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[J @JohnByram11]

@bryan_johnson It really says a lot about a person to feel this way about a stranger who's basically just trying to explore the outer limit of health/longevity.

[J @JohnByram11]

@cmwrawcliffe @KevinBrown90493 lol, you found a picture of one beautiful thing in Pakistan. You do realize this kind of "refutation" is a fallacy don't you?

[J @JohnByram11]

@izme_josh Yeah, comparing GDP is sometimes kind of stupid. It's similar with comparing GDP between red and blue states in the US, where blue ones are higher but are also typically much more expensive to live in. We need a better go to metric.

[J @JohnByram11]

@TheeDarkCircle Birds do sort of grow on trees though...

[Bearing @bear_ing]

Holy shit they’re doubling down, and asking that people do not share the footage. Insane.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Back in the day, the KGB would send agents who used “critical theory” to split every society into victims and oppressors to deliberately stir class against class, race against race, and faith against faith until the fighting created enough chaos to blame the leader, tank his support, and slide their puppet into power while everyone was distracted.

The modern left has run that exact same playbook across America and the West, and they’ve done it from within, without spies or secret police.

They divided people by identity in universities and corporations, they inflamed grievances through media and institutions, and they branded anyone who pushed back as the real threat to democracy.

While the violence does look different now with riots, cancel culture, vandalism, lawfare, and assassinations instead of open street battles, the goal hasn’t changed.
And too many still won’t admit we’re giving up our freedom one manufactured division at a time.

And that’s simply because leftism is a violent cult that is incompatible with a free, just, safe, and civilized society.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Depuis 50 ans, la gauche a réussi le plus grand hold-up intellectuel de l'histoire moderne.

Pas avec des armes. Pas avec des lois. Avec des mots.

Et honnêtement ? Chapeau. C'est génial. C'est diabolique. C'est du grand art.

Ils ont compris une chose qu'Orwell avait écrite noir sur blanc dans 1984 : celui qui contrôle le langage contrôle la pensée. Change les mots, et tu changes ce que les gens sont capables de penser. Rétrécis le vocabulaire, et tu rétrécis le champ du possible.

Dans 1984, ce n'est pas un détail. C'est le cœur du réacteur. Le ministère de la Vérité fabrique les mensonges. Le ministère de l'Amour torture. Le ministère de la Paix fait la guerre. « La guerre c'est la paix, la liberté c'est l'esclavage. » La novlangue ne décrit pas le monde — elle le remplace.

Et c'est exactement ce qui s'est passé. Regardez la mécanique :

Le « progressisme » ? C'est l'anti-progrès. Ceux qui bloquent le nucléaire, qui freinent la tech, qui diabolisent la croissance, qui rêvent de décroissance et veulent punir ceux qui construisent. Le mot dit « avant ». Le projet dit « arrière ».

L'« antiracisme » ? Il a réinjecté la race partout. Il assigne les gens à leur couleur, les enferme dans des cases, dresse les groupes les uns contre les autres. Un mouvement censé effacer la race l'a remise au centre de tout. Il a fabriqué le racisme qu'il prétend combattre.

Les croisades « contre l'homophobie » ? Elles crispent, elles clivent, elles imposent — et fabriquent en retour une partie du rejet qu'elles disaient vouloir éteindre.

La « protection » façon Union européenne ? C'est du flicage. On te surveille « pour ton bien », on te censure « pour te protéger », on te contrôle « pour ta sécurité ». Chaque mot est une inversion. Le vocabulaire de la bienveillance au service d'un projet orwellien.

Et le plus beau dans l'arnaque, c'est le verrou. Le piège parfait.

Aujourd'hui, des millions de gens lucides, qui voient parfaitement le problème… se taisent. Pourquoi ? Parce qu'ils refusent d'être traités de « racistes ». Sauf qu'être « antiraciste » au sens où le mot a été retourné, c'est précisément devenir raciste. Ils ont piégé les gens avec leur propre morale. Échec et mat.

Voilà le chef-d'œuvre : ils n'ont pas eu besoin de vous convaincre. Ils ont juste rendu le désaccord impensable, en confisquant les mots pour le formuler.

Alors oui — respect. Bonne guerre. Ils ont joué une manche, et ils l'ont gagnée.

Mais il y a un truc que la novlangue n'avait pas prévu.

Tout le monde a compris.

Le voile est tombé. Les mots reprennent leur poids. Et une inversion sémantique ne survit pas à l'instant précis où les gens la voient à l'œil nu. Ça, c'est terminé.

On reprend les mots. On reprend le réel. On reprend la partie.

[J @JohnByram11]

It should only apply to children of those who are either citizens, or at least taking up permanent residency(maybe they're here illegally but it's maybe an ok compromise to let the child have a pass at least). I'd exclude the worst offenders- people flying in specifically to give their children citizenship before returning to their country.

[J @JohnByram11]

Which doomsday predictions have been surprisingly accurate? The arctic completely melting by 2013-18? The maldives being underwater by 2018? Or maybe polar bears going extinct? The world hitting an irreversible tipping point around 2015 or so with feedback loops, from thawing methane pockets etc, and desertification?

None of those things happened, or the opposite happened(like with polar bears and desertification- it turns out plants thrive on CO2). Perhaps there's one that I'm missing that you could point me to?

I'm not saying there aren't important environmental issues we need to take heed of. Protecting waterways, limiting pollution, conservationism and regenerative farming. A very slow, mild form of man made climate change could be happening as well, but if so, it's nothing even remotely like the catastrophe it's constantly being sold as. That is what's being rejected here.

[J @JohnByram11]

@Vertzy24 @SenSanders And every doomsday prediction has completely fallen flat. Cult leaders do end of the world predictions and we laugh at them. Why is this any different?

[J @JohnByram11]

They're dying because most African countries chose the socialist route after freeing themselves from colonialism, and time and time again collapsed their productivity leading to starvation where they were once food exporters, whose rulers enriched themselves by gathering wealth directly from the people rather than as a result of building anything(including money coming in from foreign aid).

Obviously USAID needed to end, and perhaps be replaced by something new that helps without feeding corrupt NGO's or dictators, but the first step was to axe USAID. Common sense and morality are responsible for it's demise at last(the kind that cares about actually fixing something, rather than just pretending to), and you're a nitwit.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher demands JD Vance “own” ICE being “too mean,” the way he owned the “childless cat ladies” line.

Instead, Vance handed him reality, in plain terms, with a smile.

By the time Vance finished, all Maher could do was grumble. He knew he’d lost.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In 1960, newly independent African leaders had a choice: capitalism or socialism.

Almost all of them picked socialism.

A Ghanaian economist named George Ayittey spent forty years documenting what happened next.

His findings are in print, and almost nobody outside Africa wants to hear them. 🧵

[Asmongold Updates @Asmon_Updates]

Asmongold explains Keir Starmer's resignation using a WoW raid strategy and it makes perfect sense

"Labour just performed a tank swap. Starmer had too many debuffs so they pulled him out and brought in a new tank."

"The new guy is going to do the same thing for the same raid. They're tanking the same boss in the same way."

"You're Onyxia. Don't fall for the tank swap. He's not the organization. You didn't win, they just reset your aggro."

[J @JohnByram11]

@PopularLiberal You're an idiot. Hype pushed the stock up, then it came back down, as happens repeatedly across the market. The government pays him because he delivers far cheaper than anyone else can, saving your dumb ass money.

[J @JohnByram11]

It's not hard to see the implications of robots like Optimus. When you break the costs of things down, it always comes down to labor. Fuel, materials, etc etc, it's all labor at the root. So yeah, anyone with half a brain should be able to see what robots scaled up will be able to do to the costs of pretty much everything. Only question is how long it'll take to get there.

[J @JohnByram11]

@joni_askola He aims for the stars, and often gets the moon. I love that he's bold and grandly ambitious. Even if he only does 1/10th of what he aims to with robotics, among other things, that'll be quite impressive.

[J @JohnByram11]

@CCarlso82586572 @joni_askola Fortunately, spacex plans to solve the data center problem by building them in orbit. That might take the edge off your fear porn.

[J @JohnByram11]

@Luna_Jones79 They're right to. You can avoid bad food in America, but you have to be a lot more careful than you do in Europe.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid.

Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia.

Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. 🧵