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Guest Post by John W. Whitehead “We’re fighting wars, we can’t take care of … daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”—President Donald J. Trump “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are …
HOME RULE: Democrats are livid that National Guard troops deployed to protect DC residents are picking up trash during their shifts. They’re calling it tyranny. pic.twitter.com/2sYH8txr9x — @amuse (@amuse) August 27, 2025
https://twitter.com/newstart_2024/status/1853415582541996536 TL;DR Naval Ravikant expresses concern about unified governments and advocates for divided government He warns that unified governments threaten democracy through potential tyranny of the majority Changing electoral rules (e.g., mail-in ballots, voter ID laws, statehood for DC and Puerto Rico) is a primary concern Censorship and altering democratic processes can lead to a …
Unless Trump is elected, America will fall to tyranny. Trump must win. https://t.co/h7XbEQqPwy — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 18, 2024 “Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.” — O'Brien (1984 by George Orwell) Misinformation experts largely lean …
The screen reads: “Add a tip: 18%. 20%. 25%.” For a takeout sack of burgers and soggy fries? C’mon. It takes extra taps to change it to 10% or zero. Instead, we sheepishly tip and feel resentful. Using Internal Revenue Service data, I extrapolate that tipping has almost doubled since 2013, when San Francisco-based Square …
America is about to surpass the UK in terms of locking people up for speech crimes. This all happened in the last 3 years. A breakneck acceleration in tyranny.https://t.co/YrONNLPD3r — Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) September 7, 2023 Harvard is named worst school for free speech — scoring zero out of possible 100 Harvard University is …