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If an Independence Day scenario occurred, the mainstream press would be trying to gauge the aliens' political slant based on which cities were targeted first
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Luke Reeshus
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Luke Reeshus
@LReeshus
I wrote De Rerum Natura, but have since lost its copyright.
Joined Ağustos 2018
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I feel seen. As if a giant looking glass is reflecting across the Pacific Ocean
(btw, what do the Japanese call the Pacific Ocean?)
東郷ゆう子の旦那@togootto
イーロンの異文化交流機能が大流行 そこで海外の人に質問🙋 やっぱり海外の左派も気に入らない相手に対して「差別だ！」とか言ってくるの？ 反戦だの平和だの言ってるくせに妙に好戦的で会話にならないとか、その辺も共通してるのかどうか非常に気になる。
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@qsfkbwIhuWLhnjI In 2020 our mainstream media tried to turn George Floyd's death into a focal point for a race war. Some black people -- not many, but some -- believed them.
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@eugyppius1 Male-only spaces -- both online and off -- are essential to a functioning society
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Jon Root@JonnyRoot_
The first female home plate umpire in MLB history, Jen Pawol, made the worst call you’ll ever seen in a game… After it was challenged by the catcher, the ABS system showed just how awful it was 😬
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I just have no patience with women whining about misogyny on the internet. I put up with insane feminist shit for two decades of my professional life. It's current year, I run a reader-supported blog and I don't have to do that anymore. Stupid bitches need to fuck off.
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@Steve_Sailer @BrianJNBA Sounds like my Dad's utopia. He loves CBS procedurals (his current favorite is Tracker starring Justin Hartley) and has a soft spot for Hallmark movies.
I take after my Mom though; we scoff at such formulaic tripe. America's divisions run deep...
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@BrianJNBA I live in LA near the CBS Studio and the Hallmark headquarters. Many think it must be full of blue-haired transgender weirdos, but actually everybody dresses like they are trying to catch the eye of casting directors of CBS police procedurals and Hallmark Christmas movies.
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@corsair21c This is a nothing-burger over "mishandling government files," which gov employees do sometimes. The depositions were conducted two months ago. The only reason they're public is because some Dem leaked them to stir up their mob.
DOGE is still working.
Stop black-pilling.
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“You can just do things” [and then get grilled about it in a court case, shortly thereafter, with no protection or real assistance from the administration that asked you to do it]
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@escapefrommelos Sanchez is a wild woman descended from Mexico's aristocracy. She makes Bezos feel alive, in a way his nerd SWPL women-folk never could.
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Women can't conceptualize the world outside of themselves (hence the famous "women not understanding POV" meme, the "women photographing an object" meme, etc), so they ALWAYS conflate male desire and mating priorities with their own.
they just don't understand the genders are different, and that men DON'T want "Degrees and Achievements", they want someone who makes them "Feel Like a King":
Strong, Desired, Competent, In Charge.
I have zero visibility in Bezos's relationships, but I guarantee that Lauren Sanchez makes him feel that way.
Judging by what MacKenzie Scott does with her time and how she spends her (his) money, I would also put money on the fact that she did exactly the opposite.
Rebekah Jones@GeoRebekah
Men think this is an improvement. MacKenzie Scott, Princeton graduate, writing novels at age six, studied under Toni Morrison, founded Amazon, and one of the biggest philanthropists in the history of humanity. Versus.. whatever the fuck this is.
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@Devon_Eriksen_ At least the Japanese only show the food. The real terrorism is found in South Korea, where people stream themselves eating it. Mukbang, it's called.
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Apparently, "food terrorism" is not a joke the Japanese came up with just now to describe our steakposting.
It's a preexisting Japanese idiom for showing you something you really want to eat, when you can't actually eat it.
ぱるえもん@Bahamut__
@AnEriksenWife “飯テロ”は正しく伝わっていそうですねw 日本では不意に美味しそうな食べ物を見させられると食べれないのに食べたくなる気持ちが生まれるため”飯のテロ”と言います。 もしあなたが”飯テロ”をするなら深夜帯が効果バツグンなので深夜帯をオススメするよ
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@MartinSkold2 Indeed. Truman found Oppenheimer's post-war bleeding heart routine annoying and unpragmatic. The genie had already been unleashed.
Contrast that with Amodei who sounds almost giddy talking about the potential threat of AGI.
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More the opposite: Oppenheimer was neurotic and conscience-stricken, not a sociopath.
malmesburyman@malmesburyman
You really get a sense from watching this guy why Truman found Oppenheimer so repugnant.
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@johngfriedman @MartinSkold2 Just acting like a celebrity. It only strikes us as weird because we cannot imagine a Berkley physicist as a celebrity. Alien culture.
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I believe Oppenheimer was a sociopath.
- left his girlfriend unconscious in a car after a crash he caused by racing a train (she got paid off by his dad)
- possibly attempted murder
- slept with his colleagues wives (although tbh lots of physicists did this or so I'm told)
- generally acted liked a spoiled rich brat with little concern for others.
"Sometimes one confesses a sin to take credit"
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@planefag Curious if Japan's anti-nuclear Luddites break along sexual lines too. In the West women are 3 times more likely to disfavor nuclear power as men
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It's incredible to me, that on the other side of the world, in a culture as different from the West as is possible, all the problems stem from the exact same kind of people.
We had so much more in common than we thought.
鈴木 悠平@yuu_yuu_to
よくわかる。 震災以降、福島県民にとっての左翼はサイコパス集団でしかなかった。 あいつら平気で死んでもいないこどもたちのお葬式やったりきちんと手間かけて測定やってる商品の不買運動やったり批判する被災者たちに東電の犬呼ばわりしてたからな なにも不思議じゃない
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Luke Reeshus retweeted
日本の友よ、この異邦の悪魔に、自らの流儀を明かしてはならぬ。この獣は、ただお前たちの生活様式を乱すことのみを求め、行く手にあるすべてを破壊し尽くすのだから。
MrBeast@MrBeast
Now that Japan sees our tweets, I’m curious what’s popping on Japanese YouTube? Like what videos do you guys watch over there
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Luke Reeshus retweeted
@myth_pilot Respect for committing to the costume. Look how she painted her arms and legs
*zooms closer*
Good God...
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“Then they came for the theater kids, and I said ‘make sure you get all the theater kids’”
Marcel@illnevercallitx
That's it. That's the best picture from Saturday's No Kings protests in the USA. The literal Statue of Liberty being detained by police. It doesn't get much more poetic than this.
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Luke Reeshus retweeted
I was curious as well so I went and checked out the website of the org paying for the full page “No More Kings” ad, and imagine my shock…
Lomez@L0m3z
Paid full page No Kings newspaper ads. Who is paying for this?
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@memeticsisyphus 'Democracy' is just one of their magic words of power meaning 'politically-aligned.' Notice they still refer to Ukraine as a 'democratic' nation despite the fact it hasn't had an election since 2019.
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At some point liberals turned “voting” into the only metric for freedom. The more voting you can do the more free you were. It doesn’t even matter how effective the voting is. It just matters if we can get more types of people voting. The young, infirmed, non-citizens, felons, prisoners, people no longer living in the community, the more votes the more freedom.
Libertarian Party NH 🦔@LPNH
A line of kings would at least plausibly be better for liberty than a modern liberal democracy.
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@QuasLacrimas Already mentioned, but worth repeating, the Bush admin directly spurred the subprime mortgage market:
georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/…
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The enormity of Bush is lost because the things that libs hate him for are like 1/20 of the damage he did to America. Making taxpayers pay for old people's meds and for speds was far worse. Implicit disparate impact parts of No Child Left Behind were worse. Migration was bad too
Aleph@woke8yearold
George W. Bush is arguably the worst president of all time and it's hard to overstate what a devastating effect he had on the country and the American right. He was all the worst aspects of boomercons in their most retarded possible forms
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Luke Reeshus retweeted
Do the Japanese know we dubbed their game show from the 80s?
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@ModernHerm @politicalmath It would make sense if Democrats were more inclined to submit bs FEMA declarations, eg for bad snow storms that local municipalities should be able to handle
Would have to look at individual denials
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@politicalmath This explanation does not make sense. Republican acceptance rate actually has gone up compared to Trump 1 or Biden. How does that point to a tightening of standards?
Democrats are at 3/13.
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I asked where this data came from and I got no good answers so I went looking for myself. I'm really skeptical about this data so I'll walk through what I found and ask @JeremiahDJohns to correct my errors 🧵
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns
I know it's boring and repetitive to talk about how grossly evil Trump is, but the fact remains: Trump is grossly evil, in a way that's pretty much unprecedented in this country.
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@CyberPunkCortes In Africa near the Victoria Falls; Imma guess Zambia
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Btw I'm piecing together an essay about modern immigration into the US. We all think it began with the Hart-Celler Act of of 1965. But this debate in the halls of power was going back to 1952:
"President Harry Truman vetoed the McCarran–Walter Act because it continued national-origins quotas that discriminated against potential allies that contained communist groups. However, Congress overrode the veto by a two-thirds vote of each house":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrati…
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@FistedFoucault Was certainly a factor. What was the motive for cutting off immigration from Asia too though?
Run-of-the-mill xenophobia?
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The short answer as to why the USA closed the gates in 1924 is because Wall Street/Big Business got spooked by immigrant Jewish and Italian political extremism and terrorism.
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