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Insert ideas into head; observe at safe distance.

[TWV @wirkman]

Anyone who is a "second-hand dealer in ideas" & gets some remuneration for it is an “intellectual.” This renders "pseudo-intellectual" a vacuous pejorative, a term for an intellectual you don't like.

The only people to merit the designation are those who use it against others.

[TWV @wirkman]

“The majority of African leaders . . . are celebrating the exit of USAID.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Banger

[TWV @wirkman]

America’s Christendom might become Christian again when believers learn to love the Jew but hate the Zionism.

[TWV @wirkman]

Though I applaud her belittling of identitarians' "identity" notion, calling it a form of "narcissism"? Nope.

It's a mass man phenomena hiding behind the language of individual identity. In upgrading commonality to "identity," identitarians submerge themselves into tribes.

[Sage Steele @sagesteele]

THIS!!!!!!!!

[TWV @wirkman]

Fun first contact short story where the being in a flying saucer requires food; droll ending; “explains” several common features of UFO lore.

Joe Haldeman, “All The Universe in a Mason Jar,” Cosmos (Sept. 1977). See Infinite Dreams (1978).

#ufos #sciencefiction #FirstContact

[TWV @wirkman]

@elonmusk Just thought of a new term: marginal cruciality!

[TWV @wirkman]

Ben Burgis's goofy anti-Elon piece in Jacobin.

I can say with a straight face that Ben Burgis doesn't understand how capitalism works, or the role of entrepreneurs & managers therein. "Hard work" — what piffle!

The Dumb Guy argument against Elon.

Which is mostly what I see.

[TWV @wirkman]

Which is not to say that @elonmusk doesn't work hard. But even if he just did all his work in the few minutes between a never-ending stream of tokes and blow jobs, it wouldn't really matter. It's not how hard the work, but how crucial the work is for bringing products to market.

[TWV @wirkman]

@pyramuscrypto @elonmusk Burn crosses on your own property (with a burn permit?) all you want. But it is illegal to burn stuff on public property outside of a barbecue pit.

I think it funny that "hate crime" aspect was committed by an Asian-American soy-boy trying to "protest" or... it's incoherent. Heh

[TWV @wirkman]

Hilarious. Not bad messaging. Tho we're celebrating the Declaration of Independence this summer, not the Constitution. That came later.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Bob Odenkirk has returned as Saul Goodman in a new video celebrating 250 years of America.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

I can’t believe this shit 😳

Americans, u are definitely not mad enough..

[TWV @wirkman]

Every believer is also a disbeliever in something else. Not only does belief imply disbelief, disbelief itself is a kind of belief.

[TWV @wirkman]

Altogether too many E. R. Eddison paperbacks from Ballantine’s early runs. I must have an extra copy of A Fish in Memison, too.

But how to sell? Does a friend want a gift?

[TWV @wirkman]

If I could be so bold as to advise...

[TWV @wirkman]

This sounds great until you remember that there are such things as deficits, and that one can look at where tax revenue comes from, the amount, and the programs spent upon.

Debt covers deficit spending. That portion of federal outlay is covered by funny money. No more.

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

Wanna know the real reason we have to pay these crazy high taxes?

👇👇👇

[TWV @wirkman]

I only know some of the things Cenk's saying to be true. But I bet much of what I don't know is true also. Could be wrong.

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Thank God for people like Cenk Uygur. Otherwise, we would never get to hear the truth...

[TWV @wirkman]

Some days it strikes me that the Simulation is not trying hard enough to make things seem real.