Objectivist skeptic, Agnostic atheist, US Marine, Heinrandian, anti-commie, barbershop bass demigod - opinions my own, retweets are not endorsements

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I have never seen the consent question actually answered by collectivists. It is, in my experience, only dodged. Are any of you familiar with anyone contending with this question?
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RickU retweeted
Thank you for summing up why people hate successful people: you think you're a loser because someone else made you a loser. The reason you believe this is that it's a lot more comforting than the truth: you're a loser despite the fact that amazing business leaders like Elon created hundreds of thousands of jobs and paid billions upon billions in taxes. In other words, the reason you're a loser is you, your shitty, envious attitude and the fact that you don't understand that the way to achieve what you want is to provide something other people want so they're willing to pay you for it.
Replying to @KonstantinKisin
What a despicable human you are. I know nothing about you but you’ve given me everything I need to know. You clearly care nothing for the care of human beings. When one gets wealthier another has to get poorer. Absolutely shameful statement.
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We didn’t just get into the Signal rooms around Delaney Hall. We became admins within the groups. Our people sat in the chairs that route the asks, approve the members, and push the supply lists out. We watched the operation from the inside of the operation. I have the coordinators by name. The handoff patterns. The donation routes. The drop points. The staging locations. The choreography of how a “spontaneous” crowd actually gets built, hour by hour, message by message. Concerned community member posts. Coordinator responds in minutes. Supplies move. Crowd appears on camera. You’ve been told that’s organic. It is operated. This week, the full thread. Names. Money. Locations. The whole machine, mapped from the seat that runs it.
Here’s what one Signal message uncovered. I messaged a group admin asking how my family in NJ could help the Delaney Hall protesters. Within minutes she sent me a supply list and a Venmo donation link. The supply list wasn’t water bottles. It was P100 respirators (tear gas grade), military-spec impact goggles, welding gloves for picking up hot tear gas canisters, helmets, body armor, and Sudecon chemical decontamination wipes. That’s a military/law enforcement product most people have never heard of. The Venmo link: @cosechanj. That account belongs to Jenny Garcia. She’s the main organizer of the Delaney Hall protests. Quoted in the American Prospect, Newsweek, and TIME. Listed as the official press contact. She is not a volunteer. She is a professional organizer. Venmo feeds are public. I pulled hers. Payments labeled “Commissary” (money for detained immigrants to buy food inside the facility). “Commissary / phone accounts fund” (keeping detainees’ phones active). “DSA meeting” (Democratic Socialists of America). “Mutual aid.” “F ICE.” Same account. Uber rides. Cumbia dance classes. A cafe called Pika’s Fika. Protest donations and personal spending. One feed. No separation. So who pays Jenny Garcia? She holds three titles at three organizations. Detention Watch Network. DC-based. $7.2 million in assets. Ford Foundation funded. AFSC. Classified as a church. No public donors. Tides Foundation gave them $221K. Cosecha NJ. The @cosechanj Venmo name. Files two 990s. Reports $0 in salaries. Every year. Every officer. Nobody gets paid. Foundation money pays Garcia through DWN and AFSC. She organizes under Cosecha’s name. Cosecha claims to pay nobody. More coming.
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Restoring a healthy sense of American identity for Americans and leading them to feel justly proud of who we are in our 250th is one of the most important projects we could be doing right now. It's not just the younger generations either, even if it is them especially.
My generation has ZERO understanding of our American identity, because it was drummed into our heads that the builders before us are oppressive colonizers so the entire thing apparently must be torn down. 
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Maybe you don't follow baseball, but there is a big controversy now because it was "Pride Night" in San Francisco the other night, the SF Giants' players were supposed to wear caps where the "SF" logo (normally in orange) was instead in rainbow colors, and several of the pitchers wrote Biblical verses on their hats next to the rainbow "SF." Predictably, the SF crowd is apoplectic, labeling these players "bigots" and "homophobes." Query: when your employer forces you to wear imagery that is abhorrent to your deeply-held, long-established religious beliefs, who is the "bigot"? (And don't tell me "Well then they shouldn't be in MLB," because you are saying you must abandon your religion to work.) It's the complaining LGBTQ crowd who are the "bigots" in this case.
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Someone should let “Financial Physics” know that service members also pay taxes while they are active, they are only tax free in combat areas where they protect your right to be an idiot. The internet is wild man… like who is this clown?
Replying to @RealTmDaddy
“I served my country…” Does this mean you lived on taxes? —just for clarification purposes
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The whole incident shows how rotten British police are. They lied and claimed the man was the victim of dangerous 12-year-old girls. This was taken as fact by all of British media and any disagreement became “misinformation.” It turns out that what people saw with their own two eyes was the truth. But it took a year, long after the story died, for police to admit it.
I remember when everybody rubbished the 12 year old girls at Dundee who tried to defend themselves with an axe. A Bulgarian man was just found guilty of making sexual comments towards them and assaulting one of them. A lot of people need to apologise
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🚨Here's another threating 🙍🙍‍♀️! "Next time one of these white boys come through... don't make no video, don't call the police... Tap that bitch between his eyebrows and watch his dumb ass fall in the street... I need to see a white person hanging... If we want equality."
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This is Markus Renfro. He shot a pedo in the dick for trying to solicit his underage nieces for sex. Now this is a man I would donate to his defense team. Man Markus shot had a history with underage kids.
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Feel the cultural shift? The Left demonized Patriotism as racist. So people would be afraid to fight back as they destroyed America. But… Patriotism is cool again. It started with USA Hockey and Jimmy’s Famous Seafood. Then Trump making DC monuments beautiful. To Team SpaceX launches in from of American flags. Now the US National Team standing proudly during the anthem. They might seem like little things. But they’re not. Winning the Culture War will lead to saving America. And America must be saved.🇺🇸
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I’d be more sympathetic to arguments like this if the people making them contributed literally anything to society. Like, Elon Musk gave us satellite internet. Kyle here is an experiment on what happens when hair bleach seeps into your brain.
Trillionaires shouldn't exist and neither should billioniares. Tax every penny in net worth over $999 million at 100%. We can have extreme wealth concentration or a democracy but we can't have both at the same time. Pick one.
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We live in a truly incredible world filled with total insanity.
Ghana says it's planning legal action over Canada's decision to deny the visa application of a member of its national soccer team awaiting a rape trial in London, calling the decision by Canadian immigration authorities "extremely unfair." toronto.citynews.ca/2026/06/…
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The US has 1 trillionaire and 988 billionaires. Their combined net worth is about 8.4 trillion dollars. If we would just tax these people “fairly,” it would totally solve the $40 trillion national debt. And every other problem in society. Do the math, guys…
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Squished hot dog buns, a piece of cheddar, a piece of American, 1.5 pieces of bacon, pan oiled with bacon grease. Cooking is easy you degenerates
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Yup. Pro-Tip: Elon Musk is the gold standard for what a super-rich person should actually do to solve humanity’s biggest problems: / identify critical bottlenecks, pour in massive capital and talent, execute at lightspeed, and deliver real technological leaps instead of just writing checks to feel-good foundations / - SpaceX for making life multi-planetary and advancing civilization - Tesla for sustainable energy and autonomy - xAI for understanding the universe and truth-seeking AI - X for restoring the public square and free speech - The Boring Company for solving traffic via underground infrastructure - Neuralink for merging brains with AI - Starlink for global connectivity
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Plutarch never said this, Newsom is sourcing his quotes from boomerslop Facebook memes made by ResistLib weirdos I assume
This is not sustainable. Plutarch warned us 2,000 years ago that the imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. We have got to democratize our economy so that it works for all.
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The word “subsidized” is being abused here. SpaceX had government contracts where it was obliged to deliver goods and services. You know, like a company doing business.
And not everyone can be subsidized to the tune of $38 billion by the government…weird how the people who are so vehemently against government handouts ignore this fact and look the other way
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So apparently these two low-lives have reportedly lost their jobs. However, I don't think that's enough. They need to be investigated by the police for making claims that they have "connections" and can call on a police officer to inflict violence upon someone. It seriously isn't a good look for @MPSHarrow if they choose to do nothing about it.
Hello @harrow_council. Do you think this kind of behaviour is appropriate? Do you think council workers turning off their body cameras to threaten a member of the public with violence is acceptable in any way? And @MPSHarrow, is it acceptable that these men claim to work alongside the police and suggest that, if they were to call an officer, that officer would use violence against a member of the public? x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status…
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Things that triggered the left this week: - a clean reflecting pool - a name on a building - a murderer getting convicted of murder - a sporting event at the White House - a successful IPO - welders and janitors becoming millionaires
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Some people say law professors aren’t always especially persuasive, but this is the most powerful argument against affirmative action that I have ever seen.
I have not yet read the full trial transcript. But so far, I do know this. Karmelo Anthony was entitled to a jury of his peers. He did not get that. On that ground alone, he is entitled to a new trial. Minorities are not interchangeable. The prosecutor’s reported proffered reasons for striking all black jurors —that they were teachers—appears to be pretext. Anthony needs a new lawyer on appeal and in a new trial. His trial lawyer allowed in opinion evidence that should have been struck. He also seemed unable to appreciate and counter the impact of racial overtones in that case. Those overtones are clear even on Twitter commentary as folks seek to paint Metcalf as having no culpability in what happened and Karmelo as a complete monster. The facts on how the matter escalated are more complicated than that. He and they had no such authority. They are also apparent in the statements that seek to deputize Metcalf and other kids with authority to remove Anthony. They had none and initiated the conflict. That does not mean they should have been killed but it means they have explaining to do. The lawyer for Anthony apparently did not require that explaining. It is fair to ask how the Anthony’s ended up selecting that lawyer. The trial judge must be disqualified in any new trial if he actually gave an interview about the case before the appeal was considered. He has negatively affected the appeal rights of the defendant. He should know better. He should also be disqualified if he has any relationship with the Metcalf side. In a criminal trial, the prosecution has the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The defendant does not have to prove he is not guilty. Those rules apply to everyone. They apply to Anthony.
Community note
The Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal defendants the right to an impartial jury comprised of citizens from the state and district where the crime was committed. Nowhere does it mention race. constitution.congress.gov/constitution/a…
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Making some homemade (from canned peeled tomatoes) tomato soup and grilled cheese w/ bacon for dinner tonight on some leftover hotdog rolls from a cookout. Cheap, easy and delicious
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