I am angry tonight.
Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.
ICE makes this city less safe.
We want them out. Now.
Can someone explain to me how former President Obama is campaigning for the 2026 midterms on freaking healthcare and no one in the media is making the most obvious connection possible? No questions at all, huh?
Near as I can tell from the plot summary that AI made me, this movie's premise is that there should have been more social media censorship during the late 2010s, and Zuckerburg is a "tragic figure" for failing to censor more.
Todo mundo dizendo que Tarcísio deveria ter concorrido, anota aí: 2030 será a esquerda chamando o Tarcísio de facista e dizendo que só mais dessa vez você precisa votar na esquerda pra salvar a democracia 😅
I was working retail when Obamacare started. It mandated every large company would have to pay for health insurance for its full time workers. So I got my hours cut, and was told I could never work over time and didn’t get health insurance.
Obama's whole thing was cheap healthcare. He campaigned on it and talked about it during his presidency.
Somehow, Obamacare made healthcare more expensive for everyone, but nobody talks about that.
They just talk about raising taxes to pay for more healthcare.
I used to feel bad for all the safe edgy stuff and internet dogpiling on French people, but these past few days have only shown me that they probably deserved worse.
These people worship poverty, hardship, degeneracy, criminality, hyper sexualization and whatever this is. What the fuck is wrong with Latin Americans? Has Bad Bunny rewired their brains?
The Filipino thieving political class are so fucking retarded that they do not realize it actually is in their best interests to develop the fucking country
"poverty is not a permanent geographical curse; it is a choice made by incompetent elites who prefer primitive capital accumulation over national engineering."
Lee Kuan Yew proved that a nation's destiny is engineered, not inherited.
In 1965, when Singapore was unceremoniously booted out of Malaysia, the international consensus predicted absolute state failure.
He inherited a swampy, impoverished island with a population of just two million people living in squalor.
It had zero natural resources, no agricultural land, no military defense, and lacked even enough basic drinking water to sustain human life.
If Lee Kuan Yew had operated on the standard of modern populist politics, he would have spent the next thirty years weeping on international stages, blamed historical external factors, and begged neighboring countries for permanent welfare handouts. He didn't. He went to work.
While post-colonial leaders across Africa and Asia turned inward to launch economically illiterate isolationist experiments, Lee championed hyper-globalization.
He realized that if you have no domestic market, your only asset is human capital. He cleared the malarial swamps of Jurong, instituted strict pro-market property rights, lowered taxes, and laid down red carpets for Western multinationals like Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard before the supporting infrastructure even existed.
His domestic masterclass was built on structural logic, not ideological fantasies.
He gave his anti-corruption units actual teeth, starting with his own cabinet. If a politician stole public funds, they didn't get a promotion or a diplomatic posting, they went straight to prison. Zero tolerance meant global investors knew their capital was safer in Singapore than in London or New York.
He transformed subjects into stakeholders through the Central Provident Fund and the Housing Development Board. By aggressively shifting 75% of the population out of slums into state-of-the-art public housing, he gave ordinary citizens a physical, equity-based ownership stake in the country's survival.
He instituted mandatory bilingualism and made English the main national language to plug his workforce directly into the global grid.
He hired elite technocrats based on raw competence, completely ignoring ethnic divisions.
Teachers were paid corporate-level salaries because he understood that a first-world economy cannot be built by an uneducated majority.
In a single compressed generation, GDP per capita skyrocketed from under $500 to overtaking the United States and the United Kingdom.
The structural lesson of Singapore is a devastating indictment of Africa's current leadership.
It proves that poverty is not a permanent geographical curse; it is a choice made by incompetent elites who prefer primitive capital accumulation over national engineering.
My favourite quote by an African leader was Julius Nyerere of Tanzania commenting on Idi Amin of Uganda’s invasion of his country
"There is this tendency in Africa to think that it does not matter if an African kills other Africans. Had Amin been white, free Africa would have passed many resolutions condemning him. Being black is becoming a certificate to kill fellow Africans."
Amin had killed more people than either Ian Smith of Rhodesia or John Vorster of South Africa. The Organisation of African Unity though, they made Idi Amin its chairman in 1975.
Lee Kuan Yew now becoming popular on some parts of ‘Black Twitter’. African users like him because of his honesty about why some post-colonial states like Singapore succeeded while others in Africa failed. Lee Kuan Yew on why African states failed
"no one in this country with a good childhood votes for Republicans"
literally every dem candidate is like "my mom covered up my rape" and "I have disowned my biological mother, so her connections to the Muslim brotherhood don't reflect badly on me"
Hating your parents is literally the #1 defining trait of liberals