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Jack Rocks retweeted
Since the religion of peace struck on four continents this week, I must repost this piece:
Adolf Eichmann, a high-ranking Nazi and one of the architects of the Holocaust, fled to South America after World War II.
In 1962, he was captured and brought to Israel for trial.
During the proceedings, the prosecution brought in survivors from Nazi death camps to testify against him.
One of them, Yehiel Dinur, entered the courtroom and came face to face with Eichmann, who was seated in a glass box. The moment Dinur saw him, he collapsed to the ground, shaking and sobbing uncontrollably.
Years later, in an interview with 60 Minutes, journalist Mike Wallace asked Dinur if his reaction had been caused by traumatic memories from the concentration camps.
"No," Dinur replied. "It was not the memories that made me collapse. It was the realization that Eichmann was not a demon. He was an ordinary man.
Hannah Arendt, a journalist for The New Yorker, attended Eichmann’s trial and later wrote about it.
She noted that Eichmann was not a psychopath, not a man burning with sadistic hatred. He was ordinary.
That is what made him so terrifying. He was a man who followed orders, who did his job, who justified the horrors he participated in without ever questioning them.
All humans have the capacity for evil. We all have within us the ability to justify unspeakable horrors if the conditions are right.
The question is not whether we are capable of evil, but what prevents us from committing it?
Most religions restrain human evil. They set moral boundaries, condemning acts of violence, injustice, and cruelty.
Christianity commands its followers to love their enemies, forgive those who harm them, and refuse vengeance. Judaism, despite its history of persecution, never formed a doctrine commanding global conquest or the extermination of non-Jews.
Islam, however, does the opposite.
When an ISIS fighter beheads a captive, he is not acting outside the teachings of his faith. He is following the example of Muhammad, who personally oversaw the beheading of hundreds of Jewish men in Medina.
When Hamas terrorists slaughter Israeli families, they are not betraying Islam, they are fulfilling the doctrine of jihad, which commands war against non-Muslims until Islam dominates the world.
Unlike Christianity, which calls for self-sacrifice, Islam calls for sacrificing others. Unlike Judaism, which focuses on preserving its own people, Islam commands the subjugation or destruction of all who reject it.
We all have the potential for evil. But the difference between a person who commits atrocities and one who does not is the belief system that shapes them.
A Christian who commits murder is violating his faith. A Muslim who kills an apostate is fulfilling his.
A Buddhist who wages war is going against the teachings of his religion. A jihadist who slaughters unbelievers is doing exactly what his religion commands.
The Nazis did not commit genocide because they were born different from us. They did it because they were indoctrinated into an ideology that justified mass murder.
The same is true for every Hamas terrorist, every suicide bomber, every ISIS militant.
Their faith tells them that their victims are not innocent, not human, not worthy of mercy. And so, they kill without hesitation.
The reality is, Islam is the only major religion that actively commands the atrocities we fear. It is the only faith where genocide, subjugation, and violence are not historical accidents, but divine commandments.
It is a mistake to think Islam is just another religion, rather than the most dangerous ideology the world has ever known.
Jack Rocks retweeted
I didn't expect Mehdi Hasan to argue that Islamic culture itself, rather than poverty, is the root cause of jihad, but these are strange times.
15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, which currently has a GDP per capita of $37,000.
Jack Rocks retweeted
Mamdani got the whole American dream in eight years. Came here as a kid, got citizenship in 2018, now he runs the biggest city in the country.
And on America's 250th birthday he sat down at George Washington's desk and told us everything wrong with the place.
I'm not even angry. I'm disappointed.
Here's the picture he painted:
He mocked the people who supposedly think America "becomes less the more people it welcomes."
Said it belongs "only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin."
Called our streets a place where "masked agents" are "terrorizing" people.
Said the country's wealth was built by "calloused, dirt-streaked hands" and then left to rot.
Looked out from Washington's desk and called the Americans who built this economy "small" and "weak."
Okay Mamdani. You hate it so much, why'd you come here?
Let's put that picture up against the actual country.
He's a Muslim kid born in Uganda and he's the mayor of New York. A guy back in his own birthplace said it plainly: over there he'd have had to claw his way in. Here we held the door open.
We've got the most diverse Congress in our history. It was never about skin color, no matter how many years the left spent forcing that story onto a country that kept proving them wrong.
A machine that grinds immigrants down? Nearly half the Fortune 500 was started by immigrants or their kids. 231 companies.
Apple, son of a Syrian.
Google, a kid who came over from the Soviet Union.
Amazon, son of a Cuban.
Put them together and they out-earn Japan, out-earn Germany. That's not a country grinding people into the dirt. That's a country handing them the keys.
It's been and always will be the land of opportunity.
And more people want in here than anywhere else alive. 53 million immigrants live here, the most of any nation on earth. We're 4% of the world's people and we hold 17% of the world's migrants.
Every year since 2007 you ask the whole planet where it'd go if it could go anywhere, the answer comes back the same. America. Number one. The line to get in wraps around the globe.
Here's the line he won't draw. I will.
Legal immigration built this country. The strivers. That's the front door working the way it's supposed to, and I'll defend it all day. You need to earn your spot, respect our laws and customs.
But that's not what we're running anymore.
Four years of Biden's open border blew the doors off. The foreign-born share of this country just hit 15.8%. An all-time high. Higher than Ellis Island, more than triple what it was in 1970.
The Census Bureau didn't expect that number until 2042 and we smashed past it. And on top of it, a record 14 million people here illegally, who cut in front of every single person who did it the right way.
The front door built America from Ellis Island to today. The fence is a different thing. Pretending they're the same is how you end up calling every American who wants a secure border a bigot.
And we've earned the right to standards. This is the most wanted country on the planet. We get to choose who walks in. You want in? Build something. Contribute. Earn it. Nobody's owed anything.
You come illegally, you commit crimes, you steal from taxpayers, you should get deported. That's not terrorizing the streets.
Mamdani walked through that front door in 2018. He of all people should be defending it. Instead he stood at Washington's desk and spent his speech blurring the line between the people who came the right way and the ones who broke in.
The man even admitted out loud that America is exceptional. Then spent the rest explaining why it isn't. On the one day the whole country stops to celebrate itself, he reached for the darkest story he could find.
That's not a man who's lost about America. That's a man who's angry at the country that gave him everything he has.
You don't like it here? Nobody made you come.
Nobody's stopping you from leaving. But you won't. They never do. Because there's nowhere else on earth that hands a person this much of a shot.
This country took him in and made him a mayor. He owes it. It doesn't owe him a thing.
We're not perfect. We're the best odds a human being has ever been handed. 250 years old, the richest and freest country alive, and the whole world is still clawing to get in while nobody's trying to leave.
They hold America to a standard they'd never hold anyone else to, then act shocked it falls short.
It's nonsense.
Respect the country. Especially when it's the reason you're standing at that desk at all.
Jack Rocks retweeted
Good to know that by Mehdi Hasan's measure, Europeans have the right to bomb Islamic nations into oblivion, because Muslims should have thought about all that when they were pillaging Europe during the 7th-16th centuries.
Also, when are Muslims going to leave North Africa? Clearly, non-Muslim Africans now have the right to invade Arab nations, since Arab Muslims should have thought about all that when they colonized North Africa and enslaved up to 18 million black people during the 1,000-year-long trans-continental slave trade.
Arab nations refused to end the black slave trade until Europeans forced them to do so as late as the 1960s when you could still acquire a black slave on the markets of Egypt.
By all these measures, as stipulated by Hasan, Muslim nations must be invaded by relentless African and European mass immigration. And if they dare protest, then they are racists.
Also, their soccer teams need to be made all black, because that's the correct punishment for Islamic conquests.
Jack Rocks retweeted
"China does not want to exist in a trading system, where goods are traded for other goods. China wants to make all the goods, and have other countries pay for those goods with debt."
Europe can't afford to adhere to free-trade dogma when it comes to the flood of Chinese imports.
noahpinion.blog/p/why-europe…
Jack Rocks retweeted
These two things are about the same size
"2nm" transistor gate pitch : 42nm
Flagellum motor : 45nm
Jack Rocks retweeted
Tucked away on pages 744-746 of the Farm Bill is language that will allow corporations to continue confining mother pigs to gestation crates.
These 2.5' x 7' stalls restrain sows for 114 days of their pregnancy. They can only walk a few steps forward and a few steps backward.
It's called the 'Save Our Bacon Act' even though the legislation it would overturn does not address bacon. It would overturn legislation that prevents the sale of whole-pig meat that comes from pigs whose mothers were confined to gestation crates in jurisdictions that voted to ban such products.
This is not just an animal welfare issue. It's a public health threat.
Research shows that 92.6% of crated sows exhibit abnormal, repetitive behaviors—known as stereotypies—within just one hour of observation. This is a coping mechanisms triggered by stress.
Crated sows have markedly higher levels of stress hormones like adrenaline and noradrenaline compared to group-housed sows. This stress response weakens their immune systems and promotes the growth and virulence of foodborne pathogens such as Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Staphylococcus aureus. These pathogens often infect their piglets—who are born immunosuppressed and frequently remain infected until slaughter.
These infections frequently go undetected during inspections. When infected pigs are slaughtered, the resulting pork can transmit disease to consumers. This isn’t hypothetical—it’s happening now.
Piglets of group-housed sows show better resistance and resilience and are exposed to fewer pathogens.
Pork is a leading source of foodborne illness in the U.S., responsible for an estimated 787,000 illnesses annually.
Salmonella alone is responsible for $1.9 billion in annual public health costs, and 60% of sows test positive for it. Ten percent of these strains are multidrug-resistant.
Campylobacter from pork causes 37,000 infections in the U.S. annually, and 83% of Campylobacter found on commercial pork chops is resistant to at least one medically important antibiotic.
The overuse of antibiotics in pork production worsens this crisis. According to 2022 data from the FDA:
-89% of pork producers administer antibiotics through feed or water.
-27.1% of all medically important antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used in pork production.
-This contributes directly to the rise of antimicrobial resistance—a threat the World Health Organization estimates is responsible for 700,000 deaths each year.
The language in the Farm Bill says:
SEC. 12006. Ensuring the Free Movement of Livestock-Derived Products in Interstate Commerce.
(a) Purpose.— The purpose of this section is to—
(1) protect the free movement in interstate commerce of products derived from covered livestock;
(2) encourage a national market of such products;
(3) ensure that producers of covered livestock are not subject to a patchwork of State laws restricting access to a national market; and
(4) ensure that the United States continues to uphold its international trade obligations.
(b) In General.— Producers of covered livestock have a Federal right to raise and market their covered livestock in interstate commerce and therefore no State or subdivision thereof may enact or enforce, directly or indirectly, a condition or standard on the production of covered livestock other than for covered livestock physically raised in such State or subdivision.
(c) Protecting Interstate Commerce.— Producers of covered livestock have a Federal right to raise and market their covered livestock in interstate commerce and therefore no State or subdivision thereof may enact or enforce, directly or indirectly, as a condition for sale or consumption, any condition or standard of production on products derived from covered livestock not physically raised in such State or subdivision that is in addition to, or different from, the conditions or standards of production in the State in which the production occurs.
(d) Definitions.— In this section:
(1) Covered Livestock.— The term “covered livestock”
(A) means any domestic animal raised for the purpose of—
(i) slaughter for human consumption; or
(ii) producing products manufactured for human consumption which are derived from the processing of milk, including fluid milk products; and
(B) does not include domestic animals raised for the primary purpose of egg production.
(2) Production.— The term “production”—
(A) means the raising (including breeding) of covered livestock; and
(B) does not include the movement, harvesting, or further processing of covered livestock.
Photo courtesy of @WeAnimals.
Jack Rocks retweeted
Look at the regimes that leftists support the most nowadays. Khamenei and the IRGC, who shoot tens of thousands of unarmed protesters in the streets. Maduro, who reduced his people to eating rats and tortured many thousands. Hezbollah, the Houthis...
What a fucking disgrace.
Jack Rocks retweeted
We can talk about UAE / Singapore versus Australia and the West more broadly as model states in how they deal with Islamist extremism but let's actually look at an example that demonstrates the point.
In 2002, Singaporean Zulfikar Shariff fled to Australia after getting charged for his activities organizing and campaigning against a hijab ban in schools, and defending and promoting Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
Australia welcomed him with open arms, and provided him with scholarships and a place to further postgraduate study, despite not having an undergraduate degree, even after his work with Al-Qaeda financiers was made public in 2006 by the left leaning ABC. He was granted Australian citizenship in 2011.
He continued to receive state grants and unemployment benefits from the Australian government, all the while continuing his activism from there.
He made videos posted on various social media sites where he said things like Chinese Singaporeans were colonial settlers, not migrants, and that Singapore's ideology had insulted, degraded and oppressed Muslims.
In 2016, he gets arrested when he returned to Singapore and detained under the Internal Security Act. He then renounces his Singaporean citizenship and returned to Australia where he now resides with his family.
If this is the kind of immigrant Australia accepts, is the Bondi massacre really such a surprise? Why does Australia grant citizenship to people who are not compatible with the values they claim to embrace?
Shariff's case highlights differences in how Singapore and Australia approach these issues. The West embraces high-minded ideals of tolerance and pluralism which is commendable, but has its trade-offs in terms of balancing security and freedom. It's time to have that difficult conversation:
which way, Western man?
Jack Rocks retweeted
This is, perhaps, the only thing that really matters.
We either beat China, or liberty—and maybe even humanity—dies forever.
It cannot be overstated how utterly crucial it is that America shapes up.
We cannot allow even the possibility of a Communist victory.
Jack Rocks retweeted
Missing the old days when African tribes would kill the overfed outsider and feed him to the village.
Jack Rocks retweeted
Ironically, if the entire country operated this way esp. wrt to housing and clean energy infrastructure, the US would be in a much better place today and enjoy a higher standard of living.
Jack Rocks retweeted
The measles situation is getting worse, with yet another outbreak.
The solution is simple: use the safe, effective MMR vaccine.
Unfortunately, fewer and fewer parents care to protect their children.
Jack Rocks retweeted
It's not an 'anti-Israel mob'; it's a Jew-hating, west-hating, human rights despising horde that has been given cover under the legislated freedoms of Liberal democracies.
Jack Rocks retweeted
America is the only country where a foreigner can insult the national symbolism/mythos without backlash, and even be praised by the locals.
NW Euros are the most demoralized people. They hate their history, their forefathers, even their very existence.
Jack Rocks retweeted
no undocumented immigrant ever started living in a car outside your house, because you're not Latino.
yet you expect Latinos to live in neighborhoods overwhelmed by migrants in your twisted way of dehumanizing their aspirations and quality of life goals.
Jack Rocks retweeted
Qatar Is Responsible For Khalid Sheikh Mohammad's 2,977 Murders On 9/11 – At The World Trade Center And The Pentagon, And On Two Other Hijacked Flights – That Are Only Some Of 31 Attacks And Plots That He Outlined In His Own Confession
memri.org/reports/qatar-resp…