Intelligence is the ability to accurately predict second-order consequences. 1980s & 90s common sense Democrat.
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I can’t believe this is happening. I’ve lost a lot of faith in democracy. We no longer have a country with a coherent plan or policy direction. It’s just information warfare targeting low-intelligence voters and a competition for control. It’s fueling division and hatred. It sucks, and nobody can do anything about it. We could be great.
Fun fact: The woman pictured here credited the viral success of her campaign to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a China proxy organization operating here in the United States.
PSL is the political arm of the Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham, an avowed Marxist multimillionaire who has bankrolled anti-American, pro-CCP nonprofits to the tune of $278 million.
Singham’s political foot soldiers have been boots on the ground in dozens of anti-data center fights across the country. But striking down the $5 billion data center campus in Landover, MD, was by far their biggest scalp.
In the ongoing campaign against American AI, cui bono?
More than anyone, it’s our chief political adversary.
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19th-20th century schools in the US and France ran on direct knowledge instruction. Teacher- or monitor-led lessons, rote memorization of facts, rules, texts and definitions, daily recitation. Common schools and Lancasterian systems treated the mind like a muscle to be drilled. French primary schools and lycées did the same: learning by heart, simultaneous teaching, strict recitation.
Skill is not separate from knowledge. Skill is knowledge. Creativity is not separate from knowledge. It is recombining knowledge. Critical thinking depends on knowledge of how to think and knowledge of what you’re being critical about. There is no blanket “critical thinking” skill floating free of content.
Schools spent recent decades teaching the wrong stuff. Cognitive research and outcome data show the same thing: expertise, skill, and originality rest on domain knowledge. Progressive shifts that sidelined content produced weaker results. Without the material there is nothing coherent to recombine or think critically about.
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School in the west is 15-20 years of victim-oppressor crap.
Saying you are downtrodden and screwed and a victim.
These various oppressors are keeping you down and thus you are entitled to your own truth, your own justice and to take the property and rights from those that we have indoctrinated you as being the reasons for your faults.
We allowed nihilism, marxism, critical theory, etc(it’s all the same)… to capture and brainwash an entire generation.
And guess what…thug and power hungry politicians know exactly how to turn people with this mindset into useful idiots to give them more control.
And this is what we are seeing.
Marx was wary of industrialization and what it would do to society. This same line of thinking probably explains why our “progressive” friends are so anti-AI.
"The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. ...
... Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him...."
In 1798, Thomas Malthus published "An Essay on the Principle of the Population", which argued that a lasting improvement in living standards (or, roughly, significant and lasting GDP per capita growth) is impossible. Throughout history, Malthus wrote, each technological advance that resulted in greater crop yields (and thus higher economic resources per capita) swiftly yielded increased population growth, which, in turn, distributed the new resources among a larger number of people and thus once again decreased economic resources per capita. In the long run, economic resources per capita flatlined.
This principle, the "Malthusian trap", was eloquently argued and looked empirically correct. There was just one minor problem with it: by the time when Malthus wrote his seminal work, the Industrial Revolution was already underway. Within a few decades, GDP per capita exploded! Suddenly, the world economy began to recursively self-improve.
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The most popular form of leftism in New Zealand is “don’t be a dick bro” leftism, where every political debate is reimagined as one side (read: the right always) “being a dick” to the other, a situation into which the leftist heroically intervenes at the last minute to state “don’t be a dick bro.”
This is the most popular form because, like most of their chud counterparts, and as per colonial tradition, most kiwigroids are grimacingly cheerful bores taken up with practical affairs and worldly business, even if that is just “surviving this fascist anti-Maori national government all day on Tiktok Live”, who don’t have the stillness, patience and subtlety (Europeanness) required for ideological, intellectual and historical arguments that are unavoidable iq tests in all political questions where kiwigroids are filtered.
The result is “don’t be a dick bro” leftism. Mentally and spiritually, over time, everyone here “goes bush” and loses touch with the threads of reason. Every political argument becomes in effect a gesture, a complaint, a haka: don’t be a dick bro.
China is a one-party totalitarian state under the CCP: no free elections, absolute party control, massive AI surveillance + social credit, cult of Xi, and a state-directed “socialism with Chinese characteristics” economy that subordinates private firms to national goals. Hyper-nationalism, ethnic repression, and militarism complete the picture. It’s functionally fascist. Leftist who constantly praise China need to admit that they are In favor of this. Then we can start to have real discussions.
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The crowd:
We hate data centers because they take tons of water, raise costs of living, and decrease the values of the community.
SpaceX:
We have engineered our data center to consume no water and have partnered with the local power plant to lower costs of energy, increase local government wages and fund programs all while providing hundreds of full time high paying jobs.
The crowd:
LIARS!!!!
The sad thing is that the majority of the American population is too uninformed to understand this. Most people don’t even know what the Federal Reserve is or what it does. This includes many, if not most, college graduates.
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Please be moderate 🙏. Can we be more like @BillClinton and less like @AOC
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If you sponsor this podcast, calling for the execution of Elon Musk, I will never use your product… and will buy from both of your top two competitors
This is unacceptable and dangerous.
This a dog whistle to murder someone because you disagree with them — and this is the same guy who joked about the assassination against President Trump.
Fuck this piece of shit.
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Our education system barely focuses on the Founding Fathers because if people simply read what they wrote, it would be radicalizing.
Many of the top issues in modern America were already thought of, argued, and solved by men much greater than the middle-aged women with bob cuts we have today.
Modern Democrats cannot answer hard questions. They act as if they shouldn’t be asked real ones in the first place.
NYC district attorneys go silent when confronted over alleged orders to downgrade charges against illegal immigrants nypost.visitlink.me/CpMvYA
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To quote Marcus Aurelius "You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
aka, don't worry about shit outside your control. Respond as necessary if it's in your control.
Someone educate me please. Surely it’s not actually this easy to vote illegally in California?
Sydney Sweeney votes in California! 😆
BRILLIANT ad by the Prop 39 campaign. Common sense is on the ballot in this election—and not just in the governor's race.
YES on Voter ID! teapaw.org/ca4voterid/status/2112…
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