility, conveniently, were granted dispensations.
The wealthy paid for indulgences. The monasteries that enforced the fasting rules in theory were, in practice, often the largest meat consumers in their districts, on the basis that the monks needed it for their work.
Now look at what happens when you remove dietary protein from a labouring population for half the year, every year, for centuries.
You get the medieval European peasant. Five foot three on average. Bone deformities consistent with chronic malnutrition. Life expectancy of about thirty if you survived infancy, which most children did not. A population that was, by every skeletal measure, smaller and weaker than the hunter-gatherers who had occupied the same land six thousand years earlier.
The thing the church was calling spiritual discipline was a permanent state of nutritional restriction enforced on the people who did the actual work of feeding everyone else. The people enforcing the restriction were not subject to it. The arrangement was held in place by an institution that owned about a third of the cultivable land in Europe and was, not coincidentally, the largest single beneficiary of the system.
When you read the modern recommendation that meat consumption should be limited to a few times a week, that beans and grains should make up the bulk of the diet, that animal protein should be replaced where possible with plant alternatives, ask yourself who is making the recommendation, what they themselves eat, and whether the structure of the recommendation looks at all familiar.
The peasants had Lent.
We have Meatless Mondays.
The institutions issuing the rules are different.
The arrangement is the same.

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Dear @nickshirleyy,
Now that you have destroyed the careers of Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom, can you expose JB Pritzker next?
Thanks brother!
Sincerely,
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You tried to paint me as a pervert for exposing fraud, and as a result radical leftists started trying to dox me and send death threats, wanting to kill me.
Now you are taking credit for “leading the charge” on the fraud. Are you serious?
You are the fraud.
Governor Gavin Newsom@CAgovernor
California is again leading the charge against large-scale identity theft and hospice fraud. Today, we're taking decisive action against 14 providers who tried using stolen identities to bill Medi-Cal for nonexistent hospice services.
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アメリカに留学して3ヶ月ほど経ったころ、1つ上の日本人の先輩と一緒に、はじめて大学生のハウスパーティーに行った。英語がほとんど話せない日本人の男2人にわざわざ話しかけてくるアメリカ人はいないので、当然のように僕らの定位置は「壁の花」だ。つまらなくなって広い家の中をふらふらしていたら、アコギが置いてある部屋があった。弾いてみたかったが、他人のギターを勝手に触っていいものか迷っていたところ、酔っ払った先輩が長渕剛やミスチルを弾きはじめた。ちょうどそこへ家の主が通りかかり、「Sounds good 👍」とかなんとか言いながら去っていったので、「ああ、弾いてもいいんだな」と思い、今度は僕がメタリカの『Master of Puppets』のリフを弾いてみた。するとそれを聴いた何人かが「おい!こいつギター上手いぞ!」「ファッキンMETALLICA!」などと騒ぎ出し、次々とその部屋に人が集まってきた。酔っ払った彼らからは「お前、スレイヤー弾けるか?」「アイアンマンは?」「ニルヴァーナの曲、何か知ってるか?」とリクエストが飛んできて、しまいにはMr. Bigの『To Be With You』の大合唱がはじまった。その夜は「壁の花」だった僕が主役をかっさらうことになり、今でも付き合っている友達もできた。翌週からは大学のキャンパスで声をかけられることが増え、僕の名前を呼んでくれる金髪ギャルの知り合いもできた。芸は身を助けるので、趣味は大切にしてください。
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Germany is now trying to block people from buying homes if they express right wing views.
This is the social credit score in action.
This is Marxism tyranny and it must be defeated.
Europa.com@europa
🇩🇪 Germany’s government is proposing a bill that could block people from buying homes if they’re suspected of “anti-constitutional” views — even without any criminal conviction. The draft would give local authorities first refusal on property sales and allow intelligence agencies to share personal data to vet buyers. It is framed as a way to stop extremism. Follow: @europa
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The head of infectious disease at Henry Ford Health ran what may be the largest vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study ever done.
When I asked him, "Is there a better way to do this study?" He said, "I can't think of any way you could do it better."
"Is this study important?" "It's very important."
"Will you publish it?" "I'm not going to publish it because it'll destroy my career."
"If the climate was different, would you publish this as it is?" "I would publish it exactly as it is."
That's the man who ran the study, in his own words, on hidden camera.
That's why I made the film.
Watch An Inconvenient Study. 👇AnInconvenientStudy.com
@MaryBowdenMD
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British Government Tells A Man He's On An ISIS Kill List & He’ll Be Prosecuted IF He Arms Himself
A man in the UK finds out he's named in an ISIS publication.
He calls the police. Their exact response:
"We can't protect you 24 hours a day. And if you get a weapon to defend yourself — you will be prosecuted."
Let that sink in.
The government admits it can't protect him.
Then threatens to prosecute him for protecting himself.
Against people who publicly announced they want him dead.
And people in America still point to the UK as the model for gun control.
We literally picked up guns and fought the British government to earn the right we're talking about right now.
The Second Amendment didn't come from a petition.
It came from a war.
So I need you to answer this honestly in the comments
At what point does a government that admits it can't protect you and won't let you protect yourself stop being a government and start being a threat?
Because I have my answer.
I want to hear yours.
And if you think it can't happen here — I especially want to hear from you.
Drop it below. 👇
Full breakdown linked
youtu.be/8JrZAmuAsZg

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@ChristianHeiens Good. Funny how I, for one, have not noticed one bit of difference in the quality of government services. Maybe we need to eliminate much more... until it hurts. Then, the government can always re-hire.
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