Paul Redding
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Breaking: To celebrate Keir Starmer and the UK ousting Trump and the US as the new Leader/Super Power of the World, Saudi Arabia rolls out the purple carpet
Purple symbolizes the power and military strength Keir and the UK possess, by singlehandedly bringing peace and a ceasefire to the Middle East
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@SenWarren But they get the same benefit so why should they pay more? And BTW how much do you pay into SS?
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@Strandjunker More German citizens? You act like there any kind of serious resistance to Nazism. Revisionist history.
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@AvonandsomerRob How’s the North Sea drilling going? Maybe a little drill baby drill bringing supply on the market might help. Oops forgot you are from the land of just stop oil.
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@SagerPhillip Yes, we need to only buy vehicles MADE in Canada. If they're made in the US don't buy them. The only thing they understand is if we hurt their bottom line. Plus, the sooner we can divest from the US the better.
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@Microinteracti1 Yep French Genrerals are some of the brightest Military Minds
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A French general just looked at Trump’s plan to build a runway inside Iran to fly out uranium under active bombing.
His response: “American officials should stop snorting cocaine between meetings.”
This is the same man who called joining Trump’s war “buying cheap tickets for the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.”
The French are not holding back.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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@PaulRed4299 @Handre Coulda had it by now if the Feds hadn’t withdrawn the funding for it twice now because Trump is a petty bitch. How’s Texas’ high-speed train?
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The greatest economic experiment in America plays out daily between California and Texas, and the results scream one truth: markets work, bureaucrats don't.
California collected $220 billion in state taxes in 2023 while Texas managed with $78 billion. You'd expect California's superior public services to justify spending nearly three times more per capita. Instead, California leads the nation in homelessness (181,000 people), hosts crumbling infrastructure despite the nation's highest gas taxes, and watches middle-class families flee to states that don't treat productivity as a crime. Sacramento's bureaucrats burn through $600 billion annually (state and local combined) yet somehow can't keep the lights on during summer or prevent human waste from covering sidewalks in San Francisco.
Texas collected far less but delivered what people actually want: functioning infrastructure, reliable energy, and the revolutionary concept that you keep most of what you earn. Since 2010, Texas gained 4 million residents while California hemorrhaged over 500,000. This isn't random migration; it represents human capital fleeing confiscatory taxation in search of economic freedom. Tesla, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard didn't relocate to Texas for the weather.
Voluntary exchange creates wealth while coercive redistribution destroys it. Every dollar California's legislature redistributes first gets extracted from someone who earned it, then filtered through bureaucratic machinery that consumes massive resources while producing zero value. Meanwhile, every dollar Texans keep in their pockets gets invested, saved, or spent according to individual preference—generating real economic activity.
California's political class promises paradise through taxation while delivering dysfunction through redistribution. Texas proves you can fund essential government services without turning citizens into tax cattle for an ever-expanding administrative state.

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@notistotny @Handre How’s that new snazzy high speed train working
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@Handre Crumbling infrastructure? I can take an hourly train between Los Angeles and San Diego, but the one between Austin and Houston runs every other day (and the one between Dallas and Houston doesn’t run at all)
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@newstart_2024 Where did the government get the money to give away? Once everyone’s gets it everyone has to pay for it. Silly experiment.
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In the 1970s, a small Canadian town called Dauphin was chosen at random for a remarkable experiment.
The government gave every resident a guaranteed basic income — the equivalent of about $15,000 a year in today’s money — with no strings attached and no way to lose it.
What happened next was fascinating.
People spent more time with their kids. Very few quit working entirely, but many stopped accepting terrible jobs, which actually raised overall working conditions. Employers had to offer better pay and standards to attract workers.
But the most striking result? Hospitalizations for severe depression and anxiety dropped by 9% in just three years.
Johann Hari shared this story and it left me thinking: what if a simple floor of financial security could meaningfully improve mental health at a population level?
It’s one of those rare real-world experiments that makes you question a lot of assumptions about work, poverty, and human well-being.
Have you ever heard about the Dauphin experiment before? What surprised you most?
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🚨 Stephen A. Smith dropped a SURPRISING take on birthright citizenship.
“When the president walked in to the Supreme Court...to attend oral arguments...I’m here to tell you ladies and gentlemen, I don’t blame him.”
Smith then asked his audience the uncomfortable question about birthright citizenship: “Is it right?”
SMITH: “The issue that I wanted to get into is birthright citizenship by simply asking this question.”
“When the president walked in to the Supreme Court today...to hear their thoughts, their questions, their inquiry, their opinions on birthright citizenship in the United States of America.”
“How’d you feel about that?”
“I’m here to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, I don’t blame him.”
“He campaigned on this issue.”
“He’s been accused of not paying attention to stuff that’s happening on our home soil.”
“You want to do something politically expedient to your benefit, if you’re President Donald Trump, this is the fight you fight, because millions of Americans flow with him on this issue.”
“And the reason why it’s an issue that’s important to tackle is because remember what the 14th amendment of the United States Constitution states.”
“Remember what it states!”
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.
“Meaning if you are born on U.S. soil, you are a U.S. citizen automatically. Automatically!”
“Here’s the part that we have to ask ourselves, and this is where the conversation gets uncomfortable, do you believe in birthright citizenship as an American citizen?”
“Do you believe that somebody that crosses our borders illegally, to give birth on American soil, that their children, their newborn should automatically be an American citizen?”
“According to the United States Constitution, there is no argument there.”
“What I’m asking you is, is it right?”
“Should it happen?”
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@elonmusk In that way, the human species is very unique. The higher the success rate the lower the fecundity.
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@Googanbear @TrondFrantzen Exactly what bullshit? Arresting criminals?
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