Sunlight at Earth's surface has surged since the 1980s. Germany's Potsdam station shows 15 more W/m² of solar energy reaching the ground than during the 1970s dimming era. The Netherlands, Switzerland and Japan all show the same trend. Austria shows even more: 23 extra W/m². It's called 'global brightening.' As air pollution dropped, the atmosphere cleared and sunlight flooded back in. That increase in surface radiation is 10 times larger than the forcing from CO2 over the same period. In short: the air got cleaner, the sunlight stronger and the land a little warmer. The data say so, the physics say so, it's only the narrative that doesn't.

every socialist state had a black market the soviet union had the blat system. cuba has the bolso. venezuela has the bachaqueo. north korea has the jangmadang the black market isn't a flaw in socialism. it's the correction when the plan sets prices wrong, the market reasserts through the back door. when the plan assigns the wrong goods to the wrong place, smugglers fix it. when the plan bans trade, trade happens anyway the socialist calls it corruption. the austrian calls it survival a system so broken that people need an underground economy to eat is a system that failed the black market is the market saying: you can ban me but you can't replace me

The members of Congress complaining about the $40 trillion in debt we find ourselves in are the same people who chased Elon Musk and DOGE out of DC with torches and pitchforks. Both parties are to blame, and you both suck.

Y'all wanna know how to end this "what is a woman" debate for good? Donald Trump should identify as a woman and proclaim himself the first woman President in the United States How fast do y'all think Democrats would hit the Supreme Court to clearly define what a woman is?

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Drag queens hosted an event where they mocked the brutal ass*ssination of Charlie Kirk. These people are in a death cult. EVIL

🚨 HOLY CRAP. The California Democrat Legislature has formally PASSED the Stop NICK SHIRLEY Act — sending it to Gov. Gavin Newsom for signature The bill will CRIMINALIZE Shirley going around and confronting fraudsters while recording them, then posting it online, especially "immigrant" locations And it was pushed by California AG Rob Bonta's wife. Lawmakers blocked Rep. Carl DeMaio from speaking out against its 1A violations WHAT ARE THEY HIDING 🤯 @NickShirleyy is TOO effective that California is crafting pro-fraud laws around him! SHIRLEY IN APRIL: "Very interesting connections with her husband being the Attorney General of California. Their goal as a family should be to prosecute and take care and make sure that there is so little fraud in the state that they can have such a peaceful night of sleep!" "However, while the Attorney General is supposed to be prosecuting fraud, his wife is creating laws to let fraud continue!" "They're specifically saying that NGOs who receive money based off immigrant services don't have to disclose their money."

People who do not know history need to know

I would rather have a nuclear war than continue living under Capitalism. If this is what it takes to destroy Capitalism, then so be it.

🚨 Confronting California Politicians behind the “Stop Nick Shirley Act”: California’s Attorney General’s wife has created a bill titled AB 2624 (aka the Stop Nick Shirley Act) that will fine citizens and journalists a minimum $4,000 for exposing and searching for potential fraud inside Immigration Support Service Providers and take away their First Amendment rights. This bill will protect NGOs, nonprofits, legal offices, healthcare facilities and learing centers who provide services to immigrants. If an immigration service provider gives you a piece of paper saying you cannot publish your video, you may be fined $4,000 and have to pay for their legal fees. Instead of pushing for more transparency, California is trying to shield journalists and citizens from looking into where their tax dollars are going. California politicians need the fraud to continue. EXPOSE IT ALL.

🚨 Here’s the question communists rarely answer: If communism is so good… Why does it need censorship? Why does it need secret police? Why does it need political prisons? Why does it need walls to stop people from leaving? A system confident in its ideas shouldn’t need to imprison people for rejecting them. Change my mind. 👀

So nice for somebody to translate it for the retards in the back. Lol

My provocative article for the day. Lets see if I can lose some of those follows I picked up over the last week or so: Philosophically speaking, communists are not persons. Note that I do not say they are not human. Note also that I am not referring to people living under communism. I would in fact argue that most people living under communism are not communists. Note, too, that I am not broadly talking about any degree of socialism whatsoever. As is pointed out, there’s virtually no country on earth that doesn’t have at least some socialism, and realistically a degree of it is probably a good thing for the health of the nation, even if it rankles philosophically. As long as it’s very carefully managed. I’m talking about the ardent, vocal advocates of communism. The ones who, after a century of piles of bodies, mass graves, starvation and tyranny still support a failed ideology. They are people, as a collective, but they are not persons. Fundamentally, pure communism requires the individual be subsumed into the collective, or, realistically, the State. It requires, to a degree, a voluntary surrender of personhood. This is not me being a McCarthyite, although I am. It's supported by an honest reading of Marx not blindered by ideology or youthful optimism and naïveté. I mean, really, I'm just giving them the recognition they want. The Gattungswesen is not compatible with more traditional liberal (in the classical sense) notions of personhood. Marx was, essentially, a philosopher. If that sounds like a neutral statement, I suppose it sort of is, but remember that Kant was also a philosopher. Holding the title of philosopher does not actually imply you understand humanity in the slightest. Or to be more direct, if you are not familiar with Kant: Karl Marx understood humanity about as well as Jamie Oliver understands children. If that analogy still falls flat, I suppose I will have to be even more blunt and just call the man a fool. "If we just force everyone to give up individuality, individuality will flourish!". No. Step one will never, ever lead to step two. It cannot. That’s pure, unrefined Underpants Gnome thinking... There's a clear first step, and a promised end goal, but step two is an eternal question mark. Did you ever wonder why communists have such a rabid hatred of religion? It's not any of the reasons they tell you. It has nothing to do with reason or intellectual slavery or the degeneracy of the bourgeoisie or anything else. It's this, and only this: Communism is, itself, a secular state religion, complete with scripture, priests, inquisitors, original sin and promises of salvation. It promises paradise in the future if only you be good today. And it cannot abide anyone undermining the faith it demands, since communism cannot be proven to work because it does not work, it can only be taken on faith. And as an aside here to the Campus Communist and proud atheist, who doesn't think any of that applies to them: No, it likely does not. It's not important that the rank-and-file believer actually understands. Orthopraxy is the goal for a foot soldiers. Orthodoxy is only required for the people in charge, which you are not. But the end result is that communism can only stand through blind faith. The blind faith that somehow, if you force them long enough, humans will give up their natural instinct to be people. They won't. But I'll grant Communists the grace of acknowledging their self-identity. Or, rather, lack thereof. And if you say "But I'm not that kind of communist, I'm really just a socialist!". Well, you might want to sort yourself out, because modern communism cannot be meaningfully disentangled from Marxism.

Funny how that all works, isn't it?