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In Mission Critical, we examine the industries that are essential to American life, but are often overlooked, even as they are under serious pressure.
Power infrastructure. Ports. Semiconductors.
The companies building in these areas are badass.
We bring you some electric stories from a few of them... First ones next week...
In this thread, I will dissect the hateful, sloppy NYT opinion piece attacking @elonmusk for being an Afrikaner.
It took me 15 seconds to confirm that the author, a socialist whose site the NYT calls "independent," is actually being bankrolled by... George Soros
Real shocker!
The crux of the article is that Elon Musk is a white supremacist because he was raised in apartheid South Africa, and his support for Trump, capitalism, and America is all rooted in racism.
"Free Enterprise" is given scare quotes!
You can feel the immense racial hatred emanating from every paragraph. It's palpable.
White. White. White. Evil. Evil. Evil.
If you don't understand how socialist socieities descend into mass murder, this is how. Blood guilt. Sins of the father. Hatred of private property.
Wharton statistician looks at Hamas’ casualty data and concludes they are likely falsifying to maintain a rolling mean & linear growth — and they don’t know how to avoid making anomalies obvious to Western analysts
Women:Children R2=0.017
Men:Women is *negative* with R2 = 0.835
“Perhaps…the Gaza ministry is releasing fake daily numbers that vary too little because they do not have a clear understanding of the behavior of naturally occurring numbers.”
The utter lack of correlation between the deaths of women and children is especially strange.
Essentially, the split between women and children is different every day but the total always the same.
The Israel-Hamas war, anti-semitism, and free speech in America
My reflections after three weeks of arguing in my country.
In general I am happy about the state of discourse in America, but I wish to address some criticisms of me, both honest and dishonest.
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I absolutely stand by my actions collecting public pro-terror statements and identifying who made them.
Yet I noticed an unhealthy impulse by many people on my side to report minor transgressions or private criticisms as if they *were* endorsements of mass murder.
Not all are!
As I explained to the New York Times, it actually *is* possible to separate the two.
And as I also pointed out, I have raised my voice before in support of the sacred speech rights of anti-Zionists
Last summer, a trans-owned, trans-staffed coffee shop in Philadelphia shut its doors after its (trans) employees conducted a "radical accountability process" against the owners.
This is the bizarre story of Mina's World, which I wrote about on my blog.
They accused the owners of a lot of charges
Including wage theft.
But they separately complained when the owners tried to *stop* wage theft -- when tips were literally stolen from the jar by teenagers.
Other complaints were vague:
"Anti-blackness in a multitude of forms & occasions"
"Tokenization as a way to appear safe by association"