I predate the internet. Don’t take the bait. There is no 11th Commandment.

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Just thinking about this. If people can go to prison for lying to congress, then why can't we put members of Congress in prison for lying to the American people?
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I would have never chosen Christ if He hadn’t chosen me first.
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Amen and amen.
Voddie Baucham — Dead Men Don't Grab!
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Correct. Rightly understood, the doctrine of God's sovereign election is the most humbling doctrine there is. It is the free-will position that is arrogant, for it says, 'I am smart enough and wise enough to choose Jesus of my own free will, whereas most are not.'
It amazes me how often non-Calvinists accuse Calvinists of pride simply for believing that God has chosen them (and not others) for salvation. Calvinist teaching couldn’t be more explicit: divine election is unconditional. God’s choice to save some and not others is not grounded in anything in or about the sinner. His choice was made when we “were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of [our] works”—nor even because of our faith—“but because of Him who calls” (Rom 9:11). God Himself is the ground of unconditional election. He predestined us to salvation “according to the good pleasure of His will” (Eph 1:5). Believing that God chose me and not my neighbor for salvation based on nothing in or about either of us is not prideful. It is the appropriately humiliating confession that there is nothing in or about me that would draw God to choose me—that the only way I’d ever be saved is by an exercise of God’s sheer grace. It makes no comment on why God did not choose someone else, except that it was His free and sovereign pleasure not to do so.
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My record against a six year old is zero and forty. His name is Mason. He owns two foam swords, one blue and one red, and he crossed the lawn to challenge me with the calm of a man who has never lost anything in his life. "I bet I can beat you." I said nothing. He was not finished. "I'm the best at swords." The best at swords. Said to a man who has drawn real steel. And my chest filled, because it is a rare and holy thing to be challenged by a warrior of that quality of confidence. He threw me the blue one. I tested its weight. It folded completely in half and made a small squeak. A fearsome weapon. I had underestimated the smiths of this country. We bowed. I bowed lower. The challenger honors the one he challenges, but the one challenged honors the brave, and I have never met anyone braver. "Three, two, one, go." No stance. No guard. No form. Only screaming courage, both hands on the red sword, making an explosion sound with his mouth the entire time. I could have ended it in one motion. To do so would have been an insult to that heart. So I parried. I gave ground. I let our blades ring the length of the garden, and by ring I mean squeak, and I fought as though the fate of provinces depended on it, because to my opponent it did. He struck my knee. I went down. Hear me clearly. A folded tube of foam does not fell a samurai. But a samurai knows the exact moment a duel has located its rightful winner. So I went down the way a great oak goes down. Slowly. Correctly. Beaten by the better man. "I win. I'm the champion." Then he stood over me and something in him softened. "Are you okay?" "I am defeated." "Do you want a juice box?" His mother apologized from the kitchen window. She should not apologize. She has raised something magnificent and she should be told so at the next town meeting. Forty duels. Forty losses. When he is grown and tells people about the summer he beat a samurai, do not laugh at him. He did beat me. Every time. On purpose.
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"It is sometimes said that the doctrine of predestination exposes God to the charge of injustice. But this is hardly correct. We could speak of injustice only if man had a claim on God, and God owed man eternal salvation. But the situation is entirely different if all men have forfeited the blessings of God, as they have. No one has the right to call God to account for electing some and rejecting others. He would have been perfectly just, if He had not saved any, Matt. 20:14, 15; Rom. 9:14, 15." —Louis Berkhof
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🇺🇸We walk in silence until it’s time to be heard. That time is fast approaching.🇺🇸
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Hats off (no pun intended) to the armed individual who ran toward gunfire and engaged the shooter in Idaho. Well done sir, your actions saved lives 🫡
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Dear Anthony Fauci... You didn't break me you little bitch.
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Some of my colleagues have complained that I keep talking about the SAVE America Act, even though “we don’t [yet] have 60 votes” for the bill. Some have complained that I’m calling for us to remain in session until it passes. I won’t apologize.
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The choice is no longer between two parties; it's between freedom and communism.
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Amen amen amen
Replying to @FiredUpCoug
1) .22 long 2) .45/.40/10mm/9mm (whatever you are most comfortable with) 3) 12 ga. 4) .308/.30-06 (absolutely not a .223)
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Is X the current implementation of Huxley’s SOMA?
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America is a Republic and not a democracy, there’s a difference! 🎯🔥👇🔥🎯 This meme explains something every American should have been taught before they ever left grade school. The United States was not designed to be a raw democracy, where 51 percent of the people can vote away the rights of the other 49 percent. We were built as a constitutional republic, and that distinction is not some academic technicality. It is the whole ballgame. In a pure democracy, the majority rules. That may sound nice until you realize what it really means. If enough people decide they want your property, your speech, your business, your savings, your church, or your freedom, then the mob gets its way. That is not liberty. That is legalized theft with a vote attached to it. The founders understood this danger. They knew human nature. They knew passions rise, factions form, mobs get angry, politicians exploit fear, and majorities can be just as tyrannical as kings. That is why they gave us a Constitution. The Constitution was not written to protect the government from the people. It was written to protect the people from the government, and yes, from the temporary passions of the majority. That is what makes America different. Your rights do not come from a poll. Your property does not belong to the crowd. Your freedom is not supposed to disappear because some politician found enough votes to take it. A republic says there are limits. A republic says government must stay inside the lines. A republic says the individual still matters, even when the mob is loud. And that is exactly why so many people today want you to forget the word “republic” and chant “democracy” instead. Because a democracy gives power to whoever can stir up the biggest crowd. A constitutional republic protects the citizen from that crowd. America was given a republic. Keeping it requires people who understand what was handed to them.
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I hereby nominate this as the top meme of the month. Does anyone want to second that nomination?
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This is how an economy actually works
Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
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