Bryan Sanders

I am just a man trying to make sense of a world gone mad

[Clinton @614clinton]

I showed up at work this morning wearing an earring. One of my co-workers noticed, and was naturally curious about my sudden change in style.

He walked up to me and said, "I didn't know you were into earrings."

I said, "Don't make such a big deal out of it, it's just an earring."

My coworker fell silent for a few minutes, but his curiosity got the better of him. He finally asked, "So, ah... how long have you been wearing one?"

I looked at him and said, "Ever since my wife found it in my truck."

[i like food @messedupfoods]

there was an entire shockwave😭

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOAH 🚨 My jaw literally dropped listening to this

The Los Angeles Police Department came and tried to clean up Skid Row and in a response a nonprofit working with Mayor Karen Bass SUED THEM and stopped police from EVEN BEING ALLOWED TO ENTER

“LA CAN, which is another organization (an NGO), they get very, very upset and they sue the LAPD when they come and do street cleaning down here. And they're basically saying that their encampments are their Private property. Police can't enter, and they sued the police more than any other organization”

Translation: They are suing to keep the homeless population right where they are so the NGO homeless money laundering industrial complex keeps running

This same NGO has also launched protests to stop Skid Row from being cleaned up

Pure insanity. It’s criminal

[Every Movie Plug @everymovieplug]

Jackie Chan using 200 IQ action moves 🔥

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

🇺🇸 WATCH THIS! Star Spangled Banner played out on steel plates!

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

“If something moves a liberal taxes it, if it keeps moving they regulate it.”
- Ronald Reagan

And he was right. Liberals have absolutely no positive role in the economy or society.
They solely exist to tax and redistribute what they have not earned to those who have not earned it either.

They do not create or build, but only interfere, control, and take from the people who actually produce.

In effect, their taxes pull money away from investment and job creation while regulations raise costs and block new businesses, and their redistribution pays people not to work and punishes those who do.
And as a result, growth slows and opportunity shrinks for everyone.

As government grows bigger and more intrusive, society splits between producers (MAKERS) who get squeezed and non-producers (TAKERS) who get paid to stay idle.
Responsibility fades and more people depend on the state instead of themselves until the system eventually runs out of other people’s money.

So I correct myself. The liberal’s role in the economy is absolutely negative.

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

People like the Amish because they:

1) Don't leech off taxpayers
2) Don't commit crime
3) Don't force their way of life upon others

That's it. That's really all it takes for a group to be accepted in America.

And yet, most groups still do not manage it.

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

GM. This is one of the most profound conversations of our time. Great subtleties are uttered here, but only those who truly listen may hear them.

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Real life anime bartender

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

We did not get rid of absolute monarchs. We simply replaced them with a new group that still enslaves and plunders us.

Kings once claimed divine right over our lives and property. Today a political class does the same through taxation, regulation, and the illusion of consent.

The master rules. The servant obeys. Only the labels and structures changed.

La Boétie saw the root of it long ago. A people enslaves itself when it chooses the yoke instead of liberty.

Bastiat called the modern version legal plunder. The law itself takes what belongs to some and gives it to others who created nothing.

Spooner refused all excuses. Taxation without consent is plain robbery, no different from a highwayman demanding your purse.

Rothbard named the institution clearly. The state is a gang of thieves writ large.

Hoppe traced the historical shift. We traded rulers who often treated the realm as their long term property for temporary caretakers who loot it as fast as they can before the next election.

The new rulers play the exact same role as the old kings.
They claim the right to seize our earnings as tribute, to dictate what we may do with our property through endless regulation, to conscript our labor and our children for their purposes, and to punish any refusal with force.

They live parasitically off the productive while dressing it up as public service. The crown changed. The power to rule and plunder did not.

As long as legal plunder stays acceptable and we refuse to arrest these mass scale thieves, the system will keep breeding more filthy robbers like Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders.

They are not exceptions. They are the predictable output of a machine built for organized theft.

Different mechanisms. Same master-servant dynamic. Your property is still treated as theirs to seize and redistribute.

[Bryan Sanders @icephoenix85]

@RupertLowe10

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors.

There is a process, obviously.

Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir.

Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.

And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent.

So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass.

Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite.

Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

[Gitmo (Health is a Wealth) 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Gitmo99]

When more than 100 Seabreeze High School students were defrauded out of $400,000 for a canceled European trip, local authorities took direct action. Sheriff Mike Chitwood and the victims confronted the agency owner at Daytona Beach International Airport following his extradition.

Each traveler paid at least $3,550 for a nine-day class trip to Italy and Greece.
Just a month before the scheduled departure, Goodwin emailed the group to announce the company was going out of business and could not offer refunds, then shut down his website and communication lines.

Following a lengthy investigation by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, an arrest warrant was issued for Goodwin. He was located and arrested in California. [

Sheriff Chitwood orchestrated an arrival at the Daytona Beach International Airport that allowed frustrated students and parents to directly confront Goodwin as he came off the escalator in handcuffs. Goodwin faces charges of grand theft and organized scheme to defraud, with bond set at $4 million

[Cards of History @GodPlaysCards]

The charge against Augustus is old and simple:

He killed the Republic. Hollywood loves it, and yes, the accusation is true.

What the accusers forget is that the Republic was already rotten, and what replaced it served its people better.

I present you 10 reasons 👇

1) Peace

The late Republic drowned in civil war for a century. Marius against Sulla. Caesar against Pompey. Antony against everyone. Augustus ended it. He gave Rome forty years without armies marching on the city.

2) Food

He took control of the grain supply and made it reliable. A prefect of the corn dole kept the ships moving from Egypt and Africa. The poor of Rome ate because he made sure they did.

3) Provinces

Under the Republic, governors treated their provinces as private mines. They robbed them blind for a year and went home rich. Augustus installed salaried legates and held them to account. The provincials noticed the difference.

4) Safety

Rome had no police and no fire brigade. Gangs owned the streets. Clodius and Milo turned the Forum into a battlefield. Augustus built the Vigiles to fight fires and the Urban Cohorts to keep order.

5) Water

Agrippa rebuilt the aqueducts and gave the city clean water. He opened the baths to everyone and handed out oil and salt for free. The common Roman lived cleaner and lived longer.

6) The army

Republican soldiers followed whichever general promised them land. That loyalty broke the state again and again. Augustus fixed their terms, fixed their pay, and built a treasury to fund their retirement. The legions served Rome in place of warlords.

7) Law

Justice under the Republic favoured the man with the best advocate and the deepest purse. Augustus made the courts function and made himself the final court of appeal. The small man finally had somewhere to turn.

8) Trade

Peace reopened the Mediterranean. One currency, one body of law, and no pirates left worth the name. Goods moved freely from Spain to Syria. Ordinary merchants grew rich on it.

9) The city

He found Rome in brick and left it in marble. Temples, forums, theatres, all of it open to the public. The poorest citizen walked through monuments the old Republic never thought to build for him.

10) Renewal

He gave Rome back its festivals and its temples and its sense of itself. The Secular Games. The Altar of Peace. After a hundred years of blood, people felt the world had been set right again.

Some closing words:

The Republic we mourn was a republic for the few. Liberty meant the freedom of senators to rule, to feud, and to bleed the provinces dry.

For everyone else it meant living at the mercy of whichever strongman owned the streets that year.

So before we mourn the Republic, we might ask who it was really for. And we might ask ourselves the harder question. We prize liberty above all things. But whose liberty, and at whose expense?

The Romans answered that two thousand years ago. We may not like their answer. We would do well to understand it.

A republic sounds great on paper but let's not pretend the people in the empire were far better off.

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

Elon could literally solve homelessness tomorrow.

All he needs to do is sell his stake in the companies he created from the ground up, crashing the price and evaporating his wealth as well as the savings and pensions of workers globally.. handing the control of these companies over to short term profit interests and preventing any long term vision from being enacted..

THEN take whatever money that remains which will be nowhere near 1tn and give it to homeless charities who have never solved homelessness anywhere on earth because they’re financially incentivised to do the opposite.

Bam - homelessness solved.

The reason he doesn’t do any of this is because he’s evil.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

Become dangerous

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

I mean come on