Bayta Darell

Actually, its ok to post mean tweets about dead people who tried to destroy you, jail you, and subvert America.

[Bayta Darell @sarchasm9]

Man, all I know is my wife got rear-ended by an illegal with my four kids in it, without insurance, and now I'm more alert than ever.

Yeah, if you have an accent and don't queue correctly at Costco I'm definitely fucking thinking you're an illegal asshole who should be gone by tomorrow. So tired of it. The libs who complained about wall street's socialized losses and privatized gains sure have no fucking problem with 20 million people just destroying society, rental markets, insurance markets, and all its norms.

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

The evidence that has come out at the trial of Anthony Karmelo seems pretty conclusive. We need to brace for what will happen in the streets when he's found guilty and sentenced.

Riots sufficiently large and violent to bend national politics don't just happen. They require cadre, organization, and logistics, all of which cost money. Pallets of bricks have to mysteriously arrive on the right street corners! The requirement that all this structure remain covert and deniable so the riots look like the spontaneous grassroots eruptions they aren't makes the costs higher.

Thus, how much unrest we actually get will provide an interesting test for how successful the Trump administration has been at disrupting the covert Communist funding network that provides riot organizers with their budgets.

There's a reason for hope. NSAID is gone, the SPLC is under indictment and has probably pulled in its horns pretty seriously, ActBlue has every reason to be afraid that they're going to get hammered on illegal foreign donations and bundling. It would be surprising if the Communists siphoning money out of these organizations into terrorism and rioting weren't feeling at least some pinch.

Worst case? Disruption by lawfare hasn't succeeded enough to matter, in which case we could be looking at a repeat of the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020. Best case? The Communist network is badly damaged; any Karmelo riots will be underfunded, under-coordinated, under-organized, and remain insignificant.

One interesting indicator is the Communist network's poor recent performance on the anti-ICE riots. Despite the best amplification efforts of their media allies, they simply are not creating a convincing simulation of a wave of popular anger.

An even more interesting indication is something that's not happening at all. Where are the anti-war rallies? Where are the mass demonstrations demanding the US withdraw all its forces from confrontation with Iran?

In past times this sort of thing was a very reliable Communist draw for idealistic fools that could be at least used and possibly recruited into the harder core. And yet nearest I can tell it's not happening at all.

So maybe the Karmelo riots won't happen. We can hope, anyway.

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

Trump agreed with Bernie. Bessent trashed free markets. Wall Street missed the jobs number by 64%. Something bigger is happening.

[Tyler Oliveira @tyleraloevera]

🚨 I Exposed Texas' Indian Invasion - Full Documentary

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[Bayta Darell @sarchasm9]

@arusbridger Were there weird political exceptions that let him have a nice or smoke a ton of crack like the Sikhs?

What comparison are you trying to draw?

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Russian psychologist spent 10 years proving that the act of talking to yourself out loud is one of the most powerful cognitive tools the human brain has, and almost nobody outside his field has read the work.

His name was Lev Vygotsky.

He worked in Moscow in the 1920s and died of tuberculosis in 1934 at the age of 37. He had no laboratory, no funding, almost no English readers, and a body of work that the Soviet government suppressed for two decades after he died.

He produced the foundational theory of how human cognition actually develops, and the central piece of that theory was a behavior almost every adult is faintly embarrassed about.

Vygotsky noticed that young children talk to themselves constantly. They narrate their own actions, they argue with imaginary opponents, they instruct themselves through tasks out loud.

The dominant theory at the time, from the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, said this was a sign of cognitive immaturity that children would eventually grow out of as they learned to think properly.

Vygotsky said the exact opposite.

He argued that this self-directed speech was the most important cognitive event in the entire developmental window, because it was the moment a child first started to use language as a tool to control their own mind. The child was not failing to think. The child was learning how to think by externalizing the process and listening to themselves do it.

He predicted that as children matured, this out-loud self-talk would not disappear. It would go underground. It would become silent inner speech, which is the running monologue every adult has inside their own head for the rest of their life.

The voice you hear when you read this sentence is the direct descendant of a four-year-old narrating their own block tower.

For 50 years almost nobody outside Russia had access to his work, and the few researchers who did pick it up could not get funding to test it. Then in the early 2000s the experiments finally started to pile up, and what they found was that Vygotsky had been right about something even more important than he knew.

The first major study came from Gary Lupyan at the University of Wisconsin and Daniel Swingley at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. They ran a simple visual search experiment. Participants were shown 20 images at once and asked to find a specific object, like a banana or a chair. In one condition they searched silently. In the other condition they were told to say the name of the object out loud to themselves while looking for it.

The participants who spoke the target name out loud found the object significantly faster, with higher accuracy, than the participants who searched in silence. The effect was strongest when the spoken word matched a familiar object the brain already had a strong category for.

Saying the word out loud literally tuned the visual system to detect that thing better. The researchers called it the label feedback effect, and the implication was that the act of vocalizing a goal physically changes how the brain processes the world while pursuing it.

The second major study came out of the University of Michigan and Michigan State in 2017. The lead researchers were Ethan Kross and Jason Moser, and they used both EEG and fMRI to record what happens inside the brain when people talk to themselves while emotionally upset.

They asked participants to recall painful autobiographical memories and reflect on them in two different ways. Some used the first person, saying things like "why am I feeling this way." Others used the third person, referring to themselves by their own name, saying things like "why is John feeling this way."

The brain scans showed that the simple act of switching from first person to third person, even silently, decreased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for rumination and self-referential pain. Within a single second of using their own name instead of the word I, participants showed measurably lower emotional reactivity. The shift required no extra cognitive effort. It cost the brain nothing. And it worked.

Kross described the mechanism in his interviews. Talking to yourself by name creates a small amount of psychological distance from your own experience. Your brain processes the situation more like a problem belonging to someone else, which means it can analyze it instead of drowning in it.

What Vygotsky had intuited in 1934 turned out to be even more powerful than the developmental theory he built it into. The voice you use to talk to yourself is not background noise. It is one of the most precise cognitive tools the brain has, and you can change how it works just by changing the pronoun you use.

People who talk through problems out loud are not anxious or unstable. They are running an externalized version of a process the rest of us are running silently and worse. The kindergartener narrating their block tower, the surgeon muttering through a procedure, the engineer pacing a hallway describing a bug to nobody, the athlete repeating a cue to themselves before a free throw, they are all using the same ancient mechanism that builds and steers human thought.

You can run the experiment yourself the next time you are stuck on something hard. Stop trying to solve it silently in your head. Say it out loud. Describe what you are seeing. Walk yourself through the steps as if you were explaining it to a colleague who is not in the room.

And when something genuinely upsets you, switch to your own name. Ask why this person is feeling this way, instead of why I am feeling this way.

The voice you have been told to keep quiet your entire life is one of the oldest pieces of cognitive technology you own.

Most people are still embarrassed to use it.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Ethiopia was never colonized.

For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.

Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.

If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.

Can we please retire this excuse?

[Will Kingston @WillKingston]

I’m stunned. The Sunday Times is reporting Hampshire police wanted to portray Henry Nowak as the aggressor in an official statement three days after his death, but changed their wording following outrage from his family.

I’ll be covering this shocking and contemptible revelation from the hosting chair on The Late Show Live. @GBNEWS 12am.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: In a powerful moment on the anniversary of D-Day, SecWar Pete Hegseth GOES HARD against European nations who opened their borders to 3rd world migrants

"Sadly, today, different European beaches are STORMED by different DANGEROUS ideologies. Spain, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria — boats and MEN arrive. WHEN will European capitals do something about THAT invasion?"

🔥🔥🔥

"Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not."

"The men who fought and died here restored freedom to Europe. That freedom must be maintained by this generation of leaders and war fighters, or what they fought for, was merely temporary!"

"As our great President Ronald Reagan once said, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."

"You don't pass it to the next generation in the bloodstream. It must be defended by each and every generation. We stand by our allies, and we expect our allies capable and ready to stand alongside us. The heroes of 1944 did that, and may we."

PERFECTLY SAID.

[Tyler Bowyer @tylerbowyer]

I have spent the last decade having to go to DC for work.

Most of dc was hard to look at— homelessness everywhere, the city felt like Gotham at night. After blm quite a lot of businesses shuttered and never reopened.

Most notably, grass was dead, planters were destroyed and trashed, walkways, cement and stone were all poorly managed. They were dirty, overgrown with weeds, water was dirty and grass was brown patchy and terrible.

Now you walk around dc and it’s the exact opposite. Truly the entire city has been revived. Planters restored, grass cut back and filled in. You can walk around at almost any hour without fearing for your life. The memorials which I feel are beautiful at night in particular, are the nicest I’ve ever seen them. No broken fixtures or lights.

It’s amazing what can happen when you take care of a city.

President Trump has done for DC what Rudy Guiliani did for NYC and Americans should never forget it.

[Zojka 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇱 @_Zojka]

Fun fact:
I used a VPN & a throwaway SIM to create the twitter account that got me arrested, when I asked the police interrogator how they found me, they admitted they matched up the details of my stabbing that I posted about on the account to the police report I made. Pure evil

[Kosher @koshercockney]

🔴 JUST IN

FULL alleged 12 minute 999 call now released in Henry Nowak case

And in my opinion, it’s a lot worse than what was originally just a clip.

Multiple occasions asked “Just to confirm. Nobody has seen ANY weapons”

Each time: “No. No weapons”

[Bayta Darell @sarchasm9]

@jclib1990 Doing anything else would be proof of a two tier police system of special privileges by woke idiots to interfere it lawful policing.

[Bayta Darell @sarchasm9]

@justdavenow89 Yall are trying to stuff the toothpaste back in the tube that you opened.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 OMG. A MASSIVE India H-1B visa fraud ring has just been busted...nearly 90% PERCENT of India's visa applications contain FRAUDULENT INFORMATION

100,000 THOUSAND counterfeit certificates have been seized 🤯

"Law enforcement in India claim it has uncovered a network of universities that produce fake degrees which were possibly used to obtain these high skilled H1B visas, including one school which allegedly stole over 36,000 fake degrees. It cost as little as $1,400 for one of those."

"And while these are supposed to be high skilled employees during almost all of Biden's time in office, 83% got junior or entry level positions."

This is INSANE! SHUT DOWN THE H-1B SCAM!

@KenPaxtonTX is now going after this in Texas 🔥

@kayleighmcenany @SatAmericaFNC

[Bayta Darell @sarchasm9]

@DPJHodges lol you’re guys are so silly.

[Bayta Darell @sarchasm9]

@AndrewHWestern I guess speaking your conscience must be a foreign concept to you.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Just a reminder that the ONLY Republican running for Mecklenburg County (Charlotte NC) District 1 dropped out of the race...

...BECAUSE NOT A SINGLE PERSON WAS ARRESTED FOR FIRING SHOTS AT HIS HOME WHILE HIS WIFE AND KIDS WERE INSIDE!!!!!

Local police SPECIFICALLY CONFIRMED the attack was targeted at Aaron Marin.

Bullet holes can be seen in trees, cars, mailbox, and his kid's basketball hoop. Marin's ENTIRE FAMILY was forced to leave their home and Aaron says they live in, "constant fear."

He says his kids no longer even feel safe to play outside and they are moving now.

CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN WHY ZERO MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLET COVERED THIS??????!!!!!!

REPUBLICANS ARE LITERALLY BEING SHOT AT AND THERE IS SILENCE FROM THE MEDIA!!!!!!

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?!!!!!!

[Morgoth @MorgothsReview]

It's grotesque how they try to cynically use the 'parents' wishes' as a magic forcefield to neutralize the issue.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Sounds different but Good

[Bayta Darell @sarchasm9]

@Keir_Starmer And for what…