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Unseen,

Ideas in The Holy Bible, Al-Quran, The Communist Manifesto, and Mein Kampf put out by media technology beginning with the printing press have killed millions more than guns alone. Should such media technology be restricted to an elite few?

jakelafort wrote:
Shitstorm is gonna intesnify a bit if the killer of Kirk is apprehended and it turns out he is a lefty. Probably is too. Imagine how the US and far right Europe would react if Trump is assassinated? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/europe-far-right-leaders-charlie-kirk-shooting-turning-point-usa

Trump is already…[Read more]

So, who was Charlie Kirk?

“I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” — Charlie Kirk

Well, I think we can feel a little bit more secure now, can’t we?

Jake,

Zarathustra? Who dat? What doth she thus spake?

Jake,

Jews and Israel aren’t the only ones let down by the mainstream media. The media’s treatment of Iryna Zarutska getting stabbed to death on a Charlotte train by a deranged career criminal homeless man is a prime example of how the media’s love of Ukraine and immigrants is only their “current thing” and very selective. I may be wrong, but I…[Read more]

Jake,

If any exobiological life is found anywhere outside of it’s point of origin, the Woke will condemn it as a Settler/Colonizer despoiler of the environment.

And if any exobiological life is found that predates the original discovered life, the Woke will accuse that original exobiological life of genocide, speciescide, genuscide,…[Read more]

PopeBesnie,

Hmmm. That does not sound unreasonable. Maybe even via vending machines at the post office. (And RealID.)

A private, competitive post office, of course, but yeah you have the right idea.

Now see there? The free market doesn’t have to be a Dickensian nightmare.

Jake,

There’s lots of bad business to go around. Sydney Sweeny’s ad for American Eagle Jeans got turned by Woke critics into support for Eugenics and Nazism. Yet how many Wokesters who made that accusation condemn more mundane Antisemitism?

Sydney Sweeney’s “Great Jeans” and America’s Antisemitism
by
Omar…[Read more]

Jake,

Jew hatred/antisemitism ain’t going nowheres. Longer legs than Betty Grable.

I just want it to be honest. The pretense of the lefties? I want to see honest debates in which the mythology is debunked and the proponents are embarrassed, humiliated and discredited.

Well, there’s where the proposed video would come in Jam Handy.

Just p…[Read more]

Jake,

I think I’ve found just the ticket for countering Antisemites…a video like this, with an obvious variation on the McGuffin theme:

PopeBeanie,

I heard news that Trump is now saying good things about vaccines. But is it just talk, or will he replace RFK?

Of course Trump is saying good things about Vaccines. Operation Warp Speed was his baby and he wants his Nobel Prize for it, (albeit he also threw in lots of crazy talk of drinking bleach, hydroxychloroquine (which is for…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
But I can attest today that a Jesus Fish on a work van or business sign doesn’t necessarily equal trust or quality. Televangelists and Noah’s Ark theme parks do not help matters either.

I think the “trust” thing works both ways with religious people.  I’m always suspiciously on the look out for tell-tale hypocrisy.

Fellow Unbelievers,

This is not what I had in mind for The Singularity and I’m sure others would agree:

Can Xi and Putin Cheat Death Before the Rest of the World?
https://unherd.com/newsroom/can-xi-and-putin-cheat-death-before-the-rest-of-the-world/

Simon,

Travel and trade come into the story. But in the first place, if family, clan and tribe ties are dissolved to a great extent, then people become individuals. And religion provided the trust necessary for individuals to trade, outside of a collective family group.

Perhaps initially this was the case in human history. But I can attest…[Read more]

Strega,

I am no Prohibitionist and make fun of them frequently, but having to drink alcohol as a necessity is not appealing, and minor children doing it is not a good thing either. And remember alcohol is brewed with water, so there shouldn’t be anything in water that could kill yeast culture.

Ancient peoples associating alcohol use with health…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Tribes and clans can be and were dismantled by travel and trade between different peoples.

Travel and trade come into the story.  But in the first place, if family, clan and tribe ties are dissolved to a great extent, then people become individuals.  And religion provided the trust necessary for individuals to trade, o…[Read more]

Reg,

I misspelled and couldn’t edit in time.

Diogenes wouldn’t care whether his lantern put him out of the Net Zero Club.

Jake,

All very well put! Attributing the progress we take for granted to religion and in particular Christianity and Islam is often a Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc Fallacy. Proximity in time is only one element of causation. David Hume listed a bunch of other elements of causation, but I’ll have to look that up.

You’re right also about the…[Read more]