🧵This thread is about corruption. My town is improving the parks. I’m happy because I like the park near my house. On any given weekend we have lots of tennis players. And in the picnic areas black and Muslim groups. And in the back of the park with volleyball courts, Latinos.

### Shimon Peres to Vladimir Putin: “I said to him: ‘You are 63 years old, and I am 93. Tell me, what do you want to achieve over the next 30 years? What are you fighting for? Are you hoping to irritate America?’ He replied: — No. — Does America want to take part of Russia? — No. — Do you have problems with Obama because of some misunderstanding? He asked: — Why are you asking me this? I said: — Listen, I am not a spy. You can talk to me about anything. He asked: — And what do you think? I replied: — America will win, no matter what you do. — Why? — he asked. — Because they are happy, and you are not. And I continued: When an American wakes up in the morning, what does he see? To the south, Mexico — and Mexicans are welcomed into his country. To the north, Canada, his best friend in the world. And to the east and west, fish swimming in the water. What does Obama have to worry about? And you? Who do you see around you when you wake up in the morning? Japan, China, Afghanistan? My God! They know you have an enormous territory, yet you give them nothing. You possess 20 percent of the world's freshwater reserves, but you share nothing with others. And when the snow in Siberia melts, the first people you will see there will be the Chinese. After all, there are many Chinese in the east and very few Russians. The second thing I told him was this: America has the best ratio of land area to population in the world. You have the worst. Twenty million square kilometers! My God! But you don't have enough people to develop that territory. Your people are dying. Do not be seduced by applause or by what people tell you. They will never forgive you for this. Why do Russians live, on average, only 62 years, while Americans live to 82? And then I told him: — You behave like a tsar. What did the tsars do? They built two cities — St. Petersburg and Moscow — as showcases. You can find anything you want there. But the rest of Russia is Nigeria covered in snow. Your people are dying. You are not giving them the opportunity to live with dignity. Do you really think they will forgive you? — Why is America great? — he asked. — Because America gives. And why does Europe have problems? Because Europe takes. America gives. People think Americans do this because they are generous. I believe they do it because they are wise. When you give, you make friends. The most valuable investment you can ever make is an investment in friendship. America had the courage to implement the Marshall Plan. It devoted an enormous share of its GDP to helping Europe, which was lying in ruins at the time. And by doing so, America proved that such assistance is one of the best investments in the world. There was not a single European country that had not been an empire. The French, the British, the Portuguese — they all had colonies. And what happened? They were driven out and left with nothing. Britain was the greatest empire, the empire on which the sun never set. It controlled all the oceans. But even the nonviolent resistance of the Indian people forced Britain to leave, reducing it to just three small islands that it now doesn't know what to do with. Believe me,’ I told Putin, ‘enemies and hostility are the greatest losses in life. You are investing in stupidity.’” — Attributed to Shimon Peres, former President of Israel, recounting a conversation with Vladimir Putin.

The West, or perhaps only the Anglosphere, is the historically unique idea that individuals exist not for the sake of their ruler, their class, their society, their ancestors, their gods, or any other such superstition, but for their own sake.

Can we stop being willfully dumb? Some legal US citizens are being arrested and detained only to later be released. Legal voters might be afraid and intimidated.

Here’s the deal. Sign up for xmoney. Elon gives you $5 for free. Send $1 of that to Heidi and she will be your friend.

They say sees turtles helped by humans don’t thrive. The ones who struggle to make it to the sea do thrive. Aid makes people weak. Help doesn’t help. It’s not cold. Everyone needs to be self sufficient.

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Holy sht! Eventually, mostly bots will be ordering. The advantage Amazon has could dissolve. Embrace the bots Bezos.

The oppressor model of thinking automatically blames winners. Elon Musk was a hero when he risked all his money for electric cars. When he succeeded, he was an oppressor. If Jews want to be seen as good they need to be failures. We don’t accept success you oppressors!

I think she pissed off democrat leaders and she’s being thrown to the wolves. The swamp giveth and the swamp taketh away.

Another @ScottAdamsSays prediction was right.

Omar was LPR in 1995 at age 12 or 13. In 2000, her parents filed for citizenship and may have lied on the form. If they caught it at the time, she would file as an adult and get citizenship easy peasy. 26 years later…we’re pretending this isn’t a technicality.

Anthropic is a bad persuasion name. It sounds like it is for people and if you look it up, it sort of is about people. But let’s face it, we’ve only ever use it to say misanthropic, meaning it hates people. @AnthropicAI

Postmodernism is the woke philosophy that casts groups as oppressed or oppressor and reframe everything in that context. Fallibilism recognizes objective truth exists but we don’t have access to it. So we guess and error correct to get closer to the truth.

Will the anti-vax crowd refuse to listen to good explanations? We need to listen to RFK and research possible harmful effects and also consider the benefits. If you respond that bad actions in 2020 turned off your critical thinking, you lost. cdc.gov/covid/vaccines/plann…

Smash or pass? That’s a low carb soft tortilla wrap, peanut butter, 2 small mandarin oranges and a sliced banana. I folded it and ate it like a taco.

🤬My wife works at a college and they have a week off for no reason 🤬She decided why not go to Italy for a week 🤬Weather here is rain all week and beautiful in the town she’s visiting a classmate she hasn’t seen in 30+ years 😬 I’m so happy for her

Someone drew an arbitrary line and said these generation teams are significant. Individual rights are better. Woke deals in victim/oppressor groups. SS is a bad system. Some people forced to pay into the bad system. Let’s improve. Let’s avoid being woke.

Why does the NFL have procedural rules? These rules could be removed: 1. Illegal formation 2. False start 3. Ineligible receiver Imagine the creativity of coaches designing new formations, linemen in motion, backs and receivers moving forward at the snap, linemen catching passes

Maybe conservative voters, especially boomers who want to retire with SS should vote for a shorter work week. Simple math: if full time was 20 hours, that would double the jobs. Obviously, that’s too drastic

We live in a strange time where millions of people actively seek to be victims. If you tell them they're not, they get very angry.