It is impossible for the US to mine & refine rare earths or rare metals (such as Lithium) without fundamental economic & environmental changes. We have no choice - though that doesn't mean we'll do it
Environment first - we need to overcome the hypocrisy of the Left with EVs. 1/
The move to make everything electric in the US, with rechargeable batteries is based on a peculiar kind of blindness.
The Left is extremely strict about environmental damage in the US, but pretends it doesn't exist if it is moved to other places.
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Oct 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Gray zone warfare is when one nation attacks another - but in a way that has "plausible deniability". Arguably, the world has been there for a number of years now.
This was a critical facility for the US military. Bulk explosives, land mines, and C4, among other weapons. 1/
Can we say for sure what happened here? No, there likely won't ever be definitive proof, and that is more or less the point. The Dems opened the borders, and millions of people came over, particularly military age men.
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Oct 6 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
While the media never presents it this way, it's important to understand that the Dems are inherently the party of Force & Violence.
The Dems want to control the behavior of other people, & to redistribute other peoples money through law, which is backed by Force of the State 1/
As an example, the Left wants to support the poor. Not through charity, but through MAKING the entire rest of the country pay taxes to support the poor. Anyone who refuses will be FORCED to pay, including imprisonment if they do not.
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Sep 30 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Technology makes most jobs, including farming, 10X to 20X easier than they were 2 centuries ago. We should have extraordinary amounts of free time. But, we don't. Why?
Every aspect of modern society is set up to allow multiple people to not (really) work, for each who does.
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Taxes are far higher from a societal perspective than what is ever presented. This isn't that hard to see.
Income taxes. Sales taxes. Property taxes. Medicare taxes. Social Security taxes. Gas taxes. Licenses & business taxes
Put all together - over 50% for genuine producers
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Sep 28 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The #1 priority for engineering colleges across the nation right now is attracting more women & minority engineers.
However, there's a problem. Engineering is hard. Things like calculus-based physics are really hard. Let's explore how colleges are getting around this. 1/
I have knowledge of a calculus-based physics course at a major college, that every engineer must pass. But, while it is critical, the college absolutely does not want the physics to be a "weed out" class, that could be problematic for the women & minority students.
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Sep 27 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Human sexuality has an animal basis - evolutionary biology, the quite different reproduction strategies for men & women that lead to descendants reaching adulthood.
Every civilized society, until now, tried to channel those base instincts into something beneficial for society 1/
Women had a mostly reliable strategy to find a man who would provide for their entire lives, who would protect them from other men, and who would provide a stable family & economic base for raising their childhood to adulthood.
In the West, women were treated well.
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Sep 25 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
My hot take is that women being unable to find "good men" is almost entirely the fault of the women. His daughter likely met many dozens of great young men, fine marriage material - and didn't even notice them. What got her romantic (sexual) interest was good-looking bad boys. 1/
We had many centuries of strict social controls to keep this from being a problem. Those all got tossed during the sexual revolution. And now that it's the granddaughters of the original "liberated" women, and the last remnants of shame or duty are gone -
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Sep 24 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
This was often referred to as the "brain drain", it was intentionally created, it was a problem for the Heartland for decades - and it has reversed over the last 5 years.
CA now comes to top Midwestern schools, even as the Northeast goes to the South because of DEI admissions 1/
Historically, the Ivies & adjacents used to recruit from every state, taking only the top students, which let them claim to be a national elite, while draining the best from the interior.
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Sep 19 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
The thread & linked article below are each vital for understanding the future of Europe - and its future options.
Europe has been quite thoroughly played by China. In the process they've created a global competitor who could depress European standards of living for decades. 1/
The graphs are well worth studying in both the thread & article.
Basically, China set out a trap for Europe, that was invisible from a financial globalization perspective, but was always clearly visible from a nation-state, competing geopolitical bloc perspective.
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Sep 16 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
"What we are seeing today is the accelerating dissolution of the post-1945 world order."
An analysis by Walter Russell Mead in today's WSJ (link later) covers some of the points from my post of two days ago👇. The rate of change is accelerating internationally & domestically 1/
European elites are trying to strike both Russia & the populist portions of their own populations simultaneously. The US is polarizing domestically even as it faces its most powerful opposition since the Cold War.
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Sep 15 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Women calling for violence against men for political beliefs are a bizarre element of where we are. They've been everywhere since the Kirk assassination, talking their shit into their phones
Um, guys understand that when you call for shooting someone, you may get shot instead 1/
That's how violence & wars have worked since the beginning of time. You want to call for someone else to be shot in the throat. Alrighty then, the other side has a moral to put a bullet right through your brain instead. It gets settled with guns, one side succeeds.
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Sep 14 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The Kirk assassination & aftermath has led to another turn of the ratchet of political polarization. The chances of wide-scale domestic violence rose again - not today, but within 10 years.
The chances of global wars are also building. These two sources of violence will merge
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The world is remilitarizing, as it splits into competing geopolitical blocs. Europe in particular is consumed by the 1-2 combination of harsh internal political repression, and a desire for military conflict with Russia. They don't have the power to do this on their own.
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Sep 13 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
As I look at what continues to unfold, I believe we have to keep two key words in mind:
1. Rage 2. Celebration
The RW feels a justified Rage at this assassination. Too many on the Left are openly Celebrating the murder of Kirk. Historically, that is an explosive combination. 1/
First, rage is a basic, powerful human emotion. It is appropriate at times. When your side kills one of our leaders in cold blood in front of his wife & children, oh yeah - a period of rage should be expected.
What makes this not an isolated act of violence is the Celebration
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Sep 13 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
In a reply to this post I was sent a link to the article "The Psychopath Ratio", by hollymathnerd. The article is by a woman, and she fundamentally misunderstands maleness.
Holly's concern is that the Left has the unrestrained psychopaths, and the nice family men of the RW 1/
would not have the necessary brutality to win the battle against psychopaths.
Men of all races, and even chimpanzee males, are the result of literally millions of years of brutal selection for organized violence. The vast majority of male DNA lines have ended over time.
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Sep 13 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The biggest lesson of the last 3 days is that there are many millions who think it is not just fine but moral to kill the many millions who think like me
Alrighty then. That's where we're at.
History is replete with examples of what usually comes next. We need to avoid this 1/
"Those evil bastards want to wipe out my tribe? How bout we kill every one of those f*ckers first!"
That's not extreme thinking, it is a natural human process. It's why history consists of almost continuous warfare, and why numerous wars are raging around the world today.
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Sep 11 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Long X feed this morning, and something I saw over & over again were variations of the post below, Leftist women celebrating the killing of Kirk.
This next point is a little nuanced for Twitter. The RW tends to think of women as loving, gentle mothers & princesses. Not all. 1/
People forget, but the world was a very different place before the globalization that followed the end of Bretton Woods. Markets were protected, exchange rates were fixed, and there were major legal restrictions on the movement of capital between countries.
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Sep 7 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Absent major changes, the coming decades are likely to be very painful for Europe, Canada & Australia. They not only are not world powers, the general populations don't even understand what true power is. They will learn.
The rest of the West exists in a sheltered environment 1/
The day to day existence of the average Euro or Leaf is based upon American hegemony, even while looking down on Americans. They simply can't handle reality.
We now have the rise (again) of competing geopolitical blocs who do understand taking power.
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Aug 27 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
20-30 years ago, for the general public, Dems & Repubs were kind of like intramural sports team opponents. Yeah, we disagreed, but as members of the same tribe.
That is no longer true. Dems have moved so far radically ( and violently) left, that centrism or reasonableness, 1/
are just illusions at this point, that are dangerous for the public at large.
A critical part of the bioleninism that has consumed the Left, is the concept of victim hierarchies. Hierarchy, victimhood, and allowable behaviors, are defined by political hierarchies.
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Aug 27 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Nerds are the source of all knowledge. Tolkien was a language & literature nerd, as the best sci fi authors were all nerd scientists and engineers.
The problem is when a non-nerd attempts to imitate a genuine nerd, and then we get derivative crap from idiots. 1/
Like to paint on paper with a brush? Quite a few nerds needed for that. Like to do it by electric light? Oh man, that takes a lot of nerds.
Like to post digital artwork to the internet for others to view over their phones?
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Aug 3 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Going from over 50% to under 15% of 30 year olds being married homeowners is entirely the result of the liberal philosophy - which also includes almost all modern centrists as well as most conservatives.
The issue is the worship of change with no consideration of consequences 1/
Particularly in the Midwest, as can be seen below, by the 1950s the US had produced something unique - by far the highest standard of living for most of the population that had existed in the history of the world.
