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It is ironic those pushing for collectivism are the least equipped to endure the fallout that’s assured to follow its implementation — as history has revealed repeatedly.
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The greatest threat to independent thought is not censorship.
It is the desire to belong.
Censorship tells you what you can’t say.
Belonging teaches you what you should never think.
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Waves of AI-related layoffs continue.
What hardly anyone mentions is how the downsizing subsidizes (at least partially) continued wild investment in AI.
It further delays the need for these giants to be profitable in their ventures.
Meta officially layoffs 8,000 jobs, or 10% of its workforce
He warns “success isn’t a given” in the AI race
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“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville
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The real threats to freedom don’t arrive with banners or violence.
They show up as convenience. As comfort.
As quiet agreements to stop asking difficult questions.
That’s how the margins disappear.
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1) Before there was a United States, there was an army.
June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army.
George Washington was appointed Commander-in-Chief the next day.
In this moment the colonies declared they weren’t rebelling - it was war.
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The explosion?
June 17, 1775
The Battle of Bunker Hill
Though technically a British victory, they suffered massive casualties.
The colonists proved they could fight - and wouldn’t go quietly.
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A line had been crossed.
An army had formed.
Blood had been spilled.
And a people who once considered themselves subjects of the crown had begun to see themselves as something else:
Americans.
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Power is the ability to act without asking.
In geopolitics, business, and war - it’s not declared. It’s assumed.
The more permission you need, the less power you have.
The most dangerous actors are the ones who stopped asking a long time ago.
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FALSE SECURITY
One reason so many are clinging to ineffective institutions is a sense of false security.
Many feel if we have a department or agency for every conceivable matter, then we’ll have solutions for problems.
Children aren’t learning at acceptable rates? The Department of Education can fix that.
We have a debt and revenue problem? The Internal Revenue Service can fix that.
The problem: these departments and agencies hadn’t been fixing anything.
The idea of them is sound.
The execution has been catastrophic.
You cannot depend on any one of these institutions to deliver you - as an individual - a viable and tenable solution for any matter. Individuals combine to make the whole.
The only thing these agencies have done over the last 50+ years is build a false dependency throughout much of the American population.
What many do not want to grapple with is the fact that not only are these institutions not solving problems for them as a taxpayer, they’re actually creating problems.
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“The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.”
—José Ortega y Gasset
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The Margins retweeted
“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
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