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反秦始皇/商鞅， 没有大中华情怀，决心脱亚入美， 来世不做华人！

[Abhinita ✨ @Seekr_of_Truth]

The sadists doused 1 year old mother with gasoline and set her on fire, burning her until she was charred black. Throughout the ordeal, they continued to beat her, taunt her, even gouged out her eyes in her final moments, shouting, "Dog meat smells so good!" Wangwang, despite the agony of being burned alive, did not resist at all—she seemed to believe that if she just endured, it would eventually stop.

In the end, she mustered her last ounce of strength, dragging her burning body toward her dead puppies, licked them gently, and closed her eyes forever. The entire atrocity lasted over an hour.

This took place in Zhongjia Village, Jieyang, Guangdong. Because the perpetrators are minors, they have not faced any substantial punishment to this day, and the case has been intentionally downplayed.

To people around the world: please help spread this story.

If animal cruelty laws are weak in India they’re non existent in China

#JusticeforWangwang
#DogsofChina
#WangWang

[Raymond Ibrahim @RaymondIbrahim5]

Everything this Muslim scholar ('alim) says about humiliating non-Muslims is 100% true.

Along with the well known hadiths he mentions, he is also drawing fromThe Stipulations of Omar, an Islamic document purportedly draw between Caliph Omar I and the Christians of conquered Jerusalem (c. 637).

I translated it for my 2013 book, Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians.

It follows. In order to receive dhimma (protection from the sword of Islam), conquered Christians had to agree:

"Not to build a church in our city—nor a monastery, convent, or monk’s cell in the surrounding areas—and not to repair those that fall in ruins or are in Muslim quarters; Not to clang our cymbals except lightly and from the innermost recesses of our churches; Not to display a cross on them [churches], nor raise our voices during prayer or readings in our churches anywhere near Muslims; Not to produce a cross or [Christian] book in the markets of the Muslims; Not to congregate in the open for Easter or Palm Sunday, nor lift our voices [in lamentation] for our dead nor show our firelights with them near the market places of the Muslims; Not to display any signs of polytheism, nor make our religion appealing, nor call or proselytize anyone to it; Not to prevent any of our relatives who wish to enter into Islam; Not to possess or bear any arms whatsoever, nor gird ourselves with swords; To honor the Muslims, show them the way, and rise up from our seats if they wish to sit down; We guarantee all this to you upon ourselves, our descendants, our spouses, and our neighbors, and if we change or contradict these conditions imposed upon ourselves in order to receive safety, we forfeit our dhimma [covenant], and we become liable to the same treatment you inflict upon the people who resist and cause sedition."

This is the mentality that the UK government has brought in by the millions...

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The crime they see: 15,415 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef. Every campaign, every documentary, every leaflet through the door since about 2012.

The crime they do: not reading the paper.

The figure is real. It comes from Mekonnen and Hoekstra at the University of Twente, and it is careful, peer-reviewed work. What the campaigns strip out is that the same authors split that number into three parts, because the three parts are not the same thing at all.

Green water is rain. It falls on the grass. The cow eats the grass. For beef, green water is about 94 per cent of that headline.

Blue water is the stuff that matters. Rivers, lakes, aquifers. The stuff that gets pumped, metered, fought over in court, and does not come back.

So here is the blue water, in litres per kilogram, from the same authors, same method, same units.

- Pistachios: 7,602
- Almonds: 3,816
- Walnuts: 2,451
- Dates: 1,250
- Cashews: 921
- Beef: 550

Read that last line again, then go and look at what is in your granola.

The 15,415 counts rain that fell on a Welsh hillside as a cost, against an animal that was standing in it, on land where nothing else grows, in a country where rain is the one thing we have never once been short of.

The pistachio is drinking fourteen times more of the water that actually runs out.

She is outside in the rain right now, getting blamed for it.

[coldbutt @ashbystadium]

@SoveyX I can't decide which is more disgusting?

Mamdani's forked tongue.
Or that perpetual Taqiyya (fake) smile pasted on his face, sly and condescending.

"Iranian woman: Mamdani sings the same song as Ayatollah Khomeini."

https://t.co/1yC7fCPEtk

[Handre @Handre]

On the island of Roatán, off the coast of Honduras, a company called Próspera runs something the textbooks say cannot exist: a functioning jurisdiction where governance is a service you purchase rather than a burden you inherit at birth.

The mechanism is elegant. You sign an agreement with the platform, pay a flat annual fee (around $260 for Hondurans, $1,300 for foreigners), and in exchange you get a legal system, dispute resolution, and a regulatory menu you actually choose from. Businesses select which country's regulations they want to operate under. A clinic can opt into Arizona medical rules. A builder can pick from a set of international codes rather than wait for a bureaucrat in Tegucigalpa to stamp a form. The contract binds Próspera too, which is the part statists never understand. When the ruler signs the same document as the ruled, arbitrary power gets expensive.

This is Paul Romer's charter city idea stripped of its World Bank chaperone and handed to private capital. Honduras passed the ZEDE law in 2013 under President Juan Orlando Hernández. Próspera opened in 2020. The residents came. The capital came. Then the politics arrived.

President Xiomara Castro's government repealed the ZEDE framework in April 2022, and Honduras now faces Próspera in international arbitration with a claim that reached $10.775 billion, roughly a third of the country's GDP. Consider what that tells you. A nation of nine million people torched a project that promised jobs and foreign investment, then discovered that breaking contracts with people who read contracts carries a price.

The lesson here is old: property rights and legal predictability produce development. They are not luxuries you enjoy after development. Hong Kong under British common law went from fishing rocks to financial capital on exactly this insight, no natural resources required.

Próspera's enemies call it a colonial enclave for the rich. Odd, then, that the cheaper residency tier is reserved for the locals, and that the whole point is letting a poor Honduran opt out of the sclerotic system that kept his grandfather poor.

Governments hate exit. Próspera is exit made legal, priced, and voluntary. Watch which side blinks.

[coldbutt @ashbystadium]

@CreativeDeduct They also can't be funny.

"Comedy relies on subverting expectations to expose truth. Leftism subverts the truth to peddle lies.

That’s why they can’t be funny, they can’t reveal the truth, their entire politics depends on concealing it."

https://t.co/uBRF1jBwRA

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Bingo

[Alessandro Palombo @thealepalombo]

Erling Haaland is probably the most famous living Norwegian. He was born in England and lives there today. His father, Alf-Inge, left Norway in the 1990s to play football, and the family's fortune was built abroad.

That last part matters. Because Norway, for all its virtues, charges its own residents 1% a year on net worth above NOK 1.9m (~$192k), rising to 1.1% above NOK 21.5m (~$2.2m).

The method is blunt. Everything you own minus your debts, taxed every year whether you sell anything or not. A few softeners exist, like your home counting at only 25% of value, but the wealthy don't argue with it, they exit: around 300 multimillionaires have recently left for Switzerland.

In practice, a net worth of just $500k already means $3k+ a year. At a threshold that low, this isn't really a wealth tax anymore. It's just a tax that reaches over 700,000 people, about one in six Norwegian adults.

So, why am I writing this? Nearly every broad tax began as a narrow one on the rich, the income tax being the textbook case, and Norway's has widened in the 130 years since 1892.

It's a useful reminder every time a new wealth tax appears in the political debate, as one now is in NYC: directionally, the reach of these taxes tends to expand over time, rarely to contract.

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Wealth tax explained:

1. Laura loves to cook, she risks all her life savings and opens a small restaurant: Laura‘s Kitchen

2. Laura works really hard, evenings, weekends, no vacations

3. The local community loves Laura‘s Kitchen, it’s a success, the restaurant gets larger, Laura hires 30 people from the neighborhood

4. Laura makes 1,5 Million € in profit, she pays 40% in income tax: 600,000€

5. The left „tax the rich“ party wins the elections, and introduces a wealth tax

6. Laura‘s Kitchen gets valued by the tax authorities at 25 Million €. Laura must pay 5% wealth tax: 1,25 Million €

7. The income tax of 600,000€ plus 1,25 Million € in wealth tax is more than the 1,5 Million € Laura makes

8. Laura cannot afford to pay more taxes than she makes, she closes Laura’s Kitchen

9. Laura loses her life savings despite years of hard work, 30 people lose their jobs, the state receives zero taxes

10. The local community goes to McDonalds again

11. The local left “tax the rich“ party members blame „capitalism“ for that on social media

12. Everyone gets poorer due to higher unemployment and lower tax revenues

Why is this so difficult for the left to understand?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The ruminant family, and the one job each member does that nothing else can:

Cattle: turn a wet hillside into milk and beef, and build the soil while they stand on it

Sheep: grow a fireproof, compostable fibre every year on grass and rain

Goats: eat the scrub, bramble and invasive weed that chokes everything else out

Water buffalo: make the milk that becomes real mozzarella, on marshland a cow would sink in

Yak: live and give milk at altitudes that would kill any lowland animal

Reindeer: feed and clothe whole peoples above the Arctic Circle, on lichen and moss

Bison: engineer an entire prairie ecosystem simply by grazing across it

Seven animals, one gift each, none of them replaceable by a machine or a crop.

Every one of them classed, this decade, as a liability.

[coldbutt @ashbystadium]

@romanhelmetguy “Manners are the lubricant of civilization”

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters.

A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”

~ Robert A. Heinlein

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

To the degree “Britain is finished” it’s because we have become one of the most anti-wealth, anti-success, anti-growth nanny states in the developed world.

The nation that birthed the Industrial Revolution, invented modern capitalism, governed 25% of the world’s population and invented swaths of technologies that the world relies on today… is suddenly afraid of a little inequality.

The truth is however that we don’t have rampant inequality at all.

By all measures we are a normal economy…
- Wealth of the top 1% has been stable for 40+ years. There’s no data that says it’s “out of control”
- Wealth at the bottom 50% is in line with the rest of the world’s major economies.
- Our Gini-coefficient is middle of the pack for the G20 nations.

So… Where are we going wrong?

- Our economic freedom index rating is falling. It shows that economic freedom is down significantly because we are over-taxed and over-regulated.

- The ratio of government spending to GDP is sky high (45% of GDP). We’re losing our free market system because almost half the economy is government spending NOT market driven spending.

- Taxation is at an all time high point. It’s wildly progressive relative to our past and our peers. The top rate of tax kicks in at 3x the average while the USA has a lower top rate that kicks in at 7x the average. Minimum wage is pegged at 60% of the median - one of the highest in the world. All of this is to say that we’re so safeguarded from danger that we can’t actually get ahead!

- Wage suppression through taxation cliffs is holding back productivity.

- We have socialist ideologues in senior roles across government who LOVE the idea of the nanny state. They think economic growth is government growth. They think it’s dangerous for wealth to be in the hands of individuals. They think “wealthy people” are people who “have savings”.

- we have a government that is painfully unaware that new technology erodes the value of jobs at the bottom and increased competition through open-door migration suppresses wages too.

We’re trying to tax the country into growth. It doesn’t work.

Gary wants to create equality by making the country poorer and it doesn’t benefit anyone.

Instead of worrying about inequality we should be focused on making the country richer and raising living standards.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Six Guys who Built The West

What those three little French dudes were trying to destroy (deconstruct), someone had to construct in the first place.

Everything of any value has to be built by someone.

Meet our civilizational founding fathers – actually three pairs of guys:

First came Socrates and Aristotle.
Socrates introduced something revolutionary: the idea that truth emerges through disciplined adversarial inquiry. Not through tribal instinct, not through force, not through revelation, but through rational confrontation between arguments. He taught Europe how to question. With Plato as the adversary, Aristotle then taught it how to think systematically. He transformed Greek philosophical brilliance into a usable civilizational framework: logic, ethics, political theory, biology, rhetoric. Above all, Aristotle established the conviction that reality is intelligible and that reason can genuinely know something about it. Modern science, legal reasoning, universities, and the entire Western confidence in rational inquiry descend from this foundation.

Then came Caesar and Augustus.
The Greeks discovered truth, but the Romans discovered continuity. Caesar shattered the exhausted paralysis of the late Republic and demonstrated that civilizations require decision, hierarchy, and political will. Augustus then performed the harder task: transforming raw power into durable order. He stabilized Rome into institutions capable of surviving generations – structure and infrastructure: roads, law, administration, military, citizenship, imperial governance. Rome gave the West its skeleton: the idea that civilization requires form, discipline, sovereignty, and institutions capable of transmitting order across time.

Finally Jesus and Thomas Aquinas.
The Greeks gave the West reason. The Romans gave it order. Christianity gave it the soul. The revolutionary claim introduced by Christianity was not theological; it was anthropological. Jesus transformed the moral imagination of the West by introducing an idea almost incomprehensible to the ancient world: that every human soul possesses intrinsic dignity. In a civilization where power determined value, Christianity elevated the weak, the poor, the suffering, the outcast. It placed moral limits on power and insisted that conscience transcends empire. But it was Aquinas who took this explosive spiritual vision and integrated it into a coherent intellectual edifice. He reconciled revelation with Aristotelian reason, faith with logic, theology with natural law. In doing so, he prevented Europe from collapsing into irrational mysticism on one side or sterile materialism on the other. Aquinas transformed Christianity from a spiritual revolution into a civilizational architecture capable of sustaining universities, legal systems, science, philosophy, and moral order simultaneously.

Everything else followed from there.

The university, the cathedral, the republic, the scientific revolution, constitutional government, individual liberty, the legal order, the pursuit of truth, the moral limitation of power – all of it emerged from the interaction of these foundations. Greek rational inquiry. Roman order and statecraft. Christian moral anthropology. Remove any one of them and the West becomes unintelligible.

Those little modern deconstructionists don’t get that civilization isn’t a spontaneous byproduct of power relations, but an extraordinarily delicate moral and intellectual achievement. The institutions built across millennia and the habits required to sustain it – truth-seeking, discipline, sacrifice, moral restraint, reverence for learning, transmission between generations.

The West survived because generation after generation believed there existed something higher than appetite, tribe, and power. Something worth seeking, building, defending, and transmitting.

That is what those men built.
We inherited it.

And civilizations that forget how they were built end up forgetting how to survive.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

"The Crime of 1873" refers to the Coinage Act that Congress passed that year. It effectively moved the US to the gold standard, phased out silver as an asset backing the currency. It reduced the money supply, resulting in long-term deflation. Prices actually fell across the board. This was good for creditors, bad for debtors - who earned less but still had to pay off their debts at their face values.

Have been reading Liaqut Ahamed's book about this, and thinking about how indebted Americans are now. Large mortgages if they own homes at all, huge car payments, maxed out credit cards. We complain about inflation - everything getting more expensive at the store. But the reality is we can't do without it. If we had actual across the board deflation - we would be totally screwed, bankruptcies would flood across the landscape, there would be a sharp economic downturn - and the populism we have now would look moderate by comparison.

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Did you know the news used to regularly air stories about people's lives being ruined by vaccines?

That all changed after Clinton let Pharma buy out the media.

Here I compiled 56 mind-blowing news segments they'd never air today.
https://t.co/HI2GyO0M1R

[coldbutt @ashbystadium]

@DDesdenova @infantrydort Or "Spain, the vital years" by Bolin.

Or "Mine were of trouble" by Kemp

[coldbutt @ashbystadium]

@infantrydort "You seemingly have to wait until the commies and anarchists have committed enough atrocities to unite the opposition in resolve, but you can't wait so long that it becomes too late.

The highest levels of prudence are required.

Win or die."

https://t.co/HWO3LNpDIX

[The Chivalry Guild @ChivalryGuild]

In 1932, a few years before the Spanish Civil War, a general named José Sanjurjo led an attempted revolt against the Republican government as things started to get dicey. When he faced court-martial, he asked Francisco Franco to serve as defense counsel. Franco declined.

“You, having failed, have gained for yourself the right to die,” he said.

Franco was recruited multiple times to participate in potential rebellions. He always refused and encouraged others to step down, until 1936 rolled along. These things are tricky: you seemingly have to wait until the commies and anarchists have committed enough atrocities to unite the opposition in resolve, but you can't wait so long that it becomes too late. The highest levels of prudence are required. Win or die.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

It's because of the basic psychologies of fascism and communism.

Fascism is a disgust spiral, whose basic commandment is "thou shalt not be worse than me." It starts out with anti-smoking campaigns and burning child pornography, and ends up disappearing anyone who doesn't mow his lawn.

Communism is an envy spiral, whose basic commandment is "thou shalt not be better than me." It starts out targeting captains of industry and genius intellectuals, and ends up disappearing anyone who wears glasses, which create the suspicion that he might have read a book once.

This is why people with communist psychology (the left) equate clean streets with fascism.

Leftists can't keep their streets clean and their lawns mowed, but instead of the psychologically healthy response of being slightly embarrassed and resolving to do better, they decide that anyone in a nice neighborhood is a fascist who needs to be exposed and purged.

You, oh right-wing conservative, watching this video clip, think that leftists are accidentally pointing out the benefits of fascism.... i.e. that people can have nice things.

But if you understood communist psychology, really understood it, you would realize that the mowed lawns, clean streets, and neatly-groomed people are actually another accusation.

Not only are they racists, complains the narrative, they have nicer houses and neighborhoods than you. How dare they?

How dare they not be surrounded by trash and graffiti?

How dare they not be awoken at 3 AM by their drunk neighbors blasting loud music?

Who do they think they are, some sort of superior race?

You don't notice that accusation because you are not the target audience. The target audience is people prone to destructive envy, and the goal is to recruit them to communism.

They don't care if you think this points out the benefits of fascism, or even just the benefits of racism. Because you are not prone to destructive envy, so they can never recruit you anyway.

And it makes no difference if you point out that the end result of this is that every neighborhood is covered in trash and graffiti.

That's what commies want.

Why? Because their neighborhoods are always going to be messed up no matter what ideology is in control. Fascism, communism, liberalism, objectivism, doesn't matter. They are not disciplined enough to do battle with entropy through sustained effort, and not creative or intelligent enough to do battle with entropy through innovation.

But if their house is inevitably going to be surrounded by mountains of trash, just because of who they are, then the greatest comfort they can aspire to is a world where your house is surrounded by trash, too.

This is why communism ruins everything, and why communists cannot be dissuaded when you point this out. Ruining everything for anyone who's better off is what they want.

The trick is to get them to realize that communism allows anyone who is even worse off than they to ruin whatever they still have. Which isn't easy, because if they were smart enough to easily understand this, they wouldn't be surrounded by trash in the first place.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Devoured by the Revolution VII: Spain

The Fever:

Spain, 1936. The revolution arrived wearing the old costume: justice, liberation, the people, the future. Communists, anarchists, foreign volunteers, intellectuals, and street militants imagined they were present at the birth of a new world. Then the churches began to burn.

The Use:

The mob needed enemies, and the Church became a body it could strike. Priests were hunted. Convents were sacked. In cities that did not fall to the Nationalist uprising, revolutionary assaults against churches and convents spread quickly, and in Barcelona the dead themselves were dragged into the spectacle. Exhumed monks and nuns were displayed in public as if corpses could be prosecuted for the sins assigned to them by ideology.

The Turn:

Then the revolution turned inward. Anarchists, anti-Stalinist Marxists, POUM militants, and yesterday’s comrades became obstacles once Soviet-backed communists demanded discipline. During and after the Barcelona May Days of 1937, the left began purging the left. POUM leader Andreu Nin was seized and murdered by Soviet NKVD agents.

The Lesson:

This is the part modern revolutionaries never want remembered. The mob always begins with obvious enemies, then runs out of them. It burns churches, digs up nuns, denounces neighbors, purges allies, and eventually murders men who were revolutionary yesterday but insufficiently obedient today.

The revolution does not stop at the living.

It puts memory itself on trial.

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

🇺🇸 YES, THE CONSTITUTION ACTUALLY GIVES WASHINGTON THE LAST WORD ON ELECTIONS. WHY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT THIS?!

States run the show on election day. But the Constitution never gave them the final say. That power sits with Congress and the federal government, and Trump just reminded everyone of it.

He laid out the logic clean and simple.

"A state is an agent for the federal government in elections."

An agent works under someone else's authority. It does not get to write its own rules and ignore the standard. If the agent fails, the principal steps back in.

That is exactly the argument Trump is making right now, and it is not some radical new theory. It is the actual structure the founders built.

He named names too. Detroit. Philadelphia. Atlanta. Cities with a long, ugly track record of election chaos that somehow never seems to improve no matter how many complaints pile up.

He also brought 2020 back into focus, saying the facts still surfacing point to rigged and crooked conduct in these same places.

States administer elections. Fine. But administering is not the same as owning. When administration turns into repeated failure and corruption, the federal government stepping in is not an overreach. It is the Constitution doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Americans do not want chaos dressed up as states rights. They want elections they can actually trust.