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   Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:33 JST Judge Dread
   What that over-the-top Trump defender is getting at is a variant of the Harold Hill hypothesis.
   
   The power of positive thinking.
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     WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:26 JST WilhelmIII

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     Needs an Eagle

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     CrustyB (crustyburgerhead@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:26 JST CrustyB

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     • WilhelmIII
     Unpopular opinion: Aside from the art design, "Space: 1999" was a terrible series.
     AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️ likes this.
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     WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:27 JST WilhelmIII

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     And we're going back.

     This time to stay.

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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:27 JST Judge Dread

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     • WilhelmIII
     @WilhelmIII Moonbase Alpha is next on Elon's bucket list.
     
     He's seriously calling it Moonbase Alpha! How can I not love the guy?
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     Jimmy (patris@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:28 JST Jimmy

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     • WilhelmIII
     @WilhelmIII @judgedread The Dabney quote always applies. Conservatism is not really a thing. It's just one of a few possible reactions to the world available to people who have fully imbibed the enlightenment mind poison.
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:28 JST Judge Dread

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     • Jimmy
     @patris My least popular idea (around these parts) is that the Enlightenment delivered.
     
     Look at SpaceX. Run by a womanizing atheist with a breeding harem.
     
     Can any 'moral' man equal it?
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     Jimmy (patris@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:28 JST Jimmy

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     @judgedread I follow. But perhaps the counter is that what Elin has achieved is just re-acquiring the pre-enlightenment "moral man" norm. Sure it's the modern version with modern trappings, but the kernel is old, not new: a man subduing and filling the earth.
     
     You don't love him because he is a man with rockets. You love him because he is a man. He just uses rockets instead of <words, iron, chariots, locomotives, genes, ships, swords, whatever>. Elon is a fully-blossomed man--a king, an image of the creating God, as every man should be.
     
     If the enlightenment had delivered, kings would be more common now, not less.
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:28 JST Judge Dread

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     • Jimmy
     @patris We were as gods before parasite load got the better of us.
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:29 JST Judge Dread

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     @patris Coronahoax played on the conservative fear of disease and the feminine hate for risk.
     
     Which reveals that conservatism is at its core feminine.
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     WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:29 JST WilhelmIII

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     Nothing wrong with a movement that embodies feminine traits.

     But it has to have a masculine leader or it becomes girlboss or ho.

     But we didn't get a masculine leader. We got Bill Buckley.

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     Jimmy (patris@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:30 JST Jimmy

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     • BarelyEagle
     @judgedread @BarelyEagle It's hard to "remember, man, that thou art dust" when one is under constant media assault. Uncle Ted was not a Christian, but maybe he understood the reason why.
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:30 JST Judge Dread

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     • Jimmy
     @patris The modern world conceals death for a reason.
     
     Memento mori only in fashion among goths.
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     Jimmy (patris@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:30 JST Jimmy

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     @judgedread The covid circus was a real sad revelation in this regard. Suppose an entire generation had been able to shut death out of their minds their whole lives? And then the same propaganda machine that had allowed them to do this one day suddenly put it front and center? How would they react?
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     BarelyEagle (barelyeagle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:31 JST BarelyEagle

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     • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
     @judgedread @TrevorGoodchild That’s an interesting observation because if you boil down a lot of the implications of Christian theology, Jesus claiming power over death is quite a lot of irrational optimism.
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:31 JST Judge Dread

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     @BarelyEagle But not about worldly outcomes. A big problem - for religion - when mortality salience is low.
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:32 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     @Honkmunclus @judgedread Irrational optimism coupled with innate charisma is a reality-bending superpower
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:29:32 JST Judge Dread

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     • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
     @TrevorGoodchild Irrational optimism is the real American civic religion.
     
     Christ never stood a chance.
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     @judgedread Trump attended the sermons of Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking.