Mark the Red

Is anyone else here fed up with Libertarians and all their bullshit?

@DAKKADAKKA1 I get your point though. It should surprise exactly noone that Clavicular is a sociopath

@DAKKADAKKA1 Let's not go nuts Dakka or I will be forced to post the dog in wok video....

Luciferian. Pure demonic nature. Even the Chinese care more about the animals they torture.

@BobbyWilson1004 Think I'm exaggerating? This Judge let this scumbag go because his daddy runs a college Football sportsball team. No, really it's true. Anything for the team Bobby!

Its actually remarkably consistent judicial culture. Southerners only care about sportsball culture; everything else is secondary. If Tina Tintor has to be burned alive so that the retarded perp football athlete will increase the win rate of the local Texas Cletus Fuckhat Christian High School football team by 10%, then Tina is going to be burned alive Bobby.

The dude that put weights in a couple of bass at a fishing tournament got 10 years. This individual ran over & killed an innocent woman and is gonna spend 5 years in prison? The legal system in America is a mystery to me. Maybe the FBI will visit me again & explain it to me.

@EmbracingTara Christopher Hitchens famously said: “the four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.” I agree on everything but the picnics!

Anal is a low class, desperate, male-centered peasant activity performed to please closeted gay men with porn addictions. No respectable woman would ever participate in such a vile kink.

What’s the opportunity cost of an American college student murdered by an illegal immigrant, Alex? Does your economic model factor their lifetime of lost earnings in against the fiscal contributions of immigrants? Didn’t see that in your methodology, you greasy little weasel.

@MeghanEMurphy Christopher Hitchens famously said: “the four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.”

You like anal sex because you're a man hope that helps x.com/eeveeithink/st…

@RioSlade Not a conspiracy theory. Epstein won Powerball twice.

My friend has a theory: lotteries are how the US government launders money to CIA assets.

@CoreyWriting Been saying this for years. I've been in major metro Texas areas where it is ILLEGAL and IMPOSSIBLE to cross a road without a car.

The hype of the sunbelt cities fades away after you live there and realize they actually suck without having to drive everywhere. Car dependent cities are terrible. SF and NYC are awesome because of the walkability.

@garrytan >Writes and posts rage bait article >Doesn't mention the name of the Judge who perpetrated this injustice Why are you like this? This evil judge is Linda Colfax, Shitlib Esquire.

It's official: A San Francisco judge just suspended the sentence of Antoine Watson, Grandpa Vicha's killer, and released him on probation. The judge said she thought imprisonment would have a "poor impact" on Watson. This is the state of SF courts. gli.st/lvyg5lck

@akarlin Good and thoughtful post. I still think the 1st world is in no way shape or form helped or bettered in any way by 2 billion 3rd world users spamming "grok is this true?" Or "what do you think?" on this platform.

Credit where it's due - Elon at least (hopefully) recognizes that georestricting payouts is a horrific idea. For future reference, let me summarize why: 1. The moral-political argument: You need to pay for X Premium to have reach. The reciprocal understanding is that if you add value to the platform, you are rewarded for it. That is, monetization has effectively made X into a pay-to-play social network. Geo-restricting payouts leaves the requirement to pay, but removes a big chunk of the "play" element - namely, compensation. Ironically, this is not even relevant for limiting actual state and corporate influence operations, who have their own funds. But foreign-based creators would effectively be asked to subsidize Americans - Americans like Catturd and Paul A. Szypula at that - in order to have any reach of their own. This is an unreasonable and insane ask. Speaking for myself - as someone who is now based outside the US, and having no interest in pivoting into Bangkok dive bar reviews, I would see fewer reasons to continue to "invest" in this site were these changes to be implemented. 2. The ethical argument: The US is a global empire and its conversations affect everyone. It's not a small, irrelevant, or insular state. Consequently, in so far as modernity rejects colonialism and embraces globalism, we may posit that the entire world population deserves unrestricted access to America's "town square". I won't spend too much time expounding on this because ethics is a social construct, not an objective reality, and the American demographics of this app lean xenophobic and performatively anti-cosmopolitan. Nonetheless, if X wants to specifically privilege US-based voices, then its earlier positioning of itself as a global square becomes a lie, with corresponding consequences for the amount of time and effort that foreigners should be willing to invest in it. Politicians, businesses, academics, and so forth don't maintain accounts on Truth Social, after all. 3. The practical argument: The main argument for georestriction is Third World political slop farms. Obviously, slop is a huge problem. It is also true that geoarbitrage makes it relatively more profitable to run slop farms in Bangladesh or whatever than in the US. However, there are several rejoinders to this. First, the problem is the algorithm, not the specific geographic location of slop posters. If users had more control over the algorithm, slop would not be a problem, at least for anyone with the brains to recognize and complain about it. (I also realize that this might not be solvable in principle, not due to any insurmountable technological reasons, but because the primary purpose of X is to make money, and slop is what sells). Second, the slop farmers who are only concerned with KPIs will invest the most effort in getting past georestrictions, whereas intellectuals with actual ideas would validly find such activities demeaning and beneath them. Third, increasing AI capabilities and agenticity means that controlling slop will always be an uphill struggle - before too long, there will effectively be billions of purely digital "Third World" slop farmers living on server farms. Finally, we must also recognize that there really is some degree of organic demand for "slop" - and that due to their lower IQ and critical faculties, this demand disproportionately comes from the MAGA side of the ideological aisle (latest example: Jessica Foster). This must deeply annoy and trigger MAGA's few intellectuals, hence the urge to blame it all on some token "Third Wolders" for effectively satisfying a market demand at competitive prices. But this is dishonest. Come to think of it, very similar to how Resist Libs/Blue Anon were ascribing every malady in US society real or perceived to Russia during the Russiagate era. You are not solving anything blaming it all on Indians and Nigerians and kicking out at them. The slop problem is a hard one, the boundaries between it and "real content" are blurred, and we are all to some extent complicit in it. 4. The political argument: This ultimately pertains to what political and social ideals you want X to stand for and to differentially promote (and as such has no strictly right or wrong answers). Today - for all its problems, from slopification to the exodus of academics - X remain a relatively free and freewheeling public square with a significant diversity of interesting communities and conversations. Politically, although X has obviously become the primary engine for online right-wing populism, it also hosts many of its most insightful skeptics. It's not a monoculture. This makes it the most politically interesting and relevant social media site alongside the Svbstack ecosystem and YouTube. The latter is much more "cosmopolitan" than the former. A geographically sequestered network privileges the parochial and the nativist, where questions of identity occupy center stage, over higher level political/interest communities. I am reasonably sure a monetarily georestricted British identitarian community can survive and even flourish, despite the UK political market being 10x smaller than America's. Restore UK and memes like Yookay / Amelia are largely irrelevant to anyone who isn't British and doesn't have a specific exclusionary view of what British identity entails, so said community will have the regionally concentrated economies of scale to support multiple full time creators. It will retain a concrete monetary incentive to stay on X. However, if we're talking of more global/cosmopolitan intellectual communities, from tech discussions to anime subcultures, there's no such regional magnets, and creators in those sectors will have a much bigger incentive to permanently migrate elsewhere (which in practice are likely to be Svbstack and YouTube). X will not "die" if it moves towards georestriction. But it does impact on "ideological load". A more closed X will look something like a kaleidoscope of national Truth Socials. Open X is what we have now. An open X that filters slop smartly will be true intellectual catnip, Svbstack but snappy and shortform; but probably less profitable. Ultimately, I am uninterested in advocating one policy or another, but I do think it's worth spelling out what I view as the likely second-order effects.

@wil_da_beast630 I read this and think Franco did not go far enough.

"Since some of her organs had already been reserved for donation."

@jwawk @johnloeber My tier 1 city of Chicago dwelling ass sailed through O'hare security in 5 minutes each of the last 20 times I went through. I am sorry you are unable to wear a jacket 3-4 months of the year. Enjoy your 3rd world squat lifestyle.

@MarktheRed21 @johnloeber You can stay in that bastion of 1st world America, in your sod house in No Man's Land.

everyone’s been freaking out about TSA wait times everywhere. Me too, until I remembered that SFO wisely chose to privatize its TSA rather than use the public system. Through security in 90 seconds…

@DanJBray @TrentTelenko I was referring to the next election. The current government is to the left of the Liberal party of Canada. It can and will get worse.

@MarktheRed21 @TrentTelenko When was the most recent federal election?

This underscores why it was a dumb idea to shut down Australian domestic oil refinery capability and to rely upon China to replace it. Australia looks like far less of a useful US ally in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan as a result of current events.

@its_joshuajames @DeIudedShaniqwa I know your lib-coded mind thinks I would be stupid enough to give you the "chimp out of jail free card" satisfaction of saying the N word. I would not in fact. There are much easier ways to chimp out Somali's without that word.

@MarktheRed21 @DeIudedShaniqwa “Showing more grace than I would.” Bullshit. You’re all talk. You won’t even say the word she said. So stop lying and pretending like you’d have been Billy badass. Everyone in this situation was wrong and behaved poorly. And I’d bet you’d fit right in with everyone involved.

> called a kid the N word > called the somali filming her the N word > never apologized, doubled down > made a million dollars from donations > bought a new house away from diversity > charges dismissed > lived happily ever after Is this the greatest story ever told?

@Over9000Jon @NickyScatz It's actually extremely benign as long as you don't drink the shit in volume Millions, maybe 10's of millions of humans would have starved to death without it

@MarktheRed21 @NickyScatz i mean roundup has pretty demonstrable negative implications though so

If I drank 5 five diet cokes a day for a year and you drank 5 regular cokes a day for a year I'd be fine and you'd be on insulin for type 2 diabetes.

@Levin0945656 @akarlin Brother, if you read my tweet and your takeaway is that I am promoting or defending Islam, you need a lobotomy.

@MarktheRed21 @akarlin You gotta be very gullible to believe that "Islam has a problem with summarily executing virgins" and that prison guards raped her because of that. Prison guards or any other similar positions commiting rape is explained by selection effects and institutional accountability

Daily reminder it is perfectly reasonable to bomb and kill the Islamist terrorists who rule Iran and continue executing dissenting Iranians unabated. There would be a good counter-argument if Iran was strong, but in reality it is weak and run by seething losers.

@aravosis Being a flag in bio guy, I am sure you believe that China and Russia would altruistically give away all their weapons first, if they needed them instead.

Trump has now single-hardly killed the entire United States arms industry. Every country now knows that if you buy weapons from the United States, Trump could simply decide not to send them to you. Who in their right mind would buy weapons from us going forward?