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I always enjoy conversations with young people who are curious enough to ask difficult questions and thoughtful enough to seek understanding before forming their opinions. Earlier this week, I got talking with a young lady who, as it turned out, had read about the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Global Strategic Advisory Group...

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.Senator Todd Young says the character of people in America consists of people who are "casual," free, and proud, people who "bow to no one" in a tribute shared with Breitbart News to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States' founding. "What I love about America is the character of our people," Young states. "We are casual, we are small 'd' democratic, we are free, we are proud, we bow to no one, we're fiercely competitive, we celebrate our differences at our very best, and we win." "We're committed to winning collectively and individually, and so those are among the things that I think of when I think of the character of the American people," he continues. Young points out that "it's not like that everywhere" in the world and encouraged Americans to "celebrate who we are collectively and individually."

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The Ditch: The Party Line | Episode 14: Fascism at Home, with William Wall 'It seems plain enough to me that whatever about a posture or certain aesthetics that might hint at a right populism, at its core it's Declan Ganley and his big gaff outside Galway, hoovering up state contracts in the US. They might posture as right populists but it seems to me like a right, capitalist podcast for the right capitalist class. 'I think that that brings it very much home because we are concerned about the rise of the right on behalf of trans people. We are concerned about the rise of the right on behalf of immigrants. We're concerned about all of these things partly out of what you might see as a kind of solidaristic response to the people who are potentially at the receiving end of their rise. 'But we are also concerned because we are trying to win class politics for a mass of people in this country.'

The Ditch

18,323 views • 2 months ago

Michelangelo Antonioni on his experience working in America, the tendency of Americans to waste things & the difficulties he faced while working with American Cameramen: "My autonomy, I would say, is complete. They leave me free to do what I want. The only thing now is that they are starting to be worried about the budget. They ask me why the film is so expensive, but that's what I'm going to ask them. I don't know why it's so expensive, I really don't know. I have a crew that is only half the size of what is usual in America because I don't want a big crew. It seems to me I'm seeing such a waste of money. It seems to be almost immoral. I feel bad sometimes. For instance, they threw away a piece of gelatin that we used and the piece was still new. There is also a waste of film. If I am shooting with two or three cameras and I need this camera only in the middle of the scene, in Italy I would start with that camera just at that moment. Not here. They start from the beginning. It is a waste of film! They are consumers. They are used to wasting something — goods, materials, food, everything. And I'm not used to this. I have some elements of this crew who are not so young — some older people who worked, for instance, on the first film of Greta Garbo, the first 'Ben-Hur' (1925), on Stroheim's 'Greed' (1924). It is very amusing to talk to them about these things. I had a lot of problems with unions, and in Hollywood this is much more difficult than in New York. The unions are so strong. There are lots of old people. You can't find what you are looking for. I needed some cameramen and some assistant cameramen —some young people used to shooting in the modern way, people who can zoom without your having to tell them the exact distance from the actors to the camera, people who can make changes on their own and who can sometimes do what they want. I want them to do that, to do something different from the script, maybe. At that critical moment, the assistant cameraman has to make the decision, but the American cameraman can't do this. That's why I was forced to bring some people from Italy. I don't know why, but English people are much more familiar to me. At the time I was making 'Blow-Up' (1966), at least, they were so mad —in a positive and very pleasant way —that they were almost Neapolitan (that's a joke). I like them, I like English people much more than Americans. I mean I find myself closer to them. The Americans are so cool sometimes. They need to know exactly what they are doing. Sometimes they are like Germans —fastidious, precise. This makes me upset because I like to have people around me who are more spontaneous." (Michelangelo Antonioni's interview with Marsha Kinder, 1968) On this day, 56 years ago, 'Zabriskie Point' (1970) premiered in New York City, USA.
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Michelangelo Antonioni on his experience working in America, the tendency of Americans to waste things & the difficulties he faced while working with American Cameramen: "My autonomy, I would say, is complete. They leave me free to do what I want. The only thing now is that they are starting to be worried about the budget. They ask me why the film is so expensive, but that's what I'm going to ask them. I don't know why it's so expensive, I really don't know. I have a crew that is only half the size of what is usual in America because I don't want a big crew. It seems to me I'm seeing such a waste of money. It seems to be almost immoral. I feel bad sometimes. For instance, they threw away a piece of gelatin that we used and the piece was still new. There is also a waste of film. If I am shooting with two or three cameras and I need this camera only in the middle of the scene, in Italy I would start with that camera just at that moment. Not here. They start from the beginning. It is a waste of film! They are consumers. They are used to wasting something — goods, materials, food, everything. And I'm not used to this. I have some elements of this crew who are not so young — some older people who worked, for instance, on the first film of Greta Garbo, the first 'Ben-Hur' (1925), on Stroheim's 'Greed' (1924). It is very amusing to talk to them about these things. I had a lot of problems with unions, and in Hollywood this is much more difficult than in New York. The unions are so strong. There are lots of old people. You can't find what you are looking for. I needed some cameramen and some assistant cameramen —some young people used to shooting in the modern way, people who can zoom without your having to tell them the exact distance from the actors to the camera, people who can make changes on their own and who can sometimes do what they want. I want them to do that, to do something different from the script, maybe. At that critical moment, the assistant cameraman has to make the decision, but the American cameraman can't do this. That's why I was forced to bring some people from Italy. I don't know why, but English people are much more familiar to me. At the time I was making 'Blow-Up' (1966), at least, they were so mad —in a positive and very pleasant way —that they were almost Neapolitan (that's a joke). I like them, I like English people much more than Americans. I mean I find myself closer to them. The Americans are so cool sometimes. They need to know exactly what they are doing. Sometimes they are like Germans —fastidious, precise. This makes me upset because I like to have people around me who are more spontaneous." (Michelangelo Antonioni's interview with Marsha Kinder, 1968) On this day, 56 years ago, 'Zabriskie Point' (1970) premiered in New York City, USA.

DepressedBergman

39,982 views • 6 months ago

The clips have quickly started circulating from last night’s show with E. Here are my thoughts: 1) I’m grateful to Elijah for be willing to host me on his platform, while knowing I hold disagreeing view points. He didn’t have to do that. 2) I’m willing to have conversations with people who speak in a manner that I would not, and will not, speak. 3) There are an incredible amount of young men who regularly listen to Elijah. They’re angry (understandably so). I want to enter the fray and speak to them distinctly as a Christian. 4) I want these young men to see the direct correlation between the unparalleled historic success of the West and its explicitly Christian foundation. 5) I want these young men to know their Western heritage is NOT enough. If they turn their backs on Christ, he will judge them. We are a nation currently under judgment. Repentance is the only way out. I’m willing to go where the young men are to win them to Christ.
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The clips have quickly started circulating from last night’s show with E. Here are my thoughts: 1) I’m grateful to Elijah for be willing to host me on his platform, while knowing I hold disagreeing view points. He didn’t have to do that. 2) I’m willing to have conversations with people who speak in a manner that I would not, and will not, speak. 3) There are an incredible amount of young men who regularly listen to Elijah. They’re angry (understandably so). I want to enter the fray and speak to them distinctly as a Christian. 4) I want these young men to see the direct correlation between the unparalleled historic success of the West and its explicitly Christian foundation. 5) I want these young men to know their Western heritage is NOT enough. If they turn their backs on Christ, he will judge them. We are a nation currently under judgment. Repentance is the only way out. I’m willing to go where the young men are to win them to Christ.

Joel Webbon

243,159 views • 1 year ago

Pastor Erik Reed boldly putting an end to the "both sides" arguments we've seen from many Christians over the last few weeks and calling out the Democrats for being at war with "creational reality." "We are living in a world where there are two different visions for what kind of society we want to live in. And if Christ is not in the foundations of what we're doing with our vision for the future, if the Christian foundation and worldview that made our country great to begin with is not there, and everybody's just doing what's right in their own eyes, you can guarantee chaos will ensue. We are choosing between two distinct futures. They are not the same. Our two political parties in our country are not morally equivalent to each other... I am not baptizing the Republican Party. They did not come from Mount Sinai on high from God to say 'Thus saith the Lord.' But the current state of the Democratic Party, as they are...they are a party at war with creational realities every day. Creational realities. They are at war about what it means to be a man or a woman, about marriage, about sexuality, about who has the right to live in a womb. They are at war with life and prosperity. There is one side in particular with a progressive ideology that not only tried to suppress the story of the young woman in Charlotte, but who celebrated, both in the media and with college professors and many others, the death of a man whose beliefs they did not hold... And if you're more concerned with what I've just said in the last two or three minutes, about sounding partisan, than you are concerned about the reality of what's actually happening in our society right now, you have lost the plot."
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Pastor Erik Reed boldly putting an end to the "both sides" arguments we've seen from many Christians over the last few weeks and calling out the Democrats for being at war with "creational reality." "We are living in a world where there are two different visions for what kind of society we want to live in. And if Christ is not in the foundations of what we're doing with our vision for the future, if the Christian foundation and worldview that made our country great to begin with is not there, and everybody's just doing what's right in their own eyes, you can guarantee chaos will ensue. We are choosing between two distinct futures. They are not the same. Our two political parties in our country are not morally equivalent to each other... I am not baptizing the Republican Party. They did not come from Mount Sinai on high from God to say 'Thus saith the Lord.' But the current state of the Democratic Party, as they are...they are a party at war with creational realities every day. Creational realities. They are at war about what it means to be a man or a woman, about marriage, about sexuality, about who has the right to live in a womb. They are at war with life and prosperity. There is one side in particular with a progressive ideology that not only tried to suppress the story of the young woman in Charlotte, but who celebrated, both in the media and with college professors and many others, the death of a man whose beliefs they did not hold... And if you're more concerned with what I've just said in the last two or three minutes, about sounding partisan, than you are concerned about the reality of what's actually happening in our society right now, you have lost the plot."

Center for Baptist Leadership

105,520 views • 11 months ago

Please take the time to read this-A sitting member of Congress should never have been arrested for asking questions. Where are the people who believe in free speech? This is the second United States setting member of Congress that has been arrested. The United States looks more like a police state and under an authoritarian regime that demands his will all while Republicans in Congress allow it to happen because they decided to take an oath to the agenda and not to the constitution. The only people that are happy with this are people that see things through a single lens of information and only want whatever Trump is doing. It looks very much like they care more about that agenda than the actual United States, values, our citizens or our country and democracy that so many people died to protect. Why are Federal employees asked to take a loyalty pledge and why people not asking these questions?
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Please take the time to read this-A sitting member of Congress should never have been arrested for asking questions. Where are the people who believe in free speech? This is the second United States setting member of Congress that has been arrested. The United States looks more like a police state and under an authoritarian regime that demands his will all while Republicans in Congress allow it to happen because they decided to take an oath to the agenda and not to the constitution. The only people that are happy with this are people that see things through a single lens of information and only want whatever Trump is doing. It looks very much like they care more about that agenda than the actual United States, values, our citizens or our country and democracy that so many people died to protect. Why are Federal employees asked to take a loyalty pledge and why people not asking these questions?

UnitedWeStand

43,642 views • 1 year ago

. Jeremy Boreing asked me how we can help young men find meaning and purpose. Not philosophically…practically. First, I addressed what we are doing wrong. We are not meeting them where they are, on their terms, and until we do that, they won’t be receptive. Gen-Z is not proactively seeking advice, so we have to bring it to them. Second, we need to acknowledge that certain things in their life ARE hard. Too many in the “older” generations are not acknowledging this and simply telling them to “suck it up.” But…we then need to demonstrate to them that life has always been hard and we need to give them that perspective. How do we do this? Make “rites of passage” great again. Getting your driver’s license (I meet so many young people who simply Uber everywhere and thus never got a license). Making the varsity football team (so many young people gave up on sports during Covid). Asking a girl on a date: face-to-face. You become a “legal” adult on your 18th birthday. But you become an actual adult when you acquire enough life experiences that deem you mature enough to BE an adult and these come through rites of passage. Right now we have a generation of young males trying to “learn” manhood from the manosphere which is the definition of immaturity. A “rite of passage” is about triumphing through and beyond something. The manosphere’s business model is to keep young men stuck. It creates followers, not leaders. Perhaps the most important rite of passage we can provide these young men right now is to leave this nonsense and go on with building their lives on their own terms. Young men need the dirt under their fingernails that comes from REAL life experiences, not the calluses on their fingers that come from constant screen swipes.
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. Jeremy Boreing asked me how we can help young men find meaning and purpose. Not philosophically…practically. First, I addressed what we are doing wrong. We are not meeting them where they are, on their terms, and until we do that, they won’t be receptive. Gen-Z is not proactively seeking advice, so we have to bring it to them. Second, we need to acknowledge that certain things in their life ARE hard. Too many in the “older” generations are not acknowledging this and simply telling them to “suck it up.” But…we then need to demonstrate to them that life has always been hard and we need to give them that perspective. How do we do this? Make “rites of passage” great again. Getting your driver’s license (I meet so many young people who simply Uber everywhere and thus never got a license). Making the varsity football team (so many young people gave up on sports during Covid). Asking a girl on a date: face-to-face. You become a “legal” adult on your 18th birthday. But you become an actual adult when you acquire enough life experiences that deem you mature enough to BE an adult and these come through rites of passage. Right now we have a generation of young males trying to “learn” manhood from the manosphere which is the definition of immaturity. A “rite of passage” is about triumphing through and beyond something. The manosphere’s business model is to keep young men stuck. It creates followers, not leaders. Perhaps the most important rite of passage we can provide these young men right now is to leave this nonsense and go on with building their lives on their own terms. Young men need the dirt under their fingernails that comes from REAL life experiences, not the calluses on their fingers that come from constant screen swipes.

Gates Garcia

16,776 views • 4 months ago

Today I was in the CBD, Nairobi with Gen Zs. I reminded them that the Future of this Country is in their hands. That they are not only the Future but the Present. I reminded them that 70 percent of Voters are young people and we must determine the Direction our Nation Takes. and that there will be a new Kenya starts with them taking up their spaces in leadership and society #NewKenya
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Today I was in the CBD, Nairobi with Gen Zs. I reminded them that the Future of this Country is in their hands. That they are not only the Future but the Present. I reminded them that 70 percent of Voters are young people and we must determine the Direction our Nation Takes. and that there will be a new Kenya starts with them taking up their spaces in leadership and society #NewKenya

ERIC OMONDI

25,058 views • 10 months ago