https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALOVZ9fc84k A survivor of the Cultural Revolution is sounding the alarm and people need to hear this Just finished watching this interview with a woman named Xi Van Fleet, who actually lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in China as a kid. Here are the things that stuck with me: She makes a really sharp point about the difference between authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Authoritarianism just wants you to obey. Totalitarianism wants to control what you think and believe. And she sees echoes of that same thing happening in the West today. One of the biggest themes she kept coming back to is how deceptive communism is as a system, not just as a government. The CCP deceived the nationalist Chinese TWICE until they finally wiped them out. The communists would say "now is not the time for conflict, we need to unite against the Japanese" and the nationalists, who genuinely wanted to cooperate, agreed. That openness and willingness to work together is literally what destroyed them. Twice. And they deceived America over and over throughout history too. Nixon's visit in 1972 is a perfect example, the CCP was on the verge of collapse and used that moment to get a lifeline out of the US. She's saying this is not accidental, it's THE core tactic. She also describes the CCP not as a legitimate Chinese government but as a foreign occupying force that took over China. When she explained it that way it honestly reframes everything. When she described all of this I started thinking of like 10 modern examples on my own. Highly recommend watching the full thing if you have time 🙏

https://fredericktatala.substack.com/p/wake-up-europe-this-violence-is-coming

the New Testament has anti-Jewish material baked into its foundation — not footnotes, the core narrative. Collective guilt for the death of Jesus pinned on the Jewish people across all generations (1). Replacement theology — the claim that Jews are no longer God's people and the church has taken their place (2). Jews portrayed throughout the gospels as betrayers, liars, children of the devil (3). This is the text itself, not a minority reading. I judge the doctrine, not the individual Christian. Today's generation can be kind, and often is. But people change, cultures change, politics change — the text does not. It sits there waiting for whoever decides to actually follow it. That is exactly why the text is the subject worth discussing, not the mood of the current generation. (1) Collective guilt: Matthew 27:25 — "And all the people answered, 'His blood be on us and on our children!'" Matthew 23:35-36 — "that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah... Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation." 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 — "the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind... But wrath has come upon them at last!" See also: Matthew 23:31-32; Acts 7:51-52. (2) Replacement theology: Matthew 21:43 — "the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits." Galatians 4:30 — "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman." (Paul's own allegory: the "slave woman" = the Sinai covenant.) Hebrews 8:13 — "In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away." See also: Galatians 6:16; Philippians 3:3; Hebrews 10:9. (3) Betrayers, liars, children of the devil: John 8:44 — "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires... he is a liar and the father of lies."

seen somewhere in Israel