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Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
Being a right wing tech bro is difficult because you work on teams of the smartest people from around the world - good people.
But we still have to be real - you guys are here to lower our wages.. you’re here because the culture your people create at home didn’t produce enough opportunity for you.
You are the outlier in a bell curve that the working class takes the brunt of.
Not all immigration is bad - but the whole project was never done in the service of the nation.
Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
"to keep this Empire as a heritage of the British race...we must create an environment which will breed a virile people. Wealth will not save us if our crop of such men fail"
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Hughes during WW1: national safety has been endangered through the policy of laissez faire, allowing German influence to permeate British industry
Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
On this day — 12 November 1894 — Lawrence Hargrave achieved his breakthrough box‑kite flight, proving that a man‑lifting, heavier‑than‑air machine was possible long before the Wright brothers made their famous powered flight in 1903.
Hargrave’s work at Stanwell Park demonstrated the principles of lift and stability that would underpin modern aviation. His pioneering designs and experiments earned him a place on Australia’s old $20 note, where his portrait appeared alongside his remarkable flying machines.
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"We have lifted up on our topmost minaret the badge of White Australia, but we are, as it were, a drop in a coloured ocean ringed around with a thousand million of the coloured races. How are we to be saved? What arrogance and what futility it would be to emblazon White Australia on our banners if we are not prepared to fight for it, and how are five to fight a thousand, valiant though they may be?" — PM William "Billy" Hughes 🇦🇺🇬🇧
Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
Did California try to ban Chinese immigrants and was it eventually successful?
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Yes. California repeatedly tried via taxes, an 1858 entry ban (struck down), the 1879 constitution’s Article XIX declaring Chinese “dangerous” and authorizing bans/employment restrictions/removals (mostly invalidated by courts), plus local expulsions.
State-level total bans failed legally due to federal supremacy and treaties. But California’s pressure produced the 1882 federal Chinese Exclusion Act, which halted most Chinese labor immigration for decades until 1943 and sharply reduced the population.
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Primarily economic. California's 1849 constitution banned slavery unanimously to protect free white gold miners from competing with slave labor. Even Southerners like William Gwin supported it, as diggers refused to work beside slaves. Walter Colton noted free white diggers “won’t dig with slaves” and cared little for abolition in the abstract. Self-interest outweighed pure morality for most.
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Yes. In his diary on 29 November 1820, amid the Missouri Compromise, Adams wrote that if slavery became “the destined sword” severing the Union, it would also cut the bonds of slavery itself. A dissolution over slavery would bring a servile war in the South plus war between the severed sections, ending in slavery’s “extirpation” from the continent. He viewed the result as calamitous yet ultimately glorious. He repeated similar warnings later, including in an 1845 letter.
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Yes. Several Founders explicitly noted slavery's economic distortions. Franklin observed it made white children "disgusted with Labour" and discouraged European immigration. Gouverneur Morris argued at the Convention that slavery "discourages arts and manufactures," leads the poor to "despise labor," and blocks white settlers who "enrich and strengthen a Country." These concerns about free labor's viability and western opportunity prefigured later Republican free-labor ideology, though the Founders compromised for union rather than resolve them.
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Northern motives mixed economic, political, and moral factors. Free-labor ideology, central to Republicans, held that slavery undercut free white workers' wages and opportunities, especially by monopolizing western land. Moral abolitionism existed but was a minority stance among most Northerners. The war began to preserve the Union; emancipation developed later as military necessity and principle. Exact proportions cannot be measured.
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Yes for those interested here is a revealing chat with Buckley which shows some of the dynamics Tucker seems to be concerned about for people “two hundred years from now” — where Tucker accuses Trump of being an arriviste driven by ethnic resentment against WASPS at the B&T
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Our enemies have made a careful study of our psychology
And have discovered our psychological weakness.
What do you suppose that is?
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UPDATE: Israeli company we caught delivering zero-click infections is #1 bidder on Starlink ads in 105 countries.
Data from @trendai_RSRCH suggests worldwide surveillance op targeting @Starlink users. 1/
By @razhael
reuters.com/business/media-t…
🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: zero-click mercenary spyware hacking via targeted ads.
A normal-looking ad loads. If you're a target, you're infected. No click needed.
To protect yourself, block ads now.
First time it's been confirmed in the wild. We call it #AdFection.
Candiru spyware infections at @AJEnglish. 45+ devices infected.
Same ad pipeline operated by Israeli company Discover-Tech reached NATO, European Parliament, dozens of gov networks & critical infrastructure incl US nuclear giant Westinghouse.
Confiant, which worked with us, found signs ads were displayed at US @DeptofWar, IAEA & ICC.
Investigation ongoing 1/
READ our report by @billmarczak @WolfieChristl, me Astrid Perry, Siena Anstis & Ron Deibert : citizenlab.ca/research/how-d…
Confiant's blog: blog.confiant.com/p/adint-we…
Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
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If the Pentagon is quietly prepping every major US base to run 90 days with zero outside power, fuel, water or supplies, the rest of us should take the hint.
Basic 90-day food & preps for a family of 4..
Food staples
> 50–75 lbs rice
> 25–40 lbs dried beans/lentils
> 20–30 lbs pasta or oats
> 20+ lbs canned meats (tuna, chicken, spam)
> 30+ cans mixed vegetables & fruit
> 5–10 lbs powdered milk or shelf-stable milk
> Cooking oil, salt, sugar, spices, peanut butter
Water
> Aim for 1 gallon per person per day (360 gallons total) store what you can + get a good filter (Sawyer/LifeStraw) and rain collection
Other basics
> Manual can opener
> First aid kit + 90 days of any meds
> Flashlights, batteries or solar/crank lights
> Toilet paper, soap, hygiene items
> Blankets, warm layers, basic tools
> Battery/solar power banks + AM/FM radio
Start small and build. Better to have it and not need it.
Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
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