Joe Lastra
@lastra_joe
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One of the stranger things I’ve seen going on is in the wake of the horrific tragedy of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, people are now insinuating that anything he said must be truth.
I've always said gatekeeping is good. Like Charlie Kirk, I have never thought the conservative movement should welcome everyone's views and values. Do you think it should? What would it mean, in that case, to be a "conservative"?
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Announcing the launch of the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy and Freedom! In collaboration with the great @ThomasEWoods, I've put together this project featuring long-form courses by me, @JimBovard, @RamzyBaroud and @wbuppert, with more coming soon...
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“Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity.” Wow… imagine how big the economy would be if we invested $10 TRILLION in SNAP! This man was almost Vice President.
Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity. It’s not about the money, Trump just wants Americans to go hungry.
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The New Jim Crow, arguably the most influential book on criminal justice in recent decades, and *extremely* influential among Obama-era dems, argues that after the civil-rights era dismantled explicit Jim Crow segregation, America rebuilt its racial hierarchy through the
“Abolish the police” is less supported among Dems than “stone gay people to death” is among Republicans but you’ll never see the later be called a Republican policy
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The Feds were having consistent meetings with the top companies here. It’s no surprise LLMs are mostly using citations from them.
Reddit, Wikipedia, YouTube... the LLMs have spoken. 👀 We analyzed 150K citations from ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Mode & AI Overviews and it turns out UGC and social sites dominate the results. Look for our full study here: https://t.co/r3Bk7LpY8j.
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The future of the right in America won't just be America first, but America only. Nationalism is rising, and conservatism is dying. Just a quick temperature check on X will show you what you need to know. Previously mainstream people are turning away from Fox News conservatism.
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Undoing the leftist revolution will itself appear revolutionary, even to most conservatives You need to get comfortable with that fact
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My spiciest deeply-held view is that being on welfare should void your right to vote until you are off of it (not counting retirement benefits and certain Veteran's programs). The status quo is too busted. Politicians are incentivized to try and purchase votes by handing out
Any other dutiful, hard-working tax donkeys out there unpleasantly surprised to discover that 1 in 8 Americans don't pay for their groceries?
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I can’t tell if he’s joking or if he’s serious.
🧵 Conservatism has been on the march for the past 5 decades, we haven’t won them all but by sticking to our guns (pun intended) we have ran the table on some big issues and set the table for more victories in the near future if we stay the course…
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When children are younger, environmental factors have a stronger influence on IQ, but especially after puberty, that influence starts to fade and genes take over. That's basically the exact opposite of what the leftist worldview theorizes.
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When did we become so soft?
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Absolutely incredible graph that says it all: as time passes by, China gets more efficient in energy buildup, and the US less.
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