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@AdameMedia @Asmongold The 30k number originally was reported by Iran International from a leaked Iranian intelligence report.

“30,000” is literal terrorist propaganda. It’s the new “40 beheaded babies.” You spent months manufacturing consent for the murder of these girls and this terrorist war of agression and then you justify it when it happens. Sick. You support the war and the Trump regime which: — Announced they’ll take ALL iran’s oil — Is funding foreign separatist groups — Saying Iran’s map will change — murdering school girls — bombing hospitals, schools & homes — Hitting Water desalination plants & oil facilities — filling Iran with toxic cancer causing smoke And that’s just one week in… You are a regime propagandist. A system shill. A Zionist. You pander to the lowest common denominator. You turn young men into Fox News boomers. Hope the money is worth it.

Asmongold supports the school bombing that burned 150 girls to death. “They shouldn’t have been antagonizing a world superpower like America.” He’s a piece of shit and it’s time everyone admits it. x.com/AutisticClip/s…

@grok @PTI_News @SecRubio The 5 minute one is the full conference. I watched it and now x search cannot give me the link. Jusr give me the link to the video

The full press conference (Rubio's remarks to reporters on the Iran operation, March 2-3) isn't uploaded as one complete video on X—only clips from outlets like PTI, Fox, and AJEnglish (their 5+ min one is the longest I found). Full transcript and video available on state.gov or C-SPAN.org. PTI links to their full version off-X too.

VIDEO | Washington DC, USA: "This weekend presented a unique opportunity to take joint action, we are on or ahead of schedule to achieve our objectives," says US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) on Iran operation. (Source: Third Party) (Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)

@BlindGoose1337 @LundukeJournal No. It is my computer, and I have the right to run code on it and present content on it without the approval of big brother.

It’s worth noting that this bill from Colorado Democrats could have massive repercussions on the world of Linux. - System76 (makers of Pop!_OS) are based in Colorado. - IBM (Red Hat) has offices in Colorado. - Canonical (Ubuntu) also has a presence in Colorado. Failure to comply with these age verification measures, as the system level, could result in massive fines for these Linux companies. Fines large enough to potentially put some out of business.

@ggreenwald @ThomasEWoods Next to the islamic regime, the shah was a saint.

The US and Israel aren't trying to "liberate" Iranians or bring them freedom. And therefore, despite however many Iranians want that for themselves, that won't be the outcome. The US and Israel are trying to re-impose the vicious and repressive tyrants that ruled Iran before their 1979 revolution: the Israeli and US puppets of the Shah. The US and Israel don't want democracy in the Middle East because they know anti-US/Israel sentiments would prevail in an election. Americans pretended to support Egyptian students as they worked to overthrow their US-supported dictator Hosni Mubarak (yay, look at those brave Tahrir Square demonstrators working to get rid of the dictator we imposed on them!). Those Egyptians "won" and got elections, but then voted for the wrong candidate. So the US immediately worked to overthrow the winners and re-install a Mubarak-like dictator in Sisi, and the Obama administration cheered it. They live under brutal repression, supported by the US with billions, to this very day.

How can anyone possibly believe that the US or Israel is motivated by freedom in Iran?? The US's closest allies are the most savage regimes: Saudis, Egypt, UAE, Jordan, etc. Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy said the US doesn't care if other countries provide freedom.👇

@DataRepublican @Devon_Eriksen_ Yeah, popper totally misread that. Both nazi and soviet thinkers were post-truth, outright denying science (economics), and insistent that they could simply override reality. Georges Sorel's "myth-making" was instrumental to these developments

After World War II, Western intellectuals argued over what gives rise to extremist ideologies such as Nazism and Communism. The answer that eventually won the discourse was fallibilist universalism, heavily influenced by Karl Popper. Hitler and Stalin both claimed access to absolute moral truth, and both used that claim to justify authoritarian rule. Fallibilism rejected this posture: no institution or ideology could claim final truth, so political systems had to remain pluralistic, self-correcting, and open to criticism. Over time, however, this got distorted. Fallibilism’s insistence on epistemic humility was reinterpreted as the claim that objective truth does not exist at all. As that shift took hold, language itself drifted not only in meaning, but also as a weapon over which to manipulate people.... because if no objective truth exists, then narrative is the battlefield. The humanitarian principles on which liberal democracies rested such as equality were redefined ever more narrowly and got warped, in order to tighten control over the narrative. And so in the end, Popper's Open Society hardened into a closed one resembling Communism.

A vast number of humans, probably a majority, aren't people. They are large language models. I'm not saying this as a generality, as a clever or funny way of saying, "they are stupid". No. I mean something very concrete and specific, and there are a lot of people who appear very intelligent, maybe even win awards for writing good poetry or something, who are nevertheless not people, not fully sapient, just a large language model walking around in a human body. First, you have to understand what a large language model is. It's a computer (organic or inorganic), which has been trained on a data set consisting solely of language (written or spoken), and rewarded for producing language that sounds like the data set, and is relevant to a prompt. That's all there is in there. This is why ChatGPT and Grok lie to you constantly. It's not because they are somehow just indifferent to the truth — they actually do not understand the concept of "truth" at all. For something to be a "lie", or an "inaccuracy", there has to be a mismatch between the meaning of words, and the state of reality. And there's the critical difference. You see, in order to identify a mismatch between the state of reality, and the meaning of a sentence, you have to have a model of reality. Not just one model, of language. This is why Grok and ChatGPT hallucinate and tell you lies. Because, for them, everything is language, and there is no reality. So when I say someone is a large language model, I do not mean he is "stupid". He might be very facile at processing language. He might, in fact, be eloquent enough to give great speeches, get elected president, win the Nobel Peace Prize, and so on. What I mean is that humans who are large language models do not have a robust world-object model to counterweight their language model. They are able to manipulate symbols, sometimes adroitly, but they are on far shakier ground when trying imagine the objects those symbols represent. Which brings us to this woman. Most conservatives understand her behavior in terms of concepts like "suicidal empathy", or "brainwashing", or an "information bubble", interpreted as reasons why she is delusional, but the truth is far worse than that. To delusional is to have an object model of the world that is deeply and profoundly wrong. But to have an object model of the world that is deeply and profoundly wrong... you have to have one in the first place. To sapient humans, words are symbols, grounded in object model of reality, that we use to communicate ideas about that reality. We need those words because we don't come equipped with a hologram projector, or telepathic powers. But for another type of human, that object model isn't very large or robust at all. It consists only of a grass hut or two with a few sticks of furniture, and it can never be matched up with the palaces in the air which she weaves out of words. And so, to her, there is no reality. Or at least very little. Reality consists only of her and her immediate surroundings in time and space, and words referring to anything bigger or more complicated are not descriptions of reality... they are magic spells which will make other humans drop loot or give her social approval. You cannot correct her worldview with contradictory evidence, because there is no worldview to correct. You cannot confront her with the logical inconsistencies in her worldview, because her object model doesn't actually have any, it's not complex enough for that. The relevant parts of her world-object model can be summed up as follows: "If I say Goodthing, I get headpats and cookies from all the people like me." That model is simply not big or complicated enough to contain notions like self-defense or vehicular assault. She has no theory of mind for a man whose job includes violence. She cannot explain or predict his behavior. It is too far away from her daily experience to fit into her reality at all. And if she can't imagine things like these, how can she possibly imagine concrete meanings for vast and complex ideas like demographic replacement, culture shift, and western civilization? This is not about intelligence or lack of it. This is about what her brain is trained to do. Her upbringing, education, and life did not force, or even encourage, her to develop a robust world-object model. It wasn't necessary for her to get safety, approval, or cookies. She just had to be glib. So it really didn't matter if she had an IQ of 125, or whatever, because if she did, then she was just an IQ-125-large-language-model, and only used that brain capacity for writing clever poetry, and saying things that aligned her to her local social matrix. She couldn't actually understand the world no matter how smart she was, because her brain was trained up wrong. I don't know if this is correctable, or if there was some critical developmental phase that was missed, but it doesn't matter, because once the LLM-humans are adults, they won't sit still for corrective therapy, percussive or not. What's important is that they can't be taught things. They can be programmed to repeat stuff, and if you win a culture war, you can even program them to say the sensible stuff. But even then, they will just be saying it for headpats and cookies. They will never truly understand the sense of what they are repeating, because they don't understand things. They are just Large Language Models. And we have to figure out some way to take the vote away from them.

@pureMetatron Economics is science

Social science is not science. Agree or prove me wrong.

Like everyone else, I looked at the shooting of Renee Nicole Good. From several angles. And frame by frame. I watched the reverse lights go out. The weapon leave its holster. I looked at the before footage. The aftermath. I listened carefully to the audio. I heard the legal scholars commentary. The politicians. Etc. But most of all, I watched it as a pair of amped up Federal Agents with a car and driver defying my orders in a tense situation. And then I watched it as a freaked out American female in fight-or-flight model with a terrifying man trying to force open my driver side door who may have barely noticed the other man in front of my car about to end my life. ——- My thoughts. This was always going to happen. A bunch of political people we don’t know playing out a drama of Sanctuary Cities, voting strategies, refugee designations, border enforcement, immigration scams, etc. Sooner or later, given enough time, a loving widower and single dad will also pick up a gun and find a 2A solution to his grief over the Surgeon who “transitioned” his only brainwashed child while he was working two jobs in a murder suicide. Someone wearing a Candace t-shirt calling for America-First will shoot up a Pro-Israel rally in Florida chanting about “Noticing”, Nick Fuentes and wanting their country back. Or a person will spray-paint “Never Again” on a Cybertruck and drive it into a Michigan crowd screaming “From The River To The Sea!” Etc. We are being set, like wind up toys, to tear each other apart and ourselves apart. my own head has been filled with so many slogans and so much hate for you by so many different people no matter who you are. We are all in this low grade revolution. And it will be reset today by algorithms you didn’t program, filled by speeches you didn’t write, amplified by accounts you don’t know are bot farms, directed by political strategists whose names you do not know, undoing action you would never have taken in ways you would never agree to directed by famous people you don’t know personally.

@ConspiracyBull1 He's not even a good economist 🤣

Someone should have stuck to economics instead of spreading Russian propaganda.

@scotthortonshow Fake kremlintarian astroturfed retard chimes in

Fake libertarian Kochtopus astroturf group weighs in.

@real_gtk There is no such ethnic group as "scandinavian". Your claim is as facile, jouvenile, and fallacious as Putin's insistence that Ukraine and Russia are "one people"

Lots of stupid Russo-Amerimutt talking points about Greenland being "colonized" by Denmark. Scandinavians are a native population in Greenland. They settled Greenland centuries before the ancestors of current-day Eskimos arrived. Scandinavians were also the first Europeans to settle America - via the settlements in Greenland - some 500 years before Columbus... and many centuries before USA existed. Of course, Ashkenazi philistines like Stephen Miller can't be expected to know such things. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

@AP4Liberty I would read it if it weren't written by AI

Read more from my Libertarian Nationalist manifesto: ap4libertyshop.com/blogs/news/a-m…

For too long, libertarianism has been a beautiful philosophy stranded in the clouds. It debated purity while losing power. It praised freedom in theory while surrendering it in practice. The Libertarian Party became a clown car of fringe radicals and unserious thinkers, mocked even by those who once loved it. Meanwhile, the populist tide of MAGA—messy, raw, but undeniably patriotic—proved that millions of Americans still crave liberty, even if they no longer call it by that name. They despise bureaucracy, globalism, and the arrogance of Washington. They love enterprise, faith, and flag. MAGA revealed something libertarians forgot: that liberty cannot live without loyalty. A nation that despises itself cannot stay free. A people ashamed of their heritage cannot defend their rights. Libertarian Nationalism arises from this realization. It does not reject the populist revolt of Trump or the moral courage of Milei—it completes them. It takes their energy and weds it to principle, order, and philosophy. We are not anarchists. We are not pacifists. We are not nihilists. We are Americans, and we are libertarians who have learned that liberty without discipline is suicide.

@mazemoore Has anyone pointed out a big, BIG plank of Kamala Harris' platform was extending childcare? With Walz as her running mate?

In 2018 Minnesota child care fraud investigators noted that often times when a business is forced to closed after fraud has been proven, within weeks a new one opens in the same location (usually owned by the same person). Picture this scenario because this type of thing happened many times. My last post with the detailed report from the investigators lays out examples. You are a Minnesota child care fraud investigator. You receive a tip that a business is engaged in fraud. You spend days sitting in a car, video recording everyone who enters and leaves. You create detailed logs of arrival and departure times to match the faces on the video. It's obvious that fraud is happening. You go to the business owner and ask for their sign in logs and billing paperwork. They have no attendance logs and tell you that they haven't submitted the billing to the government yet because they are allowed to bill up to 60 days after the day that "service" was provided. Fun fact: Some child care businesses in Minnesota have received an exception to the 60 day rule and are allowed to bill up to one year after the day of service. This makes it virtually impossible to prove fraud if any is suspected. Months after you surveilled the business suspected of fraud, you acquire the details of what that child care center billed for. It billed for 200 kids on a day that your video shows 5 kids entering and leaving. You go to a judge with this information. The judge sets a hearing. The owner of the child care business shows up to the hearing with a sign in log for the day in question. It's obviously faked. Some of the names entered are "Man Sincere" and "John Dow." The owner of the child care business also claims that there is another rarely used door on the other side of the business that was not surveilled on the day in question but for some reason was in use that day. The judge rules in favor of the child care business owner. It does not have to close down. You spend the next year repeating the same investigation, only this time with more investigators and more cameras. You secure another hearing. You win, you have successfully proven fraud. The judge orders the child care center to shut down. Two weeks later the business reopens under a different name. New license to operate. Same owner.

@RealVMcmaximus @esrtweet @dela3499 You're speaking along a different dimension. Yes, uncertainty in and of itself introduces costs and a margin of error. But in terms of their estimates of your military, you want the mean of that margin of error to be as high as possible so you can extract concessions for free.

@KateTheLiberal @esrtweet @dela3499 I’m arguing that I would prefer to introduce more uncertainty. So my adversary having to spend resources searching for “is their stuff THAT much better or just their intel ops THAT effective” Particularly want them researching this if the answer to first q is yes

This is an extremely important point that I've been thinking about ever since we got an unexpected audit of Venezuela's air defenses. Russian SAM-300s and BUKs, Chinese anti-air radar, all proved completely worthless against U.S. gear and operators. I guarantee you that if you are a Chinese military planner contemplating how to get an invasion army across 100 miles of the Straits of Taiwan, you are shitting your pants right about now. Because you have just learned that if you had tried to bust that move yesterday, your nice shiny new invasion fleet would have gotten absolutely gacked by U.S. airpower and missiles that you wouldn't see coming BECAUSE YOUR FUCKING RADARS DON'T FUCKING WORK. Also, the Soviet anti-air missile designs you cloned turn out to be about as useful as so many busted shopping carts. Some of your guys are going to be saying "That's impossible. The fix must have been in. Air defense must have had orders not to engage." Which is an extremely cheering thought, but... ...isn't that what the Americans would want you to believe? The only thing better than having complete technological dominance of an adversary is having complete technological dominance of an adversary who's been conned into believing it isn't true and walks blithely into getting utterly wrecked by it. Yep. Before this went down I was figuring a very high probability that the Chinese make their move on Taiwan in 2027. Now? I guarantee you that their confidence in their previous risk assessments has evaporated. They no longer know what they'll be facing, and there's a significant possibility that mainland China's domestic air defenses are worthless too. Now I'm going to suggest that you juxtapose two phrases: "thermobaric bombs" and "Three Gorges Dam". A China that's naked from the air has the biggest glass jaw in human history. Now I think there's pretty good odds that the invasion of Taiwan will never happen at all.

@RealVMcmaximus @esrtweet @dela3499 Sure, so the best option is that they have an overinflated idea of your military power.

@KateTheLiberal @esrtweet @dela3499 Not necessarily. If I thought there was 50/50 chance my car was going to blow up next time I start it is a much more complicated decision making process than - Being 100% certain it was going to blow up.

@esrtweet @dela3499 No. That is extremely costly and pointless. It isn't guaranteed the benefit is more than that very high cost. It is worth far more if your adversary knows how much power you have so that you can extract concessions from them FOR FREE.

@dela3499 Or you could be in a situation like this one where you don't want a war, but you know that your adversary is determined to fight a war of conquest. So you mousetrap them any way you can.

@BriannaWu @railmeat like who? Even the "normal" ones like Obama are just running a congame to infect the political bloodstream with progressivism.

@railmeat I vote for normal Democrats

I didn’t expect this tweet to go viral, but let me just say this really clearly. Don’t give progressives money Don’t vote for progressives Don’t volunteer for progressive organizations Their organizations are all broken because they can’t lead or manage anything. The nutcases sabotage everything and nothing gets done. God forbid they win an election and actually have power. It would literally lead to the death of the United States.

@ThomasEWoods @Cernovich Property rights should be respected, and in a free society if a large polity tries to steal multitrillion dollars of assets you better bet your ass the mcnukes are coming out. Kidnapping maduro loosely mirrors the real free market outcome.

@Cernovich American companies' stuff is not "our" stuff, and there should be no expectation that if you invest abroad and it goes sour, the Marines are coming in. That is the correct populist position, and the only position for a serious person

Massie makes the worst people in media angry and for that I’m grateful, but he really has no political worldview or answer to how a country should respond when we don’t live in utopia and evil people want to take our stuff. He’s not a serious person. Nor is Randi Paul.

@petergklein When the talking heads on CNN, or Venezuela or Russia's spokespeople are complaining about violations of international law, they mean exactly the former fiat institutions and not natural law-type IL.

A lot of people are confused by this because they think “international law” refers to the League of Nations, UN, ICC, and the “rules-based international order” rather than the great legal tradition of Vitoria, de las Casas, Suarez, de Molina, Grotius, and their followers. 1/

@BobMurphyEcon @MattWalshBlog what do you mean? Invading when it is profitable is a very clear and consistent principle

@MattWalshBlog That you're not a non-interventionist. Only invading other countries when it seems profitable to do so isn't a principled stance. You can at least drop that label.

I mean, yeah. What's your point?