Halocosm

“The UK is losing whatever tiny shred of respect it had with the broke homeless nigga community”

@lolyuh5 @_ratcatching @Lavader_ The border was wide open for ~2 years, Biden's parole programs paid tons of immigrants' flights to US airports, and he explicitly encouraged them to flood the southern border during that period. I'd be shocked if the number was way lower than 20 million.

@_ratcatching @Lavader_ There is no basis that 20 million people immigrated into the United States under Biden

I think it's time to finally admit that he was the best President of the 21st Century by far

Space exploration is great because it reveals the moral evil of the anti-colonialists. There are no indigenous humans on the moon. There is no life on the moon at all. Turns out they just hate progress. They hate knowledge and growth and beauty.

The New York Times reports that 12 of the ~1500 January 6 rioters have reoffended in about a year's time—calling it a "crime spree". The recidivism rate of the J6ers is 0.8%. The average 1 year US re-arrest rate, by contrast, is 43%. funny how that works

@pearson_no28315 @FischerKing64 Gave me a good chuckle.

@FischerKing64 They don't look happy because they're being forced to have their picture taken when they could be frolicking in the mine.

Look at their faces. They don’t really look happy - more like they have to pose and are fatalistic about maybe dying in a coal mine at the age of 12. This kind of thing wasn’t successfully regulated until 1938 under FDR, following over 30 years of activism. Good lesson in advancing standards of humanity. People argued against child labor laws under ‘freedom of contract’ theories with a straight face. It reminds me of the Cato arguments I read about increasing GDP through mass immigration at all costs - no matter if it tears society to pieces.

Tucker darkly asks: "Why can't this president, or any president, say no to Israel?" Obama enacted the Iran Nuclear Deal over Israel's bitter objections. Biden declined to support Israeli strikes on Iran. Even GW Bush refused! This is a Trump issue, not an "any president" issue

i mapped ancestries in the US! each dot is 100 people. it's like censusdots, but with many more categories. you can also filter to just a few ancestries.

@VincentGeloso Steve Sailer pointed out that was this paper found was "centers of innovation attracted European immigrants" and not "presence of European immigrants created centers of innovation" several months ago. takimag.com/article/whats-…

@tryingmehardest @malmesburyman Oh please, get out of your bubble. Most people outside of the west are perfectly happy to die like bugs if it helps their tribe. *We* are the weird ones for not thinking that way.

@malmesburyman If you think these poor bastards weren’t forced to stand out there with a gun in their back you’re very low iq

Good test of basic moral intuition whether this evokes sympathy or disgust.

1) It is not confirmed that the apostles died in the way that they did, why they did, etc. Easy to exaggerate/invent these sorts of stories when ~everyone is uneducated & narratives are orally transmitted. Think of a giant telephone game. 2) People make really dumb/risky decisions all the time, often for bad reasons. These sorts of people have always existed and will always exist.

@halocosm @drewshirleylaw @xwanyex I think the point that is argued is that they would have willingly been tortured and murdered for something that they clearly would have KNOWN to be a lie - not simply for something they hoped to be true

This is what I mean when I say that a lot of Christian apologetics are embarrassingly bad. “The resurrection must be true, because the apostles were willing to die for it and nobody dies for a lie” is an argument that’s beneath thinking people.

@WhigBiskey @drewshirleylaw @xwanyex Beliefs can be wrong.

@halocosm @drewshirleylaw @xwanyex So they died for their beliefs. Not for a lie.

@TomatoeJoee @CussenFerg18123 @DiarrhealDerekF @drewshirleylaw @xwanyex How many people were/are willing to die on behalf of Islam? Does this prove the existence of Allah?

@CussenFerg18123 @DiarrhealDerekF @halocosm @drewshirleylaw @xwanyex You think a dozen people, of whom some had families, would die on behalf of a Jesus they knew to have not raised from the dead? No, that is just statistically impossible.

@TomatoeJoee @drewshirleylaw @xwanyex Being killed for spreading foreign religious beliefs to other countries is nothing special. Tons of Protestants, Jews and Muslims were willing to risk their lives to fight the Catholic church during the inquisition. This does not prove that any of those religions are true.

@halocosm @drewshirleylaw @xwanyex You're grasping at straws. It's very different when you just saw a man be brutally murdered, buried in a tomb, then see him alive 3 days later with nail holes in his wrists. The life the apostles lived following the resurrection is something that no other religion has.

@seedtheclouds @drewshirleylaw @xwanyex Islamic terrorists, Japanese Kamikaze, Hitler, Mao's red guards, the Jacobins, native human sacrifices, etc.

@halocosm @drewshirleylaw @xwanyex Name some. This is just an unfounded assertion. While the original claim is self-evident.

@drewshirleylaw @xwanyex All sorts of fanatics are willing to die for their beliefs, crazy people just exist everywhere.

@xwanyex Always thought that was a pretty solid argument. Please explain

@JearlJork @notcomplex_ This is literally true.

@notcomplex_ ‘Smart people have big brains’ I swear to go I will leave academia this week if I hear another thing like this

Unsurprisingly, smarter people tend to have better neurons. They are faster, longer, and more dendritically complex. Intelligence is physical!

Homogeneity is our strength, Civil War edition: more homogenous Union units had less shirking and desertion.

@Denzmar1 @ShitpostRock2 Why would a school make it easy for students to make stupid decisions that affect their grades and everyone else's reputation?

@ShitpostRock2 I’m not commuting to school for one hour only for the prof to read off the slides in a monotone voice. Why defend mandatory attendance?for the people that show up to class it doesn’t affect them. it’s a skill issue if you skip and do badly. I’ve passed many courses not showing up

Triple the student loan debt

@BuloDeMouquim @priyaee Ts so poetic 😭🙏🥀

@priyaee you're the real cherry blossom in DC

I’m sad I didn’t really get a chance to enjoy them on this DC trip, but the cherry blossoms in DC are truly one of the most beautiful things

@PoopKrabs @patrickegan3 @NewAtlantisSun @cremieuxrecueil He didn't release them yet

@halocosm @patrickegan3 @NewAtlantisSun @cremieuxrecueil Were they good

Ketanji Brown's LSAT is guarded as a state secret more sensitive than our treaty relationships with the greys