baenji

I ain't no follow back girl.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Haiti is hell because Haitians live there

If you move them to the US you don’t make the Haitians more like Americans

They make America more like Haiti

[Miles @pe_nng]

Semi regular reminder that international law doesn’t exist

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

giving testosterone to females is The Science but giving testosterone to males is junk science

[Caleb Hammer @sircalebhammer]

Whatttt the thing that has happened every time happen again whattttt

[baenji @baenji266]

@philthatremains James Monroe is partying in his grave

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

Millions of people stopped receiving taxpayer-funded food, and grocery prices dropped

Now imagine what would happen if they stopped tax-payer funded healthcare, housing, college...

[Ordnance Jay Packard Esq. (オードナンス・ジェイ・パッカード) @OrdnancePackard]

Americans can define socialism just fine. Y'all are the ones who keep changing the definition from “workers owning the means of production” to “your grandma’s Medicare” whenever the body count and constant failure enters the chat.

Socialism is not “government does things.” Socialism is political control over economic production, property, allocation, and therefore personal freedom. Americans understand that at a genetic level

Marx didn’t mean “Nordic countries with bakeries and bike lanes.” The Marxist transition requires political supremacy, centralizing production through the state, and promising that somehow the people who seized power will eventually hand it back.

That last step is where socialism keeps having its little oopsie

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Law by Bastiat made simple:

1. Every person has a natural right to defend their life, liberty, and property. Law is simply that individual right organized collectively – nothing more, nothing less.

2. The moment law goes beyond that — taking from some to give to others — it has stopped being law and become legal plunder.

3. Legal plunder isn’t exceptional. It’s the normal operating mode of most governments most of the time: subsidies, redistribution, bailouts – each one a faction using state force to extract what it couldn’t get by voluntary agreement.
It was all already there in 1850.

4. The test is simple: if the same act performed by a private individual would be called theft, it’s theft when the state does it too. The badge doesn’t change the nature of the act.

5. Two wrong responses to legal plunder: give everyone the right to plunder (socialism), or let the current plunderers keep going (cronyism).
The only legitimate answer is to strip law back to its actual function.

6. Once people see law as a machine for taking rather than protecting, everyone floods politics to control it – because whoever runs the machine can point it at their enemies. This is why Bastiat defined the state as “that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” Lobbying and corruption aren’t aberrations. They’re the logical conclusion of a law that plunders.

7. The title is the whole argument: Bastiat isn’t describing what the law is. He’s describing what it’s supposed to be – and showing, relentlessly, how far the thing calling itself law has drifted from that. Real law protects. Everything else wearing that name is organized force and theft in disguise.

[kevin smith @kevin_smith45]

In case you’re keeping score America is the only country on earth…

With birthright Citizenship

no voter ID

And a MASSIVE social welfare system

Yeah I can’t imagine why we’re in so much trouble

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The *author* of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment, Senator Jacob Howard, literally explained during the debates that it would obviously not apply to illegal aliens or foreigners not allegiant to the United States…

It was for the children of former slaves.

[Mr. Reply Guy @GenericSnarky]

"If we destroyed all our space ships, unemployed drug addicts could have more kids"

[C3 @C_3C_3]

The Left is pushing for identification to use the internet while pushing for no identification to vote.

Think about that.

[baenji @baenji266]

@philthatremains "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford

Innovation comes from anticipating future needs and desires, not just those of the present

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

“Let’s make sure we get no more PayPals, Teslas, SpaceXs, Neuralinks, Starlinks . . .” Just illiterate, destructive, sclerotic nonsense.

[Frontierism @frontierism]

“Your honor, this is only his first murder”

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

nobody finds pratt’s loss suspicious. but when the distant third place candidate breaks down in tears on election night with what is basically a concession speech, then overwhelmingly dominates everyone for days in harvested mail-in ballots, yes that looks bad.

[baenji @baenji266]

@TheLaurenChen This is the way it has always been. Tribes support their fellow tribesmen. All races other than white show in-group preference; only whites show in-group rejection and out-group preference

[baenji @baenji266]

@philthatremains I think the first time I noticed this phenomenon was with "troll" around 2016, but I have to suspect it's been happening far longer with other terms

[ib @Indian_Bronson]

250 years of continuously extinguishing the bottom ~2% of men who could not behave produced the modern Englishman and Anglo-American , who from the early 1700s to early 2000s almost entirely created the modern world.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

The level of betrayal that has played out here is insane.

Normally, labor scarcity is how an economy heals itself. When workers become harder to find, employers have to raise wages to deal with it, and out of this market slowdown the seeds of a new boom would be sowed as young people have greater purchasing power to buy a home, get married, and have kids of their own.

But instead of allowing that correction to happen, America chose a different model. We’ve mass imported millions of replacements to suppress wages, blowing out asset prices in the process and leaving native Americans economically (and increasingly culturally and politically) dispossessed in their own country.