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Fetterman is right:
"The acquisition of US Steel by a foreign company is wrong for workers and wrong for Pennsylvania. I’m gonna do everything I can to block it." pic.twitter.com/s7VCv9eP1R
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 18, 2023
In a world where you can be anything, be kind.. 😊
🎥 IG: fortheloveofass_ pic.twitter.com/pDUSqFDcyE
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 18, 2023
Few understand that it isn’t a pro Palestine or Israel thing. It’s a pro hamas gathering. pic.twitter.com/wJ8haHpuFL
— @Laughs4Liberty (@Laughs4Liberty) December 18, 2023
Never underestimate the all-consuming desire of liberal white women to virtue signal their commitment to the progressive cause https://t.co/Vh9GlzhvOO
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) December 18, 2023
And a perfect summary of the woke and stupid:
https://twitter.com/Levandov_2/status/1736717366719860810
Letitia James:
Net Worth: $15 Million
Annual income: $4 million
Other income: $3.9 Million
Stock portfolio: $2.6 million
Salary: $103,375 per year
Maybe this should be investigated? pic.twitter.com/rqvABJThj4
— Joel Fischer 🇺🇸 (@realJoelFischer) December 17, 2023
Everything Tucker says here is the truth pic.twitter.com/c5QxbEQjtn
— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) December 18, 2023
“…But it turns out that the claim that Nelson was pro-slavery is false. It is based on a letter that he wrote to a Caribbean planter shortly before his death, but we now know that the letter, in the version in which it became known, is a forgery. Anti-abolition planters, desperate to recruit the dead hero to their cause, made 25 changes to the letter Nelson actually wrote, and destroyed the original. We know this now only because Nelson’s copy of the letter, which has long languished among his papers in the British Library, recently came to light.
What were Nelson’s actual views on slavery? The Telegraph writes:
Mr Brett says he has amassed a wealth of evidence that shows Nelson’s views were quite different from the depiction of him by his modern-day critics.
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Mr Brett says Nelson was relatively liberal in his views on race by the standards of the day.
He said: “Other evidence shows that Nelson actually freed slaves, argued against the Barbary slave trade and supported proposals for slaves to be replaced with paid labour.
“The accusation that he used his role in the Lords to support slavery does not stand up to scrutiny – he spoke only six times and never mentioned it.
“And the charge of him being a ‘white supremacist’ is based on zero evidence. He had black sailors in his navy as well as freed slaves who were paid the same as everyone else. If Nelson hated any people it was the French.
“The last person’s hand he shook on land before departing on his final voyage was that of a black sailor – a friend of his.”
The “racist” smear against Nelson lives on, despite being supported by no evidence, because certain people want to perpetrate it. Such charges are not made out of any genuine concern for the long-gone victims of slavery through the millennia, but rather to discredit the history of selected countries–i.e., the United States and Great Britain, but not China or Brazil. The project is a purely political one…”
“…In recent years, there have been a lot of catchphrases around science: “Follow the science!” “We believe in science!” Even “The science is settled!”
Well, sometimes it’s not settled. Sometimes it’s not even really science. But lots of people believe in it or follow it anyway. It’s a global problem.
Most recently, we learned that a widely noticed 2012 study co-authored by Dan Ariely — whom the journal Science refers to as a “superstar honesty researcher” — was based on fake data.
Ariely is indeed a superstar, and his work is highly influential. He’s written multiple New York Times bestsellers. He founded a center at Duke University. And his research has affected the policies of corporations and government institutions.
Ariely’s 2012 paper found that people were more honest when they signed a promise to be honest at the beginning of a transaction than when they signed the same promise at the end. The idea was that the early exposure to the importance of honesty set the tone. The Obama administration’s Social and Behavioral Sciences Team recommended this approach to the government. It seemed like a cheap and easy way of promoting good behavior.
The only problem is, it’s not true. Other scientists found that his work couldn’t be replicated. And a deep dive into the data Ariely used determined that it couldn’t possibly be correct. Even Ariely agrees that the criticisms are “damning” and “clear beyond doubt.”
Did Ariely commit fraud — he says no — or was the data set he got from an insurance company faked for some reason? People are looking into that, but in a way the problem is bigger. Whether or not it was Ariely’s fault, a study that influenced policy turns out to have been baseless. And scientific peer review, often defended as the gold standard for research, didn’t spot the problem…”
Remember what Feynman said:
Why do the hard work of actually figuring out things when pseudoscience has become socially acceptable pic.twitter.com/QKf5wdQdK2
— There's no "I" in craftmanship (@6851cf3c) December 25, 2021
“…The staffer in question, an aide to Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin, one Aidan Maese-Czeropski, responded indignantly on LinkedIn:
This has been a difficult time for me, as I have been attacked for who I love…
In fairness, he was mostly attacked not “for who I love” but for where he loves him. Nevertheless, I assumed that this defence would prove effective – and that no Washington bigshot would dare to pink-slip a gay guy for getting caught being gay. Besides, in the broader sense, in a decadent pseudo-republic with no equality before the law, it seems entirely natural that some citizens rot in gaol merely for passing half-an-hour ambling aimlessly around the People’s House- and other, more favoured citizens can with impunity roger like billy-ho on the very People’s Table that determines the composition of the highest court in the land. The symbolism is too perfect…”
“…Democratic Washington state representatives pre-filed a bill on Dec. 5 that would make operating a gas-powered lawn mower or leaf blower a gross misdemeanor punishable by jail time, a fine or both…”
MUST WATCH: Comedy legend Roseanne Barr GOES OFF on fascist commie dictators:
“I’m all in for President Trump. If I ain’t all in they’re going to put my a** in a gulag. We deserve to have an election with paper ballots, proper ID to prove that you’re a US citizen.” 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Fv62Xh8iFF
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) December 17, 2023
Anthony Fauci – Liar Extraordinairepic.twitter.com/9geDGMxglJ
— MAZE (@mazemoore) December 17, 2023
— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) December 15, 2023
— The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) December 16, 2023
https://twitter.com/kristina_wong/status/1735806340717588670
The Catholic Church needs an overhaul.