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Cletus Van Damme retweeted
White Texans welcomed his family from one of the most savagely repressive regimes on earth at the time, & unquestioningly made them full and equal partakers of our political and social life
That was obviously a mistake
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
Mind you its a data center that
- Is covering 100% of its own power consumption
- Uses zero water for cooling, just bathroom and kitchen
- Offers a 120% water stewardship pledge (Net gain of water in the county)
- Provided housing to construction workers to prevent a local temporary rent hike
- Investing in the local school system
- Was going to pay for the entire County's budget for 7 years
And it still wasn't enough. There just is zero way to overcome the negative PR/NIMBY
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
I think a lot of people feel like this umpire. He’s a vet, good at his job, now there’s this robot that does his job even better. It points out his errors that would have gone unnoticed a few years ago. And he’s waiting for someone to say, “why do we need the guy behind the plate?”
I don’t think they can articulate this feeling, so they glob on to “uhh data centers eat water” or some version of NIMBYism. But there’s a deeper fear driving it.
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
"Desperate Trump staffers discussed ways to mobilize the "Gigachad" vote, despite it being unlikely that there are that many white male voters named Chad in the entire country. Giga most commonly refers to the metric unit prefix meaning one billion (10⁹ or 1,000,000,000)."
Six days before the election, more than two dozen Trump strategists logged onto a private video call. The mood was grim. The talk turned to cyanide. “Do you want the white pill first, or the black pill first?" @ShaneGoldmacher @jonathanvswan @maggieNYT nytimes.com/2026/11/04/us/po…
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
What a time to be alive
This is probably the worst result of the night.
Newly elected Democratic congressman Adam Hamawy was a close associate of Omar Abdel Rahman - the “Blind Sheikh” sentenced to life in prison for his role inspiring the 1993 Wold Trade Center bombing.
Abdel-Rahman issued a fatwa in the US that declared it lawful to rob banks and kill Jews in the US. His sermons condemned Americans as the "descendants of apes and pigs'' and called on Muslims to assail the West, ''kill them on the sea, air, or land.''
Adam Hamawy travelled with the Blind Sheikh to a conference in Detroit in 1991 titled "Towards a Global Islamic Economy.” He ultimately testified in court for the Blind Sheikh to try defend him.
A secret FBI informant said that Hamawy discussed making bombs with the Blind Sheikh and "conquering the land of the infidels.”
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
Celts came from where we thought
Germanics came from Baltic
Blonde hair map is the Baltic-Germanic population marker
Red hair is a different population, also very northern but Highly Insular Celtic
À propos de l’origine des Celtes. Une étude publiée dans Nature croise pour la première fois, génomique ancienne, archéologie et linguistique pour tenter de retracer la diffusion des langues celtiques en Europe, en s’appuyant sur l’analyse de 4 587 génomes anciens. Les résultats semblent privilégier l’hypothèse d’une expansion depuis l’Europe centrale et orientale vers l’ouest, entre 1200 et 800 av. J.-C., en lien avec les mouvements de populations associés aux cultures des champs d’urnes, du Hallstatt et de La Tène. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
A sort of side finding in @hmcccoll and @KroonenGuus's newly published papers which I love thanks to their ability to distinguish BB, CWC, and Catacomb type IE stppe ancestry is it pointing towards an IE phylogeny with Italo-Celtic, Greco-Armeno-Albanian, and Indo-Baltic
Congrats @hmcccoll both papers are really great advances for the history of Indo European
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
You're discovering why shit hole countries routinely spend double digit percentage of their budgets on direct commodity subsidies
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
Whatever Republican candidate in 2028 recognizes that he's the head of the white guy party is going to win the primary.
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
Imagine being the Democrat strategist who had to spin every DNC/NGO complex ghoul in the world being involved in the most cartoonish, fanciful evil shit imaginable
& you just said "no u", & it worked flawlessly
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
Truly unbelievable. Whenever I catch myself lamenting how repulsive and duplicitous the personalities are on the "dissident right", I remind myself that these people exist.
Our lengthy operation against Iran is a direct consequence of Trump surrounding himself with a cadre of yes-men. Americans are not happy to be in another seemingly endless war, and they are placing the blame squarely on Trump.
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Cletus Van Damme retweeted
This might cost me in more ways than one, but: Epstein is fake. The whole memeplex around it is fake. It is the closest thing to the Ring of Power that exists in politics. Both sides have wielded this ephemeral boogeyman against the other, and it’s always a disaster because once you obtain power you get to see the files and you realize there’s nothing there, which means you have no meat to feed the rabid dogs you rallied to your cause, and they eat you instead. It’s a mass hysteria akin to witch panics, but on an information-age scale.
I guess what I’m saying is Michael Tracey is Frodo.
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
the american electorate is so funny man, the only time they take a break from watching ai generated reelslop of pixar people with fruit heads cheating on each other is to go and vote against data centers.
