In Spain, a man kidnapped and raped a 13-year-old girl. After serving his sentence, he was released on parole and taunted the mother: “How’s your daughter?”
Enraged, she doused him with gasoline and set him on fire. He later died.
She confessed and was sentenced to 5.5 years — but was released early after a pardon campaign.
Do you support this hero mother?
A. Yes
B. No
🚨 This is what happens when the “stolen land” narrative gets hit with actual history.
Native guy starts in on white people being on “stolen” land…
Then this Native woman shuts it down with facts:
- Native Americans weren’t here “from the beginning.” Their ancestors crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia 15,000–20,000 years ago.
- Once they got here, tribes conquered, displaced, and built empires over each other (Comanches pushed out the Apache and built the Comancheria — sound familiar?).
- Every single piece of land on earth has changed hands through conquest. That’s how human history works.
She nails it:
“What you call stolen, I call conquered.”
Then she drops the line that actually matters:
America 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦 took it, kept it, defended it, and built the greatest Countries the world has ever seen — with more freedom, opportunity, and prosperity than any of those tribal empires ever dreamed of.
On the 4th of July she’s celebrating 250 years of that progress… not raiding villages and scalping people.
This is the response every “land acknowledgment” warrior needs to hear.
Who’s sick of the selective history?!??
#StolenLandMyth #4thOfJuly #AmericanHistory #FactsOverFeelings #CanadaFirst
Lyn Alden: "The best product Coca-Cola ever sold was their bonds, not their Coke."
Coca-Cola borrows at 2-3% while the money supply grows at 7%. They then use that cheap debt to buy scarcer assets.
Governments do it. Corporations do it. Wealthy individuals do it. Everyone is shorting the currency...
Except the people at the bottom.
They can't access cheap debt and "are getting the full damage of the inflation" on their wages and savings.
FT @LynAldenContact@PeterMcCormack.
Tamara Lich, Freedom Convoy organizer, was welcomed at the US Ambassador’s July 4th celebration in Ottawa
Meanwhile, the Liberal government:
- Locked her in jail for 49 days
- Ran the longest mischief trial in history
- Spent $15 million trying to convict her
- Asked the court to imprison her for 7 years
- Illegally invoked the Emergencies Act
But the US Ambassador:
- Welcomed her as an honoured guest
- Thanked her personally
- Posed for photos
CANADA IS CURRENTLY THE COUNTRY THAT SPENDS MILLIONS TO PUNISH ITS CITIZENS FOR A PEACEFUL PROTEST WHILE THE US HONOURS THEM.
Peak insanity.
To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Mark Zuckerberg is bankrupting a $22 billion startup because they refused to sell to him.
The company is Kalshi.
They run the largest prediction market in the US. Users bet real money on real-world outcomes.
Last year, prediction markets did $28 billion in monthly volume across the industry.
This month, they did $220 BILLION.
The sector literally 8x'd in a single year.
Bernstein now projects the entire prediction market industry will hit $1 TRILLION by 2030.
Zuckerberg saw the growth curve coming. Last year, when Kalshi was valued at only $2 billion, he sat down with founder and CEO Tarek Mansour to discuss buying the entire company.
Mansour said no.
Kalshi went on to raise at $11 billion in December. Then $22 billion in March. It is now pursuing a $40 billion round and openly weighing an IPO.
Zuckerberg's response:
He walked back to Meta headquarters, took every piece of information he learned in that meeting, and directed a small internal team to build a Kalshi clone from the ground up.
Meta's version is called Arena. It uses Llama to generate the questions. Every one of Meta's 3.5 billion daily users will get access.
And here's where the plan gets ruthless...
Meta is deliberately launching with play money. That single decision lets Zuckerberg dodge every gambling regulator on Earth while he trains billions of users to bet on prediction markets.
Meanwhile Kalshi is spending millions fighting state gambling laws, the CFTC, an Illinois sports tax, a Minnesota felony statute, and the Department of Justice.
Kalshi is the crash test dummy. Meta is the getaway driver.
The moment the regulatory war is settled, Zuckerberg flips the switch. Arena becomes a real-money market, and 3.5 billion users are already trained to use it. Kalshi's user base of a few million cannot compete.
This is the exact playbook Meta ran on Snapchat in 2016 when Instagram Stories launched. It is the exact playbook they ran on TikTok in 2020 when Reels launched. It is the exact playbook they ran on Twitter in 2023 when Threads launched.
The FTC took Meta to court over this pattern last year and called it "buy or bury." The judge sided with Meta. So the playbook is legally protected.
Tarek Mansour walked into a meeting with the most predatory copycat in tech history and gave him the entire pitch deck for the fastest growing product in Silicon Valley.
Six months later, Zuckerberg is executing on that intel while Mansour is stuck defending his company in courts across America.
Kalshi survived Zuckerberg's offer. But it probably will not survive Zuckerberg's clone.
Meta ended Q1 with $81 billion in cash. That is enough to buy every prediction market company on Earth six times over. Zuckerberg is choosing to STEAL them instead because he can, and because the courts already gave him permission.
The next 12 months will decide whether Kalshi becomes a $50 billion IPO or a cautionary tale about what happens when a founder says no to Meta.
What do you think?
@jedifractal Na bro gamble, drink and be impulsive nothing is certain trying to control your outcomes via the above is useless imo just don't die before your parents
@ThinkingUSD The sellers who don't care are the ones who already had a plan. Forced sellers care a lot, that's why they're selling here. If you knew your exit months ago, today is just noise on the way to your next buy date.