Imperator of Antarctica

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[Imperator of Antarctica @IndolentCoward]

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[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

Never forget this banger from the New York Times

[Pay Roll Manager Here @UsingLyft]

Friendly reminder for those who think the welfare state and “fathers not in the home” are the main drivers of the disproportionate amount of violent crime committed by black ppl. This convo is older than those problems.

[𝕵𝖆𝖉𝖊 ☧ ✠🇺🇸🎆 @JadeAtrophis]

Character development

[Imperator of Antarctica @IndolentCoward]

@envyrgn @ElonBachman Abraham Lincoln, and his intentions on how to address the question of blacks in the US. He compared them to excess livestock farmers might let die off in the winter. The post war/reconstruction die off of former slaves wasn't unwanted.

[Nat Eliason @nateliason]

I feel like I was robbed.

I’ve spent thousands on mosquito treatments for our yard over the years.

Never made any noticeable difference.

Bought these, and within a couple weeks, the mosquitos are down probably 90%.

Maybe my best purchase under $100 ever.

[Anthony Westgate @a_westgate]

The LDS cult runs their CIA recruitment ads openly espousing heresy. I don’t care how mean and judgmental it sounds to say Mormons are not Christians, it is the truth and this is their own admission.

[Imperator of Antarctica @IndolentCoward]

Obligatory post because the app has a problem with bots.

[Jeremiah “Jasper” Thompson @jjfThompson]

It wasn’t difficult for the South to see through all the Northern platitudes about keeping slavery out of the territories. It was no “moral line in the sand” beyond which slavery could not go. The North had already said too much:

“I want nothing to do with the free negro or the slave negro. We wish to settle the territory with free white men.” 
~ David Wilmot, Northern Senator of Wilmot Proviso fame.

“The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
October 16, 1854.

“Keeping slaves out of the West will confine the negro to the South.” 
~ Abolitionist Charles Elliot of Massachusetts.

”What I would most desire is a separation of the white and black races.” 
~ Abraham Lincoln, 1858.

[Kevin DeAnna @VDAREJamesK]

It's nice they let the mask slip occasionally just so we all know what we're dealing with.

[Wokal Distance @wokal_distance]

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The issue here is that radical leftists are running a motte and bailey game with DEI.

They use the very reasonable position @mcuban outlines as their motte, and one they gain power they abolish merit hiring, use hiring quotas, and require the adoption of leftist politics.

[Wokal Distance @wokal_distance]

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There's an element of @christopherrufo's strategy no one has picked up on yet. It's this:

Almost nobody outside universities reads academic papers, so the papers radical activist professors write in which they defend absurd ideas don't get read by the general public.

So...

[Kevin DeAnna @VDAREJamesK]

“Wow, is she going to lead her people in battle? Or go on a great voyage of discovery?”

“Nah, just beg us white people for more stuff.”

[Armchair Warlord @ArmchairW]

"Kinzhal is just an air-launched Iskander, it can't be hypersonic!"

Can and is. Let's talk about rockets.

Leaving aside the fact the ground-launched Iskander tactical ballistic missile is also a hypersonic weapon with a maximum velocity of around Mach 6, and whether Kinzhal is actually an Iskander-derived design or not (Wiki suggests it's somewhat larger and I don't think it's even well-established that it's a non-separating missile like Iskander), it's very elementary rocketry that a missile fired at supersonic speed from the stratosphere is going to be far longer-ranged and faster than one fired from the ground.

How much so? Well, we can expect the Kinzhal's carrier aircraft to release it at around Mach 2 and 60,000 feet, near the service ceiling and maximum speed of a Tu-22M and likely what the MiG-31 can actually achieve with such a large missile hanging off its belly. While this may seem like a long way from hypersonic flight, for a space launcher, this flight regime is functionally halfway to orbit.

At that speed and altitude, a Saturn V had already burned about 40% of its total propellant load and was flying beyond Max-Q (the point of maximum dynamic pressure from drag on the airframe, generally reached around Mach 1.5). To give you an idea of how quickly things progress from there, between this point (at around 90 seconds into flight) and main stage burnout is only another 70 seconds, and in that 70 seconds the rocket will accelerate to approximately Mach 8 and climb to 220,000 feet.

Clearly, launching a missile of equal size from this flight regime rather than from the ground will lead to a vastly higher-speed projectile and with it a much longer range. It's functionally the equivalent of doubling a ground-launched missile's propellant while keeping its size and weight constant.

So, yes, this is something that is easily going to be traveling at "proper" hypersonic velocity in the Mach 10+ range when penetrating enemy air defenses. I haven't run numbers on this but I suspect a two-stage derivative could place a small payload in orbit as well, which would have serious military potential for a number of purposes.

[RAMZPAUL @ramzpaul]

She needs to be deported. We have the right to our homelands and self-determination.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

If you really think “they” are going to let either Trump or Biden get anywhere near the finish line, open your eyes folks. There’s something deeper going on. It’s staring us right in the face.

[slovborg @n00rdung]

People often ignore that a lot of aspects in which Europe (and to a lesser extent, North America) look especially hospitable is usually not something that was intrinsic to the region, but achieved through organized effort to fix things

Let's look at the example: malaria

[Kevin DeAnna @VDAREJamesK]

Presumably the one guy who will get deported is the one legitimate refugee.

[Chairman @LRH_Superfan]

Men read, it's just that it's not profitable to make content about it or publish many books targeting them because they read the same canon of like 200 books with like 2 books added every decade. I can count the number of books I've bought near release on one hand (2)