Wings of Liberty

Scottish Common Sense Realism is the foundation of the US Constitution & was the predominant epistemology of the Founding Fathers. It's a relatively simple, accessible, & straightforward epistemology that every American should know. Below are some of the essential features of Scottish Common Sense Realism: practicality, truth as a result of an infinite number of successful experiments, & Inalienable Rights are determined by our external senses without innate knowledge; contrary to pure ideation.

BREAKING: American Bar Association just voted to end a rule that requires law schools to commit to DEI in recruitment, admissions, and programming. MASSIVE WIN No more race-based admissions that discriminated against straight White people

Hi Linus I have about the same number of followers as you, and I’ve experienced exactly the same suppression. I’ve followed every single rule, advice, instruction, written long form, short form, all my content is unique, self written, the videos are my own, I have no violations, and yet my visibility has dropped over 98%. I went from 4-6 million views a day down now to a little over 100k. The odd day is better at 300k, but many are below 60k. And there is no rhyme or reason for any of it. What I’ve learned is that X simply don’t care. I’ve contacted support and premium and don’t even get a response. Once your account is in this prison, it never gets out. It’s made even worse being a pro Israel Jewish account because the only thing that ever seems to go viral on X lately are the pro Hitler anti Jewish posts that are so deplorable yet X never does anything about them. If you reply even politely correcting those posts, you get a caution for hateful conduct or violence. Bots rule this place. The fix is easy. I’ve run enormous algorithms and recommendation engines with far more users than X has and managing such issues was quick and easy when you have a team that knows what they’re doing and wants to fix it. It’s why I see what’s happening on X as deliberate and intended. This is what they want. And it has destroyed what X was meant to be. My followers hardly see my posts even with notifications on. My home page and For You section hardly has anyone I follow and is filled with just haters I never even click on. They’re the ones getting boosted and promoted. And everyone is too afraid to call it out for what it is because the moment you do, X hits you even harder. It’s become a cancel culture no different to the worst leftist liberals. X has become exactly what Elon claimed to stand against. And there is absolutely nothing any of us can do about it because it’s their platform and they do as they please. I’m sorry it’s happening to you as well. I wish I could say stay strong. But that won’t help because it won’t change. I wish I knew the answers. To fix the algorithm and technical issues I could fix quickly. But to get X to do it is impossible. They don’t care.

I hate to tell you the obvious truth, but Tucker was compromised at some point.

This is an important one. Discernment, fact-checking, reason, and evidence. Those are how you check your biases and avoid "Conspiracy Brain" manipulation.

On October 10, 2025, Chinese authorities launched coordinated nationwide raids against underground Christian leaders. Chinese pastor Ezra Jin and many others were arrested on charges of “inciting to subvert state power.” According to his family, Jin is being held in harsh prison conditions without proper medical treatment or access to a Bible. “What we’re seeing now is a renewed desire from the state under Chairman Xi to engineer souls.” WATCH “Inside China’s Shocking Persecution of Christians” by @FrannieBlock:

Another reason why Trump cannot afford to just walk into a summit and call Xi's regime what it is: America's economy is now so hopelessly entangled with the CCP's that full-throated honesty about the China threat triggers economic blowback and strategic suicide. This wasn't true in the Cold War, as I tell @marissastreit. Back then, the US and Soviets were economically decoupled. Hollywood made Red Dawn, Rocky IV, and a hundred other films openly calling them the evil empire. Reagan could label them the "focus of evil in the modern world" without the Soviet Union yanking the plug on semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, or rare earth magnets. We fought the ideological war with clarity because the economic one barely existed.

We now have politicians from our two largest states being accused of spying for the Chinese government Linda Sun in New York is awaiting retrial on charges she was spying for China. There are certainly far more that have not been caught. courthousenews.com/feds-say-cuomo…

China targets local level politicians so they can be controlled before they reach the national level. This also gives the CCP a network of politicians that can be used to support each other. I have been arguing we are only seeing the tip of the espionage iceberg for years.

The Hollow Men American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider. By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants. These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition. In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken. Today, we have severed that link. We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses. If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived. This looting starts in the boardroom. We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year. Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor. And for what? Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love. They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders. And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk? We get the Delegation Economy. When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know. This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering. They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake. While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us. If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag. The time for polite governance is over. If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

Thomas Jefferson's 1st inaugural address reveals why the Postliberal/New Right types went apoplectic over Justice Gorsuch's description of the United States as a creedal nation. Jefferson shared that view, and the creed he described is the antithesis of postliberal ideology.

James Lindsay is about to be terrifyingly right.

@CChristIsKING @xueqinjiang Hello, Wumao. Jiang has a pretty nice cover story for a Beijing operative doesn't he? x.com/i/grok/share/0…

@Rationality1st @xueqinjiang You are wrong. Jiang has ALWAYS been very Anti-China, Anti-CCP. he claims China is one the most evil country. Fox news kind of stuff. He is a product of Falun/ Epoch Times. Anti-China group🇨🇳

It’s no surprise that @xueqinjiang, who is not a university professor, is relentlessly anti-American and anti-Western. Born in China, he now produces his content from Beijing with the apparent tolerance (if not blessing) of the CCP. He is also deeply drawn to hermetic and esoteric philosophy, frequently discussing “creating your own reality” alongside conspiratorial narratives. As @ConceptualJames has pointed out, Jiang often presents history and ideology in an inverted way. He portrays the “Woke” as enlightened rebels challenging power structures, yet in reality they function as a postmodernist, neo-Marxist movement whose explicit aim is to undermine and transform liberal republics into authoritarian, Communist and/or National Socialist systems. This is precisely the kind of ideological agitation that aligns with Beijing’s interests which may explain why Jiang’s content resonates with them. Jiang claims the Woke want to “overthrow the empire” and “create their own reality.” At the same time, he depicts them (via Plato’s cave analogy) as people who refuse to question the shadows on the wall. In his framework, those shadows represent current U.S. hegemony. This creates a fundamental contradiction. In practice, it is the Woke movement that aggressively pushes revisionist history, cultural demoralization, institutional capture, and support for adversaries of the free world. Jiang’s narrative struggles here. He suggests “Woke” and DEI initiatives serve as tools of censorship and deplatforming on behalf of some shadowy “Illuminati–Israeli–U.S. Government–Capitalist” alliance. The observable reality points in the opposite direction: these movements actively promote a false Marxist vision: “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” and appear intent on steering the world toward yet another dystopian collectivist experiment. Jiang’s analysis often feels jumbled and selectively framed. What he presents as profound pattern recognition frequently inverts cause and effect, obscuring rather than illuminating the ideological forces at work. This is how the CCP works to produce softpower today. @serpentza, @laowhy86, @ChinaUncensored

The entire Iranian regime is full of liars and agitprop subverters. Taqiyya is as taqiyya does. opendoors.org/en-US/persecut…

African scammers are soliciting donations on GoFundMe and PayPal from westerners to care for neglected animals but the money is actually spent on themselves.

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@lorilorai I like to say: "I don't want to do this, but I should because of the [X] reward." I also like to imagine Alan Watt's famous "Work as play."

Good Monday morning fam and welcome to Tommy's Diner. 👻☕️ On the menu today: What do you do when you have to start something you have zero motivation for?

Muslims all over Europe are freaking out after Sweden made a historic and courageous decision: it will no longer use the term “Islamophobia,” coined by the Muslim Brotherhood, because it is a politically manipulated concept aimed at silencing criticism of Islam. Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard announced that her government will push the European Union and the United Nations to stop using this fraudulent term. The concept of “Islamophobia” was deliberately designed to equate legitimate criticism of Islamic doctrine with racism. It was weaponized to shut down discussion about core Islamic texts containing commands to wage war, rape, and subjugate non-Muslims. Sweden just recognized what millions of Europeans already know: criticizing a religion that openly calls for the murder and sexual enslavement of non-believers is not a phobia, but basic common sense and self-preservation. This is a massive blow to the Islamist lobby across Europe. Do you agree with Sweden’s decision?

I've pointed this out in the past only to receive instant abuse. It's not unexpected, of course, but much of the rank and file agrees with their "brothers" against me, so I'm left thinking, at the least, tribe is preferred over truth among believers, and I'm not interested in that at all.