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Tom Aiello retweeted
You talk about communities Most Muslims are not interested in the multiculturalism that the other faiths accept They want uniculturalism They want respect for their traditions, but show no respect for other faith's traditions Please stop the cant
Had to dress up like she was going to ride a camel across the desert in order to enter the mosque. I don’t see multiculturalism at work here I see a monoculture imposing itself on another.
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Tom Aiello retweeted
1% of $1 trillion is $10 billion. That's about 0.14% of federal spending, or what the federal spends every 12 hours. Another $10 billion will not dramatically improve healthcare, education, and infrastructure in the US.
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Tom Aiello retweeted
In 1945, there were almost 42 workers paying into Social Security for every beneficiary. Nowadays, it's 2.7 workers per beneficiary. No way this program can survive--nor should it. If we want to fund an old-age anti-poverty program, let's do that openly, fairly, and sustainably.
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The Israeli invasion of Gaza is actually a very humane military action when measured by civilian casualty rate. It's not even close to a 'genocide'.
This is my favorite argument. In Hiroshima, roughly 140k people died due to the nuclear bomb out of 350k. That’s 40% of the city. In Nagasaki, 80k people died out of 263k. That’s 30% of the city. In Gaza, 73k people have died (according to GHM) out of 2.3 million. That’s about 3% of the population. A substantial percentage of that are terrorists. So Israel has dropped an amount of bombs on Gaza that exceeds the power of the nuclear bombs we dropped on Japan and yet the death toll is far lower both proportionally and on a raw numbers basis. How is that possible if Israel is committing genocide? Maybe it’s because they’re not.
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History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet. Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years. And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor. You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.
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Tom Aiello retweeted
Found this lost picture of the Soviets and Nazis celebrating the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact…
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Rare Trump administration win. I'm not generally a huge fan of the current administration, but they have done good here.
The @FTC is working hard to protect American workers. That’s why we opened an investigation into Diversity Lab, a for-profit DEI “consultancy” that partnered with over 300 law firms to impose race- and sex-based quotas in their hiring, promotion, and leadership decisions. Because such agreements to rig labor markets through quotas can violate the antitrust laws, the FTC investigated Diversity Labs. Rather than comply with the antitrust laws, Diversity Lab is shutting its doors.
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'Believe all women' (so long as they say things we want them to say).
I don't know if Graham Platner's candidacy survives these latest allegations in the New York Times. It may well do so. But I do find it the height of hypocrisy that the same Democrats who said that we need to believe all women are rushing to discredit the story because it quotes a GOP operative who dated Platner in the 2010s. I mean, how do they square that?
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'Red' states should act now to create upper houses based on counties rather than on population (similar to the US federal government).
California is not a blue state. California is a red state with some blue cities.
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Tom Aiello retweeted
This is the single most important lesson that nobody knows. There was a concerted effort by the Left to block any expansion and growth of nuclear in America. Why? Because easily accessible and plentiful power would have been beneficial to the West, enormously so. And that's why they had to kill it. So they did. The whole "Global Warming" and "Environment" arguments fall flat if they don't have coal and oil and gas power plants to point at for co2 emissions. American energy bills would've plummeted. American industry would've benefitted. American prosperity would've skyrocketed. That would not do. So they had to kill it. And they did.
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Such lovely cultural practices.
I'm surprised that AP is covering forced child marriages in Gaza, a widespread practice. What a lovely society.
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This is the real problem with the Trump administration.
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During the 2024 campaign, a post went massively viral claiming JD Vance’s memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” contained a scene in which Vance had sex with a latex glove jammed between two couch cushions. This was a total fabrication. In interviews, the poster responsible for the meme said he was inspired by a story about Lyndon Johnson spreading false rumors about political opponents having sex with pigs to try to force them to publicly deny the allegations. The fact that the claim about Vance, which came with page numbers that could easily be checked, was totally false, easily falsifiable and came from a source who openly admitted he made the whole thing up was irrelevant. The story spread across the internet and into mainstream media and discourse. Stephen Colbert joked about it repeatedly. He shared AI generated meme images of Vance with a couch. John Oliver also spread the memes. And, eventually, so did the Harris/Walz campaign, with Walz saying he couldn’t wait to debate Vance, if Vance would “get off the couch and show up.” On the first episode of his 2005 show, “The Colbert Report,” Stephen Colbert, who gleefully spread the couch memes, famously promulgated a widely concept called “truthiness.” He explained that certain things that are not true nonetheless “feel true” because they validate priors, and people would rather have their beliefs reinforced than debunked. He said: “It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that’s not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.” “Truthiness” was not a criticism of liberal discourse — it was presented as the animating concept of his parody of Bill O’Reilly; that conservatives didn’t want truth, they wanted “truthiness.” Liberals like Colbert and Oliver demonstrate no self-reflection or self-awareness with regard to their previous criticisms of conservatives and conservative media when they spread viral misinformation like the JD Vance couch meme, which was a perfect example of “truthiness,” in that it was a completely fabricated claim that had the feel of truth to progressives because it validated their beliefs about Vance. Anyway, here’s my point: A screenshot is currently circulating of a passage from the Wall Street Journal article about Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s history of infidelity, sexting and hookup apps, which says that Platner refers to his penis as “Mein Fuhrer.” A lot of people are saying this screenshot is fabricated. Some of these people are claiming that they are WSJ subscribers who have read the paywalled WSJ article, or even that they are journalists who wrote this article, and that this passage does not appear in it. You should not listen to these people. Graham Platner refers to his penis as “Mein Fuhrer,” and also, he has shaved his pubic hair into a “landing strip,” which he refers to as “Der Fuhrer’s mustache.” This is the truth, or at least, is exactly as true as it needs to be.
I’m begging you all to get a WSJ subscription so you can actually click through to our amazing regular political scoops and not look foolish falling for the “Platner called his dick the Fuhrer” fakery. It’s $2 a week!
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Tom Aiello retweeted
The same people who have spent years screeching at chord-splitting pitch about the "racism" and "moral decadence" of Trump - while being basically fine with Bill Clinton, Hunter Biden, the #BLM leadership, etc - are now universally falling in line behind an ex-merc with a Nazi SS tattoo who tried to cheat on his wife with ~12 different women. It's fine to be totally amoral about important things like Senatorial elections, but it's excruciatingly annoying to do so while pretending you are NOT, and crocodile-tearing up every day about "the norm-breaking ethical violation of 'ball-rooms.'" Just sayin,' as an ole Kentucky boy.
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Worth reading and understanding this post.
Suppose you reviewed the Astronomy Department's course syllabi and discovered that they were all teaching heavily from L. Ron Hubbard. Which would you conclude? A. This proves that L. Ron Hubbard was an important astronomer who had key scientific insights to understanding outer space! B. The Astronomy Department has been captured by a bunch of Scientologist kooks. Now replace Hubbard with Karl Marx, and Astronomy with the English Department.
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.@benshapiro says Graham Platner is a privileged fraud. “Graham Platner is, in fact, a silver spoon socialist. He’s white Hasan Piker, basically. …He is cosplaying as a Trump voter.” Ben says Platner leans into the “impoverished oyster farmer” shtick, but he comes from privilege. - Father is a Dartmouth educated attorney & former ADA - Mom owns upscale restaurant - Grandpa was world-renowned architect/designer - Attended a school that cost $75k per year - Parents gave him a $200k home loan It’s fine to come from privilege (look at Trump)! Just be honest about it. Don’t wear the Average Joe’s struggle as a skin suit. 🎥: youtu.be/ehirp9cOYz4?si=cxqf…
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English Teachers Against Reading. You couldn't make this stuff up.
You want to know why kids aren’t reading books anymore? Here is an actual statement from the National Council of Teachers of English.
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So let me get this straight… During COVID, government imposed eviction moratoriums across cities and states. A lot of Americans still do not understand what that actually meant. It did NOT mean government paid everybody’s rent. It meant landlords were often legally blocked from removing tenants for nonpayment. But the landlord’s obligations NEVER stopped. Mortgage? Still due. Property taxes? Still due. Insurance? Still due. Water bills? Still due. Heating systems? Still due. Repairs? Still due. Code violations? Still due. So imagine a small Black landlord in a struggling neighborhood with a duplex or triple they worked decades to buy. Tenants stop paying for months… sometimes years. Meanwhile inflation explodes. Material costs explode. Insurance spikes. Taxes rise. Savings disappear. That owner drains retirement accounts and maxes out credit cards just trying to survive while politicians stand behind podiums pretending compassion costs nothing. Then comes the final insult. Buildings deteriorate because cash flow collapsed… and now politicians like Zohran Mamdani point at the deterioration THEY helped create and say: “Negligent landlord.” “Take the building.” “Transfer ownership.” So government creates the financial hemorrhage… then blames the wounded for bleeding. The wealthy corporate developers survive. Massive investment firms survive. Politically connected nonprofits survive. But the working class landlord? The old Black couple trying to leave property to their children? The immigrant family that scraped together enough for 6 units? The retired tradesman depending on rental income? CRUSHED. And Americans better wake up to what this really means. Because once government decides “neglect” justifies control… the definition of neglect expands every year. Today it is deferred maintenance. Tomorrow it becomes “underutilized property.” Then “community necessity.” Then “housing equity.” That road always ends with less private ownership and more centralized control. You do not save neighborhoods by destroying the people who stayed invested in them. You do not stabilize cities by terrifying small property owners. And you absolutely do not rebuild Black wealth by making ownership itself politically dangerous. Watch carefully. The people who suffered under the moratoriums are now being portrayed as villains for surviving the policies imposed on them. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove
Every single Republican. Every single Democrat. Every single person should have a problem with the government seizing someone’s land.
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Tom Aiello retweeted
Abolishing private property in 2 easy steps Step 1 - Rent control: Rent is lower than costs and taxes so you can't do maintenance. Step 2 - Seizure: You don't have the money to do maintenance and the state uses it as an excuse to take your property.

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Tom Aiello retweeted
If you let the same guy rob you at gunpoint every day for 50 years because he promised he was “just keeping it safe” and would give it all back later. Then one day you see him robbing your adult kids at gunpoint. Do you: A: Realize this is insane. B: Yell at your kids to stop complaining and just give him the money so he can pay you back. This post definitely is not about Social Security.
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