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[Diversity & Dragons @WeeWheaton]

Man, it's so hard to see why the average 5e campaign lasts 4-6 weeks these days. 😅

[Jacob Huebert @JacobHuebert]

In a concurring opinion today, Justice Clarence Thomas quotes Murray Rothbard's The Progressive Era, noting that "regulations often enable a 'profitable alliance' between corporations and government, as the corporations look 'for government to cartelize their industry after private efforts for cartels and monopoly have failed.'"

[Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby]

Reminder: The author of the 14th amendment’s citizenship clause literally said aliens should not become citizens just because they were born on the soil of America before it was voted on.

[Charles Murray @charlesmurray]

I had never heard of Goodhart’s law, but it is brilliant.

[Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil]

Goodhart’s law is the idea that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

In science, and in academia more broadly, one often comes across what might be called Goodhart academics: ferociously ambitious, very smart people who have become extremely good at maximising the metrics used to evaluate academic success — publications, citations, grants, and so on — without ever producing any valuable work.

[Wanjiru Njoya @WanjiruNjoya]

Read the Gulag Archipelago.

Please, I'm begging you, just read how communist theory caused the deaths of 100 million people across Europe and the world.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

AIR CONDITIONING IS NOT A RIGHT-WING TECHNOLOGY

IT'S JUST A PUMP THAT MAKES A ROOM COLDER

STOP BEING AN IDIOT

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

This is an all-timer

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Lee Kuan Yew was a genius

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Perfect

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

https://t.co/yvJOwOS4xE

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Germany: You can't watch this film. It's banned.

Elon Musk: Posts entire film on main.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Joe McCarthy was right and should have a statue on the National Mall.

[RazörFist @RazorFist]

Fact: Putting "boots on the ground" in Iran is unpopular.

Also fact: What comes later if we ignore this problem now will be far less popular.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The people who got elected in New York are communists who have explicitly said that western civilization is the enemy and should be destroyed. Go ahead and take their side, you absolute fool. They’ll thank you for your assistance and then slit your throat the first chance they get. These people hate whites, hate America, hate western civilization, and they aren’t remotely trying to hide it.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

I did. Stupidest shite ever.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

What a fucking photo.

Hung Cao’s family fled the Vietnamese communists as refugees.

He returns to meet with the Vietnamese communists as emissary of the most powerful empire in world history, acting Secretary of the United States Navy.

It’s like a biblical story. Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery and he returns to them as the powerful representative of the Pharaoh

Amazing

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Fight communist influence like you’re the third monkey on Noah’s Ark.

And brother… it’s startin’ to rain.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

👀👀

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Using the goof-ball definition of genocide that leftists today almost universally push for, didn't Hamas already commit "genocide" against Israel?

I.e., a group that would ideally like to destroy another killed some of the out-group's members, targeted their children, etc? We keep hearing that the scope of this activity, and even the growth of the other group in size, do not matter.

No?