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[Alex Christoforou @AXChristoforou]

Ursula solves complex problems. This is why she is the President: "The cheapest energy is the one you don't use."
Also:
"The cheapest food is the one you don't eat."
"The cheapest clothes are the ones you don't wear."
"̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶e̶a̶p̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶w̶e̶a̶p̶o̶n̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶"̶...wait scratch that.

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

The mask didn’t slip, it is fully removed.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

The thing you have to remember about this woman and those like her is that she genuinely doesn’t know that anyone disagrees with her basic worldview. She doesn’t even see it as a worldview. It’s just the obvious truth.

Of course she knows abstractly that half the country voted for Trump. But those aren’t people. Those are cartoon characters. They’re either fat slobbering rednecks in klan hoods, or mustache-twirling robber barons manipulating the rednecks for profit. Her mental models of them are less complex than her mental model of a squirrel. Anyone she might actually sit down and talk to is, of course, a person, and therefore agrees with The Obvious Truth. It is inconceivable to her that anyone capable of being a pleasant dinner party guest would not share her basic beliefs and values.

She wasn’t trying to do a gotcha or extract a pledge of fealty. She was certain that Sydney Sweeney is a person, and therefore only got mixed up in the whole jeans/genes fiasco by mistake. She was trying to do Sydney a favor by giving her a chance to clarify that she is in fact a human being who agrees with the things all real people agree with.

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

Bovaer Scandal in Denmark

The enzyme inhibitor drug Bovaer has been mandatory for use in Danish cows since October 1st.

Now, many cows are collapsing, and some have had to be euthanized.

> “We have so many people calling us, distressed about what’s happening in their herds.”

> “In several cases, farmers have tried removing the substance from the cows’ feed and found that the animals recovered. When they later reintroduced the substance, the problems returned.”

There were always good reasons to be more cautious about Bovaer, as described in the quoted tweet.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Things Elon never talks about:

-Palantir
-Flock cameras
-Predictive policing
-Biometric surveillance
-Erosion of digital privacy rights
-Facial recognition in public spaces

Caring about the country means talking about these issues. Silence as surveillance grows = complicity.

[Nat @Arwenstar]

4 years ago:
“Why don’t you want to take the 💉?
You wear a seatbelt, don’t you?”

Now:
“Why don’t you want Digital ID?
You have store loyalty cards, don’t you?”

Same spectacular stupidity from the same people.

[Carl Vernon @RealCarlVernon]

Funny how multiple countries are looking to implement digital ID all at once.

Must be a coincidence.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

At first they said it was only polite to refer to someone by their preferred pronounds. Then, they demanded social media censorship. Now, governments are fining, and may soon jail, people who deny the lie that men can become women. This is as terrifying as anything in "1984."

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

What MAGA thinks Palantir's database is for:

-Voter fraud
-Public health
-Tax compliance
-National security
-Immigration enforcement
-Interagency data sharing

What it will actually be used for:

-Profiling
-AI surveillance
-Financial tracking
-Predictive policing
-Social credit scores
-Social media monitoring
-Algorithmic discrimination

[1984 @TheOfficial1984]

🚨BREAKING🚨 Donald Trump orders federal reserve to begin minting quarters w/o ridges

This change comes as a result of a signed petition from 88 jewish advocacy groups claiming that quarters w/ ridges threaten the safety of jews and falls under IHRA definition of antisemitism

[Ian Haworth @ighaworth]

Why aren’t people angrier about COVID?

They stole time, they stole last moments with loved ones, they stole businesses, they stole education.

Why did we just move on?!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

Richest country in the world.

Richest STATE in the world.

County with the richest PEOPLE in the world.

And no WATER?

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

List of Products containing Arla.

Time to hit these cattle infecting corporate parasites precisely where it hurts just in time for Christmas - you know what to do.

[Keith Woods @KeithWoodsYT]

🇮🇪 Is there a better example of what a poor test of ability the electoral system is?

Helen McEntee was objectively one of the worst ministers in the history of the Irish state. As Minister for Justice, her pet project for years was the woeful Hate Speech bill, which became so unpopular the government had to scrap it.

She presided over a huge breakdown in law and order in Irish cities and the chaos of the Dublin riots; an explosion of fake asylum seekers entering the country to abuse the system; massive over the top police responses to community protests against refugee centers.

Despite it all, she now tops the poll in her constituency – a seat she only got in the first place because her father who previously held it took his life and voters gave her the seat in a bi-election – and has been promoted to deputy leader of her party, meaning there's a decent chance she may one day lead this country.

A good portion of these voters likely vote for her because they liked her father, another portion because they think it will be "good for the area" to be represented by a government minister, and then a large chunk of boomers who will just back the status quo no matter what for "stability".

What other system would reward someone so unremarkable so generously?

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Lots of people attacking this decision, but do you think YOU could pass the POST?

Here's a thread of test questions.

Question 1:

[Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor]

Wow what a great idea:

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

this is literal Soviet behavior, as I discuss in The White Pill
children in the USSR were encouraged to turn in their parents even if it cost them their lives

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Biden-Harris sent forklifts to open the border when Texas built a razor wall.

Never forget this treason: