Am at home after meeting friends from primary school. Very drunk but I want to say that a human connection is priceless

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.” - Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett

“A evil man doing evil and a good man doing good can be understood, but it takes religion to make a good man do evil” - Lawerence Wright - “The end of October”

Fountain

Counterflow with Buck Johnson • Ep. 386 - Antisemitism and the Church, with GM Davis • Listen on Fountain

My guest this week is someone you might remember from last year when we talked about his book, Antichrist: The Fulfillment of Globalization (from U...

Listened to this and it cleared up a lot of things for me. As a Christian I never understood the “Juedo-Christian ethic”. How could you have this when Jews reject Christ as the messiah and their scriptures say he’s burning in hell. How can there possibly be a “Juedo-Christian ethic”. That’s like saying the “ Fiat-Bitcoin standard”. It’s one or the other. They’re antithetical to each other.

Listening to @Simon Dixon and Breedlove. You know how we always say the Bank of England/Rothschilds (or now the Fed or IMF or BIS) funded both sides of the war? This is completely wrong. We only see “sides” because invariably we are on one or the other “side”. The reality these banks only see customers. The really framing is “the BoE/Rothschilds/Fed/IMF/BIS increased their customer base”. They don’t see sides. They don’t even know they exist. They only see customers.