@gatlin_didier@grannybibbins People don't understand, when they say "you'll own nothing and be happy," they aren't merely referring to property and possessions.
They're also referring to YOU yourself, entirely.
Your body, mind and very soul will belong to them.
Resistance to the Borg is futile.
@ShamashAran Condescension is the ugliest of ugly personality traits; in particular when it comes from someone utterly devoid of sense or wisdom.
Who do you think general excels at it, men or women?
@johnkonrad@ReichlinMelnick Sad to think that when the time comes that their country has been fully taken over and dismantled, turned into something utterly unrecognizable, Aaron and his ilk will still insist that it's not an invasion.
In the end, the frog in the slow to boil pot is never spared.
@ZeekArkham The rate is probably almost 100% that anyone invoking Christianity to chastise wisdom like you've shared is neither Christian nor a good faith actor.
@ThePosieParker@jonsopel I dunno, I mean maybe Jon cares to comment on the whole rapey stabby culture thing in the UK before commenting on Americas gun culture (for which he uses utterly erroneous numbers anyways).
Never let leftists spin your head and tell you what phantoms you're to chase.
@SkyNews@cathynewman Oh I know this part.
This is the part where you make an appeal to sympathy in order to create a victim out of a perpetrator.
It's the most boring part of the movie.
@TRobinsonNewEra The left thinks it can control what we talk about.
It's worth a reminder that Free Speech is the very same thing as Free Thought.
Anyone who tries to control your speech is, in reality, trying to control you how to think.
Even worse when they use a faux moral ruleset to do so.
@Keir_Starmer And 82 years later, Kier Starmer presides over a UK government that today would incarcerate these very men, just after throwing them under the bus.
@TheEconomist "Rhetoric about anti-white prejudice is new to British politics—and worth discussing. The dark denial of the radical left seems prompted by hostility, hatred and racism."
FIFY.
Andrew Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, delivering the single greatest blow to financial tyranny in American history. You won't hear this story told correctly in any economics textbook, because it reveals how central banking works: as a government-sponsored cartel that redistributes wealth from productive citizens to politically connected bankers.
The Second Bank held a 20-year federal charter starting in 1816. It controlled the money supply, issued currency, and held government deposits. Sound familiar? Nicholas Biddle, the bank's president, wielded more economic power than any elected official. He could trigger financial panics at will by restricting credit. He bought newspapers and bribed congressmen. When Jackson opposed recharter in 1832, Biddle deliberately crashed the economy to punish him.
Jackson called it "a hydra of corruption" and he was right. The bank created artificial booms through credit expansion, then triggered busts when politically convenient. Biddle openly bragged about manipulating markets. Free market economists and Jackson both recognized the core insight: this was legalized counterfeiting with government backing, not free market banking.
The political establishment united against Jackson. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the entire Whig Party defended the bank. Biddle spent millions buying influence. The press attacked Jackson as an economic ignoramus. Every "respectable" voice supported recharter. Jackson stood alone with the American people.
After Jackson killed the bank, the country experienced the strongest economic growth in its history. From 1837 to 1862, America operated without a central bank. Industry flourished. Wages rose. Innovation exploded. This wasn't coincidence. When you stop subsidizing financial speculation and let productive capital find its natural home, prosperity follows.
Central banks don't stabilize economies: they destabilize them for private gain.
Very happy to see the H-1B issue finally getting the spotlight it deserves.
Researchers like @CyberGreen09, @WeaponAutism and plenty of others have spent countless hours trying to exposing this. They’ve faced death threats. One even fired from their job. They keep going anyway.
The H-1B program was sold to Americans as a way to fill genuine skills gaps. Instead it became a pipeline for corporations to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor while pretending nobody domestic was qualified.
The data is right there. The visa flows. The countries of origin. The consulting firms acting as middlemen. The job postings written specifically to disqualify American applicants.
This was never a secret. It just took citizen journalists and researchers willing to risk everything to make people pay attention.
@jimmy_rustlin In the same way, many protestors slap the "medic" label on as a shield for their activites.
The whole script is copied from that of palestine.
One big nefarious theater mask.
@DisaffectedPod@Grok There is less incentive to develop apps for PC use where that PC isn't constantly on your person.
It's framed as "streamlining" code, but it's a drive to keep you on the device that tracks you everywhere, knows far more about you, and affords much less PII protection.