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Right wingers are good people larping as villains
Left wingers are villains larping as good people
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Being misgendered doesn’t hurt me because I already know I’m a woman.
It hurts you because, deep down, you know you’re not.
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This is a grooming tactic called "Hugboxing", by the way
They shower the target with validation and superficial affection to lower their defenses, making it easier for them to violation boundaries later on and to isolate them from people who will actually help them, such as friends or family members who will be honest but critical with them
It's very similar to the most standard grooming strategy, "you're so special", "you're so mature for your age", "your parents don't understand you, only I understand you", but replace "I" with "we"
Men are particularly vulnerable to this tactic because we get barely any compliments from anyone our whole lives
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If you hear a girl say her sport should be female only, and immediately think “anti-trans”: it’s not the girls who are the bigots.
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Being a conservative sucks because many of us are trying to do what's best for humanity and we are considered worse than hitler by performative leftists who act morally superior when their convictions come entirely from whatever is trending.
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Obsessing over politics *is* the privileged position.
Average people care about their bills and their families.
Only terminally online schizos think everything has to be College Debate shit.
The guy working at a gas station doesn't give *a fuck* about CSPAN bullshit.
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We have all heard “no sex before marriage.”
But most people were never taught why. They were just threatened, shamed, or pressured. And when you only give rules without revelation, you create either rebellion or religious trauma.
God did not say “wait” to ruin pleasure. He said “wait” to protect covenant.
In Scripture, sex is never treated like recreation. It is treated like a covenant act.
In Genesis 2:24, it says a man will leave, cleave, and the two will become one flesh. That phrase “one flesh” in Hebrew is basar echad. It is not only physical. It is the language of bonding and union. God designed intimacy to seal a relationship that is already covered by covenant.
That is why the Bible consistently ties intimacy to marriage. Not because bodies are dirty, but because union is powerful.
In the New Testament, Paul warns in 1 Corinthians 6:16 that sexual union is not casual. He uses the Greek verb kollaō, meaning to glue, join, bond, to be welded. That is strong language. Scripture is telling you this is not just an act. It is attachment.
Then Paul uses the word porneia for sexual immorality. In Greek, porneia is not merely “bad behavior.” It is any sexual activity outside of God’s covenant design. The word is broader than adultery. It includes fornication, prostitution, and any union without covenant.
Now here is the part many marriages suffer from because nobody explained it.
Sex without covenant creates covenant level consequences.
You are giving wife level access to someone who has not taken husband level responsibility. You are opening your soul to someone who has not committed to protect it. And when the relationship ends, you do not just lose a person. You lose peace, clarity, confidence, sometimes even your ability to trust.
That is why many people say, “I cannot leave them,” even when it is toxic. The bond is deeper than logic. It becomes emotional, spiritual, and psychological attachment.
God’s design is not just no sex. It is order.
Covenant first, then intimacy.
Commitment first, then access.
Covering first, then connection.
Even the biblical language for marriage highlights this.
The Hebrew idea of covenant is berit, a binding agreement. Not a vibe. Not chemistry. A covering. A responsibility. A whole life decision.
That is why Hebrews 13:4 says the marriage bed is undefiled, but sexual sin is judged. The point is not to shame anyone. The point is to show that intimacy is holy when it is in its rightful place.
So why did God say no sex before marriage?
Because sex is powerful enough to blur discernment.
Because intimacy can make you ignore red flags you would have seen clearly with wisdom.
Because desire can make you call it love.
Because your body can bond you to someone your future cannot handle.
James 1:14-15 explains the progression. Desire conceives, then it gives birth to sin, and sin grows into destruction. The enemy does not tempt you with what you hate. He tempts you with what you desire. That is why boundaries are protection, not punishment.
And let us be honest.
Many relationships were forced into marriage because the church only knew how to say “stop,” but never knew how to teach “why.” So people married out of guilt, pressure, pregnancy, or fear, not purpose, friendship, alignment, or calling. And now they are living with someone they never truly discerned.
God was not trying to keep you from pleasure.
He was keeping you from pain.
Marriage is not a certificate for sex.
Marriage is a covenant for building.
And sex is the glue that strengthens what covenant already secured.
When you understand the why, purity stops feeling like restriction and starts feeling like wisdom.
Because the truth is not that God is trying to control you.
He is trying to cover you.
#christian #marriage
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I WISH someone had explained this to me when I was younger Christian.
Every commandment in the Bible and everything it calls a *sin* is actually a *warning* from God not to hurt yourself.
In other words, as it has been said before… When God says DON’T, what He's really saying is: DON’T hurt yourself.
Let me give you several examples.
Sex before marriage - It is a scientific fact that sex creates a neurochemical bond with another person, not just physically but emotionally.
In other words, sex is not just the union of two bodies, but of two souls. So when God says DON’T, he’s saying: you don’t want to be bonded like that to somebody you barely know.
Lying - When you lie, you eventually destroy the trust other people have in you. And the problem with lying is that one lie often requires another to cover it up, until eventually, you've built an entire life around pretending to be someone you're not.
Envy - Envy is resenting God’s goodness in someone else’s life while ignoring God’s goodness in your life. Instead of living a life of gratitude and joy, you live one of bitterness and anger.
Pride - Pride makes a person care more about BEING right… than making a relationship RIGHT. And you become incapable of learning, apologizing, or growing.
Gossip - Gossip destroys relationships… and if someone is gossiping TO YOU about other people, chances are they're also gossiping ABOUT YOU to other people behind your back.
Unforgiveness - This one is tough because you’re already hurt with something. But when you refuse to forgive, unforgiveness makes YOU a prisoner of your past, and a slave to bitterness, resentment, and pain. God says “don’t.”
Greed - Greed makes you believe a lie that if you only had “more” then you’d be happy. Not true. You’ll be miserable.
Lust - We live a culture saturated with lust. It always destroys your ability to experience true intimacy with another person. This is why our culture is terrible at marriage, intimacy, and relationships.
Here’s the point.
Deuteronomy 10:12 (NIV) says “Observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today … for your own good."
When God forbids something, it’s not because he hates you and he’s trying to rob something from you.
It’s because he loves you and he’s trying to protect you.
When He says DON’T, He's not trying to keep you from enjoying life.
He's teaching you how to truly live it.
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Both parties have had full control of the government multiple times in 30 years.
Healthcare is still broken.
Housing is still unaffordable.
Wages are still stagnant.
At some point, the argument that one side is the solution stops being believable.
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OK let’s imagine that! $500M would fund Medicare for exactly 4 hours. Hospital closed by lunch.
Medicare costs us $1.2T a year. Thats $2.7B per day. You people literally have no clue how anything works. You elect people who are financially illiterate, and everything gets worse.
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Pardon my negativity for a sec, but I’ve become so politically apathetic as an adult that I just don’t care who wins these elections anymore. It’s nothing more than a back and forth game of hot potato.
“The ruling party messed up” (they did)
“The other party will fix it” (they won’t)
Scam artists. I’m over it.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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I'm very annoyed by the midterm results, but I did anticipate this coming quite a while ago. The reason Republicans were wiped out so hard is the EXACT SAME REASON Democrats lost so badly in 2024. The reason is: nothing substantially changed for the better for the average citizen
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It’s actually crazy how X makes you believe the entire world is falling apart every single day.
Another war, another crisis, another headline about how we’re all fucked.
Then you go outside and realize everyone is just living their normal lives, going to work, eating at restaurants and enjoying themselves.
Sometimes you just need to close X, stop consuming all this fear and go enjoy your life. The algorithm makes you believe that everything is negative and bad.
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Leftists care more for the world than their family/friends because it's easier, not because they're altruistic
Caring for your immediate circle is a tangible daily task that requires effort
Caring for "the world" is an abstract virtue signal that needs zero actual output
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Jordan Peterson became famous for telling people to clean their room and put their house in order before trying to change the world.
Why does such simple advice hit so hard?
Because it's the only change you can actually make.
You can't fix the world tonight. You can fix the thing three feet in front of you.
And every time you do, you become someone who can handle a little more.
Everyone wants to save the world.
Few want to do the dishes, call their mother, and be patient with a toddler at 6am.
The second one is how the first one actually happens.































