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[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Well, that was wild. I'm at the Australian Parliament and just left a meeting with two staffers for the governing party. They told us that the government needed more power to censor things like the upcoming US execution of Nidal Hasan.

When I asked why they needed to censor that video, one said it was to prevent copycat killings. Copycat killings by governments? I asked. Er, no, they said. Copycat killings like of a backpacker, several decades ago.

So, under that logic, I pointed out, the government should censor things like last year's Bondi massacre, where two Muslims killed 15 people, no? Well, that was news, they said. Didn't they realize their bill would allow the government to censor news? They didn't seem to know, or care.

They also admitted that they did not know that the bill would allow the government to create and operate an unlimited number of fake social media accounts to attack its political enemies and spread disinformation. Having presented them with information they had never heard about a bill they had clearly not read, they emphasized to us, strenuously, that they were moving forward with the bill.

So there you have it. The government wants the power to arbitrarily censor scenes of violent crime, or violence, for any reason. And it wants the power to use an unlimited number of fake accounts to wage offensive disinformational warfare against the Australian people.

Given that the Bondi massacre last year increased public opposition to mass migration, and support for the populist One Nation Party, it seems obvious that the government wants to censor such events in order to protect its political power.

It's quite telling how obediently governing party members insist such a law is needed without even knowing what's in it.

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@gafr60 @JamieBonkiewicz Greg, you forget it’s do as I say not as I do for dems.

Logic person, please add the top 5 (or the top 3) on this list. You will find that dem billionaire spending > republican billionaire spending.

Now add the hundreds of billions in free dem media and you’ll find the issue.

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@im_PULSE @Metallica Thank the heavens above. Nothing worse than woefully uninformed celebrities opining on things they know nothing about. Thank you @metallica for standing…for the music.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Brace yourselves. Over the next few weeks you are going to see a wave of hatred against Elon Musk unlike anything before.

A four-hour hit-piece documentary rolling out nationwide. Midterms three weeks away. Every outlet, every NGO, every “expert” panel suddenly singing from the same sheet, on the same day, with the same words.

None of it is spontaneous.

What you are watching is an organism. Call it international socialism, call it the managerial left, the name doesn’t matter. It is a network that spent decades quietly capturing the universities, the newsrooms, the foundations, the administrative state, every institution that was supposed to referee the game instead of playing it.

For years it worked because no one with real power ever looked under the hood.

Then a man who lands rockets, owns the public square and needs nobody’s permission started looking. And started showing everyone else what he found.

So the organism does what every organism does when it senses a threat to its survival. It screams.

Don’t mistake the noise for strength. What you are about to hear is not the roar of a system in control. It is a death cry.

The louder it gets, the closer he is to the nerve.

I wrote about why this happens, and why “Nazi” is always the weapon of choice 👇

https://t.co/FGQWHDvEmX

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@GuntherEagleman I agree. Conservatives wake up for a minute, get ticked off, then go back to sleep and give their money to the people that hate them and wish for their way of life to disappear.

Come one, conservatives! We don’t riot or publicly protest. Protest with your cash!!

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@brndxix You should see how much he spent to preserve your right to gripe! It will blow your mind.

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@davidportier Hi David, not a bot, but that was a funny comment. Have you seen the charges brought against a president and his aides? I would assume you were making the same comments then…

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@CNN I’m so grateful that you all occasionally pretend to be journalists! I just wish it could happen with issues that matter to anyone besides the far left. Stay frosty, CNN.

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@StephenKing Shoot…I’m so conflicted! What do I tell the dem billionaires that have put countless corrupt judges and politicians into office?

Should I bring Act Blue into the convo?Combined, they make Musk donations look like small potatoes.

But please, continue with your one-sided protest

[Steph Anie @mynerdyhome]

I'm sick of these millionaire actors charging us for movies. They should be free!

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@nytimes “Some of.” Care to do a story on the others? Maybe start with the dem billionaires that have installed countless corrupt judges.

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@compliantvc Funny watching you minimize one of the most incredible advancements in recent history. A battery powered car…driving itself!!!

Your statement is the problem….doing what you’ve been doing for centuries. Welcome to the future.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.

At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.

Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.

He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.

He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Had it not been for Boris Johnson and Victoria Nuland -- who personally forced Zelensky to reject the deal Ukraine and Russia were about to sign in Istanbul in 2022 -- this horrific war that has killed more than a million and consumed much of Ukraine would have been long over.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

Meanwhile, Harry:

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@Ebonylifestyles He was/is a moron. We all hated his politics. Full stop.

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@spencerpratt Well said!

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

What’s terrifying about this clip isn’t their ideals…these sweet gals’ hearts are certainly in the right place. What’s terrifying is they have the civic, political, and economic literacy of a 9 year old. When a charlatan like Abdul comes along with the Jr High class president schtick of “no more homework and the vending machines are all free!”, they fall for it.

I don’t know how you get to that age with ZERO understanding of supply chains, manufacturing, labor costs…but a lot of folks think that medicine and MRIs and hospitals just materialize out of thin air like unicorn farts. They’ve never built anything in their lives, so they have no concept of how things function…things are just…there. They think milk comes from the store. They think rich people don’t pay taxes, even though the top 1% fund 40% of government with their taxes already, and yet 40% of all Americans contribute ZERO federal income tax at all. These people don’t understand that you could tax the wealthy at 100% and it would only fund the government for 120 days. Then you’re screwed.

Too many Americans simply have zero understanding of how anything works, and even though they’re living in the easiest times in human history, they think things are “terrible out there”. These commie scammers roll through and promise them things that sound great, but aren’t possible in reality, and have devastating consequences if tried…but because they don’t know anything, they fall for it. Sadly, so many of our politicians and their advisors are such atrocious communicators, there’s like zero countervailing narrative to push back on the commie gobbledygook, so we are gonna have to learn the hard way. Guys…we just had a sample of socialism: Covid. We all got universal basic income, and it ended up tripling our costs and they’ll never go down. Ever. That one brief little experiment in command and control government will haunt us the rest of our lives. Bleak stuff, man.

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@JamieBonkiewicz MAGA has been the loudest about McConnell. And…want him out of his seat!

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@NYCMayor When is the last time you spoke this way about an illegal killing an American?

Get Mamdani out of our neighborhoods. Get Mamdani out of our hospitals. Get Mamdani off our streets. Get Mamdani away from our children.

Abolish Mamdani.