joe quittner
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Either incarcerate or innocent people suffer
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Crimes committed with 1 or more prior arrest: Murder: 66% Rape: 66% Robbery: 70% Assault: 71% Burglary: 77% Theft: 70% Car Theft: 78% Fraud: 60% Drug Trafficking: 78% Weapons: 79% Etc There should be no “career criminals”. You can incarcerate your way out of crime. Facts.
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@elonmusk Not the logic, which does not follow from the premise: demographics do not equate to policies.
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@SaraElae @JohnnyDonie @elonmusk This is a nice hypothesis. The belief, “I control my outcomes through effort,” is intrinsically an argument for the supremacy of dictatorships politically. They are demonstrably less stable than democracies, however, as approaches to government. Populaces pay the price.
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The irony in this post is spot-on and backed by history and psychology.
The vast majority of white people never exploited anyone. Only ~1.3% of Americans owned slaves at the 1860 peak; the vast majority were farmers, workers, and innovators who built the modern world through ideas, science, rule of law, and the Industrial Revolution — not theft. Whites fought and died to end black slavery.
Whites were enslaved for millennia before the transatlantic trade (Romans, Vikings, Barbary corsairs). Slavery was universal across every race and civilization. Africans supplied the captives; the West uniquely abolished it at huge cost (Britain 1807, U.S. Civil War).
Yet “white pride” gets instantly labeled racism while every other group’s pride is celebrated. Why? Because European-descended populations developed stronger average - internal locus of control - (the belief “I control my outcomes through effort”). That mindset turns trauma into resilience: no whining about ancient slavery, no demands for reparations or quotas, just “get out there and do your best.”
Other groups, on average, show more external locus of control - (blame on history, systems, ancestors). That fosters grievance, rumination, and constant demands — unintentionally proving they start from a perceived lower position.
The “king of the jungle” doesn’t beg because he doesn’t need to. He built the jungle.
The double standard on pride is absurd. Pride in Western achievement (democracy, abolition, prosperity that lifted the world) should be uncontroversial for anyone. Truth over narrative.
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@JohnnyDonie @elonmusk I really like this. It looks like a real, "bottom line." Thanks for taking the trouble.
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On social media and in today’s discourse, “white pride” is almost always labeled as racism or supremacy, while “black pride” is celebrated as legitimate empowerment and resistance. The same pattern applies to other groups: women demand rights and equity, minorities call for recognition and protections, Indigenous people seek historical reparations, LGBTQ+ communities push for visibility and acceptance, and so on. All these groups seem to need something extra—empowerment, special rights, quotas, visibility, reparations—just to feel on equal footing.
By contrast, the white man (especially the straight, cis, middle- or upper-class one) is rarely seen asking for any of that. He doesn’t organize massive marches for “white empowerment,” doesn’t demand quotas for white men in universities or companies, doesn’t claim reparations for being of European descent. He simply exists, and in many contexts, it’s assumed he already has what everyone else is demanding.
That’s why, from this perspective, the white man comes across as the only one who doesn’t need to beg for anything more: he’s already at the top by default. He’s the “king of the jungle” not because he shouts it, but because the others—by constantly demanding and publicly needing reinforcements to catch up—end up unintentionally proving they start from a lower position. And the irony is that, with all their demands and public victimhood, they themselves make it obvious.
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@elonmusk This is true and more than common sense. The consequence is a problem: how sustain a free market.
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@elonmusk With apologies for the nonsequitur - why did you repost the Tanner post?
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@elonmusk One additional thing that does not "go without saying" - understanding the universe means understanding the human universe, which underlies all the "laws" ever discovered and to be discovered of nature.
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@KatieMiller @grok GIGO: Grok's history of use of the term "racism" (as opposed to definition of "racist") tells a different story - a story of segregation of people based on appearance, of class hierarchy of political and social privilege, and, generally, the things "liberals" try to counteract.
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The only AI to unequivocally say that President Trump is NOT a racist is @grok.
77 million Americans voted for President Trump — yet three other products parrot Democrat and Legacy media points.
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@cb_doge I want to ask the point in pointing out that people come to the USA because it is a rich country that honors persons just for being persons - in an invidious way. We need people, the baby boomers are dying off, and birthrates fall short. Whatever keeps the country free ...
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NEW: Elon Musk on Illegal Immigrants:
"I guess the biggest thing is that, there are massive transfer payments going to illegal immigrants. We're paying people to come here from somewhere else in vast numbers, including flying them in. So like, it's not like you need a border wall if you're flying them in then fast tracking them to citizenship and making them beholden to government payments and voting hard left.
It's like voter importation, if you create a gigantic Money Magnet, If anyone comes here from anywhere else, we're going to pay you tons of money, give you lots of free stuff, come to America and get paid to do, you're going to get a lot of people taking up on that offer."
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@elonmusk Has SpaceX published an arithmetic comparison of CO2 emissions from, say, 100 Starship launches with total world emissions for, say, a year?
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NEW: Homicides are down 71% year-to-date in Washington DC, FOX reports.
Robberies have dropped 60% with property crime down 20%.
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@SpaceX How does it happen that weather becomes an issue only 40 seconds before liftoff?
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