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If you’re not clear on what’s going on with this SLPC thing, the federal prosecutors believe that they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the SLPC was, among other things, funding the various organizations that it then cited to justify its own fundraising. In other words, it’s accused of funding white supremacist groups, and then pointing to these white supremacist groups to get people to give it money. That’s not “paying informants.” That’s a massive fraud.

No one outside the UK admires the NHS.

If they can eliminate low testosterone, A Democrat would never win another presidential election. This is a scientific study, and I’m not being facetious.

🚨BREAKING: The new Hungarian PM announces that from June 1st, he will END all non-European migrant work permits "Their arrival will be reduced to zero. We want to work on returning ethnic Hungarians from Western Europe." 🇭🇺

People seem to forget that the Irish are historically pretty good at domestic insurgencies.

@VeteransforAz Three Million Dollar homes?

Didn't you run a pay for play operation already

Feels a lot better than how our grandparents felt standing in line for the gas chambers.

I’m noticing a lot of foreigners who seem to not understand why we’d risk hundreds of lives, spend millions of dollars, and sacrifice several aircraft to rescue one guy. And the reason they don’t understand is also the reason people can’t be made American by a piece of paper.

Yeah but no one in media cared because they hated that Military.

This is straight up one of my favorite stories

In which I explain the extraordinary energy density of nuclear power using the world‘s most famous equation E=MC2. Start with a 100 tonne fuel load in a 1 GW PWR. We fission 3kg of heavy metal per day. Everyday 3g of that mass is transformed into energy. According to E=MC2 thats 3g x the speed of light 300 million m/s squared. 3g x 90,000,000,000,000,000 m2/s2 equals a lot of Joules. Expressed in more familiar terms for the power sector thats 75GWh thermal or 24GWh electric. So to summarize that 3g/day powers 1 million homes every day for 18 months. To watch the full interview on the Great Simplification podcast with Nate Hagens see the link in the replies.

You guys understand we’re going to lose the birthright citizenship case, right? Before you completely freak out, the traditional understanding of the 14th Amendment, which we are seeking to change, is not an insane reading of it. Nor are our arguments insane like the left has been same. That’s baloney to just shut us up. Neither side is frivolous. It’s a tough call legally and objectively speaking. But when we lose it, and I think we will, don’t freak out that this is some sort of conspiracy. It’s a hard legal decision. Sadly, we have three judges who aren’t even going to try to examine the question and will always vote for what leftists want. But the rest of the court has to make a tough legal call. I think our reading is the correct one. For various reasons, I think they’re going to rule against us. Don’t freak out when they do. It’s not an utterly irrational ruling like so many of the district court opinions we’ve seen.

Dear new Japanese friends... May I beg an explanation of something of you? I'm sure the answer is different for everyone... but... WHY do you like us? Many places we have gone to war with, and even some of the ones we have gone to war to save... seem to hate us But our nations engaged in some of what is arguably the most horrific warfare in human history to that date, and it's not like you got space away from us or our culture afterwards to gain peace over it why don't you hate us like the Germans do? Or the french? or on most days, half of the British? I'm VERY happy about it, and grateful, but I have always wondered what the difference is I know much of it for us is "We had a problem, we settled it, now there's not a problem"... kind of the "2 dudes fight on the playground and end up best friends" thing

@WatcherontheWeb Check out a Netflix show called “Midnight Diner”. Its Japanese.

I need to go make a late breakfast for the family, but I will come back to this post later

You know... I strikes me that I have seen a lot of Japanese appreciation about American culture... I'm going to do what I feel is the fair thing and talk a bit about how much I love JAPANESE culture! First, lets talk about the obvious... Some of your Anime artists had a line DIRECTLY into my soul during my formative years My first was "Outlaw Star" which I still treasure to this day, but I saw most of the old Toonami lineup like most latchkey kids of my age Fooly Cooly particular stuck me when I saw it, and still permeates my thoughts and aesthetic tastes to this day I admit I mostly tuned out after I joined the Corps, but my Kids even now are Miazaki FREAKS! Totoro is probably the most loved childhood character in our hose, followed closely by Ponyo... We didn't do this to them on purpose, thy just like what they like! But even before then I was influenced by your artists... I was introduced to the movie "Rashomon" when I was 11, and It has had a PROFOUND effect on the way I view the world More than that tho, I must impress upon you how much I have REALLY grown to love your culture more as I see more of you on social media... I began following a few people who speak english and live in Japan who just do little videos about their lifes (trip videos, or food, or highlighting different cultural practices) You guys are SO FREAKING INDUSTRIOUS!!!... next post will go over some of what I love most and would love experience personally, and would love some kind of ... similar but american working version of to start happening over here

3 weeks ago I argued the US goal in Iran is to seize the global oil spigot. Venezuela in January -> Iran in February. Neutralize every supply channel outside the dollar system within 90 days. Achieve a compliant successor government and complete energy dominance. The oil thesis was the obvious layer. However, when you zoom out & view the last four years as a single sequence rather than isolated geopolitical events, the architecture of the grander US plan becomes visible. 1st was Europe, which laid the groundwork. The Ukraine conflict provided the justification for sanctions that collapsed Russian pipeline gas from 150 billion cubic meters to 40. Then Nordstream was destroyed, which rewired the entire European energy system permanently. The US went from supplying 28% of Europe's LNG in 2021 to 58% by 2025, exporting a record 111 million MTs, the 1st country in history to break 100 MT. Europe was transformed from a customer with options into a captive market now purchasing its survival in USD. 2nd was Syria. The fall of Assad severed the critical node connecting China's Belt & Road Initiative to the Mediterranean. The trilateral railway linking Iran, Iraq & Syria, designed to bypass Western maritime chokepoints, was completely destroyed. This isolated Iran geographically & cleared the path for what came next. 3rd was Venezuela. In January the US effectively took control of the world's largest heavy crude reserves. The US Gulf Coast has the most advanced refining complex on earth, specifically built for heavy sour crude. Phillips 66, Valero & the rest are now positioned to process hundreds of thousands of barrels of Venezuelan crude daily. The US captured a massive strategic reserve & solidified its position as the dominant exporter of refined petroleum products, an industry worth $110 billion in 2025 alone. Venezuela & Iran were the two major oil supply channels that existed outside the dollar system. Both produce heavy crude sold primarily to China & evaded US financial supervision. Both now being neutralized within 90 days, which leads us to.. 4th is Iran & the Middle East energy shock. Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, the world's largest natural gas reservoir. Iran retaliated against Qatar's Ras Laffan, the single largest LNG facility on earth, responsible for a fifth of global supply. QatarEnergy's own assessment is that 17% of export capacity is gone and recovery will take up to 5 years. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. European gas prices spiked 70%. Asian spot prices doubled. The only remaining scaled supplier? The United States. If Iran falls & a successor government is installed that the US controls or influences (the Delcy model described weeks ago) then roughly 40 to 45 million barrels per day of global production out of 103 million is effectively under US control. OPEC becomes irrelevant because the US coalition is now the marginal producer. Now add the gas dimension & it goes beyond oil. This war is solidifying the petrodollar system as it evolves into a hybrid petro/LNG-dollar. The old system was built on Saudi crude priced in USD. The new system is built on American crude plus American gas from the Gulf Coast, with no alternative supplier of comparable scale. The dependency is deeper because LNG infrastructure requires long term contracts & regasification terminals that lock buyers into supply relationships for decades. Europe & the Pacific allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) cannot pivot away as there is nowhere left to pivot to. They're now locked into the US energy system. The market confirms this. DXY went from 96 to 101. Gold down ~20% from its January all time high. Bitcoin down 20% on the year. Brent above $100. European & Asian institutions are liquidating precious metals and crypto to buy dollars because they need dollars to buy the only remaining scaled energy supply. The world is selling its gold to buy American energy in American currency. The dollar is now being weaponized through energy dependency. The structural repricing is happening regardless of how the conflict resolves. But the US grand strategy goes deeper.. Artificial intelligence is a physical industry. It runs on power and chips. Data centers require massive uninterrupted baseload electricity, primarily provided by natural gas. Semiconductor fabrication requires helium & rare earths. By choking the Strait of Hormuz & crippling Middle Eastern LNG & helium production, the US is systematically degrading China's ability to power its data centers & fabricate semiconductors at scale. The US is energy self sufficient, especially with newly captured Venezuelan reserves & expanding Gulf Coast capacity running on domestic gas. On the other hand, China is import dependent & every joule it imports effectively now transits chokepoints the US Navy controls.. Iran was the Belt & Road's overland energy bypass, the corridor that allowed China to mitigate the Malacca Trap. With Iran neutralized that corridor is severed. China faces a world where its compute infrastructure competes for scraps on a depleted global LNG market, while American data centers run at full capacity on domestic energy. Russia is next in the sequence. A post-war Iran reopening under US influence competes directly with Russia for the same refineries in China & India at lower cost. Iran's production costs are lower. Russia loses its last structural advantage in heavy crude & its economic lifeline. Additionally, under the Iran war cover, Ukraine has been opportunistically destroying Russian energy infrastructure & all signs point towards Russia being at the end of the line. The message from Washington becomes very simple: we dismantled two regimes in three months, your economy is about to get crushed, sign the Ukraine deal. Then Trump sits down with Xi holding every card. Complete energy dominance. The hybrid petro/LNG-dollar fortified, Iran cleared, Russia cornered, & China facing the Malacca Trap fully closed with no remaining energy bypass. Israel & the GCC are absorbing the kinetic cost of a conflict whose primary beneficiary, counter to the mainstream narrative, is actually America (First). Qatar offline for 5 years reprices the entire global gas market in favor of US exporters for the remainder of the decade. The Gulf states face years of rebuilding. Europe faces its 2nd energy crisis in four years. Sure, the average American might face temporary moderate inflation & higher gas prices. But if you are the architect of the US empire & you view the rise of China & Chinese ASI as an existential winner takes all scenario, the collateral damage is acceptable cost. Whoever controls the energy corridors controls the monetary system. Whoever controls the monetary system & the energy supply simultaneously controls the compute infrastructure that determines which civilization builds ASI first. The US is seizing all 3.

The actual research is wild. Your brain processes a novel character’s pain using the same wiring it uses to read your best friend’s face. Not metaphorically. Literally the same neural circuits, lighting up on brain scans. Researchers at Princeton put fiction readers inside a brain scanner and watched what happened. When people read scenes involving characters’ thoughts and feelings, their brains activated the exact region responsible for figuring out what real people around you are thinking. The more someone read fiction in their life, the stronger that brain region fired. And that activity directly predicted how well they scored on empathy tests afterward. Not all fiction works the same way, though. Five experiments published in Science tested what happens after reading different types. Literary fiction (Chekhov, Alice Munro, stories where characters are messy and ambiguous) improved people’s ability to identify strangers’ emotions from photos of their eyes. Thrillers, romance novels, sci-fi? No improvement. The difference is characters. Literary fiction forces you to build a complicated person in your head from scratch. Genre fiction hands you a ready-made hero and tells you exactly what they’re feeling on every page. Self-help has a different problem entirely. A 2009 study out of Waterloo asked people with low self-esteem to repeat “I am a lovable person” every 15 seconds. Their mood got worse. The affirmation forced a collision between the words and how they actually saw themselves. It only worked for people who already felt good about themselves. The people who needed it most got hurt by it. A 2018 review pooling 14 studies confirmed fiction reading produces a real (if small) improvement in understanding other people. Even studies that couldn’t replicate the single-session effect found that years of reading fiction consistently predicted better empathy scores. It compounds over time, like exercise. One catch. You have to actually get absorbed in the story. Distracted reading, skimming, reading because you feel like you should? Zero benefit, no matter how good the book is.

Superb applied history by @Dr_Keefer of Europe's collective decision to become a loser in the energy wars of the 2020s. This decision stemmed from luxury beliefs. The contrast with the European response to the energy crisis of the 1970s is ... striking. decouple.media/p/europe-forgo… 6/6

I am so fucking done with these people.

I'm sorry for the F-bombs, but this is how all Cuban Americans feel about Code Pink liberals. He nailed it! 🔥🇨🇺🇺🇸💯 👇@SecRubio

Do you truly understand what Japan just gained? As a Japanese citizen, I’m telling you—this moment changed history. Trump's Pearl Harbor joke wasn't an insult. It was the key that finally unlocked something buried deep in the Japanese soul. For 80 long years, we've carried apology and guilt like a permanent shadow—haunted by the past, bound by the Constitution America wrote for us, forever in "reflection mode." He turned that raw wound into a shared laugh between equals. No more endless atonement. No more vassal shadow. The curse is broken. Japan is free now. Thank you, Mr. President. We're allowed to stand tall again—as true partners, not subordinates. The strongest alliance in the world is rising—equals, brothers, ride-or-die. #PhoenixRising