Thread by @Schismocracy, This entire video by @BretWeinstein and @HeatherEHeying, from 0:0:0 to 1:40:47 was [...]

This entire video by @BretWeinstein and @HeatherEHeying, from 0:0:0 to 1:40:47 was an argument for unity between liberals and conservatives but with conservatives always being on behind the wheel.

And it kind of angers me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcB8Rnr7XBw">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

I& #39;m guilty of this too, so I am not going after @BretWeinstein as much as I am going after who I used to be--which isn& #39;t much different: "but to see people come from religious traditions of different kinds and begin to sound the alarm..."

That alarm has been ringing for decades.

I ignored that alarm and vividly recall making fun of conservatives and religious people for their alarms that the slippery slope is real and it& #39;s nothing more than the law of causality.

IOW, the conservatives/religious were more than right: they were prophetic.

Watch the entire DarkHorse podcast ( #50) and then listen to @BretWeinstein& #39;s discussion with @DouglasKMurray.

There& #39;s never been a better combo to cut through the bullshit of conservatism vs liberalism. It& #39;s always been a fallacy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7LMSZ2xsRs">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Conservatism is liberalism with the breaks on, but not in the sense that people on the right tend to think: conservatism is supposed to conserve liberty and freedom through the use of moral social standards (generally religious) to allow for minarchism.

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https://twitter.com/Schismocracy/status/1299399207909052416

@BretWeinstein sort of gets it (religion is a necessary ingredient) and @DouglasKMurray lives it with deeper deference to religious faith. Both piggy back on its foundation to appreciate liberty.

Our society bereft of religious moral faith is unscrupulously optimistic.

Scruton:

An evolutionary biologist can argue that for whatever reason the Judeo-Christian belief structure allows for a liberal society to grow out of it, but I argue it cannot survive without it.

RETVRN might not be the best idea, but it might be our only one. https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/1319929065302757376">https://twitter.com/Outsidene...

https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/1319929065302757376

The West progressed not in spite of our religious faith, but because it was deeply ingrained in all aspects of society. The atheists in the Enlightenment piggy backed off a society built upon Judeo-Christian values. They were raised by and instilled with those values.

The threat the West faces is much bigger than we can fathom. "[Woke] has no constraints against sacrificing the individual for the interests of the collective... and absolutely no compunction about crushing people they think of as [...] barbarians." https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2020/06/22/hey-black-lives-matter-do-you-really-want-china-to-run-the-world-n559114">https://pjmedia.com/spengler/...

Hey, Black Lives Matter: Do You Really Want China to Run the World?

https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2020/06/22/hey-black-lives-matter-do-you-really-want-china-to-run-the-world-n559114

And although this wasn& #39;t my intention with this thread, I cannot help but answer @HeatherEHeying& #39;s question about what she should vote for.

@ConceptualJames explained it well: the options aren& #39;t Biden or Trump--it& #39;s woke vs a fighting chance against this existential threat.

So yeah, I& #39;m angry. I& #39;m angry at myself for having argued for this madness before. I& #39;m angry enough at the idea that my white grandchildren will be taught that they must become second class citizens--angry enough to vote for a barking Chinese crested dog of a man.

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