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@TRobinsonNewEra The Milei principle should be applied to Islamists.

Did Canadian settlers disturb a peaceful First Nations utopia? Or does the real history of colonialism show that they arrived to find slavery, cannibalism and death? Seems like the history isn’t as black and white as what we’ve been told. @timthielmann

Fact check: Calling Alberta independence 'MAGA nihilism' is easier than addressing why Albertans are angry The independence movement has grown after decades of pipeline cancellations, equalization fights, and federal overreach. Read the real facts here: rebelne.ws/4dFIiwM.

SENATE SEATS. No federalist has ever addressed this, nor will they ever. #AlbertaIndependence

The most critical issue we face right now is that the younger generation is being pushed either toward becoming full-blown Marxists or full-blown fascists. And that has the most dire consequences for our future.

I've been a libertarian since I was 19. Thomas Massie was my literal north star of politicians for over a decade. What changed? My understanding of money and capital flows. The more I learned the more his grift became obvious. I'm also no longer a libertarian. It's a neat rhetoric but addresses nothing. This is my research below using an AI framework I built and operate. How Thomas Massie’s votes during Trump 2.0 directly harmed his Kentucky 4th District constituents: Voted against Trump’s major tax and spending package (“One Big Beautiful Bill”): Massie’s spin: “I won’t vote for bloated spending and more debt. Principles over party." This bill contained critical tax relief, domestic manufacturing credits, and energy production incentives. Northern Kentucky’s manufacturing and logistics hubs in Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties (Hebron, Erlanger, Covington) would have directly benefited from reshoring and job growth in auto parts, aerospace components, and advanced manufacturing. Opposed Trump’s tariffs on China and adversarial nations: Massie’s spin: “Tariffs are taxes on Americans. Free markets and free trade are the answers.” Kentucky’s steel, aluminum, and auto parts suppliers along the Ohio River and I-75 corridor were getting crushed by Chinese dumping. His repeated “no” votes kept the globalist offshoring incentive alive, directly threatening factories and blue-collar jobs in Gallatin, Carroll, and Boone counties. Sponsored War Powers Resolution to restrict Trump’s Iran actions: Massie’s spin: “Congress must check executive war powers. No more endless wars.” Northern Kentucky has major logistics, trucking, and fuel distribution tied to stable energy prices. Weakening leverage on Iran prolonged supply chain risk and higher diesel/fertilizer costs for local manufacturers and farmers in his district. Voted against key industrial policy and DPA 303 reshoring measures: Massie’s spin: “Government picking winners and losers is cronyism. I support small government.” The 4th District has strong potential in advanced manufacturing and critical minerals. Blocking these tools delayed job creation in economically depressed areas like Grant and Pendleton counties that lost factories during the globalist offshoring wave. Opposed major border security funding in appropriations bills: Massie’s spin: “I won’t support bloated omnibus bills with waste.” Construction, meatpacking, and service industries in Kenton and Campbell counties face direct wage suppression from illegal immigration. His resistance prolonged downward pressure on working-class wages in his own backyard. Voted against foreign aid packages tied to bilateral energy and security deals: Massie’s spin: “We shouldn’t be the world’s policeman. America First means no foreign entanglements.” These packages supported alliances that stabilize energy flows. Kentucky’s agricultural exporters (bourbon, soybeans, tobacco) and energy-dependent manufacturers needed reliable trade routes. His votes undermined the bilateral architecture that would have given Kentucky producers better market access. Blocked government funding bills containing America First priorities: Massie’s spin: “I refuse to vote for continuing resolutions that kick the can down the road.” These bills included tariff enforcement funding, domestic energy production, and manufacturing tax credits. His obstruction delayed practical help for the I-75 manufacturing corridor and Ohio River industrial towns in his district. Bottom line: Massie consistently wrapped globalist-friendly votes in libertarian rhetoric. He knew the data on offshoring damage and energy vulnerability in Northern Kentucky, yet chose ideological purity over policies that would have delivered real jobs, higher wages, and economic security to his constituents.

I agree. And here's a story contextualizing why. I was at Tom Woods’ house for a meetup and Scott Horton was giving a short talk. During the talk, Horton claimed that the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orland where 49 people were murdered by Omar Mateen was a consequence of "blowback." As I heard him say this, my face turned to a scowl. I knew this story. I knew that "blowback" made absolutely no sense. You see, Omar Mateen mentioned in his 911 call that this was made about the attacks in Syria and he was pledging his life to ISIS. Here's the thing: Omar Mateen wasn't Syrian. In fact, Omar Mateen's family moved from Afghanistan in the 1980s and Omar was birthed in a JEWISH HOSPITAL in NEW YORK! So how is it that an American man, who's family is not from Syria, who was born in New York in a Jewish hospital, is a product of "blowback?" The CIA did not run him any weapons. He was not personally affected by the attacks where maybe a family member could have died. His attack was on random gay people at a gay night club. It was at this moment that I realized Scott Horton had no sense of cause-and-effect relationships. Instead of being accurate that Omar Mateen was radicalized by teachings from joining a Mosque, he tried to turn Omar's mass murder of random gay people into an "underdog" cry of resistance. There was nothing about "resistance" with this act. It was depraved mass murder against people completely unrelated to anything going on in Syria. I started to deep-dive Scott Horton's history and I saw this pattern I just witnessed up-close. Gross generalizations about people and events where the actors and actions did not align with the cause and effects. He would use the anecdotal fallacy to draw deep demonization of anyone or anything he stood against, which was especially anything to do with Israel, Zionism, or Western state hegemony. It was a turning point for me as I finally came to understand who Scott Horton really is. He never really drifted from his core history of being a leftist punk skateboarder who simply took his leftist class theories and applied them lop-sided through the veneer of "libertarianism." There was never any nuance about the actors and actions when it came to what he critiqued. And how could he possible have it? The man has spent a career podcasting and writing on global affairs yet has never himself been to these places and done the hard work of actually observing up-close the conflicts and interviewing people on both sides to get an understanding. As his ideas are donated because they're not coming from primary sourcing, you can see the pattern of how he gets his ideas. He cites to Al Jazeera, The Gaza Health Ministry, Russia Today, The Grayzone, and a host of leftist media whose socialist and communist media heads share his "antiwar" mentality - just from an even stronger leftist bent. I want you to actually fact check me on this. Go look at his sourcing on all his 30+ years of articles with Antiwar dot com. It's out there in the open to see. So Scott Horton does not help libertarians become better thinkers for liberty by giving them a more robust and nuanced approach to foreign conflicts that properly weighs the totality of real foreign threats and terror groups. In his worldview, the world is largely just captured by Israeli Zionists and nobody has any material blame, agency, or threat to pose as compared to the Zionist class. Just like communists blame capitalists and the bourgeois, so does Horton blame "Zionists/Zionism" as his boogeyman for every ill in the world. He will downplay mass murder in Iran and Chinese state takeovers of industry so long as it maintains a focus on Israel and "Western Zionism" as the ultimate threats. And this is why I completely distanced and dissociated from Horton and his lot of comrades whose worldview is actually just the leftist/third-worldist view that hates America and Israel under the premises that they are "Zionist colonialist occupiers." This type of warped thinking is what gets you the results like in South Africa where the "anti-colonialists" take over in the name of "social justice" for "blowback," and it's just a ruse to institute state central planning for socialist ends. This messaging does not help libertarianism. It doesn't ground people in truth and reality. It just causes them to become allied with communists, socialists, and other third-world leftists in the name of being "Anti-US hegemony" and "anti-Zionism," while, in reality, aiding and promoting those who want to both end Western capitalism and bring about a radical Marxist order. I want nothing to do with these people and I want nothing to do with those who are trying to upend the Western enlightenment because they think they are being, "anti-war." NONE of it is "anti-war," because they pooh-pooh the violence of third worldist governments when they mass murder and kidnap people over free speech and free market issues. They downplay anything they believe will give the CIA and neocons a boner. That's not dealing in reality. That's dismissing REAL state violence just because it doesn't go along with the narrative you want to pose. That's dishonest and shameful. If you want to have true liberty, you need to reject this all-or-nothing third-worldist mentality that has you rationalizing the violent takeover by socialists, communists, and Islamic-aligned anti-capitalist third worldists who wear the skinsuit of "America first" to get you to support vile socialists like Mamdani under the pretense that they're at least "anti-Zionism" and "for going after the Epstein class." This rhetoric is being weaponized against you to TRICK YOU into support those who want to actually enslave you and end capitalism. And I will, for one, will not stand for it. I can only hope you also agree and do the same. "¡Viva la libertad, carajo!

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@odysseytree @ThomasEWoods As far as I know 'woke reich' is a term used by Mark Levin and him only. The woke right is the mirror of the woke left and those who tried to label american nationalists as the “woke right” are ironically those who behave exactly like the woke left. The accusation is a confession

The rule is: Jewish/Israeli groups may openly cheer and boast that their money defeated a congressman, but YOU may not joke about it, because then you are an anti-Semite Get used to the rules, because there are going to be lots more of them

I don't understand why some people are even considering voting Remain in the referendum. What is it about being Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal's bitch that is appealing to you? They are not our friends. They are not our family. They are a foreign people that hate you.

Two nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan during World War II, and no one ever called that a genocide. Because it wasn’t. On his @MakingSenseHQ podcast, philosopher, neuroscientist, and author Sam Harris explains what genocide is: an eradication project. Today, human rights orgs have shifted the meaning in order to call the war in Gaza a genocide. As Harris puts it: “This confusion has been engineered by people who know what they’re doing.”

@AP4Liberty Those very online libertarians who see literal Commies, Nazis, wokesters, and Islamofascists and decide to circle jerk with them. "Soft libertarians" is a charitable description. At the end of the day they're just political cucks.

Who are the soft libertarians that are creating the hard times?

I Don't Even Call It Woke Anymore | @ConceptualJames & @JoeRogan

People who keep talking about "money in politics" really have no clue what they are talking about. No money in politics? Okay, so what are the limitations? Who can spend what? If it is by an individual limit, then does this mean rich politicians are favored because they can spend the most on themselves? If it is a cap, then does that mean whoever can appeal to those with more money to spend always have the advantage? I took election law in my law doctorate program as a 2nd Gen student of Obama (my professor was taught by Obama, funnily enough). And I could not help but chuckle at all these silly ways people tried to make elections more of an "even playing field." Plot twist: you can NEVER make it even. Direct democracy? Have fun having the masses vote for more gun control and state welfare programs. Campaign finance limits? Have fun with only the richest individuals who have rich friends making direct expenditures (individual ad buys). Unlimited campaign financing? Have whoever has the most resources be able to spend the most to reach the most people. Guess what? It is all just made-up nonsense. There's no such thing as an "even playing field." It is always going to favor some type of person and some type of expenditure scheme. So maybe, the thing to focus on is getting the state out of your life and wallet. Because trying to play the game of "equality" is not going to bring you liberty in itself.

A lot of people like to talk about Israel and arms/aid, but the reality is that the US government armament and foreign aid scheme is FAR more expansive. Here’s a short list of counties the US government has armed since 1900: · Saudi Arabia — approximately $150–200 billion (largest long-term FMS customer). · Egypt — approximately $80–100 billion (major post-Camp David military support). · South Korea — approximately $60–80 billion. · Japan — approximately $50–70 billion. · United Kingdom — approximately $40–60 billion. · Taiwan — approximately $40–60 billion. · Australia — approximately $30–50 billion. · Turkey — approximately $30–50 billion. · Germany — approximately $30–45 billion. · Poland — approximately $30–40 billion (recent large FMS). · Greece — approximately $20–30 billion. · Kuwait — approximately $20–30 billion. · United Arab Emirates — approximately $20–30 billion. · Pakistan — approximately $15–25 billion. · Iraq — approximately $15–25 billion (post-2003). And this doesn’t even include direct non-arms aid, like: · Egypt — $198.9 billion. · Former South Vietnam — $193.8 billion. · Afghanistan — $168.5 billion. · South Korea — $127.6 billion. · Ukraine —$60–80+ billion Or to NGOs, like: Catholic Relief Services — $4.637 billion (FY2013–FY2022). Chemonics International — $4.536 billion (FY2013–FY2022). FHI 360 — $3.788 billion (FY2013–FY2022). Development Alternatives, Inc. — $3.071 billion (FY2013–FY2022). Abt Associates — $2.629 billion (FY2013–FY2022). RTI International — $2.307 billion (FY2013–FY2022). John Snow International — $1.841 billion (FY2013–FY2022). Save the Children Federation — $1.543 billion (FY2013–FY2022). ARD, Inc. — $1.486 billion (FY2013–FY2022). So no, it's not just something with "Israel" or "AIPAC" or whatever nonsense you want to blame Jews for. It's the crony nature of the state picking winners and losers and denying you your ability to choose who you want to support.

A lot of libertarians have unwittingly adopted a Marxist class theory idea that only people with lots of money have agency and independent thought while everyone else poorer than them are just pawns, rubes, and hapless robots, unable to think and choose for themselves.

🚨 In the D.C. area alone, Palestine Action’s map includes multiple private individuals, whose addresses I have blurred here. When a foreign-linked direct-action network starts mapping people as "targets," federal law enforcement should be paying attention. The U.K. has already proscribed Palestine Action. The U.S. should review Palestine Action, its offshoots, and successor networks for designation immediately.

Il y a 2 ans et demi, 108 « économistes » dont Piketty et Zucman prédisaient l’effondrement économique de l’Argentine en cas de victoire de Milei. Cela devrait suffire à les disqualifier à jamais.

@captive_dreamer Commies, socialists, neonazis, wokesters, identitarians--literally all the worst people--are banding together again like a bunch of barbarians. And it's all so obvious to the sane and the civilized.

Really loathe these people. Just utter scum. This is who was endorsing Massie btw.

"I will put your head under my boot, break your other arm, and smash your face.” The Bondi Beach Massacre hero, Ahmed Al Ahmed, suffered the ultimate betrayal after being rewarded for his selfless deed. His two brothers allegedly sent threatening texts in an attempt to extort money that the community raised for him. They have been charged for their threatening communications. Let's show Ahmed the appreciation he deserves. Because he definitely deserves better than this.

@captive_dreamer Also the same people who predicted World War 3.

Same guy who said Massie was up over Gallrein (Massie lost by over 10 points.)