Mitchell Hackett

Recovering certainty addict.

[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.

[Heather C. @Ducati_Chic]

@GOP_is_Gutless Mr. Sowell NEEDS to be REQUIRED reading in every public education school. BAR NONE!!!! 😤😤😤😤

[Mitchell Hackett @MHacket1]

@revenant_MMXX I think this is projecting how you feel about violence onto Tarantino. Some of us just think that sometimes violence is necessary and good. I could be wrong though, has Tarantino ever given an interview where he suggests the Inglorious Basterds were the bad guys?

[Mitchell Hackett @MHacket1]

@bizlet7 I don’t think Tarantino views violence as immoral though. Violence in the service of good is noble, and in the service of evil is not. The audience cheering just violence against Nazis are not “no different” from the audience cheering on Nazi violence.

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

@estherzelda0514 I think this is called employment. This is actually different from slavery in a couple pretty important ways.

[Kat Rosenfield @katrosenfield]

Much has been written today about the concept of suicidal empathy, but nobody else, as far as I know, has connected that concept to the 2005 incident where a chimpanzee ate a man's lips, nose, and testicles

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

She demonstrated my argument in real time lmao

[bitchuneedsoap @bitchuneedsoap]

This is what socialism looks like.

Promise everything. Free buses. Free childcare. Rent freeze. City owned grocery stores.

Win the election on the promise.

Take office and discover the math doesn’t work.

Demand someone else pay. The governor. The legislature. The wealthy. Anyone but the voters who were told this would all be free.

When that fails, blame the structure. “We need a structural reset.”

Socialism never fails. It only ever gets betrayed by reality.

New York is about to learn what every other city that tried this already knows. The bill always comes due. And it never comes due to the people who promised it would be free.

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

Then go make art and be in your garden. Nobody is stopping you.

If you say "but then how will I pay rent and eat!", then your actual complaint is you want stuff to be handed to you for free. Which means *others* have to work to provide for you, and not make art or be in gardens.

[Mike Coté @ratlpolicy]

Naturally, the second totalitarianism that I'm talking about is Soviet communism. It's very telling that each & every one of these comments completely missed that! The Soviet menace was quite possibly more dangerous to long-term European liberty than were the Nazis.

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

Insurance companies are required to pay out claims, they can't keep more than 20% of all premiums, if they don't pay out enough claims then the rest is reimbursed to people who are insured.

No one on the far left has literally any idea how insurance markets or healthcare or anything in the US works, it's just endless virtue signalling to rile people up to get some momentary popularity for their unelectable candidates while Republicans are busy destroying the country.

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

Germany’s shutdown of its entire fleet of nuclear reactors—among the best in the world—will go down as one of the most catastrophic acts of self-inflicted wealth destruction in history. More remarkably, it was enthusiastically applauded as a shining beacon of climate policy by many self-proclaimed “progressives,” seemingly indifferent to the billions of tons of additional emissions and air pollution it would entail.

Germany is in really, really dire straits, for a host of other reasons as well. But they're still feeling cozy and comfortable, mistaking decline for stability.

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[Reddit Lies @reddit_lies]

Whitepill of the day

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Workers can own the means of production right now; most of them simply choose not to because they prefer to earn a steady wage working for a capitalist.

[james @jms_tny]

Getting blackout drunk and starting a physical fight at a poetry reading and almost getting kicked out but saying “i’m Irish American it’s my culture” and the whole room goes “ohhh”

[Mitchell Hackett @MHacket1]

@TMZ Yodeling is a cultural cry. Per Wikipedia, “In 2025, Switzerland’s yodeling was recognized as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO.”

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Communists think capitalist societies are terrible because they compare them to a utopian ideal.

Capitalists think capitalist societies are terrific because they compare them to the rest of recorded history and what is currently happening everywhere else.