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@Aliathewhite For some reason, I always think of those green suspenders Mario wears when he's jumping up and down when someone says "jumpers".

@Aliathewhite Look, I'm on your side, but "jumpers" is fucking British, not American.

Groypers be like "he said a White thing"

@ATL_Uncensored "Investigators believe the attacks were random and said the suspect may be experiencing a mental health crisis." I dream of a utopia where the police would fucking shoot him down on sight and he can experience a genuine mental health crisis as he bleeds out.

Woman fatally stabbed on Atlanta Beltline, suspect still at large atluncensored.com/atlanta-beltli…

@DAJohnSmith123 @MattWalshBlog Would you rather suffer pain and humiliation for a short period or months/years in prison surrounded by the most dangerous and stupid people? I would choose the short term pain. Yes, we should bring back whipping. It would be a more effective deterrent.

@MattWalshBlog It’s a worse punishment to spend life in prison, and he has a chance (low to none) of rehabilitating somewhat and helping someone else. Can’t do that if he’s dead. Aren’t you a Catholic? And should we go back to whipping too while we’re at it?

The death penalty could absolutely save money and be a strong deterrent if the penalty was carried out shortly after conviction instead of keeping them on death row for decades while they file endless appeals. Executing someone is cheap and obviously more cost efficient than providing them meals and housing for their entire life. All you’re doing here is making an argument for carrying out the death penalty more quickly and efficiently. And I agree. You also aren’t addressing the number one reason for the death penalty, which has nothing to do with cost or even deterrence. The primary reason is justice. Justice is giving to a person what they are due. A man who brutally murders a young girl is due the ultimate penalty. We should execute child killers because execution is the most proper and right and just response to such a crime. Keeping such a person alive and forcing society to feed and house and clothe them until their natural death is unjust, improper. He deserves to die. Even you admit this. And so he should. It’s really that simple.

@cremieuxrecueil I don't doubt there is a psychosomatic factor. But I managed to find my own cure by avoiding enriched flour. If it's made with old-fashioned unenriched flour, my digestive system is happy. Maybe that's why so many people are fine when they eat bread outside of the US.

In double-blind placebo-controlled trials, 'gluten-sensitive' people who *think* they're going to eat gluten have reactions. But if they don't expect gluten, there's no reaction. Expectancy has a bigger effect than actually eating gluten!

@SeverusChud Does saying "You are lucky to be born xxx" imply there is reincarnation, or a repository of pre-existing souls that are randomly assigned at conception? I feel lucky but don't really believe either.

@JamesSurowiecki @CadessborX Then you are a traitor to humanity.

@CadessborX No, of course not.

The worst part of this tweet is the idea that humans have a "biological destiny. The history of humanity, at least post-Renaissance, is about refusing to be trapped by biology, both physically (inventing tools that radically mitigate biological problems and allow us to do things humans are not biologically capable of doing, like flying) and psychologically and socially. We have biological limits and constraints, both individually and as a species (most obviously, we all get old, get sick, and die), but within those constraints we are free to invent ourselves and our futures - which is the essential American impulse. Talk of biological destiny is just a way to confine people to a narrow way of life. If you want to have kids, you should - they're great. If you don't, you shouldn't. Become what you are, not what Katie Miller thinks you're supposed to be.

@DoulosDean68 @Protestia Ha, it is appropriate. It's on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta.

@Protestia Ponce seems quite appropriate. In UK English that means a man who lives off a prostitute's earnings.

For Ash Wednesday, one progressive church is offering "glitter ashes," which is ash mixed with purple glitter, and which "straight Christians" can don as a sign of "remorse...to our LGBTQ siblings."

@Aliathewhite They ruin everything.

Ski resorts, once the final escape from them, have fallen too.

@BasedTorba Somebody needs to start an “absolutely no tipping“ coffee shop.

This new thing where every coffee shop you go to shoves the payment system in your face in the drive thru and makes you choose a tip while the barista glares at you is just one of many symptoms of how bad things are right now.

@ElectionWiz Why call the whole immigration issue "border"? Illegal immigration across our border is only part of problem.

What’s the biggest issue driving your vote in the 2026 midterms?

@RealEmirHan Tessa Quayle in "The Constant Gardener" who gives birth in a public African hospital rather than a private one for the sake of virtue signaling.

Name a movie character who technically isn't a villain but you consider to be one. I'll start:

I scored an average of 2714 over 10 rounds in today's EthnoGuessr! Can you beat my score of 5000 points on round 1? Play now at hbd.gg!

@DefiantLs The lazy and cowardly teachers didn't really try to stop it. One didn't bother to put his coffee down.

Junior high student gets brutally beaten at Harwood Junior High in Bedford, Texas as hundreds bystanders just watch…

@InsiderWire Fantastic!

#BREAKING: President Donald Trump just terminated the legal status of 530k Haitians, Cubans, and Venezuelans.

@libsoftiktok Convenient that it is already wearing stripes.

MORE LGBTQ TERRORISM Erin L. White, a self-identified "She/They" was arrested for allegedly vandalizing a Tesla service center in Buffalo Grove, IL. White allegedly used spray paint to write "Trump Sold US," "F*ck Elon Musk," and "Trans Rights are Human Rights" on the front windows of the building. The uptick in trans violence is very concerning!

@oroborous I hope so.

Is the US really deporting people they randomly snatched off the streets into offshore gulags without any hearing or trial now?

@SAshworthHayes "Asian Grooming Gangs" sounds like a diverse group of Japanese, Koreans, and Tibetans concerned about good hair styles. Let's call it what it is: Pakistani Rape Gangs.

Police officers dismissed grooming gang victims who came to them for help. The authorities simply didn't want to know. The story was too inconvenient. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/0…

@Aurora_Myst @CNN The liberals have used that "we need to find the root causes" nonsense for generations as an excuse to stop common sense solutions to crime. The changes Bukele has made ARE a lasting change, at least until liberals undermine it looking for root causes again.

For decades, life choices for many in El Salvador were either leave or die. People are returning after a crackdown on crime, but it's come at a cost. cnn.it/3ZjFXll

@icgee Blatant theft is not prosecuted in US cities. Do you actually expect these same people to politely tap off? The machines would be vandalized in a matter of days.

I’ve been taking mostly buses everywhere, and one of the first things you notice that’s different is the fare payment - you tap on *and* tap off. Of course in the US it’s sacrilege to consider asking people to tap off when taking a bus. But here, everyone does it.

Singapore is a transit mecca. As someone coming from the US, it challenges a lot of the assumptions we often hear about how transit “should” work. A few observations…🧵