Maker Burns

Music. Cinema. Philosophy.

[Maker Burns @MakerBurns]

@JoshDaws @DineshDSouza What? Doing evil doesn't magically become not evil just because your purposes are good.

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@LaurieLemuria @Festivalkyrie @MattWalshBlog I'm sorry, but I'm genuinely trying to understand the distinction you're making. What exactly is it the Commonwealth failed to prove, that, without which, a juror would be obligated to acquit, even when they believe the defendant to be criminally responsible?

[Maker Burns @MakerBurns]

@LaurieLemuria @Festivalkyrie @MattWalshBlog You said 2 things were both true:

1 Several jurors believed LC was criminally responsible
2 The Commonwealth failed to prove its case.

If (1) is true, how does that constitute a failure for the Commonwealth?

If (2) is true, how is (1) possible?

[Maker Burns @MakerBurns]

@LaurieLemuria @Festivalkyrie @MattWalshBlog How are those two things not mutually exclusive? If, after the trial, a juror belies she's criminally responsible, how would they have come to that belief, save by the prosecution's case?
Conversely, if they failed to prove their case, why the juror yet believe she was guilty?

[Maker Burns @MakerBurns]

@rand_longevity BINGO

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Personally, I approve of Flock cameras:

There ought to be one in every office of every government building, live-streaming to the public at all times.

[Maker Burns @MakerBurns]

Epic tweet.

[Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux]

Unattractive people run to the government for money and power, because they can’t get as much money and power by being attractive.

[Maker Burns @MakerBurns]

@Gavin_McInnes True. But they can't be reasoned with. They vote the way they're told to vote by their elitist betters. I might have desired to heal the divide, up until the moment Charlie Kirk was murdered.

Now all I care about is to eradicate Islam and smash communism forever.

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@Gavin_McInnes I couldn't even tolerate listening to this garbage for longer than two seconds. It's utterly insufferable. We need to stop talking to these people. It doesn't matter what they think.

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@RickD_GK I like the cut of this guy's jib

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@DivinelyDesined https://t.co/ixER43TTqY

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If you think about waves of light as data streams, you might compare them to a coax cable from your internet provider, which carries analog radio-frequency waves.

Your modem is like your eye. Its principle job is to do an A/D conversion, and re-interperet those frequencies as digital bits.

This bit stream, much like your optic nerve, sends the data to your computer (corresponding to your brain), which then takes all those packets of data and organizes them into useful, presentable information, completely unbeknownst to the end user.

Your browser then, is akin to your conscious experience, which is the only actual thing you interact with.

So, according to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, it’s perfectly plausible to believe that the mere existence of a coax cable, is enough to warrant the possibility that a random selection process, completely separate and unaware of said cable, might, incidentally, result in the fabrication of a modem, which, although plugged into a computer with no TCP/IP stack and no browser software, should yet confer to its end user a great fitness boon, regardless of the fact that every member of his species had heretofore gotten along perfectly well without even the capability of interacting with this epistemologically nonexistent cable.

Sorry, but that’s retarded.

[Maker Burns @MakerBurns]

@StealthQE4 KFP2

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@_gh0stn

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@TheEconomist "Panic about chocolate rations is spreading. Yet the Ministry of Plenty has just announced they've been raised to 20 grams."

[Maker Burns @MakerBurns]

If you think about waves of light as data streams, you might compare them to a coax cable from your internet provider, which carries analog radio-frequency waves.

Your modem is like your eye. Its principle job is to do an A/D conversion, and re-interperet those frequencies as digital bits.

This bit stream, much like your optic nerve, sends the data to your computer (corresponding to your brain), which then takes all those packets of data and organizes them into useful, presentable information, completely unbeknownst to the end user.

Your browser then, is akin to your conscious experience, which is the only actual thing you interact with.

So, according to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, it’s perfectly plausible to believe that the mere existence of a coax cable, is enough to warrant the possibility that a random selection process, completely separate and unaware of said cable, might, incidentally, result in the fabrication of a modem, which, although plugged into a computer with no TCP/IP stack and no browser software, should yet confer to its end user a great fitness boon, regardless of the fact that every member of his species had heretofore gotten along perfectly well without even the capability of interacting with this epistemologically nonexistent cable.

Sorry, but that’s retarded.

[Maker Burns @MakerBurns]

@Templarpilled As a white kid, I grew up watching the Cosby Show, Fresh Price, Family Matters, In Living Color.

Today, 20 year old black kids parrot this line about needing to see characters that "look like me" when they grew up with a black POTUS

It's just a disingenuous party slogan.

[Dominik Tarczyński MEP @D_Tarczynski]

10 years.
Fight ot die.

[Maker Burns @MakerBurns]

There's a concrete answer, Grok explains:

George Soros-connected money has played a documented, high-leverage role in a wave of “progressive prosecutor” or “reform DA” campaigns since the mid-2010s. The strategy treated low-budget, low-turnout local races as an efficient way to change charging, bail, and sentencing practices without waiting for legislatures.

Timeline
The focused effort on district attorney races began around 2014–2015. Open Society Foundations (Soros’s main philanthropic vehicle) had already spent years funding criminal-justice reform groups challenging mass incarceration, the death penalty, and drug enforcement. After internal discussions involving then-Open Society president Christopher Stone, the operation shifted toward electing prosecutors themselves. Whitney Tymas, a lawyer with public-defender and prosecutor experience, was brought in to run it.

2015: Early wins in Louisiana and Mississippi (including the first Black DA in Caddo Parish).
2016 onward: Rapid expansion via a network of state-level “Safety and Justice” or “Justice & Public Safety” PACs. High-profile successes followed in Chicago (Kim Foxx), Philadelphia (Larry Krasner), and elsewhere.
The Washington Post described it as Soros setting out “a decade ago” to elect DAs who would divert low-level offenders, oppose cash bail for minor crimes, and emphasize police accountability.

The network has continued into the 2020s, with renewed spending reported in 2025–2026 even after several high-profile losses. Alex Soros now oversees much of the family political apparatus.

How widespread
It was never every DA race, but it was strategically concentrated in large urban and suburban jurisdictions. Trackers differ on exact counts because they use different criteria (direct PAC spending vs. any affiliated group support vs. post-election policy alignment):

Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF): ~75 prosecutors covering more than 72 million people — about 1 in 5 Americans and half of the 50 largest cities/counties at the movement’s peak.
Media Research Center (MRC): 126 prosecutors and related officials, covering roughly 30% of the U.S. population.
Washington Post analysis of the core Justice & Public Safety PAC network: spending in at least 62 primary and general-election races over a decade, with a 77% win rate.

Notable examples include Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Manhattan, Dallas, San Antonio, St. Louis, Portland (Oregon), Northern Virginia counties, and others. Many of these offices handle a large share of the country’s homicides and property crime.

Money involved
Figures vary by what is counted (direct independent expenditures in races vs. grants to supporting nonprofits):

Core PAC spending on races: Capital Research Center tracked more than $29 million through Soros-funded PACs by early 2022. LELDF put the decade-long campaign total above $40 million. The Washington Post’s 2025 analysis of the Justice & Public Safety PAC and affiliates described spending on the order of tens of millions across those 62 races — a modest sum nationally but often decisive locally because typical DA campaigns raise far less.
Broader ecosystem: MRC estimated $40 million on elections plus $77 million to allied nonprofits (Fair and Just Prosecution, Color of Change PAC, Vera Institute projects, etc.), totaling about $117 million.
Individual races frequently saw $300,000–$2 million+ in outside spending. Examples: nearly $1.7 million for Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, $2 million-plus for Kim Foxx in Cook County, substantial sums for George Gascón in Los Angeles, and $1 million from Soros to Color of Change around the time it backed Alvin Bragg in Manhattan. In some contests the Soros-linked PAC was the largest spender by a wide margin and could exceed what both candidates raised combined.

The mechanism was usually independent-expenditure PACs (ads, mailers, polling) rather than direct candidate contributions, plus grants to groups that then endorsed or campaigned. Post-election, organizations such as Fair and Just Prosecution (a Tides Center project) convened the prosecutors, circulated policy templates and joint statements, and maintained frequent contact in some offices.

[Maker Burns @MakerBurns]

@RonDeSantis Fuck this post completely.

It's the United States government that has artificially consolidated this technology to a handful of tech giants, so they can control it.

AI should be an unregulated, open source wild West.