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Roman concrete

gallopinggallifreyans: we figured out Roman concrete btw. This is the only thing on my mind Oh? Do tell?HOKAY. Doing this in layman’s terms because I could not explain the chemistry in detail if I tried. Pls forgive if I’m a little off in the explanation because idk

video games

Balan Wonderworld

Gun control fact check

Well that’s inconvenient for the narrative. [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3671740]

IRS

Where in the U.S. Are You Most Likely to Be Audited by the IRS? Humphreys County, Mississippi, seems like an odd place for the IRS to go hunting for tax cheats. It’s a rural county in the Mississippi Delta known for its catfish farms, and more than a

Socialized Medicine fact check

"I don't mind paying more money for free medicine." Anyway... Canada has worst ER / referral wait times in 11 developed countries. Canada’s healthcare wait times hit new record high, again. Canada’s system of socialized medicine has created high taxes and suffering patients. That’s

government

The cult of Statism and Social Justice

No Free Lunch: Biden Admin Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda - Washington Free Beacon

politics

Political doublethink

"Trickle down economics doesn't work" says the left as they pray for wealth harvested from the rich by governments will trickle down to them BREAKING: FBI official who investigated Trump ties to Russia was just arrested for illegal ties to Russian oligarch On Saturday afternoon, former

news media

No truthfulness in news media

> “Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens quote

"It's not just the right of the person who speaks to be heard, it is the right of everyone in the audience to listen and to hear, and every time you silence somebody you make yourself a prisoner of your own action because you deny yourself the

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Thomas Jefferson

ancaporado People who say “National Divorce” is a dog-whistle for “civil war” are outing themselves as spousal abusers. ancap-vaporwave Well it would be a civil war but that won’t be the fault of the people wanting the divorce. ancaporado All these corporate dems and Republicans have is “it will

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Police infiltration

Nothing Is Certain But Death, Taxes, And Police Infiltration Of US Protests [https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/nothing-is-certain-but-death-taxes-and-police-infiltration-of-us-protests-b234e022b137]

Frank Chodorov

Chodorov quote

“At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them,

fact-check

Engels quote

“Distress due to poverty gives the worker only the choice of starving slowly, killing himself quickly, or taking what he needs where he finds it — In plain English, stealing. And it is not surprising that the majority prefer to steal rather than starve to death or commit suicide.” * Friedrich Engels,

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Social Justice

Virtue signalling is really status signalling | The Spectator [https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spectator.co.uk%2Farticle%2Fvirtue-signalling-is-really-status-signalling&t=NWIzNWFhMDc1MmEzOWNlMzljY2QyMzRjYzBkNDcxZWIwM2IzYTc1ZixlMDg5MDdiOTMyNDljYjk4NTdmYzQwMzhmZDdjZWMyZDY0OWIzYzJi&ts=1634827210] > What critics of these trendy initiatives fail to grasp is that concepts like ‘white privilege’ are not intended to be

World War II

https://thenewamerican.com/pearl-harbor-hawaii-was-surprised-fdr-was-not/ Comprehensive research has shown not only that Washington knew in advance of the attack on Pearl Harbor, but that it deliberately withheld its foreknowledge from our commanders in Hawaii in the hope that the “surprise” attack would catapult the U.S. into World War II.

only the dead can know peace from this evil

This generation is doomed

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All possible pythagorean triples, visualized

guns

Guns save lives

This is the moment when off-duty police officer Katia da Silva Sastre shot a gunman at point-blank range as he tried to kidnap a child at gunpoint at her son's school in Brazil. Without Katia carrying a gun that day the child would have been taken.

funny

Halloween

meladoodle [https://meladoodle.tumblr.com/post/188718207512] A fun thing to do this Halloween is say "who are you dressed as" to any man dressed very clearly as the joker. Follow it with a "ohhhh right, I kinda see it" soloveitchik [https://soloveitchik.tumblr.com/post/

Karl Marx

Marx quote

“When our turn comes we shall not make excuses for the terror” > - Karl Marx Considering half of a Marxist’s schedule nowadays seems to be making excuses for the Holodomor and the Great Leap Forward and the situation in Cuba, I’m putting this down as “yet another

FDR

Fascist Dictator Roosevelt

> U.S. presidential candidates used to not campaign for themselves and feigned disinterest for the position because of the belief that the presidency of the United States should neither be sought nor declined and that political campaigns were beneath the dignity of men suited for governance. [https://amentian.com/

fact-check

Trucking fact-check

> big corporations cause truck drivers to have strict deadlines and little pay for rests/food Trucking is one of the most heavily regulated industries. Labor unions are mostly responsible for working conditions. And considering 98% of truckers belong to a union [https://www.businessinsider.com/trucking-truck-driver-truckers-strike-reasons-2019-10] , if a trucker

Lord of the Rings

Actually another thing LotR does really well is making it clear that absolutely anyone CAN be redeemed, they just CHOOSE not to be. Gollum’s the biggest example, of course–he’s so repellant but also so pitiable and you SEE that he still has the road to goodness open,

government

Rose Wilder Lane quote

Leading statesmen assume that this suppression of liberty is good for mankind, and that these new forms of an old tyranny are here to stay. The question they discuss is: How shall they extend these so-called “controls” to the whole world? They assume that the modern world will continue to

Ludwig von Mises

von Mises quote

> “What begot all those technological and therapeutical achievements that characterize our age was not science, but the social and political system of capitalism. Only in the climate of huge capital accumulation could experimentalism develop from a pastime of geniuses like Archimedes and Leonardo da Vinci into a well-organized systematic