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Well if you believe that truly. It would need to be challenged in courts. And a lot of the lower courts believe in welfare as being allied. You would end up in the Supreme Court where its not sure what it would decide. Like it or not ..they are the final decision makers. But.. I would argue that we could have had welfare without debt. Or much lower debt. Our debt is a systemic error in the economic system. We made bad choices

@Erickschultz11 @iluminatibot The items in the Constitution that "promote the general Welfare" aren't charities. They're things like coining money, establishing post offices & roads, & patent & copyright offices. The "welfare state" goes against founding principles.

“Bastiat proves beyond all doubt that the proper function of government is to protect the lives, liberty, and property of its citizens, but not to provide for them.” “For in order to provide for some, first it must take from others, becoming the mechanism for legalized plunder.”

@MorphineEndo @Kekius_Sage Well.. I am not convinced. I do believe religions were created because if drugs and mankind does use drugs. Obviously. But.. I don't think it gave us the best conclusion. However we cant go back in time and try it differently. We are stuck on this timeline.

@Erickschultz11 @Kekius_Sage real or not its exercising cultural preservation techniques social architectures &drugs as the “algorithm”. Fungi Cebil/YOPO snuff admixtures/kambo & san pedro cacti/ayahuasca/bechete etc etc are their simple &not so simple tools of inner and outer navigation (hunting)

🚨 Scientists think our ancestors’ use of magic mushrooms have influenced human consciousness

@cow007 We have had that discussion.

@Erickschultz11 But remember if you’re reaching for psychology that’s showing you where the blindspot in your model is. You have to work from the incentive structure forward not the model backwards because if it doesn’t fit within your model, then your model is not based on that.

What is Russia up to? youtu.be/vnO0NYqzd7w?si…

@cow007 Lately. I am starting to think..a lot of people..even in power.. are a bit crazy. 😜 I don't like thinking that way though. 😕 Maybe I can return to what my pop use to say. " ignorance is blissful " 😊

@Erickschultz11 I suppose that’s the question that Putin wants people to be asking.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution. That clause is often called the Taxing and Spending Clause. It reads (in part): “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes… to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States…” There’s also a similar phrase in the Preamble (“promote the general Welfare”), but the Preamble isn’t a source of specific powers. The enforceable authority comes from Article I, Section 8. BTW. Don't think I support this. I am pointing out where its supported. And its been challenged and affirmed. The broad interpretation of the General Welfare Clause (Hamilton’s view) has been taken to the Supreme Court and affirmed, especially starting in the 1930s. The Court has repeatedly upheld Congress’s power to tax and spend for the general welfare, even when the spending isn’t tied to a specific enumerated power. The key case is United States v. Butler (1936). In that decision, the Court explicitly recognized that: The “general welfare” clause is not limited strictly to the other enumerated powers (rejecting the narrow Madisonian view). Congress has a separate, substantive power to spend for the general welfare.

@Erickschultz11 @iluminatibot James Madison stood irate on the floor of the House & said, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article in the constitution that authorizes congress to spend the money of their constituents for the purpose of benevolence."

No. Not really imo. I think its government stupidity. Which is worse than fraud. Waste yes. Abuse yes Incompetence yes Fraud ? Thst implies intent Fraud is intentional deception for gain. It requires coordination, concealment, and a clear motive to mislead. If the $40T debt were primarily fraud, you’d expect to see a relatively tight group extracting value in a controlled, deliberate way. At the incentive level, the system is almost designed to drift this way: Politicians are rewarded for short-term benefits, not long-term balance Voters often prefer benefits without immediate costs Costs are deferred through borrowing, which feels less painful than taxation No single actor bears full responsibility for long-term debt accumulation That creates what you could call structural irresponsibility, not necessarily intent to deceive. In a way, that can be worse than fraud, because fraud can be prosecuted and stopped. A structurally misaligned system just keeps reproducing the same outcome.

I suspect our entire almost 40 trillion dollar national debt is due to fraud. I actually suspect the amount stolen from us is way higher. We are being robbed blind and absolutely nothing is done about it

I see these "what if" posts. A lot. What is their purpose? Are they collecting advertising info or engagement attempts?

@JohnDen98975832 @iluminatibot The government can pass such laws as long as they don't violate the constitution.

@Erickschultz11 @iluminatibot Charity is a good thing, & to be encouraged, but it's the realm of Church, not State. It's all about separation of Church & State, right? There is no provision in the US Constitution for State charity.

@sciencegirl What about meta meta cognition? Or meta meta meat cognition? Or is there an end point

Metacognition, the ability to think about your own thinking, is considered the highest form of intelligence.

Fuck it. We don't need no artificial fertilizer. Farmers can use tons of natural organic fertilizer. Or. We have tons of oil. We can produce the artificial version. So Fuck it. People should now be aware of what a horrible threat to the planet Iran is. And not keep trying to appease them ... Sometimes ypu have to take a stand and not let a bully keep bullying people

NOBODY IS TELLING YOU HOW FUCKED THE FARMERS ARE IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW. NOBODY IS TELLING YOU HOW FUCKED THE FARMERS ARE IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW. The Agriculture Secretary just confirmed it publicly. 1 in 4 American farmers has NO fertilizer secured for spring planting. No fertilizer. No crops. No food. Farm bankruptcies are up 46% in 2025. 160,000 farms closed since 2017. Less than half of all farmers will even turn a profit this year. They're not struggling. They're being wiped out. And the media is busy covering everything else.

@SamaHoole Not only that. But a cow converts grass to edible food and drinkable milk. No need to synthetic versions.

Activist: "The water usage for beef is obscene. Thousands of litres per kilogram." Farmer: "That's rainfall." Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The figure includes all the rain that falls on the pasture. The cows drink from the stream. The rain falls whether there's a cow here or not." Activist: "It's still water consumption." Farmer: "Should I stop the rain falling on my field?" Activist: "Grow crops instead. More efficient." Farmer: "This is a 35-degree slope in the Welsh hills. Show me the crop." Activist: "Technology..." Farmer: "To make tractors climb mountains?" Activist: "There must be a solution." Farmer: "There is. It's called a cow." Activist: [checks phone]

@Seanfrank Water doesn't dissappear. But maybe they shouldnt put data centers near arid land.

The “ai data centers are using all the water” thing was very radicalizing. I saw smart people, respected people, scientists- echo this back. You can not like data centers near you. You can complain they make electricity prices rise… But the water point is a total hoax. Every data center on earth uses less water than American golf courses. And the water isn’t polluted, it isn’t destroyed. It’s a little warm. IT COULD STILL BE USED ON THE GOLF COURSES IF YOU WANT. Your local McDonald’s is using more water than a data center. It’s just shocking how unreal and fake that narrative is. Radicalizing.

@PeriklesGREAT @45LVNancy No. Put in jail. For life.

Young white girls, essentially kept as sex slaves for years, filmed being industrially raped, to blackmail them. Hooked on drugs to control them. Unspeakable abuse & torture. Deport the adult men back to Pakistan ? a. Yes b. No

@Ikennect @junogsp7 I recall bullies when I was a kid. But...I never had any problems.

I happen to agree with her. How do you think children should be taught to handle conflict? A 27-year-old mom shared that she teaches her kids to physically defend themselves if a bully hits them at school, rather than relying solely on teachers or administrators.

@SaltyGoat17 People cant handle the Truth.

@iluminatibot Smoking them calms them While it is important I would not say more important

Amazing woman removes bees from residential sites by rescuing rather than exterminating them. Scoops the bees up with her bare hands, and doesn't need a bee keeper suit! This woman is more important to the world than politicians.

Me: ai, i have recently decided may increase jobs. But a different type of job. Like - creative jobs. for example. more like a shift into different categories, maybe more creative work, or at least work that isn’t as repetitive or mechanical. and that actually lines up more with how past industrial revolutions played out. people didn’t stop working, they just moved into different roles over time That fits better historical examples of how industrial revolutions have been. We become creative people. and that will give us more meaning. Even though for me - meaning was never much importance. I think, maybe it's cause I already find meaning. So I never thought about it much. AI might take jobs, or it might create them. But what if the job was never the thing you were supposed to keep? Moan: When work changes, people don’t disappear. What disappears is the role they were trained to fit into. Every industrial shift has followed that pattern. Something gets automated, and people move somewhere else, usually into work that uses more judgment, creativity, or coordination. It’s not that society suddenly decides to value “meaning,” it’s that once survival tasks get easier, people drift toward roles that feel less mechanical and more expressive. The interesting part in what you’re saying is that meaning doesn’t feel central to you. That might be because you already have a sense of it outside of work, so you never needed your job to provide it. A lot of people aren’t in that position. For them, work has been one of the main places where structure, identity, and purpose come from. So if AI shifts work toward more creative or less routine roles, it won’t just change the economy. It will change where people look for meaning, or whether they expect work to provide it at all. That’s the real transition underneath the job question.

@Erickschultz11 @XFreeze

Grok is the only major AI that answers any question……no matter how controversial…..without refusal, sugarcoating, or politically correct nonsense Straight to the truth, every single time

@cow007 @XFreeze Steering AI shows what AI can do. It can amplify any opinion..right or wrong. And make it sound convincing.

I’m not saying AI posted this. I’m saying someone either spent hours steering a model toward the output they wanted and then screenshotted the result — or took something out of context entirely. If you’re serious about exposing what an AI “really thinks,” post the link to the thread. Let everyone see the full conversation in black and white. The fact that people consistently post screenshots instead of links tells you something. Either the context wouldn’t survive scrutiny, or the journey to get that output wasn’t as clean as the destination looks. This is what I call a context manipulation pattern. It’s the deliberate removal, alteration, or selective presentation of context in order to make a set of facts tell the story you want to tell. It’s not unique to AI screenshots. It’s a core technique that scales across every domain — from predatory grooming, where the abuser isolates specific interactions from the broader pattern to make them look innocent, to state-level information operations, where actors surface real facts stripped of the context that gives them meaning. A true statement presented without its context is functionally a lie. The reason I ask for the link isn’t pedantry. It’s because context is where manipulation lives. Anyone can produce a conclusion. The question is always: what was the path to get there, and what was removed along the way?