Sampson Abudiente

מעשים ולא ניסים - Shipped myself east of Suez. No return to doom island.

[LDN @mylandsinorder]

You can’t have borders because several Mediterranean countries use chickpeas in similar ways.

[Ed West @edwest]

https://t.co/cU33OA9EqP

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

The hypermasculinity of today's operator culture is funny when you consider that the average British commando in the Second World War profile was like "First from Cambridge in Byzantine History, pigeon fancier, extremely gay"

[Ethel Braithwaite @Ethelbrait1941]

I am . Studying the Orient . The gates of Peking will open to me

[Henry Shevlin @dioscuri]

As a teenager reading about the decline of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires, I couldn't understand why they mostly just let it happen. Why not reform urgently, slash the bureaucracy, race to adopt the new technologies?
Much less confused these days.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!

[Crispy Taro Chips - 必灭中共 @Honolulu_____]

This is what the CCP took from you

Yes - *you* - even if you're not a mainlander, the CCP took this from you

if the KMT had won the civil war, there would be 14 million baddies in China who looked like this, and you could acquire one as a mail order bride ...

women as beautiful as Khaisin Low (Chinese Malaysian) don't exist in mainland China anymore due to the CCP curse that made all Chinese people much uglier than before (see my pinned thread)...

the ROC would be richer than the PRC in that timeline, but still not as rich as Taiwan or S. Korea since export driven growth is limited by the size of the export market relative to domestic manufacturing...

and the population would be 2.3 billiion due to the absence of the One Child Policy ...

imagine millions of mainland ROC baddies who looked just like her in tier 3 cities ... working 100 hours a week as a delivery driver ... who would marry a passport bro in a heartbeat ....

never forget ... this is what the bolsheviks, the trotskyites, and the Maoists took from you ....

[Sampson Abudiente @SAbudiente]

@Israel yo, this is ass guys. Plz no

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward.

I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress.

When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment.

Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks.

They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around.

Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits?

The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

If humans were to adopt monkey economics, we too could enjoy the luxury and wealth of monkey civilization.

[RAY @3xcalibaneur]

From some back-of-napkin math, the fact that the EU refuses to use air conditioning and kills its elderly en masse with heatstroke every single year is probably saving them an aggregate €30 billion euros in foregone pension liabilities and healthcare costs annually, compounded.

[RŌNIN @ronin21btc]

I LOVE that they forced him to watch the video.

Far too many bleeding heart liberals clueless to the violence these guys are capable of.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

🇺🇸🇨🇺

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

It is becoming increasingly difficult for mainstream media outlets to explain the contradictions in their Gaza reporting.

How do you reconcile claims of famine and starvation with a mass marathon being held in the same territory?

The genocide narrative is fading as the truth comes to light, the world has been sold a carefully curated version of events.

The reporting on Gaza stands as some of the most expensive propaganda ever pushed.

[Poppy Coburn @kafkaswife]

And why shouldn’t Mr Yakoob be? He clearly represents the views of his community. What’s so shocking about the predictable outcome of the state’s chosen migration policy?

[L3 Tweet Engineer @MegaBasedChad]

This is what happens when you have an engineer society and not a lawyer society

[Will Lloyd @Will___lloyd]

Birmingham by far and away the most interesting city in Britain - the real capital, not London. Its relative decline a much better mirror to the rest of the country than Manchester or Bristol or Edinburgh. The actually existing UK, good and bad and the rest on display almost everywhere you go. Richest place to report on and to have conversations with people. Also has the best botanical gardens (maybe not relevant to the point I’m trying to make). The fact that no one has written a gigantic teeming Tom Wolfe / Dickens style brick called Second City shames British writers, journalists, novelists, publishers.

[Lewis Spears @LewSpears]

The Problem with Black Snape...