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[Andrew Torba @BasedTorba]

4chan: today's news three years ago.

[Sam @xwastheone]

Paper money was never supposed to be the money.

It was a receipt.

You deposited gold at a bank.
The bank gave you a note that said:

"The bearer of this note may redeem it for X amount of gold."

That's all a dollar was. A claim ticket.

The paper had no value.
The gold in the vault did.
The paper just made it easier to carry.

This system worked for centuries.
Every major currency was backed this way.
The British pound.
The French franc.
The U.S. dollar.

Then, slowly, governments realized something:

If people trust the paper,
they never come for the gold.
So they printed more notes than they had gold.
Then more.
Then more.

When too many people asked questions,
they closed the gold window.

That was supposed to be temporary.

55 years later, the dollar is still backed by nothing
but trust. And that trust has cost you 97% of your purchasing power.

The receipt became the money.
Global money became trust-based.

And money became nothing but a promise
that nobody has to keep.

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

WHO–Gates Unveils Blueprint For Global Digital ID, AI-Driven Surveillance, & Life-Long Vaccine Tracking For Everyone https://t.co/dqnCad6O6G

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

I need to get something off my chest because I'm genuinely LIVID right now.

I feed a family of SIX on approximately $120-130 PER WEEK. All fresh produce. Homemade meals every single day. Chicken Caesar salad, pasta with homemade tomato sauce, chicken tacos with fresh lettuce and tomatoes, the whole nine yards. Dinners run roughly $1.25-1.75 per person. Lunches? FREE because we eat leftovers like responsible adults.

Meanwhile, in Ohio, SNAP pays a family my size around $1,421 PER MONTH. My ENTIRE food budget runs about $520-560 monthly, and we recently INCREASED our spending after refinancing. We were even tighter before that.

Let me do some math that apparently nobody in government has bothered to do. SNAP recipients in my state are getting roughly $900 MORE per month than what my family actually SPENDS feeding six people REAL FOOD. Fresh vegetables every day. Chicken prepared seven different ways throughout the week. Fresh fruit for breakfast. Homemade everything.

When did "Supplemental Nutrition ASSISTANCE Program" become "Here's Almost Triple What Middle-Class Families Budget For Groceries" Program? The word SUPPLEMENTAL means to ADD TO something existing, not to provide MORE than families who work full-time and budget carefully can afford for themselves.

My kids don't know what steak tastes like. We shop at Aldi. We plan meals around what's on sale. We make chicken hotdish on Saturday specifically so we have two days of lunches covered. That's called BUDGETING. That's called PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. And apparently, that's called BEING A SUCKER because if I just quit my job and went on SNAP, my family would eat BETTER than we do now.

This isn't assistance. This is WEALTH TRANSFER disguised as compassion. Quinn's 25th Law of Liberalism nails it: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money."

The 45 Communist Goals for America read into the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963 included Goal #32: "Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture." Creating permanent dependency through overly generous government programs that exceed what working families provide for themselves? That's not a bug, that's the FEATURE. Keep people dependent, keep them voting for whoever promises to keep the gravy train rolling.

Look, I'm SYMPATHETIC to struggling families. I really am. I worked my way through poverty and I know what it's like to stretch every dollar until it screams. But there's a difference between a hand UP and a hand OUT that becomes a hand AROUND YOUR THROAT.

So here's my proposal, since I'm not one to complain without offering a solution:

Partner with Aldi or similar discount grocers. Create THREE standardized weekly meal plans that feed families nutritiously for what food ACTUALLY COSTS when you're not buying lobster and energy drinks with EBT cards. Each week, recipients pick their meal plan and either pick up pre-boxed ingredients with printed recipes, or get them delivered.

Here's what a REAL week looks like at my house:

MONDAY: Chicken Caesar Salad with garlic bread - $1.65/person
TUESDAY: Chicken pasta with homemade sauce, fresh broccoli and cucumber - $1.40/person
WEDNESDAY: Creamy spinach chicken with fresh side salad - $1.50/person
THURSDAY: Chicken scampi with bowties and steamed broccoli - $1.47/person
FRIDAY: Chicken taco night with fresh everything - $1.65/person
SATURDAY: Chicken hotdish (feeds Saturday dinner AND two days of lunches) - $1.75/person
SUNDAY: Roasted chicken drumsticks with fresh vegetables - $1.60/person
(I have the full breakdown if you need it)

Breakfasts are English muffins, eggs, cereal, fresh fruit. REAL FOOD.

Recipients want free food? Fine. They get A CHOICE among meal plans, not unlimited choices to buy whatever catches their eye. You know what the military dining facility gives you? WHAT THEY SERVE. You show up, eat what's prepared, and say thank you. That's how assistance works when you're not trying to create a permanent dependent class.

Here's what makes my proposal DIFFERENT from every other welfare reform idea though: it's built on EDUCATION, not dependency.

Every box comes with printed recipes and step-by-step instructions. Families aren't just getting food, they're learning HOW TO COOK. They're learning what healthy portions actually look like. They're discovering that fresh vegetables aren't scary and that chicken can be prepared a dozen ways without a deep fryer. Kids watch their parents cook real meals and pick up skills they'll carry for the rest of their lives.

More importantly, families learn HOW TO BUDGET. When you see exactly what ingredients feed a family of six for a week, you start understanding what food ACTUALLY costs. You learn that meal planning isn't some middle-class luxury, it's how responsible adults have fed families for generations. When you're ready to transition OFF the program, you have the SKILLS to do it. You know how to shop at Aldi. You know how to stretch a whole chicken across multiple meals. You know that homemade pasta sauce costs pennies compared to that jarred garbage.

THIS is how you break the cycle. Not by handing people money and hoping they figure it out, but by TEACHING them the skills that self-sufficient families have always used. The current system WANTS people to stay dependent. My system is designed to make itself OBSOLETE by creating competent, capable families who don't NEED government assistance anymore.

And here's the part that should make fiscal conservatives AND bleeding-heart liberals agree: this new SNAP system could actually SAVE MEDICAID.

Think about it. What's driving Medicaid costs through the roof? Obesity. Diabetes. Heart disease. These are conditions directly linked to poor diet. When SNAP recipients can buy unlimited soda, chips, candy, and processed garbage, guess who pays for the resulting health crisis? MEDICAID. Which means TAXPAYERS.

With my meal box system, families eat fresh vegetables every single day. Lean protein. Whole grains. The kinds of foods that PREVENT the chronic diseases bankrupting our healthcare system. Kids growing up on these meals don't develop childhood obesity. They don't get Type 2 diabetes at fifteen. They don't need expensive medications and hospital visits that Medicaid covers.

You want to cut Medicaid spending? Start by not CREATING the health problems Medicaid has to treat. Every dollar spent on fresh broccoli in a meal box is a dollar NOT spent on insulin, dialysis, and heart surgery twenty years from now. This isn't complicated math, but apparently nobody in government connects these dots.

The current system CREATES sick people and then PAYS to treat them. My system creates HEALTHY families who don't need either program eventually. But that would mean fewer government employees, fewer dependent voters, and fewer excuses for expanding bureaucracy. Can't have that now, can we?

This approach eliminates waste, fraud, and abuse because there's nothing PROFITABLE to sell. You can't trade meal kit boxes for cash. You can't buy cigarettes with pre-portioned chicken breasts. And here's the compassionate part nobody wants to acknowledge: it takes STRESS off these families. No more agonizing over what to buy, what to cook, how to stretch dollars they're not stretching anyway. Just pick Plan A, B, or C, get your weekly box, follow the recipes, feed your family.

But this will NEVER happen because the current system isn't DESIGNED to help people become self-sufficient. It's designed to keep them dependent, voting for whoever promises to maintain their benefits.

SNAP benefits currently average $8.2 BILLION per month nationally. That's not assistance, that's an INDUSTRY. An industry that employs social workers, bureaucrats, and politicians who need the poor to stay poor so they can keep their jobs "helping" them.

I'm a teacher in a high-need, high-risk district where ALL of my students get FREE lunches at school. And here's the kicker that should make every SNAP defender's head explode: my family is DEBT FREE except for our mortgage. Single income. Teacher's salary. Stay-at-home mom raising four kids. We're not trust fund babies. We're not secretly rich. We BUDGET. We SACRIFICE. We make CHOICES.

And we do it on LESS than what SNAP hands out.

Let me say that again for the folks in the back: a family of six living on ONE teacher's salary with a stay-at-home mom, completely debt-free, spends LESS on food than what government assistance provides. This is DOABLE on a single salary if you're not buying garbage and actually cooking real meals.

I SEE the results of this broken system every day in my classroom. These aren't bad kids or bad families. They're trapped in a system designed to keep them exactly where they are. Generation after generation, dependent on government, voting for whoever promises more, never building the skills or habits that lead to actual prosperity.

Meanwhile, my family eats fresh chicken seven nights a week on a budget HALF what SNAP provides, and somehow WE'RE the ones who are supposed to feel guilty for questioning where all that money goes.

Quinn's First Law: "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent." SNAP was supposed to SUPPLEMENT nutrition assistance, not REPLACE personal responsibility with government dependency. Mission accomplished in reverse, as usual.

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But what do I know, I'm just a taxpayer who feeds his family on half what the government hands out and has the audacity to notice the math doesn't add up.

[QE Infinity @StealthQE4]

Michael Green: For a family the new poverty line is now around $140,000 including child care and everything else. And this is conservative.

The problem is the median family salary in America is only around 80k.

We are sinking and it’s getting ugly

https://t.co/eDxVnI3SLW

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

So I’m randomly awake in the middle of the night. Musing about why so many are turning to communism.

Then I scroll my timeline briefly. All I see is:

1. 50 year mortgages
2. H1B sadness
3. Chinese student visas
4. Some graph showing the cost of a home versus annual income between now and 1985.

No wonder why some people think capitalism isn’t working.

1. They’re getting replaced.
2. Priced out of their own future.
3. Told they’re not smart enough to do technical jobs.

Do you know how easy it is to tempt someone into following tyrannical systems when they’re economically stagnant?

I’m a sworn enemy of communism. But I’m not ignorant to the factors that lead to its rise. Isn’t just communism though, it’s any authoritarian system.

Needless to say, I have concerns. We objectively know what happens in history when these things go down.

Someone has to make the hard call to rip off the bandaid of foreign meddling. Problematic though, isn’t it? For all the elite interests profiting from it.

I’m here to tell you that greed knows no limit, and will eventually lead its champions into the guillotine. History has shown this to be true 100% of the time.

Horrors are unleashed when a population feels they have no hope of peaceful advancement. We MUST avert this.

Someone needs to bring the American Dream back to reality, before we go into REM sleep on the American Nightmare.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Buyers: "How much will this house cost me?"

Sellers: "What's your budget?"

Buyers: "Well, it was 500K, but with these new fifty year mortgages, I think it could stretch to million."

Sellers: "I have an astonishing coincidence to report."

Look, I don't know exactly who's retarded enough to need to hear this, but if you throw money at something, you get more of it.

Which means that if you subsidize demand, you get more demand.

And if you have the same supply, and more demand, price goes up.

This is how the federal Stafford Loan program made college a gateway to permanent debt slavery. Subsidize demand, price goes up.

The reason people don't understand this is that most people are only smart enough to think about individuals, not populations.

They think if you have more money, you can buy more things, as if things come from the item store in a Japanese console RPG, where the store always has infinity stuff to sell you, and infinity money to buy your loot.

People who are capable of thinking about large groups quickly realize that money is just a way of distributing things.

Like, there's a limited supply of things, and you're just choosing who gets them. Having more money doesn't make more things.

Except... it should, shouldn't it?

Eventually?

Like, if apples get super expensive, because somebody invented a new kind of apple that's so delicious that everyone wants them, then the price of those apples goes up, so more people start growing them.

So why doesn't that work with houses and colleges?

Why don't the super-inflated prices of those things inspire profit-minded people to make more?

It's almost as if there were some sort of gatekeeper, whose permission you needed to make a house or a university.

But that's impossible, because this is a totally capitalist country, so you can just do things, right?

[Pavel Durov @durov]

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.

Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.

What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.

Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).

Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.

A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.

We’ve been fed a lie.

We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.

By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.

So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

[Supply Shocker ⚡️⚡️ @SupplyShocker]

such a creep. reject this.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The man behind the digital ID push is Larry Ellison, owner of Oracle, CBS, CNN, and, soon, TikTok. He wants data centralization and total surveillance. "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly watching & recording everything that's going on." Terrifying.

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

ICYMI - U.S. Homeland Security will acquire advanced iris biometric scanning technology from Bi² Technologies for ICE to identify individuals "in seconds from virtually anywhere."

[Rational Aussie @rationalaussie]

If you can't access the internet without needing to verify your age, you do not live in a free country.

I can't believe this even needs to be said.

Censorship of information is the mandate of totalitarian regimes across history.

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

The solution is clear but requires political courage: cut the visas!

We must prioritize American workers in American jobs and stop pretending that flooding the market with foreign labor helps our grads.

Full Article: https://t.co/tnry0nzZFe

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Reminder that if you are fully vaccinated and up to date on boosters, you are allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Those vaccinated are even permitted to have a backyard barbecue, so long as the number of guests is five or less.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

[Lewis Brackpool @Lewis_Brackpool]

🧵THREAD: The WHO Pandemic Agreement has now passed.

There was no parliamentary vote, no public debate, and no referendum.

This thread explains what was agreed, how it happened, and why concerns about sovereignty, accountability, and global governance are growing.

[1/15]

[Isabella Maria DeLuca @IsabellaMDeLuca]

So far this year, the United States has given:

- $24,400,000,000 to Ukraine.
- $11,300,000,000 to Israel.
- $1,950,000,000 to Ethiopia.
- $1,600,000,000 to Jordan.
- $1,400,000,000 to Egypt.
- $1,100,000,000 to Afghanistan.
- $1,100,000,000 to Somalia.
- $1,000,000,000 to Yemen.
- $987,000,000 to Congo.
- $896,000,000 to Syria.
- $9,000 per illegal immigrant that has entered the U.S.

And Americans who have lost everything to Hurricane Helene will be getting $750, courtesy of FEMA.

[Supply Shocker ⚡️⚡️ @SupplyShocker]

bro this isn’t even a real picture. zoom in on the neck??

[Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews]

North Korea says Israel is a murderous, bandit, genocidal, and barbaric state.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

This chart is wild, Canadians are drowning in taxes.

The average Canadian family now spends ~$47,000 per year on taxes and ~$13,000 per year on food,

That's 3.6 TIMES more on taxes than food.

The average Canadian family also now spends ~$24,000 per year on shelter.

In other words, the average Canadian family now spends DOUBLE their annual shelter costs on taxes.

Since 2010, the average annual tax bill for a Canadian family is up a whopping ~57%.

Truly concerning numbers.