You can't get fraternity by paying for it, or ethnogenesis by selecting people from a checklist Fictive kinship comes from a shared history of bold action - we can only find our friends in extremis (recording, no paywall, link below)

Reminder that every single euro flagellating himself over the Climate Crisis could walk into the sea right now & it wouldn't even make a blip in China's carbon emissions (but it would still be a good idea)

Ultimately, @davidforutah is just a statehouse candidate, & probably a longshot - but notice how @UtahDemocrats feel no pressure to distance themselves from him & his homicidal leftist clique They agree with him & his friends, & they don't really care who knows it

Washington did cut a deal, & so did Churchill (just not with Germany) If Churchill ('s bosses) had cut a deal, it would have saved tens of millions, delivered Europe from communist tyranny, & prevented the worst of the Holocaust Unconditional surrender just gave Stalin more time to consolidate power & gorge on innocent blood

"I'm a devoted pacifist, which means I may or may not rejoin my friends who unrepentantly call for the extrajudicial murder of conservative families"

You're a member of their private Discord, & you promised to come back after your campaign Why didn't you condemn their advocacy of violence against elected officials & children in their chats & private meetings? Again, where do @UtahDemocrats stand on this?

there isn't a single young white male in the Democratic Party that is capable of concealing their personality disorders if Vance put a D next to his name they'd give him a billion dollars & a catamite staffer for every day of the week

hang on this is not the part I disagree with

Only the Lord Jesus can save a nation like this, & only on the other side of tribulation & deep repentance

it was such an integral part of America's 20th century dominance that our enemies assumed (maybe correctly) that it was bankrolled by the CIA

why would you wait for them to return to power to do this

these people are in Utah & the GOP is asleep at the wheel

2020 was the end of the media's power to create unifying narratives Now, their game is to subvert & attack emerging counternarratives - they can't regain legitimacy, but they can prevent challengers from gaining it either A lot of our friends are looking for solidarity in shared hatreds - but that kind of parasocial, algorithmic coalition is now structurally unworkable, because (as we've seen) it's trivial to jam your IFF & turn the guns inward The only solidarity that can survive this narrative environment is a shared human history, where you've built things together, spent time with each other's families, etc. so that all these gay aspersions look ridiculous in comparison with what you've physically done & seen together IRL Anything less robust than that is going to melt