Gene Knights
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Gene Knights
@GeneKnights
Author and traveler. 😎 Emoji model. https://t.co/0tW8Id6YYL
Philippines (currently) Katılım Ağustos 2022
26 Takip Edilen52 Takipçiler

@Skolander2 @cremieuxrecueil Because, a small child doesn't understand the choice, some will pick blue. I'd rather die in that case, rather than be the tipping point for a bunch of illiterate infants dying because they like the color blue.
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@GeneKnights @cremieuxrecueil how does the inclusion of children change things?
For me, I'm always going red. Why? Because I'm not in control of what other people pick. Your choice doesn't actually matter swing the final outcome. So all that matters is ensuring your own survival, you can't save everyone else
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@ByronYork @joelpollak Most would-be assassins would see actual assassination as the victory. As for his grievance is being aired, they are constantly being aired. Everything he believes in is mass produced and mass distributed.
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Gunman's manifesto is anti-Trump social media come to life. By seeking to murder Trump, Cole Allen managed to have his grievances presented, in his own words, straight to the President of the U.S. on a widely-watched network news program. How could any would-be assassin not see that as a victory? washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…
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@GeneKnights @cremieuxrecueil Can you fucking read?
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@GeneKnights @cremieuxrecueil It would not at all. His express argument that you can see written in english is that there are so many dumb/altruistic people that you need to risk your life to contribute 1:8,000,000,000 weight towards keeping them alive. This is "wise"
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@Ahmed_Nashwan_ This is how drug dealers smuggle drugs these days everywhere.
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Today, an Israeli quadcopter drone fell in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza. When residents tried to approach it, they found it carrying large quantities of drugs, which indicates that it may have been deliberately dropped among civilians.
Israel has tried by all means and methods to destroy the lives of Palestinians, killing them, displacing them from their homes, and starving them. Now it is using another malicious method: dropping drugs among them, in an attempt to undermine Gaza society from within.

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@piersmorgan I wholeheartedly support this. Then we transform back into the United States along with you with the very first election since we outnumber you massively.
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The vast majority of political violence in this country is committed by people on the right. All the data shows this. You divisive tool.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
Leftists have tried to kill the president three times now. They killed Charlie. They've shot up churches and Christian schools and rioted in the streets. They are the party of terrorism. Political violence comes from one side. How much longer will we allow these people to wage war on the country?
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@antonioguterres It's a lesson to not build the reactors from the 60s. If someone argued against flying in planes due to the safety record of planes built in the 60s, you'd consider them to be an idiot.
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@gooseborne0 @FaytuksNetwork They have a website. Just check it out.
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Fox News reporter: The shooters manifesto said he wanted to target administration officials.
Investigators also found extensive anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric across his social media accounts.
According to reports, Allen’s brother alerted New London Police Department after receiving the alleged manifesto before the incident.
U.S. Secret Service and Montgomery County Police Department later interviewed Allen’s sister, Avriana Allen, at the family home in Rockville. Key points from the interview:
• She said her brother often made radical statements and spoke about doing “something” to fix today’s world.
• She confirmed he bought 2 handguns and a shotgun from Cap Tactical
Firearms and stored them at their parents’ home without their knowledge.
• He regularly trained with those firearms at shooting ranges.
• He was reportedly linked to a group called “The Wide Awakes.”
• He also attended a “No Kings” protest in California.

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@engineers_feed It protects you from what the Earth's atmosphere protects you from.
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@eigenrobot I admit I wear Cuban collar solid color shirts often. It's very relaxed.
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A single button appears before you. You don't have to press it. Nothing happens to you if you don't. However if you do press it, you will die unless 51% of the people that button appears in front of decide to press it as well.
For arguments sake, let's assume It only appears in front of people with as much agency as you.
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@waitbutwhy Red button people should be publicly mock hanged and broadcast on TV. Then everyone reinforces altruism and over time people become good people.
That is in fact how our species evolved altruism.
We are social primates🦍, not lizards 🦎
Blue is the Human answer
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@FederalDiamonds @chamath The bill does apply to who he said does. The initial tax doesn't, but the bill can change that without any additional vote.
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A billionaire arguing against a billionaire tax. That's worth knowing before evaluating the argument.
Some of what Chamath says is real. The compliance infrastructure (asset disclosure, valuation, audit mechanisms, penalty provisions) is in the bill and worth scrutiny. Legitimate concerns exist about how wealth gets valued and disputed.
Then the technique starts. "The creators named it the Billionaire Tax so you would get into a froth." That's accurate: naming legislation to obscure its scope is a real tactic. But Chamath immediately does the same thing: "Everyone Tax," "steal from all of you," "shifty language." He names the opposition's framing manipulation while deploying his own. That's mirror accusation.
"It applies to every California resident who currently has assets or ever will." The bill applies to individuals with net worth over $1 billion. That is not every California resident.
The legitimate concerns deserve a straight argument. They didn't get one. Serious thought leaders don't seem to be as serious as they once were.
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The Billionaire Tax is actually an Everyone Tax.
The Billionaire Tax is a new tax proposal written by four professors who don't believe in the American dream. Some of them aren’t even American…go figure.
Despite its name, it applies to every California resident who currently has assets or ever will.
The creators named it the Billionaire Tax so you would get into a froth andwouldn't look closely at what it actually does to you.
On page twenty-six, it explains how the government can convert to an Everyone Tax without voter approval.
They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval.
Here's how the tax would work: As a voter, you're being asked to approve a tax that would require you to:
1. list all your assets and the value of each, then submit them to the California Franchise Tax Board.
2. authorize the tax board to appraise your assets and confirm the value of each.
3. pay a penalty of up to forty percent of your tax bill if the board determines your reported value was too low in their opinion.
4. allow the tax board to subpoena your financial records from every one of your financial institutions for auditing.
This Everyone Tax runs 34 pages of shifty language describing how the government plans to take your assets. Read the fine print and decide for yourself.
If this were truly a billionaire tax, it would be 3 pages.
It’s 34 pages so that it can create the mechanisms to steal from all of you.
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Fun fact The Europeans never knew what soap and personal hygiene was until the African Moors,arabs and Persians civilized them. Europe was literally the petri dish of pestilence, that's why they used to buy perfumes so much, they used to arrive to indegenous communities all over the world cloaked in plague and perfume. Look at what happened to the Aztecs in South America when the Spanish arrived
Islamic Scientific Heritage@IslamicSH_
Olive oil and laurel soap products of the Ottoman Era.
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The petrodollar is the foundation of American power. Since the 1970s, oil has only been sold in dollars, forcing every nation on earth to hold dollars, fund our debt, and keep us dominant.
Iran just systematically dismantled that. They closed Hormuz, cutting 25% of global oil supply. Spiked oil to $118 a barrel. Then forced ships to pay in Chinese yuan for passage. Now Gulf states are dumping US treasuries, bond markets are selling off, inflation is surging, Deutsche Bank is warning of a petroyuan era.
Every link in the petrodollar chain is snapping at once. When it's gone, your borrowing costs explode, your savings erode, and America loses the financial weapon that has kept us dominant for 50 years. China wins without ever pulling a trigger.
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