Il filosofo inglese Roger Scruton spiegava di essere diventato conservatorismo dopo aver assistito alle proteste studentesche del maggio 1968 in Francia: “Per cominciare, la cosa che mi ha colpito di più di quegli studenti per strada è stata la, sentimentalità, della loro rabbia. Era tutto incentrato su loro stessi, non riguardava nulla di obiettivo. Eh, eccoli qui, i figli viziati della classe media, i baby boomers che non avevano mai dovuto affrontare difficoltà reali, urlavano, a squarciagola per strada, bruciavano le auto appartenenti a comuni proletari che fingevano di difendere contro alcune immaginarie strutture oppressive erette dalla borghesia. L'intera faccenda era una completa finzione basata sulle idee antiquate di Karl Marx, idee che erano già obsolete a metà del XIX secolo. Stavano mettendo in scena, se vogliamo, un dramma auto-scritto in cui il personaggio centrale erano loro stessi”.

Would you still tweet if you got zero likes on all your posts?

Your country has failed. So many of us are sad. There is no bottom with Trump.

Every time I say a bunch of true things in public a lot of nasty people come out of the woodwork. They never challenge any of my arguments (because they can't) - they just shout abuse online. And every time my audience, income and reputation grows. So keep it up, losers 😂

Scientist discover a mushroom that makes you see thousands of tiny people everywhere. The tiny people often interact with the subject in intelligent ways. 😳 🍄

IN 1979 CANADA LAUNCHED A ROCKET POWERED LINCOLN CONTINENTAL AT THE USA! What you're seeing here is a brazen, absolute batshit attempt by stuntman Kenny Powers to pilot a purpose-built, rocket-powered car from one country to another, with predictably disastrous results. Powers was a last-minute substitute for the project's creator and intended subject, Canadian stuntman Ken Carter. Dubbed "The Mad Canadian", Carter had spent decades in the stunt business, performing hundreds of jumps before conceiving this act of pure insanity, a plan that took five years just to reach its breaking point. The car shared nothing with a standard Lincoln Continental and was built by Dick Keller in Chicago, Illinois. Keller was best known for constructing Gary Gabelich's Blue Flame rocket car, which set the 1970 land speed record at 622.407mph, a record that stood for 13 years. In October 1979, investors lured Carter to Ottawa and replaced him with American stuntman Kenny Powers, who had worked with Carter for years and performed over 200 jumps, but had never driven the car and had less than two days' notice. The results were disastrous. The bumpy runway cracked the fiberglass body before launch, shaking Powers so violently he couldn't keep his foot on the accelerator. The jump required 270mph, but the car left the ramp at roughly 180mph. Having broken his back twice before and forgetting his brace, Powers crushed eight vertebrae, broke three ribs, fractured his wrist, but survived.

Good Lord. The CEO of Inspiritus, John Moeller Jr, is paid over $250,000 a year to resettle foreigners all over Georgia. The organization (formerly Lutheran Social Services of GA) received over $100 MILLION just between 2019 and 2023. The people doing this to us have names.

This is fascinating because from a contract perspective, there’s no reason he should agree to anything less than the buyout amount. But from a reputation/relationship perspective, isn’t a negotiated buyout pretty standard? Is another team going to hire him if he sticks to his guns here? Or is he just planning to retire so it doesn’t matter?