A Nonny Mouse

Grumpy Old Fart. Not here for followers. I retweet what I find interesting.

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[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[A Nonny Mouse @Rooinekk]

@Siddels1000 @smalltalkdaily @FinancialMail You may have meant to write "insightful".

At least I hope you did...

[Lood Louis 🇿🇦 Rebuild SA!🇿🇦 🇿🇦 @CoolLood]

***MEDIA24 RETRENCHMENTS***
Massive Own Goal Alert 🚨

So News24 drops this big exposé a few days ago, going hard at AfriForum (and the whole Solidarity Movement) for supposedly “splurging” on fat salaries and marketing.

They made it sound like a scandal.
AfriForum and Solidarity clapped back fast and pointed out factual mistakes, wrong salary numbers, people who don’t even get paid by AfriForum, and the usual selective framing.

A bunch of people called it a "nontroversy".
Cool.

Then… boom! 💥
Media24 (News24’s actual owner) issues formal Section 189A notices. Up to 126 jobs on the chopping block. That includes sports and lifestyle editorial roles right at News24 itself.😂

And who’s the biggest, most represented trade union at Media24 right now?
S O L I D A R I T Y

This is peak own goal energy.💥

News24 spent time and ink painting the Solidarity crew as money-hungry.
Now the same company is cutting jobs, including its own journalists, and Solidarity that has to be consulted (with full legal rights under 189A to demand the books, the rationale, the alternatives, and why certain News24 people are in or out) is.

Labour law doesn’t care about your previous hit pieces.

*Section 189A gives the consulting party, Solidarity, real teeth.

Solidarity is already in the room, motivated as hell, and can push hard for *every scrap of relevant info*. Refuse and the whole process risks looking procedurally unfair.

***The irony is delicious.***

A newsroom that loved calling out “high salaries” at a civil society movement that builds stuff without taxpayer cash is now relying on that same movement’s union to fight for its own staff while Media24 keeps restructuring and bleeding money.

They attacked the exact organisation whose union now holds the strongest seat at the table. Handed them both the moral high ground and the legal leverage in one move.

Not smart.

Not journalism winning. Just a spectacular own goal.💥
@PieterDuToit, @CowansView @AdriaanBasson, @News24

🤣🤣🤣

[TONY @TonyMichaelX]

This you?

[Martin van Staden @Martin_ASFL]

There is real evil in the world, and Jansen has long represented it here in South Africa.

He is a keen supporter of totalitarian social engineering and homogenisation.

The mask of his support for "diversity" is gone. Everything must be secular, grey, and English, all the time.

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

I love how an organization that builds nothing has the temerity to publish gotcha articles about one that serves its community in tangible, positive and constructive ways. The people who run Afriforum deserve every cent they get. And I’ll bet their donors agree

[Jewish Tim Flack 𝕏 @tim_meh87]

Guess what.. @TheKiffness and @RobertHersov havent had child porn tweeted on their accounts... you should sit down.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Every person living in a western nation needs to listen to every word of this

Katherine Berbalsingh went to the University of Oxford and is Headmaster at Michaela Community School in London, UK

She PERFECTLY explains the mass indoctrination into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, and of hating White People

I will write only some of this out because it’s very important, however you should listen to it so you can hear the passion:

“The culture shift comes from what children learn at school and online. Ask any young person what history they learned at school, and they’ll tell you, Hitler. Ask them what else? Slavery. Ask them what else? American civil rights.

In fact, what little they know of history will be all about Black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man, women fighting men for the vote, gay and trans people fighting for various rights. Our young people have been taught that history is simply one long story about various groups struggling under the oppressive dead white man.

— History is taught through an oppressor lens. The triangular slave trade, white men held the power. What about Britain ending the slave trade? More than a quick mention, if at all? Mm, no.

What of the Arab slave trade that lasted 3 times as long as the triangular slave trade? Mm, no.

Okay, so GCSE history in Britain is often taught as migration through time, so the idea that Britain has always been a land of immigrants is embedded in our children’s heads. Most schools would prefer to concentrate learning about the tiny number of Black people who existed in Tudor England over a thorough analysis of England’s break from Rome.

— Not to mention weeks on King Mansa Musa of Mali because he was a Black Muslim. His bearing on British institutions, laws, and faith is nonexistent. And the fact that he is said to have been the richest man in history, thanks in part to his massive slave-owning society, is a detail somehow that teachers rarely ever teach.

But it isn’t just our schools. It’s our general culture too. Take your kids to a museum or an art gallery in any Western country, and you’ll find the same narrative.

As an example, when learning about aviation in London’s Science Museum and the extraordinary feat that is man making massive machines move in the sky, a write-up on the wall explains that women and Black people were historically barred from aviation schools and the military. Similarly, James Watt, the man who invented the steam engine and is considered the founder of the Industrial Revolution, has a write-up on the wall explaining that his early career involved slave trafficking, with a bonus analysis of the whole of Britain’s complicity in the slave trade.

They flatten the entire human story and all of its complexities into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, leaving young people unable to see the world in any other terms.”

We have to end the mass indoctrination

[Mike Fairclough @1MikeFairclough]

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss explains how the Deep State, NGO activists and globalists have captured the state and the media, and are destroying the West.

Just a few years ago, The Times attempted to smear me for raising these very concerns:

"Mike Fairclough, the head teacher of West Rise Junior School, spoke about a plan by 'globalists' to disempower people and take away their freedoms."

It's remarkable how quickly ideas once dismissed as conspiracy theories have entered mainstream political debate.

The globalist agenda must be exposed, confronted and defeated.

[Dr. Benway @DearestDr]

Over 150 churches have been burned in the UK in the last five years. You've not said a single word of outrage against that. So, until 151 Mosques get torched, don't expect much compassion from us. Your religion doesn't belong anywhere in the UK or Europe. Neither do you.

[A Nonny Mouse @Rooinekk]

@rodcampsbay I'd suggest that Rebecca's comment is tongue-in-cheek.

The "...4 billion years..." is the clue.

[Roland Schoeman @Rolandschoeman]

Gareth, you’re the one editing an EFF fan account while LARPing as a ‘liberal humanist.’ Spare me the fake outrage.
I called out your socialist bullshit because that’s exactly what the EFF peddles, radical expropriation, nationalization, race-based policy that has wrecked SA. You platform it, analyze it, and then cry when someone tells you to shut the fuck up.
Olympic champion, world record holder, built a real career in two countries. What have you built besides snarky tweets and pretending independence while carrying water for the left?
Your ‘admiration’ for my self-belief is just cope. Direct talk triggers you because your arguments fold under pressure. Thousands haven’t shut up, they’ve seen through clowns like you who defend the ideas destroying nations.
Stay in your lane, little man.

[A Nonny Mouse @Rooinekk]

@kznseagull @rodcampsbay You misunderstand. You are correct - there can only be one truth.

I am saying that lack of integrity can cover many things - such as lying and not admitting it, and also insulting people and then deflecting when confronted.

Both of those can indicate a lack of integrity.

[A Nonny Mouse @Rooinekk]

@Richard_Spoor Your TDS is showing, Mr. Spoor.

[A Nonny Mouse @Rooinekk]

@GerdSchX @Richard_Spoor This ☝🏻

[A Nonny Mouse @Rooinekk]

@kznseagull @rodcampsbay Both can be true.

[A Nonny Mouse @Rooinekk]

@kznseagull @rodcampsbay Integrity?

Like insulting people and then deflecting when confronted?

That kind of integrity?

[Somerled Mackay - #actor #comic #EquityUK @SomeAreDead]

Probably the single funniest thing to ever be on British tv

[Roland Schoeman @Rolandschoeman]

@SportArtsCultur Please release the expenses of all ministers that have travelled.

[A Nonny Mouse @Rooinekk]

@kznseagull @rodcampsbay "...demented poor old man..." is not ad hominem?

Fortunately Rod has seriously thick skin, developed over decades of dealing with ignorance.