Everybody counts or nobody counts.
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moko retweeted
Then plainly:
The indictment is not that progressivism occasionally tolerates vice. It is that much of modern progressivism confers moral legitimacy on things that injure people, then treats resistance to those injuries as the sin.
Pornography does not merely “liberate sexuality.” It trains men to consume women, trains women to accept being consumed, and then calls the resulting degradation freedom.
A sexual culture organized around male appetite does not liberate women when women still bear the greater risks of pregnancy, abandonment, coercion, violence, humiliation, and bodily vulnerability. Calling that liberation does not alter who pays.
Women do not gain equality when male claims are allowed to override female privacy, sports, prisons, shelters, language, medical categories, or sex-based association. When women are ordered to surrender those things and condemned for refusing, that is not inclusion. It is domination of women dressed as compassion.
Race discrimination does not cease to be racism because the target is white. If institutions sort, exclude, stigmatize, or morally burden people because they are white, that is racism. “Equity” does not sanctify it.
A religion does not become benign because its adherents are locally fewer in number. Nor does Christianity become uniquely suspect because it is historically native to the West. When one faith receives indulgence and another receives suspicion according to an identity hierarchy, that is not pluralism. It is favoritism and religious prejudice.
A criminal does not become more morally important than his victim because his biography is politically useful. Mercy without justice is not mercy. It is abandonment of the innocent.
Children are not owed affirmation of every desire or identity claim that adults place before them. They are owed protection, judgment, restraint, and adults willing to say no.
Gambling companies do not become public benefactors because the state taxes them. Pornographers do not become liberators because they use feminist vocabulary. Cannabis dependence does not become harmless because it is legal. Appetite does not become virtue because commerce and politics profit from it.
And the family is not an antiquated obstacle standing between the individual and freedom. It is one of the principal institutions by which men are bound to duty, women and children gain durable claims upon others, and one generation accepts responsibility for the next. A culture that destroys those bonds and then offers bureaucracy, therapy, medication, entertainment, and consumption as substitutes has not liberated people. It has left them alone.
That is the charge.
The lie is not merely that these harms are regrettable side effects. The lie is that the harms themselves are progress.
The woman who objects is called hateful.
The parent who objects is called ignorant.
The Christian who objects is called reactionary.
The white person who objects to racial discrimination is told racism cannot really apply to him.
The Jew who objects to antisemitism is told to account first for Israel.
The citizen who asks why his country’s inherited norms must continually yield is told that his wish for continuity is itself suspect.
And thus the trick is completed: the injured person is placed in the dock, while the ideology that injured him assumes the robes of the judge.
That is not merely foolish. It is a corruption of moral judgment.
Cicero would ask whether a republic can endure when law ceases to be common.
Seneca would ask what sort of civilization calls surrender to appetite freedom.
Epictetus would ask by what right one citizen claims possession of another’s conscience, body, speech, or boundaries.
Marcus would ask what duties we have abandoned while congratulating ourselves on our virtue.
And Tacitus would recognize the darkest part immediately:
the language has been corrupted so thoroughly that the name of the vice is now used for the virtue that opposes it.
moko retweeted
No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.
You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.
Bro.
You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.
You live in a constitutional republic.
Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.
The modern left's definition of fascism:
You love your country? Fascist.
You want to enforce the border? Racist.
You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.
You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.
Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.
But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.
But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.
Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.
Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.
Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.
Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.
Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.
Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.
Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.
Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.
But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.
You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And they have you in the streets carrying their water.
The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.
No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.
Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.
During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.
But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.
The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.
Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.
That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.
Biden built a censorship machine.
Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."
They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...
Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.
And it doesn't stop at speech.
The extreme left justifies taking children from families.
Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.
The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.
Same playbook.
During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.
But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.
$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.
January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.
Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.
Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.
CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.
75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.
Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me." They say.
Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated.
One side talks. The other side screams.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched
Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. But Marxism.
500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs.
The signs were ready before you were even angry.
AND its all coming again .... if the left gain any power.
VOTE RED RED RED on November 3rd
Takes me back to Covid days - was all tricked out in my Tyvek suit to pick up a patient at the dystopian looking Covid screening tents under the viaduct running into town... We got diverted to a hospital a county over involving convoluted northern NJ highways. I had no clue how to get there and my phone was a few layers deep. I looked at my equally Tyvekked out partner who gave me the "F if I know" look through goggles.
Got a 20 second directions from the officer on scene something like: "Take 495 west. Turnpike north, toward the George Washington Bridge. Pick up 80 west. Stay local. take Exit 64B..."
Remembered about a third of it and followed the Hospital signs when we got close. When we got there had to back down a line of 20 or so ambulances to the receiving bay...
Not defending the miscreant in this case but sometimes you have a sick person in back and a prayer you will find the place...
CLE ~ Other - 4100s W150 - A private ambulance taking a 56F w/chest pain to Cleveland Clinic got lost and said he's done driving for the day. He left her in the ambulance and called an Uber to take him home. She's been abandoned by the paramedic, needs Clev EMS now. -BW
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moko retweeted
Aaand I've just learned that the developer behind this just didn't just nuke Photoshop - he has done open-
source clean room reimplementations of the entire Adobe suite.
Holy shit.
moko retweeted
the bubble will never pop. we will build the tower of babel again, and again, and again.
I bought this as a graduation gift to myself back in the 90s - the nib is trashed and I called Parker to see about replacement. Got a very helpful (probably) human on the line with a very precise British inflected Chinese accent. She was typing as she spoke and I heard the distinctive thump of an IBM selectric type of word processor…
travels in hyperreality
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moko retweeted
"I'm afraid of AI"
"what's your (p)doom?"
"what if machines take over?"
"what if we all become dependent on machines?"
"what if I need a machine just to talk to my soul mate?"
"how am I supposed to get a job if machines are doing all the jobs?"
"Grok, how do I meet other people?"
moko retweeted
A word, gentlemen.
I get it.
You're pissed that your time has passed. Yeah, you're still fitter than most of the soft slob dads you see at Publix. You're better armed than the local PD. So if North Korea ever decided for some reason to invade your little nowhere neighborhood, you're ready.
But the truth is next time the balloon really does go up, Colonel Trautman isn't going to ask you to come back one last time. He has droves of 19 year olds with more balls than brains coming through Basic all the time. And some of them will pass Selection. And they'll be kicking the doors. Not you.
Accepting it can be hard. Every time you're around those young bucks, you never fail to hear one whispering "Hey, that's him. He was with the 69th Thundercocks back in Iraq. Bro stacked bodies."
But, you never manage to hear his buddy reply "Fuck, he got old."
So you stew. All that anger at what we all see happening all the time and nowhere to put it. No target. No objective. No mission.
No enemy.
So you look for enemies. People to blame. People to denounce.
People to hate.
And you give voice to that hate online. Because there are loads of others, listless and angry, looking for the same thing you are. An enemy. So they can trick themselves into thinking spewing vitriol on the Internet is "doing something". Like you did. You're "taking action". You're "waking people up".
You're being a "leader".
But, at the end of the day, once you strip away all the parts that are utterly meaningless, all that's left is the hate.
Time is short. Trust me on that. One day you will realize you're closer to the exit than the onramp. And you will think about the legacy you're leaving. And about the Judgement we all must someday face.
Will God have you in the book as a warrior? A teacher? A builder of a family? A good example for those who come next?
Or that you squandered your life on hate?
I worry about this, because my time grows short. And because I'm as guilty as anyone else of allowing myself to wallow in anger and hate when I should have been building and uplifting.
I hope I can get right with God. I hope you can, too. You have time.
Don't waste it.
moko retweeted
This is The "King of the Hill" race at Hudson Speedway in New Hampshire.
A thrilling and action-packed event from start to finish, the drivers competed to claim the "King of the Hill" title with the challenge of parking onto a moving trailer.
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Discernment is a key trait that is hard to define or quantify- “ethical pattern recognition?”
It comes up in Catholic prayer, my son’s Jesuit high school mentions it as a goal of graduation but like many things from that tradition of more orthodox christian or catholic practice, has been thrown out with the bath water
In a very different context- the skill of a really good EMT or paramedic is understanding and perceiving real emergencies from bad, painful, scary situations which are not going to kill you right away. Not as easy as it sounds.
I feel like we need to not lose discernment. But refind it and hold on to it and cultivate it in each other.
We often don’t know if we are dealing with the actual satanic or just silliness
It will all work out for you in the end
You might lose discernment
You might not know when to push, or when to rest
You might be confused, dazed, existing within a haze
But underneath the chaos
You can subtly feel what is familiar to you
That you designed all of it to unfold exactly like it’s working
Right now
There is magic in every step you take
There is a wind that pushes you forward, even when you fall
There is a perpetual strength that loves when you call to summon it
And there is the strength of God within you
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moko retweeted
It will all work out for you in the end
You might lose discernment
You might not know when to push, or when to rest
You might be confused, dazed, existing within a haze
But underneath the chaos
You can subtly feel what is familiar to you
That you designed all of it to unfold exactly like it’s working
Right now
There is magic in every step you take
There is a wind that pushes you forward, even when you fall
There is a perpetual strength that loves when you call to summon it
And there is the strength of God within you
The liberal defense of this boils down to “‘defund’ does not mean the literal definition of ‘defund’”
One of my favorite Brecht pieces (from years ago) is his version of Buddha’s “Parable of a Burning House”. I can’t find the exact version i had - it was on a record album.
I don’t ascribe to its conclusion and don’t follow Brecht’s political beliefs but i cherish how honest and direct it is and how - as a poet - he doesn’t equivocate or claim that x is not really x at all.
He is precise - you can actually have an argument with him that produces some understanding…
The fellow travelers of today are very much the opposite- ‘nothing’ can really mean anything and vice versa.
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