EdwinY

Life long unlearner. Shaman.

[EdwinY @EdwinY42671080]

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[Toxic Cowboy 🤠 @toxiccowboy02]

😂😂 this is good

[Joey Mannarino @JoeyMannarino]

Someone asked me where my feelings for Islam come from. There’s the problem.

I don’t have “feelings” for Islam. I simply have facts about the religion.

They follow a man named Mohammed.

This man was a pedophile. He married a six year old and had sex with her when she was nine.

His teachings are ones that tell his followers to kill anyone who doesn’t believe in Islam.

He preached that you could lie to anyone who didn’t believe in Islam and tell them anything you felt like to convert them.

Islam treats women like shit. They have to wear burqas and are second-class citizens in every situation. It’s totally permissible to beat the living hell out of your wife for no reason.

Rape is also permissible to any woman who is not a Moslem. It’s literally a tool of war in Islam.

Mohammed’s followers also take on the role of “jihadist” in which they kill anyone who doesn’t believe in their religion.

They’ve convinced themselves that the best thing on earth is a black box and they pray to it five times a day in doggystyle position.

They won’t touch bacon and think it’s deadly.

They can’t use toilet paper.

They can’t even draw a picture of the Prophet they love so much. Must be an ugly dude!

They’ve even been convinced by their Pedophile Prophet that dogs are impure and dirty.

Now, these facts make it a pretty shitty religion if you ask me… and that would be fine if they practiced it in silence and didn’t try to impose it on others.

They have 55 countries where they are able to practice it, however flawed it may be. I don’t have to live there so that’s fine.

But they’ve decided to come to the West and want me to change my way of life to adapt to their way of life.

I’m supposed to eat halal meat because they eat halal meat.

I’m supposed to give up my dog because they don’t like dogs.

I’m supposed to let the take down the World Trade Center and not complain about it and just move on and allow them to worship their Allah?

I’m supposed to believe that the book they love to reference is a book of peace.

And if I question any of it I’m Islamophobic.

So, when you ask how I developed my feelings on the Moslems… I quite simply evaluated the facts.

The facts make it clear this is not something for me.

Despite knowing that, they tried to impose it on me anyway.

So now I cannot stand it. And that’s all.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Sam Harris sits quietly as Bill Maher calls out the NYT for pushing readers toward an opinion on the “Iran War.”

“The second day of the war… The New York Times’ headline was ‘US troops die.’ That was what they led with.”

“But then, in a country where I’ve read 80 to 90% of the people are thrilled that the Ayatollah is gone, what picture did they put? Picture of people mourning the Ayatollah…”

“I can’t believe that somebody at the desk didn’t get, ‘I’ve got a great picture of people dancing in the streets.’ Yeah, we’re gonna go with the 10% who are sorry the Ayatollah is dead because that’s gonna funnel the thought of our readers toward, ‘Oh, this is a bad war to get into.’”

“That, to me, is the difference in what the media does now and what they didn’t used to do. You’re funneling me toward an opinion, whereas I would love it if you just told me what happened.”

After a couple of low-energy “yeahs,” Harris conceded: “The boundary between activism and journalism has clearly broken down.”

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗡: 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗

Victor Davis Hanson — one of the greatest military historians alive — laid out exactly why what Trump just did in Iran isn't just a military victory. It's a 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

His argument is simple: 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻. No Iran means no money for H-z-b, no money for H-m-s, no money for the Houthis. China loses its proxy in the Middle East. Russia already lost Syria. Now it loses Iran.

North Korea, Russia, and China have been supplying Iran with drones and missiles. That pipeline is now severed. And without Iranian petrodollars flowing to terror proxies across the region, Israel can finish the job at its ease.

But Hanson zooms out further. This isn't haphazard. Trump is methodically dismantling the entire axis — Iran, Cuba, Venezuela — 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹: breaking up the China-Russia-North Korea nexus that has been the source of global instability for decades.

And the message to Beijing is unmistakable: 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝗳𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻. This is a new military. One that doesn't do DEI briefings and drag shows on base. One that delivers results.

Peace through strength isn't a bumper sticker. It's a track record.

𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁.

[Marc Gravely @MarcGravely]

Yesterday, I explained how seven insurance firms in London shut down one-fifth of the world's oil supply.

Today, Trump may have just made the most aggressive sovereign insurance play in modern history.

Here's what happened and why it matters:

Trump ordered the U.S. Development Finance Corporation to immediately offer political risk insurance and guarantees to all maritime trade through the Gulf. Especially energy. Backed by Navy escorts if needed.

Read that through the lens of what I described yesterday.

The Strait didn't close because of missiles. It closed because the insurance market collapsed. P&I clubs pulled coverage, reinsurers withdrew, and the entire commercial shipping architecture froze.

This move doesn't address the military problem. It addresses the actuarial one.

The DFC is stepping into the void that Lloyd's and the London reinsurance market created when they pulled out. The U.S. government is effectively saying: we will underwrite what the private market won't.

No sovereign has attempted to replace the global marine war risk market in real time during an active conflict. Here's why the structural implications are significant:

1. It challenges Lloyd's dominance.

For centuries, London has been the center of gravity for marine insurance. Lloyd's and its reinsurers controlled pricing, terms, and risk appetite for global shipping.

That concentration is exactly what made the actuarial blockade possible. A handful of firms in one city froze global oil flows.

The DFC offering competitive political risk coverage to all shipping lines is a direct challenge to that architecture. If American-backed insurance proves cheaper and more reliable during crises, shippers may not return to London when the dust settles.

2. It breaks the actuarial blockade.

I said yesterday that China has massive leverage over Iran but zero leverage over Lloyd's. The same was true of every oil-producing and oil-consuming nation watching their economies choke.

This goes around the insurance market entirely. If the DFC covers the voyage and the Navy escorts the tanker, the ships sail. Oil flows. The spreadsheet blockade breaks.

3. It redirects billions in premium revenue.

War risk premiums in the Gulf are currently running at extreme multiples — 3× to 5× pre-conflict rates. Those premiums were flowing to London reinsurers who then pulled coverage anyway.

Now those premiums flow to Washington. At rates the DFC can set below the panicked London market, while still generating substantial returns. The same shippers get cheaper coverage. The revenue just changes continents.

4. It creates a chokepoint within the chokepoint.

The Strait of Hormuz is already the world's most critical energy bottleneck. If the U.S. is both insurer and naval escort, America controls access at two levels: physical security and financial coverage.

No other nation can replicate that. You need the world's dominant navy and a sovereign balance sheet large enough to backstop the risk. Only one country has both.

5. It reassures every stakeholder simultaneously.

Gulf producers were watching exports freeze. Asian and European consumers were watching energy prices spike. Both feared the Iran campaign would wreck their economies.

One announcement addressed all of them: your oil will move, your ships will be covered, and the rates will be reasonable.

Yesterday I described a system with no TARP, no Fed equivalent, no backstop at global scale.

This may be the first attempt to build one in real time, during the crisis itself.

The actuarial blockade just met a sovereign counterparty.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Prison Island

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Slow motion shows a ladybug's takeoff is way more dramatic than you think

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is being praised for making his country's prisoners CLEAN UP THE BEACHES and BEAUTIFY El Salvador, instead of just sitting around in a building

THAT'S how you do it.

I truly admire what Bukele does to improve El Salvador! 🇺🇸🇸🇻

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Here’s the real reason that they want to limit using old school cash. Payment by cash doesn’t give the banks any transactional charge money.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Dog gets depressed because its house pool is closed for the winter. But then it gets a surprise. Look at the happiness.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

If you’re a parent, watch this.

It will stick with you forever.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

A laugh to start the New Year 😂

[𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇 @pr0ud_americans]

It's kind of hard to argue with this one...🤣

[Art of Life 🦋 @Art0fLife_]

If you have ANXIETY, you need to watch this:

[Jack @FFS_WhatNow]

Government ministers pretending they do something.

[EdwinY @EdwinY42671080]

@LORWEN108 Viktor Frankl.

[Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108]

A timely reminder from Ricky Gervais.

Free speech is the right to criticise any ideas including religion.

Blasphemy style protections are ludicrous. That an all powerful deity must be protected from having its feelings hurt.

Ideas do not have rights! Only people do. Including the right to criticise any belief system without censorship.

Offense is the unavoidable price of true freedom.

‘Just because your offended doesn’t mean your right.’

[Today In History @historigins]

One of the greatest lecture in the world.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

“You don't negotiate with someone who marches into another country, devastates it, killing whoever stands in his way. You get him out, you make him pay, and see that he is never in a position to do these things again.”

I miss leaders with spines, unlike Keir Starmer.

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

This man silenced the entire UN Assembly by simply asking Arab States what happened to all their Jews.