The world is controlled by a small circle of powerful, interconnected families and elites who wield enormous influence over governments, financial institutions, and global affairs. Wealth, power, and influence are passed down through generations, keeping control concentrated in the hands of a select few. It’s an exclusive club, and the rest of us were never invited.
What’s this? Oh it’s a safety inhibitor, a device that makes the gun physically incapable of firing!
Used at careers fairs around the world.
Weird how only Fiona is the one getting abuse … why would that be? 🤔
“Shylock” is a centuries-old antisemitic trope, and the President of the United States has now used the slur twice from the stage.
Words matter. Leaders in both parties should clearly call this out, without excuses. There is no room for hate in our country.
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Huge news, HB 1427, our, “Anti-Semite Tax” bill to levy a special tax on those convicted of antisemitism has just cleared committee.
That means it can now move to the HOUSE FLOOR for a full vote!
I am so proud of my friends at End Semite Hate, who I have been volunteering with to support 3rd & 4th Gen Holocaust survivors ever since I moved to New York thirty years ago.
I never thought I would get involved with legislation and, hopefully, pass a bill I helped write!
@ClownWorld In the real world you get to live in a place with high taxes and they don’t do anything but stuff their pockets. You get shit roads, shit sidewalks, dirty parks and public spaces and migrants siphoning and the benefits that could go to people that are actually in need.
Humans are one species, but that doesn’t mean every population is the same on average. People whose ancestors come from Northern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and East Asia show consistent average differences in things like body build, facial structure, and cognitive scores. These aren’t caused by the country someone currently lives in. They’re inherited. If you raised kids from these backgrounds in the exact same modern environment with the same schools and nutrition, the average gaps in IQ and related outcomes would still show up.
That’s what the data from decades of testing, adoption studies, and genetic research point to. IQ is highly heritable within groups, the gaps have stayed roughly the same size even as living conditions improved, and newer genetic scores partially line up with the observed differences between populations.
France is what happens when you ignore that at scale. Large numbers of people from North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa have moved in over the last few decades. Official numbers show foreigners are overrepresented in a lot of crime categories relative to how many there are in the country. The suburbs where these communities are concentrated have had repeated riots, high unemployment, and weak school results even after the government spent tens of billions trying to fix it. A lot of the people involved in the recent violence and looting come from those same areas. This isn’t just poverty or bad policy. It’s the predictable result of putting groups with different average traits into the same neighborhoods, schools, and job market and expecting identical outcomes.
You can have people from different backgrounds living together. Plenty of individuals do fine. But doing it in large numbers without selection or strong pressure to assimilate produces ongoing gaps, higher rates of certain crimes, lower trust, and constant political fights. France is living with those costs right now.
boomers also walked into a market where one decent income could buy a house, raise a family, and still have your weekends free. There was less bureaucracy, so people had more real freedom to just go do things. There was less corporate consolidation, so regular people had more actual opportunity. And a lot of the time the spouse didn't have to work at all, never mind needing two or three incomes just to cover the basics.
Housing was cheaper mostly because land use and zoning rules were lighter back then. Then plenty of them voted for the regulations that choked off new building and turned their own homes into investments that kept climbing. So yeah, the spending differences are real. But so are the advantages they had, so essentially they pulled the ladder up after they used it.