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🧵A number of people have asked about my phrase "Man Fuel." Simply put, Man Fuel is story that feeds manly virtues. It can be a movie, a series, a book, an audiobook, story in any form that makes you aspire to be a better man than you are.
For some time, I've wanted to launch a Man Fuel Mega Thread, where every few days I add a new post to the end with another example of Man Fuel, listing the work, the virtue, and my reasoning. I think now is the time. I have a very long list.
This thread then, by its nature, will never end. Neither will Man Fuel. Bookmark it. I'll repost each individual title on my feed, too, so you won't miss them if you are following.
What I'm hoping to accomplish is to curate (with your help, please add your suggestions in the replies) a list of works to which men may resort when they need to be reminded of what God expects of them. What they, in their innermost hearts, expect of themselves. What they hope to model for their sons. What they hope to present as a standard for their daughters.
I need your help on this thread. We need to decide together what men need and aren't getting from Hollywood and New York publishing. Then we can help each other go and find it elsewhere.
There is no ban on R-ratings. Men at their best are sometimes violent or foul-mouthed. Sometimes, to show a man reaching for what is best, it is necessary to first depict him at his worst. However, I do expect that a great many Man Fuel titles will be family friendly.
In highlighting Man Fuel, I am in no way saying that a story must be Man Fuel to be worth engaging. There are many works that don't fit the above definition which should certainly be read, watched, and understood.
Some stories will be Woman Fuel (I have no doubt such a thing exists, though I naturally wouldn't be the best to talk about it. Which doesn't mean I won't at some point.) Women may enjoy Man Fuel, and men may enjoy Woman Fuel. All great stories will have a large crossover appeal, even if there is a primary audience.
Some stories are too dark to be Man Fuel, as they are about antiheroes. They might be amazing works, well worth experiencing. They won't make it onto this list, however. There might be other reasons a story is great but not Man Fuel. I love story in general, but those will be left for another day.
Some people will argue about what the manly virtues are. These are all discussions worth having. In fact, it is the very discussion we are having.
This is that thread.
I hate how anytime I read a well crafted turn of phrase now, my mind immediately assumes the writer used AI. I can't admire good writing, which is something I deeply love. Whatever else AI gives us, it has taken that away, and I'm not sure if it's coming back.
X has no means of reporting fake celebrity accounts, like this one, if the celebrity does not have an official X account to add to the impersonation report. #xbug @mridul_singhai
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Ignored in this statistic about women is the inescapable conclusion that a significant number of the men accompanying them are rapists, and the rest are men who have failed to protect women from rape.
Nearly all women who try to reach UK in small boats are raped during their journey, home secretary says trib.al/C03wjt3
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For every gigawatt-thermal of fusion reactor capacity burning deuterium-tritium, you can produce 2 tonnes of gold per year by recycling the 14 MeV neutrons through mercury.
The economics of a gold-breeding fusion reactor are about half revenue from gold, and half from electricity at current prices.
The natural evolution of technology is to move beyond "chemistry' and into "alchemy" - nuclear sciences that involve the transmutation of elements, at energy scales and densities a million times higher than usual material science, chemistry, and molecular interaction scales.
The first companies to approach this will be targeting things like medical isotopes and enriched nuclear fuel, but there's really no limit. If you think we can make energy too cheap to meter, then it becomes feasible to transmute elements at industrial quantities as raw material feedstock into the economy.
Your thesis really should be that reality is programmable down to the atomic level, and that is inevitable where our technology will take us.
Ladies, the "feeling" you're after will come when a tiny life looks up at you, and another holds your arm and stands on tiptoe to see his new brother. THOSE are the men you want to meet. However, it takes a lifetime to do so; don't put off getting started.
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Have you noticed that the community that is most vocal in warning about the Islamification of the USA is the GWOT veterans’ community?
That’s because we saw things with our own eyes that are hard for others to believe:
1. The treatment of women as chattel property. Goats are treated better than daughters—no exaggeration.
2. Widespread pedophilia and bestiality while at the same time people we call “LGBTQ+” in the West are subject to barbaric methods of execution.
3. An absolute lack of freedom of religion.
4. Wanton disregard for human life.
5. Insanely paranoid antisemitism straight out of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
6. Wholly corrupt governments; bribery as a uniform standard.
7. Tribalism to an extreme: tribe trumps truth and justice, always.
8. In the Gulf Arab countries, “Third Country Nationals” from poor Muslim countries engaged in menial labor and literally treated as slaves.
9. Absolute confidence that Islam will violently conquer the rest of the world, and a belief that this is just and proper.
10. Acceptance of the idea that lying can be and is necessary and proper.
These are not one-off observations; these are widespread norms that are easily observed and experienced in day-to-day life in any nation that accepts Sharia law. ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE COMMONPLACE. Having seen this stuff up close and personal across the entire Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa, American veterans have unwittingly become like the prophets of old, warning everyone else of the dangers we have seen that we never wish to see come ashore in America.
Yet somehow our voices are not being heard sufficiently, and we now see literal Communists wishing to import these evil practices to the USA en masse, as a path to their own power.
Guess what Commies? It’s the other way around, you are the ones being used and when the Green forces dispose of you Red forces, it’s not going to be pretty.
Wise up.
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This is very personal for me to share.
My biological mother was a stripper working at a club in downtown Seattle. My biological father was one of her clients. She became pregnant with me while struggling with addiction and used drugs throughout her pregnancy. When I was born, I was immediately taken to the ICU to detox and was eventually placed for adoption.
By God’s grace, I was adopted by two wonderful parents who loved me deeply. I was four months old when they picked me up from the orphanage, and they are the only parents I’ve ever known. I never grew up feeling like something was missing. I never felt some deep longing to find my biological parents. I had a mom and dad who loved me, cared for me, sacrificed for me, and gave me a wonderful home.
Years later, after I got married and we had our first child, my wife encouraged me to learn more about my biological history. If for no other reason, she thought it might be good for the sake of our daughter to know whether there was anything medically or genetically significant in my family history.
So I eventually submitted my DNA to Ancestry. Through that, I discovered a half brother, aunts, cousins, and eventually was put in contact with my biological mother.
We were able to meet.
And when I met her, I got to tell her something I’d wanted to tell her for as long as I could remember: thank you.
Thank you for giving me life.
I got to tell her about the wonderful parents who adopted me. I got to tell her that I’d had a good life. I got to tell her about my wife and my children. I wanted her to know that the baby she carried in the middle of all that chaos became a man with a family, a calling, people he loves, people who love him, and a life for which he is profoundly grateful.
I’ve never been angry with her. Never. Not once.
For years I told my wife and children that if my biological mother ever found me, I knew exactly what I would say. I wouldn’t condemn her. I wouldn’t demand explanations. I’d simply thank her for allowing me to live.
Because without that decision, I wouldn’t have the extraordinary wife I have today. I wouldn’t know the indescribable joy of my children. I wouldn’t have experienced the friendships, ministry, laughter, sorrow, beauty, failures, victories, and ordinary moments that have made up my life. There are people I love who wouldn’t know me, children who wouldn’t exist, and a story that never would’ve been written.
She gave me the chance to live it.
We still stay in contact. We speak every few months, and I genuinely enjoy hearing her stories and learning about her life. Since the day I met her, I’ve prayed that the Lord would bring her to Himself. I still pray that.
I share all of this because lately I’ve been thinking a great deal about the choices parents make. About life and death. About how much hangs in the balance of decisions made in moments of fear, desperation, darkness, or confusion.
And yes, I’ve been thinking about those three little children whose lives were taken by the very person entrusted with protecting them. It’s difficult for me not to think about my own story alongside theirs. Their lives mattered. Their futures mattered. Everything they might’ve become, everyone they might’ve loved, every ordinary Tuesday morning and Christmas morning and wedding and child and friendship that might’ve filled the decades ahead of them mattered.
And it makes me profoundly grateful that my mother chose differently.
So if there’s a mother or father reading this who’s in a dark place and wondering whether your presence matters, whether your decisions matter, or whether the people who depend on you would somehow be better off without you, please hear me: your choices matter more than you can see from where you’re standing.
Choose life.
Don’t make an irreversible decision in the middle of a season that will pass. Don’t allow a moment of darkness to make a permanent decision about a future you can’t yet see.
Trust the Lord. Ask for help.
The interesting aspect here is not the bare fact that EKF and RW were denied participation in the WNBA draft, but the reasoning behind the refusal, which can be reliably inferred from the following:
1. It was immediately understood that these were men, yet the ruling took a week.
2. The ruling comes without explanation.
3. No one on the left, and especially no one in the trans community, has criticized the decision.
From 2, we can assume the reasoning is something that the league cannot defend. From 1, we can assume it is not because they are biological males. From 3, we can assume it is totally in keeping with the current leftist orthodoxy surrounding trans issues.
There is only one possibility left, and that is that these men are obviously trolling.
Make sure you hear it properly: the only thing preventing these men from playing in the WNBA is that they didn't "really mean it" when they said they were women.
We are one sincere former NBA star away from witnessing the end of the WNBA.
This is the flimsy logical foundation the whole wobbling edifice is built on.
Two former NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, who sought to enter the 2027 WNBA draft are not eligible to participate in the women's basketball league, according to sources around the league reut.rs/4wR1DCy
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Fine. Going active again, but fully based. Spitting fire in Arizona. My money says I sit in a membership council before the bishop with the trans flag on his porch ever does. One year. We’ll see.
If you think your records were retained because of a fluke, a coincidence, or some stupid clerical error, you are the one who needs to wake up.
God has been waging an all-out battle for you your entire life. You're pissed because the church you love is insufficiently based? Join the club, read 3 Nephi 6:14-20, and get in the fight.
Our system isn't broken because Fauci isn't being held accountable. Our system is broken because Fauci was able to use our money to create the virus, enforce the lockdowns, buy the vaccine, and hide the truth.
Umbrage is a poor substitute for justice, and justice is a poor substitute for integrity.
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Justice Amy Comey Barrett is discussing all the threats she’s facing.
It’s sad and shouldn’t happen, but this shouldn’t be an excuse to cave.
Her rulings have been out of character.
If these threats are an issue for her family, she should step down now.
