Hal

Stuck in a time loop watching humanity destroy itself over and over again.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

No, Independence Day is not about Palestine.

Get out.

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

Can you name the apartheid state?

A small state, established on the ruins of empire, that defines itself as the nation-state of one specific people. Its language, its symbols, its character are reserved by law for that people alone.

A quarter of its population belongs to a different ethnic group. Many of them were born there. Their parents were born there. And yet the state refuses them citizenship. Instead, it issues them a special passport marking them as something less. They cannot vote. They are barred from entire categories of employment. A permanent, legally defined underclass, sorted by ethnicity and by when their families arrived.

The state demands loyalty tests. Tens of thousands of members of this minority, elderly people among them, are ordered to prove their allegiance and their command of the ruling nation's language. Those who fail receive letters: leave within 30 days or be removed by force. Grandmothers who have lived in the same apartment for fifty years are told to pack. Those who refuse can be held in detention centers while the state processes their expulsion.

The state didn't stop there. It shut down the minority's media outlets. It abolished education in their mother tongue, down to the last school. It demolished their monuments and memorials. It stopped admitting members of their ethnic group at the border. Officials openly describe all of this as protecting the demographic and cultural security of the majority nation.

How many UN resolutions has this country received? How many ICJ hearings? How many sanctions bills are moving through Western parliaments right now?

How many students are camped on university lawns for the grandmothers in detention? How many celebrities have posted the infographic? How many artists have cancelled their shows there? How many cities have voted to divest?

When did you last see a documentary about the stateless quarter of its population? A hashtag? A march? A single foreign minister expressing even mild concern?

The answer to every one of these questions is zero.

The country is Latvia. EU member. NATO member. Funded by Brussels, defended by Western armies, criticized by no one. Everything above is happening right now, in 2026, inside the European Union.

And now a few questions for the apartheid crowd. You. The ones with the word ready to go, the flags, the chants, the infographics. Where are you on this one? You didn't know? Or you knew and it didn't fit?

You scream about second-class citizens. Latvia has them by law, a quarter of the country. Where's your tent?

You cry about people being expelled from their homes. Latvia is deporting pensioners over a language exam. Where's your hashtag?

You say you're against ethnostates. Here's one, official, funded by the EU. Where's your boycott list?

Someone handed you a word, told you where to point it, and you pointed. You didn't check the facts then. You're not checking them now.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

So much support for socialism is rooted in flat-out economic ignorance. I find it fun to think through examples of this kind of thing sometimes.

Socialists are pretty diametrically opposed to profit. They see profit as proof of exploitation, that the "owning class" is extracting the surplus value of production for themselves and robbing, if not enslaving, the workers.

There are actually about a million good, common-sense, basic-economics arguments against this stupidity, for example that the owners deserve a (large) share of that surplus because they're shouldering all the risk and responsibility for the company, and this is sound. Most socialists are terrified to become owners, at the end of the day, because they know if it fails, it's all on them.

The profit motive, however, is the literally the magic sauce that unlocks abundance and a high standard of living. To walk through just one simple, real-life example, the profit motive strongly encourages cost-saving innovation (in addition to much else) while also solving the core socioeconomic question at the heart of every civilization: "how do you get people who don't care about each other to act like they care about each other's problems?" (Answer: the profit motive, which makes coming up with solutions to other people's problems, which you can sell, a matter of self-interest!)

Anyway, I got a notification on my phone from a huge corporation called Amazon earlier after my wife placed an order. It said I have until whatever time to add any items I want to the order so they'll arrive in the same shipment. This is actually new. It is an innovation that greatly increases efficiency.

Let's think it through together.

The simplest way to solve the order-to-shipment problem is to tie a shipment, which is ultimately a box or envelope, to an order number. Someone orders stuff on the app, an order number tied to those product choices is made, and a shipping container is later filled with those items and shipped.

This happens millions of times a day, an unfathomable number of times, actually, and it's very complicated. There's a huge inefficiency happening here, though, with this simple-minded, but complicated, order fulfillment scheme that any bonehead would think up and implement.

Sometimes, a customer will order stuff, and then later that same day, they will think of more stuff to order and will place another order. This might happen more than once in a day, in fact. It matches how people shop and think, especially when families share accounts. Each order is a new order number, and each order number is a new logistical train plus shipping materials and costs.

Amazon doesn't want to waste money shipping stuff, and their model (at least on Prime) is that shipping is virtually always included, which means wrapped up into the product costs across all products. If the same delivery location is ordering three times (or more) in the same day, it's something like one third the incurred shipping costs to put it all in one box and ship it only once.

The customer will also be happy with this and probably makes fun of the fact that Amazon doesn't automatically do it, as if there's just some guy happily filling orders in a logical, sensible way instead of a huge system fulfilling millions of orders a day in a very complicated way, where automation beats out "sensible" organization that an individual running a small operation might do.

That means there's an incentive to innovate on Amazon's end. They can innovate their logistics algorithm to identify multiple orders going to the same delivery address under the same account in a short period of time and consolidate them. I'm sure this wasn't a monumental programming challenge, but it was certainly a programming challenge. I can tell because of how new this feature is.

What makes this worth doing on Amazon's end is that they save money by doing it if it's cheaper to make and implement this consolidation algorithm and logistical chain than it is to ship according to a naive implementation, including errors generated by the new logistical system. By reducing costs at the same revenue, they generate profit, and the profit motive encourages them to do this in an economic way, not just a vague "right thing to do" way.

Notice that this situation is an improvement in all regards, if and only if it actually works. Amazon saves on shipping/delivery costs and materials, the customer gets fewer packages, there's less waste. The profit motive encourages AND REWARDS Amazon's executives to make decisions that remove a blatant inefficiency that doesn't actually benefit anyone but that is somewhat difficult to eliminate.

Do you understand this, young socialist idiot? It's actually really simple, and it doesn't depend on anyone having morals you think they should have in a situation you don't even understand.

But it gets a lot better.

I don't know how much in shipping and shipping materials, plus other overhead, Amazon saves by consolidating orders like this, but it's absolutely reasonable to guess it might be around a dollar per consolidation. It's actually probably more.

Amazon's executives could just pocket that whole saved dollar-per, but they probably won't. It's their right, but profit-driven economics tell them there's an even smarter way that's filled not just with winning, but win-winning, and even win-win-winning, or even win-win-win-winning. Let's take a look.

First, of course, they're not necessarily motivated to help other people win because they might just not care. The problem at the heart of every society, free or unfree, is that people aren't required to care about other people's problems and, beyond a certain line, can't be forced to. You cannot make them even with the most invasive socialist "ideological remolding" that's supposed to make them care about things they don't have any truly good reason to care about. If it's a matter of self-interest, though, they're CERTAIN to care about it, voluntarily, freely, and without anyone having to force them to do so or sending them to a standing-room-only prison dick-to-asscheek with some convict under Tiananmen Square because they did it wrong.

It is actually self-beneficial for Amazon's executives to spread that dollar (plus) in savings out over at least two or three domains or four.
Some of it goes in their pocket as more profit (win).
Some of it goes to the company itself to keep innovating in these ways, which eliminates unnecessary inefficiencies to everyone's benefits (win).
Some of it goes to lowering product costs so that everyone can obtain the same goods more cheaply because the product costs are absorbing shipping costs, which went down with this innovation (win) This will give them further market advantage and attract more customers, which includes making more products more accessible to more people with lower income (win).
Some of it also can go to employees who have their working morale increased because lower overhead allows the company to pay employees more (not less) while making MORE PROFIT at the same time (win). This allows them to attract and keep a better workforce that works better and harder, btw, willingly (win).

Notice how everything a young socialist ignoramus might care about gets checked off here by this profit-motive-driven innovation process.
-Lower costs
-Greater accessibility for lower income people
-Greater efficiency and less waste
-More capacity to pay employees more

The only thing our young socialist ignoramus doesn't like about it, in fact, is the part that makes it work: the profit for the owners part, maybe for one of two reasons. Maybe she doesn't like it because the owner is taking profit at all, as though owners shouldn't be rewarded (thus motivated) to make their enterprises better. A more reasonable socialist wouldn't like it because the executives (owners) would take proportionally more of the profit than other sectors, if they can, which is "unfair" if you don't understand anything.

That is, our young socialist ignoramus might think that it's wrong that the executives (who are few in number) split millions of dollars in freed-up profit while the other sectors (customers, employees, etc.) only get an almost negligible pittance that works out to cents. How unfair!

It's not unfair, though, because the executives are, in fact, few in number. If that dollar saved, times say a million instances per day, is split up 10% to executives (and shareholders...), 20% to reinvestment, 20% to employees, and 50% to price reduction, let's say, almost no one would think that's unfair, unreasonable, or greedy, but because there are a few execs, a hundred thousand employees or something, and tens of millions of products, the division will look exaggerated and "unfair" for the owners/execs in a naive analysis (which is what socialists always tend to do).

And that's where the risks and rewards of ownership come into the picture again to address this, if you're still stuck on the idea that it's somehow unfair that they've eliminated waste, increased efficiency, decreased costs, lowered prices, invested in further improvements, and paid people a little more to work for them and yet got to take a bit of concentrated profit for themselves for the trouble, which they didn't really have to do.

Speaking of that, why would they bother in the first place if the system they had was working well enough, despite the inefficiencies and related limitations?

Because they get to take home that little bit of extra profit that when concentrated is a lot of money and therefore a huge incentive for them to come up with and force implementation of challenging changes to make it work.

The story of an advanced society is that the thing we take for granted as an advanced society, the thing that makes life comfortable enough for socialists to have time to whine and demand socialism in their first-world entitlement, is only built because the profit motive is strong enough to motivate ambitious people to take the risks of building systems that deliver the first world to us.

Imagine starting an airline, for example. Your first plane is going to cost you about a hundred million dollars, and if it doesn't work, you're stuck with a hundred-million-dollar outlay that you have to get rid of after all your other losses. We have airlines because people took those risks and take those risks every day. Most of them fail, but some succeed not because of some deep unfairness but because what they built solves problems for people well enough such that people will pay a price that's a win-win for them.

This is the ONLY REASON we have nice things.

So, my dear young socialist. Calm down. Learn a little. You'll realize not only that the profit motive is correct but good, and you might even see ways you can capitalize upon it and become successful yourself without panhandling-by-proxy through the state apparatus and its guns and prison cells (you know, those things you say you're against).

[0HOUR1 @__0HOUR1_]

Mamdani

Don’t you send any jets Trump

Trump

Sending a whole fleet

😂😂😂🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

In Canada, Jews are now being publicly identified — their names and faces seen on posters in the country’s busiest city. If this was being done to any other minority group, it would be an international story. Things here are worse than you can imagine.

[Robert J. O'Neill @mchooyah]

These guys sound WAY different when you wake them up at 2am. Shhhhhhh……🇺🇸

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Plenty of meetings in Washington over the next few days - our American friends are watching Britain with genuine astonishment at how fast we are falling.

I am making the argument that it’s not too late to turn it around. Just.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Bibi Netanyahu told Fox News that some Lebanese Christian villages have asked Israel to annex them.

I believe it. I lived in Lebanon for 15 years and know how many Christians dream of being annexed by Israel. They are tired of being part of the Islamized Lebanese state.

[Nazi Hunters @HuntersOfNazis]

This one is too accurate 🎯

[Dan Bongino @dbongino]

As we all anxiously wait for Tucker to produce a single piece of evidence for any of his psychotic claims, I sense a growing rage amongst his shrinking number of groupies.
They must know by now that they’ve been played. They’ve invested their time in a circus clown who has backed himself in a corner. So rather than admit they got played, they rage out and claw at their own faces while emptying themselves into their pull-up diapers. It’s a sad thing to witness. The doomers and grifters are all being exposed.

[0HOUR1 @__0HOUR1_]

That’s a veteran and he had enough of that shit.

Get the fuck out of America if you hate it.

People have had it you’re going to see this more and more.

This is the way!

Make them uncomfortable!

[Hal @Barnicle479]

@FactRespecter @LanKin101 @robbot4000 @ConceptualJames Look at the modern map and you'll see barely any fucking difference aside from half of Spain not being a part of it anymore. The Arabs are the actual colonizer by far. Jew are living where their society, culture, language, and religion are literally from. You're so reatrded lmao

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

This is how Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar stood before a large crowd in Gaza back then, holding a child in his arms to make himself less of a target by using the child as a shield.

Moments before he was killed by Israel, he hid in women’s clothes.

He lived and died a weak coward.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I think we should deport every ungrateful Woke bastard in the country, Left, Right, and other, to Atlantis if possible, if you know what I mean.

If they think this is unfair or extreme, I invite them to defend the Constitution.

[Kirsche 🥥 🧁 @KirscheVerstahl]

it's actually American as hell to hate commie scum 🇺🇸

[Ofer Binshtok - Kafir - עופר בינשטוק @Ofer_binshtok]

100% of Saudi Arabian citizens are Muslims.
100% of Qatari citizens are Muslims.
96.4% of Pakistani citizens are Muslims, and the non-Muslim minority is brutally persecuted.
99.7% of Turkish citizens are Muslims, and the negligible Christian minority that remains there is persecuted.

These Muslim countries are among the most racist in the world. The apartheid regime in South Africa looks like a government of saints by comparison, because unlike these regimes, it never tried to wipe out the presence of the black population.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

If Israel allowed it by not defending itself, Hamas would kill every Israeli child without flinching. And the people of Gaza would celebrate this. Just like they celebrated 9/11 and just like they celebrated the rape and slaughter of 1200 Israelis on 10/7.

If Hamas surrendered their weapons, there wouldn’t be a single Palestinian civilian killed.

That is the difference. And it is fundamental to every conversation on this issue.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Let me summarize this cancerous creature's every statement: "Islam, Islam, Islam. F**k the United States. Islam, Islam, Islam. I hate this country. It is evil. F**k Israel. F**k the Zionists. Islam, Islam, Islam, Islam, Islam, Islam, Islam."

Did I miss anything?

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

The IDF found this book in a school in southern Lebanon.

It teaches children how to execute the infidels.

This is what Israel is fighting against.

This is why Israel must destroy Hezbollah.