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FBI Attempted to Hide the Identity of Suspect’s Transgender Lover

Rich considering how before we knew anything about the shooter, liberal news networks were trying to pin MAGA.
lol, as if your side wasn't doing exactly the same thing, with at least as much fervor?

Somebody in the law enforcement establishment even went so far as to try to pin the "TRN" marking on the shell casings to some sort of "trans" message.
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Eric Trump on Charlie Kirk’s Legacy and the Radical Left – “This Could Have Been the Greatest Mistake These People Have Ever Made” (VIDEO)

His partner was transitioning from male to female, what is further left than that?

That doesn't mean a person is a leftist, much less on the "further left".
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RFK. Jr Threatens Pediatricians Over Vaccine Recommendations and Liability

Another way to say that is, study shows 25 children died as a result of the COVID vaccine.

Admittedly, I've not read this study yet. But here's what I've read about it:

The reported deaths originated in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the government’s database for suspected vaccine harms. Unlike the raw entries often left unexamined, FDA officials say they’ve investigated the cases.
They contacted families, reviewed autopsy results and gathered medical records. It appears that, for the first time since the vaccine rollout, U.S. regulators have attempted a systematic, case-by-case review of paediatric deaths.
There were reports of pediatric deaths through VAERS, and the FDA followed up with them and verified them. That sounds pretty important, since ostensibly, the reason VAERS exists is to capture vaccine ADVERSE events. Hopefully we can all agree that DEATH after vaccination certainly would qualify as adverse event worthy of follow up to confirm. If that is what the FDA study shows, then you'd think people would want to know about it.

Even if this study provides concrete evidence that COVID vaccines killed 25 children, I think there is a segment of people who will absolutely refuse to believe it. I mean, when the media starts their reporting with "ardent anti-vaccine activist", it's pretty clear they've already made up their minds before examining the evidence.
Death after a vaccination does not mean that the vaccination caused the death - for instance, getting hit by a bus. VAERS is, as you know, primarily an early warning system that anyone can update. One person claimed the flu vaccine turned him into the Hulk.
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It Backfired - Huge Surge in New TPUSA Chapters

Thanks Michie, but unfortunately it doesn't explain the title of the thread, so...

Hey @Chesterton what backfired? Even the text of the article doesn't explain what *you* meant by "backfired".

I guess I'm not sure what backfired...? Are we saying the intent behind Charlie Kirk's murder was to stop his organization from expanding and because there are new requests, the killing was a failure? Or to stop funding, so people collecting huge amounts of money on behalf of his death is indicative of failure in that goal? I'm not 100% sure what "it" is that backfired by somebody doing or not doing something.
First ask yourself what the intended purpose of a political assassination like this is. Then watch just the first 60 seconds of the below video and ask yourself "is this what the murderer intended, or is this the opposite of what he intended?" I don't know if Kirk was a household name, there were probably lots of boomers and other people who didn't know of him, but everyone around the world knows now. And they will be looking into his message and spreading it. I saw video of a young lady at the Unite The Kingdom rally in London holding a hand-made sign that read "Charlie Kirk brought me here".

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Elongated Skulls of Paracas, Peru Possible Origins Are Amazing

My question now is, if these people did that 2000 to 3000 years ago did others possible do the same thing.
Did other peoples do so? The idea is hardly new. While Heyerdahl's notion of a substantial peopling of the South America from Asia was argued to have taken place after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), it lacks supporting evidence. However, there is reasonable support for contact between the two around AD1000 to 1300. Obviously, we know the Vikings settled in the North East, though likely those did not last. The Solutrean hypothesis promoted the idea of European settlement during the LGM, but the genetic data is very weak.
So, the Americas may not have been settled only by the people coming through the Bering straits.
This has long been understood to be plausible, to varying degrees, but certainly did not account for the vast majority of American ancestry. That remains best explained by peoples of Asian and specifically Siberian genetics entering via Beringia.
Historians are going to have to really come up with some new theories now.
Archaeologists and antrhopologists might be more appropriate, were any new theories required. I don't think there are. Even if this hypothesis turns out to be true then what we have is an interesting refinement of, and footnote, to the current understanding, not a rewriting of "history".
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Eric Trump on Charlie Kirk’s Legacy and the Radical Left – “This Could Have Been the Greatest Mistake These People Have Ever Made” (VIDEO)

Plenty of blame for the divide of tribalism in America is also on the left wing liberals. Charlie Kirk believes in peaceful dialog. It's too bad that the radical leftists don't also believe in that.

Charlie Kirk embodied smug contempt for millions of his fellow Americans who couldn't emulate his tradfamily lifestyle, paid for of course by billionaire dark money. He was not a man of peace in any deeply biblical sense, he was out to demean and scapegroat through pseudo-intellectual sophistry.
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Erika Kirk Delivers Powerful National Address, Says Movement Will Not Die

When Jesus said love your neighbor, he didn't mean to put up with, condone or support wickedness and the wicked.
He said to love.
At NO point does he EVER quality that or provide exceptions.

He tells us to love our enemy.
Who is more our enemy than people you think are "wicked" or "condone wickedness"?


He tells us "Big deal. YOu love your loved ones....EVERYONE does that" (hence the lack of creedence to a "good father" being a good person or a good christian)
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FBI Attempted to Hide the Identity of Suspect’s Transgender Lover

And it could cause violence that they are trans and affiliated with the shooter.
I highly doubt that. But the far greater one is those that consented people even celbrating as if Charley deserved it. Especially any in thair circle of friends knew about it
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Eric Trump on Charlie Kirk’s Legacy and the Radical Left – “This Could Have Been the Greatest Mistake These People Have Ever Made” (VIDEO)

And ultimately, that is what killed him. A right-winger so indoctrinated that he put Goyper slogans on his bullets, to kill someone for not being extreme right enough. Nick Fuentes targeted Kirk for hatred, and one of them acted on it.

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A MAGA Groyper? Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson's political leaning unclear; Nick Fuentes reacts to 'pure evil' - The Times of India

Robinson was not a Groyper in any meaningful sense. He's from the same generation, probably inhabits some of the same spaces, but just because some of the memes are similar doesn't mean he shares a coherent ideology with Nick Fuentes.
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RFK. Jr Threatens Pediatricians Over Vaccine Recommendations and Liability

Another way to say that is, study shows 25 children died as a result of the COVID vaccine.

Admittedly, I've not read this study yet. But here's what I've read about it:

The reported deaths originated in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the government’s database for suspected vaccine harms. Unlike the raw entries often left unexamined, FDA officials say they’ve investigated the cases.
They contacted families, reviewed autopsy results and gathered medical records. It appears that, for the first time since the vaccine rollout, U.S. regulators have attempted a systematic, case-by-case review of paediatric deaths.
There were reports of pediatric deaths through VAERS, and the FDA followed up with them and verified them. That sounds pretty important, since ostensibly, the reason VAERS exists is to capture vaccine ADVERSE events. Hopefully we can all agree that DEATH after vaccination certainly would qualify as adverse event worthy of follow up to confirm. If that is what the FDA study shows, then you'd think people would want to know about it.

Even if this study provides concrete evidence that COVID vaccines killed 25 children, I think there is a segment of people who will absolutely refuse to believe it. I mean, when the media starts their reporting with "ardent anti-vaccine activist", it's pretty clear they've already made up their minds before examining the evidence.
Death after a vaccination WOULD qualify as an "Adverse event". Of course, it means absolutely butkiss to causation. THAT is what i'm more interested in.

I am having trouble seeing how many doses of the vaccines have been given to children but I have found that from Dec 2020-June 21 9million were dispensed. So is it fair to say that there have been 30,000,000 vaccine doses given to kids? I think that's likely a conservatives estimate but fine. Frankly, I cannotimagine it is that low given that by 2023 81% of the population was vaccinated (There are 57.6 million under 18 in the US....so that number is likely quite low but fine...)

25 in 30,000,000...given that causation hasn't even been proven I think a reasonable person would see that as a "low risk" activity. Odds of being struck by lightening WITHIN THE CALENDAR YEAR are about 1 in 1.2mil...

I'll tell you this: I would want to see the report and hear from doctors who will study that report to hear their opinion on the science located in it.
If there IS causation, I would want to read about the vector and how THIS particular mRNA vaccines actually CAUSED those deaths.

I mean, IF you wanna talk about a group of people who are working from a bias, it is this administration and the people they hired.
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Trump Orders Flags to Half-Staff for Charlie Kirk

Early reports say weapon has been recovered with clues showing that trans ideology may be a factor. Time will tell.
Would not be shocked. A small minority of people can lash out horribly when they feel like their liberties or other ideological commitments are at stake.

We see this from both "left" and "right" people.
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What are we doing here?

No, I get your point, that you reject the idea of other teachers outside of the Scripture and the Holy Spirit and blame them for all division in the church, but the irony is that other doctrinal points you’ve made and the idea of opposition to division in the church are all Patristic teachings.
It's your prerogative to prioritize other peoples interpretations over asking God's opinion on it. Not going to debate you since you seem to like be argumentative. Have a blessed day..
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Eric Trump on Charlie Kirk’s Legacy and the Radical Left – “This Could Have Been the Greatest Mistake These People Have Ever Made” (VIDEO)

Plenty of blame for the divide of tribalism in America is also on the left wing liberals. Charlie Kirk believes in peaceful dialog. It's too bad that the radical leftists don't also believe in that.
Sounds like a testable belief. Let's take a look...

Through the first dataset, the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS), the researchers zeroed in on acts of extremism in the United States from 1948-2018. They found nearly no difference between the likelihood of an Islamist extremist and a right-wing extremist committing an act of violence; the probability of a violent act of extremism in the United States being committed by a left-wing extremist was found to be 0.33, 0.61 by a right-wing extremist, and 0.62 by an Islamist extremist.

So left-wing extremists are about half as likely to be violent as right-wing extremists. Which is significant, but the threat is still significant. Kirk seems to have been an exception to the right-wing tendency to political violence. Ironically, that might have been why he was killed; more violent extremists like Nick Fuentes' Goypers detested Kirk. His killer seems to be one of them.
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Eric Trump on Charlie Kirk’s Legacy and the Radical Left – “This Could Have Been the Greatest Mistake These People Have Ever Made” (VIDEO)

Look up the Italian Years of Lead and the Strategy of Tension. The only thing that is different now is the Trump regime leans more into stochastic terrorism than direct state involvement.

There is no evidence that Tyler Robinson was "radical left". Edgelord memes just mean he was chronically online, it doesn't track to a coherent political ideology.
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What are we doing here?

You're misunderstanding my point and still pointing to people.

No, I get your point, that you reject the idea of other teachers outside of the Scripture and the Holy Spirit and blame them for all division in the church, but the irony is that other doctrinal points you’ve made and the idea of opposition to division in the church are all Patristic teachings.
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BUSTED - 12 False theories refuted:

Ther Kingdom is here now; Spiritually.
To come physically after Jesus Returns; Isaiah 2:1-4, Isaiah 65:18-21, Zechariah 14:16-21
Unless. . .the kingdom is simply spiritual (like God) rather than political, that it is in Christ, among us now (Lk 17:20-21) and entered only by faith (Jn 3:18) of the rebirth (Jn 3:3-5), as presented in the teaching of Christ.
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The mass

We do Eucharistic adoration only in the context of the mass; at the Elevation of the Host, at the Elevation of the Chalice, and at the Pax Domini:

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Indeed, the Orthodox likewise - what I meant was, outside of the liturgy, we do not engage in this, but that said, I do not object to the Roman Catholic practice; at one time I did, but since then I have come to regard Eucharistic adoration as a great tradition within their church that brings people into church for devotional prayer; unfortunately the Roman church has not had much luck in reversing the lack of Divine Office services or attendance since before the Council of Trent, so it is difficult to find a Roman Catholic church other than a cathedral or monastery or church connected with a religious order that has clergy in it, such as canons regular or friars, that celebrates Vespers, for example. Indeed of the Western churches only the Anglicans and the Western Rite Orthodox have had steady success in getting people to attend Divine Office services, but lately in Anglican churches these have been declining (in the UK, this is attributed in part to people listening to choral evensong via the BBC; another factor I would say has been the abolition of most of the boys choirs which used to be ubiquitous in Anglican churches and cathedrals; any church which has more than six boys of appropriate age should organize a boys’ choir. Interestingly enough every Coptic Orthodox church tends to have this since all of the youth are typically tonsured as Psaltis.

Additionally, not all Orthodox liturgies include the Elevation, for example, the Eastern Orthodox liturgy lacks it, but in the Syriac Orthodox liturgy, for example, the priest will elevate the chalice and diskos* simultaneously, crossing his arms as he does so.

*This is a paten that has a base on it, like the chalice, which makes for easier handling; i greatly prefer it to the Western paten particularly due to my arthritis, since I can just grasp the stem on the Diskos, and also it is larger which makes for easier handling of the leavened bread used by the Eastern Orthodox, Assyrians and most Oriental Orthodox except for the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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Who then can be saved?

You are moving the goalposts to suggest there is more to salvation than the issue of sin and how God deals with it.
There are two main elements of salvation: 1) not perishing because of sin, and 2) gaining eternal life through spiritual union with Christ. See John 3:16 as an example.
Jesus’ sole mission was to redeem a people for the Father. To free His people from their sins. Yes, He was a teacher that also taught us how to live and respond as a disciple of His, but that has a direct correlation to sanctification (the second aspect of salvation).
Self-sanctification, yes. But God's sanctification of us is one-time, not ongoing.
It seems very contradictory of you that you argue that we are slaves to sin, but sin doesn’t have any power over us. How does that work, exactly?
Slavery to sin or to righteousness is a spiritual concept. But you want to apply it to the whole man. But it does not work when it is applied that way. Why? Because a person who lives in a body of corrupt flesh can never be accurately desribed as a "slave of God" or a "slave of righteousness". This can only apply to the redeemed spirit which has been joined to the Lord and is one spirit with Him.

Like I said, the flesh is sold under sin (i.e., a slave of sin) by its very nature. It is the source of our sin. But we are not in the flesh any more after Christ came to live in us. We are in the Spirit, where righteousness is. We are slaves of God and of righteousness and are free from sin by virtue of our union with Him.
And if sin doesn’t have any power over us (as believers), why do we need to have the presence of the Holy Spirit to help us conform to the image of Christ?
Do you not understand that the presence of the Holy Spirit means that we have been joined to the Lord and are one spirit with Him (1 Cor 6:17)? And do you find any verses that say the new man is ever less than "truly righteous and holy" (Eph 4:24)? Or do you find any verses that say the flesh sever stops growing corrupt (Eph 4:22)?

We were slaves to sin because of the flesh, but we are forgiven. The flesh is still a slave of sin, but we are not slaves of sin because we have been moved out of the flesh and the sins of the flesh are no longer held against us. We are slaves of righteousness because of union with Christ in the Spirit. We are not progressing in true righteousness and holiness because we already have it in Christ.
Or why do we need to confess and repent from our sins if we don’t sin?
We sin when we do not walk in the Spirit. And it is true that we are still responsible for the sins and sinfulness of the flesh because it is still our flesh. But we stand forgiven. When we do not walk in lock step with the Spirit, God corrects us. We should submit to His correction immediately. But if we don't, He continues His correction until we do. There is no reward for "confession and repentance" aside from "the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained" by His correction (Heb 12:11).
You can’t on one hand say we are slaves to sin IF that sin has no power over us.
Maybe the above discussion has answered this statement. If not, let me know.
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