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Y’all know poc people outside of America exits and they’re suffering right?
They suffer and struggle every day, barely having food or safety bc of their politicians. Getting dragged into war, hearing bombs every day and they risk everything by merely breathing. They are poc people who haven’t gotten the privilege to live a decent life, they need help
I’ll link some threads
https://t.co/qkUF0AdGuM
https://t.co/H2XklHTHk2
They suffer and struggle every day, barely having food or safety bc of their politicians. Getting dragged into war, hearing bombs every day and they risk everything by merely breathing. They are poc people who haven’t gotten the privilege to live a decent life, they need help
I’ll link some threads
\u203c\ufe0fDONT IGNORE WHATS HAPPENING IN SYRIA\u203c\ufe0f
— \u26c8Ash\xb2\u2078\u26c8 (@alwaysyouicarus) January 6, 2021
I\u2019m going to make a thread of places to donate if you have the resources. It may not be a lot but anything helps. Please drop any links I can add.
Syria was attacked while they were sleeping during a act of terrorism committed by Israel.
https://t.co/qkUF0AdGuM
An update on the Uyghur Muslims in China.
— l\U0001f90d (@lylastanx) January 3, 2021
A thread;
https://t.co/H2XklHTHk2
syria and other middle eastern help links REMEMBER PETITIONS DO NOT HELP AND DO NOT DONATE TO RED CROSS AND UNICEF they misuse the money, i am going to find more trusted islamic donations but here are some These are trusted
— m is married to jiwon (@itstaedori) January 7, 2021
My DMs tell me that I look like I'm not ok from this thread. ⤵️
I am not ok.
This is not ok.
But it isn't just this series of events...it's that this series of events comes from years of escalation and lack of enforcement, and by all appearances will be followed by the same.
We are at a point where our governance is run by elected officials that increasingly are caricatures of positions, not legislators doing the work.
Getting into office is a measure of fundraising, favors, and platitudes - being in office is increasingly extended campaigning.
The percent of legislators who act like reality show contestants is not insignificant; the amount of legislators we have that will vote for a bill they haven't read is approximately 100%.
Our legislators are in the same club, divided in two distinctly different screwed up clubs.
One club has put the acquisition of power above any attempts at sane governance. They will do whatever is necessary to acquire, hold, and execute their power because the ends ALWAYS justify the means.
Always.
No matter what has to be said or done.
Coup? No problem!
The other club wants to govern, I think?, but they still go all in on governance they KNOW is bad. (No one should be able to justify legislation that is 5,593 pages long) There is lots of complaining, but not so much doing - they'll have all 3 chambers...let's see if they use it.
I am not ok.
This is not ok.
But it isn't just this series of events...it's that this series of events comes from years of escalation and lack of enforcement, and by all appearances will be followed by the same.
2020: I am an irony serial killer
— Tiffany Bond \U0001f99e\U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 (@TiffanyBond) January 6, 2021
2021: behold, I am here to deliver verklempt verbatim irony; v^2 irony https://t.co/mvViEtV0cC
We are at a point where our governance is run by elected officials that increasingly are caricatures of positions, not legislators doing the work.
Getting into office is a measure of fundraising, favors, and platitudes - being in office is increasingly extended campaigning.
The percent of legislators who act like reality show contestants is not insignificant; the amount of legislators we have that will vote for a bill they haven't read is approximately 100%.
Our legislators are in the same club, divided in two distinctly different screwed up clubs.
One club has put the acquisition of power above any attempts at sane governance. They will do whatever is necessary to acquire, hold, and execute their power because the ends ALWAYS justify the means.
Always.
No matter what has to be said or done.
Coup? No problem!
The other club wants to govern, I think?, but they still go all in on governance they KNOW is bad. (No one should be able to justify legislation that is 5,593 pages long) There is lots of complaining, but not so much doing - they'll have all 3 chambers...let's see if they use it.
This country does not *have* to be this broken. But it will remain so as long as it continues to self soothe with white supremacist mythology instead of reckoning with truth.
Make better choices, America
This is a fundamentally violent and abusive
The commitment to the ahistoricism of of "this is not who we are" is not merely objectionable. It is actively dangerous.
You can't fix something that you refuse to acknowledge is
Frederick Douglass, in 1852:
"To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me...?”
https://t.co/wbbsbfdMny
Make better choices, America
This is a fundamentally violent and abusive
The commitment to the ahistoricism of of "this is not who we are" is not merely objectionable. It is actively dangerous.
You can't fix something that you refuse to acknowledge is
Joe has GOT to cut the "this is not who we are" stuff.
— A Shady Dame From Seville (@SorayaMcDonald) January 6, 2021
It's fundamentally ahistorical. The KKK used to openly march down Pennsylvania gotdamn avenue FFS
Frederick Douglass, in 1852:
"To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me...?”
https://t.co/wbbsbfdMny
It's the last day of this dumpster fire known as 2020
Let's recap some shenanigans - #Ward45 sure had plenty
In January, Jimmy called out The Crew at Copernicus
A photo bomber, a bounty, and the mayor visited us
https://t.co/YHgWKxWv8m
The Point is resurrected in February - now ten storeys instead of 10
A firetruck can’t make a turn and Cuyler Plaza meets its end
Jimmy shows how tough he is and takes a stand against graffiti
A vigilante video offering a hundred-dollar bounty
March first Jimmy does the polar plunge with Team Alderbear
And barely wins committeeman - his enormous signs everywhere
In April Willie Wilson donates masks, Jimmy hands out burgers Epically
He can't seem to figure out how to wear a mask properly
In May at the little free library we meet (with complements) Al Chemist
Jimmy patrols the ward from the threat of antifa activitists
It’s June and Jimmy is hiding behind his office
While constituents march for racial justice
“Where’s Jim Gardiner” the crowd chants
Asked if he believes Black lives matter by a Black man
Jim doesn’t answer, instead just deflects
A defining cowardly moment - one we won’t forget
Let's recap some shenanigans - #Ward45 sure had plenty
In January, Jimmy called out The Crew at Copernicus
A photo bomber, a bounty, and the mayor visited us
https://t.co/YHgWKxWv8m
Stay tuned for the #livetweet of this #45theward community meaning.
— RhymeNoxious (@BlondeNoxious) January 28, 2020
Sarcasm and hyperbole probably unintentional.
Please forgive typos. It's been a long day. pic.twitter.com/ZmhUWv1SNl
The Point is resurrected in February - now ten storeys instead of 10
A firetruck can’t make a turn and Cuyler Plaza meets its end
Jimmy shows how tough he is and takes a stand against graffiti
A vigilante video offering a hundred-dollar bounty
March first Jimmy does the polar plunge with Team Alderbear
And barely wins committeeman - his enormous signs everywhere
In April Willie Wilson donates masks, Jimmy hands out burgers Epically
He can't seem to figure out how to wear a mask properly
In May at the little free library we meet (with complements) Al Chemist
Jimmy patrols the ward from the threat of antifa activitists
It’s June and Jimmy is hiding behind his office
While constituents march for racial justice
“Where’s Jim Gardiner” the crowd chants
Asked if he believes Black lives matter by a Black man
Jim doesn’t answer, instead just deflects
A defining cowardly moment - one we won’t forget
1)
Five Eyes is VERY important.
It won’t be around much longer.
Relevant here but not the focus.
2)
https:// https://t.co/f24vLp3Z5h
3)
The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.
4)
The origins of the FVEY can be traced back to the post–World War II period, when the Atlantic Charter was issued by the Allies to lay out their goals for a post-war world.
5)
During the course of the Cold War, the ECHELON surveillance system was initially developed by the FVEY to monitor the communications of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, although it is now used to monitor private communications worldwide.
Five Eyes is VERY important.
It won’t be around much longer.
Relevant here but not the focus.
2)
https:// https://t.co/f24vLp3Z5h
3)
The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.
4)
The origins of the FVEY can be traced back to the post–World War II period, when the Atlantic Charter was issued by the Allies to lay out their goals for a post-war world.
5)
During the course of the Cold War, the ECHELON surveillance system was initially developed by the FVEY to monitor the communications of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, although it is now used to monitor private communications worldwide.
We have to pause now, because we have to have a whole new tweet thread on #AdamSmith and “savage nations,” because he’s going to keep using this kind of phrase, so we need to talk about it. #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
Please know that your friendly SmithTweeters give heavy side-eye to Smith’s use of phrases like “savage nations” and “naked savages” and so on. They are obviously shocking to the modern ear, and they should be. #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
“Well, it’s the 18th century, what do you expect?” just isn't a sufficient explanation. #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
The 21stC changed from talking about the First World/Third World to talking about developed/developing nations. That’s a good change and a respectful one. The terms we use for countries will continue to change. See:
Probably the best way to think about Smith’s use of the term “savage nations” is to think of it as its own developmental stage on its way to a better set of terms for talking about the differences among nations. https://t.co/2wr7yACEv5 #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
Please know that your friendly SmithTweeters give heavy side-eye to Smith’s use of phrases like “savage nations” and “naked savages” and so on. They are obviously shocking to the modern ear, and they should be. #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
“Well, it’s the 18th century, what do you expect?” just isn't a sufficient explanation. #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
The 21stC changed from talking about the First World/Third World to talking about developed/developing nations. That’s a good change and a respectful one. The terms we use for countries will continue to change. See:
Probably the best way to think about Smith’s use of the term “savage nations” is to think of it as its own developmental stage on its way to a better set of terms for talking about the differences among nations. https://t.co/2wr7yACEv5 #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
There’s an old Zen koan that goes, “if you meet the Buddha, kill him.”
In other words, when something is self-verifiable or self-iterating, looking too heavily towards the originator can be a distraction along the path. Results speak for themselves.
Some folks have applied that to Bitcoin as well.
https://t.co/NYk1IKFDt4
For example, sometimes there are debates about Satoshi Nakamoto’s original intent. Should block sizes be increased to facilitate “e-cash” or should block sizes be kept small for any user to run a node?
This is the type of problem encountered by engineers all the time: trade-offs.
A project can iterate or stay the same depending on what the market says.
Sometimes the successful product ends up being very different than the engineer initially envisioned. Sometimes it’s exactly like what they envisioned.
With Bitcoin, there are developer-vs-developer disputes, and disputes between finance-types and earlier users.
This is similar to natural selection, with “nature” as the market. Some creatures haven’t changed in hundreds of millions of years. Others have changed notably, or transformed into something else entirely.
In other words, when something is self-verifiable or self-iterating, looking too heavily towards the originator can be a distraction along the path. Results speak for themselves.
Some folks have applied that to Bitcoin as well.
https://t.co/NYk1IKFDt4
For example, sometimes there are debates about Satoshi Nakamoto’s original intent. Should block sizes be increased to facilitate “e-cash” or should block sizes be kept small for any user to run a node?
\u201cIf you meet Satoshi on the road, kill him.\u201d\u2013 The Tao of Bitcoin
— Max Keiser (@maxkeiser) February 14, 2019
This is the type of problem encountered by engineers all the time: trade-offs.
A project can iterate or stay the same depending on what the market says.
Sometimes the successful product ends up being very different than the engineer initially envisioned. Sometimes it’s exactly like what they envisioned.
With Bitcoin, there are developer-vs-developer disputes, and disputes between finance-types and earlier users.
This is similar to natural selection, with “nature” as the market. Some creatures haven’t changed in hundreds of millions of years. Others have changed notably, or transformed into something else entirely.
#DavidAttenborough annoys me, because he's had an extremely privileged life at the expense of his own race & of our planet's biodiversity he has devoted much of his life to documenting.
He doesn't recognise this, of course, but means well, dissolving my annoyance into sadness.
Of course, he has hope for the future, because to recognise the truth would destroy his self-image as a fabulously successful individual.
The truth is that he & the White elite he belongs to have totally fucked up.
What does this have to do with Race (the fact that #DavidAttenborough is White), you ask?
Race is our largest kinship group, contempt for which lies at the heart of our civilisation's self-destructiveness. You can't truly care about anything, if you don't also care about that.
As a biologist, of all people, David Attenborough should recognise this, & how civilisation perverts & corrupts evolved human nature into prioritising personal POWER & advantage over kinship, but like #RichardDawkins & all the others, he fails to do so.
Why this failure, even of evolutionary biologists, to recognise the importance of kinship?
1) The state (#BigBrother) has always demanded that we prioritise loyalty to itself over kin.
2) The bonds of kinship are TRIBAL, which, in overreaction to Nazi tribalism, is demonised.
He doesn't recognise this, of course, but means well, dissolving my annoyance into sadness.
Of course, he has hope for the future, because to recognise the truth would destroy his self-image as a fabulously successful individual.
The truth is that he & the White elite he belongs to have totally fucked up.
Western civilisation has a fatal flaw, which is leading to its self-destruction. It's a flaw inherent to ALL civilisations, which is why they NEVER last.
— Philosopher Kin vs Big Brother (@rogerahicks) July 12, 2019
It can be fixed, I believe, but only if recognised & understood, which demands an evolutionary perspective.
What does this have to do with Race (the fact that #DavidAttenborough is White), you ask?
Race is our largest kinship group, contempt for which lies at the heart of our civilisation's self-destructiveness. You can't truly care about anything, if you don't also care about that.
As a biologist, of all people, David Attenborough should recognise this, & how civilisation perverts & corrupts evolved human nature into prioritising personal POWER & advantage over kinship, but like #RichardDawkins & all the others, he fails to do so.
Why this failure, even of evolutionary biologists, to recognise the importance of kinship?
1) The state (#BigBrother) has always demanded that we prioritise loyalty to itself over kin.
2) The bonds of kinship are TRIBAL, which, in overreaction to Nazi tribalism, is demonised.
@ukiswitheu I invite people to run the thought experiment: “what if the ‘cases’ data is inaccurate?”
Ignore ‘cases’, look instead only at excess deaths (per M Levitt’s tweet). Does that look characteristic of an epidemic? It’s completely diff from spring or any winter flu outbreak.
London:
Can anyone explain why there is no ‘2nd wave’ of excess deaths in London, without invoking herd immunity?
It’s not lockdown. See NW England:
This is the largest #SecondaryRipple (which I predicted).
https://t.co/b0rT5Lq9HI
Now check the 3 predictions I made months ago. They’ve all happened. Compare predictions from SAGE’s statements: they’re all wrong.
Even neutrals at this point might ask themselves “if he’s been right on all predictions, maybe he’s correct now?”
I’ve been saying since the Lighthouse Labs got up & running that I’m deeply sceptical about the trustworthiness of their ‘cases’ data. I showed how, at low virus prevalence, the PCR mass testing data was throwing out potentially 90% positives being
https://t.co/t4qQN4rH0u
I got ‘fact checked’ a LOT over that statement. This paper just published, about precisely that time period I speculated about. Turns out that high-80s% of Dr Healy’s positives by PCR were FALSE. This alone is sufficient in my view to throw severe doubt...
Ignore ‘cases’, look instead only at excess deaths (per M Levitt’s tweet). Does that look characteristic of an epidemic? It’s completely diff from spring or any winter flu outbreak.
London:
Can anyone explain why there is no ‘2nd wave’ of excess deaths in London, without invoking herd immunity?
It’s not lockdown. See NW England:
This is the largest #SecondaryRipple (which I predicted).
https://t.co/b0rT5Lq9HI
Now check the 3 predictions I made months ago. They’ve all happened. Compare predictions from SAGE’s statements: they’re all wrong.
Even neutrals at this point might ask themselves “if he’s been right on all predictions, maybe he’s correct now?”
I’ve been saying since the Lighthouse Labs got up & running that I’m deeply sceptical about the trustworthiness of their ‘cases’ data. I showed how, at low virus prevalence, the PCR mass testing data was throwing out potentially 90% positives being
https://t.co/t4qQN4rH0u
I got ‘fact checked’ a LOT over that statement. This paper just published, about precisely that time period I speculated about. Turns out that high-80s% of Dr Healy’s positives by PCR were FALSE. This alone is sufficient in my view to throw severe doubt...
The judge in this case has now issued an absolutely brutal smackdown that you'll enjoy reading. It comes complete with a well-earned threat of sanctions.
Here's the decision. Some highlights follow
Pretty sure I said this, using slightly different words!
Hey, @questauthority, it sounds like Judge Boasberg was about as pleased about the long "none of this matters but we want to say it anyway" section as we expected him to be
You CANNOT run into court claiming there's an emergency and you need an expedited schedule so you can be heard before 1/6 and then just not bother serving anyone for 12 days
Folks, this is the single dumbest election lawsuit of the entire cycle, and I've read kraken filings front to back. https://t.co/PLHTf7HhbM
— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) December 22, 2020
Here's the decision. Some highlights follow
Pretty sure I said this, using slightly different words!
Hey, @questauthority, it sounds like Judge Boasberg was about as pleased about the long "none of this matters but we want to say it anyway" section as we expected him to be
You CANNOT run into court claiming there's an emergency and you need an expedited schedule so you can be heard before 1/6 and then just not bother serving anyone for 12 days