Mark D

[Mark D @Mark_D_Sampson]

@libsoftiktok @stavvybaby

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

With @wethefifth talking about common knowledge:

“Common knowledge can be generated at a stroke when something is witnessed in a forum where you can witness other people witnessing it. So if something just happens in public and you can see everyone else seeing it, that gives you an instant intuition that there’s common knowledge.

Humor, I suggest in one of the chapters, is a common-knowledge generator, usually of some infirmity or indignity or weakness in someone or something. And the laughter, which is conspicuous—you can hear it when someone is laughing; it interrupts their speech and breathing—at the moment of laughter, suddenly becomes common knowledge. Everyone who gets the joke suddenly realizes that someone has been taken down, and they realize that everyone else realizes it.

And that’s why freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are suppressed in autocracies. The joke from the Soviet era is about the man handing out leaflets in Red Square. Of course, the KGB arrest him, take him down to headquarters, only to discover that the leaflets are blank sheets of paper. They say, ‘What is the meaning of this?’ And he says, ‘What’s there to say? It’s so obvious.’

And the reason that it was subversive is that he was generating common knowledge. Just the mere fact of trying to make something public, even if you don’t have to stipulate what it is, can generate the coordination—everyone acting together to bring down a regime.”

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Sam Harris explains: "Why I Won’t Debate Critics of Israel" https://t.co/fdm68is6dL

[Mark D @Mark_D_Sampson]

@ZeroSuitCamus @mimizima_ racist

[Mark D @Mark_D_Sampson]

@ZeroSuitCamus if it belonged to any other country you wouldn't have made that declaration.

[New York Post @nypost]

Iranian star slapped with barbaric lashing for belting out patriotic song without a hijab on https://t.co/BqWrPzoO0u

[Mark D @Mark_D_Sampson]

@_cashcarstar @FarOutMag Yikes….its scary people like you exist

[Tim @trouble_man90]

Leftists: Woke 1 was crazzzyy bro 😂😂

Leftists is 2025:

[Mark D @Mark_D_Sampson]

@willmenaker @kath_krueger move to Cuba commies

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Luigi Leftism

[Mark D @Mark_D_Sampson]

@NoContextBrits @stevensongs You fucking pieces of shit.

[Mark D @Mark_D_Sampson]

@FarOutMag so interesting a professional rock guitarist from the 90's credits the Sex Pistols as an influence. Next story: Chuck Berry influenced many of the rock bands of the 60's!

[GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga @GAZAWOOD1]

During the October 7 massacre, Hamas terrorists executed an 18-year-old girl in front of her entire family.
Then they dragged her father away, kidnapped him, and murdered him in captivity.

They filmed every second live... and proudly posted it for the world to see.

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

You know why.

They cherry-pick their minority members to run for office because they want to pretend their ideology isn't a bunch of downwardly mobile white losers who failed at life despite having attorneys for parents

[Mark D @Mark_D_Sampson]

@willmenaker @makjak isn't capitalism great!

[Mark D @Mark_D_Sampson]

@SeanMcCarthyCom

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

@bradlander @ZohranKMamdani Antizionism is racism

[Neo @Realneo101]

Iranian fans at SoFi Stadium hold a massive "42,000 #IranMassacre" banner in memory of those slaughtered by the regime on Jan 8–9, 2026.

[Mark D @Mark_D_Sampson]

@JordanHallWX