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[Econo ad absurdam @econoadabsurdam]

They're doing more hard core journalism on this thing than they did on those Somalian day care centres or that the ABC is doing on the NDIS

[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.

[Fun Ahead 🇺🇸 @heroesahead]

George Lucas thinking deeply about star wars: What if the universe gave the galaxy a messiah but the protectors handed that messiah to satan...? And what if this happened during the fall of the roman republic voluntarily to a tyrannical empire? Then maybe the real hero is just some backwoods kid with a lot of heart who just wanted to live up to the legend of his father and has to deal with the truth that his father is worst person who ever lived....

Disney thinking deeply about star wars: what if Luke was a girl

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

Elon could literally solve homelessness tomorrow.

All he needs to do is sell his stake in the companies he created from the ground up, crashing the price and evaporating his wealth as well as the savings and pensions of workers globally.. handing the control of these companies over to short term profit interests and preventing any long term vision from being enacted..

THEN take whatever money that remains which will be nowhere near 1tn and give it to homeless charities who have never solved homelessness anywhere on earth because they’re financially incentivised to do the opposite.

Bam - homelessness solved.

The reason he doesn’t do any of this is because he’s evil.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

Re: Karmelo Anthony and his defenders:

Obviously there is some blind black tribal loyalty involved, but I think there’s something else and arguably worse.

The facts seem to be this: Karmelo invaded another track team’s tent. He did this to assert dominance. When asked to leave, he issued threats: “touch me and see what happens.” After repeatedly telling him that he was not welcome, and in response to provocation, Austin Metcalf pushed him, trying to get him to comply with basic social norms. Karmelo, no doubt delighted that he had now received permission for escalation under his own code, stabbed Austin to death.

The black defenders of Karmelo believe this is how society should operate: an endless war of all against all to assert dominance, escalating when one’s assertions are rebuffed. They’re mad that the justice system got involved, because in their minds this is the proper way to conduct business: omnipresent dominance signaling, inevitably leading to violence.

They genuinely don’t understand that other people don’t operate according to those rules. And they certainly don’t understand that our rules, by drastically reducing friction and needless cost, are the very reason for the disparities in group power they complain about. We are polite internally and can thus exert greater collective power externally. A few Karmelos in the mix destroys this system.

But they don’t care that running things their way would be the end of civilization, the end of their cell phones and EBT and air conditioning, because they don’t understand it. They don’t understand anything about the modern world. They are lost here, confused. This state of affairs is not sustainable.

[Lukas (computer)🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

Stealing her number from valvoline to ask her out:
Death penalty

Stealing her number from a Stripe client data breach and having Indian men call her 30 times daily in an attempt to sell imaginary car insurance:
Subsidized by multiple US NGOs. Encouraged by all branches of govt

[Swan @AndySwan]

You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of the wealth.

[Chase Passive Income @chasedownleads]

Mothers Day brunch is completely unaffordable now

What the hell happened to this country?

[J. Mangual @MLBShotsFired]

Inflation is completely out of control, you can’t even take 3 kids to a Detroit Tigers game anymore without spending an arm and a leg! Crazy!

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

My favorite fact about COVID in America was that between 2019-2022 magically death by heart disease, obesity, flu, old age, cancer, and car accidents all plummeted while COVID claimed 1.2 million Americans.

Then suddenly, COVID deaths plummeted and everything went back to normal…

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

Now that we've successfully exposed the affair between a married NFL coach and an NFL reporter, can our crack team of national journalists please give us a quick update on the $16 billion of tax payer money that was fraudulently handed out to fake Somali daycares in Minneapolis?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[Max @minordissent]

This is why democracy doesn’t work btw

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

Look at the rate of civilizational advancement from 1st flight to moon landing and consider where we’d be now had we not subsequently reoriented society around the idea that the entire world has a right to live here, vote here & receive legal, political and financial preference.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Imagine you are a working father living in the Midwest, you make 75k a year. You can support your family, but you're not rich. You worry about paying for college. Then you read about some Somalian stealing $1m out of federal healthcare programs.

$1 million for the normal guy would eliminate an enormous amount of his stress. The college thing would be covered. Retirement wouldn't appear so daunting. It's why guys like this buy lottery tickets. And instead he pays into the system and watches "newcomers" make a complete ass out of him. This fraud is bad financially, but it just makes a mockery of all the hard work of normal people and tears away at the social fabric.

[Jared Monroe @TheJaredMonroe]

No one will know her name. No cities will burn. No Hollywood elites will comment. No viral dance tributes. Just another completely unnecessary murder because “dreamer” or something.

[Flesh Simulator @fleshsimulator]

Remember how we had 24/7 news coverage of that dumb bitch that got shot by ICE for trying to drive over them with a car after they tried to arrest her for parking sideways in the road to block traffic and everyone was saying it was the saddest thing ever for a 40yo woman to die

[Moongazer @joeybeastmarket]

There is absolutely zero reason a government official should be permitted to disable comments on this app. All that does is allow a public servant to avoid facing the public square they serve. We already saw this app can offer certain privileges to political accounts (we cannot see their location) so the infrastructure is already in place to deny them certain privileges. They should not get to turn off comments. Simply undemocratic. Elon please

[Mr. S.T.A.R. @favelaoverlord]

one of the simplest yet most unappreciated arguments against tolerating bizarre homeless shenanigans is that it forces normal people to suppress conventions urges to assist people who are in obvious distress

[… @ageofreckoning_]

@JuMosq Vikings fans