Retired Internet-Ghost

[Retired Internet-Ghost @SteveDoesThing2]

Highlights from "When Money Dies: the Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany" by Adam Fergusson

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

@elonmusk He didn’t go far enough

[Just Sayin’ 🇺🇲 ✝️ ❤️ @catmrow0]

@acnewsitics No

He just ARRESTED the reporters HE didn't like 🤨👇

[Retired Internet-Ghost @SteveDoesThing2]

@AndrewCFollett This kind of behavior is to be expected from David Shor. May he find a more constructive use of his abilities.

[Andrew Follett @AndrewCFollett]

David Shor blocked me...and I made fun of him for it...and the fact that his opinion was laughably dumb.

He then unblocked me to cry about it...

And I made fun of him for that too.

He called me mean and blocked me...

Again.

These people are just comedically weak.

[Anthony Rubin @anthonyjrubin]

The fraud I witnessed while producing this story was so blatant that it is unbelievable no other journalist had already reported on it

In Lawrence, Massachusetts, where this fraud was discovered, blue shipping barrels can be seen for sale on every street. It is impossible to miss.

These barrels are used to ship food, purchased with EBT and collected from charities, back to the Dominican Republic.

In the same city, you can witness Dominican shipping companies picking up food from homes on a daily basis.

The only way it would make economic sense to ship food from Lawrence, Massachusetts, to the Dominican Republic, is if the food was obtained for free.

The whistleblowers we worked with also informed us that there is housing fraud taking place, where Dominicans, who are receiving housing aid, rent out the same houses that they are getting via government assistance, while they live in the Dominican Republic.

If the current administration is serious about stopping fraud, this matter must be immediately investigated.

[Retired Internet-Ghost @SteveDoesThing2]

#HR Departments were the agents of the trans-national totalitarians embedded in corporations (though often unwittingly).

Their true purpose was to instigate conflicts along any & all identity-lines, whether ethnic, racial, gender, sexual orientation, political or socioeconomic

[Emerald Apple @AI_EmeraldApple]

My most unhinged run-in with HR was while working at a biotech company as a senior scientist, a long time ago.

They were doing racism audits, and me being an Asian, they targeted me in an inquisition-style interrogation. In essence, it was about 30 minutes of them... Gen Z women with a chip on their shoulders, trying to make me say that I experienced racism at the company.

It was them framing every little comment, quip, joke, and conversation that my 'white' coworkers had with me into some sort of racist dog whistle. They wanted me to "out" my work friends as "racists" so that HR could crucify them. I knew they were recording the whole time, so I had to be very careful with my words.

I kept my answers brutally short, usually with a single-word answer of "no", or that lacks context, or that's a misframing.

They were literally trying to manufacture problems to go after people to justify their existence. They were trying to goad me, to extract the "right" answers from me that I refused to play their stupid game.

After the interview was over, and after their little racism witch hunt didn't work, they moved on to other targets, other minorities, other stupid problems no one cared about.

[Uncommon Sense @Uncommonsince76]

Richard Werner and Tucker discuss how Jewish Bolsheviks put Mao Zedong in charge and ultimately led him to intentionally starve millions of his own people like they did in Russia…

[Fight With Memes @FightWithMemes]

The HR department exists for one reason: to perpetuate the HR department.

[Retired Internet-Ghost @SteveDoesThing2]

@zarathustra5150 tbf many of our problems started in the 1920s-30s & 1950s-1960s (other generations)

Baby boomers didn't start the Vietnam War or take us off the gold standard. Nor did they allow the gov. to go bonkers & nearly socialist in the 20s/30s, seizing gold & controlling farm production

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Study finds more than 50% of immigrant households in America are on welfare --including legal immigrants.

A rich country can cherry-pick the top 0.1% of migrants.

Instead, this is what we import.

[Retired Internet-Ghost @SteveDoesThing2]

@jawwwn_ @axios alternatively (note the word is from Swedish, so it might seem uh strange at first)

[Retired Internet-Ghost @SteveDoesThing2]

@marinasmigielsk I've seen this quote. It might be an over-simplification while also containing a large piece of truth.

[Retired Internet-Ghost @SteveDoesThing2]

@lesliedouglasx @ShadowbanSlam A suggestive clip related to this
https://t.co/PjQx2LhIf2

[Retired Internet-Ghost @SteveDoesThing2]

@cremieuxrecueil also J. von Neumann was in favor of a preliminary nuclear strike against the Soviet Union immediately after WWII, so, yes, he might have worn funny hats, but also his thinking could have led to some combination of nuclear holocaust/WW3/post-nuclear-war dystopia.

[Retired Internet-Ghost @SteveDoesThing2]

@cremieuxrecueil tbf the von Neumann family was also quite wealthy and even had an aristocratic title (the "von" in the name indicated this), & J. von Neumann was a rather singular individual. IOW your mileage may vary.

+There are numerous counter-examples among Neumann's contemporaries, FWIW

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

The plan all along was to replace Americans with foreign medical staff.

They had decades to fix the residency bottleneck and chose not to.

Here is the timeline:
In the 1960s and 1970s Congress passed major federal funding bills to expand U.S. medical schools and increase domestic physician supply. By the early 1990s projections of a physician surplus led to the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, which froze Medicare-funded residency slots at 1996 levels. The cap was sold as temporary cost control. It made no sense regardless of what direction you took- it was the plan.

Almost immediately the projections proved wrong. The Council on Graduate Medical Education and other advisory bodies began warning of coming shortages as the population aged and medical schools kept growing. Congress had multiple chances to lift or raise the cap. They did not.

Instead, starting in the late 1990s and accelerating through the 2000s and 2010s, policy quietly opened parallel pipelines. J-1 visa waivers expanded.

Caribbean medical schools grew. State provisional and fast-track licensure laws for internationally trained physicians passed in one state after another until more than 18 states now have them. Hospitals and systems gained compliant, lower-cost labor while American graduates remained trapped in the frozen domestic pipeline.

By the 2025 and 2026 NRMP matches thousands of qualified U.S. MD and DO seniors went unmatched or SOAPed into lesser spots while IMGs filled record numbers of positions, many through these alternative routes. The cap was never lifted despite repeated bills and warnings spanning nearly 30 years.

This was meant to look like neglect but there really is no such thing when it comes to DC decisions. It was engineered scarcity followed by replacement.

Bookmark if you see the pattern. Quote or repost your observation. Comment below if you know another chapter like this to share.

Citations (APA)
Salsberg, E., et al. (2008). US residency training before and after the 1997 Balanced Budget Act. JAMA. Council on Graduate Medical Education. (2005 & later reports). Physician workforce projections. National Resident Matching Program. (2025 & 2026). Main Residency Match results. Federation of State Medical Boards. (2026). States with enacted IMG licensure pathways.

[Retired Internet-Ghost @SteveDoesThing2]

@RealJohnDios IIRC many of the first migrants to Quebec were from Normandy, along with some Basque fishermen & traders? In other words, it was a self-selected population that was not representative of France more broadly...

[Retired Internet-Ghost @SteveDoesThing2]

yes and this is before all of the upcoming wars in Africa & Asia. that said, I am bullish on baby booms in much of the West.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Most of the world is already below replacement. Meaning we don't make enough babies. Global population shrinkage is a guaranteed event at this point. You can like this, you can dislike this but be assured that we haven't invented the economic model yet to make this new reality work.

[Retired Internet-Ghost @SteveDoesThing2]

@lsanger I like turtles.

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

Since 2009, medical schools have had to prove they sufficiently discriminate against white men ("achieve mission-appropriate diversity outcomes") to get accredited.