Eric Klinkhammer

@jeremykauffman The boomer demographic decided the elections, and they aren't on X because the font is too small.

Vivek, who is hated on X, won. Massie, who is loved on X, lost. Politics on X is just not reality

@americansnarker @Thinkyouredumb @MLiamMcCollum @JulesUSA6 "Just so happened to be at an event" - so we can release all emails to Epstein (and from, if part of a conversation)? And any photo from any event Epstein hosted, or at a location he owned?

@IdahoRobots @Thinkyouredumb @MLiamMcCollum @JulesUSA6 If you could reliably weed those out from those who just happened to be at an event with him, great, but that’s what trials are for an not what troves of un-vetted files and pictures are for.

Before my generation even cared about Donald Trump politically, we were watching Thomas Massie and Ron Paul clips on YouTube, like this one from 2015, where Thomas Massie voted to force a debate on Obama sending troops to Iraq and Syria The reality is that they hate Massie because he has a longer track record of being more consistent and more America First than they are This also explains the generational divide on Massie, because younger generations have been able to track these votes with new media while everyone else was waiting to hear what Sean Hannity had to say about him

@americansnarker @Thinkyouredumb @MLiamMcCollum @JulesUSA6 Why is guilt-by-association bad for people who knowingly associated with Epstein? Yes, I want to know the people who found sex trafficking to be an acceptable character flaw in an associate named and shamed.

First of all, Trump has released thousands/millions(?) of files. But also, the not-guilty have a right not to be dragged into a guilt-by-association witch hunt. If there were provable crimes, the DOJs of the past several presidents have had their chance to take it to court. If they haven’t, you can either conclude that the evidence isn’t there, or that it’s some huge conspiracy that somehow hasn’t leaked out over years and years. Occam’s Razor applies here. I gotta move on. If you want to remain dug in on this, such is your fate.

@KarmaExists @Nick042013 @JZannitto @lady_valor_07 Okay boomer. It's been 20% standard tip since at least 2012.

@Nick042013 @JZannitto @lady_valor_07 20% is def not the standard. 10% was the standard and now it’s 15%. 20% and up is for great service/great experience

@Hunterrowell61 @Tate78177011 @Uncommonsince76 Social security should be completely cut. Why are we paying sky high taxes for boomer entitlements as they start wars saddling us with sky high prices at the pump?

@Tate78177011 @Uncommonsince76 Social Security should be cut as a “war tax” to pay for the increased gas prices and war debt cause by a war pushed by boomers.

This is very good propaganda. By saying “it’s the retailers!” You obfuscate the fact that Jews led the U.S. into a losing war with Iran and placate to people’s natures to blame the corporations. You also leave out that the price of Oil Is likely being artificially manipulated downwards when in reality the coming shortages are going to be much worse as long as the strait of Hormuz stays closed. Boomers are literally living in a complete fantasy. They are filling up their tanks for 5 dollars a gallon and saying to themselves, “Thank god we beat Iran…”

@jinC2025 @petruch10 @PnishdMythMason I've been. Great place honestly. It's not even a unique thing - Anglicanism is Catholicism with the British monarchy instead of the Pope. It's just odd to say that the branch of Christianity that is only distinguished by the Pope is allowed, just without the Pope.

@IdahoRobots @petruch10 @PnishdMythMason You are merely living in a fog constructed by lies without realizing it, even though you have never set foot in China.

To Western eyes, the Chinese state's suppression of Falun Gong looks like persecution of a harmless meditation cult. This framing misunderstands** what the Chinese state is responding to. The Chinese state has tolerated religion as private belief for two thousand years. Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Judaism have operated in China across the imperial centuries, mostly without state interference and often with state patronage. What the Chinese state has consistently and ruthlessly suppressed is the organized religious mass network when it reaches a scale at which it constitutes a parallel authority structure capable of mobilizing populations. The doctrine is incidental to the real issue, which is the structure. The pattern is established under the Han with the Yellow Turban Rebellion of 184 AD, which was a millenarian Daoist movement called the Way of Great Peace and which began as a healing-and-charity ministry. It accumulated several hundred thousand adherents organized into thirty-six commands across eight provinces, developed an apocalyptic doctrine that the Han mandate had ended, and rose in coordinated rebellion. The rebellion was eventually crushed but the Han never recovered. The pattern repeats with the White Lotus movements of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing: a continuously regenerating Buddhist-derived sectarian network that produced uprising after uprising for six centuries. It repeats most catastrophically with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of 1851–1864, a syncretic Christian-millenarian movement led by a failed examination candidate who (like your author) believed he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ. The Taiping Rebellion killed somewhere between 20 and 70 million people, depending on the estimate. It is the deadliest civil war in human history and it nearly ended the Qing dynasty. The Chinese state's view, developed through this experience, is that the unsanctioned charismatically-led mass-religious network is not a category of religious activity but rather a category of state-security threat. The Western framing--religion as private belief, the state as obligated to tolerate it absent demonstrated individual harm--is a product of post-Reformation Western political theory. The Chinese tradition does not share that framing and never has, because the Chinese historical record contains too many cases where exactly the kind of harmless-looking spiritual movement that Western observers were prepared to tolerate metastasized into civilizational catastrophe. In April 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners assembled silently around Zhongnanhai, the central party leadership compound in Beijing. They had organized this without the state knowing they were coming, they had transported themselves to Beijing without the state knowing, and they had arrayed themselves at the most sensitive site in Chinese politics without the state knowing. From the perspective of the Chinese security apparatus, this was the Yellow Turban scenario in modern clothing. A charismatically-led, cosmologically-heterodox, mass-organized network had demonstrated that it could mobilize tens of thousands at the heart of the capital without state oversight. Whether the doctrine was harmful, harmless, or beneficial was, in this framing, beside the point. The structure itself was the threat. The state's response was the historically standard one. The Yellow Turbans, the White Lotus, the Eight Trigrams, the Taiping, and Falun Gong are five points on the same line. The institutional logic that responds to all of them is also the same. ----- **Not a misunderstanding on @PhilGarber5 's part, below, but rather one he correctly identified.

@Darkhorse1791 @VRTruthFreedom @RogueLou18 @RealTheoWold Voter turnout is consistently under 30%, sometimes under 20%.

@VRTruthFreedom @RogueLou18 @RealTheoWold I disagree that multigenerationals don't show up. The multigens have been indoctrinated in our Idaho schools to be Marxist, thus they are the ones driving the push to go blue.

This clip is the @RealTheoWold money maker. Zero people understand that the blue state political refugees are turning the red states MORE red. (Except of course for the moderates who have weaponized their moves for their campaigns/called them extremists to divert attention)

@petruch10 @PnishdMythMason What I don't understand is the compulsion you have to lie - China can suppress Catholics as they want in their own country, but why pretend otherwise?

The contemporary Chinese state operates a state oversight system through the State Administration for Religious Affairs, which licenses five recognized religions. Those are Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Protestantism. It oversees their officially registered associations. Registered Buddhist temples, registered mosques, registered Catholic churches under the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, and registered Protestant churches under the Three-Self Patriotic Movement all operate openly, receive state protection, hold property, conduct services. They have given up something to do so, including the right to recognize foreign religious authorities (the Vatican, in the Catholic case) and the right to organize independently of state oversight. The Chinese state does not operate according to Western logic or mores.

@theramblingfool Blue isn't getting more than 10%. It's capped at people in high trust societies that are unaware high trust societies aren't the norm.

2 and 4 betray the fact that you're not a very good person. 3 and 5 betray the fact that you're not very intelligent. 1 is the only defensible argument for red. I think it's ultimately wrong, but we can have an intelligent conversation from here.

Every Pro-red argument: (1) Cynicism: "It's impossible for blue to win. Don't be suicidal." (2) Narcissism: "There is no downside to pressing red." (3) Changing the hypo: "Babies don't count. That'd be stupid! So there's a blender..." (4) Psychopathy: "Blue pressers deserve to die." (5) General poor analytic reasoning: "If everyone just pressed red!"

@12Xpert @Rob_ThaBuilder Can you expand on why you think this is a reply? I assume, globally, that red will win with no less than 85%. Why would any particular set of people voting blue change my vote?

@Rob_ThaBuilder You didn’t get a chance to talk to your kids. Your 5-year-old daughter’s favourite colour is blue. What you gonna do?

The ppl signaling their virtue by insisting the correct answer is blue, and only evil ppl would pick red dont really understand the question. It isnt a question about your OWN morality, but instead is a question of your perception of everyone else's morality. And it isnt even a measure of their "morality" but is actually a measure of their survival instincts. Betting against the survival instincts of 50% of the human species is a bad choice. Anyone who is facing this choice for real and had to think about it for more than 5 minutes would pick red, and more importantly, would council everyone they care about to pick red. Would you want your children to risk their life on 50% of the human species to bet against their own guaranteed survival? No decent parent would.

@ButchSurewood @robertgraham What's wild is blue only wins with a 4% margin on online polls, with no risk, and people think that's a positive sign for blue winning with real stakes and the whole world voting.

@robertgraham Yeah, it’s a bunch of people signaling how brave they are in a situation where don’t actually have to take any risk.

I keep seeing this in my feed. No. If it's a hypothetical question, when your life isn't actually on the line, most people choose "blue". More would choose "red" if their life were actually at stake. Economists experience this all the time, where surveys asking people what they WOULD buy for a price differ strongly from what they actually DO buy when the price changes. If we cut movie ticket prices in half, how many times more often would you go to the movies? What people answer on such a survey differs a lot from how they actually respond to changes in movie ticket prices.

@obzabor @DrDaniS Isn't 52% on social media basically a death sentence for blue if real death was on the line? I might have voted blue, but that result has me thinking blue is hopeless.

@DrDaniS Oh the double butt hurt: not only are *some* people better than you -- *most* people are better than you. 52% to be exact.

This is quite extraordinary. Peter doesn't understand the pay-off matrix. Many people in the replies have tried to explain the pay-off matrix. He doesn't understand it: "The entire red case is predicated on a red majority." No, Peter. The entire blue case is predicated on a blue majority. If you choose blue, and you find yourself in a blue minority, you die. If you choose red, you live - no matter what anyone else chooses. "But blue is winning. So it's not dumb." Yes, Peter, it's very dumb. You are gambling your life on the majority of your fellow citizens being as inept as you are at understanding a simple 2x2 pay-off matrix. It's like having two cups of water, one of which you know contains arsenic, and an arsenic test kit. Instead of using the test kit, you decide to drink one to find out whether it has arsenic. And then you insist that since you didn't die, it wasn't a dumb thing to do! For the love of God, can as many people as possible follow the link back to the original poll and vote "red" - Peter needs this one to play out both ways. x.com/waitbutwhy/sta…

@mettyjetty @DrDaniS Assuming this is true - the US is much bigger than Denmark. If the pool of participants was just the US and Denmark, would that change the blue voters? How does the Dane vote when he knows people are voting red, and he knows his fellow Danes know people are already voting red?

@DrDaniS This is very cultural. Blue 100% wins, guaranteed in places like Denmark. In cynical, high-diversity, individiaulistic places like the US, red might win. But red is the selfish choice. Blue is the "right" choice because nobody dies if most do the right thing.

@raisethespirit @Rizwanabbasi022 I also did exactly this.

@Rizwanabbasi022 120%. No calculator needed. I do 60 / 5 = 12. 12 x 4 = 48. So 80% of 60 is 48. 20% of 40 = 8 So 48 is 120% of 40 Good night

You can't use the calculator.

@MemoryMedieval I'm surprised people don't want to see the future - it's the unknown. It's exploration. It's literally the things that makes so many people in history impressive.

@IdahoRobots okay Elon

If you could choose to be born in any year, in any place, and then the rest is just up to chance, where would you choose? I'm going Normandy, 1010AD.

@Adam66569381 @Clint_Davey1 It's not game length, it's game length after the winner is known, or is very likely to be known.

@Clint_Davey1 'it takes too long'. I do not understand this. Then again, I play World in Flames, where the average playtime of a full Deluxe game from 39-45 is about 150 hours. So maybe I'm the wrong audience for this post.

Axis and Allies is a fun game. But... -It takes too long. -It has victory conditions that are ridiculously hard to actually achieve but you know who is going to win halfway through the game. -It has a lot of busywork relative to the amount of decisions you're actually making. -It has no rules for supply or strategic/rail movement. -It creates odd situations like Japanese tanks in Moscow or Americans fighting Italians in Persia. -It involves a ton of dice rolling. Luck is massively decisive, usually more than player decisions. That's why I created One Hour WW2. Basically resolves all these issues.

@mitchellh Ignoring whether AI is a bubble or not, I think that intelligent people with resources can pivot and learn new skills far more easily than conventional wisdom suggests.

I’m excited about the AllBirds AI pivot because this is the first completely pure act of retardmaxxing in the public markets and I’m so on board with watching that journey play out.

@maybedanielleee if you're looking to hire experienced drivers, use Honk.

Who knew a trucking company could cause this much commotion in two* countries?! It’s a wild time to be in freight. *maybe more than two, idk.

@elonmusk Is this device-level spyware or do they have access to WhatsApp keys (or both)?

Hmm

@Tomhennessey69 Why would they flee when they keep wracking up w's? Last I checked they ousted everyone involved in opposing mask / vaccine mandates at the local college, and dominate the CDA city council. That woman represents the majority of the 20% of voters who turnout for local elections.

Liberal 🏳️‍🌈 activist and vaccine/lockdown advocate talks about fleeing North Idaho. Remember, whenever you start thinking you're being too racist and transphobic... you're still not being racist and transphobic enough.