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15 Apr, 5 tweets, 3 min read
So I recently tried to share a @TimKennedyMMA video ...only to be told "independent" fact checkers found it "partly false" that authoritarian regimes used gun control.

instagram.com/tv/CNdK-V9Fm86/

So I went down a rabbit hole...and TLDR is that fact checking is a total lie.
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"Independent" Politifact claims theres "no direct link" between said regimes and gun control.

Politifact's position is literally "Yes, Tim K's right that this happened, but authoritarian regimes didn't say they murdered people bc they were disarmed so he's wrong."

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That is...extremely stupid.

Something someone could only believe if they were being paid to do it.

Speaking of that, seems like "independent" is owned by the Poynter Institute...so who funds Poynter?

politifact.com/who-pays-for-p…

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So...I went to Poynter's website and...it lists its "Major Funders" as Facebook (which owns Instagram) and Google. And Soros of course.

poynter.org/major-funders/

So Facebook/Instagram's "independent" fact checker is...paid for by Facebook.

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In summary, "independent" fact checkers are Fake News.

They are SO NOT INDEPENDENT that there's literally only one layer of separation...which can be tracked down in about 50 seconds.

Also, Big Tech wants to take our guns.

#2A #FakeNews

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15 Apr
Libs like to live in their alternative reality, but its just dumb.

Biden won by 74 electoral votes. Hillary lost by 77.

You wouldn't say "the Chiefs won SuperBowl because they had more total yardage"

Because SuperBowls aren't scored on yards, they're scored on points.

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And...this is the important bit...if you changed SuperBowls to be scored by yardage instead of points, you're changing the game to such an extent that both sides would change their tactics (as would voters.)

I mean...DUH!

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This progressive's argument is literally "if you change the rules, both sides will behave in exactly the same way."

No...they won't. Obviously.

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13 Apr
What if I told you that in this overly woke era constantly on the lookout for new prejudices to denounce... there's a group society DEEPLY oppresses by lib "disparate impact" standards who Libs actively encourage discrimination against?
That group is "short men."

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I'm 6'3"s though, so I'm not saying this for myself. Only to make the point.

I think it's time we asked why Libs think discrimination against the short is not only considered tolerable...but amusing? Height prejudice isn’t demonized today

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Evidence for discrimination against short men is widespread (and I'll discuss that more directly with any doubters the comments, but I think we can agree this is true for the sake of argument.)

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6 Jan
I won't sugar coat this...this is a disaster.

If Nov. was Pearl Harbor...we got hit again and lost all carriers.

Our retaliatory options are limited and better employed as shields than swords

But America has survived worse. Here's how we will survive this

#MAGA #2A

1/MANY
First, just the facts about situation.

1: Very soon, Democrats will have (narrow) unified political control of all 3 branches of government and can wreck US.

2: Our country is in an awful position financially due to the Obama spending during the good times.

2/MANY
3: They will greatly escalate "cancellation," likely creating blacklists of people like us.

4: They will use the full force and power of Gov't against us (look up AFP vs Harris), they've been rationalizing it 4 years.

3/MANY
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6 Jan
Read the replies.

This thread has really really lowered my already low expectations for academic political scientists.
My point is that Germany TRIED a "center consensus" candidate, Hindenburg, to stop the Nazis from taking over in a multiparty system.

We KNOW that didn't work...and plenty of examples exist of coalition systems empowering extremists both left-and right Image
The response from academics was to say that I wasn't being fair to them and that I was wrong for some reason they refused to specify. ImageImage
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3 Jan
This is an especially stupid argument...

There's a bunch of things wrong here, let's go point by point.

First off, the gun homicide rate in US is lowest in states with highest gun ownership. Image
Interestingly enough, Wyoming has a murder rate the same as right across the border in more gun-controlled Canada...about a third of the US as a whole.

BC factors giving Canada a low murder rate give Wyoming a low murder rate...and those don't include lower gun ownership.
Similarly, there are many US states that combine very low firearm ownership with very high murder rates.

The highest "state" murder rate in the country is that of Washington, DC, which has a murder rate of 21.8, more than twenty times that of Wyoming
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15 Aug 20
Progressives and their media friends are flat out lying to you about mail in voting.

What they are doing is an EXCEEDINGLY dangerous attempt to delegitimize the 2020 election if/when they lose it.

#USPSsabotage #USPS #MailInVoting #MailInBallots

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First off, mail in voting so far this year has...indisputably...been a disaster.

The NY Congressional race between Maloney and Patel makes this clear.

TWENTY PERCENT of ballots were tossed in that race. TWENTY PERCENT!

queenseagle.com/all/2020/7/17/…

Same thing happened in NJ

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It took SIX WEEKS to declare a victor and (more) progressive candidate refused to concede...went on MSNBC and said “voter suppression is a real thing" in the Dem party.

This happened because #USPS got overwhelemed in a fairly low turnout race relative to general election.

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