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@RollingStone Waffles are well worth the ill effects of teleporting🧇

Far-right activist turned high-ranking FEMA official Gregg Phillips has a problem. Sometimes he finds himself “teleporting” into ditches, or even into a Waffle House. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

@KFILE Teleport me for waffles any day🧇

NEW: Gregg Phillips, a top FEMA official overseeing disaster response previously said "bitch" Biden “deserves to die,” pushed election conspiracies — and claimed once he teleported to a Waffle House. “Teleporting is no fun...it was real.” More here: cnn.com/2026/03/20/pol…

@yrbffanna @IsleyResistance Didn’t know that, and my parents would have been his targets.

@simplulo @IsleyResistance And keeping on theme, Larry Flint was shot by Joseph Paul Franklin, a neo-nazi serial killer, who was upset that hustler featured an interracial couple. His other victims were Black men and Black men and white women he saw together in public.

Motion to change the name of the 'Streisand Effect' to the 'Afroman Effect' What a spectacular backfire that lawsuit turned out to be

@TClaudiusCAG @Noahpinion The closest English equivalent that I know is “malicious glee”, and, while “liberal tears” is something definitely savored by MAGA-type conservatives, all camps in American politics enjoy their adversaries’ weeping and gnashing of teeth.

@simplulo @Noahpinion An interesting observation. It's a cliché to say someone has "a god-shaped hole" in their lives. MAGA expresses a "schadenfreude-shaped hole". Hoping for positive change in their own lives is gone, all that's left is enjoying the misery of liberals and foreigners.

Wow, I feel comforted already 😵‍💫

@JohnnyKage567 @wartranslated “Just”

@wartranslated They aren't exactly wrong. The internet is just western tool to spread woke propaganda

Russia's main TV channel is airing songs about how great life is without the internet. Getting even closer to North Korea.

@Nigelgd1 @POLITICOEurope He’ll stop the intel that he’s not providing. x.com/gzeromedia/sta…

@POLITICOEurope So Putin denied that he was providing intel to Iran, and then offered to stop it. Which will Witkoff believe?

Moscow proposed a quid pro quo to the US under which the Kremlin would stop sharing intelligence information with Iran - such as the precise coordinates of US military assets in the Middle East - if the US ceased supplying Ukraine with intel about Russia. politico.eu/article/putin-…

@nypost @Grubron Rightly so—Remeslo has to be crazy and suicidal to condemn Putin publicly.

Russian blogger Ilya Remeslo who criticized Putin has been put in psychiatric facility trib.al/8tNZr8P

@SpockNC @90Clementine @bayraktar_1love There was that WWII case in Rüsselsheim, where the civilians who killed the downed plane’s crew were later tried and harshly sentenced. Is it just a matter of surrendering?

@90Clementine @bayraktar_1love It’s actually a valid question.

🚨🔥Full video showing a Russian Ka-52 being shot down and its crew killed after ejection by a drone operator from Ukraine’s 59th Brigade. Pokrovsk front.

@WSJopinion I wish you'd focus on the man who won the bet, Julian Simon, a techno-optimist before the term existed.

Ehrlich’s life is a lesson that brilliant men can become captive to bad ideas that become intellectual fashion and do great harm. At least he honored his bet. on.wsj.com/4soQ7x2

@glukianoff Is a “civil libertarian” one that doesn’t grab you by the lapels?

My mentor, the great civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate, gave me probably the best advice I ever got in my life. And now, after much too long, I'm finally sharing it with everybody.

@NoomDynamite @esrtweet The lighthouse guy is pretty skeptical of public goods, except one: npr.org/sections/money…

@esrtweet Other areas commonly believed to be of category 2 but are actually category 1: streets, schools, lighthouses, jurisdiction, rail ways.

I'm an anarchocapitalist, and if this guy wasn't just talking shit to get off a jury he was wrong. There's a difference between institutions that are entirely creations of the state and market functions that were prior to the state and have been captured by it. Most people think of law enforcement as the former, but it's actually the latter. We know this because we have lots of records of societies developing legal systems that don't depend on state power. Our own system of jury trials and Anglo-American common law is older than the nation-state; they didn't invent it, they co-opted it. No anarcho-capitalist is required to refuse to find someone guilty simply because they're tried in a state-run court. The right question is always: did this person actually commit a crime?

@esrtweet The right question is always: did this person actually commit an actual crime?

@SandyofCthulhu Link: imdb.com/list/ls0516710…

@SandyofCthulhu I maintain an IMDB list of films and series about life under communism. Indeed, most come from Eastern Europe.

If you want to see some good anti-Communist films, I suggest looking for films from Eastern Europe. They have the communists like poison, from hard experience. Here are three war movies I really liked: 1) Battle of Warsaw 1920 (2011) Poland. My favorite character is the murderous Russian commissar. Also does not pull punches with Polish rear-area slackers & corruption. 2) 1944 (2015) Estonia. Shows how terrible it is when Estonians in German service and Estonians in Russian service meet. The Nazis are, of course, not praised, but neither are the communists. Estonia was stuck in a bad place. 3) Sniper: The White Raven (2022) a hippy art teacher is yanked kicking and screaming into the war thanks to Russian atrocities. He seeks revenge. I quite liked it.

@zombie_darth @SandyofCthulhu Here's the story: reason.com/2012/07/21/how… giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/soap-opera…

@simplulo @SandyofCthulhu Not sure how much it helped spark the revolution, but it was immensely popular when it aired during the so-called "opening towards the West" his regime did early on. Funny that out of all popular American shows, they chose the one with the most intense portrayal of capitalism!

@zombie_darth @SandyofCthulhu Merci, just added it to the movie list: imdb.com/list/ls0516710… BTW, a few days ago I was telling a young Romanian about the role of the TV series Dallas in bringing down Ceaușescu. Somehow she hadn't heard about that.

@SandyofCthulhu Highly recommending this one m.imdb.com/title/tt330303…, it's about the life of your average Romanian right before the fall of the regime. Felt as if I was seeing my parents' stories come to life

@handre Fitting to recognize the failure of central planning on the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations": x.com/mattwridley/st…

The Soviet Union collapsed because central planners couldn't figure out if a nail factory should produce a million tiny nails or one giant nail. Without market prices, they had no clue what people actually wanted or needed. And this wasn't some quirky communist problem—it's the inevitable result of replacing voluntary exchange with bureaucratic guesswork. Every government program faces this exact same knowledge problem. The Fed sets interest rates without knowing the true time preferences of millions of savers and borrowers. Politicians allocate billions to "infrastructure" without any idea what roads, bridges, or broadband networks create real value versus political photo ops. But here's the beautiful irony: while bureaucrats stumble around in the dark, every single voluntary transaction in the market reveals precise information about human preferences and resource scarcity. Prices aren't just numbers—they're compressed knowledge signals that no central authority could ever replicate, no matter how many PhD economists they hire.

Usually I'm the guy to cite oil prices as determining Russia's fate, because that is its top export, but even I would acknowledge that a more robust oil-producing country, say Norway, would not have collapsed from low oil prices. Anyone who lived in the USSR (as I did) would confirm the original post's assertion that arbitrary prices created extraordinary absurdity. Coincidentally, we're recognizing this on the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations": x.com/mattwridley/st…

@simplulo @handre It's all about tge energy. Energy is always the primary factor.