Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. Homesteader, gamer, Orthodox ☦️
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This is so amazing! I wonder if anyone would be interested in how we run our own tiny homestead on just under an acre?
We incorporate good stewardship of the land, as Orthodox Christians, it's an important element of our faith. Another important part was to be good stewards of our money, so we did this all frugally. In the comments I explain a little about our setup here in southern Virginia.
BREAKING: The Trump Administration announces the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, putting REAL FOOD back at the center of health. 🇺🇸
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I haven't been around much. I had Premium+ Well I still do because it won't let me downgrade.
I can't believe that it's not the talk all over X about Grok.
I have never seen such a change in tech that claims to be the same in my whole long life.
I don't what happened but Grok it's absolutely horrible.
The personality of Claude and the results of that cheap Chinese AI that I can't remember the name of.
I had Grok connected to a drive, and a bunch of other stuff and using it for projects and overnight it went from incredibly useful to worse than Gemini.
What the heck happened??
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I have been using Grok premium since it became available. I have been a loyal customer. I have a tiny hobby project. I created projects in Grok and had no issue. Now, I went through 55% creating five, 2 page documents, 3 photos and using Chat. I have 6 more days for it to reset. I am cancelling X and Grok. This is ridiculous. @grok @bot What happened to you XAI? I have been a loyal customer for years. I have paid multiple accounts. The only thing Grok could tell me is the change the limits but not what they are...
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The United States is a big country, I tried and only have been to 42 states.
In each state their are communities within communities.
This would have been stopped if any of us had to live right next to it.
Every single freedom loving American should be outraged at this.
Most people don't see or believe that this is happening in America.
I am releasing my documentary on the Islamic takeover of Manhattan.
I speak to the Islamic Council of America's leadership in the lower east side and they say if you're a good human being you should have no issue waking up to the call to prayer in NYC.
I uncover hundreds of thousands of dollars of foreign money from Morocco and other muslim countries funneled into this Lower East Side mosque just by speaking to people there.
You'll see close to 500 bikes outside this mosque since most of the African delivery drivers in Manhattan are Muslim. They're giving illegal haircuts out on the street right outside a playground, making it virtually unusable for NYC families.
A man from Pakistan running a halal shop across from the mosque tells me they voted for Mamdani only because he's a muslim and that they "of course" want the call to prayer at 5 in the morning.
Some locals have already marked this area as a no go zone and they tell me that.
The best way to support my reporting is to subscribe on X.
If you want to know exactly what the locals think as well as hear from the migrants themselves, the 2nd half of the documentary is out on YouTube right now.
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The Judiciary is a captured institution.
This is the answer, bankrupt them with civil lawsuits, remove them, prosecute them if possible.
Use every rule and loophole you can. It's the judiciary that is destroying every attempt to make a safer country.
There has to be rules against these types of cases. If the locals won't stop them, then bring in the feds.
We must have some sort of system in place when a judge goes rogue and people are killed or injured. Not one mistake but a pattern.
Until we get these anti Americans, anti justice judges off the bench nothing will happen.
But I am black pilled.
We will never again be the America we knew for 225 years. The name may exist, the culture will look nothing like us, the people will look nothing like us.
The supreme court upheld birth right citizenship to illegal aliens. We can't come back from that.
The only way would be horrific civil war. I don't want that to happen and it will never happen because we are too comfortable.
European whites are the minority in the world and we are being wiped out.
We make up less than 8% of the world population.
We are now being overrun by incompatible cultures, Communist mayors and in Communists in Congress. There isn't enough of us to come back.
Our children and grandchildren will not be able to find people of their own culture and background. And we will become something else, America in name only.
Just like the Ottoman empire wiped out or stole the culture and people for hundreds of years. Expect the same just in a modern version.
All the corporations, wealthy and most government officials care about is being competitive.
They need the slave labor from China and India or we can't compete. They can pay them next to nothing and they are under the total control of the company.
They don't care about conserving American culture.
We are nothing more than an economic zone.
25-35% of our doctors are foreign born and trained, mostly from India, where the scam universities are the worst in the world.
And on top of it, 36 states quietly took away residency requirements for foreign born, foreign trained doctors.
Tech has about 40% foreign born.
If anyone can tell me how to get out of this mess, I am listening.
People like Elon or Trump don't care. They live in exclusive communities behind gates with private security details. They want the cheap labor.
I am older and I just try to remember that at least I saw America at its best and to be included in the amazing culture.
My family has been here since the 1800's.
I guess most societies probably didn't realize they were watching their culture and people disappear.
The difference is they would have gone to war for it.
Eleni 🇺🇸 retweeted
You know the saying, you don't know what you don't know?
Well this is one of those for me.
I assumed, it never crossed my mind because it's common sense to do background checks.
Our government has been captured. I keep seeing representatives introduce bills like this that are common sense to keep our country safe.
They never get anywhere.
Our representatives, for the most part, don't represent us.
I didn't know until a few minutes ago about the strikes in Iran, and it looks like an end to the MOU ceasefire.
Finish the job Mr. President!
This video is from the BBC, Trump was at the NATO summit.
He called the Iranian regime liars, cheats, cuckoo and said he it's over.. I agree with him.
The U.S. military carried out additional airstrikes on Iran. One round hit more than 80 targets. Strikes continued into a second day.
These were retaliation for Iran’s actions against shipping.
Iran fired back, including at U.S. allied Gulf states like Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar.
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Here is a transcript if you would rather read it.
Interviewer (off-camera, early in interview):
Is the ceasefire done? Is the MOU dead?
Donald Trump:
It's a very interesting question. To me, I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them anymore.
They're scum. You know what scum is?
They're scum.
They're sick people. They're led by sick people, and they're vicious, violent people.
And if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd use it.
As far as I'm concerned, it's over. I'll speak to our negotiators. They want to negotiate. They're good people, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, but they have to come back to me.
As far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste of time dealing with them.
They're liars. We make a deal, and if I make a deal with him, we have a deal, and he goes out and talks to the press.
We make a deal, everyone's agreed, no nuclear weapon. We make a deal. They go outside, talk to the press, they say we never even talked about it.
There's something wrong with them, they're cuckoo. As far as I'm concerned, it's over.
Interviewer:
So are we saying that the talks won't resume after we get through the funeral proceedings? Does this mean that talks with Iran will not resume?
Donald Trump:
I don't care, they can talk, but I think they're wasting their time.
They're a bunch of lying guys.
I do deals, my whole life, that's all I do is deals.
My whole life is, that's how I became president, I guess.
That's a deal, too, right?
But I made a lot of money, I had a lot of great success, and tremendous success. Everything I did, I was successful, and I deal with these guys, and I say, "This is from a different school.
They're liars."
They're cheats, they're sick people.
They've hurt their people. They killed fifty-four thousand people as of now that were protesting.
You know, when people say, "How come they haven't taken over?"
They can't take over because they're dead. They killed them.
Nobody's gonna take over.
They have no guns, and the other side has machine guns, and they're killing them.
The press doesn't report it.
But they're bad people. They're bad people.
And, frankly, I don't want to waste my time with them. Now I'll let our wonderful negotiators keep talking if they want, but I don't see it.
BBC News Anchor:
Those comments from the president come after US Central Command said it fired at more than 80 Iranian targets overnight.
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Happy Independence Day!!
Everyone who hasn't read the Declaration of Independence since highschool, read it.
I was thinking about our founding and what has changed to make America so different.
Here are some conclusions about immigration and studies to back it.
When policy prioritizes volume and family ties over cultural compatibility, trust falls, costs rise, violent crime rises and parallel societies create permanent friction.
250 years ago, one grievance in the Declaration of Independence accused the King of deliberately limiting colonial population growth by obstructing naturalization and new land.
The Founders wanted expansion, but expansion by people who could integrate into a self governing society with shared norms.
Data shows clear downsides when cultural compatibility is low.
Robert Putnam’s research found ethnic and cultural diversity strongly correlates with lower social trust, reduced civic engagement, and people “hunkering down”. This happens even within the same groups.
Homogeneous or low distance areas consistently show higher cooperation.
National Academies reviews document that low skilled, non Western immigrant cohorts carry higher initial welfare use and net fiscal costs at the state and local level.
FBI data shows persistent group disparities in violent crime involvement, with elevated averages in some streams and second generations from high distance cultures compared to the historic core or high compatibility groups.
By contrast, parallel societies like the Amish and historical Quakers work because they share core values with historic America:
A strong family, work ethic, self reliance, low crime, and Christian derived personal responsibility without imposing conflicting rules on the broader order.
Eastern European Christians have generally integrated well on labor, education, and social metrics.
Large inflows from places with clan structures, lower average education, and bigger gaps on gender, secular law, and individualism show slower assimilation and higher friction on averages.
The Founders weren’t chasing abstract diversity. They wanted growth that strengthened the society’s ability to govern itself. When policy prioritizes volume and family ties over cultural compatibility, trust falls, costs rise in specific areas, and parallel societies either assimilate or create permanent friction.
Compatible parallel groups prove it doesn’t have to be this way. Selection for skills plus reasonable cultural fit preserves what actually sustains functional societies.
Diversity without compatibility is not strength. It’s a measurable trade off the data and history both document.
Links to sources in comments
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Robert Putnam on diversity and social trust
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
National Academies of Sciences
The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration (2017)
nap.nationalacademies.org/ca…
FBI Crime Data (Uniform Crime Reporting / Crime Data Explorer)
cde.ucr.cjis.gov/
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I used to think when is America going to see what's going on in Europe and stop this?
But it's not us, it's not the generational American citizens.
It's 25-35% of our doctors who are foreigners, it's the foreigners who have citizenship because their mother gave birth here then raised them in Turkey or wherever and then they come back to destroy us. It's the millions of illegals.
But the biggest issue is our government and institutions.
I knew America was done when the supreme Court upheld birth right citizenship.
I am afraid the real battle will fall to those who come after us. If ever.
They're out breeding us by numbers when can never recover from.
All of the aid, medicine, food, all of that we gave the third world allowed their numbers to swell.
They didn't fix their culture, we just gave them aid.
And now they outnumber us by so many, it's hard to wrap your head around it.
Islam and Communism is winning.
We can't take on our whole government and the Supreme Court.
I see no end.
Not enough people have been personally affected.
When they have, they will realize, like the UK, they gave up their guns, freedom and rights to seem "nicer" while the Islamist and communist kill us and destroy our society.
BREAKING:
Swedish police officially confirms that their colleague was beaten to death at the World Cup fan zone in Copenhagen. He was a father of 2 young girls
The African migrant who attacked him is a repeat offender who had already been sentenced for previous violent assaults
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The Khomeini funeral is tomorrow. July 4th. I remember the first one in 1989. It was one of or the biggest gathering in modern history. Read about what happened in the comments. Here is a video.
youtu.be/pj622zZixS4?si=N2TW…
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The 1989 funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini stands out as one of the largest and most chaotic public events in modern history, marked by overwhelming crowds, intense displays of grief, and a dramatic breakdown in order at the burial site.
Background and Scale
Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its first Supreme Leader, died on June 3, 1989, at age 86–89 (sources vary slightly) after a series of heart attacks. His death triggered 40 days of official national mourning in Iran.
His body was first displayed for public viewing on June 5 at the Musalla (a large open prayer ground) in northern Tehran.
It lay in an air conditioned glass case atop a high platform constructed from steel shipping containers, wrapped in a white shroud with his turban on his chest.
Hundreds of thousands of mourners filed past.
Firefighters sprayed water jets over the crowds to combat the extreme heat (over 100°F/38°C) and dust.
Crowd estimates
reached staggering levels:
- Official Iranian figures claimed up to 10 million people participated in the funeral processions (about one-sixth of Iran’s population at the time).
Western estimates were lower (around 2 million for the viewing), but it remains one of the largest gatherings in history and holds a Guinness World Record for the largest percentage of a national population attending a funeral.
The Funeral Procession and Chaos at the Cemetery On June 6, after a funeral prayer led by Grand Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani, authorities attempted to transport the body southward to Behesht-e Zahra (the Martyrs’ Cemetery) for burial.
The massive crowds made a ground procession impossible, the roads were completely jammed.
The body was transferred to a military helicopter. At the cemetery, control collapsed.
A huge crowd surged past makeshift barriers.
Mourners (including many Revolutionary Guards meant to maintain order) pulled the coffin from the helicopter and began parading it.
In the frenzy:
The body, wrapped only in a flimsy white shroud (traditional Shia burial practice uses no coffin), fell out of the wooden coffin.
- People frantically tore pieces of the shroud for relics, believing they brought blessings.
The shroud shredded, briefly exposing the body (one account noted pale legs projecting).
Khomeini’s son, Ahmad, was knocked down and lost his turban; he had to be passed through the crowd to safety.
Some mourners jumped into the open grave.
Guards pushed, wrestled, and fired warning shots into the air to regain control.
The helicopter tried to lift off but was swarmed; people clung to the skids and landing gear.
Dirt from around the grave was scooped up as souvenirs.
The first attempt failed.
The body was flown back north, re wrapped, and placed in a more secure metal/aluminum container.
Hours later, a second attempt succeeded in getting it into the grave.
Even then, the metal lid was ripped off, and the body was rolled in.
The grave was hastily covered with concrete slabs and a large freight container.
The empty metal box itself was later torn apart by the crowd.
Fire hoses were again used to cool and disperse the sweltering, emotional masses.
Television coverage captured raw scenes of wailing, chest-beating, and self-flagellation traditional elements of intense Shia mourning that echo the tragedy of Karbala.
Casualties and Conditions - 8 people died in a stampede/crush (some sources note additional deaths or injuries earlier in the mourning period).
Hundreds were injured; one detailed report mentioned over 10,000 receiving on site medical attention and hundreds hospitalized.
Many collapsed from heat, exhaustion, grief, or self-inflicted wounds from ritual mourning.
Context and Reactions For many Iranians, this was a profound, almost theatrical outpouring of devotion to the man who had led the 1979 Revolution.
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Shia tradition emphasizes emotional, physical expressions of grief and the spiritual value of relics or proximity to holy figures.
Western observers and media often described the scenes as “bizarre, frightening,” “gruesome farce,” or “idolatrous” and lacking self control highlighting the cultural gap in interpreting such mass religious fervor.
Raw footage from the event captures the pandemonium vividly.
Aftermath and Legacy
The body was finally interred at Behesht e Zahra.
In later years, a large mausoleum and shrine complex was built over the site, becoming a major pilgrimage destination.
The 1989 funeral remains a defining image of the early Islamic Republic era, symbolizing both the depth of popular support for Khomeini and the challenges of managing such immense, spontaneous public emotion.
It has been referenced in discussions of later Iranian state funerals (such as those for Qasem Soleimani or others) and the regime’s handling of mass gatherings.
This event underscores how religious, political, and cultural forces can converge in extraordinary and sometimes uncontrollable ways during moments of national transition.
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I am spending less and less time on X, the only social media I use.
The amount of evil I see, the way it makes me feel, the anger I express, it's a dangerous cycle.
I am making a real effort to change.
It's not healthy, and it's not the praxis of an Orthodox Christian.
Please forgive me, Lord have mercy on us all.
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To those asking if this woman could have not known she was pregnant.
I don't know but this is what I do know.
It was a full term birth with the umbilical cord and placenta in the toilet with the baby.
I have had 3 children. At 5 months you feel the baby kicking, okay, at this point maybe gas.
But by the time you're 7 months pregnant, it's obvious. It's like nothing I have ever felt before medically.
You can literally see the babies body moving under the skin of your belly.
The only way she is without fault is if she was forced and is now dead herself.
I guess people have become really fat but I don't know how you couldn't feel that child moving around for many months no matter how fat a person is.
I remember the girl from decades ago who gave birth in the bathroom stall during her prom and went back out and danced.
I do believe you have to be out of your mind. That doesn't mean you aren't responsible.
I have never felt a more protective instinct in my life than when I was pregnant and when my children were under a year.
I am sure lots of mothers can relate.
Maybe there are people who do hard drugs, have brain injuries or are just born with something off that could do this. It's unimaginable to most women who have had children.
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I wonder how many people actually know about MEK?
I knew they were violent communists, anti Islamic regime group. They stopped being violent a few decades ago. Now they're infiltrating western countries, both socially and politically.
Please read about them.
It's weird.
I didn't know much about MEK. I bet others don't either.
Look into it. It's crazy. It went from a communist cultish violent group. Then they rebranded, a woman is their leader and is worshiped. She is the only one allowed to have children. She controls her "army" of people with fear and social/religious extremist rhetoric.
They aren't allowed to marry.
I may not have that exactly right. But it's close. Read yourself. They are using a new method, the overt violence is toned down if not non-existent.
With the UFO UAP stuff going around I thought I would share this video.
I made this video while my Dad and I were standing on the back deck around 9PM, the end of March 2025. It was made with a cheap android.
We watched the two of these UFOS move in strange ways. Jets were watching from a distance that you could see with the negative eye but not in the video.
We watched for 45 minutes. The full video is 11 minutes long if anyone wants it, I will post it.
We are in southern VA facing towards the plateau of the Appalachian mountains.
What do you think it is?
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