Sebastian 🇵🇸

[Nicole Solas, Sued by the Teachers Union @Nicoletta0602]

The Pride parade in Providence, Rhode Island featured a bloody steamroller behind an effigy of Providence Mayor Smiley & a rainbow guillotine poised to decapitate him.

So loving.

Mayor Brett Smiley is gay but it doesn't matter. Leftist violence comes for everyone eventually.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has been permanently banned from editing the site

[Svider-san @SazoHorchata]

Los famosos bombardeos suecos en Somalia no se nos pueden olvidar.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

What happened to my bank account? Absolutely nothing.

You believed a lie.

You believed a lie that was told to you by your political class, and your news media, to keep you from asking uncomfortable questions about how much you are paying in tax, where that money is going, and what quality of care you actually receive for the portion of it they didn't steal.

Don't believe me? Look at the pictures.

Look.

At.

Them.

That's my wife, @acrobatichobbit. Before and after.

That's a five centimeter mass. Stage 4 metastatic melanoma. The worst kind of cancer, the most vicious form of assassin your own body can betray you with. That bright area? Blood.

Ten years ago, anywhere in the world, the scan on the left is a death sentence... an endless gauntlet of painful surgeries, followed by chemotherapy, hair loss, uncontrolled vomiting, wasting away to nothing, death.

In America, today, it's not.

We have things here. Genetic therapies. Tailored viruses that attack tumor cells. Drugs that highlight cancers for your immune system, drag them kicking and screaming into the spotlight to be killed.

I won't tell you about her exact course of treatment, because that's none of your goddamned business, but I will tell you that it cost American drug companies and medical researchers a fortune to discover.

A fortune that your nation cannot afford because you chose socialism instead of progress. And socialism, however fine-sounding in theory, simply does not work.

Were she and I British, living in Britain, relying on the National Health Service, I would be a widower now.

Did saving her cost a ruinous amount of money?

Yes. This technology was expensive to create, and the people who did so deserve to pay their mortgages and feed their kids. So do the oncologists and surgeons.

Many of the men who cared for her were old men, experienced men, long past retirement age, still working because when your profession is clawing souls back from the void, sitting on a beach with a pina colada instead just doesn't hit the same.

They deserve every cent.

Did saving her cost a ruinous amount of money?

Yes.

Did I pay it?

No.

Because believe it or not, when things are ruinously expensive, but vitally necessary, we here in America come up with ways to deal with that.

Ways that don't involve creating a big pot of money and entrusting it to corrupt slimeballs.

We have insurance. And sometimes insurance isn't cheap, but the bite it takes is a hell of a lot less of what we have than the tax man takes from you.

And insurance companies sometimes have to make hard decisions about which spending choices will save the most people. I know about this in detail, because that is my wife's profession. She creates the mathematical models that pay for all this stuff.

The insurance that saved her is the exact same plan that she provides to others.

And at the end of an awful year and a half of treatment, awful because cancer medicines make you far sicker than the cancer itself...

We were left whole.

Battered and wounded in spirit, but financially whole, at least.

The only loss we took was the blow to my career as a novelist, because it turns out you can't write stories while your wife is dying, and you don't automatically recover that ability afterwards. Not right away.

I wondered every day if she was going to live or die. I wondered every day what the hell I was going to with myself without her.

But I never wondered, not for a moment, how the hell we were going to pay for all this.

Your government doesn't solve the problem. It is the problem.

They lie to you.

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

This is one of the best examples of “pretending not to understand things” I’ve seen

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

So there’s this perennial problem. It has serious downsides. There is a straightforward solution that will permanently solve the issue with little to no downsides. The UK media pulls out crazed eyes experts warning you of apocalypse if you solve the issue. They bring up bigotry and existential dangers to the world if you solve the problem. They bring up scientific studies with terrifying conclusions (and rather dubious methodologies) the voices of experts to tell you whatever you do don’t solve the problem!

Man that’s their one play isn’t it?

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

The European Commission literally shut off air conditioning but only for floors 1-7, where people of lower rank work.

[Gene Parmesan @dsonoiki]

you have to think of the “Michelle Obama is a man” as a meme

it’s not serious

think of it as something harmless like posting videos of a guy getting shot to death on a college campus in the replies of the tweets of his widow

[Flesh Simulator @fleshsimulator]

One thing that cannot be overstated is the damage caused by inner city policy being set by white liberals who live in the suburbs and get their idea of the world from progressive journalists and nobody else.

If you are a suburban white leftist, please indulge me in a little experiment.

First, read how The Intercept describes this event, and picture it in your mind based off this description.

Then, watch the videos of the event.

Then extrapolate that to everything you read about, rather than see.

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

Is this you in this photo, doctor?

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

> it’s not happening
> it’s a right wing conspiracy theory
> it may be happening
> it’s happening and it’s good

[New York Post @nypost]

SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group - pair even had joint bank account https://t.co/TJWL3LzWc3

[i/o @avidseries]

From The Rape Gang Inquiry Report released today: "While Sir Keir Starmer was the Director of Public Prosecutions, it has been reported that 13,000 suspected rape gang members and paedophiles were let off with warning letters."

https://t.co/PeIm2zMKeN

[Kron @Kronykal]

Useful list in the event you find the govt you’re currently living under trying to restrict you online.

Don’t worry if you don’t know what to do. You can find easy instructions for most on youtube or elsewhere.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: U.K. advances proposal to force Apple, Google, Signal, & other platforms to scan private content on users’ devices — executives could face prison if they refuse.

[HowlingMutant @Howlingmutant0]

You guys were burning flags and pulling down statues of Lincoln a couple years ago now you want to wax patriotic?

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

London — Muslim public workers paid by taxpayers for @harrow_council make violent threats to severely injure a man. They turn off their body cameras as they make the threats & say they can leverage their relationship with @metpoliceuk to injure him.

[Reddit Lies @reddit_lies]

This you?