Retired Federal Government senior energy policy advisor. AI is an idiot savant based on glorified pattern matching.
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Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
You've avoided nearly all of my questions, Norah, because you're literally incapable of answering them. Your mind is firmly closed to any evidence or facts that undermine your preferred narrative. You consider it immoral for anyone to even question you, even though you voluntarily and confidently entered this discussion. You're like a flat-earther. Nothing I or anyone else says to you will permeate your stubborn quasi-religious beliefs, because to change your mind would take away a core part of your self image, which is as somebody who is kinder and better and more righteous than the nasty people still advocating for the safety of women and girls.
You repeat your thought-terminating clichรฉs and unevidenced assertions, which I assume sound clever inside your echo chamber, but which, outside it, make you appear not only dim, but a total moral vacuum. Increased risk to females? Who cares. Women threatened by violence? Of course those poor trans-identified men lash out when they meet resistance! What is a gender identity? You can't really say, but like the flat-earther, you're sure it exists, because your tribe is held together by belief in it, and pride themselves on their blind faith in it.
I keep waiting for a single gender ideologue or trans activist to truly engage with the facts, but all of you sheer away from them like horses from fireworks. It truly is like talking to cult members who're incapable of engaging in rational debate and just keep chanting the mantras, consigning all serious questions to the 'evil' bin.
I've been told I'm on the wrong side of history thousands of times. By debating people like you, I've come to realise that your ilk's idea of the 'right side of history' means stripping women and girls' of their rights, excusing male violence against women, siding with those issuing death and rape threats and attempting to suppress critical thought and freedom of speech.
Maybe, like the flat-earthers, you genuinely think history will vindicate you. I believe people will look back on this period and analyse your arguments, not because they admire them, but because they're trying to fathom how so many supposedly intelligent people fell, hook, line and sinker for a bunch of vacuous, post-modern, pseudo-intellectual cobblers, while being completely indifferent to the real world harm they were enabling.
Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Democrats now control enough states to effectively abolish the Electoral College through the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Republicans did NOT have this on their bingo cards...
Under the Constitution, states control their electoral votes and are allowed to decide how they are allocated during presidential elections. Currently, almost every state gives its votes to whoever wins the state.
In practice, the current system means that a candidate can win the national popular vote, but lose the election because small states like Wyoming exert undue influence on the outcome. That state has 3 electoral votes with a population of just 577,000 people. California has 54 electoral votes and a population of 39.5 million people. So a vote in Wyoming is essentially 3.8 times as valuable as one in California.
Since 1992, Democrats have won the popular vote seven out of nine times.
Under the NPV, states that join agree to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote, not just their own state. So a state could go red on the map, but if the Democrat wins the national vote, they still get that state's votes. And vice versa of course.
The crucial mechanism is that the compact doesn't trigger until the member states have a combined power of at least 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the White House. So far, 18 states plus D.C. have joined, totaling 222 electoral votes. We only need 48 more.
Now is the chance to pass this measure in every state possible. Democrats won both houses of the legislature in Wisconsin for the first time in 18 years (10 electoral votes). We won the Pennsylvania state Senate for the first time since 1993 (19 votes). We now have a trifecta in Michigan (15 votes). And we won the governorโs race in Nevada (6 votes).
10 + 19 + 15 + 6 = 50.
222 + 50 = 272.
And if we hold our lead in the Arizona Senate, that number could climb as high as 283, more than enough to trigger the compact.
In addition to removing an imbalance in our system that favors Republicans, this novel approach would fundamentally change how candidates run their presidential campaigns. Currently, they are incentivized to ignore most of the country. If you live in a โsafeโ state, red or blue, your vote for President is basically decided before you cast it. Campaigns spend their time and money in a handful of swing states while the rest of us watch from the sidelines. If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is adopted, they'll have reason to hit every state because they're aiming to win the largest swath of the country as a whole, not just certain states.
States have until July 20, 2028 to join the compact in time for the next presidential election.
We can fix our democracy. The time is now.
Please โค๏ธ and share if you support this idea!
Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
A desperate White House scheme to bypass federal law, lower gas prices before midterms, and funnel cash to Moscow collapsed into a ghost fleet wandering open waters with nowhere to land.
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Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
I lost it. My stomach hurts from laughing. Whoever made this, thanks!
Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
I donโt want to post the video. Youโve all seen it. But I do want to write a love letterโฆ
Dear everyone in Britain, ( even you illegals)
Just so you understand. The poppy is for the boys who never got to grow old. For the boys who were still somebodyโs baby, brother, uncle or father. More than 600,000 of them.
It doesnโt matter if you support war, hate your country, think you are a woman (even though you are a man). It doesnโt matter which God you pray to, or if you pray to none at all.
It doesnโt matter who you vote for, what climate narrative you believe, or whether you believe Israel should exist or not!
The poppy isnโt for you!
Itโs for those who came before. Those who fought for your right to be weird, annoying or even foreign.
The poppy is how we say thank you. Thank you for giving us time, peace and choice.
And attempting to ban our poppy by declaring it politically divisive isnโt a move towards freedom. It is an act of suppression. Understand that.
The poppy is about love and loss. For you!
So stick your rainbow flags and every other flag where the sun doesnโt shine and just wear your poppy. Those boys did not die as symbols. They died for you!
Did you know that poppies grew across the battlefields where so many fell? As though even the land refused to forget the blood once given to defend it.
So the poppy is for them. For those who came before us and paid in youth, in hope, in breath, in blood, so that we might have the freedom to be arseholes.
So that we might even have the freedom to fight over the ridiculous, the inconsequential and the insane.
Revere it, celebrate it and wear it. The very least you can do is that.
Best
The ordinary people.
Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
CBC quoted Lowanโs speech right up to the line that reveals the ideologyโand then stopped
In their election-night write-up, CBC reported: โWe may have a small caucus, but tonight we have inherited an enormous responsibility, and that is to hold a majority Conservative government to account.โ
What she said next, according to the full transcript (and the video CBC itself posted):โWe are the only party who is equipped to stand against the Conservatives and their existence.โ
That is not โholding a government to account.โ That is declaring the victorious partyโs existence illegitimate. It is the language of elimination, not opposition
If a BC Conservative candidate had said the NDP or Greens needed to be opposed โand their existence,โ it would have led every newscast, every panel, and every CBC segment for days. Instead, the line was edited out of the written coverage while the surrounding sentences were used to portray her as a responsible voice of accountability
This is not an oversight. CBC has the full speech on their website. They chose which sentences to quote and which to bury. Meanwhile, hosts and panels continue to treat the BC Conservatives as uniquely dangerous while soft-pedaling a 26-year-old party leader who just framed an entire partyโs existence as the problem to be solved
Age is not a shield. โMovement buildingโ is not a euphemism that erases the actual words. Selective quotation that stops one sentence before the most revealing line is not journalismโit is CBC narrative management
The video is on CBCโs own site. The transcript is public. The CBC omission is the story @brodiefenlon
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Three years ago, Hamas terrorists were joined by hundreds of ordinary Gazans and invaded Israel with the sole intent of murdering, torturing, raping, humiliating, and forcibly abducting any Israeli or Jew they could find. Anyone suspected of being Jewish or Israeli, or even near them, was not spared.
Over 1,200 men, women, children, and infants were murdered in cold blood. Women and girls were brutally and repeatedly raped before being murdered. Holocaust survivors, the elderly, infants, and babies were shown no mercy. Much of this was livestreamed in a 21st-century pogrom. The perpetrators were not ashamed and did not hide their atrocities, so there should be no doubt who did what to whom and who must be held to account.
Hamas and the many ordinary Gazans who participated thought they would defeat Israel. Many of their allies around the world cheered them on. They were wrong.
As they have done throughout millennia, the Jewish people once again came together and fought to defend themselves and their homeland. They made Hamas pay a steep price. Israel and its security forces acted proportionately in self-defense, a right and responsibility all nations share.
Due to Hamasโs use of human shields, many Gazans were injured and killed. Advance warnings by the Israeli Defense Force went unheeded. Every one of those deaths and injuries are the responsibility of Hamas and Hamas alone.
Seeing so much of the world turn its back on Israel, Israelis, and the Jewish people has been the biggest and saddest shock of the past three years. But Israelis, Jews, and their friends will never be deterred.
Standing with Israel and the Jewish people is never wrong. Those who think otherwise will always regret it.
The people of Israel live.
Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
My dear Fellas,
If you want me to keep translating longer videos from Russian bloggers, please like and comment on them.
I spend a lot of time out of my everyday life finding these videos and translating them.
I could take the easy route and just translate short clips, but I think itโs important to spotlight things that arenโt just glorious kabooms and ordinary Russians complaining about their crappy lives.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. ๐
Here's a pic of Gracie and my kiddo โ my own super cute fellas โ to give this post a bit more visibility.
Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
Poor little russia. Europe has apparently spent 200 years trying to wipe it off the map, while Russia somehow spent those same centuries expanding across Siberia, the Caucasus and Central Asia and becoming the largest country on Earth. Presumably all that territory just wandered into Moscow by itself.
And the West maliciously tried to trade with Russia, apparently thinking that flooding the Russian state with money would somehow scare the shit out of themโฆ.
โBoris, Hitler has just invaded Poland from the west.โ
โExcellent. We have the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Letโs invade from the east.โ
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โNikolai, Finland wonโt give us the territory we demanded around Leningrad.โ
โSecurity threat?โ
โObviously.โ
โInvade.โ
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โIvan, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are independent countries sitting next to us.โ
โThat sounds dangerously threatening.โ
โWhat should we do?โ
โUltimatums, Red Army, occupation, annexation. For security, obviously.โ
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โComrade, the Hungarians are revolting against Soviet domination and want the Russians out.โ
โSecurity threat. Send the tanks into Budapest.โ
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โComrade, Czechoslovakia is liberalising.โ
โJesus Christ. They might choose their own political system.โ
โSecurity threat?โ
โMassive security threat. Invade.โ
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โComrade, Afghanistanโs government might slip out of our control.โ
โSecurity threat. Invade the country, kill its leader and install another one.โ
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โKolya, the Chechens declared independence.โ
โSecurity threat. Send the army into Grozny. But send a few guys to blow up apartments and blame it on the Chechens first!โ
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โMisha, Moldova has a separatist conflict in Transnistria.โ
โExcellent. Back the separatist side and make sure Russian troops are still there decades later.โ
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โDmitri, Georgia is looking westward and thereโs a war around South Ossetia.โ
โSecurity threat. Send Russian forces into Georgia, then recognise South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent.โ
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โHey Vladimir, Ukraine is moving closer to the EU after Yanukovych abandoned the association agreement and fled.โ
โSecurity threat. Take Crimea.โ
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โHey Igor, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the others say they joined NATO because they have some strange historical concern that Russia might someday use military force against its neighbours.โ
โRidiculous paranoia.โ
โSo what do we do?โ
โDemand NATO stop expanding and remove forces and infrastructure from countries that joined after 1997.โ
โAnd if they refuse?โ
โInvade Ukraine.โ
โWonโt that make every country bordering us think their fear of Russia was justified?โ
โShut up, Igor.โ
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Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
This is Howard Buffett, Warren Buffettโs middle son. He is 71 years old. He dropped out of college three times. He drinks Dr Pepper and like his father, looks for a McDonaldโs wherever he travels.
Since the beginning of the war, his foundation has become the largest private donor to Ukraine: $1.4 billion. Over four years, he has personally visited Ukraine 27 times.
In April 2022, he saw burned-out agricultural machinery all over Ukraine and called the president of John Deere:
โHow many combines are available in Europe?โ
โFifteen. All of them were supposed to go to Russia.โ
โIโll take them all. Ship them to Ukraine.โ
Then came all the available New Holland equipment in Europe. Altogether, more than 100 tractors and combines have been provided to Ukrainian farmers. Free.
He tested de-mining equipment on his farm in Illinois, detonating explosives beneath rollers. When someone asked if blowing up his own tractors to find a solution was worth it, Buffett replied:
โStop counting my tractors. If necessary, Iโll blow up a thousand of them.โ
When he heard about the "Superhumans" project, the medical program to provide arms and legs for soldiers who have lost theirs, they asked if he'd be willing to kickstart the program with $1 million. Buffett asked how much was needed to build the entire center.
โ$14 million" was the answer.
He replied: โOkay. Build it.โ
Today, his support for Superhumans has reached $77 million, and the center has treated almost 2,000 wounded soldiers and civilians who have lost limbs due to the war.
But his largest area of spending is neither agricultural machinery nor prosthetics.
It is food: 642 million meals.
He has built, stocked and staffed mobile kitchens that go into areas where civilians, often very elderly, whose homes have been destroyed by Russian bombing.
Real help from a person who has no personal motivation to profit from Ukraine. He simply chooses to help.
The only EU leader with brains.
Oggi abbiamo approvato in Consiglio dei Ministri il decreto sulla scuola.
Un limite del 30% nelle classi per gli studenti che non conoscono adeguatamente lโitaliano, piรน strumenti per imparare la nostra lingua e stop a burqa e niqab a scuola.
Strumenti di buonsenso che non dividono, ma aiutano a integrare davvero, evitando classi-ghetto e dando a tutti gli studenti le stesse opportunitร .
ร questa la direzione che vogliamo continuare a seguire: una scuola che integra senza rinunciare alle regole, che sostiene chi ha piรน difficoltร e che mette tutti nelle condizioni di partire dallo stesso punto.
Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
Polish Foreign Minister Radosลaw Sikorski at the UN Security Council:
๐ฃ "To the representatives of the Russian Federation, I have this to say: You have been trying to conquer Donbas for over twelve years and Kyiv for over four. You have been stopped by heroic Ukraine, a country with one-tenth of Russia's GDP. But Poland has almost half of your GDP. Europe has 10 times your GDP. NATO has 25 times your GDP. You can still kill a lot of people, but you cannot win. You can stop this imperial war of choice at any time. Don't endanger Europe and the world any further. Stop destroying Russia's future. Sergey, I know you're listening. Tell your boss: 'enough is enough.' Thank you."
Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
To my friends in the Ontario PC government: whatโs the point of being in power when you allow this insane leftism to continue to dominate the school system?
Whatโs the point?
Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
Canada is now the proposed first unique EU โassociate memberโ and joins the unique family of EU โassociation agreementโ members such as Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Tรผrkiye, Israel, several Western Balkan & Mediterranean countries, and EEA states Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
Jin, Jรฎyan, Azadรฎ โค๏ธ๐๐
Four years since Jรฎna Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died from violence in Iranian morality police custody.
Her name means โlife.โ From Israel, I stand with the Kurdish people and women fighting for freedom.
Woman, Life, Freedom.
#JinaAmini #WomenLifeFreedom
Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
Obviously tariffs arenโt good for the economy.
But wishing Canadians would just simmer down in response to threats to our sovereignty isnโt just wearing economics-only blinders, itโs hoping that which makes us a resilient liberal democracy would just be quiet.
No.
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Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
Pleased to share my favorite photo from yesterday morning.
Shot using 3 cameras from a parking lot: this is the Falcon Heavy carrying Roman Space Telescope transiting the sun.
More about how it was captured and a video of the transit ๐
Peter Easton ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ retweeted
Calling Israelโs war โgenocideโ because a column of NGOs typed the same two words is not analysis.
It is the same trick eugenics used: get enough letterheads in a room and treat the pile as proof.
Harvard taught eugenics.
Carnegie and Rockefeller funded it.
The Supreme Court blessed it.
30 states wrote it into law.
Doctors called it public health.
They sterilized the poor, the disabled, and anyone who failed their test. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, โThree generations of imbeciles are enough.โ Carrie Buck was not an imbecile. She was poor. They defined โunfit,โ measured the people they had already condemned, then cited the measurement. Garbage in. Policy out.
A chorus is not a fact.
French generals were sure Dreyfus was guilty. He was framed.
Viennaโs obstetricians were sure unwashed hands did not kill mothers. The mothers kept dying.
Soviet academies were sure Lysenko had beaten Mendel. The harvests failed.
The UN voted that Zionism was racism. The vote was real. The sentence was a lie.
Textbooks were sure ulcers were stress. It was a bacterium.
The State Department called Nazisโ industrialized murder of the Jews of Europe a โrumorโ while the pits were already full.
Genocide is a legal word. It means intent to destroy a people as such.
It does not mean civilian dead in a war against an enemy that hides in hospitals.
It does not mean a list of logos used the same headline.
Seoul, Mosul, Raqqa: same urban ruin, same civilian toll. The word showed up when the army was Jewish.
Eugenics had the deans, the foundations, and the Court.
It was still a fraud.
Read the Convention.
Count the intent.
Ignore the pile.
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