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We were only permitted to have a small gathering of people attend my late wife’s funeral in 2020 while this was happening.

Memorial Day isn’t about barbecues or beach days—it’s about those American heroes who gave everything for our freedom. THIS 70-SECOND VIDEO CAPTURES WHAT THE DAY IS TRULY ABOUT. 🇺🇸

Why would the Church work with the architects of AI in order to create a quasi-religious synthesis? The reason is simple: when the AI-driven post-work world arrives and we phase into something different than monetary instruments, how will the Church continue to operate if everyone's ability to give donations and tithes dries up? Simple answer: from the state. This is one of the primary reasons that "Christian Nationalism" (Protestant Integralism) and Roman Catholic Integralism has forced itself into the religious landscape. The new governance model with be a Church-state synthesis - a monarchial episcopate - with a socialist/fascist/technocratic core. The third leg of the stool.

The same technology that connects also divides. The same algorithm that educates also radicalises. The difference was never the technology itself. It was the objective it was built to serve. Build it to serve humanity and it heals. Build it to serve engagement metrics and it harms. 🌏

In 1879, the United States returned to the gold standard after seventeen years of greenback inflation during and after the Civil War. Prices had roughly doubled during the war as Lincoln's government printed paper money to finance the conflict, and now gold convertibility meant those inflated dollars had to shrink back to their pre-war purchasing power. The political class screamed about "cruel deflation" while farmers and debtors demanded more paper money (sound familiar?). During the 1880s and 1890s, wages stayed roughly flat while prices fell by about 30 percent. Your dollar bought more food, more clothing, more everything. The deflation was returning stolen purchasing power to everyone who held money. The greenback inflation had been a hidden tax on savers and wage earners, and deflation was simply the refund. When governments inflate the money supply, they're not creating wealth—they're redistributing it from money holders to the first recipients of new money. The farmers howling about deflation in the 1890s were really complaining that they couldn't keep benefiting from this transfer. (William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech was basically a 19th-century version of today's calls for "quantitative easing forever.") Today's Fed officials would have you believe that 2% annual inflation is somehow natural and necessary. Those 1880s workers watching their paychecks buy more every year knew better. Deflation in a growing economy is supposed to be the feature.

A Palestinian woman was sold by her family into a forced marriage with a relative in Saudi Arabia. She managed to escape to Canada, left Islam, and converted to Christianity. Since then, she has been outspoken against what she describes as the genocidal ideology within Palestinian society, one that seeks to destroy Israel and slaughter Jews as human sacrifices for Allah. This is not theoretical for her. She lived inside the system and saw it from within. Her story is a painful reminder that the hatred toward Jews is not just political, it is deeply rooted in ideology and culture.

OMG! I just recovered HOURS of historic border invasion footage that was on a corrupted memory card used in my pro video camera! I got illegals from Islamic-Majority African nations & the Middle East crossing, night vision stuff, a 100 foot high dust devil in Mexico on the other side of the border wall, and so much more! Unreal! The memory card got corrupted while I was on the border in Lukeville Arizona camped out for seven weeks in 2023 filming the invasion. I tried everything to get it back and got estimates that it would be $500-$1000 to “maybe” recover the data. I just found a tool online that got it back in like 10 seconds. This is so unreal. Two & a half years later. I can’t believe it. Heck, yeah!!!! 💥💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Actually...directing people (even family members) as they are actually FILLING OUT THEIR BALLOT IS ILLEGAL. A ballot is PRIVATE...filling it out FOR a family member or telling how to vote as they are filling it out is election inference and vote fraud. Never ever fill out someone's ballot and never tell HOW to vote if they are in the process of filling it out. Yes, I have worked as a poll worker in Lis Angeles..

You have the right to a secret ballot, and it's illegal in California to do electioneering activities within 100 feet of polling places, curbside voting or drop boxes. With universal mail balloting, nothing prevents pressure or undue influence. "Voting together" isn't necessarily a good thing.

オールドメディアよ、なぜ報じないんだ！😬✊ 🚨🇯🇵新宿マルイ『まじかるちいかわ』で中国人転売ヤーが大量万引きの大騒動が発生！ 警察が出動したのに、メディアは芸能スキャンダルばかり流して治安悪化を無視するのか？ 国民の安全を守る意思はあるのか？

Florida 🇺🇸 The Imam of the new biggest mosque in Florida (Islamic Center of Orlando) Islam is a political movement, we should lead the political system in America according to Muhammad and the caliphates after him

On this Memorial Day, my heart feels heavy as I remember my brothers and sisters I served with who never made it home. We honor their ultimate sacrifice by standing up for the principles that unite us as Americans, defending our God-given freedoms, treating one another with aloha—respecting each other as children of God—and always striving for peace. Never forget. 🇺🇸

@SECNAV @thomasbsauer A heartfelt thank you to all who served. I will do what I can to ensure that their sacrifices have not been in vain. 🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻

We all have a list. Say their names. Their memories will never fade.

@RnaudBertrand .

This is pretty insane: the U.S. just tried to literally re-colonize part of the Philippines. They did so under the so-called "Pax Silica" initiative, the brainchild of - surprise, surprise - an ex-Palantir guy named Jacob Helberg who now runs U.S. economic "diplomacy" from the State Department. It's causing a big outcry in the Philippines, which is quite a feat given this is by far the most US-friendly country in Southeast Asia. If you're the US and you're getting the Marcos administration - of all governments - to push back on sovereignty, you've really overplayed your hand. What is the "Pax Silica" initiative? In a nutshell it's about the US getting other countries to commit to restructuring their AI tech infrastructure around a US-led stack. It's basically vendor lock-in: you hand over your critical minerals, align your export controls with Washington's, regulate AI the way America wants, and in return you get to be a US "trusted partner," whatever that means these days. In essence, let's not kid ourselves, it's all about China: this is the US's initiative to "win the AI race" by getting other countries to contractually commit to keeping China out of their tech supply chains. When you can't preserve your lead through innovation, you seek to lock countries in contractually. For instance as a country, this would mean telling Huawei they can't sell you AI chips, and telling Chinese firms they can't invest in your data centers - even if they're better and cheaper. It's not about choosing the best technology, it's about choosing the right flag. But in this instance, the US went much further still: they literally tried to carve out 4,000 acres of Philippine territory (in New Clark City, 60 miles north of Manila) to be governed under US common law with diplomatic immunity - the first arrangement of its kind anywhere in the modern world. This is according to the WSJ who ran the story last month (wsj.com/world/asia/u-s…) as if it was a done deal (it wasn't). Heard about the "French concession" or "British concession" in China during the century of humiliation? Same thing: the US basically asked for an "American concession" in the Philippines. Unsurprisingly, there was quite a bit of backlash in the country with for instance the Peasant Movement of the Philippines (KMP) calling it a “massive sellout” of the country’s land, minerals, and sovereignty (punto.com.ph/us-led-pax-sil…). So much so that the Philippines' government - namely Joshua Bingcang, president and chief executive of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) - issued a statement saying that the Philippines had rejected US proposals that would place the project beyond local jurisdiction (asianews.network/philippines-re…). Note, by the way, this delicious irony: the BCDA is the government agency that was created in 1992 specifically to convert former US military bases at Clark and Subic Bay after the Philippines spent decades negotiating their closure. New Clark City - where the Pax Silica's hub would go - is built on the old Clark Air Base. So the agency whose entire reason for existing is to turn former American colonial territory (i.e. US military bases) into sovereign Philippine land is the one now being asked to hand part of that very same land back under US jurisdiction (and, apparently, declined). Of course though, blocking this specific jurisdiction grab doesn't change the bigger picture. The Philippines is still a Pax Silica signatory, and Pax Silica itself is structurally neocolonial: you supply the cheap labor and raw materials, align your export controls and regulations with Washington's, cut yourself off from the world's rising technological powerhouse - and in exchange you get assembly jobs and the privilege of getting a pat on the head and being called a "trusted partner." They dropped the most cartoonishly colonial demand - governing Philippine soil under US law - but the underlying architecture is the same: you serve America's supply chain, on America's terms, and you relinquish your sovereign right to trade with whoever offers the best deal.

You have absolutely no idea of what you’re talking about. The whole point of Pax Silica is to partner with countries who are good at doing different things because everyone wins from a secure supply chain. It’s also a fundamentally a capitalist project (this might be foreign to you) that’s a lot more about partnerships between private companies than it is about government programs. We never said our goal was to maintain diplomatic immunity. Our position has always been that markets and investors need certainty and predictability in order to deploy large pools of capital over a 5-10 year time horizon. Any half decent investor will happily validate this. That viewpoint was taken out of context and turned on its head by the press to suggest we were seeking diplomatic immunity which is patently untrue. Oh and by the way, the agreement is posted online for anyone to look up and read for themselves. The U.S. is home to the world’s largest technology companies—a fact I’m sure deeply irritates you. The idea that being part of their supply chain is “subservience” is an ignorant loser mentality. Is TSMC a subservient company?? Anyone who knows anything about tech understands they are one of the world’s most important (and valuable) companies—and also an integral part of America’s (and the world’s) supply chains.

On Memorial Day, we pause as one nation to remember the brave men and women who gave their lives in defense of our country and the freedoms we cherish. Their sacrifice represents the very highest form of service to America. We honor those who never returned home, and we keep all Gold Star Families in our prayers. The gratitude of the American people endures, and their memory will forever remain in the heart of this nation. God bless the United States of America.

The old, romantic view of multiculturalism was food, festivals and colourful clothes. The new, realistic view of multiculturalism is grooming gangs, cousin marriage, polygamy, child rape, self-imposed segregation, tribal feuds, honour killings, and filth.

@mindingmyps @politicalmath Even if you like Yglesias what Polimath said is true, and, though hyperbolic, Roman is correct too.

@politicalmath Can you stop making me agree with Matt Yglesias That some retard got a bunch of other retards who haven't read Homer to agree with him isn't some kind of notable event

Someone needs to explain to Matt Yglesias that this whole "lol, you're just a rando twitter anon" attitude is no longer viable I would explain it to him, but he blocked me years ago although he weirdly keeps screen capping my tweets for commentary

Matt Yglesias is a blogger. He is guy with a bachelor’s degree who posts his opinions about things on the internet. His standing is exactly the same as Roman Helmet Guy’s, which is: His writing is influential to the extent people find it persuasive. We no longer live in a world where some people are arbitrarily designated as the good and important opinion-havers, and those people become the columnists and are real thinkers and intellectuals, while everyone else is just the schmucks on the “letters to the editor” page. The walls of Old Twitter’s garden have been torn down. Vox has been sold for scrap to Rupert Murdoch’s second-favorite son. Anyone can put on a Roman helmet and build a platform now, and their opinions are just as good and can be just as influential as Matt Yglesias’s or Nick Kristof’s.