Reflexive contrarian, tolerable in public only by the Grace of God. All else is vanity.
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ProtestantMonk retweeted
I built a new data center in my house last weekend.
Don’t know why everyone complains about them. 10/10 would recommend.
ProtestantMonk retweeted
Texas and environs are uniqe in that the Cornyns and Good Ole Boys were Dems until opportunisticaly switching in the 90s. This is just them going home.
ProtestantMonk retweeted
Christians, in the aftermath of yesterday’s election, go read Jeremiah 29:1-13.
“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”
And remember, we are “strangers and exiles on the earth…looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.”
Hebrews 11:10, 13
ProtestantMonk retweeted
Reject demoralizing behavior. Black pilling is not permitted. Trust Christ. Yearn harder. Be strong and courageous.
Let me address the wave of retards coming to the #Malfoid tag and projecting the claim that people participating in the phenomenon/movement were claiming anything regarding changing the outcome of the election as a result of Malfoid.
Only a total, unrepentant idiot would make such a claim, because that's not how anything works. The Malfoid phenomenon is about resurrecting the Chivalric Mytho-Poetic Romance.
You think that suddenly, everyone is going to vote republican because of it? You think that people voting democrat proves it was a failure? That's because you're idiots.
Society as a whole needs the Chivalric Mytho-Poetic Romance. Demoralization doesn't end today simply because a shining example of that story is rediscovered and propelled into the cultural zeitgeist. Steering the course of culture takes time, and yearning doesn't happen all at once.
Yearning instills a flame in people to reach beyond their limitations and shape the world towards the better reality you are pining for.
Ignore stupid people claiming a political election indicates the success or failure of #Malfoid , they're the sort of people who see a person pointing at something and focus on the finger... and have no actual understanding of second or third order effects.
That, or they're doing it on purpose to demoralize folks.
ProtestantMonk retweeted
I think free stuff won yesterday. I don’t think there’s answers is to embrace free stuff, because that’s simply bad policy, but you have to sell people on the alternative.
ProtestantMonk retweeted
Seriously
I'm only 42, most of you are older than me, you remember '06, '08, '12...hell in 2016 Bush was publicly lamenting that he was the last Republican president.
Don't make politics your god. It can't save you.
ProtestantMonk retweeted
America is just mind-bogglingly contrarian in mid terms. The War didn't help, but if it wasn't that it would be some other motivation. A 90% midtermflip rate in our lifetimes betrays any notion the issues actually matter at all.
ProtestantMonk retweeted
You know, Trump picked Darline Graham. He endorsed Ken Paxton. He endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy the day he announced. He picked Michael Whatley...
ProtestantMonk retweeted
Should Republicans lose in these midterms, I would ask the conservative political talking heads NOT to blame the voters. Instead, blame the Republicans who have been spineless and lazy, and who have disenfranchised their base by refusing to do the jobs they were elected to do.
ProtestantMonk retweeted
"Iran" just did more damage to the United States than any nuclear weapon they could have cobbled together lmao
ProtestantMonk retweeted
It's the Iran War and the economic consequences that flowed from it, especially gas and diesel prices. And it's not the "podcasters" or the Online Right, no one on here has that power. It's normal people mad about gas prices.
Simple as. Deal with it in AM. Night.
ProtestantMonk retweeted
and now Trump.. .
Playing a game for MONTHS of "Okay, I'll give Iran one more chance.. blah blah blah" made him look weak at worst and squirrely at best
He should have either sat it out and let Bibi handle it OR taken off the gloves early and been out
ProtestantMonk retweeted
Trump need to publicly strangle the advisors that encouraged him to go into Iran before the midterms.
ProtestantMonk retweeted
I miss when our political differences were over tax policy, abortion, and global
Now you vote, literally fearful for your life as your top priority, because you’ve heard your neighbors’ “jokes” about detention & deprogramming centers and political assassinations.
ProtestantMonk retweeted
Yeah, there are at least two threads of the meme. 1) Anakin did nothing wrong, including smashing the Yuenglings. This is edgelord humor. 2) The Republic entered late-stage democracy (as evidenced by the Outer Rim-led Separatist movement), and the question now was not winning elections, but choosing between despots. Anakin might have overthrown Palpatine—and it's reasonable to theorize his reign would have been more just than Palpatine's. But something the story Dune does well is illustrate that power inevitably warps the wielder, and Anakin’s sensitive nature and sob backstory wouldn’t ultimately curb his penchant for violence. It starts with Sand People, and next thing you know its Younglings. Every generation has to learn this for themselves, because they see themselves as more enlightened than the revolutionaries and despotic regimes they were lectured about in history class.
Our Democracy is failing in a very similar way to the Republic of the Star Wars Prequels... It proved a plushy peace for Coruscant and the Core Worlds, but the rest of the Galaxy was exploited, and that proverbial debt comes due in the form of civil unrest...
Anakin sees this first hand, growing up a slave despite it being against the "law".
His own "liberation" becomes further exploitation of his power. As he is trained and taken on many missions, he sees the truth of this. He is a tool for the system.
This is why the right is latching onto Anakin currently. It's like a twist on the myth we all know, a fantasy in which Anakin either eliminates or subjugates Sidious, taking control of the Empire like he desired.
It's a fantasy of a fantasy where a Darth Vader doesn't fall and do all the bad things, and instead makes the Empire super based and awesome.
Some will say it's just memes, but I think it's an interesting examination on state of mind of many who feel like they are watching the Republic fall...
