michael

The barbarians are at the gates.

[michael @michael33344579]

Best thing I ever read on Twitter period.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

20 Things I've Learned (Or Had Confirmed) About Humanity During The 'Pandemic' (THREAD):

1/ Most people would rather be in the majority, than be right.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Over 85% of the world’s refugees are Muslims. But for some reason they do not even seek asylum in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, or in any of the other 50 Muslim-majority countries.

They only want to go to non-Muslim Western countries. Why do you think that is?

[michael @michael33344579]

@realMaalouf Why do countries let them in? We already know how they will react.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Europe is being destroyed by its own leaders

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The third world is not a place, it is a people. They will make every place they go to third world.

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

Is there a bigger myth in American education than "schools are underfunded?"

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

The economic problems we currently have are not a result of the market being "too free" or "too capitalist."

They are a direct result of too much government manipulation. Regulatory manipulation, tax manipulation, labor manipulation, and especially monetary manipulation.

[Wendy @teachthemx3]

This is not surprising. When I taught Algebra II, the students couldn’t tell me the factors of 12.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Why can’t we have nationwide Click to Cancel? Ffs. This is a clear win. We can’t even get basic things. We are a factory farm to third world welfare cheats and Sirum XM radio and gyms that keep billing you long after you’ve said no more.

[Robert Bortins @TheRobertBshow]

Uncomfortable fact: most parents don't lack the ability to homeschool.

They lack the conviction to make it a priority over convenience.

[michael @michael33344579]

@wil_da_beast630 Teaching old school phonics too

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

But unironically.

I assume "#1" is after some race and class adjustments, but there's no joke here - they moved from #50 to top-20 after adopting such innovative strategies as "expelling troublemakers" and "actually teaching kids to read."

[michael @michael33344579]

@megbasham Women have more freedom and power and opportunities then they ever had. Yet they chose this and OF. 🤦

[michael @michael33344579]

@Ghostofcynthia That is why they spend some much time and effort brainwashing these girls into hating themselves and their country.

[The Undercurrent @NotTheirScript]

🚨 BRITISH WOMAN UNDERSTANDS AMERICA BETTER THAN MOST OF THE PEOPLE PAID TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IT

Someone asked her what culture America even has.

Her response was basically: Are you kidding me?

Cowboys. Ranches. Rodeos. Southern hospitality. California surf culture. New York ambition. Midwestern communities.

Jazz. Blues. Rock and roll. Hip-hop. Hollywood. Broadway.

Baseball. Basketball. Football. Diners. BBQ. Thanksgiving.

NASA. Silicon Valley. World-class universities. Laboratories. Inventors. Engineers. Entrepreneurs.

And generations of Americans who served, sacrificed and sometimes died defending the freedom that allows wildly different people to live together in the first place.

Then she nailed the part people miss:

American culture became so globally dominant that people confuse its familiarity with its absence.

That is an extraordinarily good observation.

The world wears American culture, watches American culture, listens to American culture, copies American culture, builds businesses modeled after American innovation—and then some smug idiot asks what culture America has.

Meanwhile, someone actually moves here and immediately recognizes what millions of Americans have been conditioned to sneer at.

At this point, I am prepared to negotiate.

We will trade Hasan Piker, AOC, Mehdi Hasan and Ilhan Omar for her.

Four-for-one.

Final offer.

🇺🇸 Welcome to America. You get it.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Not long ago, liberals raged because frontline troops occasionally ate steak and lobster.
Weeks later, they’re raging that some sailors have to eat regular military food.
The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

I love how the same people getting furious we feed our troops steak and lobster are now saying we aren’t feeding them well enough.

Just a reminder that you’ll never win them over. They don’t care about military members.

Only the narrative.

[michael @michael33344579]

@elsathora

[Heather Mac Donald @HMDatMI]

Why were only three blacks accepted this year into New York City’s competitive Stuyvesant High School? Because that is the number of blacks who passed the admissions test—a detail not even alluded to until the fifth paragraph of the New York Times story on this alleged scandal.

Why did only three blacks (out of 777 admittees) pass the admissions test?

Because, on average, blacks’ academic skills are so low. Nationally, the percentage of black 12th graders with advanced math skills is essentially zero on a national sample.

Why continue to point out this doleful reality, which most well-meaning Americans would rather ignore? Because unless we understand that the low representation of blacks in meritocratic institutions, whether Stuyvesant High School or NASA, is due to the academic skills gap and not to systemic racism, we will continue to sabotage civilizational progress.

(The next question: Why the persistent academic skills gap? This is the thorniest question of all.)

[Jade Warwick @TheJadeWarwick]

Some of the most important inventions and technologies developed or pioneered by Britons include the World Wide Web, the television, the jet engine, radar, the steam engine, the modern railway, the steam locomotive, the electric motor and generator, the light bulb, the telephone, penicillin, vaccination, stainless steel, the modern bicycle, the submarine, the hovercraft, the ATM, the credit card, the electric telegraph, the pneumatic tyre, carbon fibre, graphene, IVF, cloning technology, packet switching, the modern computer, the programmable computer, the barcode, the modern safety razor, the lawnmower, the sewing machine, the flush toilet, the postage stamp, the modern postal system, the tin can, the cement mixer, and the first commercial passenger jet aircraft.
Yes, it’s worth saving.

[michael @michael33344579]

@TheJadeWarwick Don’t forget the cavity magnetron and the Merlin engine which turned the p51 into the best fighter of ww2