just enough knowledge to know I dont know anything

I am the shy type, but sometimes I like to talk about books.

[Kitten 🐈 @kitten_beloved]

Accepting the premise that any aid is a perpetually binding moral obligation is an excellent reason to never offer any

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Today the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to strike down Trump's order ending birthright citizenship, upholding the 14th Amendment. And much of the right is furious. Ask yourself why.

America was once the melting pot, proud to draw the ambitious from every corner of the earth. Now there is suspicion and anger toward anyone who comes here to build a life. Where did that come from?

It comes from the welfare state. The right cannot defeat it, so they fear that every new arrival is one more claimant who will bankrupt us faster than we are already going bankrupt against $39 trillion in debt. The fear is rational. The conclusion is not.

The answer is not to close the border. It is to end the welfare state. In a nation that protects rights and lets men keep what they produce, you have nothing to fear from those who come here to work, because when they produce, we all gain.

The problem was never that they come to produce. It is that they are promised they can come to collect.

Solving this requires a culture that respects the individual's right to his own life, which neither party understands.

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[alexandriabrown @alexthechick]

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People either do not know the following or are pretending not to know the following, so, a gentle reminder:

Constitutional or unconstitutional is a determination of legality, not morality.

Constitutional does not mean morally good.

Unconstitutional does not mean morally bad.

Constitutional or unconstitutional is a determination of legality, not wisdom.

Constitutional does not mean a law, regulation, or legal concept is wise.

Unconstitutional does not mean a law, regulation, or legal concept is foolish.

Constituational or unconstitional is a determation of legality, not of requirement.

Constituational means that something can be done, not that it must be done.

Unconstituational does not mean that that the inverse of whatever action was held unconstitutional must be done.

Constituational or unconstitutional is a determination of legality.

That's it.

That's all it is.

The people who are paid money to opine on legal matters know this full well. If those people are acting as if they do not? Well.

It is valid indeed to consider if those people's views should be given any credence, considering that the options are they do not know the most basic principles at all or they are pretending not to know this so as to generate outrage and thus clicks.

The courts will not save you. The courts should not save you.

Anyone who says differently is selling something.

/fin

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Looks like we are going to need this

Text - S.J.Res.189 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to protect United States citizenship. | https://t.co/hBfWrXMPR3 | Library of Congress https://t.co/G0XFwBq0el

[Texas2AAttorney @CJGRISHAM]

Another simple fix: cut off ALL public funds and services to illegal immigrants and foreigners. Remove the magnet, the detritus isn't attracted.

[alexandriabrown @alexthechick]

@MZHemingway It is very, very easy to see where we go from here:

Visa restrictions that anyone who is past say five months pregnant does not get a visa.

Constitional amendment to eliminate birthright citizenship.

This has been pointed out by me and others for decades.

[Texas2AAttorney @CJGRISHAM]

Trump has been proving leftists wrong. His SCOTUS picks have proven to be independent, unlike the liberal justice who vote in lockstep with liberal causes, the constitution be damned. Yes, it can be frustrating for conservatives, but it's a fact.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

We’re going to need a constitutional amendment.

[just enough knowledge to know I dont know anything @maybeprobablyno]

@SCOTUSblog I am early into reading a book about the history of Rome & there is some foreshadowing that the decline of the Roman empire began after they began handing out citizenship like it's candy, embraced foreign gods & customs & argued to let the Gaul's be a part of the government.

[Love Beyond Color @LoveBeyondCo1or]

Slavery was horrible. It should’ve never happened, period. But let’s get some facts straight here. Africans sold other black people into slavery. Less than 2% of white people owned slaves, and they were rich. Black people owned black slaves, and some fought to keep them. White people fought a war to end slavery. The majority of white people have always been against racism and slavery, or they wouldn’t have fought and given their lives to end it.
Love Beyond Color

[just enough knowledge to know I dont know anything @maybeprobablyno]

"The difference between Jesus and the politician is only force: one asks, the other seizes."

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

This is a valid question and part of why socialism keeps spreading despite killing over 100 million. Some libertarians and very few conservatives reject socialism while most still accept the moral code that drives it. Until men embrace a rational morality, one that holds man's own life as the standard of value and the moral man as one who pursues his rational self-interest, socialism will keep marching.

Here is the answer. The difference between Jesus and the politician is only force: one asks, the other seizes. But do not stop there, because the deeper problem is the moral code both share.

Both preach that your purpose is to serve others, that sacrifice is the good and self-interest the sin. Once you accept that, you have already lost. If living for others is the moral ideal, then the politician is only enforcing what you admit is right, and your sole objection becomes "please don't make it mandatory." That is not a defense of freedom. It is a plea for the privilege of being voluntarily selfless.

You cannot fight socialism with the morality that feeds it. A code that brands self-interest as evil will always surrender to the men who promise to make sacrifice universal.

[just enough knowledge to know I dont know anything @maybeprobablyno]

@TrumpsHurricane She should start the train that gets the fuck out

[just enough knowledge to know I dont know anything @maybeprobablyno]

@thehill That's just something stupid people say.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Oh, blow it out your ass. Thanking that smug jackass for turning a straight-up separation-of-powers case into her personal resistance scrapbook, what a pathetic activist hack.

TPS means Temporary Protected Status. Temporary, you brain-dead jackhole. Not some judicially enforced permanent residency because you’re on a guilt trip. Not “forever home because leftist crybabies got the feels.” Congress wrote the goddamn law. DHS runs it. Courts don’t get to hijack immigration policy just because Kagan dug up some cherry-picked quotes she could glue to her whiny dissent like a participation trophy.

And the Haiti flip-flop is fucking hilarious. When Trump called that shithole a disaster, the same pack of lying shitstains screamed it was a vibrant paradise, misunderstood gem with world-class beaches. Conan was out there taking coconut selfies like a tourist twat. Democrats ran the full “Haiti is wonderful” propaganda circus.

Now suddenly deporting Haitians back to Haiti is some monstrous crime because ... surprise! ... Haiti is a dangerous, unlivable hellhole? Pick a fucking script, you dishonest hacks.

The Supreme Court wasn’t asked if Haiti is nice, if Trump is polite, or if Kagan could do her moralistic twerking in the footnotes. The question was dead simple: Does immigration authority belong to the Executive Branch under the statute Congress actually passed, or does every black-robed activist cunt get to play dictator and run foreign policy from their chambers?

The majority nailed it.

Kagan’s dissent is the perfect embodiment of everything rotten: pure emotion slathered in fake legal perfume, political temper tantrum masquerading as constitutional analysis, and yet another entitled demand that real Americans just bend over and accept “temporary” as a permanent invasion because the Left decided borders are raaaacist and mean.

TPS is temporary, you stupid fucks.

Judges are not presidents.

And your deranged tweets and sob stories are not constitutional arguments.

Fuck off with this judicial coup bullshit. The adults are back in charge.

[just enough knowledge to know I dont know anything @maybeprobablyno]

@business The T has always meant temporary.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

The taboo is dead.

Not wounded. Not limping. Dead.

For years, the ruling class survived by making the obvious unsayable. They did not need to win the argument. They only needed to make sure nobody was allowed to have it.

So they built a vocabulary for cowardice.

“Community cohesion.”

“Diversity.”

“Isolated incidents.”

“Complex factors.”

“Don’t inflame tensions.”

Funny how the tensions they feared were never the girls being abused, the families being destroyed, or the towns being gaslit. The emergency was always the citizen who noticed the pattern.

That is what radicalized people.

Not some speech. Not some meme. Not some online boogeyman the regime can blame so it never has to look in the mirror.

The radicalizing event was official denial.

It was watching institutions see victims and reach first for the script. It was watching police, councils, social workers, politicians, and media managers treat public truth like a bigger threat than public betrayal. It was watching every normal protective instinct get pathologized while every failed ideology got another subsidy, another excuse, another commission, another sermon.

And now young men are looking at the wreckage and asking the forbidden question:

Who gave these people the right to give away the West?

They inherited churches, towns, families, borders, memory, duty, and civilization. Then they were told none of it belonged to them, none of it was worth defending, and noticing its destruction made them dangerous.

Too late.

The taboo is dead.

The spell is broken.

And a generation that was supposed to apologize for its inheritance is starting to want it back.
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[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

100% correct. When I was at the Del Rio, TX Haitian bridge camp in 2021, many of the Haitians told me they had been living in Chile & Brazil for years before coming to the US illegally for economic (not safety) reasons. The Haitians were dumping & tearing up their Chilean documents at the river’s edge hide this fact from the US so it wouldn’t hurt their fraudulent asylum claims.

The idea that all these Haitians came directly from Haiti after an earthquake or assassination is false. Many of them were living happily and safely for years in South America until Biden’s open border policies became too attractive to pass up. Others also flew into the US via Biden’s CHNV mass parole program which was supposed to be for only 2 year humanitarian parole grants. Of course, most never left.

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

The collectivist says the billionaire exploits the workers beneath him. Ayn Rand answered this completely with what she called the pyramid of ability.

In a free economy, the man of greater ability gives far more to those below him than they give to him. The physicist who discovers a principle hands a gift to every engineer who uses it. The industrialist who organizes production raises the wage and the standard of living of every worker he employs. But the reverse isn't true. The workers could never replace him, and could not produce on their own what he makes possible.

As Rand put it: "the man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him."

So the truth is the exact opposite of the Marxist claim. The able man is not the exploiter. He is the benefactor of everyone beneath him, earning in payment only a fraction of the value he creates and spreads to all the rest.

Envy calls that theft. Reality calls it the gift of genius.

[just enough knowledge to know I dont know anything @maybeprobablyno]

@theobjectivist Don't forget the progress that occurs when housing supply is short and each room of your home becomes a possible living space that the government can then assign to random needy families that you've never met before.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Almost everyone has missed the actual point, here.

@politicalmath has made a slam-dunk argument-ending case that the left doesn't believe its own rhetoric.

Which is not only A relevant point, it's the ONLY relevant point.

Because if your own arguments are so weak that they don't even convince YOU, there is absolutely no reason for me to even listen to them, much less debate them.