@btcave1 Im happy I haven't had to deal with yellow jackets. I had asain hornets decapitating my bees 2 years ago. Printed some of these up and it helped alot.
You say you make the philosophical case. I read the essay. There is no philosophy in it. There is arithmetic, and there is need.
The one premise doing all the work is never argued: that one man's need constitutes a claim on another man's property. It doesn't. Need is not a mortgage on the life of the man who fulfilled his.
You say the tax "asks" billionaires for 5%. A tax does not ask. If it asked, it would be philanthropy. It compels — and your entire moral posture depends on the reader not noticing the difference.
You call it a "social contract." A contract requires consent. A decree written by Congress and imposed on 938 people who never signed it is not a contract. It is force wearing a contract's clothes.
And your proudest boast is your most damning admission: Newsom taxes transactions — you tax OWNERSHIP itself. Stock never sold. Value never realized. Not "we tax what you do," but "we tax what you are."
You welcomed an argument on the merits. Here it is: a man's success is not a public asset, and no number of people needing his property converts it into theirs.
That is the moral test of our time. You are failing it.
@drsuffy That thread gave me a headache. You know if these people would spend more time having fun with with friends (nog wars and the like) instead of useless multi hour online arguments they wouldn't need their SSRIs.
@GLAsk1d Correction. We don't know need anymore suburban soccer mom SUVs. We need a more 4.0 Cherokees, diesel K5s and non shitty Broncos properly reborn.
@fakeftedd Will be finishing up with putting in a new front and rear suspension tomorrow. Just waiting on pinion shims to show up. Every steel sleeve and jam nut is now anti sieze grey forever.
Je me suis longtemps passionné pour la psychologie, et une période m'obsède plus que toutes les autres.
L'après-guerre.
Le moment où des chercheurs se sont posé la question la plus dérangeante du siècle: comment l'Allemagne nazie avait-elle transformé des pères de famille ordinaires en bourreaux de camp?
La réponse, ils ne l'ont pas trouvée chez des monstres. Ils l'ont trouvée chez des hommes parfaitement banals.
Hannah Arendt a appelé ça la banalité du mal. L'historien Christopher Browning, en étudiant le bataillon de réserve 101 (des policiers d'âge mûr, des pères, des commerçants), a montré que ce ne sont pas des fanatiques qui ont fusillé des civils, mais des hommes normaux incapables de désobéir au cadre dominant.
Puis vint Milgram. À Yale, environ deux tiers de gens ordinaires ont infligé ce qu'ils croyaient être des décharges mortelles, simplement parce qu'une autorité en blouse blanche le leur ordonnait. L'expérience de la prison de Stanford a montré la même chose sous un autre angle: donnez à quelqu'un un rôle et un cadre, et il s'y conformera jusqu'à l'inhumain.
La leçon n'est pas allemande. Elle est humaine.
Le mécanisme s'active dès qu'un cadre moral dominant fait craindre la sanction sociale plus que ne compte le témoignage de ses propres yeux. L'individu cesse de voir ce qu'il voit. Il voit ce que le cadre l'autorise à voir.
Maintenant, regardez Southampton.
Henry Nowak, 18 ans, poignardé, allongé au sol, répète aux policiers « j'ai été poignardé », « je ne peux plus respirer ».
Réponse de l'officier: « I don't think you have, mate. »
Pendant ce temps, son meurtrier retourne la situation d'une phrase: il aurait été victime d'une agression raciste. Quatre mots ont suffi pour déplacer le soupçon de l'agresseur vers la victime.
Et l'officier a obéi. Pas à un ordre. À un cadre.
Un cadre qui lui a appris, pendant des années, qu'une plainte pour racisme est l'accusation la plus dangereuse de sa carrière. Plus dangereuse, dans son réflexe conditionné, qu'un corps qui se vide de son sang devant lui.
Exactement le mécanisme de Milgram, de Browning. Un homme normal qui cesse de croire ses propres yeux parce qu'un cadre moral lui a appris ce qu'il devait craindre.
C'est précisément ça qui me terrifie.
Souvenez-vous: le monde entier s'est agenouillé pour quatre mots, « I can't breathe ». Des entreprises, des gouvernements, des stades entiers.
Henry a prononcé les mêmes mots, en train de mourir. Il n'y aura ni genou à terre, ni hashtag, ni minute de silence.
Parce que sa mort ne sert pas le cadre. Elle le contredit.
Et un système qui apprend à une société entière à faire passer l'accusation de racisme avant les faits, avant le corps, avant la vie, n'est pas une posture morale inoffensive.
C'est une machine à fabriquer des hommes qui, face à un enfant en train de mourir, choisissent les menottes.
People across the political spectrum will follow anyone who says things they agree with without ever looking in to these people.
Geoffrey Martin, aka @Captive_Dreamer, is a Canadian national from British Columbia. He is the son of the president of a Canadian Christian university.
He pretended to be from Italy for a while and talked about fucking 14 year olds until X outted him as a Canadian. Then he deleted all those posts.
I don’t tend to tell anyone who to follow but if you follow him after knowing this I do have questions.
I've yet again been accused of racism. Am I a racist?
Short answer: Yes. Do I care that you call me that? No. I'm proud to be White, why should others be able to be proud, but not me?
The irony is, I'm not actually a racist, not in the way that I am accused. What I actually am is a Culturalist, if that's even a word. I am prejudiced against everyone who isn't Culturally American, and that has nothing to do with your color.
YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE IF YOU ARE NOT CULTURALLY AMERICAN! I don't care if you're "legal," my cat is more American than most "legal" immigrants.
The funny thing, is that people attribute most of the things that I believe are Culturally American to being "white" but thats on them, not me.
I don't care what color you are, I care what culture you are.
In my mind, to be Culturally American is to believe that America is an idea and a people, not an economic zone. It's to believe that the people who built America, who passed their blood to us, mean something, and it means something to be tied back through the ages to that. America is the constitution, the bill of rights, freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of arms, protection against government overreach and the right to privacy, the right to a trial of your ACTUAL peers, amongst other things.
All of these rights have been degraded by politicians of all stripes, but that doesn't change what it truly means to be American.
Real, cultural Americans, believe in hard work, personal responsibility, handouts/help provided by your comminity not by the govt taxman forcibly redistributing your wealth. We believe in the common good, at a local level, not in the Marxist redistribution of wealth. We believe in being armed to protect yourself and others, we believe in doing the right thing even when it's hard, and we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to succeed on an even playing field, and that doesn't mean people wont have luck or advantages or different starts, but it does mean that DEI stuff is nonsense and unfair to the game. It doesn't mean controlling people like Commies / Marxists / Socialists want. I could go on about this forever, there is so much that makes one Culturally American, and so much that makes the rest of you our enemy.
But let's talk about that.
If you are not compatible with being American, then you shouldn't be here. It has nothing to do with color, and everything to do with culture.
Liberal Whites are no longer Culturally American. They are Culturally Marxist, Marxism is their culture first and foremost and outstrips their Americanism, it doesn't matter that they were born here. They should be sent to Europe, so they can be among their own kind. Given that I'd deport white liberals at a rate that would make your head spin, I find it hard for the argument that I'm a White Supremacist to hold water.
There are so many foreigners who shouldn't be here.
Indians are Culturally Indian, and the Indian culture is incompatible with what it means to be American, thats why they never integrate, they only take. Their culture is parasitic, it's not about the color of their skin, its about the content of their culture. Are there some individual Indians who are capable of becoming American? Maybe, but they're so few and far between as to be functionally zero.
Somalians are culturally incompatible with America, they are locusts that destroy any field they can find. It's all they've ever done, look at Minnesota. They cannot adopt American culture, they are fundamentally incompatible.
Devout Muslims are Culturally Muslim, which is incompatible with being an American. They do not adapt, they do not change, they do not become like us. Look at Dearborn, look at the UK, look at anywhere they go, they bide their time as the minority, instituting the policy of Taqiyya to lie until they can reach majority and institute Sharia. When you want to subvert American culture, that makes you incompatible with being here.
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@Liberty_Xtreme@deaflibertarian You'd be right if the entire libertarian party was like LPNH... Unfortunately the rest of that party is the reason I no longer refer to my self as libertarian.
@andypro500@denverbitcoin@ryansgr8 These cameras prevent nothing and are incapable of doing so. They are the tracking cookie of the physical world and nothing more. Those who give up privacy and freedom for safety and security are ensuring a future where their children/grandchildren have none of the above.
@OldHollowTree Mine came through winter really strong this year. So have mine wide open. Happened to catch this one preswarm this past Saturday. They decided to gather on a nearby pine tree trunk. Made for an interesting swarm retrieval.
@MattWalshBlog I'm not advocating for one way or the other. If I was this little girls father a I would want to be the one to end his existance. Instead of a burial/creamation he is left in the middle of nowhere to be forgotten and desecated by scavangers.