On a break with my wife for a few days, a rare one, on one of the islands a bit away from home. There are bees here, wild ones, but no one keeps hives. Talking to people, it’s clear they see them as pests, not as the core of life itself. Some catch the wild bees, tear apart the hive to get the honey, and that’s it—destroy the colony, take the sweetness, move on. When bees build somewhere inconvenient, they don’t relocate them, don’t start a new colony—they fumigate. Kill them off like they’re worthless. It’s maddening. Bees are worth more than all the noise about climate change, more than every plastic straw crusade and green slogan put together. Without them, none of it matters—no food, no fruit, no crops. People don’t get it. They don’t see that every hive burned is another step toward empty fields and silent gardens. You can’t eat ideology. You can’t live on policy slogans. But you can starve when the bees are gone.

The vote is neither a right nor a reward nor a privilege. It is an office. This is Heinlein's point. One who wields force on behalf of the state is an "officer". He is not someone who has been rewarded with the power to wield violence. Nor is he someone who wields violence as a right or privilege, because he has no right whatsoever to do so beyond the exact scope of his duties. Wielding this violence is his job. His office. And he is appointed to that office by reason of being qualified and verified according to a set of criteria. And if wielding discretionary violence on behalf of the state is an office, so is deciding the policies and guidelines which define the scope of that officer's duties. Thus, representative is also an office. And if representatives are elected by vote, and are ultimately to be accountable to voters, then to be a voter, to be a member of the "demos" from which the word democracy derives... that, too, is an office. There can be no question that the cutesy phrases modern leftists use to describe the vote, such as "exercise your rights", and "make your voice heard" are illegitimate and unjust. To vote is to exercise control over the actions of others, and no one has a right to a "voice" in what others do. The only legitimate reason for that control is to restrain others from anti-social action, which is a practical necessity, not an individual right. Thus, the vote is an office, which must be held by those who are qualified — proven capable and willing to set aside their own interests and exercise power solely on behalf of the group. This is Heinlein's point, elegantly and irrefutably argued. This is why Heinlein is the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, and it is also why leftists hate him. Because what is leftism? It is a rebellion against civilization itself, motivated by the desire to tear open and loot the storehouse, to gut the accumulation of stored effort, wisdom, and self-control, the inheritance of all future generations, in an orgy of hedonistic consumption. Leftism is the rats convincing the farmers that cats are fascists. But just as cats were necessary for creating civilization, the officers of the demos, the citizens who can put aside their own desires and act in the interest of the republic, are necessary for preserving it. The majority of the human race cannot or will not see beyond their own desires for more wealth, more pleasure, more status, and less work. They must be restrained even by the most libertarian of civilizations, because without that restraint, there is no civilization, and without civilization, no liberty. America would be better off with only 10,000 voters, vetted for intelligence, prosocial attitudes, loyalty or America, and skin in the game. Perhaps even 1,000 would suffice. Failing that, pretty much any test of competence, loyalty, or worth applied as a filter on the vote would improve America immensely. Net worth, ability to pass an algebra or reading comprehension test, anything. The Constitution has no language forbidding any prerequisite for voting, other than sex, race, or the payment of a poll tax. But first we must tear down the delusion that the vote belongs to everyone. Heinlein got us started.

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RFK Jr: "It's a trick". Robert F Kennedy Jr: "The vaccine is ineffective for the first 6 weeks after the first shot [and] during that period the covid infection rate goes up, and the death rate goes up, [and] the official data, do not count you as vaccinated until 2 weeks after the second shot ... so the deaths that happen during that first 6 weeks, are attributed to unvaccinated people, [it's] a statistical trick". "By the 7th month, it has lapsed into negative efficacy [so] if you had that vaccine, you are more likely to get covid then somebody that has NEVER been vaccinated [and this] data is holding up across every country in the World" This hid vaccine injuries, deaths and gave the appearance the unvaccinated were getting sick and dying more. This "statistical trick" was turned into data and graphs used by social media influencers to sell more mRNA injections.

We must end the cycle of dependence and offer paths forward for personal responsibility and economic freedom.

In the hills of Costa Rica, grazing cattle are doing what nature designed them to do—regenerate the land. Their hooves aerate the soil, their manure restores nutrients, and their grazing stimulates grass growth that pulls more carbon from the air. This isn’t destruction. It’s balance. Cattle are part of the ancient carbon cycle that sustains life on Earth. Methane from their burps breaks down in about a decade—unlike the industrial emissions driving real climate damage. Yet billionaire technocrats like Bill Gates want to replace this natural system with lab-grown sludge made from chemicals and steel vats, claiming it’s “green.” Grazing cattle turn sunlight, grass, and water into nutrient-dense food that has nourished humanity for millennia. Regenerative herds heal ecosystems, restore biodiversity, and produce the healthiest protein on the planet. No fake meat can replicate that. Real beef. Real soil. Real regeneration.

🚨 “The Law in Denmark is that we feed Bovaer to our Cows” “On Friday we had the first Cow down, on Saturday - two more Cows down” More Farmers are coming out & stating their Cows are dying since being forced to consume Bill Gates Bovaer Animal Feed - this stuff is getting into peoples Milk & Meat as well as clearly damaging & killing the Cows. Always Bill Gates.

Our nation was built on a foundation of individual liberty, personal responsibility & limited government. We believe that every individual has the right to live as they choose, provided they respect others’ rights to do the same. Make America Libertarian Again

Imagine a raccoon comes to your door and it won't go away, so you feed it. Then 5 raccoons come to your door and won't go away. You feed them. Then 300 racoons come to your door. You say "Go away, racoons!" I can't feed 300 of you! The raccoons get angry. They run all over your roof, try to pry open your windows, throw your trash everywhere, rip up your garden. You take out a loan to feed 300 raccoons. 20,000 raccoons come to your door. That sounds pretty stupid, huh? No one would ever be that stupid! Anyway, food and housing should be free for everyone even illegals because it makes me a nice person to say it :) let's feed them :) it'll all get better by itself

"We cannot afford to trust the WHO anymore" Dr. Wahome Ngare from Kenya exposes a vaccination campaign choreographed by the World Health Organization, where Kenyan Doctors discovered Tetanus vaccine vials containing trace amounts of HCG. "We were able to expose this, and we have even published a paper that is available" Dr. Wahome: "They take tetanus, and combine it with a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) that supports pregnancy, and when you inject a woman with that vaccine, she produces antibodies against that hormone and therefore is rendered sterile" Over a 20 year period, the WHO developed "fertility regulating" vaccines, with the help of lead Indian scientist Gursaran Pran Talwar.

Money is only “hard” when it circulates. If it isn’t used, it isn’t money; it’s a stagnant asset with a mythology attached. Gold proved this. It didn’t fail because it was worthless; it failed because it was slow, cumbersome, and operationally expensive. When it stopped moving hand-to-hand, it was abstracted into warehouse receipts, then bank notes, then layers of claims on top of claims. By 1971 the fiction was naked: there wasn’t enough bullion to redeem the outstanding paper, so Nixon simply severed convertibility. He didn’t invent fiat that night; he admitted the convertibility promise had already died. History didn’t break—accounting honesty did. BTC is marching down the same road for the same structural reason: at ~5 transactions per second it is too slow, too brittle, and too capacity-starved to be used as everyday cash. When a monetary instrument can’t handle the throughput of ordinary life, markets route around it. They push activity off-chain into exchanges, custodians, and payment wrappers. “Wrapped BTC,” internal ledgers, derivatives, and IOUs proliferate. Claims multiply far beyond base supply. That is fractional reserve by another name, and it is already here. If you think this won’t mirror gold’s fate, you haven’t learned a thing from monetary history—history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes, and the rhyme scheme is obvious. The only way a monetary asset stays hard is by being used at scale, on-chain, as cash. Not as collateral for someone else’s promise. Not as a museum piece you HODL while middlemen re-issue notes against it. Used. Settled. Final. That demands orders of magnitude more capacity—not five transactions per second, not 5,000, not even 5,000,000. Keep going. Think in the direction of global retail, machine-to-machine micropayments, wages, bills, metered content, escrow, invoices—real commerce in real time. When people can pay directly and cheaply, without custodians, the temptation and the need to wrap and rehypothecate collapses. The base asset becomes the settlement layer for everything, and hardness emerges from honesty in exchange, not from a romantic story about digital scarcity. As soon as you throttle throughput, you force reliance on intermediaries. Intermediaries issue claims. Claims inflate. That’s exactly how the gold “standard” rotted from within, and it’s exactly what happens to a five-TPS network pretending to be money. You don’t stop inflation by worshipping an artificially scarce base; you stop it by making settlement so cheap and ubiquitous that nobody needs a synthetic substitute. Until then, what you have is a speculative chip propped up by layers of IOUs—Fiat 2.0 with a blockchain marketing department. So drop the catechism. Hard money is not a vibe, a meme, or an austerity cosplay. It is a property of systems that clear real economic activity at massive scale with minimal trust. If you want BTC to be hard, make it usable—and used. Until that happens, wrapped claims, custodial balances, and exchange inventories will metastasise, just as they did with gold, and the “hardest” money in your imagination will continue to soften everywhere it actually matters: in practice.

Well, that’s complete nonsense. Bitcoin doesn’t use encryption at all. None. Zero. Every transaction is public, verifiable, and traceable by design. If Musk’s new toy uses “encryption similar to Bitcoin,” then congratulations—it’s sending messages in plain text for the world to see. Bitcoin’s security isn’t about hiding information; it’s about proving it. Hashing, not encryption. Validation, not secrecy. Mixing those up is like confusing a lock with a light switch. But then again, tech journalism has never let understanding get in the way of a headline. #BitcoinIsNotEncrypted #BuzzwordBingo

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The American Academy of Pediatrics warned that calling breastfeeding “natural” was dangerous—because mothers might start believing natural things are healthier & begin questioning vaccines. When “natural” becomes a threat, you know it’s no longer about health—it’s about control.

One by one the Gates' conspiracies are falling apart. Researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln have discovered that pastures where cattle graze can capture more emissions than what the cattle produce themselves. "Grasslands can take up more CO₂... that offsets the CO₂ the cattle are producing, but also offsets the methane."

Leftist arguments are intended to generate heat, not light. They are designed so that you have to write pages of text to dispute that they said in a sentence. When they get you to do that, some people will read the sentence, but not the rebuttal. That is the left's target audience, and their margin of victory. This is why the Old Right lost. The New Right, however, is internet-savvy, and understands meme warfare. The goal and purpose of meme warfare is make your counter as simple as the attack. You still write the text, as @memeticsisyphus has done below, but you do it with the understanding that such text is for your allies... to help them come up with memes and arguments, and to fill them with confidence and solidarity. The way you respond to leftists saying "billionaires hoard wealth" is to say: "Behold, the Scrooge McDuck School of Economics". Nevermind that, apparently as I am told, the Scrooge McDuck cartoon actually spent a lot of time explaining the sound principles of capitalism. That's another long explanation, and the point here is to mock leftists with the image of a cartoon duck swimming in a pile of gold coins.

HOLEE SHIZZLES‼️ Texas AG Ken Paxton just won a $1.375 BILLION Settlement against GOOGLE — the largest ever, with a single state. What Google did should Shock Everyone… - Unlawful Location Tracking: Even after users disabled location history features on their Android or iOS devices, Google continued to collect and store geolocation data WITHOUT CONSENT. - Google's "Incognito" or private browsing feature in Chrome was marketed as not tracking search history or location activity. Google STILL collected and used this data for advertising and other purposes. - Unauthorized Biometric Data Collection: Google captured and STORED sensitive biometric identifiers—such as voiceprints (from voice searches or Assistant interactions) and facial geometry (from photo analysis in services like Google Photos)— WITHOUT obtaining informed consent. Like I’ve always said, data is more valuable than gold. Thank you @KenPaxtonTX! Is Google still allowed to keep the biometric data they ILLEGALLY collected?

Every man on earth walks with the ghosts of slaves in his blood. Every woman carries the echo of chains long rusted. There is no tribe, no empire, no race of innocents. The sanctimonious chorus of modern guilt forgets that bondage was not an invention of Europe, nor a sin peculiar to the West—it was the human condition. The Greeks made philosophy while slaves tilled their fields. The Romans built marble gods atop the backs of men who owned nothing but their breath. The Chinese dynasties, radiant with invention, built walls and palaces with hands they never paid. Africa had kingdoms that traded flesh as currency before a European ship ever darkened its shores. The Arabs turned slavery into a profession; the Vikings into an export. Even the noble Celt, so fond of mythologising his oppression, trafficked in captives when the market was good. To speak of slavery as a Western aberration is to commit an act of historical amnesia so profound it borders on deceit. Civilisation, for millennia, was constructed on servitude—one generation wielding the whip so the next could debate virtue. It is not a racial story. It is the story of humanity: the powerful ruling the weak, the clever justifying the act, and the rest pretending it was ordained by heaven. Freedom, in truth, is the anomaly. It arrived not through outrage but through reason—through the cold logic of men who concluded that productivity, not pity, required liberty. The end of slavery was not a moral awakening but a triumph of economics and law over sentiment. Men did not suddenly grow kind; they grew efficient. The machine made the whip obsolete. So when the preachers of grievance summon ancestral ghosts, they forget that their chains and mine are the same. The difference is not in colour, but in century. Every civilisation has its ruins built from other men’s labour, and pretending otherwise is not justice—it’s vanity disguised as virtue. #HistoryNotMyth #AllBloodIsServile

let me translate: we, the anxious and ill-informed are desperate for some sort of talismanic religion to make ourselves feel better and feel seen. we are willing to play at weaponized empathy games to drag you all into our dehumanizing pseudoscience cult of ineffective NPI's because it's a way to wield power and feel in control. the reality is that masks do nothing to stop the spread of respiratory disease in public (or any) settings. they don't work on flu, covid, colds, nada. they do not even work to stop infection in operating theaters when worn by trained surgeons. anyone who has not realized this by now is impervious to evidence and hopelessly lost to the fear cult and mask addiction (this is a real thing, studied in japan). map mask advocacy to anxiety and the venn overlap is a near perfect circle. the whole schtick of "your mask protects me" was wonderful propaganda to make the agita of a few into everyone's problem and to conjure a false moral dimension to demand compliance. but it never had any real scientific basis beyond some ludicrous mannequin sneeze studies. those still pushing this do not need physical health solidarity, the need a mental health intervention.