❌ bah! ❌

Fnord

[❌ bah! ❌ @ftumch01]

What she said

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

China restricts VPNs.
Iran restricts VPNs.
Russia restricts VPNs.

Now Britain is looking at doing the same.

The fact we're even having this conversation should alarm everyone who values privacy and freedom online.

Keir Starmer has completely lost the plot.

[zomb1elvis @zomb1elvis1]

#ENGCRO

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Corporate lobbying exists because government has something valuable to sell.

If politicians didn't have the power to grant privileges, subsidies, exemptions, contracts, tariffs, and bailouts, nobody would spend billions trying to influence them.

The problem isn't money in politics.

The problem is power in politics.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"among the minority of people who have exceptional mathematical abilities, the women are more likely than the men to have exceptional language abilities as well...inevitably means that fewer mathematically gifted women pursue careers in math-heavy fields" https://t.co/CqS3r2MbRl

[Flappr @flapprdotnet]

I'm impressed by this shirt.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: England fans, joined by some Americans, chanted "Keir Starmer's a wanker" at the World Cup against Croatia, despite threats from the FA

They waited until the end of game in additional time to avoid getting removed.

They speak for England! F*ck leftism. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Nigel Forrester @NigelForrester9]

The idea that shock therapy in Eastern Europe failed and was fundamentally a mistake seems to have become something of a ‘folk belief of the upper normie’. Has never been updated in light of the very strong economic performance of Eastern Europe since then, which was surely impossible without rapidly clearing out all these obstacles. Nor is there much evidence of long-term political scarring (where there is political instability it can be attributed to more recent events). Countries which delayed their ‘shock therapy’ somewhat, like Romania (which had to wait until Constantinescu in 1996), just wasted their time.

[Handre @Handre]

In 1956, the federal government opened thirty-three eleven-story towers in St. Louis. By 1972 the city was dynamiting them on live television. Sixteen years. That is the lifespan of one of the most celebrated public housing projects in American history, a complex that won an architecture award from the same profession that designed it.

Pruitt-Igoe cost about $36 million to build, funded under the Housing Act of 1949 and the dreams of planners who believed you could engineer the poor into prosperity by stacking them in concrete. Minoru Yamasaki drew the towers (he later designed the World Trade Center, which also came down on television, though that is another story). The men who approved the project answered to no price signal, no profit, no loss. They spent other people's money on buildings nobody chose to live in voluntarily, then acted surprised when the tenants treated the property accordingly.

Here is what central planning cannot solve: nobody owned the place. Not really. The residents rented from a housing authority that collected rents capped by law and below the cost of maintenance. So the elevators stopped working. The heating failed. Windows broke and stayed broken. By 1971 occupancy had collapsed to roughly 600 people in buildings designed for 10,000. You do not need a degree in economics to understand a building where the toilets back up and no one is responsible. You need only to have read Mises on property without owners. When the bureaucrat spends appropriated funds, he can never replicate the discipline of an owner facing a balance sheet.

The planners diagnosed the failure as a design problem. Too many high-rises, they said. Not enough community space. They never asked whether the entire model of subsidized, politically administered housing produces exactly these results, because asking that question puts the planner out of a job. Charles Jencks called the 3:32 PM demolition on March 16, 1972 the death of modern architecture.

It was the predictable end of property without owners, paid for by taxpayers who never set foot in St. Louis and were billed anyway.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Burnham is an open-borders disaster 👇

[British Intel @TheBritishIntel]

🇬🇧 WATCH: DAVID LAMMY ADMITS WHAT THEIR REAL PRIORITY IS

This has been Labour's number one priority all along.

The British people can raise concerns about immigration, crime, housing, grooming gangs or the cost of living until they're blue in the face.

They are not listening.

They never have, and under this Government they never will.

Instead, their focus is on cracking down on those who dare to speak out.

Traitors to the very people they are supposed to serve.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

A French friend phones. I tell him I’m surprised that he is not watching the France-Sénégal match. He makes a peculiarly Gallic noise that I can describe only as a vocal shrug. “The legal immigrants are playing the illegal immigrants.”

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

24 year old previously convicted sex offender and asylum seeker from Eritrea fooled authorities into believing he was a child.

He sexually assaulted a drunk woman after pestering other women as they left the nightclub.

He also cornered a 15-year-old girl as she came out of a train toilet touching her breast over her clothing three or four times while the girl tried to get away from him.

Meron Habtu is currently serving 12 months in prison even though he has previous, and he's on the sex offenders' register for ten years.

Why is he still here?

Why isn't there a deportation order?

[A.K.A. JLongb0ne @JonsLongs]

"coonteenth"

NIGGA 🤣

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"men are treated more harshly than women in the criminal justice system: They receive longer sentences for the same crime...Interestingly, male judges are more likely than female ones to go easy on female defendants." https://t.co/CqS3r2MbRl

[Bovril-Gesellschaft @BovrilG]

@sciantificnew If you have curtains on your house that’s a pretty good hint that you don’t want your neighbours to see you raping your children

[Napo Léon @NapoLeon1226391]

Petit aperçu des supportrices de chaque pays...
Voir le réel et se mettre une balle...

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

“Refugee Week” has begun

Partner organisations include “Migrant Help”, which received over £153 MILLION from taxpayers between 2020-24

https://t.co/I7WdtaUWdu

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Socialists don't want to help the poor. They want to punish the rich.

They don't want to build, produce, or create. They want to destroy, redistribute, and consume.

Their focus is rarely on how wealth is created, only on who has it. That's why their solutions begin with taking and end with asking why there's less to take.