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@SaysSimulation

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Seeker. Husband. Father. Populist. Producerist. USDA Zone 5B. Proudly Midwestern. Heartland Enthusiast!

A small city in the Heartland
Joined October 2020
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A thread of my threads.
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The Last Hope Of The West & The Fertility Whitepill As fertility declines in the US & Europe, it is only the conservative Heartland Culture that wants to preserve Western Civilization – and is also reproducing in sufficient numbers to do so. 1/
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I saw a fascinating WSJ article on Boeing recently, that relates to this. During the pandemic Boeing wanted to downsize, so being run by Excel-brains, they did a lot of it via early retirements. They got rid of a large portion of their most skilled labor without realizing 1/
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@SaysSimulation I'm seeing it real time as the boomers leave. Corporate America trained no-one in their attempt at wealth extraction, and now the orgs are starting to seize up in disfunction.
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that this would be a problem. I mean, labor is labor, the young ones are cheaper, so why not get rid of as many of the expensive old ones as possible? It took them years to figure out what they had done - since the MBAs didn't understand how Boeing actually built its planes. 2/
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We may be having the greatest Constitutional crisis in 160 years, as 26 states face off against the Feds - but there is an effective news blackout, outside of X. Why? 1. Confirmation this is a factional dispute. 2. Confirmation the "media" is pure propaganda, not news. 1/
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They finally understand that they can't build planes because they got rid of too much skilled labor, while the new hires weren't good enough. So, as part of their attempted quality cures, they are extending training times, 3/
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I suppose the other explanation is the oldest and most skilled labor were overwhelming white and male, and the younger ones were less so, so getting rid of the skilled labor allowed DEI goals to be achieved. It was likely both, MBAs reducing expenses while hitting DEI goals. 5/
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and trying to use the older skilled labor they still have as mentors to train the new hires. Of course, there is a lot more difference between the old and new hires than just experience, but the article didn't go into that. 4/
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She is sitting inside a technological marvel, built by men far brighter than her. She is speaking into another technological marvel, also built by men far brighter than her. She will never have a genuinely original thought, nor make the slightest difference in the world. 1/
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Zoomer girl, voting for the first time, can’t wrap her head around people voting for Trump
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Re the movie 🧵of the day. Starship Troopers is not about the movie, but the degradation of a brilliant book by a midwit Leftist - twenty years before it became the norm. Verhoeven's attempt to satirize the far more talented Heinlein unintentionally created 1/
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Europeans love the idea of international law because it makes them more important than they are in reality. Law exists not by consensus, but because of the at least implicit threat of violence. People - and even more so, nations - do what courts or laws tell them to do 1/
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Arnaud Bertrand
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I'm actually genuinely shocked by the amount of Americans who commented on this 👇 saying it was perfectly normal for the US not to be bound by international law, and arguing for "America first" as if there was some sort of opposition between international law and American
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This is a truth test. Actually reality. A group can take control of every media outlet and every university. They can write words by the millions about why they are the smartest, most superior people the world has ever seen. They can create elaborate status systems, 1/
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Trad Longhouse: women control men via sex Modern Longhouse: no sex, but women control Man: What? No sex? I'm out of here Woman: (SCREAMING) you can't leave, you're a terrible person, INCEL! The OP got 79K likes, 2K comments, and one of the strongest male/female splits 1/
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So in other words … As usual he was never her friend. He was just another guy who believes all relationships with women are transactional with sex being the only valuable currency women have.
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This is not a surprising development, unfortunately. As discussed in October (next page), Boeing had to take a massive loss because it was drilling holes in the wrong places on the fuselage - this is an astonishing degree of incompetence for what used to be 1/ ht: @ArmchairW
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🚨 #BREAKING : Alaska Airlines Forced to Make an Emergency Landing After Large Aircraft Window Blows Out Mid-Air 📌 #Portland | #Oregon A Forced emergency landing was made of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 at Portland International Airport on Friday night. The flight, traveling
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Another day, another massive US technology failure... sigh. The US wants to spend $13 billion to build Arctic icebreakers, in order to compete with Russia and China. Except, the US seems to have "lost" the technology to do so. Highlights as follows: 1/
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A Crisis of Competency can be expected to steadily spread over time, as experienced workers are replaced by less competent workers over time. Several phases can be expected (we're still in #1 ). 1. Poor manufacturing or maintenance will lead ever increasing numbers of 1/
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🚨 #BREAKING : A Boeing 737 Southwest Airlines had to Make a Emergency Landing after parts of the Engine Cowling Detaches 📌 #Denver | #Colorado Currently, emergency crews and authorities are on the scene after a Boeing 737-800 Southwest Airlines Flight WN3695/SWA3695 departing
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The idea that schools are supposed to produce a homogenized product "at scale" is terrible for both children and society as a whole. We need at least 3 tracks: 1. Gifted 2. Average/Normal 3. Trades/Skilled Labor Being bored in school is not OK. 1/
@CharlesFLehman
Charles Fain Lehman
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I think we underrate how hard it is to provide education to a range of abilities at scale. If the smart kids are bored, that’s an okay outcome. Most interventions don’t work at scale! School kind of does some stuff! That’s pretty good!
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This is a badly misunderstood map. It is not a map of production - but of consumption. This is where the real wealth of America is consumed, not created. Keep in mind that the US cannot support its own standard of living but relies on trade deficits. 1/
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We may have a hundred times the scientists and tech programmers. In artificial stock markets, with near zero percent interest rates, we may agree we are the best that has ever been. Reality says no, it's all social and status posturing. Or another moon landing would be trivial.
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With predominantly young male immigrants, women will be the primary victims in terms of rapes & murders. We're already seeing this in the US, and are just getting started. Single women in the US are the largest Dem voting bloc, they vote for their own rapes & murders 1/
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"In 2019, 25% of men and 21% of women voted for National Rally — in line with traditional patterns. This year, however, the poll found that 33% of women had voted for Le Pen’s far-right party, outpacing 30%. That’s a striking 12% increase from women voters over five years."
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As a former Boy Scout, father of a former Scout, and former adult leader, I find this announcement to be deeply painful. This came from the top down, there was never any grassroots support from Scouts or leaders. The Boy Scouts were taken over from the "top", as part 1/
@boyscouts
Boy Scouts - BSA
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The Boy Scouts of America today announced that it will rebrand to Scouting America, reflecting the organization’s ongoing commitment to welcome every youth and family in America to experience the benefits of Scouting. Learn more:
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based on a hierarchy of institutions, credentials and positions. That is all, ultimately, a social network. Nothing more. The truth test is the reality of what they can accomplish. Reality is a society in rapid decline, that despite enormous purported technological advances, 2/
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Some manly men in Africa came to power the old-fashioned way - they seized it at gunpoint. The US sent two women to lecture and scold the male rulers in a "condescending" manner. The US was thrown out of Niger later that day, with grave security & economic consequences. 1/
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The interesting 1-2 that is going on is that the US is deskilling at a rate that would already be leading to competency-based collapse - but it is holding that off by outsourcing the competence. Taiwan, SK & Japan provide the high tech products, while H1B visas 1/
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"Deskilling" over a period of centuries, as in Asimov's Foundation series, can only happen when an entire civilization is deskilling at the same time. The current accelerated form which is a product of Bioleninism (next page 👉) is not occurring on a global basis. 1/
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The time has come when Forbidden Truths must be spoken. Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee and so forth are problems because they are no longer Midwestern. When they were Midwestern they were the most prosperous cities on earth. The the dirt-poor South started exporting its blacks 1/
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The biggest obstacle to uniting the Midwest as a power block is Chicago. Chicago is naturally the Metropolis of the Heartland. It grew strong connecting the heartland’s products (a lot of beef) to the East. Chicago is still powerful, too big to fail, but in a weird place
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cannot what was accomplished in a few years, many decades ago. The time scale is the humbling part. The US built the defense superpower that won WWII in less than four years. The US went from never having launched a satellite to landing men on the moon in less than a decade. 3/
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The most fascinating part about her is that she thinks that she not only matters, but that she is superior. No thoughts, no contributions, no ability to build or create. Her only "abilities" are to consume, to imitate others, and to download the programming 2/
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The West is a society of hysterical women thinking emotionally. The more I think about the Tucker/Putin interview, the more clear this is. Putin stayed on message without deviation. Everything was the interests of the nations involved. No emotion, no personal animosity, 1/
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This should be front-page news, and the center of conversation for the entire country. Yet, the WSJ, NYT, NPR and others are pretending nothing is happening. Normies not on X have no idea, unless they saw it somewhere else in social media. 2/
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This absolutely confirms that role of the media is to distribute the approved information that serves the interests of the ruling coalition. This blackout is completely incompatible with any claims that the media actually reports the news, we're seeing this in plain sight. 3/
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Why would a happily married guy with children be so interested in what is going on with young women & men instead of air defense missile resupply rates? Because I have interests in cultural survival (fertility), politics & economics. We have something unprecedented 1/
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Recognize Starship Troopers for what it was - a precursor of what would later become the norm, talentless people desecrating the works of their superiors - and yet, still ending up showing their own inferiority by the end. 9/
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The Boomer Rust Belt Time Machine Many Millennials and Zs complain that they were born too late - their parents and grandparents had it easy in comparison. In fact they can easily do the same - but the catch is they would have to move to the Rust Belt, and live like 1/
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Worth watching, sound on. She represents a very particular type of fantasy on the Left, where they have drones and jet fighters, and they get to slaughter flyover country people. They love the idea, she would be happy to do so. Now, let's change the assumptions. 1/
@Theo_TJ_Jordan
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Tragically, there is a lot of truth to that...
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a no-man's land that worked on two levels, with the levels tightly interwoven and always able to viewed from different perspectives. Heinlein wrote a book that was not about fascism, but that glorified militarism. He attacked a decadent human society of civilians, 2/
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and glorified a brotherhood of citizen soldiers, prepared to sacrifice all to defeat a pitiless enemy & quite literally save mankind from extermination. His book was immensely popular when published, in a population where WWII & the fight against fascism were well remembered 3/
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The foundation underpinning the book was quite clearly military warriors defeating evil, not being evil. The Left hated the book, absolutely despised it, and still do. Verhoeven stumbled across the book while already getting the movie ready for production, and reportedly 4/
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The vehemence with which so many women expressed their very anti-male views took me by surprise. Granted, the OP is a lesbian feminist, so not a representative sample. That scenario really seems to set people off. 3/
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This is easily the best video I've seen of the Irish rioting tonight, and it is a nightmare for the Regime. Large numbers of trad Irish young men - young men being the most dangerous demographic - who are not liberal, not Woke, and have had more than they will take. 1/
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🚨 #UPDATE : More videos are emerging from the riots currently underway in Dublin as military units enter the city. Multiple vehicles are up in flames, and several officers are injured, with stores being looted.
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that I've seen in this medium. In comments and QTs there was woman after woman, and they were ANGRY, really hating on the men. For every one of those, there was another from the guys, some very angry, but many more just explaining the situation from a male perspective. 2/
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that tells her what to think about everything, including that she is special, she is unique, she matters, and she is far better than Trump voters. I think Uncle Darwin is building up something really special for us all, and when that happens, this little girl is NGMI. 3/
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@ArmchairW The Regime can make people use sh*tty complex products that are dangerous domestically. They can't do it internationally - and their brains have trouble processing this. To have known problems in a flagship engineering industry and not be able to fix them is Late Empire. 6/
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never even finished the book. Lacking even a minute fraction of the talent of the original creator, he couldn't even fathom what Heinlein was writing about. Instead, as others would later do with the LOTR, he used the name and talent of someone much better to put out his own 5/
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original power of the book come through. People do understand people becoming warriors instead of civilians. People understand warriors trying to save their civilization from destruction. The Left no longer understands this, but it is one of the oldest stories of 7/
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the same creeping institutional capture that took over the government, corporations and universities. They are betraying every aspect of what the Scouts formerly were. It was a great organization. It did so much good for so many millions of boys. Which is why they killed it. 2/
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@ArmchairW (October 🧵👇 ) an engineering company, and making it a MBA/lobbyist company for leadership, and a diversity company for the actual employees. They knew they were making terrible mistakes on the assembly line. They delivered this particular plane 2/
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Boeing used to be an Engineering company, one of the best in the world. Then it became an MBA company. It is now a Woke MBA company. Boeing just took a massive loss - because it has been drilling holes in the wrong places on the fuselages. 1/
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because they have no choice, they will be forced to do so. What has passed for international law after WWII was always based on the military and economic power of the United States. Nations went along first for reasons, and second out of fear. 2/
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I've watches this several times, and as far as I can tell from the trailer - this is some dangerous preparation. The heroes seem to be a female journalist, a Latino immigrant with an accent, and of course - blacks The bad guys are white men. So, what was America is now evil, 1/
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In this land, anything is possible. Welcome to Alex Garland's CIVIL WAR. In theaters and @IMAX April 26.
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lesser version. Everything became satire, and a very campy sort of satire at that. Meh. The movie wasn't nearly as good as the book, but the campiness made it fun in its own way. Nonetheless, even while creating satire, Verhoeven inadvertently let some of the 6/
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civilizations, and most civilizations would be destroyed because of it. There were indeed deep, powerful themes underneath that people could still relate to, even beneath the surface of a campy satire from a midwit Lefty. 8/
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She had known for three weeks that her free escort service had run out. She still chose to go get drunk every Saturday night, knowing that she had no way home she considered "safe". She then attempted to guilt a friend into doing what she knew he did not want to do. 2/
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One last point with broad social implications for coming decades. Hundreds of posts by women made the same point: the woman was in a dangerous situation, only a scumbag wouldn't help her. 180 degrees wrong - the woman had agency. She chose to put herself in "danger" 1/
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Trad Longhouse: women control men via sex Modern Longhouse: no sex, but women control Man: What? No sex? I'm out of here Woman: (SCREAMING) you can't leave, you're a terrible person, INCEL! The OP got 79K likes, 2K comments, and one of the strongest male/female splits 1/
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@ArmchairW anyway, with a fuselage that would fail in just two months of use. As stated at the time: "Spreadsheet minds and Woke minds just see dollars, POCs and genders. The holes are trivial. Anyone can do it, right?" If this plane was two months old, it was likely delivered in 3/
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The is the core issue - and fatal flaw - for the Western elites. They have total institutional & legal system capture. Therefore, total power Having total power, they didn't need to maintain manufacturing, or defense manufacturing, or large armies. Because, they had the power 1/
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Europeans love the idea of international law because it makes them more important than they are in reality. Law exists not by consensus, but because of the at least implicit threat of violence. People - and even more so, nations - do what courts or laws tell them to do 1/
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The issue is that if there is a factional dispute within the ruling coalition - then the media doesn't know who to take its orders from. So, blackout. I don't think this is just the Repubs. The money class is likely weighing in as well, those who own the newspapers 4/
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We have another Boeing problem, which intersects with Elon Musk, Leftist talking points & the Competency Crisis. The new Boeing Starliner turns out to have a host of problems, with 5 helium leaks & 5 thrusters that failed on the trip up. 1/
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We don't have the designers or experienced engineers. We don't have the shipwrights or welders. We are having trouble with basic execution, because investment bankers don't understand technology, and think blue collar workers are interchangeable.
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It isn't just our inability to build super-sophisticated hypersonic missiles, while Russia and China can. We can't even build an icebreaker, while "poor, pathetic, backward" Russia has 36 in service.
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The US is flat out failing to perform with military technology. China and Russia have fully developed hypersonic missile capabilities. The US keeps trying and can't do it. These repeated failures are getting tough to explain. 1/
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War is the ultimate acid test when it comes to the difference between reality and politically acceptable thought. It's not just that we let our defense manufacturing go. The even bigger issue is that if it is rebuilt, it will look like what we saw with the WGA below. 1/
@Scientific_Bird
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Large demographic shift in American TV series staff. According to Writers Guild of America West data, between 2011 and 2020, staff writers moved from 35% to 63% women, and 72% to 44% white.
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@ArmchairW the October/November timeframe, just as Boeing was getting national attention for its fundamental manufacturing failure. People talk about pilots, air traffic controllers, DEI and the competency crisis. That matters, but the bigger competency crisis is when new planes start 4/
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@ArmchairW falling apart in mid-air. The leadership "brains" doing this are compromised they are incapable of seeing or fixing the problems. This also plays into everything else internationally. The US may be losing not only vast prestige, but a critical export industry. 5/
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Imagine having seized power and taken control of an entire nation by force of arms, and the woman below comes to nag and lecture you about your many mistakes in a condescending tone.
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@SaysSimulation Weird. You'd think an African leader would fall over themselves to please Ms. Phee. /s
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I understand this important point but must disagree. The intent of the GAE was to be a global ruler indefinitely & due to mistakes in how they increased the dysfunction domestically, they are rapidly losing global power in a process they can't reverse That was a huge mistake 1/
@VDAREJamesK
James Kirkpatrick
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Your rulers are not stupid, nor are they failures. Like all rulers, they prioritize staying in power and the best way to do that is to cultivate and subsidize dysfunction while gradually increasing media control. Success or failure is determined only by that metric.
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High-functioning cultures are very rare. Most peoples & nations haven't produced such a culture. Even in the West, such cultures did not exist for most of history. The West is in the grip of a faction who use the name of a superior culture - while destroying that culture. 1/
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The administrative state decided to manage the process of producing geniuses. Vast bureaucracies were created in universities, government research laboratories & industry. Quite mediocre people quickly came to dominate the genius production/management process. 1/
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So many people seem to think that because we are the US, we have the best technology in the world, and the most skilled workers. That used to be true. It hasn't for a long time now, though, and the situation is getting worse, jeopardizing national security in multiple ways.
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This is both a systemic flaw & a systemic feature. This is an impossible problem for anyone on the woke Left as it is currently formed to solve - as it is the result of two guiding beliefs that may not be contradicted. 1. People must live in cities and use public transit. 1/
@KeenanPeachy
Peachy Keenan
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The city of Los Angeles just spent $10 billion to build a new subway line from downtown to Beverly Hills and Westwood. There is a huge new subway stop at literally Rodeo Drive and Wilshire lol. Now multiple stabbings PER DAY:
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that relied on a drone base in Niger. It looks like the Russian military will be arriving soon. This is a classic example of an unforced error by an extraordinarily arrogant GAE. The US & Europe are in deep trouble in West Africa, with regard to both militarily and 4/
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as well as the networks. Keep in mind - none of these factions in the ruling coalition are the friends of the average people of America or the Heartland. This isn't about helping us. Nonetheless, however, this could tear the coalition apart, opening up opportunities. 5/
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Frens, that is not an innocent "victim", that is true Longhouse level attempted manipulation. Why did none of the women commentators (and no men that I noticed) see that? The broader implication is that women are immune to criticism when it comes to voluntarily choosing 3/
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Supply chains absolutely are *that* fragile. People look at the last few decades and think that is natural state of things. The last few decades are an aberration. We have a huge amount of sea-based global trade, the world essentially runs on it. 1/
@ZoomPianoTutor
🎵 🎹 Zoom Piano Teacher🎹🎵
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@SaysSimulation The supply chains are not *that* fragile. There's a lot of people making a lot of money from global trade, and when things break those people usually figure out how to fix things soon enough.
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Rogue states have always put the "lie" to the illusion of international law. Nobody *makes* North Korea or Iran do anything. Nobody *makes* Russia do anything, nor did they make the USSR do anything, nor China. 3/
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Unfortunately, that America is long gone, and snapping our fingers and saying "Go USA!" won't bring it back. Particularly in the Heartland, the US used to be the industrial powerhouse of the world, with tens of thousands of factories, millions of skilled workers, 1/
@WolfHoundActual
Wolf Hound
2 months
@SaysSimulation Well also consider how prepared for war America was before Pearl Harbor. Yet the turn around we had by 1945 absolutely churning out supplies was incredible. And then again not a decade later for Korea our army again was hardly prepared. Times of peace vs times of war
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The Last Hope Of The West & The Fertility Whitepill As fertility declines in the US & Europe, it is only the conservative Heartland Culture that wants to preserve Western Civilization – and is also reproducing in sufficient numbers to do so. 1/
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Therefore "international law" is and always has been an illusion, and it doesn't matter how many millions of words that wordcels in Europe and the US write about it, it doesn't exist - and the remains of what did exist are failing fast. 10/
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Labrador Skeptic
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The simple reality is that a nation can't be a military superpower unless it can manufacture weapons & munitions at scale. When the US "elites" destroyed much of the manufacturing base, the superpower status ended & it became just a matter of timing. All else is cope & delusion.
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essential natural resources such as uranium. Russia was already on the rise. A rational US would have approached this very carefully indeed. The US government is not rational. It will insist on forcing its culture upon an unwilling world - and it will do so at the expense of 5/
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Labrador Skeptic
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"Delivery of the first new icebreaker has slipped to 2028 from 2024 as designers, engineers and welders grapple with something the U.S. hasn’t done in decades: reliably shape hardened steel that is more than an inch thick into a curved, reinforced ship’s hull."
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soldier, she is a wanna be mass murderer. The last think I want to see is a shooting war or Civil War. I do not want to see people dying in large numbers. But, if it were to happen, the young men on our side would easily win, what the Enemy has is pathetic in comparison. 3/
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The Trump "conviction" is one of a series of simultaneous accelerations. The hot heads in the Ruling Coalition are ascendant. The last vestiges of the rule of law are being shed, here and abroad, even as the US militarily strikes more directly than ever at Russia, risking war 1/
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Labrador Skeptic
1 month
Europeans love the idea of international law because it makes them more important than they are in reality. Law exists not by consensus, but because of the at least implicit threat of violence. People - and even more so, nations - do what courts or laws tell them to do 1/
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because of credible force, than it has internationally. The European dream is to not go to the expense of creating actual military dominance, but to just be smart and slick and verbal and control institutions, and to then tell the Africans and Asians and even Americans 5/
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Labrador Skeptic
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its own empire. Of course, girl bosses can go talk in whatever tones they feel like to other leaders around the world. For the people who buy into this sort of thing, it is unimaginable that they would not be able to do so. 6/
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Labrador Skeptic
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The administrative state decided to manage the process of producing geniuses. Vast bureaucracies were created in universities, government research laboratories & industry. Quite mediocre people quickly came to dominate the genius production/management process. 1/
@TheBlackHorse65
The Black Horse
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One of the key questions of the later half of the 20th century is "where did the genuius go"; There are really only 2 credible answers; Hedgefunds/tech, or we produced fewer of them.
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Labrador Skeptic
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@elonmusk @ElectionWiz Twitter now appears to be throttling Elon Musk. As a long-time follower, I am no longer seeing his tweets unless someone retweets. If so, this is a VERY interesting development.
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8 months
Let's say it is peer on peer, with our best example being Ukraine. War in the trenches, with artillery on both sides, and lots of people trying to shoot you day and night, in bitter cold and wet conditions. This nasty b*tch would crumple like a piece of paper. She's not a 2/
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Labrador Skeptic
10 months
Carmel shouldn't exist, so in the mind of the media, it does not. To the south is Indianapolis with the usual Dem high crime rates and poor school system. Carmel is much more than just a bedroom suburb with malls and strip malls. It is a modern, clean, safe city 1/
@mualphaxi
Max Meyer
10 months
Carmel, IN has had the same Republican mayor for 27 years: James Brainard Under his reign, the population has quadrupled, he replaced all the stoplights with roundabouts, and built a classical downtown out of stone and brick Cue the cope from NYcels and SF hostages
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This is from an article in today's WSJ. Molly Phee & Celeste Wallender, from the State & Defense Departments were sent to lecture Niger's rulers about restoring democracy, while demanding talks end about providing Iran with uranium. 2/
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As reported by the official junta spokesman, Assistant Secretary Phee in particular delivered her remarks in a "condescending manner." So the Niger government demanded the US military leave Niger immediately, which cripples the US military presence in the region, 3/
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what they have to do, because "international law". This also creates a situation where Europe can import necessities and export goods on a global basis without paying for a global policemen - in fact, Europe as we know it completely dependent on this situation, 6/
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minor incidents. This can include plane difficulties, ships, temporary blackouts, etc. Warnings, so to speak. 2. As the Competency Crisis deepens, there will ever increasing numbers of fatalities as well in more serious incidents, such as plane crashes. 2/
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From the perspective of the US & European states, "law" has always been a beautiful thing, because there is no real law, there is rather using and distorting the law by whatever means necessary to get what you want. This has always worked much better domestically, 4/
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1 year
That is how life was done back then. But, how many Millenials and Zs are willing to do that?
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Labrador Skeptic
10 months
"U.S. officials are racing to procure new polar icebreakers because one of only two that the Coast Guard now sails has reached the end of its life, and the one assigned to the Arctic is out of service for maintenance every winter."
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1 year
3. Have one income for a small family. 4. Drive one used car. 5. Home cooking, box lunches, even fast food is a rare treat, no Starbucks. 6. Carry no debt other than the mortgage, be frugal, shop secondhand at times, garden. 4/
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I'm very interested in Bioleninism, it may be better than the term "woke". Bioleninism as I understand it, is elites creating an alliance of the low-status: single women, minorities, less intelligent people, fat people, homosexuals, tr*ns and so forth. Their status rises and 1/
@Tysenberg
Harry Bergeron
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What would the 3rd major sociopolitical discovery of the past decade be alongside the Breakfast Question and Bioleninism?
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Labrador Skeptic
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A third world nation - or rebel group within a nation - can cut vital supply routes to Europe, and absent a much more powerful military - there is nothing Europe or "international law" can do about it. Law requires force to ensure compliance. There is no force. 9/
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3. As the Competency Crisis deepens still further, there will be more cases of not being able to maintain or replace, leading to the losing some aspects of civilization. Bridges may fail and never be replaced. Power grids may go down, and never be fully functional again. 3/
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"The Coast Guard hasn’t launched a new heavy icebreaker since 1976. Out of practice, U.S. shipbuilders have had to relearn how to design and build the specialized vessel, say officials in the industry and the government."
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Yet, US prestige and credibility were already dropping like a rock in West Africa. The nations are already not that concerned with the US, they are making new allies. And when the US *humiliated* the leaders of Niger, the US was booted out immediately. New world out there. 7/
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Worth watching but she's looking at the wrong place to blame. If it weren't for massive immigration, low-skilled laborers would make much more money. If it weren't for massive immigration, housing would be much cheaper. Supply & demand, not generational unfairness. 1/
@vileTexan
✪ Evil Te𝕏an ✪
6 months
GenZ joins the workforce in Joe Biden's America.
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We are a nation where much of the population has a 2 minute attention span, is grossly ignorant of history, and can't multiply 4 X 15. Tucker interviews a deeply knowledgeable leader of a different culture. "What's wrong with that guy, he's nothing like us superior people?" 1/
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to put themselves in a dangerous situation. Hey, if women are equals or superiors with full authority over their own lives - they can bear the consequences for decisions. They are choosing to put themselves in harm's way 👇 Do they bear responsibility?
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Labrador Skeptic
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issues when it comes to urban crime. Unmarried women, as the core of the Dem party, are the #1 reason that violent criminals are released without bail. Unmarried women are the #1 reason that the borders are currently wide open, with known criminals flooding across the border 4/
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"By comparison, Russia has three dozen national icebreakers suitable for the Arctic, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, and China has four, including two icebreaking research ships that regularly appear at high latitudes."
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