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The more things change, the more they stay the same

[Mike Shelby @grayzoneintel]

The reason why counter-organizing feels so difficult/impossible is because they only need a vocal minority and you feel like you need a majority. You don't.

Everyone you need already agrees with you. They just haven't been organized yet.

[Chester @neetzschester]

@kunley_drukpa He is the most serious and intelligent candidate, by far.
The only one in the race who can be called a "statesman" vs. a mere "politician".
I'm not bothered by what happened w/ MBL x Bolsonaro, but it still has repercussions for many people and may hinder their chances.

[Chester @neetzschester]

As a Brazilian, I believe the biggest obstacle to him is not his "chudness" or being Extremely Online. It is that MBL (his organization) was part of a right wing civil war in 2019-2022 in which they kind of burned bridges with the rest of the right. Still, I'll vote for him.

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

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[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

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[Mr. S.T.A.R. @favelaoverlord]

I’m coming back to this clip from a while ago to raise how one of the dumbest notions that is very common amongst the broad Western world is the idea that capitalism is somehow an “individualist” ideology and progressive socialism somehow a “collectivist” one.

Capitalism is the belief that you can put a tangible value on the products and outputs of a human being and that that value is decided by a ‘market’ a system for determine the demand of the broad collective human society for that output. Capitalism is the most collectivist ideology on the planet (good thing).

Progressive leftism, on the other hand, is the ideology that the collective of human society should be made completely subservient to the needs of the individual.

I was at an event a few nights ago and some chick asked some half baked question along the lines of “when you encounter a person our society deems mentally ill on the subway, why do *you* expect them to change their behavior to make you comfortable, and not *you* to change your baseline standards to be more accepting of them?” This is the ideology of Mamdani and people like him. Is this a “collectivist” ideology? Of course not.

Leftists do not actually believe in a “collective.” They believe that society should be made slaves to individuals, and that the lowest common denominator of society should determine the collective standards and functionality for *all* of society.

*Only* capitalism/market mechanisms offer a (non rw authoritarian) mechanism for enabling collective organization and alignment at scale. Only capitalism can enable actual collectivism.

Fin.

[Política com feijão @politicomfeijao]

Concordo que o pragmatismo ganhou força na era do populismo sem entregas.

No entanto, o pragmatismo broxa e sem plano concreto não empolga (Caiado, Zema, Barbosa...). Esses são falsos pragmatas ou pragmatas no sentido fisiológico.

Renan Santos é uma figura com muito mais potencial, por apresentar o apelo do líder populista, só que com as políticas concretas do político pragmata.

Isso se reflete em suas propostas: radicais, mas necessárias e lógicas; disruptivas, mas operando dentro do sistema vigente.

É um radicalismo razoável, explicado por um raciocínio embasado e encadeado (não é um bobão gritando bordões e brigando sem propósito, plano ou ideia de como realizar o que promete).

Inclusive, ele critica os bravateiros incompetentes (Bolsonaro, Trump, Lula...) e enaltece os líderes que sabem operar politicamente para aplicar suas propostas (Bukele, Milei).

O pragmatismo também leva Renan a se posicionar à direita, mas rejeitar o apego ao rótulo, defendendo se inspirar nas ideias de qualquer tipo de regime (Singapura, Vietnã, EUA, China...), desde que as medidas sejam boas.

Além de adaptar tudo isso num plano e imaginário nacionais, para funcionar nas características próprias do Brasil.

As pessoas se empolgam e ganham um senso de propósito com essa combinação de: propostas (sem populismo) + comunicação envolvente + imaginário coletivo + comunidade forte. Há uma aura e uma onda se formando a partir disso.

Isso tbm ajuda a combater o desconhecimento. Sua alta taxa de conversão de novas pessoas é um sinal de que sua concorrência poderá cair a seu favor, até a data das convenções partidárias.

[Brilyn Hollyhand @BrilynHollyhand]

President Trump hits the nail on the head: "You come from hellhole countries, and all you do is complain and play the victim—America doesn't need people like that. If you're unhappy, get the hell back to your own country and fix it yourselves."

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

@StevenGlinert Rome didn’t give citizenship to even its Latin allies until 700 years after it was founded. That’s like if it was 2500AD and the USA was still only letting WASPs vote. It took another 300 years for every free male to become a citizen (and everything immediately went to shit).

[Sunrise Pepe @thltd_]

If you banned ≤85 IQ people from breeding it would, theoretically, take ~5 generations for national average IQ to increase by one standard deviation. This could be achieved in ~3 generations if you simultaneously paid ≥125 IQ people to have 3x more kids than the masses.

[Officer Frenly (High IQ) @FrenlyOfficer]

You should not be able to vote unless you pay some taxes. Honestly, if you draw any welfare whatsoever, you probably shouldn’t be allowed to vote. This includes Medicare Medicaid, food stamps, section 8, and Social Security.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. When they stop, something dangerous is nearby. When they continue, the coast is clear. This wiring predates primates. These kids are being sedated by the oldest safety signal in the mammalian nervous system.

The Max Planck Institute tested this in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong reduced anxiety and paranoia with medium effect sizes. Six minutes of traffic noise increased depression by the same margin. The effect worked on people who had never left dense urban environments. Their bodies responded to a signal their conscious minds had never learned.

King's College London ran a larger study. 1,292 participants, real-time mood tracking through a phone app, 26,856 assessments over three years. Hearing or seeing birds improved mental wellbeing for up to eight hours afterward. The effect held for people diagnosed with depression. Trees, plants, and waterways didn't explain it. The birds themselves were the variable.

Now here's where Italy connects to Finland. 95% of parents in the Finnish city of Oulu let their babies nap outside starting at two weeks old. A 2008 study confirmed the children took longer, deeper naps outdoors. Parents reported letting them sleep in temperatures as low as -15°C. 66% said their babies were more active afterward compared to indoor naps. The practice started as a public health initiative from Nordic maternity clinics in the early 1900s and became cultural infrastructure.

The Italian kindergarten in this video is running the same program the Nordic countries have been running for a century. Outdoor naps, natural soundscapes, no white noise machines, no blackout curtains. Meanwhile, American kindergartens have been eliminating nap time entirely to squeeze in more instruction. A UMass study showed that children who skipped naps forgot 12% of what they learned that morning. The nap itself was the learning.

The irony is that the countries spending the least on sleep technology for children are producing the best sleep outcomes. No sound machines. No apps. Just birds.

[Emerald Apple @AI_EmeraldApple]

My most unhinged run-in with HR was while working at a biotech company as a senior scientist, a long time ago.

They were doing racism audits, and me being an Asian, they targeted me in an inquisition-style interrogation. In essence, it was about 30 minutes of them... Gen Z women with a chip on their shoulders, trying to make me say that I experienced racism at the company.

It was them framing every little comment, quip, joke, and conversation that my 'white' coworkers had with me into some sort of racist dog whistle. They wanted me to "out" my work friends as "racists" so that HR could crucify them. I knew they were recording the whole time, so I had to be very careful with my words.

I kept my answers brutally short, usually with a single-word answer of "no", or that lacks context, or that's a misframing.

They were literally trying to manufacture problems to go after people to justify their existence. They were trying to goad me, to extract the "right" answers from me that I refused to play their stupid game.

After the interview was over, and after their little racism witch hunt didn't work, they moved on to other targets, other minorities, other stupid problems no one cared about.

[Chester @neetzschester]

@esj1970 É que vc tá tratando o FRGPS como um fundo de pensão privado, que investe em ativos e tem rendimentos. Ocorre que o FRGPS praticamente não tem nenhum ativo a não ser receitas fiscais de contribuições sociais. A contribuição de quem paga não garante recebimento futuro.

[Chester @neetzschester]

Colocar INSS patronal como "garantia e previdência" mas tirar o INSS individual é bem errado. Ou os dois são ou não são.

[Edson Jr @esj1970]

Hoje resolvi mostrar a verdade sobre estes cálculos vagabundos que estes picaretas gostam de mostrar.
O cálculo correto é este:
(quadro abaixo)
Toda vez que um vagabundo destes mostrar estas contas de padaria, mande eles enfiarem a conta deles no.... ****

[Chester @neetzschester]

@esj1970 Se vc quer que o inss entre como garantia, então é a porção individual que deve entrar, pq sem essa contribuição o trabalhador não se aposenta. Se o patrão não paga os 20% dele, pode até ser preso, afeta o orçamento da união, mas não tira o direito do empregado de se aposentar.

[Chester @neetzschester]

@esj1970 Neste primeiro momento aqui começou a grosseria. Tá disposto a ouvir uma opinião contrária e quiçá mudar de ideia?

[Chester @neetzschester]

@esj1970 Não sei de onde vc acha que eu quis "lacrar"

[Chester @neetzschester]

@esj1970 Prevenir-se de situações hipotéticas é justamente o que o patrão faz quando calcula provisionamento, para o pior cenário possível. Ergo, a multa de 40% do fgts que você mesmo colocou.

[Chester @neetzschester]

@esj1970 O inss patronal de 20% sobre a folha é uma contribuição não vinculada a nenhum cpf, só pra financiar a previdência. A contribuição que entra pro cálculo pra fins de aposentadoria é a de 7,5% a 14% que sai do bolso do trabalhador.