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BasicKekinomics retweeted
The main concern for a local Church should be doing outreach directly in its community, not spending $30k to send 20 members to some other continent
BasicKekinomics retweeted
i have been steadily banging the drum on domestic transformer production since 2023, and now, we have resolute grid. the last time an american company fully designed and built these was in the late 80s. so excited to see this come roaring back. incredible work!
BasicKekinomics retweeted
You want to know why I hate North Carolina’s population boom? Look no further than my birthplace: Wilmington.
I was blessed to spend my adolescence in the Port City, back when it still felt like home.
Local culture was strong, the festivals along the riverfront were part of who we were, and you didn’t spend your day worrying about whether you were safe. You could get across town in twenty minutes. Kids played in the streets. Teenagers roamed the city without their parents fearing for their safety.
Then Wilmington started growing, and little by little, the place I loved began disappearing.
Outsiders took over city council. Housing prices skyrocketed, pushing the very people whose families built Wilmington into surrounding areas. Festivals were destroyed, landmarks lost the names generations had known, and statues came down to appease the woke mob. Wetlands were destroyed to squeeze in more housing, and historic oaks were ripped out to make room for palm trees. Traffic became as miserable as Raleigh or Charlotte. And now even the adults need to keep their heads on a swivel because there aren’t enough cops to keep up with rising crime.
All in the name of growth.
I watched a place that once felt like paradise turn into my idea of hell.
And the hardest part?
The people who turned Wilmington into such a desirable place are the very ones who’ve been priced out, pushed aside, and told to get out of the way.
This is what happens when a community prioritizes population growth over the people, history, and culture that made it worth living in.
So before you start cheering for more development and another boom in population, stop and think about what you’re actually asking for.
Growth isn’t progress, and a bigger population doesn’t equal a better place to live.
You can love North Carolina and still refuse to watch it be loved to death.
BasicKekinomics retweeted
Israel is pretty bad at apartheid huh
Today 2 Million Arabs have the opportunity to vote in Israel. 🗽
Gazan’s have not had an election since 2006.
Free Palestine!…From Hamas. 🧠
@macklemore @MarkRuffalo @BBC @TheDemocrats @AOC @Grammys @NYCMayor @zachlanebryan @nytimes @FranceskAlbs
BasicKekinomics retweeted
I find it striking the "America First" movement has become a subversive Bolshevik party full of useful retards helping usher communism and jihad into power.
BasicKekinomics retweeted
The Majesty of Your Country Has Been Stolen From You.
This is an old postcard depicting the Florida Citrus Tower surrounded by orange groves in the city of Clermont.
There's nothing quite like the sweet smell of orange blossoms in the month of March.
The Tower is still there today, but the orange groves are long gone, replaced by commercial development and tract house communities. 😢
Credit: Shannon L. Chumney 📷
BasicKekinomics retweeted
No confusion. You are simply ignoring your responsibility to your flock. Modern Christianity is rife with this. You have forgotten that the great commission resulted in building a church body and that gave you a responsibility to care for that church body on top of proselytizing. Right now, due to foreigners using any means necessary to get to the US, your flock is in danger of losing their ability to protect and provide for their families. Yet you continue to put the responsibility of gaining converts over protecting the flock. Kinda of like our country is putting its GDP before its heritage citizens by importing cheap labor.
BasicKekinomics retweeted
I’m still angry Trump was cheated out of 2020.
I’m still angry Kari Lake was cheated out of Arizona.
I’m still angry Spencer Pratt was cheated out of Los Angeles.
Most of all, I’m angry it keeps happening and our government won’t do anything about it.
BasicKekinomics retweeted
All too often we associate culture with high art, lofty ideas, and marble columns.
It is better understood closer to the dirt where it originated. To a sense of place. So reveals the word itself.
Culture derives from the Latin cultura, a Roman working word for the tilling of a field.
Look deeper and find the root verb colere used for things we do not necessarily associate together today: to till the ground, to dwell in a place, to honor and revere.
In short, all the things that allow our songs, our food, our ways and mores, everything that we understand as culture today to thrive.
This is important, for as we become a more globally connected people, ever homogenized by technology, our understanding of culture becomes unrooted from the particular locations where it was formed. This is a tragedy.
@OldHollowTree in ACC's "Bully Pulpit"
BasicKekinomics retweeted
One of the saddest aspects of the crashing birth rates in the last few first-world, high IQ, civilized places is that our children and grandchildren will have so many fewer peers, locally and internationally: way fewer people their age they can share ideas with, understand, engage with.
Ultra atomized in an already atomized world.
BasicKekinomics retweeted
How do accounts like yours with such tepid, first level thinking takes amass such large followings?
Do posts like these actually sound impressive and inciteful to a significant amount of people?
Oh, right. Scammer.
BasicKekinomics retweeted
It only took 4 months for Meta and Entergy to break their promise @LAGovJeffLandry
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BasicKekinomics retweeted
Catholic Priest "You can’t be a practicing Catholic and be part of the current Democratic Party knowing that this group is actively working for the killing of the unborn."
BasicKekinomics retweeted
Obviously, anyone who says don’t vote R in this environment for whatever purity spiraling reason—and this is a group that now contains both country club neocons and groypers alike—is by definition part of what could justly be called the retard right.
Also obviously, fighting within the coalition is normal politics and people should say and advocate for what they think best within it.
BasicKekinomics retweeted
Subsidies, an outrageous assault on free market capitalism. The downfall of America. Karl Marx’s final opus.
Unless we’re talking about oil and gas. Or agriculture. Or airports. Or the tax credits on our very own returns. Then, it’s just good-old fashioned American ingenuity, rugged individualism, and pulling ourselves up by our government-subsidized bootstraps (shhhh…don’t tell anyone).
In 1916, the federal government introduced preferential tax treatment for oil and gas drilling expenses. In 1926, Congress introduced a 27.5% percentage depletion allowance for oil and gas producers. The rate has since been reduced, but qualifying producers can STILL claim percentage depletion deductions, with a 15% rate applicable to eligible marginal production in 2026.
We have oil and gas tax preferences old enough to have survived the Great Depression, two world wars, disco, Y2K, and 47,000 Cher farewell tours. But solar gets a tax credit, and now everyone thinks they’re Adam Smith.
Just this month, the USDA announced $13.8 billion in gross payments under two agricultural commodity support programs for the 2025 crop year, and the FAA allocated $2.89 billion in airport infrastructure grants for 2026.
I’m not suggesting those programs shouldn’t exist. But I am fascinated by how quickly our commitment to free-market purity at all costs develops exceptions.
Solar receives government incentives. In fact, renewables accounted for 46% of the federal energy subsidies from 2016 through 2022.
I’m just not sure why this evidence that there has been government assistance for a young energy industry is proof that it can't compete, while preferential tax treatment dating back to the Coolidge administration is just “capitalism aging gracefully.”
The definition of a government handout should not change depending on whose name is on the check. If it does, the problem isn’t the subsidy. The problem is your selective outrage.
We’re all fiscal conservatives until it’s our turn at the government buffet. Then, it’s unlimited shrimp, three trips through the dessert line, and most importantly, a stern lecture about personal responsibility and frugality.
But only for everyone who’s waiting behind us.
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BasicKekinomics retweeted
In military aviation, there is one rule every mechanic knows: when a supersonic fighter jet is completely submerged in saltwater and tsunami mud, that airplane is dead forever.
On March 11, 2011, a wall of black ocean water smashed into Matsushima Air Base in northern Japan and swallowed eighteen Mitsubishi F-2B fighter jets whole.
Why did the pilots not simply fly the jets away before the wave hit? Because the earthquake knocked out base power and buckled the tarmac, and a fighter jet takes pre-flight checks and ground power carts before its engine can ignite. Instead of trying to save machines, the airmen ran out to rescue drowning local citizens.
When the water receded, the blue fighter jets were buried in salt, mud, and crushed cars. Experts said every single one had to be scrapped.
American and Japanese engineers refused to let those wings die.
The F-2 fighter was born from a joint partnership between Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and America's Lockheed Martin, based on the legendary U.S. F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Immediately after the tsunami, U.S. Air Force airmen from the 35th Fighter Wing at Misawa Air Base rushed down to Matsushima to help pump out hangars and wash corrosive salt out of the airframes before the metal rotted.
Then Japanese and American engineers from Mitsubishi and Lockheed Martin spent four years disassembling, rebuilding, and rewiring thirteen of those drowned jets bolt by bolt.
On April 22, 2015, the first resurrected F-2B roared back into the sky and touched down at Misawa Air Base to thunderous applause from American and Japanese airmen standing side by side.
Saltwater can rust iron. It cannot rust the bond between the men who built it.
BasicKekinomics retweeted
Nobody in the Ice Age lived on berries, and nobody chased rabbits for a living, and if our ancestors had followed the evidence-based diet none of us would be here to be told about it.
It's northern Europe, 30,000 years ago, October. Grass to the horizon, a wind off the ice sheet that hasn't stopped since the summer, a line of willow along the river. The healthy-eating poster says five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. The berries were three weeks in August and the birds had most of them. The roots are the size of a thumb, bitter, and an hour of digging gets a handful that needs cooking before it stops trying to poison anyone. The grass is grass, and a human has one stomach for it.
The poster says wholegrains. There's a wild grass seed the size of a flea, four months off, and a day of threshing it with a flat stone makes a cupful.
The poster says choose lean protein. So the hare. Two hours of running for a kilo of meat with no fat on it, and a fortnight of hares leaves the body sick, weak and hungrier than it started, because protein with nothing to burn it with makes the body eat itself. The poster, read faithfully, has killed the tribe by December, and the dietitian who wrote it would have been eaten first, on account of being the only one with any fat on him.
Across the river there's a herd of bison, and behind them horses, and twice a year the reindeer come through in their thousands, and now and then a mammoth that is, on its own, a village's winter. Big, slow in the cold, walking the same path to the same water every evening, carrying a layer of fat on their backs that renders into something that keeps in a skin for months. The marrow keeps in the bone. The brain is fat. The hump is fat. One kill feeds forty people for weeks and the fire does the rest.
The people who lived there looked at the bitter roots, the hare, and a thousand kilos of dinner strolling to the river at the same time every evening, and they made the choice that put a brain in your skull. Nobody who ate the roots left descendants to write guidelines.
The diet that would have wiped us out by Christmas is now on a poster in every surgery in the country, with a government logo on it, and the people handing it out are descended from the ones who ignored it.
