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Terminus
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R. Daneel d’Anconia retweeted
Holy shit...this clip is unreal. Nithya Raman has absolutely NO clue about how housing works in LA. Oppenheim explains to her that landlords are losing money over the last decade and she's got ZERO idea what he's saying. This lady was chair of the Homelessness and Housing Committee for years and she's genuinely hearing this for the first time in her life. Unreal that this low IQ buffoon is about to be the Mayor. WTF are we doing.
R. Daneel d’Anconia retweeted
A few years ago I started to spiral a bit about the possibility of “an event” and prepping. I started assembling survival supplies. Then idk I stopped caring about it.
Either we’ll survive or we won’t. I’m not sure I’d even want to depending on the nature of the event and fallout.
Keeping the population living in a constant state of heightened fear is psychological warfare.
R. Daneel d’Anconia retweeted
You would have to lack curiosity, I think, not to wonder what an extremely thoughtful and powerful man who is regularly accused of being a version of the Antichrist has to say about the Antichrist after giving much thought to the subject.
For months, everyone has been talking about Peter Thiel’s secretive Antichrist lectures in Nashville. @gb_rango attended all four off-the-record lectures, held inside the historic Grand Lodge of Tennessee Free and Accepted Masons.
Now, with Thiel’s blessing: a comprehensive, firsthand reconstruction of his sprawling theory of the end times, from AI doomers and one-world government to the fate of America.
piratewires.com/p/inside-pet…
R. Daneel d’Anconia retweeted
Every time I see Spencer Pratt, I'm reminded how easily the Mayoral race in Los Angeles was stolen from him for all to see and absolutely nothing was done about it
R. Daneel d’Anconia retweeted
Get this barbaric fat sweaty red-faced fuck and everyone like him out of the West. Now.
New @RebellionPac ad dropping in Michigan. We have to suffer here at home, so Israel can get all its wars. That’s why they buy politicians like Mike Rogers. He promised to serve Israel “unconditionally,” but never made that promise to you.
R. Daneel d’Anconia retweeted
There’s not a single MAGA Republican in a position of power anywhere in Los Angeles, but Nithya’s supporters are so fucking stupid, they think MAGA is at fault for communist LA being such a mess. This place has been run entirely by far left radicals for decades, and every state that Angelenos are fleeing to is full of (and run by) MAGA republicans. We are approaching levels of IQ once thought impossible among sentient beings.
R. Daneel d’Anconia retweeted
May the bloodthirsty warmongers, who push for a war that never ends, burn in hell!
Elon Musk warned about the Ukraine war years ago, and it's absolutely tragic how accurately he predicted the devastating cost of human lives from this conflict
Back in October 2022, Elon didn't just call for peace. He actually proposed a peace plan involving UN-supervised votes in occupied regions, recognizing Crimea as Russian, guaranteeing its water supply, and Ukraine remaining neutral
He warned that continuing this war would bring devastating death and destruction, with countless young Ukrainians and Russians losing their lives
And look at what's happened since then
More than 2 MILLION military casualties, entire cities destroyed, millions of people forced from their homes, and the war is still going on with no lasting peace
Elon faced enormous backlash for proposing a path toward peace, but the human cost he warned about has become an absolutely horrifying reality
And that's what makes this so tragic. These are human beings with parents, families, loved ones, and entire lives ahead of them, not disposable pieces on some geopolitical chessboard
How many more young people have to die in trenches before ending this endless slaughter becomes just as important as deciding who wins the war?
Elon saw the devastating human cost of a prolonged war coming years ago, and instead of taking his warning seriously, people attacked him for even putting a peace proposal on the table
Just imagine how many lives could have been saved if a lasting peace had been reached years earlier
How much more death and destruction will it take before ending this meat grinder becomes the priority??
R. Daneel d’Anconia retweeted
Walter Kirn: Everything that happens before the election is a PSYOP.
KIRN: “Everything that happens, the polling, the rumors, the word of mouth, the social media posts, the trends, the little anecdotes that get repeated and go viral. Everything is subordinate to that election. And none of it is true in and of itself. It's all instrumental.”
“Not only don't I trust the polls, I do trust the polls. I trust them to be nudging people in all the ways that polls can for all the people who can pay for polls.”
“The news now is all about behavior modification. It's not about truth.”
For the next week, every poll or viral story you see, don't ask if it's true. Ask what it's trying to get you to do.
R. Daneel d’Anconia retweeted
I keep telling you. These aren’t “liberals”, they’re not “democrats”…the new wave of psychos are all out communists. They are violent and self-destructive animals who want to burn down society
R. Daneel d’Anconia retweeted
A husband and wife with four kids will spend $3-4,000 and more per month on medical insurance now, and it buys nothing but the right to pay more when you actually use it. This is an outrage. More outrageous, there is hardly any political talk about this fixing this problem even though the fix is readily at hand. Unsustainable.
tldr
“The entire Obama administration was like a chapter out of atlas shrugged.”
For anyone curious about what it actually looked like to kill a generation of functioning cars, here’s an actual video from 2009 and brief explanation:
The dealer first replaces the oil with sodium silicate solution. It’s a clear-ish liquid that crystallizes under extreme heat. As the engine warms up the solution begins to form small abrasive crystals in the oil system that shred the bearing and score the cylinder walls.
Within seconds of starting the car you can see smoke billowing from the exhaust, this is the crystals scratching the cylinder walls and leaving small grooves for oil and solution to leak past into the combustion chamber and ignite/evaporate, producing the white smoke.
Pretty soon the entire crankcase is full of crystals and freshly shredded metal flakes, the engine seizes. It took about 40 seconds in this video. Some engines reportedly lasted up to 7 minutes, but all were destroyed. That strikes me as sort of sad in a way, like watching a great warrior slowly lose a heroic last stand.
Now, this is the part that gets insanely wasteful. These cars were sent to federally approved recycling facilities where they had 180 days to sell the non-engine parts before they were required to prove that they had shred the entire thing into scrap steel.
But, in talking to a guy who ran one such facility at the time, he typically just sent them straight to the crusher. The timeframes allotted weren’t long enough to dismantle all of the cars, and even if you could, the marginal prices of the parts was greatly diminished. You cannot sell 1000 transmissions when only 50 went bad that year, they became worthless.
So just like that, in order to increase prosperity and save the environment, 677,000 entire running cars and trucks were turned directly into rebar worth a few cents per pound.
The entire Obama administration was like a chapter out of atlas shrugged.
R. Daneel d’Anconia retweeted
Who knew?
Rock-solid piece: Oliver himself appears in my upcoming "Confidently Wrong" book - as part of a whole network of hacks who use massaged data to terrify people.
HBO's @LastWeekTonight has a long track record of citing social science findings without the appropriate context, massaging them to support whatever point @iamjohnoliver is trying to make.
R. Daneel d’Anconia retweeted
When you see NGO’s planning a coup… and a sitting Senator saying they’re gonna prosecute junior staff for doing their job… and media writing pieces about…
You’re actually seeing:
