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[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

birth tourism is now constitutionally locked in
on top of the obvious absurdity, women will "visit" the us in their 9th month (or be forced to), and many die in the process

congrats i guess

[mert @mert]

"we couldn't do anything useful for citizens in my 14 years of office allocating 60 trillion USD. but if we can just steal from the rocket science electric car guy, then we can solve all your problems."

[mert @mert]

elon could solve world hunger literally this second

all he has to do is full stack dump all his shares, cause a stock market recession, wipe out trillions, delete tens of thousands of jobs, and then he'll be able to fund the federal government for about 18 minutes

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

This is the truth about communism from someone living in communism:
- Regime leaders get rich and exploit the people
- No food (hasn't had eggs in a year)
- No freedom of speech
- No equality

"It just leads you to misery, harassment, hunger and anguish" - Man living in communism

[F Train Freddy @FtrainFreddy]

Nice argument, but it’s too late. I’ve already depicted myself as the calm under pressure, stoic, and suave groundhog while you are the cowering and fearful groundhog

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

“MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+”

The Canadian government just dropped this absolute monstrosity (and no, it isn’t satire).

[Gummi @gummibear737]

Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem).

This has been explained over and over since day one.

Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying.

The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea.

During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul.

Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it

Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb.

The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability.

So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon.

And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult

Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world.

Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage.

Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions.

This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Current status: Retardmaxxing.

[Xaviaer DuRousseau @XAVIAERD]

The concept of swearing in on a book with 100+ verses instructing to desecrate and murder non-Muslims is crazy

[ben @genbardy]

silver surfers forever

[Helen Toner @hlntnr]

On self-driving cars:

"In medicine, when a treatment shows this level of benefit, we stop the trial early. Continuing to give patients the placebo becomes unethical. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.

In driving, we’re all the control group."

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

Yeah bro, we should spend every penny on gruel for hungry people in foreign countries and never do anything awesome. Sounds really inspiring.

[X @XaviercMiller]

Here’s what I think will happen in NYC under Mahdami.

The free buses and government grocery stores won’t happen, they never do. They sound good during campaigns, but collapse under basic math. You can’t run a city on ideas that cost billions and produce no revenue.

The only way to make housing affordable is to build more housing. The free market lowers prices, not regulation. Every time politicians try to control rent or force affordability by decree, developers stop building and landlords stop maintaining. Supply dries up, the quality collapses, and the few properties that remain skyrocket in price.

Once landlords can’t make a profit, they sell, lose properties, or walk away. Eventually, the government takes over.

Taxes will rise to pay for the promises, and the middle class will be the ones shouldering the burden. The rich will relocate, the poor will depend on subsidies, and the productive class will be squeezed from both sides.

Thriving businesses are the foundation of any thriving city. When they leave, everything else follows, jobs, schools, grocery stores, stability. Chicago already proved this. Boeing, McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Citadel, nearly 70k jobs, all gone. Now they’re facing billion-dollar deficits, half empty schools and neighborhoods without grocery stores.

I saw someone who lived in a rent-controlled apartment in California put it perfectly, he said his landlord could no longer afford maintenance so the pool was filled with dirt, the floors had soft spots, and the foundation ended up cracking. That’s what overregulation does, it destroys quality.

People who voted for this will eventually feel the pain but they won’t blame the policies or the politicians, they’ll blame the rich for leaving.

This conversation is always difficult because most people simply don’t understand market dynamics or incentives. In a free society, people act in their own self-interest. If you remove profit and reward dependency, productivity dies and the city with it.

If you think things are expensive now, just wait until they’re “free.”

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

It's not effective because dad is up against the medical, legal, educational, cultural, and political establishments of institutional America that work in concert to brainwash his son to yearn to be dosed with estrogen and dismembered.
https://t.co/vG0y7HJEJp

[JB @JasonBotterill]

Oh I am sorry I thought this was a web browser

[Sai Kambampati @heysaik]

we’ve completely lost the plot

[patagucci perf papi @kenwheeler]

experienced engineers use this shit the most because we don’t feel like typing

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

The default state of nature is poverty, and we've been clawing our way out of it for the last 200 years