If you doubt that the objection to El Salvador is that they cleaned up crime, rather than how they did it, you're wrong, but consider this. Not only do they never offer the mythical alternate solution, if you found one, they would object to that too.
Almost every time someone tells me they like an "old movie" that was "not political" it takes me about two seconds to find out how it was bathed in blatant communist propaganda.
"But most people just thought it was a crime story"
yea, that's sort of the point of propaganda...
Every single movie I love was prob made by people “on the left.” I don’t care at all, I still love them because they’re incredible - and not political. As you can imagine, there are zero recent movies on my list. TV is a bit different…
Dear young conservatives,
Caring about “limited government” but not “the culture war” is an incoherent and foolish position. 40% of kids right now are being raised by single moms and the remaining 60% have a 1 in 2 chance of seeing their parents divorce. If that continues
Right wingers are really stupid and self-destructive, exhibit 79757994785:
The guy put his “”girlfriend”” in danger, and he didn’t “sacrifice” himself for her, he had a profoundly delusional mind that couldn’t imagine that outcome. That’s textbook foolhardiness.
I don't care if this guy is a leftist — gloating over a video of him getting murdered just sucks. He died while courageously defending his girlfriend from a violent maniac. In a better era, we'd honor him as a hero. Instead, we're giggling about his death for political reasons.
If you went to an upper-middle-class or above school, the pressure to go to college is simply not surmountable. Literally, 100% of my graduating class went to a 4-year-college. I couldn't even imagine what an alternative would have been. Every moment of your day from 6th grade on
Teenagers whose entire family structure, every tv show, every social institution told them to take on debt for college should have known not to take on debt for college.
J'accuse: My grandfather fought to steal China from Japan, then this office handed it over to the Russians. That action killed 50+ million people. The State Department was the driving force behind the mis-named "decolonization," which easily killed more people than the Holocaust
On June 25, the Department flew the Progress flag for the first time over Washington, DC headquarters.
@DeputySecState
: “The United States is firmly committed to fighting for LGBTQI+ people at home and everywhere.”
#PrideMonth
No, actually property is more important than human life. Without property, which is the right and might to protect objects with force, all objects that are desired by more than one person will be fought over with violence, which means you will have nothing but constant violence.
There are two kinds of programmer and three types of tech employees.
Hacker- The best programmers. The kind of person who laments that Brendan Eich wasn’t allowed to put Scheme in the browser.
Node.js types - Can basically copy-paste things. Glues API calls to React functions
Like if you're single & in comp sci, just start looking up executives, hiring managers etc. at , try typical email patterns for first name last name
@twitter
.com and attach your resume and "berate them" for a job.
@rcmoya84
There are 100 people per 100 square meter cell. Only two sinks and two toilets per cell.
This is so, so awful. How can people read this and not be heartbroken?
Conservative Christians who think people like them built the United States: Sorry, this is unambiguously not true. Washington and the American establishment have always been the most leftist government on earth. Real America is wokeness.
@Partisan_O
There should be a statue of Palmer in every city in the world, on account of the fact that he probably single handedly prevented a Bolshevik revolution in America.
People’s analysis of world events is so badly wrong because they don’t even know who the players are. There’s no USA in terms of international actors. There’s the Pentagon and the State Department and most wars of the second half of the 20th century were actually between their
The only thing truly unique about Israel is that they’ve survived as a Pentagon satrapy rather than a State Department satrapy. Only Japan has managed this and they obviously have a much stronger position. So many others have fallen.
@Mssr_le_Baron
Text sent to a friend the other day: "Do you ever get the feeling that America is like a house party that got way too big and now there are people who are like friends of friends of friends there who have no clue how to act or whose house it is?"
Meta comment on Meta
Notice that Zuck went direct with his announcement. And when he decided to give an interview, he gave it to a smart independent like Stratechery, not a legacy media corporation. And it's a good interview.
I like to make the argument that Roman engineers were far superior to us today and people find this hard to believe because we have all kinds of fancy stuff. It's a bit of a complex argument, but consider the fact that bricks today are inferior to ones even 100 years ago.
Progressivism depends critically on key heuristics like "It is right to rebel against the reactionaries" and "the march of history is inevitable." When one of these rules is broken even once, it can have cascading effects because so much depended on them.
@DOEDoobs
@Shestovian
Independent women are like drunk guys who shout fighting words at every man who passes him by and thinks that the reason nobody takes him up on the offer is intimidation.
It's absolutely retarded to have the same laws apply to everyone and literally every single person on earth believed this before 1960. Your ancestors who fought in World War II did not believe in this kind of "due process" when they were fighting the war.
The kind of police state and welfare state it’s going to take to maintain social peace is beyond anything you can even fathom. This burden will be paid by an ever smaller tax base that will also be dealing with unsustainable entitlements.
@Ignitro_TV
@VDAREJamesK
If a government claims a monopoly on violence, it's responsible for all of the violence it allows. If someone is nonetheless murdered by a stranger, it means the government was giving far too much quarter to the criminal element of society.
@bbellolio
@josh_hammer
I believe I have a personal right to control my enemies’ personal lives down to the very minutiae. I hope that clears things up.
@Partisan_O
It would really help if people started to understand that "federal agencies" and "media companies" and universities and NGOs and certain departments in private companies-HR, "community management" or "Trust and safety" are all the same thing just falsely labeled differently.
Hint: if your society doesn’t execute someone who tries to assassinate its leader, it’s not because you’re “compassionate,” it’s because you’re civilization is collapsing. Rapidly.
@Antweegonus
Evelyn Waugh, WH Auden, Solzhenitsyn, HP Lovecraft, etc it just goes on.
I'll even give a recent one, Michael Crichton, who even expressed a desire for a Trump-like President in 1992.
If Germany were a real country still, the confirmation that America blew up the pipeline (and planned to do this prior to the war) would mean withdrawal from NATO, cessation of any diplomatic ties with America and shutting down the embassies. If we had the means to actually...
@clay_golem
Lol actually the people that say that are also like "I have to go see a therapist four times a week, I take psychedelics twice a month, and healing is my full time job"
Elon just blew the load off the quiet seething. These people are going to flock to Twitter and smash the hell out of technical problems. The first attempted attack on Musk, getting everyone to quit, will fail because Twitter daycare email employees were worthless.
If the subsequent attacks on Twitter, via legal and press, fail or stall, Twitter will become a mecca for all this latent gynocracy-suppressed talent. A center of raw masculinity and genius, with an unapologetic good old boys culture.
@0x49fa98
“That’s something we should all want”
Well I want her to spend the rest of her life in an agricultural labor camp in Alaska.
Doesn’t seem like we’re bridging that gap.
A community is what the Amish have.
What you have is a friggin suburb and a group of people who you associate with entirely by accident who all secretly hate each other.
The woman you gossip with at yoga class is not going to visit you in the hospital, only children will.
The truth is, MEN are afraid of ending up sad and alone because the avg male is almost entirely dependent on their wife for socialization. Women on the other hand tend to have rich communities and support systems that extend outside their romantic
Everything that has been invented "due process," as defined here, and other "rights," and whatever else will be offered, was invented to stop crime from being stopped. They will never stop inventing such things. They will just keep being the motte to the bailey of paramilitary
From Tijuana to Patagonia, a land entirely free of gangs and as free from crime as Japan. American and European tourists start to pour into Latin America for its SAFETY. Upon which it cannot be long before people turn on them here.
My Timeline:
2008: I was a huge reader of Orwell, Huxley, Vonnegut, etc, I wanted to live in a Dystopia and be the hero who brought it down. In reality, I was for Obama like everyone else.
2010: The first hole in the Matrix. One random day, I decided to check whatever happened
The culture war created Trump rather than vice versa but that didn't stop every midwit in my social sphere from loudly insisting the opposite about their hashtag resistance
@prchovanec
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say one way or another Trump was going to find a way for Trump to think he was incredible and everyone else was terrible.
This is like when engineers think being quirky will make them Steve Wozniak or musicians think that doing drugs will make them perform like Charlie Parker or write like Kurt Cobain.
The first group is largely libertarian with a Rothbardian slant, and growing more right-wing every year. The second group is path of least resistance liberal. The third group is, of course, woke. The first group has been quietly seething for a long time.
@Chossingstone1
@CWingUexkull
Suburbs were rapidly developed because black gangs were conducting anti-white pogroms at the direction of NGOs and whites were blocked from defending themselves in any way other than fleeing. Highways were built to COPE with that. Claiming das racism is extreme chutzpah.
is scheduled for the purpose of impressing college admissions officers. Your teachers and parents treat the idea of you not going to college the same way an Amish parent would think of their kids watching Tik Tok all day-it's inconceivable. The military recruiters that came
gangs until someone finally ignores them, finally stops arguing with them, and crushes them mercilessly, walks over them, and does what they hate regardless.
I believe in peace, love, equity, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, animal rights, race mixing, assault weapon ban, sharing the wealth, Green New Deal, Black Lives Matter, Prison reform and good rock ‘n’ roll. Join the John Hinckley Community.
They hate him bc he is reminding the world that a young, good-looking man with rhetorical skills and learned advisers can single-handedly turn around a nation. All the while the Harvard Department of Latin American studies only made it worse.
@simonsarris
What I read:
"I'm an uncoordinated dork who doesn't understand that gloves exist." and "Despite being a dork, I don't understand that there's such a thing as average length of homeownership because there are some people who have above-average length of homeownership."
proxies. That’s why we’re funding every side of every conflict in the Middle East and why we’ve often been on both sides. Not only are we funding the Palestinians, we are funding every faction of Palestinians as well as the Israelis.
@natlyjune
@katewillett
1. Official crime statistics (were recently, not anymore) at a local minimum, not a global minimum. Due to mass incarceration they are down from the 90s peak, but orders of magnitude more than the 50s.
2. Official crime statistics are nonsense, actual crime is much higher.
Is not useless but was more educated to work for an engineer than be an engineer.
Daycare email jobs - Is usually not an engineer, but either way is useless. Is there to enjoy spoils in terms of perks and usually higher salaries than people actually doing the work.
Intellectual standards are so low that people think that pasting two words next to each other constitutes a thought. “Sovereignty” means the ability to defend something against rival claimants with your own power. Obviously no individual has this over their body.
If the fetus is surviving independently of my body then obviously my bodily sovereignty is no longer in play. My destroying it would then be a violation of its bodily sovereignty.
@bog_beef
At the end of the day, you have to be either for machine gunning people who try to cross the border or every inch of the entire world turning into a Favela. There’s no other option.
@bog_beef
In Buffalo you still aren’t allowed to shoplift. We don’t have a Soros DA we have an old machine DA whose father and grandfather was the DA before him. Scholars try bc they see things on TikTok and are surprised when the police bust head.
to my school were there to impress us with their pull-up ability and to see who was trying for a service academy, to put them in touch with the officer recruiter(We had one go to West Point, zero enlist). There was really not even any awareness that there's any downside or cost
There’s no tradeoff between liberty and security. Rather there are two vectors-becoming more like Singapore/Tokyo/Moscow/every city before 1960 and becoming more like Rio/Kinshasha/Port-au-Prince (anarcho-tyranny)
But then people will be shocked that Zuckerberg, Andressen, Bezos, and possibly others will have been secretly on Elon’s side the whole time. Silicon Valley will become an alternative nexus of power to the beltway.
@theantiherokate
There is no faceless machine. The “faceless machine” is made up of men.
Men who get out of bed at 2am to swap out a sewage pump so the toilets keep working.
Men pulling a double shift at the jail getting feces thrown at them so her home is safe.
Under classical international law, the party that has military control over a hospital is responsible for whether happens to it. If they can’t defend it, they need to declare an open city or call a quarter & surrender, or they are responsible for what happens to it.
Actually in 1483 the Inquisition was an attempt by the church to impose rule of law on what otherwise would have been summary executions by lynch mobs and Joe McCarthy MASSIVELY underestimated, not overestimated, the extent of communist infiltration. The 2019ers have no excuse.
Inquisitions:
1483: 'Are you a heretic?'
1954: 'Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Comunist Party?'
2019: 'Have you ever written for
@Quillette
magazine?'
probably from a lower middle class or working-class background where college is a highly esteemed option for the top of the class, and think THAT is the pressure we are talking about. It's not.
@BostonMaggie
@femmissgeek
@LethalityJane
There is no amount of frivolous lifestyle cutting that makes saving a 20% downpayment practical. The median apartment is 50% of the median salary. In boomer times, it was 5%.
to college, and really there isn't-repaying student loans is easier than any other type of debt. The idea that a student in this environment wouldn't go to college is laughable, again, like the idea that an Amish teenager isn't going to do some farm labor. Where would the thought
even have come from? Then if you tried to take that thought to action, you, as a totally dependent 18-year-old who has spent the past 7 years working 24 hours a day on college admissions, would have to face the united wrath of every adult in your life coming down on you with the
Under modern international law, which is a now-aborted half-baked attempt at world government by the self-important cluelessness of Wilson, FDR, & Churchill, the party that blows it up is responsible. This has led to:
-the weaker party in any conflict using hospitals as depots.
@Ignitro_TV
@VDAREJamesK
The government has been handcuffing the police by inventing new rights to give criminals for 60 years. That massively increases the risk of things like this. You might think that's a good thing, but that's where the deliberate choice comes in.
Apartheid-era South Africa’s biggest ally was…Israel.
Yet today many Israel boosters are extreme “anti-racists” advocating favela-compete migration to the West.
How do you explain?
Well Apartheid South Africa was also a Pentagon client & nowadays the Pentagon has gone woke.