Based Comic @BasedComic

@Real_Ed_McCray I'm always concerned Dems might win and Paxton isn't a charismatic candidate but polls have been widely wrong before.

Talarico goes to a Universalist church. You can read what they believe on their website, it's New Age.

SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17

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Meet the REAL James Talarico... And YES, that is an LGBTQ/pride flag draped over the sanctuary cross at his "church". Talarico has also often said he has learned as much about his faith from Islamic mystics as from Christian authors Understand who this man is Texas and vote

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@Real_Ed_McCray Trump who is getting his information from Google, Oracle and Meta. I was in this same position when the Republicans were pushing H-1B in the 2010s.

I've been following the hyperscale data center stories for about two years. Some people need to reconsider what the psyop might actually be and where it's coming from.

45 men arrived illegally into the UK on Saturday. “Rescued” by a British boat just off France which then escorted them here. On that same boat two women had been found burned to death. One man was stabbed. The men clearly had no further use for those women, who had possibly suffered sexual assault before their murders, as is common. There are lawless, dangerous men being brought into the UK by British rescue boats and we don’t know which men they are when they land. One or more of them killed women. Does this mean that in daring to say so I have lurched “wildly to the right” (as a socialist feminist would assert in order to sell her forthcoming book)? Or has she, and others like her, failed in their alleged feminist commitment to advocate for women dying on the boats and women here in the UK at risk of rape and murder from those same men. This particular cabal of “feminist” women are shamefully shackled by their dogmatic refusal to say anything which might have them branded racist. They are useless to women and can only carry on screaming “far right” into the wind for so long before other feminists choose to ignore them and their cowardly nonsense. I remain a feminist but I am not afraid to say that none of these men should have been allowed to reach the UK. express.co.uk/news/uk/224369…

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👑 POSTMILLENNIALISM GETS THE KINGDOM BACKWARDS Does the Church gradually conquer society, Christianize the nations, transform civilization, and then hand a redeemed world over to King Jesus? Scripture presents a very different order. The Church does not deliver the Kingdom to Christ; Christ delivers the Kingdom to the saints. ✝️ The Church is commanded to preach the gospel, make disciples, contend for the faith, live as salt and light, and remain faithful until Christ returns. But nowhere are we told that the Church will progressively subdue the nations and build the Messianic Kingdom before the King arrives. In fact, the prophetic trajectory moves in the opposite direction. ⚠️ Jesus warned of deception, persecution, lawlessness, false prophets, conflict, and spiritual decline. “Because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.” — Matthew 24:12 He even asked, “When the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” — Luke 18:8 Paul described the last days as “perilous times” and warned that “evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse” (2 Timothy 3:13). That is not the language of a world steadily progressing toward universal Christian dominion. 🌍 Psalm 2 is even more striking. At the climax of history, the nations are not peacefully presenting Christ with a Christianized civilization. They are raging against the LORD and against His Anointed. “Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing?” — Psalm 2:1 And how is that rebellion resolved? Not by the gradual political conquest of the Church. God installs His King. “Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.” — Psalm 2:6 The Son receives the nations because the Father gives them to Him. 📖 Daniel shows the same pattern. The kingdoms of man remain until divine intervention. “And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed.” — Daniel 2:44 The statue does not slowly become the stone. The stone strikes the statue. The kingdoms of man are not gradually transformed into the Messianic Kingdom; they are replaced by the Kingdom God establishes. Daniel 7 says the same thing. Beastly kingdoms continue until judgment sits, the Son of Man receives dominion, and then the saints possess the kingdom. The order is judgment first, kingdom afterward. ⚔️ Zechariah 14 makes the sequence even harder to avoid. The nations gather against Jerusalem, the LORD goes forth and fights against them, His feet stand on the Mount of Olives, and only then do we read: “And the LORD shall be King over all the earth.” — Zechariah 14:9 The order is unmistakable: rebellion, divine intervention, judgment, and then worldwide kingship. That is very different from a scenario in which the Church first produces global Christian civilization and Christ returns afterward. 🔥 Revelation brings the entire prophetic pattern to its climax. Revelation 19 comes before Revelation 20, and that sequence matters. In Revelation 19, heaven opens, Christ returns, He judges, He defeats His enemies, and the beast is destroyed. Then Revelation 20 describes the thousand-year reign. The return produces the reign. The reign does not produce the return. This is one of the deepest problems with postmillennialism: it assigns to the Church what Scripture repeatedly assigns to Christ. Christ destroys the lawless one. Christ defeats the beast. Christ judges the nations. Christ receives the Kingdom. Christ reigns. ✝️ Yes, the gospel is powerful. Yes, nations can be changed by biblical truth. Yes, Christians should build strong families, churches, schools, businesses, institutions, and communities, and the Church should influence culture wherever God gives opportunity. But gospel success is not the same thing as the establishment of the promised Messianic Kingdom. The gospel can triumph in millions of lives without Scripture promising that the present age becomes the Millennium. The Great Commission says, “Make disciples.” It does not say, “Take dominion over every political institution so Christ can return.” And here is the question postmillennialism must answer: If the Church has already subdued the nations before Christ returns, why does Scripture repeatedly show Christ returning to judge rebellious nations? Why Psalm 2? Why Zechariah 14? Why 2 Thessalonians 2? Why Revelation 19? Why does the King arrive as a conquering King if the world has already been conquered for Him? ⏳ The biblical sequence is remarkably consistent: the Church witnesses, the gospel goes forth, opposition continues, deception intensifies, the nations rebel, Christ returns, Christ judges, Christ conquers, Christ establishes His Kingdom, and the saints reign with Him. Postmillennialism says: the Church conquers, then Christ comes. Prophecy says: Christ comes, then He conquers. We preach until He comes. We endure until He comes. We remain faithful until He comes. “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ.” — Revelation 11:15 👑 The Church is not the King. The Church is waiting for the King. We do not build the throne and invite Jesus to sit on it. The King returns and takes His throne. The Church does not hand Jesus His Kingdom. Jesus brings His Kingdom — and gives His saints the privilege of reigning with Him.

@Real_Ed_McCray @ChanceAlligator He's just wrong then. This is what Meta, Google, Oracle et al say themselves they use them for. Tech bros have burned rural voters because they're awful people.

@Real_Ed_McCray @ChanceAlligator Do this make it sound like that take makes sense

Based Comic @BasedComic

13 hours ago

The companies driving hyperscale data center construction and why: Amazon: data storage for corporations and AI Miccrosoft: data storage for corporations and AI Google: data storage for corporations and AI Meta: Ads and the endless timeline algorithm Oracle: AI

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@RobinJusticeX @ChanceAlligator Right vs. left on this is fiction, I'm afraid. The largest concentrations of data centers are in blue states like California and Virginia. The right is being sold talking points to get behind something your politicians are already doing to you.

Trustworthy businesses to act in our best interest, truly

The companies driving hyperscale data center construction and why: Amazon: data storage for corporations and AI Miccrosoft: data storage for corporations and AI Google: data storage for corporations and AI Meta: Ads and the endless timeline algorithm Oracle: AI

So your actual argument is even though we are neither behind in installed data-center infrastructure or in the highest-end AI clusters, we need more AI to defend against other AI and also 24 hour surveillance is totes fine. So not really beneficial to consumers in any way shape or form, got it.

@JackFlynn810 @ChanceAlligator And btw, what IS the AI race exactly? The tech bubble the banks warn is going to burst at any moment? How exactly IS ever more powerful AI really benefitting the consumer? Or are these centers really for analyzing the ever increasing volume of surveillance data? Prove me wrong.

@JackFlynn810 @ChanceAlligator It's not clear at all we need them for demand. We're told we do. We have over 5000 and China has 400, we're not in danger of keeping up. So no and no.

And at the risk of posting from Barak Ravid, I have to wonder why Trump would be considering this if attacks aren't actually happening. axios.com/2026/08/31/tru…

Ships confirmed struck in August: 8/26 Al Salam II Kuwait, 8/18 Minoan Dignity Greek, 8/14 Al Watan Liberia, 8/13 Tarif Liberia, 8/13 Navig8 Singapore, 8/3 Minoan Pioneer. As for 8/30 the vessel names are delayed release as you well know, 8/29 strike was independently verified.

Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD @TonerousHyus

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@BasedComic What’s the tankers name

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Why it's ok to throw climate out the window for tech bro data centers but not consumers who use power and cars, I'll never know.

I'm very interested in the results of this. How to get oil companies to increase refining capacity without going full seize the means of production or permanently removing EPA restrictions?