Hugh Grant on the tragedy of childhood screen addiction

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Grant appears totally awake to our digital nightmare that we’ve collectively fed our children to. He seems genuinely pained, in a helpless way, by the omnipresence of the “screen”. His point of view here, and mine, will be mainstream within 10 years. We will stand in awe at what we’ve allowed to happen, at the destruction of entire generations of children we’ve facilitated. And maybe there will be a political will to pull the plug on “connectivity”. Or, just speculating, the creation of a device that wipes the internet from existence. But millions more will have to get to where Grant is at before this could ever be remotely considered.

China is done with Israel’s garbage

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This is an astounding exchange. Unlike the United States, China isn’t afraid to point out the depravity of Israel to their faces. This engenders respect and fear from Israel. Imagine if the US treated these thugs in a similar manner? Instead, we endure the spectacle of our leaders groveling at their feet.

Connectivity’s perdition

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The internet was a mistake. That’s not hyperbole, not some glib, cynical, fatalist, jaded throwaway judgment. The internet is ruining us as a species. We were better off without it, without this hideous, insidious, digital drug that we dose ourselves with throughout the day. We’ve become maintenance users of the most dangerous narcotic in history. What has it cost us? Real connection, and are we even able to comprehend the pricelessness of what real connection means, and what we’ve allowed to whither away? But it’s much more than even that. The physical institutions that facilitated real connection are disappearing forever. Everything is closing up shop around us. We’re being drawn into the fake reality of the screen with all its lights, sounds, and seductive filth, all within arm’s reach, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the rest of our godforsaken lives. The problem is this: how do we stage an intervention when everyone is an addict?

If a button existed that when pushed would delete the internet forever, along with knowledge of how to recreate it, and even the memory of it, I would push it. I hate it more than I’ve ever hated anything. I hate the eradication of connection, of boredom which is the seedbed of the growth of our soul, of character development, of the creativity it stifles and the sloth it encourages. We were better without it. With it, we’re collectively sinking into an eternal sleep. We’re becoming lost in a funhouse mirror maze. And we’re fostering the addiction in children as quickly as possible. When we stare into our screens, we gaze into an abyss that is slowly siphoning our life force, and in its place grows a hideous void.

Many Israeli snipers aren’t even Israeli

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Some are American as apple pie.

Did billionaire Bill Ackman and friends ambush Charlie Kirk over being insufficiently sycophantic over Israel?

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In early August, Bill Ackman and other pro-Israel TPUSA funders allegedly confronted Charlie Kirk at a meeting in the Hamptons over his supposed lack of total, blind devotion towards Israel. Ackman has since denied this, but reports over the meeting have become a flood. And check out this clip of Kirk speaking just one day after the alleged meeting. Kirk always seemed so jolly that it is impossible to envision him as angry. But this is about as angry as anyone has ever seen him.

Grandmother of Charlie’s killer raises more questions

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Debbie Robinson says her grandson probably never fired a gun in his life, and their entire family were MAGA republicans. The distance between the shooter and Charlie was 430 feet, roughly the length of a football field. Could a novice marksman really make that shot first try? Now factor in the fact that he was supposedly killed with an older, Mauser-style, bolt-action rifle. If the bullet was a .30-06, does the close-up footage of the impact match what such a large bullet is capable of? These are just questions, which, in the absence of any information from the FBI, we are forced to ask.