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Jun 20 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Let us analyze and rate the truthfulness of each of Senator Lee’s five claims, based on the current Senate text of the bill (link in replies). TL;DR—four of the five claims are false, in whole or in part.
Claim 1: “The bill prohibits any sale of National Parks, National Monuments, Wilderness Areas, Historic Sites, Recreation Areas, and other protected units.”
Rating: True. Section (a)(4) defined “federally protected land,” which lists these and additional categories (actually, “a unit of the National Park System,” but presuming a unit is not some technical narrow category, it should be the same thing). Section (g)(4) forbids selling any “federally protected land.”
This prohibition is placed on the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management, and the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Forest Service, who together administer land sales of BLM land and National Forest land, respectively, under this program.
Jan 14 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Why are the English passive? In any Western country in history, what has been done to the British by their rulers and their pet migrants would result in the mass levying of private justice: the overthrow of the British government, the permanent neutering of the elites, and a long list of actions not discussable on X. Why has nothing needed been done? 1/
I think the main reason is not the obvious one. To be sure, there are obvious ones. Feminization. The totalitarian British terror state. Sedation by drugs, entertainment, and technology. All these matter. But the main reason is that all modern Western societies are low-trust societies. 2/
Dec 12, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
One magic day a year ago, all the Lords of Tech stopped threatening Elon Musk with destruction by deplatforming (as they did to Parler). Since Musk met with Tim Cook, we haven't heard a peep from any of them threatening Musk, whereas that's all we heard before. Why? 1/
In retrospect, it's obvious that in that meeting Musk threatened Apple with destruction (and more quietly, Google and AWS). 2/
Dec 2, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It is fascinating to see the two iron pillars of public worship for my whole lifetime, the consensus view of World War II and the so-called civil rights era, lose all power, and become mere distant historical events, not even ones of actual importance or relevance today. 1/
Nobody under 30, and few of the well-informed under 40, believes the old Manichean good guy-bad guy view of World War II. They instead see lots of bad guys and lots of gray. (Those who get their power from past caricatures hate this, which is why they excoriated @martyrmade, when he dared to point this out.)
Aug 26, 2024 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The Europeans would not have the problem of alien migrants if they had not failed to have children. Even if they expel of the invaders, their societies die unless they totally change their social structures. That's probably impossible. That's why I say Europe is over. 1/6
Sure, you can point to the heroic Reconquista. But that was a strong Christian society with lots of children. No examples of doing what's needed exist in modernity. 2/6
May 31, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is an interesting thread and linked article. I think it totally wrong in many respects. Twitter is awful for this, but a few points: 1/X
2/X: Life under Franco was excellent for most people. To say otherwise is ahistorical. The Church turned against Franco not for reasons of appointment conflict, but because it turned Left.
Jan 24, 2023 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
1. Today I follow up to this November tweet, and show @elonmusk has won. I claimed that his firings, by themselves, moved Twitter from negative profit to the profit margin of Apple or Google (approaching 30%). I was 100% correct, but I underestimated the new profit margin.
2. Last week, Musk said Twitter now has 2,300 employees. This means my estimate that Musk had fired 70% of Twitter’s employees was nearly exactly on-target (I had said Twitter had, after Musk’s cuts, 2,250 employees).
Nov 21, 2022 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
1. I will now examine Twitter’s past financials and predict the future from them. I conclude that criticism of @elonmusk is bizarrely off base, because Musk has overnight changed Twitter’s net (profit) margin from negative 20% to approximately plus 28%, more than Apple or Google.
2. I am using annualized percentages based on Twitter’s most recent quarterly filings, for the period ending 6/30/22. These documents are freely available at the SEC’s website.
