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@Jringo1508 @wil_da_beast630 I think of it this way: Directly, the Civil War wasn't about slavery. Indirectly, the Civil War was entirely about slavery.

Mosby was one of the most famous Confederate Generals even though he was a pre-War abolitionist. When asked about 'the Grand Olde Cause' he replied: 'I have heard many Virginians in this later day say that the War was never about slavery. Which puzzles me greatly as before the war, no other cause was discussed.' I used to think it was about The Grande Olde Cause. It wasn't. It was about slavery. Foote is just dead wrong.

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" has entered the conversation. Foote's a great if pro-Southern scholar, but the other famous song of the conflict - on the Northern side - was literally titled "John Brown's Body." The idea that the Civil War was not primarily- 50+% - about slavery is not just dumb but funny: it comes down to the famous cent-right Chasing Goose Meme. A: "It was about STATES' RIGHTS!!!" B: "A state's right to do WHAT, motherfu*ker?!"

@Guimarin But it's "Schelling point" and not "shelling point", correct? I was confused.

It’s a fancy math way for saying an equilibrium point existing in a state of dynamic and balanced tension. Think of it like a ball on a sheet, and where the ball is the sheet warps down. Nothing is easily climbing out of that depression and stuff that moves close by gets drawn down into it.

“People not born in the US need to leave the country and reapply for citizenship. Those born to parents who were not citizens need to leave and reapply for citizenship.” My telemetry observatory caught this in the past month. It’s now a stable equilibrium point (shelling point) in the information environment. There is no left-wing counter argument to the above so it will grow/metastasize until one appears, it comes to dominate, or the system collapses. Given that I try and steel-man all points of view, I assess a greater than 50% probability (probably more like 80%) that it comes to dominate. The issue like other similar shelling points is “what exactly are you going to do about it?” These points are outside the paradigm and it’s hard to envision them reconciling without political violence.

@BowTiedBroke P/E is 43? Seems steep.

There’s this little stock in my profile I think everyone should grab a little of right now. I always add when it hits low $50’s. In the $40’s it’s a no brainer for me. CFO left, (always reason for concern, but it’s a nothing burger). I’ve put about $1 million in it over the last few weeks in one of my trading accounts. I now hold about 35,000 shares that I’ll hold till I die and then my kids will get it. Mr Rollins used to tell us, “We aren’t recession proof, but we are recession resistant. No matter how broke people get, “most” don’t want cockroaches and bed bugs”. It’s not flashy, it’s not usually volatile (except for moments like this) and I worked there for 20 yrs. Good, consistent, boring stock. Won’t give you the returns like $NVDA but one to tuck away and forget about.

@KerminAlbert @planefag Lesson from the Lexington, I think.

@planefag People underestimate the power of back-flushing fuel lines with nitrogen.

You know this has been tested right

@whitesundesert @BovrilG RICO. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer…

@BovrilG Yeah, I heard on a podcast that the thing that really broke the US mafia was "you *will* die in jail and you're only 32" sentences. Nobody wanted to spend decades in jail, and the US followed through on it. Caused everyone to cooperate overnight.

We really don’t need much of an enquiry at this point. We have a working blueprint for breaking culture-bound and clannish criminal organisations (what happened to the Mafia in America in the 80s and 90s): 1. Massively beef up POCA and make it virtually unappealable and fast-acting. If a grooming gang member so much as breathes in your kebab shop or taxi company or mosque, the government takes that kebab shop or taxi company or mosque away from you. Even vaguely knowing a groomer should be extremely expensive. 2. Quintuple prison sentence length. As it is, most prominent grooming gang members, if arrested, will spend three to four years in fairly comfortable traditions and continue to direct operations from their cells. If you come out after a twenty year prison sentence, you’re much more likely to end up like Robert Loggia’s character in The Sopranos (barely tolerated out of respect for Dis Ting of Ours by a generation below you and shipped back to prison the second you start to become an annoyance) 3. Reduce the effects of 1. and 2. on groomers if they agree to allocute in court. We want everyone ratting on everyone else until the asabiyyah underpinning the system splinters entirely. 4. Revoke local governmental representation from known grooming gang hotspots in favour of direct governance by Westminster-appointed figures. This is the least controversial point (it can be done by altering a paragraph in a Local Government Act and happened to Greater London Council in the 1980s). Rotherham has forfeited its right to elect representatives. The difficulty is getting to a place where this can be done and surviving the legal challenges levelled at Super-POCA, and I’m not sure how much an enquiry helps on either front.

@HardPass4 Do I need to explain the inside joke to y'all? Hint - right side, second from bottom.

A collection of Pride Month profile pictures I've seen so far today.

@malmesburyman I had to go look up what "Bridgeton" is to understand this post. It is a Netflix period drama - thank me later.

I stopped in a Jeni’s a while back and the scoop girl was a chubby mulatta who was aggressively albeit cheerfully trying to sell me their Bridgerton sponsored flavor. I was equally aggressively albeit politely pretending not to know what Bridgerton was, because I instantly clocked what she was trying to do. This led to a bizarre little social dance where she was trying to get me to flatter her racial identity by purchasing this consumer product sponsored by a global media company; but because of my steadfast refusal to acknowledge awareness of the show, she couldn’t exchange the knowing glance with me that would give her the upper hand in this game of establishing racial hierarchy. So she spent an awkwardly long instant attempting to describe the show without directly saying that it depicted people who look like her as social elites at a time of rigid and sharply defined classes, and that by having her put that ice cream in the cup, I would be acknowledging her identity and paying my debt to her group narcissism, along with the $12 scoop, plus the $3 is expected tip-flip of the tablet. Brambleberry crisp in a waffle cone, I told her. No tip.

@Mankosmash @BaldingsWorld So they are just like us, but a little slower.

@BaldingsWorld Europeans have to actually feel the pain before they react to sticking their hand into the fire. Just seeing the obvious outcome isn't enough.

For years Europe has been told this. It's amazing how much they will criticize people that point out the obvious until a European white paper points out the same exact thing then it becomes conventional wisdom

@esrtweet @RestoreBritain You seem to have missed the context. This is a weapon only a minority is allowed to carry in public. Don't try this if you are white.

@RestoreBritain What the fuck is wrong with you? Ever since the first outright firearms bans in 1954, every time Great Britain has banned more weapons the streets have gotten more unsafe.

Henry Nowak was failed in the most evil way. The Kirpan must be banned in public spaces - that is what Restore Britain will do.

@patrickhenry2nd @baylisswagner The purpose of "moderate" Republicans is to vote for the far-left, but only when it's close.

@baylisswagner Well maybe moderate republicans should've stopped aligning with democrats on everything.

Moderate Republicans in Texas are going through it tonight. A Texas GOP staffer texted me, “As a moderate Republican, I have no place in this party anymore.” “There is no middle ground. No room for moderates. Only far right or far left.”

@zenpundit @20committee @RandomP97494379 Yes. Although his ego was amazing.

Dude. I was tech director of NSA's Balkans Division. ALLIED FORCE was a shitshow -- don't get me started on GEN Clark and his moron staff -- and the US Army looked embarrassing. Can confirm. But it's not like all of NATO was going to lose to Serbia. Slobo lost his stupid war.

@Devon_Eriksen_ You write gud.

What a strange invasion force they are. They couldn't conquer us with guns, or with trade, so they came with empty hands and mouths full of tales about how they were too good for their own nations and people. And now that we have realized that this, too, is a weapon, they screech like psychotic ex-girlfriends, alternately sobbing about how heartlessly cruel we are, and ranting dire predictions about how we will never survive without them. But if we can't live without them, why aren't we dead yet? Every time they demand to stay in our country, there is always some claim that they do for us something we cannot do for ourselves. "I'm a scientist!" Do they expect us to believe we are incapable of science? To "be a scientist" is not a contribution. It is a credential. A scientist was enrolled in a PhD program, instead of someone else. He passed that program, and was given a fellowship, or a research grant, or a job, or a tenure track position. Instead of someone else. When institutions squat across every upward ladder in your civilization, gatekeeping vigorously, it really IS a zero sum game. And what have these student-visa, green-card-stapled-to-his-PhD scientists invented? Discovered? Revolutionized? Not much. Certainly not more than the native Americans did in the 20th century. They all want to wear Warner Von Braun like a cape, but where are the results? The actual next Werner Von Braun didn't get any special favors, even though he's technically African, and we all know why he didn't. I don't see any compelling evidence that all these hordes of third worlders are a net positive AT ALL, much less a better bet than the sons of America who they were imported to replace. Why the hell would I feel sorry for them when I know 140+ IQ Americans who are hanging drywall and driving school buses? Norman Borlaug saved the third world from starvation, and the thanks America gets is that the Millennial Norman Borlaug gets to sell insurance because our political class wanted to play Racial Diversity Zoo for cheap votes. And then pat themselves on the back for being generous with someone else's heritage. So I'm not interested in the crocodile tears of an invader over losing ten percent of something that was never his to begin with, as I am equally not interested when he switches, on the instant, to boasting about how he is "competitive" in the hundred yard dash when he starts on the fifty yard line. The replacement of native Americans with everyone else isn't some wild eyed conspiracy theory. It was done right out in the open. We all know this. We all know exactly who had their thumbs on the scales, because they didn't bother to try hiding it. The only thing they hid was their motives. So, as far as I'm concerned, we can send them all back. Every last one. And wish them the best of luck in their own countries. After all, if, as they claim, all playing fields are inherently level, and only merit matters, they should revolutionize their own economies in short order. Meanwhile, we can do for GenZ Americans what GenX and the Millennials missed out on until it was too late. We can invest in them.

@lsferguson The great Vivek crash-out. A good time and Merry Xmas was had by all.

We saw this on Christmas morning of 2024

@iMasonite @Helen_Sexton3 @Babygravy9 Japan?

@Helen_Sexton3 @Babygravy9 Easy... Everyone that was not raised by a culture based on Greek philosophy, Roman law and Christian moral ethics. Basically, every non western country.

“All of our social programmes were built for a high-trust society…” Now if that ain’t a dog-whistle, I don’t know what is.

@SCHIZO_FREQ @MatthewParrott @FrenlyOfficer Mostly.

@MatthewParrott @FrenlyOfficer Can confirm I took 4mg Retatrutide like 5 months ago and I’ve been mostly straight since

What sam's trying to admit here, and what the world's not ready to hear yet, is the shocking truth: GLP1s cure homosexuality. He started panicking and throwing up because he became straight and realized he was in a gay relationship with a gay dude.

@6Voodoo Thank you for your service.

I am never leaving this app and I am never closing my DMs

@TheUnitedSpot__ @YouTube I didn't love this one.

Spencer Pratt Raps on Bass… She Fires Back With a Song! youtu.be/jj_yZjAjb-c?si… via @YouTube

@GordMagill Is there somewhere that explains the "Power Only" model?

The MegaCarriers really began to leverage the ‘Power Only’ model after Biden’s flooding of the market with third worlders, many who could only work for their own due to illiteracy in English, or the strictures of the agreement with the human traffickers that brought them here. The model was a major cost savings center for the MegaCarriers; no trucks to own or maintain, less hassle for their own HR/Health and Safety people, and any problems with insurance or compliance with the law became the problem of the subcontractor. And, of course, there are major savings to be had in the labor arbitrage intrinsic to hiring third world labor. And as we have seen, most of the subcontractors are foreign gangsters who don’t share our culture of safety, and absolutely do not give a shit about killing innocent American motorists. The Montgomery ruling from SCOTUS just threw this model into question, and I can’t wait for the first one of the Megas to eat the shit they so richly deserve.

@DamianPenn28819 @whitesundesert Well played.

@whitesundesert In this photo: an infamous, deadly explosion risk, and also Mount Saint Helens.

The Mount St Helens eruption was something else, blowing out the side of the mountain because the main vent was blocked from a previous eruption. I still find it hard to process that this took place in the US, in the Lower 48.