“AI will be the only way out. By greenlighting increasingly advanced AI that can replace workers, US GDP can be increased faster than accumulating debt interest, preventing the US dollar from collapsing…”
Mass immigration is a Ponzi scheme, which balances the books in the
Looming US fiscal collapse means we can't pause AI
I have previously argued that any substantial pause of AI tech is infeasible as the human race is undergoing a process of collapse.
Well, it seems that financial markets are starting to realize I'm right.
As far as I can
Vivek Ramaswamy's closing remarks from the Republican primary debate.
Whatever you think of this guy, and why he's there—he's the only one who had any confidence & energy, & the only one who reflected the base's views on Ukraine.
Strong outing for him. His polls will climb.
A mom spoke out at a school board meeting about
@BeniciaUSD
injecting gender ideology into the curriculum.
Leftist activists were fuming and set to work tracking down her employer and destroying her life.
@Compass
, her employer, caved to the mob and fired her.
I spoke with
@ID_AA_Carmack
Imagine successor owners removing John Carmack’s name from the credits of Doom & Quake games, just for tweeting something as mundane as “It’s okay to be white.”
It’s important to fight for free speech—but Leftists need hard lessons to re-learn its value.
@jdcmedlock
Since IQ is heritable & correlates with educational attainment, but political ideology is cultural—all this means is that education *in this country at this time* indoctrinates people toward the Left.
In other nations at other times, it does the opposite:
@Amy_Siskind
Look closely at this space, Amy.
This is clearly a VFW or American Legion or similar small local meeting place, in a tiny, shrinking town of 12,000 people *that Kamala Harris would spit on* rather than step foot in.
You should be ashamed for dishonesty.
@Amy_Siskind
There are 0 empty seats, & this is obviously a *very small room* meant for a press event &/or very intimate town-hall-style stop, not a large general-admission rally.
Is your audience really as IQ-deficient as you think they are⁉️
@jdcmedlock
Since IQ is heritable & correlates with educational attainment, but political ideology is cultural—all this means is that education *in this country at this time* indoctrinates people toward the Left.
In other nations at other times, it does the opposite:
I had never heard about this aspect of the Stonewall riots; but a little research shows it as accurate:
That the police didn't raid Stonewall to harass gay folks, but rather because the mob was running a blackmail ring out of it, using underage drug-addict prostitutes.😬
@gassara_sara
I feel seen.☺️🙏
These words have lost negative meaning for normies, who ignore—or laugh at—them.
“Racist” just means “notices differences.”
“Fascist” just means “isn’t a communist.”
“Homophobic” just means “doesn’t want to teach anal in 3rd grade.”
I know this is engagement bait so I’ll turn it into a teaching moment. I saw this painting at the Broad and ugly cried in public. Here was the accompanying text and quote.
@PandasAndVidya
I wish Japanese anime creators & game devs were as protective of their native idioms.
American prudes “localizing” Japanese content, is like Victorians glueing fig-leaves to every Renaissance sculpture they stumble upon. Grotesque.
@WomenAreReals
@aukletqd
It's a cold, hard, & *perfectly understandable* truth that anyone who is physically capable yet brings up a desire for special accommodations, or centers something about themselves irrelevant to the job, is going to the bottom of the CV pile.
@AndreasKoureas_
Darryl Cooper's view on Winston Churchill is not exactly new—it’s been a standard critique by anti-globalist conservatives for decades, & Patrick Buchanan wrote about it in his book *Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War*:
Darryl Cooper may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States. His latest project is the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two.
(1:20) History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
(12:39) The Jonestown Cult
(32:10) World War Two
(45:04) How
@AndyHearn09
It would feel *exactly* like the unwanted mass immigration being experienced right now in the U.K., U.S., & the rest of the Western world.
Because this mass immigration, being done for decades *against the will of native citizens*, produces this result.
@ichthys30
@HbdNrx
Teen girls & young women were the lifeblood of trad malls.
When immigrant &/or inner-city males started coming—they’d leer, be loud, harass; females didn’t feel safe, & stopped hanging out there.
Without crowds, stores become theft & flash-mob targets, parking garages became
Til just a decade ago it was perfectly normal guy talk to discreetly look at & discuss the attractiveness of late-adolescent teenage girls.
Just because you notice that something is desirable, doesn’t mean you’re going to go take it.
To hypocritically deny nature is perversion.
Women were having babies in their teens for much of human history. Pretending that it’s pedophilia to find teenage girls hot is the most retarded cope I’ve ever heard.
@herandrews
I’ve watched for 2 generations as the US underwent mass immigration against the will of natives—but as it’s been slow & we’re huge, our native character largely remains.
But I don’t think the UK & Ireland can survive what’s happening, unless it ends soon.
📍Dundrum, Tipperary.
This tiny Irish village of 200 people was forcibly planted this morning. 280 ‘asylum seekers’ are to be housed in this hotel, replacing the local population overnight.
Ireland is ground zero for population replacement.
@whstancil
The “material condition” common to all these places:
Younger generations are living among things they can’t afford by doing the things which older generations did to get them.
Home, family, safety, comfort goods—neoliberal Leftists expropriated it all.
lefties get extremely angry when you suggest the massive worldwide surge in far-right politics might not have its roots in material conditions, but they can’t actually name a material condition that is occurring in all the places seeing a far-right surge
@bengrossbg
Very few of the people you’d accuse of “celebrating the murder of political opponents” are doing so.
Every person’s death is tragic—but the deaths of people who force bad policies on the rest of us, at the hands of their own bad policies, is also a fine lesson in why those
“Communism evolved to solve the problem of productive forces by incorporating fascism.”
I’ve seen a few folks say, “People on the Right are using ‘communism’ wrong now, to describe anything Leftist, because of James Lindsay”—but he’s made an important observation here.
What
There's a simple explanation for what's happening in the world right now if you'll let yourself accept it. It's a global Communist revolution.
The missing piece to accepting it is simply that Communism evolved to solve the problem of productive forces by incorporating fascism.
@ButNotTheCity
Actually, men's standards in the age of online dating apps are perfectly reasonable—they follow the "normal distribution" one would expect if they were evaluating women objectively.
Most women, however, are measurably unreasonable in evaluating men:
@tired_sun_aeiou
@whyvert
Outside of actual competitions, well-adjusted men tend to slot women into male hierarchies as clients who receive support. They’re all objects of desire, or little sisters.
Otherwise well-adjusted women, however, will tend to not include most men at all.
@whyvert
There was a similar study with schoolchildren and candy.
When candy was given out only to the boys, by the end of class every girl also had some candy.
When candy was given out only to the girls, only a few popular boys ended up with some candy.
@FromKulak
Where this goes wrong, is that Tolkien made the Hobbits his stand-in for the English.
So Elves represent an earlier state—the idealized peoples of the past, before modern English/Euros.
Wizards, likewise, represent the magic & miracles of old, now gone.
Kind of hate Tolkien.
He took everything beautiful about Celtic & Germanic paganism, then made it uglier & used it's beauty to attack and subvert the ethnos. Telling a story about how Europeans shouldn't defend themselves with power, but just "fade away Into the west" (Ie. Die)
@9mm_smg
It’s nonetheless impressive that Terrence Howard is thinking through these philosophical & mathematical issues from scratch.
It’s interesting to watch someone rediscover paradoxes etc. w/ no formal training. In a better world, testing would’ve ID’d him
Watching Terrence Howard getting broken by Eric Weinstein is the perfect example of how having a 115-120 IQ and believing you have a 150 is so destructive. Terrence is not unintelligent, but he also believes himself to be far more intelligent than he is.
This can be more
“Lucky for them our government has essentially allowed for a mass importation of a slave labour class that will work for dog sh¡t wages and live 15 people to one house just for a chance at a visa.
Ensuring the working class have no bargaining power.”
George Borjas, Harvard
False.
When I was growing up it was almost exclusively people born in Canada that worked at Tim Hortons.
The only reason they stopped is because the cost of living skyrocketed but the wages at places like Tim’s didn’t.
In a normal functioning country Tim Hortons would then
@UN_Women
But…
…but…
…I was told that “All Lives Matter” is “racist,” & only “Black Lives Matter” was acceptable under the curcumstances.
So, under *these* circumstances, shouldn’t the only acceptable message be “Jewish Lives Matter”❓
🤔🤔🤔
We reiterate that all women, Israeli women, Palestinian women, as all others, are entitled to a life lived in safety and free from violence.
👉Read our full statement:
@KeenanPeachy
Many Pro-Life activists are failing to understand their position.
Trump won them their 50-year main objective.
But they need to *consolidate* that win by electing Trump, or Democrats will pack SCOTUS & pass Roe as federal law—and they’ll lose *forever*.
Trump’s tracking moderate on abortion because:
• Every pro-life SCOTUS justice dissembled to get on the bench, saying they’d uphold Roe or that they “hadn’t thought about it.” It’s necessary politics.
• SCOTUS made it a STATE issue: federal abortion bans would be overturned.
Dawn was needy & weird.
But Sonya Larson was a duplicitous, unkind, privileged, entitled, race-baiting little psychopath.
And a deliberate plagiarist.
Writers defending her—even after the willful & premeditated plagiarism—should do some soul-searching.
Either
#SonyaLarson
was
@PYeerk
I don’t think this has “aged” any more or less than e.g. the “bullet time” scene from *The Matrix* a quarter-century ago.
It’s just that what was new & different is now mundane. But that doesn’t lessen the original; watch *Stagecoach* today, and every
@jlippincott_
A lot of less-dissident folks on the Right are freaking out about the part of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Darryl Cooper where he critiques Churchill & our involvement in WW2, but no less than Patrick Buchanan gave this view serious treatment.
@AndreasKoureas_
Darryl Cooper's view on Winston Churchill is not exactly new—it’s been a standard critique by anti-globalist conservatives for decades, & Patrick Buchanan wrote about it in his book *Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War*:
@wmslamcan
@herandrews
My local shopping mall was vibrant from the 1970s through ~2000—til a subway line brought urbanites.
Their loud, aggressive pack behavior & leering chased away the local teenagers—esp. the girls who’d been the consumerist lifeblood of mall shopping.
Decline & closure was swift.
@realChrisBrunet
@CatoInstitute
At some point, libertardian-Rightism is indistinguishable from nihilism.
They don’t care about the results of any given policy, only about its supposed market-purity—yet at the same time they deny the right of market participants to set any market rules.
@PEWilliams_
@AlecStapp
But this is not a significant problem in the developed countries where plastic bags & straws get banned.
Almost all of the e.g. marine plastic pollution is from 3rd-world countries, who aren't banning these plastics.
@AlecStapp
Isn’t the impact people are concerned about the fact that plastic bags don’t break down, pile up in waterways and habitats etc? Many vectors for negative ecological impact beyond emissions
@ArtofTrek
Let’s not forget the cast member who originally sat in the center chair, “Two-Day Janeway” Geneviève Bujold:
Someone edited Bujold’s dailies into a completed scene with music & VFX, to show us her
#StarTrek
performance:
@Spottedcanine
"Hours before Adriana’s death, one of the girls who recorded the assault in the hallway at Central Regional High School in Berkeley Township sent Adriana a text mocking her for being covered in 'dripping blood' and getting her 'a– whooped.'"
Adult jail.
@AYM_Higher_
This was always going to be the result of
• normalizing the culturally-Marxist oppressor/oppressed view of history—& then racializing it, classing “whites” as oppressors;
• mass immigration from Islamic countries, which tend to be more antisemitic.
I find it amazing that, post-WW2, the Jewish community managed to win over Western public sentiment to the point that they became not only successful & influential on culture & policy, but well-liked according to nearly all polls of Western whites…
…& yet the Left-wing
"I actually had a ton of
#LiaThomas
’ teammates reach out to me personally, and thank me for what I’m doing because this is something they deal with every single day. But of course, they’re intimidated, they’re threatened, they’re emotionally blackmailed."
@Sargon_of_Akkad
Revolutionary movements attract/create people with a revolutionary mindset, so that when the war is won, they just go looking for a new cause—or invent one.
Same thing happened to the gay rights movement, which is why it’s become about transing kids now.
@Sargon_of_Akkad
I'd love to see an analysis of what the hell happened to Sinn Fein. Is it something like: once the struggle was over and the raison d'etre was lost, they lost their reason to exist?
This happened to a guy I knew in Texas, of all places.
He left town for a week to go to his brother's wedding, & left his dog in their huge fenced-in yard with 24/7 house access, & had a neighbor come by 3 times daily to feed him.
#PETA
stole the dog & killed it. 😬
They arrested Trump
They arrested Trump's lawyers
They arrested Trump's advisors
They arrested Trump's supporters
They arrested Trump's chief of staff
They arrested Trump's chief strategist
They arrested Trump's security advisor
If this was happening in a foreign country,
“Navalny in this video is asking MI6 Officer James William Thomas Ford for $10-20 Million a year to start a color revolution in Russia.
This is why he was arrested. And has major implications especially in light of the CIA and MI6 sabotaging the Trump administration.”
Bingo.
It’s horrific when a political opponent dies in jail.
But it’s also never good to be caught on camera attempting a coup in your country with a foreign intel service.
Navalny in this video is asking MI6 Officer James William Thomas Ford for $10-20 Million a year to start a color
@brad_polumbo
The point of inheritance & wealth taxes is to diminish the impact of unearned, generational wealth—without countervailing forces, an ownership class & a renter class would be likely to diverge toward aristocrat/serf status.
Such taxes can be beneficial when not too extreme.
“It is hard to imagine a path back to saner American politics that does not traverse a common ground of shared fact. It is equally hard to imagine how America’s diversity can continue to be a source of strength, rather than become a fatal flaw, if Americans are afraid or
@RogerSnellman
The crowd is all donors and donors' friends—the GOP establishment which hates the base, and which the base hates right back.
They all booed Trump in 2016, too.😅
@D2Frankensteins
@ighaworth
@washingtonpost
What did YOUR parents do for MY parents when they had me?
What did YOUR grandparents do for MY grandparents when they had 6 kids & 2 grandkids in one house?
We made due w/o handouts then. A young couple w/ a good military job & benefits is fine now.
@ighaworth
@washingtonpost
You have no idea what the intentions of the story was. Now, since you love it so much, how are you going to help those struggling parents. They have names, faces. What are YOU going to do?
@Amy_Siskind
There are 0 empty seats, & this is obviously a *very small room* meant for a press event &/or very intimate town-hall-style stop, not a large general-admission rally.
Is your audience really as IQ-deficient as you think they are⁉️
OMG, I'm dying - this is the crowd this morning for JD Vance in New Kensington, PA - and he has his wife and 3 GOP members of Congress along with him. There's like 20 people again....look at all the empty seats in the tiny room 🤣😅😂
@LeaMaric
It may or may not be an excuse for prudery—but some lack of imagination is involved.
All movie scenes are fake, and if you think this is silly, you should see how they film horror, action, scifi…
@mtracey
It seems like an overabundance of circumstantial evidence points to the U.S. intelligence community orchestrating Nixon’s ouster.
Even now, given their repeated lies about Trump, the Hunter Biden laptop, etc.—they lawlessly meddle in domestic affairs.
•
#Watergate
burglars were
#CIA
.
• Deep Throat was head of COINTELPRO—the domestic intelligence operation to discredit its political opposition.
• Bob Woodward was former Naval intelligence.
• Ford was forced on
#Nixon
—not chosen—& was a reliable intel community ringer.
"Our
#transgender
patients are too immature to get irreversible surgery when they're over-18 and in college, so we're giving them irreversible surgery while under-18 and in high school, so that parents can make them do basic hygiene & medical follow-up."
Good lord...😬
#IStandWithJameelaJamil
is the perfect example of why you never give in to the woke culture-terrorists. Look at all the whining replies.
They want to humiliate & control people—no more no less. It *makes their day* to be "misgendered," bc it gives them something to REEEEE about.
I accidentally misgendered someone who was rude to me on here because I did not know they were NB. I instantly corrected myself but NOBODY reads your bios people. *PLEASE* include your pronouns in your name on here to prevent misunderstandings/offense if it's important to you.🙌🏽
@SupermanEnjoyer
There's ONE thing "Josstice League" did far better than *Zack Snyder's Justice League*: the color grading.
I'm tired of dark, desaturated color palettes. That set a certain mood 25 years ago—but now it's just dull & common.
RETVRN to technicolor glory❗
Crazy thing about these 2 films is that there isn’t a SINGLE thing Josstice League does better. Not a single thing.
Not a single character beat, design, action sequence, shot, score choice. Nothing.
@RepSpanberger
Absolute cowards and losers, cowering in fear of their own everyday citizenry.🙄
Absolutely shameworthy—before we even get into the fedsurrection angle.
@BasedTorba
Do these two religious bigots not understand that:
• The woman's statement is a basic article of Christian faith: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me."
• Religious freedom *applies to her*, too.
@SwannMarcus89
Then you have a messy, unsatisfying attempt at reconciliation, culminating in mutually disappointing make-up sex; midway through, she taps you on the shoulder and says:
I hate how attractive I find Lauren Boebert because I just know that I wouldn't have the will to turn it down and then she'd key my car and light my clothes on fire when things went south
Tiresias from Greek myth was right:
Women truly are the hornier sex.
Sure, men are naturally shallow-horny all the time—those who aren’t, have been successfully socialized to sublimate our constant sex drives into productive work/life/etc.—but womens’ horniness is a deep ocean.
@alyssa_merc
Kotaku is supposed to be a gaming website.
If the writers aren’t talented enough, *as writers*, to quickly learn how to write game guides for a gaming website, instead of racialist activism like this—
—then they can & should find jobs elsewhere.
Lest anyone think all that far-Left culture war nonsense a decade ago is irrelevant now, THIS is what
#Kotaku
publishes NOW: “the industry capitalizes on Black aesthetics ‘because it’s become the shorthand for what it is to be cool’ while remaining ambivalent about actually
@benryanwriter
If Nex Benedict identified as male, yet was in a girls’ bathroom physically assaulting girls just over words—doesn’t that make him an abuser❓ If we take his trans ID seriously, yes.
But maybe we shouldn’t; she was a girl re-abused by Gender Ideology:
Dagney (Nex) was a survivor of extreme sexual abuse. Her father anally raped her when she was 9 after years of molestation. He was released after 5 years and arrested again two weeks before she overdosed.
Her suicide notes discussed family concerns.
@GustavoKTool
@GeorgeTakei
Incorrect.
You're conflating "the First Amendment" with "Freedom of Speech."
Freedom of Speech is an overarching, pre-existing liberal universalist Enlightenment value. The First Amendment is merely one single, purpose-limited codification of that value.
@BillKristol
tl;dr translation:
“I would vote for elite-controlled socialism with poverty for everyone else, rather than have my elite class lose its power & status under a populist capitalism that enriches everyone.”
I think capitalism far superior to socialism, and free markets with a welfare state and some regulation far superior to a government-run economy with limited room for freedom. But if capitalists side with authoritarians--better social democracy than corporatist authoritarianism.
@selldit
@ggreenwald
@AJDelgado13
Incidental collateral damage is unavoidable—pictures of dead civilians coming out of Ukraine are no different from those of dead civilians killed by Americans in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
But we didn't do POW hostage vids.
Your "whataboutism" is amoral.
@ggreenwald
@AJDelgado13
The same day a photo of a murdered family comes out you choose THIS as the Geneva convention violation to be irate about. It has become impossible to view what you say in good faith.
@JKBye
@UCLA
No; they should face consequences for their intolerance.
If the only consequence they face is public shaming—it's still infinitely less than the damage they caused by derailing a career over their own Maoist fervor.
As a
@UCLA
Psych alum, I fully support the grad students who spoke up for their beliefs.
I’m also deeply concerned that their names were publicly leaked for what I assume was an internal letter to a hiring committee.
These students must be protected against retaliation.
Savage AF.
Selena Gomez & Demi Lovato recorded this first—just two kids having fun w/ then-new video social platforms.
But Miley Cyrus & her friend did a total *Mean Girls* parody.
I remember it because I was babysitting a cousin at the time who was *Hannah Montana*-obsessed.
3. miley cyrus and her friend mandy uploaded a video to youtube mocking selena gomez and demi lovato, 2008.
they later deleted the video and said they were just kidding, and “imitation is a form of flattery”.
I find it amazing that, post-WW2, the Jewish community managed to win over Western public sentiment to the point that they became not only successful & influential on culture & policy, but well-liked according to nearly all polls of Western whites…
…& yet the Left-wing
To all Jews around the world: Consider learning Cantonese or Mandarin and keep your fingers crossed that China allows you in. This might become the only safe place for Jews in 20+ years. Tragic but true.
1) What fraternity does he represent? That fraternity’s national leadership needs to be contacted immediately and that frat should be barred from campus.
2) We have recently seen endless conversations and action items created about antisemitism, but I’m guessing that same energy
@JdGordon13
What you're saying is:
When cops see black folks about to kill other black folks, they should not intervene to save those black lives with maximum urgency.
Message received.
Cops: Let them kill each other, or YOU will be blamed.
@MayorGinther
She was a child, not a "young woman." She did not "lose her life," she was murdered. Other cops should not be investigating other cops. We don't trust you.
@eigenrobot
@shitotaur
I’m unironically & non-pruriently hoping for more Sappho to eventually come out of this.
I’ve read so many ancient allusions to her as one of the most gifted & lauded of all poets…yet even after discoveries in 2004 & 2014, next to nothing survives.
@mualphaxi
She's just completely incapable of any kind of sympathy or empathy with the man at the center of the story.
It's just so extraordinary to read and hear her undermining him in his own story, in every way, so consistently. Bizarre.
The video below is Emily Wilson, the Homeric translator promoted by the corporate media, reciting Book 23 from her translation of the Odyssey
It is disturbing - a mockery of the great work
Imagine NPR but read by the worst middle school theater teacher of all time
Part 2:
@Slendy5127
@gassara_sara
Words change meaning according to popular usage; so, when ideologues use words that once meant something to refer to normies who have no relation to that something—that’s when normies understand those words to have changed meaning.
@Howlingmutant0
I'm always just deep enough into Very-Online Discourse™ to hear this gossip—but never deep enough to have any idea who these folks are.
It's like going to all the Jay Gatsby parties but never seeing him, just hearing "Oh yes, he rode a tiger at Oxford."
@eyeslasho
This study is not actually correlating IQ with “liberalism” in a modern sense, or any kind of “Leftism,” but rather with something more like “classical liberalism”/“libertarianism”—which is 💯% compatible with today’s Right.
This study seems to have not really measured leftism. None of these scales are leftism. It would be interesting to see how much these correlate with leftism.
Jared Moskowitz, emerging from the SCIF, says “it’s definitely not about aliens,” and “it confirms there is no intelligent life in Congress.”
So there you have it.
#Shakespeare
, the greatest of
#English
-language writers, peppered his works with clever sexual jokes and puns.
After the anything-goes
#GenX
'ers, who'd have thought that
#Millennials
would turn out to be bigger prudes than Elizabethans?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Germaine Greer is correct on all counts.
There's a lot of misogyny in the trans community, which I think is rooted in envy of the fact that mtf trans folks can never be women—because women are *biologically* female at a level even the most-passing trans person can never attain.
@LHSummers
@AEI
Traditionally, men worked so hard to get resources which would attract the affection of women.
But women defected from this socioeconomic bargain for careers & hypergamy.
As average men increasingly lose that motivation, they'll work far less hard.
I viscerally dislike the sort of crassness & coarse language in the tone of this article; but its content is accurate.
Feminism convinced many women to defect from a civilizational bargain which invited men to work hard & sacrifice to support them & their
@selentelechia
when I was one or two, autumn came quickly; leaves fell from a tree in our yard nearly overnight
my mother explained that this is just what happens in autumn. i broke into tears and demanded: "put them back!"
what can you say to such a child?
Weakness is okay. We are all weak in certain areas. But rewarding weakness is a mistake. It breeds entitlement, low self-esteem, and a misunderstanding of how the world works.