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@kellycsrtx @JackPosobiec That’s a completely different kid in California. Zero relation

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@ShamashAran @BRDJR Easy, just only allow net taxpayers in any given year (or 2/4/whatever-year period) vote. Fall on hard times? Likely voting is not your top priority anyway. Want to vote? Go back to being a productive citizen, no harm, no foul. Nothing has to be permanent.

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@shanewallick @prxovoke @PfPopulist https://t.co/sbGdyBzYfA

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@Merridew__ Rip

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@801formal_llama @_Credible_Hulk Their population is way less diverse so you get less diverse outcomes in income and wealth. You'll note that their Gini index was in the low 20s back when they had single-digit percentage of foreign born people to around 30 now when a fifth of the population is foreign born.

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@801formal_llama @_Credible_Hulk Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the US. And they collect roughly half of state revenue from VAT, which is regressive.

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

the Henry Nowak murder sounds like a completely outrageous parody of the british criminal justice system. it's hard to believe it's real.

- native Britons can't legally carry a breadknife
- for some reason Sikhs get a special carveout and can carry "religious use" knives of any length. even over 50 cm
- 18 year old boy Henry Nowak is walking home peacefully, is fatally stabbed by Vickrum Digwa with his "ceremonial" kirpan
- Digwa claims to the police that he was racially abused and the responding police immediately believe him and shackle the dying Nowak, ignoring Digwa and his co-conspirators
- Nowak informs the officers that he has been stabbed and the officer says "You've been stabbed? Whereabouts? I don't think you have, mate."
- the officers do not check on his condition, cuffing him roughly as he bleeds out. as they read him his rights, he dies.
- Digwa's mother, Kiran Kaur arrives at the scene and takes the knife with her, attempting to conceal it
- Digwa's brother Gurpreet Digwa made the 999 call and attempted to concoct a defense for his brother, claiming he had been the victim of a racial attack
- Despite the "life sentence" the court meted out, Digwa will be eligible for parole at age 43
- there have been no consequences whatsoever for the police officers that shackled Nowak and left him to drown in his own blood while his killers watched. none of the officers have even been named

each fact is more radicalizing than the last.

[fedaykin reepicheep @mauddweeb]

I am once again flabbergasted that the UK hasn’t already exploded

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@QuasLacrimas You can tell, between this and the Butler photo, that something is in the air, that we live in a time of upheaval and change.

God is watching.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Just saw the Henry Nowak video and it’s honestly painful to watch.

This is infinitely worse than the George Floyd video that prompted a year’s worth of violent rioting and inflicted billions of dollars worth of damage.

By the way, those same riots culminated in a full-scale cultural revolution in both the US and UK which explicitly sought the dispossession of White men from as many elite positions in society as possible.

Our entire world was turned upside down over a crack addict who overdosed on fentanyl, and meanwhile the state is handcuffing and arresting a White kid as he lays dying because he allegedly did a racism.

At what point do people stop acting reasonable when unreasonable things are repeatedly done to them?

Our reasonableness has become a weakness. Our desire to “just be left alone” has been abused endlessly. Our tolerance is wielded against us like a double-edged sword by those who are manifestly intolerant and brag about it like it’s a virtue.

You need to understand that nothing will change until we begin to act unreasonable and intolerable. The alternative is more of this, forever.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

The Nowak case clearly highlights that we need to stop treating racism as an ~infinite evil, not because Nowak was racist (no evidence of this) but because any time you create a social superweapon like accusations of racism are now, it’ll be misused horribly.

What is racism? Ask 10 people and you’ll get 12 opinions. Historically, it meant someone who treats people badly in interpersonal interactions because of their race. Which is just, like, kinda annoying and slightly boorish. It’s not the apocalypse. There are many personal traits that are equally or more annoying.

Now the definition has been ludicrously expanded to include a bunch of things even less objectionable than that, including belief in very plausible scientific claims and policy preferences that were near-universal for almost all of human history.

Racism just isn’t a big deal. We have to take it off its pedestal. If Nowak had said something racist, it would morally change exactly nothing about the horror of what happened to him. He didn’t, but I feel over-focusing on that distracts from the fact that it wouldn’t matter if he had.

Murder is worse than racism. Hell, shoplifting is worse than racism. Enough. Who cares.

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@calvinfroedge Actually, bears don't make money

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@UsingLyft @FediJoshJ Don't engage with groypers lmao

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@FamilyOfficeCA @moseskagan No, it's the people. People who strongly believe in those things, and are also capable and productive. Liberia has a constitution closely modeled after the US with property rights and an independent judiciary explictly enshrined. It remains among the poorest in the world.

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@wordsandsense @GaryWinslett Causality is reversed. NYC's procurement rules and procedures suck precisely because the people involved want it to be a fountain of taxpayer funds into private pockets. It's not that fixing this is boring, it's that there's a lot of monetary incentive against it.

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@isa2001m @vinovdemocratie Dutch is truly drunk English

"O is hij homo"

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@Merridew__ Fuck it, why not 69420% returns at this point

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

On Memorial Day a veteran dies from being beaten to death for the way he voted.

In America.

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@SaintAgnesBets @Pyfeus @st_louis_stan Pray tell, how many Lee Kuan Yews does the Western system elevate to leadership?

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@SaintAgnesBets @Pyfeus @st_louis_stan He ain’t talking about letting 80IQ be in charge. Median flyover state auto parts store manager is probably 105IQ and unironically much better suited to be a political leader.

Smart people are atrocious at modeling dumb people and this leads to all kinds of terrible policy