Drock retweeted
🧠 J’ai voulu apprendre à raisonner comme un gauchiste, alors je suis allé au contact de quelques militants LFI.
Après plusieurs échanges, voici ce que j’ai appris (c'est pas si compliqué, vous allez voir) :
- Pour augmenter les salaires, il suffit de décider que les entreprises doivent payer davantage. La question du financement est secondaire.
- Pour financer les dépenses publiques, il suffit de taxer les riches. Et si les recettes ne suffisent pas, c’est qu’on ne les a pas assez taxés.
- Quand un service public fonctionne mal, la solution est d’augmenter son budget. Surtout ne pas se demander comment il est géré.
- Quand une entreprise réalise des bénéfices, c’est qu’elle exploite quelqu’un. Quand l’État dépense à perte, c’est qu’il investit dans l’avenir.
- Pour lutter contre l’inflation, il suffit de bloquer les prix. L’offre, la demande et les coûts de production sont des détails.
- Travailler moins tout en gagnant plus est parfaitement possible. Il suffit de voter une loi.
- Si quelqu’un remet en question ces raisonnements, inutile de lui répondre : traitez-le de néolibéral, de privilégié ou de fasciste.
Donc si je résume, les contraintes économiques sont TOUJOURS FACULTATIVES. C'est une règle d'or si vous voulez devenir de vrais gauchistes.
Drock retweeted
Why is this so hard to understand for so many? It's dead simple and excruciatingly obviously.
Drock retweeted
The newer generations are unemployable, so I shut down a business yesterday.
I have many small businesses I got involved in, one is a Saltwater fish store. It sells fish, corals, aquariums etc.
The most profitable part of one of these stores is outside Maintenance. Going to peoples houses, changing the fish tanks water, cleaning glass etc.
This is a very simple job, you run a hose in from the truck, suck water out, pump water in (nothing manual), and use a magnetic razor blade to clean the glass. Take a water sample and leave.
We had 4 trucks and 6 guys doing this... then 5, 4, 3... each person that quit put more work on the ones left.
We tried to hire, it's a very low skill job. Most maintenance guys make $15-18 an hour. We went upto $35 an hour to try and get people. Beyond that we cannot be profitable.
The job is easy, you have to have a license (actually hard as hell apparently), and pass a background check (youre in peoples homes, also hard as hell). Pass a drug test.
At $35 an hour we got the following.
Someone that caused almost 8k of damage when they started pumping in water, went out "for a smoke" and the tank overflowed.
At least 5 hires that went through background tests, drug tests etc then didn't show for work the 1st day and never called us again.
Someone that intentionally pulled the guard off the water pumping hose, and sucked someones fish into the pump.
Someone that scratched the District Attourney of las vegas, Steve Wolfson's tank by deciding to not use the magnetic razor, and "do it by hand"... fo no fucking reason. (4k bill)
A wrecked van
Someone who stole our water tester (1500 dollar machine).
I have no empathy, at least in Las Vegas, for people complaining about no work, no jobs blah blah blah.
$6000 a month to put hoses in and out of a tank and look at pretty fish.
Drock retweeted
As it turns out, the case for war with Iran had, in fact, been made, and it was clear and necessary. You were lied to about it, repeatedly, by smart people who knew they were lying, on Iran's behalf, against Trump, dear American conservatives.
Drock retweeted
One of my friends…He goes, I just can’t believe in a God that would send me to hell just because I don’t believe in Him.
I said, Why is that?
And he goes, Because that’s an ultimatum. Believe in Jesus or go to hell. That sounds manipulative.
I said, Let me ask you something. If a building is already on fire and someone kicks the door open and says, Come out, this is the only way, is that an ultimatum, or is it a rescue?
He said, What do you mean?
I said, Well, you were already going to hell. I was already going to hell. That’s not God being cruel. That’s humanity choosing sin, and that’s justice.
God does not send innocent people to hell. The fact is, there are no innocent people. The standard is perfection. Not better than your neighbor. Not mostly good. Perfection.
I asked him, Have you ever lied? Have you ever lusted? Have you ever hated someone? Have you ever been prideful?
He said, Yeah.
I said, Well, then you’re guilty. I said, To be honest, I have too. We’re all guilty.
And he goes, So you’re telling me it’s believe or just burn?
And I said, No. It’s guilty but rescued. You weren’t standing on neutral ground and God came up and just shoved you toward the fire. You were already falling, and He caught you before you hit the ground.
Jesus didn’t come to threaten you. He came to take your sentence. The Cross was not an ultimatum. It was a substitution.
Justice says the wage of sin is death, but love says, I’ll pay it for you.
A friend asked me, But why make belief the condition?
And I said, Because love can’t be forced. Salvation is not a hostage situation. It’s a gift. If someone pays your debt, you still have to accept it. If you refuse it, the debt doesn’t disappear.
God is not saying, Believe in Me or I’ll torture you. He’s saying, You’re already dying. I made a way. Take it.
Hell is not proof that God is cruel. The Cross is proof that He’s not.
And if you’re wrestling with that same question, it means the door is still open.
Drock retweeted
🇨🇦 MARK CARNEY SAYS CANADA IS “THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO BE A REGULAR PERSON.”
Wonderful. Let’s meet this mythical regular Canadian.
Not a billionaire. Not a trust-fund beneficiary. Not someone with three investment properties.
Just an ordinary Ontario taxpayer earning $120,000 a year, trying to raise a family, own a modest home, and perhaps commit the outrageous act of saving for retirement.
In Ottawa, $120,000 sounds like prosperity.
In the real world, it’s a remarkable opportunity for everyone else to get paid.
Let’s follow the money.
YOUR $120,000 SALARY — 2026
🇨🇦 Federal income tax: ~$17,502
🇨🇦 Ontario income tax, including surtax: ~$8,636
🇨🇦 Ontario Health Premium: $750
🇨🇦 CPP contributions: ~$4,646
🇨🇦 Employment Insurance: ~$1,123
TOTAL PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS: $32,657.
Congratulations. Before you’ve bought a loaf of bread, paid your mortgage, or turned on a light, roughly 27% of your gross income has already been deducted.
You now have approximately $87,343 left.
And this is where the Canadian dream gets really expensive.
Own a home? Property taxes.
Buy taxable goods or services? Another 13% HST in Ontario.
Fill your car? Federal and provincial fuel taxes are already embedded in the price.
Insure your car? Pay the premium.
Insure your home? Another premium.
Heat your house? Pay the utility company.
Need child care? Open your wallet.
Need groceries? Statistics Canada says grocery prices have risen 33% since September 2020.
And remember, insurance, food inflation, and child care aren’t taxes. They’re simply the other bills arriving after the tax collector has finished.
Now consider one illustrative annual budget for that $120,000 Ontario household:
🏠 Mortgage payments: $33,600
🏡 Property taxes: $5,300
🥦 Groceries: $13,000
👶 Child care: $10,800
🚗 Auto and home insurance: $5,000
⚡ Utilities, internet and phones: $6,000
⛽ Transportation, fuel and maintenance: $7,200
🛒 Clothing, household supplies and other essentials: $6,000
TOTAL HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES: $86,900.
These are illustrative costs, not national averages, and applicable sales taxes are included rather than added twice.
AMOUNT LEFT FROM $120,000 GROSS INCOME: $443 A YEAR.
That’s approximately $37 a month.
Before a vacation.
Before a major home repair.
Before an emergency.
Before meaningfully contributing to your child’s education or your own retirement.
Now imagine what happens to the family earning $70,000.
Or the single parent working two jobs.
Or the young couple who cannot afford the down payment on the home their parents bought with one income.
And then imagine being lectured by the Prime Minister about how extraordinary life is for ordinary Canadians.
Here’s the intellectual dishonesty in modern Canadian politics:
Governments love measuring prosperity by how much people earn. Families measure it by how much they can keep, afford and save.
Those are two very different economic realities.
A six-figure salary used to signal financial security.
Today, in some Canadian households, it merely qualifies you to participate in a more expensive version of financial insecurity.
And yes, taxes fund hospitals, schools, infrastructure and pensions. Canadians understand that.
What they’re entitled to ask is whether the price they’re paying is producing the quality of life they’re being promised.
Because a country cannot indefinitely celebrate its standard of living while ordinary people struggle to maintain it.
The government gets the first deduction. The bank gets the mortgage payment. The insurer gets its premium. The grocery store gets what’s left.
And the Prime Minister gets to give a speech about how lucky you are.
Perhaps Canada really is the greatest country in the world to be a regular person.
Patriotism is loving your country. Accountability is demanding that your country work for the people who pay taxes
🇨🇦 @wealthmoose
Video : @MarkJCarney
Drock retweeted
The people advocating for this are catastrophically misinformed about the relative competence between the left and the right at practicing violence.
The right tends to forbear because most of it understands the true nature of violence. The left tends not to forbear because most of it does not.
They are imbecilic, spoiled rotten children playing with matches amid the autumn debris of dried leaves.
They should pray to their non-binary baphometic pseudo-gods that they never push us far enough to learn the error of their perception.
Drock retweeted
This guy, @profgalloway, is truly an execrable lobotomized demonic cretin. I loathe such individuals. They are the cause of the collapse of the West. Effeminate ladyboys deeply concerned about appearing progressively enlightened and yet wrong in every conceivable way on every conceivable issue.
Drock retweeted
I WISH someone had explained this to me when I was younger Christian.
Every commandment in the Bible and everything it calls a *sin* is actually a *warning* from God not to hurt yourself.
In other words, as it has been said before… When God says DON’T, what He's really saying is: DON’T hurt yourself.
Let me give you several examples.
Sex before marriage - It is a scientific fact that sex creates a neurochemical bond with another person, not just physically but emotionally.
In other words, sex is not just the union of two bodies, but of two souls. So when God says DON’T, he’s saying: you don’t want to be bonded like that to somebody you barely know.
Lying - When you lie, you eventually destroy the trust other people have in you. And the problem with lying is that one lie often requires another to cover it up, until eventually, you've built an entire life around pretending to be someone you're not.
Envy - Envy is resenting God’s goodness in someone else’s life while ignoring God’s goodness in your life. Instead of living a life of gratitude and joy, you live one of bitterness and anger.
Pride - Pride makes a person care more about BEING right… than making a relationship RIGHT. And you become incapable of learning, apologizing, or growing.
Gossip - Gossip destroys relationships… and if someone is gossiping TO YOU about other people, chances are they're also gossiping ABOUT YOU to other people behind your back.
Unforgiveness - This one is tough because you’re already hurt with something. But when you refuse to forgive, unforgiveness makes YOU a prisoner of your past, and a slave to bitterness, resentment, and pain. God says “don’t.”
Greed - Greed makes you believe a lie that if you only had “more” then you’d be happy. Not true. You’ll be miserable.
Lust - We live a culture saturated with lust. It always destroys your ability to experience true intimacy with another person. This is why our culture is terrible at marriage, intimacy, and relationships.
Here’s the point.
Deuteronomy 10:12 (NIV) says “Observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today … for your own good."
When God forbids something, it’s not because he hates you and he’s trying to rob something from you.
It’s because he loves you and he’s trying to protect you.
When He says DON’T, He's not trying to keep you from enjoying life.
He's teaching you how to truly live it.
Drock retweeted
Who else is looking forward to Trump losing the midterms so Canada's housing crisis, unemployment, inflation and collapsing productivity can all magically disappear?
It's been a tough 10 years under President Trump...
I fail to understand how a candidate with ties to terrorist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood are even eligible to run for school board seats let alone senators or Congress. What is going on?
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Drock retweeted
I've always liked you, Matt, but as a Korean, in a country where China's influence runs deep, I find this point very disturbing.
“Pointless war"? Follow the oil.
China buys more than 80% of Iran's shipped oil.
That's 1.38 million barrels a day in 2025, per Kpler.
Nearly every barrel Tehran sells under sanctions goes to Beijing.
Add Venezuela.
More than half of its oil exports went to China too.
Together, Iran and Venezuela supplied about 15-17% of China's crude imports.
Much of it was cheap, sanctioned oil, relabeled "Malaysian" to hide where it came from.
Now Greenland.
China controls about 60% of the world's rare earth mining and over 90% of the processing.
Those minerals go into missiles, fighter jets, EVs and chips. Greenland sits on the Arctic shipping routes Beijing calls the "Polar Silk Road."
So what connects Iran, Venezuela and Greenland?
They're three pillars of China's cheap energy and supply chain. Cut them and you raise the cost of Beijing's military buildup without firing a shot at China.
That is America First.
China is the only rival big enough to replace the U.S.
Letting it fuel up on discount oil from America's enemies is not "restraint."
It's surrender on the installment plan.
Gas prices hurt.
I get it.
But if Beijing runs the world's energy and minerals, groceries won't be the worst thing you can't afford.
Think one move ahead.
Drock retweeted
Yakov didn’t say Muslims are Orcs, that framing came from your reply. The “actual orcs” line was about people driven by hatred who want to kill others, seize or destroy their property, and wreck what they’ve built. That description isn’t tied to any specific culture or religion, it applies to anyone who behaves that way. The Tolkien reference was about internal decline plus failing to keep out those kinds of threats.
Drock retweeted
This is actually such a perfect description of the left/right dynamic, but I'm not sure the OP actually understands why.
What do they tell you in the emergency instructions on a flight? Put on your mask FIRST, then help your kids. You must be "selfish" in order to be of service to others. While leftist worldview may appear noble, it's actually very impractical and counterproductive in the real world. The right wing worldview is what builds, maintains, and rescues societies, though on a superficial level it appears to be selfish and icky.
This is how you see very good-natured, well-intentioned people fall into highly destructive socialist dogma; its veneer of virtue and selflessness is irresistible. They're not bad people (though the commie street animals are), they just have never built anything, nor rescued anything, nor dealt with an emergency, etc...so they don't understand how things actually work.
In BLS/First Responder training they'll test you with a hypothetical question: Let's say you're a firefighter. You're out mowing the lawn in front of the station, and you witness a massive car wreck. What's the first thing you do?
Most people reasonably say "run over and extract the driver" or "call for the ambulance and grab a fire extinguisher", and they fail. The correct answer is: turn off the lawnmower. If you don't slow down and do that first, it'll roll off into the street and cause even more destruction.
The first principle of emergency response is: ensure the scene is safe. There's no point in initiating a "rescue" if it's not safe, and you, yourself, need to be rescued. While the average person might be outraged because a first responder is not darting over to the patient with enough haste, it's because they do not understand how things can break bad. There's a checklist of procedures that has been developed over centuries, written in blood, that informs how they do things, and in what sequence. And what may appear "selfish" is actually just...responsible and pragmatic.
Drock retweeted
I’m not at all shy about blaming DEI where appropriate, and it often is appropriate. But I see no DEI angle on this jet crash. The female pilot was not flying the plane. The captain was a 55 year old man. Trying to blame the girl for the crash is absurd and baseless. Yes she seemed frantic and terrified in the radio call but I would be to, and so would you. And even if she’d been cool as a cucumber, there isn’t the slightest reason to think it would have made any difference at all.
I’ll fully admit that I wouldn’t get in a plane if the copilot was a 20 year old girl. But that doesn’t change the fact that there is no evidence that she was personally at fault. And for the record, becoming a pilot at 20 is pretty impressive. She had her shit together a lot more than I did at that age. I’ll say that at least. I don’t think airlines or private charter companies should be making any specific effort at all to be “inclusive” of women or whatever, but it’s still admirable for a kid to have a goal like that and pursue it. I don’t see any reason to mock her, as some have done.
Some of the comments about that audio recording have been callous to an unhuman degree. None of you would have the stoicism in that situation that you demand from this girl. And again, there’s no reason to think stoicism would have magically kept the plane from falling out of the sky. Besides, she actually did seem pretty calm in that recording until the last few seconds, relative to the circumstance she was in. I don’t want my pilot to panic but I also don’t want them to be completely indifferent to the prospect of a fatal crash, as some commenters here apparently expect.
Drock retweeted
Canadians are now living under the most corrupt, unethical government in Canadian history.
You feel it every time you buy groceries, fill your tank, or watch your country get handed off piece by piece.
They don't serve you. They serve themselves and their global friends.
Share it if you're done pretending otherwise.
