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Feb. 17, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
07:12
Betrayal After Four Decades!
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It's simply unacceptable.
Because this woman wrote about this on X recently.
I think about this a lot.
I really do think about this a lot.
let me just find it here.
Oh, did I go past?
God help me.
I will find it.
you Thank you.
Oh no!
God!
Alright, I will find it.
But yeah, and basically this happened...
Oh yeah, here we go.
This is from Snafu.
And he wrote, My wife received a DM out of the blue from a friend for decades informing her they were no longer friends.
Goodbye forever, more or less.
This woman was in her wedding.
She'd gotten pregnant very young, kept the baby, and married the father.
Most of her friends cut her loose because she was no longer free to go out and party.
But my wife...
Stuck with her.
She often babysat the kids at no cost.
This young couple didn't have two nickels to rub together so mom and dad could spend some time alone together.
She is the godmother of at least one of the kids and was a major presence in their lives as they were growing up.
They called her aunt so-and-so.
The missus supported this woman through her affair, encouraging her to end it, near divorce, and years later in her final divorce.
We later attended her second wedding.
The parting message was a generic rant about Trump and MAGA, along with some low-quality anti-Trump memes.
Nothing specific about anything my missus had said or done.
The woman apparently copy-pasted it and sent it to multiple people.
She subsequently posted a virtue-signaling announcement that she was cutting ties with all the bad people.
My wife very rarely discussed politics with this woman and doesn't post political content on social media.
The weirdest thing is that I never thought of this woman as especially far-left.
She's just a...
Typical middle-aged UMC suburban liberal white woman.
I don't really know what to say about this.
it's just where we are now I guess so what happened of course with Trump It happens with accusations of various bigotries and so on.
It happened with COVID, of course, in a fairly brutal fashion.
Thank you, David.
And just no bond.
Just no bond.
Just erased.
Just erased.
Steve says, the quickening effect of COVID was dizzying to live through.
It'll never wear off.
Kind of like those who lived through the Depression.
You just can't lose sight of these experiences.
There's a guy down the road to me whose son died in a pool on holiday.
They started a charity in his name and are very active doing events.
My local lake has a great public walking path around it.
that they had signs saying, only walk in a clockwise manner to prevent COVID.
I made a point to walk counterclockwise every time.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Close to half of the J6s were turned in by their family members.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, there's this thing, there's this big battle going on on X at the moment, which is what are the concentric rings of care, right?
So the Christians are saying, look, you take care of your kids, your family, then your extended family, then your neighbors, then your town, then your state, your country.
And then, you know, at some point you can help others, right?
But you've got to take care of this, you know, you see this other orienting versus inner orienting, right?
People who are more bonded to others and people who are the other, the alien, the different, the foreign, versus more bonded to themselves.
And so, a lot of cynical atheists and agnostics try to sort of trap the Christians into You know, endless foreign aid and so on because you have to take care of everyone and you have to love everyone as yourself and this is not true in Christianity as a whole that you're supposed to take care of your kids, your family, your extended family and so on and then, you know, if there's stuff left over at the very end.
But that is foundationally really difficult for people.
I think about this a lot today.
What is it that motivates people as a whole?
What is it that motivates people as a whole to love?
Or to claim to love that which is most distant, rather than actually have loyalty to them or those who are supposed to be closer.
I mean, you know, the sort of typical example is, and a lot of it is sort of the liberal white women who are like, we have to save, you know, things in Africa, right?
We have to save the people in Africa, right?
Even though people in Africa, unfortunately, one of the reasons why AIDS spreads quite a bit is because they use sand.
As a stimulant in sexual activities, which of course creates abrasions and so on, right?
So people who are like, I want to help people in Africa, and yet they don't do much for their own local community, if anything.
It's a very interesting mindset to me.
It is a very interesting mindset.
And so the idea that you should take care of The people who are closest to you first and foremost and then and only later have care and concern for everyone else in the world and basically because there's so much to take care of locally you never end up having much for the world as a whole.
So what are your thoughts as to why?
Somebody at Jared says they can feel good without ties to the outcomes.
That's some truth to that.
Steve says, politics sat me on my ass and showed me there's no loyalty in it.
My trust expands to my immediate family, right?
And defood, freedom owners, ranchers.
And that's about it.
A bit of trust for sincere Christians.
Yeah.
I think, if I had to guess, I don't know the answer to this, because it's a big old question, right?
But I think...
The reason why people focus on helping people on the other side of the world is it doesn't require them to be personally virtuous in their lives, right?
Obviously, they can say things.
Maybe they even donate money and so on.
But in order to say, like for people to say and to believe, well, you should take care of your kids, your husband, your wife, your family first, would indicate that you have those bonds at all.
And a lot of people don't.
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