A New Hampshire Republican with libertarian leanings. Not usually available for chats.

New Hampshire
Lettre ouverte Ă  mes amis d’IsraĂ«l J’ai la rage, elle monte, je pleure, pas un peu, vraiment. J’ai mal. Un mal profond, lourd, presque physique, comme si quelque chose s’était brisĂ© en moi en entendant ces mots. À la tribune de l’ONU, le locataire de l’ÉlysĂ©e a dĂ©clarĂ© que le Hamas « n’a jamais sĂ©vi en Cisjordanie ». J’ai entendu, j’ai relu, j’ai voulu croire Ă  une maladresse et ce n’en Ă©tait pas une. C’est une abjection, une phrase qui efface des morts, qui protĂšge un mensonge, et qui le fait au nom de la France. Mon pĂšre ne m’a pas Ă©levĂ© pour baisser les yeux. Il m’a dit, encore et encore : dĂ©nonce les abjections. Papa, je le fais aujourd’hui pour toi, mais pas seulement pour toi, pour ma fille, pour qu’elle sache un jour que son pĂšre n’a pas Ă©tĂ© lĂąche. Pour moi, pour ce que je ressens et que je refuse d’étouffer par peur du qu’en-dira-t-on. Ce monsieur ne parle pas en mon nom, ni au nom de nombreux Français qui ont encore une mĂ©moire, une conscience, et le courage de distinguer un peuple qui se dĂ©fend d’une organisation terroriste qui assassine. Le Hamas a sĂ©vi en Cisjordanie. Il y a eu des cellules, des rĂ©seaux, des attentats, des enlĂšvements et des meurtres. Il y a quelques jours encore, un terroriste du Hamas a assassinĂ© Netanel Shukrun, pĂšre de six enfants, citoyen français, alors qu’il se trouvait avec ses fils prĂšs d’une source, Ă  la veille de Yom Kippour. Avant son dernier souffle, il a dit Ă  son fils de courir. VoilĂ  la vĂ©ritĂ©. La nier depuis la plus haute tribune du monde, c’est cracher sur une famille, sur un pays, sur le sang. Rien n’autorise ce mensonge Ă©hontĂ©. Rien n’autorise Ă  transformer IsraĂ«l en accusĂ© permanent et le Hamas en dĂ©tail gĂȘnant dĂšs qu’il sort de Gaza. Je dĂ©fendrai IsraĂ«l coĂ»te que coĂ»te et beaucoup d’autres aussi. Pas demain, pas si c’est confortable, pas si l’on m’applaudit. Maintenant et sans concessions. Son droit Ă  vivre, son droit Ă  se dĂ©fendre, son droit Ă  ne pas disparaĂźtre sous les formules commodes de ceux qui n’ont jamais eu Ă  enterrer leurs enfants aprĂšs un pogrom. Ce n’est pas de la haine c’est de la fidĂ©litĂ©. FidĂ©litĂ© aux morts, fidĂ©litĂ© Ă  la vĂ©ritĂ©, fidĂ©litĂ© Ă  ce que mon pĂšre m’a transmis et Ă  ce que je veux transmettre Ă  ma fille. Je sais ce qui vient. Je sais ce qui m’attend un torrent de boue, de haine, et d’insultes. Allez-y. Crachez votre haine, je suis solide. Je ne bougerai pas. Ma voix tremble, oui, mes larmes coulent, oui. Mais je ne recule pas, j’affronte, cela fait parti de mon ADN. Je n’ai pas de palais, pas de communiquĂ©, pas de filet diplomatique. J’ai une Ă©ducation, j’ai une fille, j’ai la mĂ©moire de mon pĂšre et surtout IsraĂ«l qui est la derniĂšre barriĂšre de la barbarie islamiste. J’ai la nausĂ©e devant le locataire de l’ÉlysĂ©e qui, au nom de mon pays, nie ce que des familles ont payĂ© de leur chair. Amis d’IsraĂ«l, vous n’ĂȘtes pas seuls. Nous sommes nombreux, plus nombreux qu’on ne le croit, Ă  refuser que cette phrase soit la nĂŽtre. Ce monsieur ne parle pas en notre nom. Moi, je parlerai.Nous parlerons. Je m’excuse auprĂšs de vous, du fond de cette douleur qui ne passe pas. Et je reste debout. Guillaume Herblot❀
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T.D. Bowler retweeted
UN is worthless! US needs to end charade!
🚹 BREAKING: Iran has been elected by secret ballot to the General Committee of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA. The election comes shortly after the same body condemned Tehran over its failure to comply with its nuclear obligations. Iran will now sit on a committee involved in steering the proceedings of the agency tasked with monitoring its nuclear program.
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Replying to @BrandonFalco121
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AI's response when you ask AI to organize the network of Effective Altruists and AI safetyists
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T.D. Bowler retweeted
He is not speaking in code. He is teaching his own children the doctrine out loud, with a World Central Kitchen box on the table, and the second half of the clip is the part the West still pretends not to hear. They are not asking for a state. They are not asking for a ceasefire so they can live. He says they are a people who love death, that their enemies love life, and that if they die they are martyrs welcomed in the next world while the rest of us are stuck with this one. That is not grief. That is the offer. Life is treated as the weaker position, and death is treated as the win. This is why every Western lecture about “root causes” and “dignity” keeps missing the room. You cannot negotiate a man out of an afterlife he has already chosen, and you cannot shame a culture that films itself saying the quiet part in front of a child. He said it himself. Believe him. Thank you and credit to @imshin for this video
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T.D. Bowler retweeted
Most Christians are silent. Shame on all those who cannot find their voice to speak against this genocide.
Christians are being slaughtered for their faith. In Nigeria, 30 Christians were just murdered as they prepared for church services, and a pastor and father of five was abducted and killed. In just days the ACLJ will take the persecution of Nigeria’s Christians directly to the U.N. Human Rights Council. We will not be silent. Take action with us: aclj.pulse.ly/x41zo0bulb
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T.D. Bowler retweeted
They walked into rooms as Capitol Police. They walked out as Trump supporters. Rep. Clay Higgins sat with Lara Logan and said he has seen the tape. Capitol Police and Metro officers entering rooms inside the Capitol in uniform. Coming out dressed as MAGA and construction workers. Trump was still speaking outside. On the inside: groups of five and six already moving through the halls. Doors opening from within. Men on the interior steps waving people forward. “Come on.” Lara asked the only question that still matters. “You’ve seen that?” “Yeah.” “So why has that video not been released yet?” They have sat on it for years. Higgins did not call it a riot that got out of hand. He called it coordinated. Nefarious forces. Guides who already knew the unmarked offices. Release every angle. Then let the country judge what January 6 actually was.
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WHY CNN? The Vice President of the United States, @VP: “You took the words of unnamed FBI agents and put them on your network as if they were the gospel truth. You did it again and again.” Distortion of the truth until it is unrecognisable!
🚹🚹 Here is one of the reasons President Trump just removed the terrorist organization CNN from the White House press pool. The Vice President of the United States, @VP: “You took the words of unnamed FBI agents and put them on your network as if they were the gospel truth. You did it again and again.” Now arrest the domestic terrorist. Arrest the SOB—arrest Jake Tapper. Arrest them all. Arrest every single one of them at @CNN for fraud, defamation, racketeering, campaign finance violations, and the crime of sedition to overthrow the government of the United States during the 2016 presidential election. 📝 CNN should be officially designated as a terrorist organization and banned from American airwaves permanently.
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T.D. Bowler retweeted
Gas has gone up and down for decades under every President It was higher under Biden and came down when Trump got back into office You allow communism to take hold IT'S FOREVER!! You can vote your way into it, but you CANNOT vote your way out of it VOTE RED IN NOVEMBER!!!
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T.D. Bowler retweeted
We are at WAR. We are preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons. The fact that Democrats and RINOs think the price of gas matters more than that is shocking and laughable. As soon as Iran is beaten into submission, you'll get your $2.50 gas.
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T.D. Bowler retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: TALARICO SUPER PAC CAUGHT PAYING VOTERS! "We are paying people $25...a roundabout way of paying people for their votes." Video obtained by Townhall catches Sky McAdams, organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, on undercover video explaining the scheme to elect Talarico in November. "You can't pay someone to vote for someone" "If I was a Republican, I would be pissed." In the video, McAdams says it’s called a “paid relational program,” which is operated by Relentless that uses software called Rally. In a campaign finance report filed in July, Texas Majority PAC said it paid Relentless $500,000 for a “relational organizing program,” or about 20 percent of all its expenditures up to that point. At $25 per vote, that could be good for 20,000 ballots. Details below 👇
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T.D. Bowler retweeted
What they mean is
.The leaders of Scotland, wales and Northern Ireland will gather tomorrow to sign a deal to kick start a break up from the bankrupt crown corporation (UK). The corporation is dead, it is collapsing right in front of us. We will go back to the true law of the land
.common law. The people will unite more than ever before. We are already seeing the break away from the deep state stranglehold in Ireland. You are witnessing the complete destruction of the old guard in real time. Freedom is a beautiful thing.
The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will gather on Monday to sign a deal designed to kick-start the break-up of the United Kingdom, The Telegraph can disclose. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/politics/202

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This may validate the view espoused by Promethean Action, @PrometheanActn. A sign of Trump's progress in dismantling the colonial British Imperial System through his revival of the American System.
The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will gather on Monday to sign a deal designed to kick-start the break-up of the United Kingdom, The Telegraph can disclose. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/politics/202

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Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead. You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement. I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible. But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier. Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want. Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well. So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it. If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
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There was a time I could never imagine myself reposting anything Bill Maher said. But... here it is.
Ladies and gentlemen... Watch this now.
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In defense of my former position, Maher still has a problem with reality in his fantasy that the vegetable Joe Biden legitimately received over 81 million votes in 2020.
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"One of the choke points is the upcoming election. If the Democrats win, we’ll be back to the system extracting profits by reducing living standards. Winning the House and Senate, will cement a Trump boom that will last fifty years, and may, could, become permanent. One is entropic. The other will light up the stars." elizabethnickson.substack.co

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Remember when Mamdani said his aunt was the real victim of 9/11 cuz she was nervous to take the subway
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T.D. Bowler retweeted
The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial was a black man. Black men save the day AGAIN! We keep on winning! âœŠđŸŸ
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