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Software developer, businessman, futurist, careful observer of the human condition, often too honest for my own good, more of a quarterback than a cheerleader.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined May 2015
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Ron Rosell retweeted
We are past warnings. Cities are burning. More will follow. This will come to the United States IMO. This is an attack on western societies and values. Yes, there are many root causes. Uncontrolled migration without assimilation. International funding of protest for violent purposes. Issues of affordability. Education. Housing shortages. Employment opportunities, etc.
They started with issues but then are quickly hijacked by ultra-left radicals, islamist, the red-green alliance, opportunists, and those brainwashed by victimhood.
Why? Lack of values, purpose, and identity. With eroded traditional sources of identity and purpose (family, nation, vocation, faith), huge groups fill the void by claiming victim status or becoming advocates for other designated supposed victims. Responsibility is externalized: the system - capitalism, democracy, natives, “the West,” or some oppressor always explains their personal or collective shortfalls. This produces victimhood culture, beliefs of shared grievance, and alliances with radicals who offer belonging through struggle rather than responsibility, competence, or reform.
The leftists/Marxist, the Islamists, and those thirsting for purpose don’t want reforms. They want to destroy society. They want identity through victimhood and destruction. They take no responsibility for their own status, there is always an oppressor to blame, always someone else’s fight. So they burn what they won’t fix.
Step one is law and order. Reinforce the police. Enforce the law. Arrest, track, and if applicable deport every single person who commits violence or crimes.
These won’t be the last protests or cities to burn if "let's address their grievances," suicidal empathy, victimhood culture, political cowardliness continues.
Ron Rosell retweeted
Here's the darkest truth.
Many of my fellow Democrats can't look closely at the Israel situation because it requires you to consider politically inconvenient truths you can't voice to the NPR pledge mug crowd.
✅ A lot of Muslims believe insane conspiracy theories about Jews and are bigots
✅ The Palestinians will continue to try to annihilate Israel regardless of what Israelis do
✅ Israel had a responsibility to its own citizens to prevent another October 7th. It may be distasteful to see the horrific images of war, but that's the reality of war
✅ America is letting scores of people into the country with beliefs exactly like Hamas. This is bad public policy for all Americans, not just Jews.
I did not enjoy having my eyes opened up on any of these things. I understand they make me socially radioactive to a lot of people that have never run from an incoming missile into a bomb shelter.
But it doesn't make them less true.
And you have to actually go to Israel to understand it.
When I was last in Area B of the West Bank, I was being escorted by a former IDF officer. We rounded a corner, and he puts his hand out ordering me to turn around. I look up and across the security fence, Arabs with guns are staring at us.
It's so easy for Americans to whine about this situation when they've never stopped for lunch next to soldiers patrolling for suicide bombers.
Republicans are very bad at governing, but they do understand that bad people exist in the world and sometimes you have to defend yourself. Until Democrats can grasp this simple truth, our analysis of Israel will continue to be dead wrong.
Ron Rosell retweeted
Zelenskyy: "When our strikes reached Yandex data centers, it suddenly became little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. Many people noticed it.
There was less hate, less division, fewer provocations because there were fewer bots. It's pretty clear where those bots were coming from.
If they disappeared when Yandex went offline, this proves once again that Europe is not the source of the problems."
The big problem is that Russia figured out how modern society consumes information a decade ago, but the West hasn't.
There are millions of bots commenting and posting Russian propaganda. There are paid influencers spreading it, with Russian bots supporting their content.
There is a gigantic machine operating to radicalize and influence Western societies, and there is not enough defense in place.
It doesn't just influence elections, it sows discord, engulfs societies in culture wars, radicalizes teenagers, and shapes political decisions when elected officials fail to read the room.
That needs to change. And fast.
A friend who lives in this neighbourhood heard the explosion last night. Turns out, a car burst into flames.
The story never mentions the make of the car, so we know it wasn't a @Tesla. If it had been, the headline would have been "Fiery Tesla tries to kill us all". 😒
Driver escapes burning car after accidentally setting it on fire, Vancouver police say ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article…
Ron Rosell retweeted
One of the most damaging ideas taking hold in Canada is that someone else’s success must have come at your expense.
That getting ahead means taking from someone else.
Wealth isn’t inherently zero sum. You can build something useful, solve a problem, take a risk, and create value for yourself and others. Jobs, opportunity, prosperity.
When an athlete becomes the best in their field, we celebrate them. We don’t assume their achievement came through exploitation. We see what’s possible. Their success inspires the next generation to pursue their own.
We should bring that same energy to people building businesses.
Canada needs more people who want to build, invest, hire, and succeed.
If we keep framing success as a moral failure, what are we teaching our kids?
To resent what someone else has built, instead of believing they can build something too.
I want the next generation growing up with optimism and ambition, not envy dressed up as fairness.
Ron Rosell retweeted
Elon,
I try sometimes to defend you.. then you go off and spout ignorant and hurtful comments like this to your millions of followers.
You are not helping your image and continue to tarnish the reputation of the brands you lead.
Seriously, THINK before tweeting..
T - True. Is what you’re saying accurate?
H - Helpful. Does your message help?
I - Inspiring. Do your words inspire and uplift
N - Necessary. Do you have to speak?
K - Kind. Is the delivery respectful?
You can definitely do better.
Ron Rosell retweeted
I generally support and even admire Elon in his business ventures, but he has a terrible habit of weighing in on subjects he barely understands, and he has one hell of a megaphone. He’ll blurt out a random, half-baked musing on some controversy and within hours half a billion people will know of it.
Having the freedom to do that does not make it a wise thing to do, especially for someone with his fiduciary responsibilities. His freedom of speech does not free him, or the businesses he’s tied to, from consequences, and the many occasions when he’s done this sort of thing have already caused substantial economic damage to the businesses, to investors, even to customers who have to deal with retaliatory vandalism and public scorn.
Overall his personal political activism is incompatible with his role as CEO and spokesman of a public, consumer-facing company.
I expect when they figure out who authorized this pilot’s hiring at @flydubai, MBZ will have “a word” with that manager himself.
It won’t be a pleasant chat.
Ron Rosell retweeted
Palestinianism is a dumping ground.
A catch-all container for every resentful ideology, every broken theory, every radical cause.
Marxists, postcolonialists, jihadists, queer activists, anarchists, environmentalists, anti-capitalists, and antisemites, they all pour their agendas into it.
It’s the perfect host, just vague enough to absorb anything, just angry enough to justify everything.
Muslims use it to legitimize jihad and martyrdom under the guise of resistance to occupation.
Marxists use it to revive class warfare under the guise of anti-Zionism.
Postcolonial theorists use it to attack the West.
Intersectional activists use it to link Palestine to trans rights and racial justice in a grotesque logic of shared victimhood.
Academics use it to inject critical theory into international politics.
Antisemites use it to camouflage their hatred as humanitarianism.
Palestinianism is where incompatible ideologies suddenly find unity.
What binds them isn’t a coherent vision of justice, but a shared enemy: Israel, the West, the Judeo-Christian world, the structure, the order.
Palestinianism has become the dumping ground where failed ideologies go to be reborn.
Ron Rosell retweeted
There are 8400 unsold new condo units in Metro Vancouver that are either under construciton or already complete. Every month they sit empty the developer pays interest, property taxes, insurance, and strata fees. Not to mention the opportunity cost of that capital.
You think they aren't trying to sell them?
Construction and inventory loans from any lender have legal stipulations that determine what a developer can sell for, typically with a 90-95% threshold of contracted prices.
An empty homes tax on new product would only tighten credit conditions further, and accelerate the rapid decline in housing starts.
Capital flows to where it is treated best, and the NDP have done a good job villainizing it in just about every industry.
Ron Rosell retweeted
KINSELLA: Jewish journalist faces discipline at CBC after documenting pro-Palestine protest
torontosun.com/opinion/colum…
He raises a few good points here 🤔
"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything"
You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition.
One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them.
A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math?
"Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up.
My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes.
"The social disruption will be enormous!"
Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach.
Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already?
A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up.
Accelerate.
Ron Rosell retweeted
Okay I've been reading about opportunistic snap elections all morning. If David Eby *doesn't* have this blow up in his face, it will be the first time that has ever happened.
Ron Rosell retweeted
The best thing about Fauda has never been the gunfights. It is that nobody on screen tells you what to think. From one scene to the next, family men become killers, and terrorists fall in love, and the audience is trusted to digest the moral complications without reductive political messaging.
In this era of polarisation – especially towards the Middle East – that is what makes it such a breath of fresh air. It is art. That is why the series continues to be such a global success, especially in the Arab world. Which is why a little-noticed scene in episode one of the new season, set in a safe house above a halal butcher’s on the edge of the old port in Marseille, is so arresting.
Eli, who has lost his family in the October 7 atrocities, is there. So is his old comrade Salem, a Bedouin tracker from Rahat, whose son Yusuf was murdered that same day. Before they go out to find the Hamas terrorist who killed him, they pray, side-by-side, to their different gods.
This was no diversity schmaltz; after all, nobody could accuse Fauda of being sentimental. No, what was really going on was deep…
New post. Link in first reply:
Ron Rosell retweeted
Ed’s always had the reputation of being one of the decent ones. The rare guy in the music industry who actually lifts people up, nurtures them and genuinely sees music as a way to inspire and bring people together. His entire vibe is wholesome and earnest, the kind of guy who believes in the power of love and all that (it’s way too kumbaya and saccharine for my tastes).
Which is what makes this whole affair so grim.
Because he should be the last person to receive so much hate and vitriol.
When he says he’s lost friends over this, the thing that jumps out to me is the really bad behavior of his “friends” in the music industry.
You know, the ones he actually invited out on his massive tour. Macklemore and the other opening acts get bigger crowds, bigger paydays and a platform most of them wouldn’t have had on their own.
First, Macklemore used Ed’s stage to make the night all about his own cause. Bro you’re the opening act, nobody is paying for those tickets to see you.
Second, after Robert Kraft and the other stadium owners made it clear the shows weren’t happening with Macklemore on the bill, what did he do? He threw his “friend” under the bus.
The decent move would’ve been for Macklemore to say to the public, “this wasn’t Ed’s fault. Don’t turn him into the villain.”
Instead he’s watched Ed take every arrow on social media and get churned through a full-blown media storm. He lets the climate in which activists hysterically accuse Ed of being complicit in genocide and post absurd cartoons of him personally shooting a Palestinian kid with an RPG fester and bloom.
There were lots of things Macklemore could’ve said to take some of the heat off the man who actually put him on that stage. But he didn’t.
Neither did the other openers who walked. Instead they framed it as principle and solidarity. From the outside it just looks like they took the opportunity, cashed the goodwill, and then left Ed trying to figure out how to keep the tour alive for hundreds of thousands of ticket-holders and the crew who actually depend on the tour to get paid. Ed is the one who took all the risk after all.
This dynamic reminds me of those child actors who built careers off @jk_rowling’s work and then publicly disowned her the second her views became inconvenient. These are not good people and they don’t know gratitude.
Ed’s finding out, the hard way, just how many shitty people were around him.
It’s a terrible experience to go through but in the long run, he would be all the wiser for it
Ron Rosell retweeted
When Sheeran said “I do not know enough” he was speaking true words that he should have taken to heart.
There are plenty of people with expertise on military history and strategy, urban warfare, geopolitics, even the disassembly of the Ottoman Empire into an ethnic patchwork with multiple unresolved claims (Yazidis, Kurds, Druze …). Real scholars who would take issue with some of the characterizations Sheeran offered in an effort to sound contrite. Yet like Macklemore, instead of listening to those voices and learning from their experience he was reciting the Quotations of Chairman TikTok.
Even when discussing Israeli losses he seemed only cognizant of where those intersected with a music festival. That should tell you something.
Wars are terrible. People dying or having their lives forever changed due to wars is awful. (I was deeply involved in rescuing people during the disastrous Syrian civil war.) On that every sane person should agree. That’s why wars are mostly triggered by psychopaths. Look closely: they all have that same glassy look in their eyes.
But Sheeran’s speech wasn’t an anti-war protest. Much of it was a verdict, a judgment, yet as he put it, he didn’t know much about the subject.
I regret that he found himself in this situation, although he should have known what he was getting with Macklemore. But you’re 100% correct … he should have put that behind him and stuck to what he understands well.
I’m not crying, you’re crying. 🥹
Through the VOICE trial, Terry is using his Neuralink implant to help fine-tune a brain-to-voice interface for himself and others who can’t speak. He trained the algorithm first by miming speech as best he could, then by simply thinking the words and hearing them come out in his own natural voice.
Powered by Grok Voice from @spacexai
Ron Rosell retweeted
I need to take accountability.
Fourteen years ago, in a moment of unexamined privilege, I listened to an Ed Sheeran song.
I believe it was A Team.
I hummed it. I may have even said, out loud, that the melody was “nice.”
I now understand that humming A Team in 2012 was materially indistinguishable from genocide.
The fact that I was sixteen and on a school bus is no excuse. Silence is violence. Also singing is violence.
I am listening. I am learning. I am donating the $1.37 I once spent on + to a GoFundMe I have not verified. I have unfollowed Ed. I have also unfollowed the concept of “songs.” I have deleted Thinking Out Loud from my muscle memory. If it starts playing in a supermarket I will lie down in the cereal aisle and wait to be educated.
To everyone harmed by my historic consumption of a ginger man with a guitar: I see you. I hear you. I am centering you. I am centering you so hard that I have written this in the first person, which I now recognize may itself be centering me, so I apologize for the apology, and also for the sentence that just apologized for the apology.
I do not expect forgiveness.
From now on I will only listen to artists who have posted the correct carousel, used the correct words, and never once played a venue owned by a person I have been told is bad. If that leaves me with three songs and a rain stick, so be it.
In solidarity,
and also in fear of the quote-tweet,
a person who once knew all the words to Lego House and will never, ever recover.
Ron Rosell retweeted
We stand with Ed. He played a brilliant concert in Thomond Park when he visited during his tour! 🏟☘️💚
The woke mob trying to cancel @edsheeran is such a pity. Just because he didn’t want to be drawn into a public political row, they’re out to cancel him. They’re an absolute embarrassment.
Wanting a gig to stay a gig, not a rally, shouldn’t be treated like a moral crime. Not every artist has to become a spokesperson on demand.
Stay strong and true Ed, the majority are with you. 🇮🇪🤝⭐️
