If the rule of law isn't enforced then people shouldn't expect a political solution to any issue at all.

Why do we blame voters for not voting when the majority of the elected are really just con artists that never pay any price for doing the opposite of what they say?

The peak of middle class power didn't come from the stock market. It came from producing real tangible things not pieces of paper. Even the gilded age they produced tangible things that we need. Look at how much we produce that just consumes with no real return.

Israel isn't happy. They lobbied Washington for years to attack Iran. The US finally did it. Struck Iranian nuclear sites. Deployed the Navy. Lost American lives. Israel's contribution? Minimal, then almost nothing. They left the US to fight alone and used the war to distract from people noticing that they were illegally taking more of Lebanon's land. Israel now occupies 770 square miles of Lebanon. Nearly one-fifth of the country. And they have announced they're not giving it back. They wanted the war with Iran. They didn't fight it. They used it as a cover to invade Lebanon. And now they're angry the war with Iran is ending. What do you think about that?

"But the rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension, of the society. On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin." — Adam Smith, the Wealth of Nations

Utterly Flocked: "We-Don't-Track-People"-Firm Deploys Nationwide Network Of Warrantless Pedestrian-Tracking Cameras zerohedge.com/technology/utt…

Carl Jung, an underrated take on the fall of Rome

This is from the same thread where Lonsdale encouraged Einhorn to dox the Cornell student. It's okay for a Jew to want to work with a Jew, but not okay to not want to work with Jews. This is a completely ridiculous and why people are increasingly fed up with "antisemitism".

SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group - pair even had joint bank account trib.al/7wnuofS

Warner Media ran this tiny ad in the Gwinnett Daily Post this week for a fully remote data architect job! Don't you think they would have better luck hiring this job on their career website, instead of posting classified ads with email-only applications?

FISA renewal season is here again. Brace for the predictable surge in alarming terrorist threat headlines. The government is always hunting for pretexts to expand its surveillance powers and erode constitutional protections — and fear-mongering campaigns remain its favorite tool.

84% of Americans, Bernie Sanders, and Thomas Massie agree. Don’t arm Israel unconditionally. Also, don’t merge our military technology and supply chains with Israel’s… or any other country’s. I’ve submitted an amendment to strip section 224 (retitled section 219) from the NDAA.

“Talent shortage.” Two Pennsylvania dentists filed fake H-1B visas to import Indian workers, then made them kick back their wages. Funded a $32M Medicaid fraud with the captive labor. Put implants marked “Not For Human Use” into real patients. A federal jury just convicted all of them.

There is nothing a 19 year old, especially one I did not know, could ever say to me that would make me this rageful. He could talk about my looks, my gender, my race, my ancestry, my personality, even my immediate family and it would never have this effect on me. Something is seriously mentally wrong when tons of powerful grown adults’ first instinct is to shift into a collective effort to make sure this 19 year old is punished indefinitely. A healthy society does not encourage this kind of vindictiveness.

How do you slow China's AI model development when you have 600k of their people in US universities?

Pay attention to the trend 📉

There is something poetic about giving the UFC complete access to the White House grounds to host a for-profit sporting event, to benefit from paid sponsorship and advertising opportunities, for the American people to celebrate the nation's birthday, funded with their tax dollars, only to charge them $8.99 to watch it, exclusively on Larry Ellison's Paramount

I have said this before: Movie makers raised on modern movies are shit. Same for all media Pokemon started because the creator liked collecting bugs and exploring as a kid, not just playing other video games. Inbred Media. You can't make music out of all samples forever.

Its hilarious watching people conflate inflation as a means of Elon getting wealthy vs state based capitalism where they pick winners/losers instead of a market based process.

*ANTHROPIC SUED OVER LIMITS ON ITS $200-A-MONTH AI PLANS: WSJ *CUSTOMER ALLEGES ANTHROPIC FAILED TO DELIVER PROMISED VALUE:WSJ

Its clear the country is so divided that people can't even point out that income inequality will absolutely lead to the total breakdown of 'democracy' and eventually a strongman. Why do you think Venezuela picked Chavez? Income inequality from state based capitalism.