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Vlad Frolov retweeted
SECRETARY RUBIO: When our predecessors first arrived in North America, there were no factories, no railroads, no skyscrapers. These things exist because we built them.
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Joe Lonsdale: The wealthiest ZIP codes in the country are the ones around Washington D.C. because of government grift and crony capitalism.
SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler: We just removed a 150 Washington D.C.-based so called small, disadvantaged businesses from the program because they were neither small or disadvantaged, but they were Washington cronies.
Joe Lonsdale: People say the wealthiest ZIP codes in the country are the ones around Washington D.C. because there's just so much money that... the government takes from all of us and just gives it out right around here.
...There's a woman named Margarita Howard. Did you hear about this one?
She lived in a 14,000 square foot mansion after her company secured hundreds of millions of 8(a) contracts [for small and disadvantaged businesses].
...It's like no one was even looking for years and they just kept getting so rich off these things.
Adm. Loeffler: And, politically, the Biden administration really promoted this.
They moved it up from a 5% statutory target to 15% of all government contracting.
That's why the program almost doubled under Biden, and it went to about 80% no-bid contracts.
Joe Lonsdale: Just give them to friends.
@JTLonsdale @SBA_Kelly
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Vlad Frolov retweeted
At 16, Brian Banks was one of the best high school linebackers in America. USC had offered him a full scholarship. Pete Carroll personally called him.
One afternoon at school he made out with a classmate. Consensual. By the end of the day he was in jail, charged with kidnapping and rape.
She said he dragged her into a stairwell. It never happened.
The DNA came back negative. His mother sold her house and her car to pay for a lawyer.
He couldn’t make bail. He spent a year behind bars waiting for trial.
His lawyer told him: plead no contest, or risk 41 years in prison. He was 17. He took the deal.
He did 5 years in prison. Then 5 more on parole. Registered sex offender. GPS monitor on his ankle. Couldn’t go near schools or parks. No one would hire him.
Meanwhile, the girl and her mother sued the school district for not keeping her safe. They won $1.5 million.
In 2011, a Facebook friend request popped up on his screen.
It was her.
She wanted to “let bygones be bygones.”
Brian went to a private investigator. They hid cameras in the office and invited her to talk. She came by bus.
On tape, she admitted it. He never raped her. He never kidnapped her.
Then she said she still wouldn’t tell prosecutors the truth. Because she’d have to give back the money.
In May 2012, a judge cleared his name. The hearing took less than a minute.
10 years of his life. Gone in one lie. Erased in 60 seconds.
A few days later his phone rang. “I’m looking for a linebacker. You know where I can find one?”
It was Pete Carroll. The same coach who recruited him 10 years earlier.
He finally signed with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons. At 27. The dream he had at 16.
She was ordered to pay $2.6 million back.
What should happen to someone who steals 10 years of your life with one lie?
Vlad Frolov retweeted
white girls make funny noises: 🚨🚨 INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT 🚨🚨 and 24/7 media coverage
a black man attempts murder after being asked not to piss on someone’s door: 🦗🦗
if you look at who you can’t criticize and who gets preferential treatment, America is, for all intents and purposes, a black supremacist country
Vlad Frolov retweeted
Once you understand the incentive, the reason for the behavior becomes obvious: they are importing a left-voting bloc that depends on government handouts.
A prominent example of this in America is Ilhan Omar and her Somali voting bloc in Minnesota, an area which used to be primarily Nordic-German.
Importing voters is a CERTAIN path to a single-party supermajority and has ALREADY happened at the state level in California and New York. It also explains why those states have BANNED VOTER ID in order to accelerate a permanent socialist supermajority, destroying any semblance of democracy.
We stand on the precipice of disaster, an end to America.
Vlad Frolov retweeted
Ken Langone, Home Depot co-founder, on the claim that capitalism only serves the people who already have money:
Joe Lonsdale: "A cynical young person might say, of course you love capitalism. You're a billionaire. What would you say to them?"
Ken Langone: "But I wasn't when I started. I didn't have a silver spoon in my mouth — if I did, I never saw it.
The point is, Joe, we bring a lot of people to the party with us.
Think of the fact that Bernie, Arthur, and I and Pat Farrah, four of us, with $2 million in capital. Today, we have a half a million associates."
@JTLonsdale
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BREAKING 🚨: Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working, ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.”
Jemele Hill: “How is it not?”
Kmele Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is. That is not white supremacy.”
Jemele Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”
Kmele Foster: “I’ve actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”
Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”
Kmele Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”
Jemele Hill: “How was it absurd?”
Kmele Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”
Jemele Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”
Kmele Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy?… What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?”
Vlad Frolov retweeted
Somalia has received $28B in aid in the last 20 years.
For context Japan received an inflation-adjusted $24B in aid after being nuked twice, having its capital firebombed to ash, and having a quarter of its forces killed.
Somalia is on the brink of famine—and for the first time in decades, America isn’t doing anything to help a country in that condition, Hana Kiros reports.
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US aid to Somalia exceeded $7 billion from FY2015-FY2025 per official US government data, before sharp cuts and pauses in 2025-2026 following allegations of waste, theft, and diversion including a destroyed US-funded warehouse.
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Vlad Frolov retweeted
20 years ago Russia pumped a lot of money into anti-oil and gas activism in America
Today China is pumping lots of money into anti-data center activism
We should reject both movements
Oil and data centers are good for America
Incredible stuff.
A Maryland mall closed down over 20 years ago and the lot has been sitting vacant since. A developer planned to invest $5 billion in a data center.
Instead, a China-tied group worked with a local activist to block the development.
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Vlad Frolov retweeted
If you have a refrigerator with food, you are rich enough to be afraid of socialism.
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We don’t have to agree on everything guys, but here’s what we do need to agree on if we want America to continue being America:
- All forms of collectivism are bad and against the US Constitution, including but not limited to Marxism, communism, socialism, Naziism, DSA, fascism, and Islamism.
- The US Constitution was built for a moral Christian population and is wholly inadequate for any other (yes, this includes immigrants of different faiths and values that refuse to assimilate).
- The mass welfare state that has become the biggest welfare state in the world and gives away multiple trillions of dollars a year must be drastically scaled back.
- Our military is the primary reason the USD is the world’s reserve currency and our economy stays afloat because of that fact, so we must stop acting like every time it is necessary to use our military to shape international affairs that it is a bad thing for America, because it is not.
- Our education system is entirely broken and must be revamped from pre-school through higher education and be based on legitimate history, merit, and a genuine commitment to knowledge.
- The federal government must return to its original Constitutional intent, shrink by 90%, and stay out of the lives of everyday Americans as much as possible. Local and state governments are more in tune with what their people actually need, and should supersede the federal government in almost all government related affairs.
There is much more I could go into, obviously, but I think this is a good start.
Share your thoughts and what you would add to this list.
Vlad Frolov retweeted
Most group differences in average IQ, time preference, and impulse control are real, substantially heritable, and the strongest predictors of gaps in income, crime, and educational achievement. Treating every disparity as proof of discrimination or "systemic" failure produces policies that ignore the data and make the gaps worse.
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I started a petition to declassify Islam as a religion in the United States. We have over 25,000 signatures. When you have mosque leaders registering people to vote in mosques, Muslim politicians speaking about their campaigns in mosques, jakat aka tithe alloted to funding elections, mosques driving people to the polls, imams telling people who to vote for, knocking doors and then telling everyone you will win by ballot or by bullet, we’ve had enough. Then waving their foreign flags and talking about how THEY WILL be in every tent and home in America. Boasting on video about how they will take over, calling a state the capitol of Arab America! That makes you an ideology! They need to lose their 5013c and all benefits!
Political Islam is more than a religious belief system; it is an ideology with documented historical roots in government, law, military conquest, and political power.
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Vlad Frolov retweeted
I fucking love working with engineers man.
While a lot of stuff in engineering is a judgement call, a lot of it isn’t.
And I just love that engineering practice and culture never hides that.
Literally every other vocation has some element of face saving behavior when proven wrong in public.
And so many good engineering cultures are like
> the answer is 100
> no actually it’s 200
> oh you’re right I’m wrong
And then people go on with the right information.
It’s truly insane how common in some vocations someone can call the sky green in a meeting and either nobody will correct them on it or they won’t admit it and “take it offline and circle back” without ever admitting fault.
And the biggest thing is that so many engineering leaders will get corrected by subordinates.
That’s really fucking rare out there.
In other vocations corrections so often go strictly down the org chart.
Lots of companies have it all and get everything right. Engineering lead companies often do.
But so many people out only complain about “engineer” or “engineering brain” and it’s literally just people who won’t let you say random false shit constantly.
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Still thinking about this note Cormac McCarthy made in his private journal that my fiancée and I stumbled on last year in the Wittliff Collections: “The moral clarity of the English-speaking people has been a thousand years perfecting. It is a pointless task to imagine such a struggle taking markedly less time than this in some other culture. The notion that we are all as one is nonsense.”
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Karmelo Anthony stabbed a white kid to death and was still able to stay in school and graduate with no issues while his family raised half a million dollars and bought a new house. A white girl made a noise into a Ring camera and had to withdraw from school for her own safety within a day of the video being posted online. That basically tells you everything you need to know about the racial disparities in this country.
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Joe Lonsdale on China's cognitive warfare and why it matters for the AI race: "China has an official branch of their military that does cognitive warfare... If that's going to be powered by a huge number of the smartest AI entities, that's actually really scary if they get there first."
Christopher Zook: How important is it that we win this AI race?
Joe Lonsdale: I do think you're gonna have the equivalent of thousands of very high-IQ actors that you have access to. And if you get there first, it's geopolitically extremely relevant.
So if you can imagine the bad guys having that...that's probably not very good for us...
A lot of the defense companies we talked about — we talk about sea, land, air and cyber.
The fifth one you might call is cognitive, and there's all these ways in which you can basically strategically map out all the information about people in a country and figure out how to influence them and how to influence their culture and influence decisions they make.
China has an official branch of their military that does this and tries to figure it out. If that's gonna be powered by a huge number of the smartest entities, that's actually really scary if they get it first."
@JTLonsdale @ChristopherZook
Breaking News: Nvidia opened an investigation into Jensen Huang, its CEO, after he acknowledged to the company’s board that he had been intimate with a business executive who U.S. intelligence determined to be a Chinese spy. nyti.ms/3ViPMAt
Vlad Frolov retweeted
American Pastor warns his church of the Islamic Takeover of America after what happened during Midterms
He shows his congregation all the Muslims that are now elected and will serve in American government
“Ladies and gentlemen, those of you who didn't vote, you voted. 255 Muslims who cannot, cannot swear allegiance to the Constitution. It is forbidden in Islam.
They must swear allegiance to Sharia law, which is a completely different government. On Tuesday, the United States of America said no to the republic and yes to the very government and military and religion that hit us on September 11th, 2001. We have surrendered. It's their party now”
‘Millions of Evangelical Christians failed to vote during the midterms. Look at the consequences. Most churches are now irrelevant social clubs’
- There are now over 255 Muslims elected serving in office
- 8 Muslims elected to Congress
• 97 Muslim candidates won election or reelection across federal, state, and local offices in 21 states
- More than 160 Muslims ran for office
He’s right it’s time to fight for your country. It’s time to use churches as voting bases just like Muslims do with mosques
If we don’t get serious about this, we will fall to Islam. The proof is as clear as day
“If Texas goes down, Islam knows the nation falls. Prepare your children, prepare your hearts, prepare your faith.”
