Betsy

“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.”Vladimir Lenin
This explains everything.

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME LIKE I’M IN KINDERGARTEN

Why did we replace every bulb with LED, bought Energy Star appliances, built massive solar and wind farms, kept the lights off, lowered the thermostat, and yet the electric bill keeps climbing?

We did everything they told us to do, and somehow the only thing getting more efficient is how fast they take our money.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

"I will throw you in prison. I want Chinese style communism to happen inside of the democratic party right now. I want to do cultural revolution shit."

Hamas Piker just flat out admits he wants to imprison and kill democrats in a literal communist revolution. These are animals.

[Steve Ferguson @lsferguson]

Gas went over $4 a gallon for the first time in July of 2008.

Oil was around $140 a barrel, eventually going up to $148 in July of 2008.

Today, gas was 4.47 a gallon.

Today, oil was at $92.60 a gallon.

This isn't the war with Iran.

We are being gouged. @timburchett @RepTimBurchett

[Christopher Rufo @christopherrufo]

In California, an undocumented migrant couple with an undocumented grandparent and two U.S.-born children can collect up to $100,000 per year in welfare benefits. All funded by taxpayers.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

In a free market with a wage mechanism there’s no such thing as a labor shortage

“Can’t find” means “refuses to pay an American enough”

[Theo Wold @RealTheoWold]

Nevada's Rhea Data is proposing to build a *4 million* square foot data center less than four miles from where Micron is building their $10 billion campus.

The state of Idaho needs to stop surrendering our land to every out of state corporation that decides to throw money at us.
https://t.co/N1g9BebHNR

[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

This is one of the greatest crimes against the American people.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

“They came here legally and assimilated”

Actually they scammed their way hear to live in ethnic enclaves where they erected statues to foreign gods

“Well, nevertheless…”

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

When they say: Please, for the love of God, regulate us. Give us licences, audits, and bans before our digital God destroys us all.

Here is what is actually being requested. Three things, in order.

A regulatory body that they control, to prevent competition from catching up. Written with their people, staffed by their alumni, and calibrated to what they can already afford. Compliance is a fixed cost, which means it is trivial for the incumbent and fatal for the challenger. Not technology, but paperwork becomes their moat.

Immunity from liability. This is the one nobody talks about and it is the most valuable of the three. Today, if your model causes harm, it is your fault. Once licensed, audited, and approved, it is the regulator’s fault – you followed the rules. The licence converts responsibility into a receipt.

Too big to fail status, which means taxpayer funded bailouts in case of problems. Declare it critical infrastructure and the state now has an interest in your survival. Which means, when something goes wrong, the losses are public and the gains stay private. We have watched this film. Banking, 2008, same argument, same vocabulary.

Note the pattern: every one of the three transfers something from them to the public – risk, competition, cost – while the language is entirely about protecting the public from them.

The sincerity of the fear is beside the point. Sincere people can still ask for exactly what an insincere person would ask for, and the request should be judged by what it does rather than by what motivates it.

The alternative is unglamorous and works: competition, adversarial testing between rivals who want to find each other’s flaws, and full liability after real harm. Nobody gets a licence. Nobody gets immunity. Nobody gets a bailout. You build, and you answer for what you built.

That is the arrangement that made the West rich. It has never needed anyone’s permission to work.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

The LLMs hoovered up everything in the copyrighted world, including all my own books and articles etc and those of every other author, and the excuse from on high was some all-out emergency must-win AI arms race with China.

Now they're "pacing themselves."

I'm beyond furious.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

They tried to do w/ social media what they are attempting now with AI. To own it all & own us. They used dubious crises: "Russiagate," Covid etc. We barely survived those attempts to grab social media & the 1st Amendment & the proof is I can write about them on X.

Don't let those people capture AI. They may try new crises. Hang tough.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Ask yourself why the mouthpieces who misled you on Covid, in fundamental ways that can now be demonstrated, were never fired.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

If we replaced a sizable portion of Israelis with Palestinians in kippahs I feel like Ben would suddenly get it

[Uncommon Sense @Uncommonsince76]

Why is it “racist” for White people to be upset about their replacement,

But not “racist” for Indians to replace them?

🤔

[Theo Wold @RealTheoWold]

The Swedish government gave citizenship to over 200,000 immigrant newcomers in the last four years.

Over 70% of them just voted for the left-wing party in their elections.

All across the west, natives vote overwhelmingly for the right, while newcomers vote for the left.

This is why the Democratic Party is so dedicated to changing the demographics of America through open borders.

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

There has been a focused, purposeful effort to replace Americans with foreigners in order to drive down labor costs and create new, loyal voting blocs. This has gone on for years.

Reversing this will look like bigotry. Sometimes it will even BE bigotry.

But reverse it we must.

[Betsy @betsymw]

@gub4112 @SirBylHolte Yes, but paying attention, tracking everything, voting and winning elections didn’t help either.

[Betsy @betsymw]

@TheJustinEckard @SirBylHolte Yes, and also I don’t think they’re even republicans. I think dems/libs run as republicans and that’s why they always “cave” when they get in office.

[Betsy @betsymw]

@DippityToo @SirBylHolte This is the only way forward- local

[JeffB2530🌷🇺🇲 @butzj12530]

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