A certain portion of society is made up of people who aren't joiners and think from first principles and are inclined to test for themselves new enthusiasms and trends and outbreaks of conventional wisdom. Well, this independent-minded group can be fooled too.
It was targeted by Candace Owen's and her ilk, who presented themselves as allies of these questioners, and then gradually led the outsiders into absurd, extreme positions that ultimately subdivided them and bred conflict among them. This was done, I repeat, by contriving a roster of influencers for those who fancy themselves immune to influencers.
That particular operation seems to have run its course now, largely, but it was effective in further neutralizing the "independent" faction that is always, abidingly, a challenge to power. And it is not the last of these operations.
Power is clever. Sometimes it masquerades as dissent. Never underestimate its wiles.
@miles_commodore Second Grade
Fort Lauderdale Florida
Watching Civil Defense movies in the classroom with a Cartoon Turtle telling us to Duck and Cover if an A bomb went off. At least the turtle had a shell.
Yes I remember!
I've had enough...
The Asheville NC police department appears to be deliberately trying to hide the fact that a mass sh00ting downtown was committed by Black people.
There is no longer any other explanation.
From the start WE ALL KNEW that the sh00ting was Black gang violence.
I waited for more information to come out before saying anything, but after the most recent press conference it is VERY CLEAR to me that the Asheville Police Department is purposely trying to obfuscate the truth here.
They DEFINITELY don't want it getting out that Black gangs are sh00ting at each other Asheville and k*lling each other.
But that is EXACTLY what is happening.
From the get go I knew something was off because the Asheville NC police department did not put out ANY information regarding the race of the suspects or the race of the victims OR descriptions or ANYTHING regarding who did it or why...
...despite an INSANE AMOUNT of people online who clearly said these sh00tings were committed by Black individuals
And now finally after many days, the Chief of Police comes out on the podium and is asked a VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD QUESTION:
"Is this gang violence?"
...and in ALL MY LIFE, I have never seen someone dodge a question this absurdly for THIS LONG for THIS MANY TIMES IN A ROW.
She quite honestly bends over backwards to avoid ANY IMPLICATION AT ALL that this is Black gang related violence.
I'm so sick of this crap.
Why can't you just tell us the truth????
Black people make up 8-9% of the ENTIRE Asheville NC population, yet FBI crime data from 2020 says that 82% of all m*rders in this city were committed by Black people.
Call me racist if you want.
I don't care.
Statistics are NOT racist, and until we start TELLING THE TRUTH about what is actually happening in our cities, NOTHING is going to change.
@SomeBitchIIKnow One thing for sure:
It is an absolute shame that we allowed ourselves to be blinded so much that we did not see antifa for the threat it is.
They are open about it. They want us dead. Literally.
And I can only assume the institutions who run cover for them secretly agree.
Joseph Stalin murdered more human beings than almost anyone in recorded history, and he did it with a clipboard and a five-year plan.
Let me give you the numbers, because the numbers matter. The Holodomor, the man-made famine in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, killed somewhere around 4 million people. Stalin engineered it. He confiscated the grain, sealed the borders so starving peasants couldn't leave, and let them die in the snow while the state exported wheat abroad.
He collectivized agriculture, meaning he seized private farms and forced peasants onto giant state operations. The productive farmers, the ones who owned a cow or two and actually knew how to grow things, he branded "kulaks" and shipped to Siberia or shot. He destroyed his best producers on purpose.
Then came the Great Terror of 1937 and 1938. Stalin's secret police executed roughly 700,000 people in about two years. Not battlefield deaths. Confessions extracted in basements, quotas handed down for how many "enemies" each region should find.
Quotas. For arrests. Somebody in Moscow decided your town owed the state 200 traitors, and the local officers went and found 200, guilty or not.
The whole thing rests on a simple lie: that a handful of men in a Kremlin office know how to run millions of lives better than those millions running their own. Stalin believed that lie hard enough to build a machine of corpses around it.
Property rights aren't some dusty legal technicality. They're the thing standing between you and a bureaucrat deciding your grain belongs to the collective and your life doesn't matter.
Stalin proved that 20 million dead is just a statistic to a central planner.
I am really getting sick and tired of "moderate" Democrats (as if such a thing actually exists) shouting that the DSA is some sort of new, existential threat to their party and to America.
In reality, the DSA is the entirely logical and foreseeable outcome of the way Democrats have been pandering to the most extreme and perverse elements of our society for the past 40 years.
Logical.
Foreseeable.
Stop acting surprised. You are what you are, you get what you deserve.
40 out of 86 Brown students scored a perfect 100 on their midterm. Then the professor moved the final in person, and 22 of those perfect scorers never showed up again.
He'd suspected AI cheating from the start. The take-home midterm was deliberately harder than usual, yet the class averaged 96 when the historical range is 65 to 80. Some answers contained odd phrasing that matched what ChatGPT produced when he ran the questions through it himself.
Roberto Serrano has taught economics at Brown for 34 years. He filed no accusations. He announced the final would be in person, count for half the grade, and that if the two distributions didn't match, the final alone would determine grades.
Then the exodus. 27 students never showed up. 22 of them had perfect midterms. Of the 59 who did show, 19 failed. Several signed the exam and turned it in blank. The average fell from 96 to 48, the lowest in the course's history.
He never needed a plagiarism detector. The cheaters identified themselves by walking away. A grade distribution became a confession.
Here's the part nobody's sitting with. Serrano proved it. He sent the distributions to Brown's dean and provost. The provost never responded. The academic committee's reply amounted to calling it "a wake-up call." The students who bailed before the final walked away clean.
Every university in America is now grading two populations, students and students plus ChatGPT, on one curve. The honest kids in Serrano's class watched a 96 average get set by machines, then sat a real final against it. The cheaters lost nothing. That's the incentive structure now, and it grades itself.
•High near-field RF exposure: The Empire State Building spire hosts multiple high-power broadcast antennas (TV, radio) operating at frequencies from VHF to UHF; being directly adjacent for ~30 minutes places the climbers in the near-field of strong emitters where power density can exceed general public limits.
•FCC compliance context: FCC filings for antennas on the spire show exposures well below limits (often <1% of general population MPE) at controlled lower levels like the 86th floor observation deck, but areas near the antennas themselves require restricted access and occupational (higher) limits due to elevated RF fields.
•Practical risk for climbers: Short-duration occupational exposure might stay within controlled SAR/power-density guidelines (e.g., up to 1 mW/cm² averaged), but prolonged close proximity without shielding or monitoring carries thermal and potential non-thermal risks; maintenance workers follow strict protocols for these zones.
FIRST LOOK: Today in North Dakota President Trump will ride the “Freedom Train” to the site of the new Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library opening to the public this weekend in Medora.
The deep state is building an AI surveillance grid to target patriotic Americans.
You need to understand how the infrastructure actually works. Look at a tech monopoly called $Axon. They sell TASER DRONES to City Governments and the Feds.
Big Tech is pumping millions into this tech so federal agents can run live scans on crowds of people.
It gets much worse. Axon is feeding body camera audio into an AI program that automatically writes police reports. If the deep state wants to frame a political target, the AI just generates the official court narrative.
Axon is also quietly testing weaponized Taser drones to use against citizens right HERE in America. If you can believe it their own ethics board QUIT in protest over this. So Axon just replaced them with a fake board to rubber stamp the project.
How do they get away with it? Pure establishment corruption. Axon CEO Rick Smith pays himself hundreds of millions in taxpayer money and funnels cash to politicians.
Democrat Senator Ruben Gallego took over $20,000 (!) from Axon and then magically introduced a bill forcing the government to buy more of their cameras.
The same drones the military uses overseas to drop grenades are now being sold to local cops. We are funding our own enslavement.
Wake up.