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Chris White

Chris White

@FiestaBlanco

Existential Detective, Gentleman Scoundrel, All-Around Huckleberry

Florida, USA Katılım Mart 2014
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@jwsherrod I think the narrative is that Trump is charging the the SPLC for their noble effort to create an undercover network to spy on white supremacists But I didn’t know Fuentes was still undercover
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Yes! I was just able to use this line in a conversation, once again! It's my #1 most used Simpsons quote (And it might even be my line) My #2 most used line is Moe's "Pret-ty clevah!" from "Hurricane Neddy" What's YOUR most used Simpsons quote? (Used in regular conversation)
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@BRICbreaker I thought she was copying Kamala. Was she so bad no one remembers hers?
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Chris White@FiestaBlanco·
@ClickingSeason It’s better not to know that in his line of work, even though you would assume someone in his line of work would know that kind of thing
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Chris White
Chris White@FiestaBlanco·
@MarlowNYC They have enough people to validate their transitions without paying another one
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Chris White@FiestaBlanco·
@WEschenbach And he’s still averages publishing a book a year in his 90s
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Willis Eschenbach
Willis Eschenbach@WEschenbach·
Thomas Sowell is one of the smartest thinkers of our time. Not only that, he is able to express complex ideas in simple ways that cut through the fog. He's a national treasure. w.
Ken Blackwell@kenblackwell

Thomas Sowell is 95 years old. Let that number sit with you. Ninety-five years on this earth, and in all of them, he has never held public office, never had a viral moment, never begged for anyone’s attention. What he has done is write 30 books and spend 50 years of patient research building a body of work that has outlasted every fashionable idea his critics tried to bury him with. While the loudest voices in Washington were chasing polls and the cleverest minds on campus were chasing grants, Sowell was in the library reading the data, tracking the outcomes, and dismantling one bad idea after another. He doesn’t argue feelings. He measures results. He isn’t selling anything. His whole approach boils down to one line that every politician and activist in this country should be forced to recite before they open their mouths: “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” Sit with that, too. Every federal program, every mandate, every well-meaning crusade carries a cost, and somebody pays it. Sowell’s life work has been the simple act of asking who. Listen to him on the “help” our communities have been promised for two generations: “I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality. They increase inequality.” “Even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.” That is the whole affirmative action racket laid out in two sentences. The kids from the same zip codes as the Harvard faculty get the slot, while the kids from the neighborhoods that actually need a ladder are told to wait their turn. Sowell says it plain: “The vast majority of blacks who go to places like Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford are not blacks from the ghetto. They’re from the same neighborhoods as the whites there.” The race hustlers don’t want you to know that, because they need the grievance to stay in business. Sowell’s advice to young people cuts right through the hustle: “Stay away from the race hustlers.” “Equip yourself with skills that people are willing to pay for.” That is the whole ball game right there, a matter of skills, work, and accountability rather than slogans, hashtags, or another federal program designed to pad a consultant’s salary while leaving the South Side worse off than before. Here is the line I want every young person in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and every other corner of America to read tonight: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” That one sentence explains our schools, our cities, and why the neighborhoods the War on Poverty was supposed to save are in worse shape now than they were before the checks started flowing. Sowell has pushed a whole generation of us to stop reacting and start asking harder questions. What are the incentives? Who actually benefits from this policy? What do the numbers look like five, ten, twenty years later? Ask those questions honestly, and the illusion falls apart. The most dangerous man in America right now isn’t the one shouting on television. He is the 95-year-old professor in Palo Alto who doesn’t need you to agree with him, because he has the data on his side. Ninety-five years of telling the truth. Thank you, Dr. Sowell.

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Vauban Books
Vauban Books@VaubanBooks·
"An Amazon spokesperson told Blaze News, 'We’ve resolved an error that briefly affected the availability of a paperback listing of The Camp of the Saints, and the title is now restored.'" Thank you @theblaze. We will have more to say about this later. For now, see the email we received informing us that the novel was “offensive content.”
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TheBlaze@theblaze

Amazon gives lame excuse for removing 'offensive' dystopian novel about mass migration ruining Europe dlvr.it/TS8LTh

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Chris White
Chris White@FiestaBlanco·
@j_fishback Will you fight hard enough for education that the gubernatorial candidates of the future will have heard of the water cycle?
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Chris White@FiestaBlanco·
@TheGhostOfGeert @j_fishback @Don__Gordo Hey pal, his voter base cared about all the water golf courses used back in the 1990s when that’s what they were told to care about. It’s not their fault they’re not being instructed to be angry about it anymore
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The Ghost of Geert
The Ghost of Geert@TheGhostOfGeert·
@j_fishback @Don__Gordo Just curious as this is Florida… how much water do golf courses use & do we have any of those here? Or does discussing that not suit your voter base?
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Chris White@FiestaBlanco·
@_jokeocracy Sometimes we had to learn jokes to stop from getting beaten more, not just to feel more comfortable
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Duck Enlightenment
Duck Enlightenment@_jokeocracy·
as a general rule, professional comedians are deeply unhappy people who learned to make people laugh to cover up their deep seated feelings of insecurity and self-hatred. exceptions exist but it's usually a mistake to ever take anything a professional comedian says seriously
Killa 🌺@KillaKreww

Theo Von gets EMOTIONAL and breaks down in tears talking about struggling with low self-worth because of how his mother treated him and his fight to move past it 😔👀 “I just wanna look in somebody’s eyes and see them pleased with me… I’m tired of this story.”

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The Rabbit Hole
The Rabbit Hole@TheRabbitHole·
There is hardly any relation between spending and student outcomes.
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Chris White@FiestaBlanco·
@LudwigNverMises Do you think all the evangelical NPR Americans will apologize for the things they said to me when I said they had far more in common with the alt-right than we did?
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Austin Padgett (LudwigNeverMises)
Austin Padgett (LudwigNeverMises)@LudwigNverMises·
I tried to warn y’all. You’re spring boarding national socialism in order to take jabs at Israel. Israel is everything to you but not to the socialists and commies who will use it to undermine or replace you. Libertarians should have been the first to see the threat. Instead everytime someone tries to highlight it, the main response from libertarians is “well he’s not as bad as Zionists.” And so he advances with no defense as the new right changes from Ron Paul to Mussolini. It’s a complete comical tragedy.
Fuentes Updates@FuentesUpdates

Progressive Democrats and nationalist Republicans need to work together. The left will have to give up on immigration, and the right on the free market. That would be a popular compromise and a blueprint to remove support for Israel.

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Chris White
Chris White@FiestaBlanco·
@TheLando__ @WeltGawd The only thing that was really good about our offense is that we kept running it with intensity even though it wasn’t converting at a high enough level. What are they gonna do if we’re hitting shots?
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The Lando
The Lando@TheLando__·
- The Pistons shot double the free throws Orlando shot. - Cade scored 38. - Orlando’s highest scorer scored 23 points. - Bane was sick and shot 7/20, 1/8 from three. - Franz started 2/8 and Magic were up. - The Magic shot less than 30% from three, slightly worse than Detroit.
PistonOfTheDay@PistonOfTheDay

That was Orlando’s best game of the season. That was Detroit’s worst game of the season. Orlando visually dominated but barely got the win. Let’s see what happens Wednesday.

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Marco Foster
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_·
Zohran Mamdani: “I wish the words of Tupac from the 90’s weren’t still prescient, but they continue to be true for too many which is that we always have money for war and not to feed the poor”
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Chris White@FiestaBlanco·
@Logically_JC Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly Properly
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John Collins
John Collins@Logically_JC·
So many of our problems could be fixed by properly funding public education.
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Chris White@FiestaBlanco·
@phil_mcalister @razibkhan You’re only talking about school funding though. He’s talking about funding school “properly,” and that would make all the difference
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