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Words are not violence - DHH https://world.hey.com/dhh/words-are-not-violence-c751f14f https://stacker.news/items/1217893

2 Timothy 2:24–26 (ESV): 24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will. How should we respond? Like this. It doesn't mean we shouldn't be bold or speak the truth but allow anger to overtake you.

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It almost seems like the people that hate Trump are trying to create the situation where a strong man will be given the powers they claim Trump wants. Its kinda wild. People are so bought into one side or the other that they apparently can't see this.

"We are pleased to say we are bombarded with orders. Please expect your book to ship within 5 \22610 business days." That's quite the window.

Rush Limbaugh's Treatment by CBS 60 Minutes in 1991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=017VvbOOQLo This video from 1991 should be a reminder that the world and issues you see today are not new. They weren't new then and they aren't new now. I grew up listening to Limbaugh and I have PLENTY of issues with his positions and the positions of the "conservative" movement. But, the hypocrisy of the critics at the time is a story we are seeing repeated today. Rush mocked those in power (Democrats mostly). This was often translated to he was mocking democrat voters. Sound familiar? The irony of this report is pretty amazing to me but not unfamiliar. The criticism of Rush was that he's insulting and crass and yet I heard the following insults. He is called * Dangerous * Fat * College drop out * Twice divorced * Bigot * Nazi 30+ years later... Rush was only dangerous to the politics he opposed. He was far from extreme. Just as political figures on the left are far from extreme today. We just aren't supposed to think for ourselves and question the status quo. That's not safe. We are supposed to stay in line. Limbaugh like Trump says more about his time that himself. The response to them is more instructive than anything they say. https://stacker.news/items/1214966

Am I "woke right"? - Tom Woods https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/rekaine?e=9d40653d66 Just had to share one more worthwhile newsletter from Woods. ## Tom Wood's Newsletter I don't want to mention names, because I have no interest in another fight, but there's a certain person you probably know who goes around calling dissidents like you and me "woke right" -- a meaningless and foolish term, but one he returns to again and again. The right-wing dissidents he targets are "woke," he thinks, because among other things they believe in oppressors and oppressed, just like Marxists and the left. What he doesn't mention, and probably doesn't know, is that long before Karl Marx and his "woke" descendents came along, the classical liberals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had developed their own class theory. Marx himself noted that "no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this class struggle and bourgeois economists the economic anatomy of the classes." So in fact there is nothing inherently "Marxist" about noting the existence of classes, or of oppressors and oppressed. Marx himself admits that others perceived these phenomena long before he came along. The classical liberal theory of classes was that the oppressors were the ruling class who populated the state apparatus, and the oppressed were the ordinary citizens who were expropriated by that apparatus. (The late historian Ralph Raico discusses the classical liberal theory of class in an article called "Classical Liberal Roots of the Marxist Doctrine of Classes.") Simply because someone uses language Marx used, or says something that sounds -- superficially -- like something Marx said, doesn't make that person "woke." As we've said, Marx actually adapted his theory of class from others, and furthermore Marx had a habit of saying things that might have been true had his subsequent analysis not been hopelessly confused. For example, Marx had a theory of exploitation. It was entirely wrong. It is therefore not "Marxist" to adopt a correct theory of exploitation -- as in, the state exploits peaceful participants in the private economy. I realize the word "exploitation" appears in both theories, but that is where the similarity ends. Thus I am unmoved by the accusation that I am "woke right." ### More from the email Yesterday I mentioned poor Senator Tim Kaine, who evidently despises the fundamental ideas of his own country, and who recently mocked those ideas in the U.S. Senate. In particular, Kaine is appalled that people believe that "rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government, but come from the Creator." Common sense will tell you that if you have no rights until government grants them to you, then you really have no rights at all, because what government gives you, government can also take away. Kaine is a perfect example of the kind of person we mean when we say we are ruled by people who hate us. https://stacker.news/items/1214788

Don’t Play the Pride Game - Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAsqvLY15ds&list=WL&index=4 https://stacker.news/items/1204514

Man Follows ChatGPT's Advice and Poisons Himself https://futurism.com/man-poisons-himself-chatgpt Guys, its important to understand AI. What it is, how it works, and most importantly what it isn't. This guy was dumb but I read stuff from people that seem very intelligent everyday that shows me they don't get AI and are buying what Scam Altman is selling. He's a liar. Chatbots are tech prediction machines. They don't know anything. https://stacker.news/items/1080342

My friend thats an XRP maxi... Bitcoin is old. Bitcoin is slow. Me. Nah.

The ratio of stay humble and stack sats is off. More humble is needed. Not less stacking but more humility.

How many of us American Christians can name more church fathers than founding fathers? Other than my Orthodox brothers and sisters. My guess is most of us need to get our priorities in order. Starting with me. Just a thought I had while listening to my pastor's sermon this morning. Of course we could say the same of the Scriptures vs movies and sports stats. Talk is cheap.

Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36278699-economics-in-three-lessons-and-one-hundred-economics-laws Any stackers read this book. I've never heard of it but I love and recommend the book it is inspired by "Economics in One Lesson". I heard about it while listening to the "[Haman Nature](https://hamannature.substack.com/p/how-profits-actually-tend-to-lower)" podcast. Which is worth a listen by the way. I'm wondering if this is a good book to recommend people as an easy primer on econ. Economics in One Lesson really opened my eyes when I first read it many years ago. I sent me down a train of thought with many questions. Questioning many things I had just taken at face value. It wasn't a hard read and it was entertaining. Few econ books can make those claims. https://stacker.news/items/1071181

I get it when normies complain about stuff like censorship. They don't understand bitcoin, they don't know Nostr exists, they don't understand tech in general. But bitcoiners that complain on X about this crap... People that complain that some bitcoiner is being throttled or banned on YouTube, X, or whatever walled garden is hot today. We've had tools to fight this stuff for a long time. RSS Nostr Bitcoin Be the change. Don't beg Elon or whoever runs YouTube today. Vote with your feet. Use the tools.

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