Richard Pankey

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

The US is just about capable of autarky. It is blessed with friendly neighbors on its land borders, and oceans east and west. This means adventurous foreign policy is always a choice - and depends on domestic opinion.

We learned this in Vietnam. Then Iraq. And again now.

It seems like we have to keep learning this same damn lesson every 20 years. We are not built for foreign adventures, and people demanding them should be moved to the little kids table.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Never scorn an Italian woman. It won't end well for you.

[Collin Cleary @collin_cleary]

Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam studied diversity and came to conclusions that surprised him: “Diversity seems to trigger not in-group/out-group division, but anomie or social isolation. In colloquial language, people living in ethnically diverse settings appear to ‘hunker down’ – that is, to pull in like a turtle.” Putnam’s research shows that in diverse “communities” people become less trustful even of members of their own group. Distrust, isolation, and a general hardening and callousness toward others increases.
In short, sentiments such as sympathy, the very basis of morality, weaken and atrophy the more “diverse” society becomes. The only alternative for those who advocate multiculturalism (or who perceive it as in their interests) is to lecture us all with abstract moral principles about the necessity of coming together and cooperating (while simultaneously, of course, proclaiming that which divides us as our greatest strength). But this approach presupposes that morality is a matter of following abstract rules. The truth, however, is that in moral judgment sentiments come first, and “reasons” follow. Unable to rely upon sentiments-based morality to bind people together in multicultural societies and make them behave, governments have to resort more and more to surveillance and policing. It is difficult to see how such societies are sustainable, and impossible to see how they are desirable.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

Yes this is why Western Europe used to hang 1% of each generation

For centuries, every crime of any seriousness was a hanging offense, and generally these sentences were enforced

Over time, hanging all thieves/rapists/murderers/etc meant that such genres were plucked from the gene pool, and European civilization could, in the 18th and 19th centuries, focus on building great empires and cultivation of high civilization rather than on how to handle reducing recidivism amongst the petty criminals who make life unbearable

If you want a pleasant and cultured civilization, the path to that begins with the gallows and gibbet for the problem causing 1%

[Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan]

I wrote this because Europe cannot preserve freedom, trust, or social cohesion while refusing to confront the consequences of its own policies. The era of denial is over. Honest debate and peaceful solutions are now essential.

[Michael Shermer @michaelshermer]

Such great writing by @Ayaan
"Multicultural etiquette, in other words, created an expanding category of unnameables. Where earlier British feminism could say, plainly, that husbands, fathers, employers, priests, or legislators had exploited women and must be opposed, the contemporary movement often refuses to say that certain patterns of male violence are concentrated within particular ethno-religious subcultures, and that these patterns matter for the safety of girls. Modern feminism shouts when the target is culturally safe and falls quiet when the perpetrators are wrapped in the prohibitions of diversity talk."

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Anyone wondering why I'm criticizing Israel a lot today...

Your Defense Minister just said this:

"We have flattened the entire first line of villages in southern Lebanon, all the houses have been destroyed. The residents will never see them standing ever again. The 200,000 Lebanese residents who were in the 'security zone' are never returning again. Not one of them will ever return to southern Lebanon"

Your Minister of National Security said this:

"For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn."

And that's just today. You think this is normal?

[John O'Sullivan @JohnOSullivanNR]

Unfortunately, it's often the case that some of the worst crimes by officialdom are carried out by people who sincerely believe they are doing it for the best of all concerned. We should always examine the likely effects of virtue-led policies before signing off on them.

[John O'Sullivan @JohnOSullivanNR]

I'm sure that the Post has rigorously checked this story, but it still falls into the category of stories that are ''Too Good To Check.'' It should be memorialized in poem, song, and country-music anthem and performed on late-night television. Jimmy, aim high for an Emmy

[Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan]

The freedom of women survives only when societies have the courage to defend it.

I wrote about how one Dutch social worker changed my life with a simple decision: uphold the law and protect a vulnerable young woman.

Today, too many Western institutions are losing that courage.

[Godwin Meter @GodwinMeter]

You’re not going to talk sense into people who have never used good sense in their entire lives. They simply bounce from one emotional outrage to the next, completely independent from facts or logic.

They are immune to conversation or the exchange of facts and ideas. You can’t reach them.

[Sam @DigitalSamIAm]

Can we debunk this nonsense?

Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc.

The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun.

End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously.

And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it.

The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year)

On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach.

So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Fixing immigration fixes everything

Housing too expensive: deportations

Crime is high: deportations

Schools are crowded: deportations

All you have to do is push the button and it fixes everything

[Finton Elder @MinisterSpew]

@MaryBowdenMD @TexasChildrens organ donation opens the door to the dark side: https://t.co/nuPWIXckQL

[adddm @adddm9]

@MaryBowdenMD @TexasChildrens Brain death does not exist. It is a made up concept to allow organ harvesting from people.

[Dr. Wojak, M.D. @DrWojakMD]

@MaryBowdenMD @TexasChildrens Hospitals are murder factories.
https://t.co/Wfxqt8QvqO

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

Organ procurement from “brain dead” patients is the most lucrative revenue source a hospital has.

Perhaps this is why @TexasChildrens is in such a hurry to declare a 2 year old child with a less than 2 week old injury brain dead?

[Jojo Braun @TerribleJyon]

@MaryBowdenMD @TexasChildrens Multiple studies confirm that hospitals with organ extraction programs declare "brain death" at something like 5x the rate of hospitals without organ programs

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Henry Nowak's godmother, Kelly Hatchard, has slammed @HantsPolice for their anti-white bias.

"Shame on the monster who took him, shame on the officers who should've helped him & shame on the organisation that trained police to prioritise accusations of racism over a dying man."

[Richard Pankey @Oothcalogan]

@floridasunfl @ImBreckWorsham No, because neither is there documentary evidence that Melania's EB-1 green card was "bought" or otherise criminally obtained. Plenty to criticize or despise Trump about but unfounded allegations dirty the waters.