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If you’re right wing and you can’t admit liberals (not communists) are way better at art and design and boutique coffee shops and restaurants, you’re not living in reality.
If you’re left wing and you can’t admit conservatives are way better at running cities and businesses and police departments, you’re not living in reality.
You step inside a beautiful coffee shop in the PNW and think “man, these liberals are great at this stuff…conservatives should take notes.” Then the moment you step outside and trip over a homeless drug zombie shooting up fentanyl on the sidewalk, you think “man these liberals are terrible at this stuff…they should really take notes from conservatives”
Communists make disgusting anti-beauty art, but classical liberals aren’t like that. Put the libs in charge of the coffee shops, put the conservatives in charge of city hall. This is how you get a city that is beautiful, clean, and functional.
If you can’t accept that, you need to check your tribalism. We are never getting rid of each other, so figure out how we strike a balance or else the communists swoop in and take everything from us while we quarrel over stupid bullshit…which is exactly what’s happening now.
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What an absolute, unmitigated, motherfucking disaster.
We got our asses kicked. We got politically disemboweled. We got dragged through the electoral wood chipper, and the Republican establishment stood there with its collective thumb up its ass wondering why the fucking machine was running.
And now, right on schedule, the excuses are pouring in.
The war. Gas prices. Bad candidates. Historical trends. Voter frustration. Bad messaging.
Jesus fucking Christ, SHUT UP.
We had the majority. We had the presidency. We had the opportunity to deliver. And these incompetent, spineless, self-serving Republican bastards managed to turn political power into a fucking participation trophy.
Let's start with John Thune.
You spectacularly useless son of a bitch.
You had the Senate majority. You had an election integrity bill conservatives desperately wanted passed. You had millions of voters begging Republicans to demonstrate that winning elections actually meant something.
And what did you deliver?
A fucking master class in legislative impotence.
The SAVE Act became another monument to Republican paralysis while the people who elected you watched Washington's favorite collection of overpaid assholes explain why accomplishing anything was just too goddamn complicated.
You had power, John.
HAD.
And now Democrats get to enjoy the congressional authority your leadership helped squander.
What a magnificent fucking achievement. You couldn't have served Democratic interests more effectively if you'd shown up to work wearing a DNC name tag.
And don't think the rest of the Republican establishment gets a free pass. Every useless bastard who spent these last two years hiding behind parliamentary excuses, protecting his precious committee assignments, and treating the Senate like a retirement community deserves the same political eviction notice.
Get the fuck out.
Then there's Iran.
And this is where I have absolutely zero patience for the Monday-morning military strategists pretending the nuclear threat was some imaginary problem.
IRAN MUST NEVER, EVER GET A FUCKING NUCLEAR BOMB.
Not tomorrow. Not ten years from now. Not under some worthless diplomatic agreement held together with wishful thinking and another round of international bullshit.
Never.
We're talking about a regime with a long history of sponsoring terrorism, threatening Israel, brutalizing its own population, and pursuing nuclear capabilities that could fundamentally alter the security of the Middle East.
A nuclear-armed Iranian regime is a nightmare America has every reason to prevent.
And if military action was necessary to eliminate that threat, then the mission needed a clear objective and the determination to achieve it.
Destroy the nuclear weapons capability. Prevent its reconstruction. Make damn sure the regime cannot simply wait out another American administration and resume the same dangerous ambitions.
Finish the fucking job.
Because if Americans endured war, economic disruption, and soaring gasoline prices only to discover Iran could eventually rebuild its nuclear weapons program, then what the everlasting fuck was the point?
I can accept political costs for a mission that makes America and its allies safer.
I cannot accept strategic confusion, endless uncertainty, and politicians who seem incapable of explaining what victory actually means.
And here's the part Republican leadership should have understood before this election became a political slaughterhouse.
Americans were paying the price at the pump while Democrats were pounding them over affordability.
Groceries. Gas. Housing. Insurance. The cost of keeping a fucking roof over your family's head.
Democrats hammered those issues relentlessly.
And Republicans?
Apparently they were too busy measuring the drapes in their offices and scheduling another goddamn television appearance.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to watch voters struggle with household expenses and fail to understand what they're telling you?
Then came the candidates.
James Talarico winning Texas. Abdul El-Sayed winning Michigan. Susan Collins losing Maine.
An electoral fucking earthquake.
And the Republican establishment somehow managed to look surprised.
Surprised?
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
You could practically hear the political foundation cracking for months. Warning signs were flashing everywhere, and these arrogant, complacent jackasses behaved like victory was something they were entitled to receive in the mail.
At some point, incompetence becomes so breathtaking that you begin wondering whether anybody in Republican leadership has ever successfully managed anything more complicated than ordering lunch.
And now comes the part that really makes my fucking blood boil.
The conservative influencer circus.
Bannon. Tucker. Candace. Megyn. Flynn. Alex Jones. Jack Posobiec. And every other self-appointed political messiah whose microphone somehow became more important than winning elections.
Here come the emergency broadcasts. The finger-pointing. The infighting. The hysterical accusations. The endless fucking circular firing squads.
Another catastrophe, another opportunity to turn conservative frustration into a revenue stream.
How many fucking subscriptions does it take to rebuild a political movement?
How many podcasts does it take to pass a bill?
How many goddamn livestreams does it take to win a Senate race?
Apparently nobody knows, because we've spent years watching people get rich explaining why conservatives should be furious while the actual machinery of Republican politics keeps breaking down.
Enough of this shit.
And spare me the conservative celebrities who spend more time attacking other conservatives than figuring out how to defeat Democrats.
Your personal feuds are not a political strategy.
Your fucking podcast ratings are not election results.
And your ability to scream into a microphone for three hours doesn't qualify you to lead anything.
Meanwhile, Democrats just demonstrated that winning elections is still considerably more useful than winning internet arguments.
Imagine that fucking revelation.
And speaking of Democrats, can we appreciate the sheer comedic absurdity of what just happened?
Donald Trump, the man they've spent years calling a dictator, fascist, authoritarian, monarch, and existential threat to democracy, just watched his party lose control of Congress through an election.
A fucking election.
The most terrifying dictator in American history apparently forgot the most important chapter in the dictator's handbook.
CANCEL THE GODDAMN VOTING.
What a fucking embarrassment for the professional hysteria merchants.
Apparently American democracy was healthy enough to deliver Democrats a massive victory after all.
Somebody call the Nobel Committee. Democracy has miraculously survived another Tuesday.
But here's where the laughter stops.
Because this defeat is serious as hell.
Republicans lost power. Democrats gained it. And the people who spent years warning us about the consequences of losing these midterms now have to explain why they were so spectacularly unprepared to prevent it.
And I don't want to hear another fucking word about how everyone needs to unite behind the same failed leadership.
Unite behind WHAT?
More excuses?
More broken promises?
More leadership elections where the same collection of useless bastards rearranges the nameplates and congratulates itself on a fresh start?
Fuck that.
I want a political reckoning so thorough that every complacent Republican incumbent starts checking whether his local voters are recruiting a primary challenger.
Every single one.
I want records examined. Promises compared with results. Leadership positions challenged. Failed candidates replaced. Party organizations rebuilt from the ground up.
And I want Republican voters to stop treating incumbency like some sacred fucking birthright.
You want loyalty?
EARN IT.
You want donations?
SHOW RESULTS.
You want another term?
EXPLAIN WHAT THE FUCK YOU ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE LAST ONE.
Because the era of handing out political participation trophies to career Republicans needs to end.
And don't give me that tired bullshit about how difficult Washington is.
We know Washington is difficult.
That's why we elect people who promise to fucking fight.
If you wanted a comfortable career collecting a government paycheck while accomplishing absolutely nothing, you should have applied for a job as a congressional office fern.
At least the fern produces oxygen.
Now, I know what some people are thinking.
It's over.
MAGA is finished.
Trump is politically crippled.
The country is lost.
BULLSHIT.
Absolute, defeatist, self-pitying BULLSHIT.
Yes, we got our asses kicked.
Yes, Democrats are celebrating.
Yes, the next two years are going to be harder than they needed to be because Republican leadership apparently couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel.
But since when did one election determine the permanent fate of the United States of America?
Obama's Democrats lost 63 House seats and six Senate seats in 2010.
Did the Democratic Party disappear?
Did progressives pack their bags and surrender?
Of course fucking not.
Political movements survive defeats when they have the courage to confront their failures and the discipline to rebuild.
And that's exactly what conservatives need to do.
Because here's what I refuse to believe.
I refuse to believe that millions of Americans who love this country, believe in secure borders, want safe communities, demand responsible government, and expect their elected officials to put American interests first suddenly ceased to exist because a bunch of Republican politicians fucked up an election.
I refuse to believe that the people who stood by Trump through investigations, indictments, impeachment battles, media hysteria, and years of political warfare are suddenly going to surrender because Democrats won Congress.
And I sure as fuck refuse to believe that the future of American conservatism belongs to the same failed political establishment that helped create this mess.
Maybe this election was the wake-up call.
Maybe God looked down at the Republican Party, watched the arrogance, complacency, backstabbing, cowardice, and endless fucking excuses, and decided these people needed a lesson in humility delivered with a goddamn sledgehammer.
Maybe the message was simple.
YOU AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH.
Your leadership isn't good enough.
Your candidates aren't good enough.
Your organization isn't good enough.
Your results sure as hell aren't good enough.
FIX IT.
And maybe that's precisely what needs to happen.
Tear down the complacency. Destroy the culture of excuses. Replace failed leadership. Recruit candidates who actually know how to win. Build organizations capable of turning conservative principles into electoral victories.
Stop expecting Trump to carry every worthless Republican politician across the finish line like some exhausted political pack mule.
Trump has already done more than enough heavy lifting for people who seem incapable of carrying their own fucking briefcases.
And guess what?
TRUMP IS STILL PRESIDENT.
That little detail seems to have escaped the champagne-soaked Democrats dancing on MAGA's supposed grave.
He still occupies the White House. He still has constitutional authority. He still has the ability to shape foreign policy, defend American interests, and pursue the priorities that brought him back to office.
And if Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions can be permanently eliminated, that achievement will matter long after every smug political analyst has forgotten the election-night graphics.
But Trump also needs a Republican Party capable of surviving politically without him.
Because 2028 is coming.
And when it arrives, the movement needs more than nostalgia, slogans, celebrity endorsements, and another fucking collection of candidates who think putting MAGA in their social media biography qualifies them for public office.
We need competence.
We need discipline.
We need courage.
We need people who understand that winning an election is a responsibility, not a fucking lifetime achievement award.
And we need Republican voters willing to hold their own side accountable with the same ferocity they direct toward Democrats.
That means primaries.
That means challenging incumbents.
That means getting involved locally.
That means demanding actual accomplishments instead of accepting another round of bullshit fundraising emails promising that victory is just one more donation away.
I'm sick of the excuses.
I'm sick of the cowardice.
I'm sick of watching Republican politicians campaign like warriors and govern like frightened little bureaucrats terrified of upsetting the Washington cocktail circuit.
And I'm especially fucking sick of being told that criticizing Republican leadership somehow makes you disloyal to the conservative movement.
No.
The people who squandered their opportunities owe voters an explanation.
The people who made promises and failed to deliver owe voters accountability.
And the people who believe Republican voters should simply shut up, open their wallets, and keep electing the same failed leadership can go fuck themselves.
We've got two years.
Two years to clean house.
Two years to rebuild.
Two years to recruit candidates who can actually win.
Two years to prove that conservatism is bigger than any one politician, any one election, or any collection of self-important assholes occupying leadership offices in Washington.
And yes, I'm furious.
I'm absolutely fucking livid.
I'm disgusted by the incompetence. I'm embarrassed by the squandered opportunities. I'm enraged that so many people who demanded our trust treated that responsibility like a goddamn inconvenience.
But I'm still here.
And so are millions of Americans who believe this country is worth fighting for.
We're still breathing.
We're still voting.
We're still organizing.
And we're still perfectly capable of telling every useless politician in Washington exactly where to shove his excuses.
America has survived wars, depressions, assassinations, national catastrophes, and political upheavals far worse than one disastrous election.
We'll survive this.
But surviving isn't enough.
We need to learn from it.
We need to rebuild.
And we need to make damn sure that the next time Republicans are entrusted with power, the people holding it actually know what the fuck they're doing.
So congratulations, Democrats.
Enjoy your victory. Pop the champagne. Dance on the political graves. Write your obituaries for Trump and MAGA.
You've earned your celebration.
But don't confuse a devastating electoral defeat with the permanent death of a political movement.
And to the Republican establishment, here's your message.
The fucking gravy train needs to stop.
No more automatic loyalty.
No more free passes.
No more protecting failed leadership because somebody has been warming a Senate chair since the invention of electricity.
No more treating voters like gullible idiots who can be placated with a flag pin, a campaign slogan, and another goddamn promise.
You wanted power.
You got it.
You squandered it.
Now answer for it.
And to every conservative wondering whether to give up, I have one final thought.
FUCK GIVING UP.
Fuck surrender.
Fuck political despair.
Fuck the idea that one election gets to decide whether we still believe in our country.
The fight for America's future didn't begin with Donald Trump, and it sure as hell doesn't end with a Republican defeat in 2026.
We lost a major battle. We haven't lost the country. And we haven't lost the right to fight like hell for its future.
So bury the excuses.
Fire the failures.
Challenge the incumbents.
Build something stronger.
And when 2028 comes around, make sure the Republican Party has learned the one lesson its leadership apparently needed an electoral ass-kicking to understand:
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T OWE YOU A GODDAMN THING.
Earn their trust.
Earn their votes.
Earn the right to govern.
Or get the fuck out of the way.
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Name one? How about a few?
Rockefeller lowered the cost of kerosene through efficient refining and distribution.
Ford made automobiles affordable through mass production.
Carnegie reduced steel production costs through industrial innovation.
Walton lowered retail prices through bulk purchasing and efficient logistics.
Dell made computers cheaper by eliminating retail intermediaries.
Kamprad made furniture affordable through flat-pack manufacturing and distribution.
Bezos intensified retail competition through Amazon.
Koum made international messaging practically free through WhatsApp.
Page and Brin made search, navigation, email, and translation available without direct charges.
And that's barely scratching the surface.
In fact, it would be considerably more challenging to find a billionaire who earned their fortune through voluntary trade without lowering costs, improving quality, increasing productivity, or making something more accessible.
That's how fortunes are generally made in competitive markets. You create value for others, and the more people you serve, the greater your potential reward.
You don't even have to buy from these businesses to benefit. Their competitors must improve their offerings or risk losing customers.
These clout chasers destroy their credibility daily without so much as flinching.
They enjoy the accumulated benefits of capitalist innovation while confidently demanding evidence that any of it ever happened.
The economic illiteracy would be impressive if it weren't so commonplace.
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No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.
You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.
Bro.
You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.
You live in a constitutional republic.
Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.
The modern left's definition of fascism:
You love your country? Fascist.
You want to enforce the border? Racist.
You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.
You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.
Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.
But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.
But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.
Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.
Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.
Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.
Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.
Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.
Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.
Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.
Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.
But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.
You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And they have you in the streets carrying their water.
The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.
No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.
Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.
During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.
But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.
The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.
Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.
That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.
Biden built a censorship machine.
Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."
They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...
Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.
And it doesn't stop at speech.
The extreme left justifies taking children from families.
Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.
The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.
Same playbook.
During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.
But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.
$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.
January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.
Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.
Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.
CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.
75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.
Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me." They say.
Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated.
One side talks. The other side screams.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched
Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. But Marxism.
500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs.
The signs were ready before you were even angry.
AND its all coming again .... if the left gain any power.
VOTE RED RED RED on November 3rd
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"Nationalize Starlink." Three words, 142K views. And the entire economic history of the 20th century screaming in the room.
Let me explain what would actually happen.
Start in 1920. Ludwig von Mises publishes an essay that will haunt every central planner: without private property, there are no market prices. Without prices, there is no way to calculate. A bureaucrat cannot know whether a ton of steel is more useful in a satellite or in a bridge. He guesses. He guesses wrong. And nobody pays when he's wrong.
In 1945, Hayek drives the point home. The knowledge needed to run an economy doesn't exist in any single brain or any ministry. It's scattered across millions of people, and prices are the only mechanism that can aggregate it in real time. Centralize the decision and you destroy the information.
This isn't theory. Look at the numbers.
In the US, from 2000 to 2025, overall inflation was about +90%. Now look at the sectors where government subsidizes, regulates, and protects the most: hospital services +271%. College tuition +194%. Textbooks +181%. Childcare +152%. Medical care +144%.
And the sectors exposed to competition? TVs: -97%. Software, toys, cell phone plans: all down in nominal terms over 25 years.
The more the state is involved, the more expensive and scarce things get. The less it's involved, the more abundant they become.
Space is the perfect example. NASA's Space Shuttle cost about $54,500 per kilo to low Earth orbit. Falcon 9: about $2,700. Twenty times cheaper. That's not my number, that's NASA's own study. A private company did in fifteen years what a government agency couldn't do in forty.
Starlink is the logical next step. Thousands of satellites launched on reusable rockets. High-speed internet for a remote village, a ship in the middle of the Pacific, a soldier on the front line. No government built that.
So you nationalize it. What happens?
First, you have to pay. SpaceX is worth somewhere around $1.75 to $2 trillion, and seizing it requires just compensation. That's more than a full year of the US defense budget, to buy something that already works.
Then the machine changes its objective function. Today it optimizes for cost, speed, iteration. Tomorrow it optimizes for budgets, procurement cycles, and subcontractors spread across as many states as possible to lock in congressional votes. We know how that ends: look at SLS, years late and billions over budget. When Starship blows up in a test, SpaceX learns and flies again. When a government agency loses a rocket, you get a commission of inquiry and years of paralysis.
And the power? The argument is "no private individual should have this much power." But nationalization doesn't eliminate power. It hands it to whoever sits in the Oval Office. And one day, that will be the person you hate most.
Here's what I deeply believe: humanity is figuring it out. The 20th century tested the state as the engine of value creation. The result: waiting lines, rents, and debt. The model that works is entrepreneurs with the people. Create value, offer it to people who are free to say no. And tear down everything that protects incumbents: rents, regulations that work as moats, patents that freeze innovation instead of rewarding it.
Elon understood this before anyone else. Tesla opened up its patents in 2014. SpaceX broke ULA's near-monopoly (Boeing + Lockheed) on launches. Starlink is making decades of telecom rents obsolete.
He isn't competing with the old system. He's setting a new standard. And when the new standard is twenty times cheaper, the old system doesn't reform. It disappears.
That's exactly why some people want to nationalize it. When you can't compete, you confiscate.
Nationalizing Starlink isn't taking back control. It's handing the future back to the system that already missed it.
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Ah that's where you're confused. We'll still have games. They just will no longer be subverted and used as a vehicle for weird identity obsessed leftists to do their not so thinly veiled political activism.
And boy, it's going to be fucking glorious when that day comes. Remember: chuds were responsible for the success and inception of nearly every single western IP that you left-wing retards later took over and ruined.
Halo, Gears, Warcraft, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Minecraft, Starcraft, Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, The Witcher, Baldur's Gate, Command & Conquer, Diablo, KOTOR, Runescape, Borderlands, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Batman Arkham, Deus Ex, Uncharted, Hitman, God of War, Fallout, Age of Empires, Pillars, Divinity, Last of Us...
Every single fucking ONE was originally created by one, two, a small office, or a mid-sized team of predominantly straight, predominantly white nerds and dudebros, and all were originally designed to appeal to "the chuds."
The only reason you left-wing freaks managed to become such a nuisance in the hobby is because you used DEI to subvert merit and get your foot in the door of these companies, before declaring "no chuds allowed now. we now only hire our political allies."
And it's precisely *because* you refused to hire "the chuds," and exclusively recruited your left-wing allies, that virtually every franchise I mentioned was subverted, exploited, politicized, and ruined. You idiots can't name ONE legendary game or IP that was made by your "diverse and inclusive teams," because you lack the creativity and merit to even create your own. All you can do is take over and bastardize while piggybacking off other people's work.
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APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE TO ANY TENANTS READING THIS, BUT I’M NOT STAYING QUIET.
I’ve housed you for four years at $1,750 a month. You’ve never been late. You’ve never trashed it. You’ve been a solid tenant. Then I sent the renewal: rent’s going up $275.
YES.
You’ve paid me almost $84,000 over four years. That money covered the mortgage (which I’m still on the hook for if anything goes wrong), property taxes that keep rising, insurance premiums that have jumped hard, maintenance and repairs that cost more every year, and all the other costs of keeping the place habitable and legal.
The equity and any portfolio growth come from the capital I put in, the risk I took, and the fact that I own the asset, not from the rent check itself.
You’re the one writing the check every month for the right to live there. At the end of it, you own nothing because you didn’t buy it, finance it, or take on the ownership risks. I did. If the roof fails, the HVAC dies, a pipe bursts, taxes go up again, insurance spikes, or you leave and it sits vacant, that’s on me.
A $275 increase isn’t “because the market lets me.” It’s because the costs of providing the housing have gone up, insurance, taxes, labor, materials, compliance.
Recent data shows typical homeowners paying ~$1,380 a month just in maintenance, taxes, and insurance on top of the mortgage, with insurance up sharply over the last several years.
Apartment owners have been keeping only about 11 cents of every rent dollar after debt service, operations, taxes, and the rest.
Expenses have often risen faster than rents.
Stop treating landlords like a free housing subscription that never has rising costs. The rent pays for the use of the property and the service of ownership. The equity belongs to the person who bought it and bears the risk.
If you want a version where some of the money eventually becomes yours, buy your own home.
APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE TO ANY LANDLORDS READING THIS, BUT I'M NOT STAYING QUIET.
I just sent $1,750 in rent for a place I've lived in for four years. Never late. Never trashed it. Never once missed a payment.
Then the renewal email landed: rent's going up another $275 a month.
NO.
You've pulled almost $84,000 out of me over four years. That money paid your mortgage down, built your equity, funded your portfolio. And my reward for being the reliable tenant you never had to chase for rent is a bigger bill, simply because the market lets you charge one.
I'm the one writing the check every month, and at the end of all of it, I own nothing. Not a square foot of it.
If I'm covering your mortgage payment and then some, every single month, there should be a version of this where some of that money eventually becomes mine.
Stop treating good tenants like a subscription service you get to raise the price on whenever you feel like it.
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You absolute midwit. Congrats on repeating the Wikipedia "Nazis were far-right, end of story" summary you absorbed between TikToks.
Yes, the Nazis crushed independent unions, jailed and murdered communists and social democrats, and Hitler liquidated the Strasserite "left" wing of his own party in the Night of the Long Knives. That part is not in dispute. They were not Marxist class-struggle socialists. They hated Bolshevism as a Jewish plot and treated international socialism as the main enemy. Fine.
What your middle-school history class skipped is that they still ran a National *Socialist* state: private property existed only as long as it served the Führer’s racial and war goals, wages and prices were controlled, industry was cartelized under state direction, profit was subordinated to the party, and the economy was planned for autarky and rearmament. That is not free-market capitalism, liberal conservatism, or classical right-wing economics. It is the same family of state-directed, anti-liberal, collectivist economics practiced by every other fascist and "national socialist" regime. The name was not a prank; the 25-point program and the early rhetoric were full of anti-capitalist planks precisely because they were competing with the actual socialists for working-class support.
Your North Korea comparison is the usual gotcha and it is only half-clever. Yes, names can lie. But the NSDAP did not merely call itself socialist while secretly running a Rothschild hedge fund. They nationalized, directed, rationed, and regimented. The difference from Soviet socialism was mainly that the Nazis kept the owners as managers under party orders instead of shooting them all and installing commissars. Both systems produced shortages, secret police, and mass graves; one just had better uniforms and Wagner.
Elon pointing out the obvious—that "National Socialist" is not an ironic branding exercise and that the regime was economically left of any classical liberal or conservative—does not make him a moron. It makes him less obedient to the post-1945 academic consensus that insists every totalitarian who isn’t a full Marxist must be filed under "far-right" so the left never has to share the body count. Money didn’t buy him a brain; it just bought him a platform where he doesn’t have to pretend your selective reading of 1930s Germany is the complete picture.
Keep yelling "far-right fascists" while ignoring the actual economic policies and the party’s own name. It is the historical equivalent of covering your ears and shouting.
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It's been months that I keep saying Hitler was far left. Every time, thousands of clowns show up in my replies to give me history lessons.
So I made a video to answer all these low IQ takes at once.
Topic closed. Next.
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Hey retards. We’re not happy BioWare is getting shut down or being bought by Saudi Arabia or whatever. We tried, we begged, we told you guys to stop doing this shit to games and you laughed in our faces thinking you’d won because you’d taken over studios and entire industries responsible for making the things we love. So yes, we’re happy you lost. We’re happy you got fired, but we’re not happy it came at the cost of a legendary studio that was destroyed by people who didn’t build it.
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Let’s say you work at a Denny’s, everybody in town loves coming to Denny’s but you and the other people who work at and run this Denny’s location all hate the people from your town and want the cool people from three towns over to be the ones coming to your Denny’s
You stop serving Moons Over My Hammy and replace it with a Kale infused porridge because one of the guys who works at the store grew up three towns over and says that’s what they like to eat there. Likewise, you replace the Grand Slam with a Tofu Patty and Chick Peas, and so on.
A couple of travelers from three towns over pass through and love the stuff, it’s great. The newspaper over there does a big write up about how this Denny’s is serving great food, you’re pumped because this is working!
But nobody from your town is coming anymore because they liked the old stuff and really REALLY hate the new stuff, and as the days turn into weeks turn into months not that many people from three towns over are really coming in to eat either as it turns out. Most of them prefer their local boutique restaurants and aren’t really interested in driving all that way to go to a chain restaurant, unusual as it may be, plus they have a low opinion of Denny’s in general to begin with.
You’re losing money hand over fist, nobody’s coming to eat, and then the brand gets bought out by a private equity firm. They take a look at the assets they’ve just bought and see this location would cost them a fortune to leave open, and has a staff who are violently hostile to going back to making normal Denny’s food. They do the only sensible thing they can think of and announce they’re shuttering the location.
Is the private equity firm the bad guy here?
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這兩天，一段 Tesla 撞上 CHP 警車的影片在網路上瘋傳。很多標題直接寫成「FSD 睡著後撞警車」。
我自己開 Tesla 已經超過一萬英里，而且大約 98% 的里程都在使用 FSD。
所以看完影片後，我的第一反應不是替 Tesla 辯護，而是：
在車輛數據公布之前，我不會僅憑駕駛員一句「我睡著了、當時開著 FSD」，就認定撞車時一定是 FSD 在控制車輛。
原因很簡單。
我每天都在真正使用 FSD。
它當然不完美。我遇過停車樓、大型停車場、複雜入口裡一些很笨的路線選擇，也遇過導航繞路、猶豫甚至需要我接管的情況。
但如果是在高速公路正常縱向行駛，它對前車、行人、施工區、車道障礙物的觀察與反應能力，給我的實際體驗非常好，可以说，超过绝大多数老司机。
這也是為什麼影片裡那輛 Tesla 幾乎直直穿過警示錐、照明區域並撞向警車，讓我非常想知道：
碰撞前幾秒，FSD 到底是不是仍處於 engaged 狀態？
方向盤、油門、煞車由誰控制？
系統什麼時候開始制動？
駕駛員是否曾踩油門或人工接管？
這些問題不能靠網友看一段影片猜答案。
Tesla 車上有大量車輛遙測資料。真正的碰撞調查，可以看到比社交媒體影片多得多的資訊。
而且現在已經有相當大的統計樣本。
Tesla 官方目前公布的 FSD（Supervised）累計行駛里程已超過 150 億英里。Tesla 自己的安全報告稱，FSD engaged 狀態下的重大及輕微碰撞率，大約比其比較基準低 7 倍。
這當然是 Tesla 自己統計的數據，不能因此推導出「FSD 永遠不會撞車」。
事實上，NHTSA 仍在調查 FSD 在低能見度環境下的表現；過去 Autopilot 也確實發生過撞上停放中的 emergency vehicle 的事故。
所以我的態度很簡單：
我不神化 FSD，也不接受沒開過 FSD 的人憑一段影片就替事故下技術結論。
我買 Tesla 以前，其實也是自動駕駛的懷疑者。
以前 Mercedes、BMW、Porsche 都有過，我一直覺得電動車和自動駕駛未必值得信任。最近加州汽油漲到五、六、七美元，我才買一輛 Tesla 試試。
結果真正讓我意外的不是省油錢，而是 FSD。
現在甚至從停車場出來，只要條件允許，我都懶得自己開。
這幾天加州大雨，我照樣使用 FSD。某個鏡頭髒了、起霧了，系統會提醒我清潔；它也不是只靠一顆攝像頭工作。
今天中午跟兩位朋友吃飯，沒想到他們兩個都主動問起這宗事故。
吃完飯，我乾脆讓他們坐進我的 Tesla，親眼看 FSD 從停車場出去、一路開到目的地，再自動泊車。我也把自己真正遇過的長處、短處和需要接管的情況全部告訴他們。
這比在網路上想像有意義得多。
我不敢說 FSD 絕對不會犯這種錯誤。
任何工程系統都不能這麼說。
但同樣地，在 Tesla 與 CHP 公布車輛數據之前，也沒有人有資格僅憑「駕駛員說自己睡著、開著 FSD」就把事故原因直接寫成「FSD 撞了警車」。特别可笑的是，一堆没有特斯拉，没使用过FSD的人却在大谈特谈其“不可靠”真的是让我笑掉大牙。对于自己未知的事情所持有的迷样自信真的让人苦笑不得。
先看數據，再下結論。
這應該是討論任何新技術最基本的態度。@helen_maga99 @Xiaoxialiu8 @ChooLucia
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This is a really incredible tweet because it lets you see into the mind of the average shitlib like Evan.
Evan has an internal mandate derived from a few axioms.
1. "All billionaires are evil"
2. "All Republicans are either stupid or evil"
3. "Everything that evil people do is itself evil"
From those axioms he logically concludes "Well if Elon did something I would normally find good, it actually is something that is bad."
So in this case he has a few options at his disposal:
1. He can criticize the motivation, claiming racism or some sort of nationalist argument
2. He could criticize the method, arguing that this is just a way to pump the stocks
3. He could criticize the speed at which the shares are distributed.
There's really an infinite list of little conspiracies that Evan could fabricate on the spot, but there's a reason he chose #3.
Ultimately Evan isn't against helping children, quite the opposite in fact. If there was a system that stripped Elon Musk of his wealth and distributed it to children in the US, Evan would 100% support this. What he's against is giving Elon credit for anything Elon does, even if that thing does help children. Because Evan, fundamentally, believes that everything that Billionaires do is in furtherance of their evil.
Evan wants to call this out. He wants to "inform" everyone that Elon is "still evil". Choosing option 1 and 2 still concedes that Elon is, in fact, pledging to help children. Option 3, however, implies is that Elon is actually deceiving children.
So that's where Evan ultimately hangs his hat. "Elon is deceiving children."
What's funny here is a quick google search can explain why Elon can't distribute his shares currently. Those shares are still subject to the IPO lockup for the next year.
Evan, however, doesn't *need* to find or utilize the truth, because he believes, deep down, that his axioms are actually the real truth. He believes he has a deeper knowledge than the "stupid rubes who don't hate Elon". Anything that Elon says or does, Evan can find some contrived excuse about why it is either untruthful or evil based on those axioms.
This is because Evan is a conspiracy theorist, whose axioms are fundamentally flawed. He is no different from a flat earther, who will simply ignore any evidence to the contrary of his beliefs.
He wasn't actively contemplating his beliefs when he wrote this tweet. He was acting on instinct, knowing what gets views, and running this as a 'dunk' which is likely why he neglected to fact check his statement before releasing it.
The only thing that flashed in his head was "Clearly Elon is hiding something," just like how flat earthers respond to any evidence from NASA. Evan focused on the 'next year' qualifier, and immediately had an "Ah ha!" moment and ran with it.
Ultimately, his revelation was false as the Community Note proved. He doesn't understand the broader implications of the topic he's talking about.
But that doesn't matter to Evan, because Evan is a conspiracy theorist. Evan fundamentally believes that any explanation that could be given for why Elon would have to wait next year would be false automatically, ultimately, because any rebuttal would violate his axioms, which he believes to be true.
Evan will never adjust these axioms.
Doing so will utterly obliterate his worldview.
So Evan will continue pretending that he has "secret knowledge" of the "true nature of billionaires". He will post as though he has it all figured out, when in reality he doesn't have the faintest clue about how the world works.
Just like a flat earther.
KD retweeted
I didn't go to college until I was 30. This gave me a chance to see it with the perspective of an adult.
One lecture in Industrial Psychology, in particular, I will never forget.
The professor spoke about how an effective job description focused on concretely measurable tasks, not vague instructions, or characteristics.
For example, "maintain an 85% or greater average on customer feedback surveys", instead of "be cheerful and upbeat", or even "interact positively with customers".
This means that goals are clear, and performance is measurable. A job is to do something, not be something.
Once some of the students had wrapped their minds around this concept, the professor decided to do a class exercise.
He asked the female students to come up with a job description for "husband". At first, this went fine. The girls noodled around a bit with things they wanted their husbands to be (tall, etc), but he was able to gradually steer them towards describing what they wanted in terms of actions.
But then he asked the male students to define a wife in the same way.
And all the girls became upset. Some of them had full-on meltdowns.
Every single thing that a male student wanted, or expected, from his hypothetical future wife was sexist, oppressive, old-fashioned, misogynistic, patriarchal, etc.
They were literally screaming. Some of them in tears.
And I realized something pretty quickly. It wasn't the actual, concrete responsibilities of the female role that they objected to.
It was the idea of there being a female role at all, with any attached responsibilities.
These women didn't want to be wives. They wanted to be pets.
What's a pet? Well a pet is not a wife, or a friend. A pet is a creature of instinct, which you bring into your home because you like how it naturally behaves.
You get a cat because you want to behave like a cat, and do things a cat naturally does, like play with string, and purr when you pet him. If he's smart, he'll adapt to you somewhat, but he doesn't have responsibilities other than "be a cat".
If you get a wife, you get a wife so she will do things for you, specific things that are the responsibilities of wife, like care for your home, bear and raise your children, cook nutritious meals so you don't have to eat processed slop, look after your emotional well-being, and so on.
These girls didn't want to be held responsible for those things. As married women, they might have anticipated doing some of them, but only some of the time. Only when they felt like it.
The cat chases the string if and when it wants to, not because chasing the string is its job.
These young millenial women didn't realize it, but they wanted to be pets. And that's what they were in their college relationships. They hung out with guys when they wanted to, had sex with them when they wanted to, broke up with them for someone new when they wanted to.
Their relationships had no element of reciprocal responsibilities. They were perfectly at home with the idea of men having responsibilities to them, but they would repay those men if they chose, and how they chose, not how the men actually wanted.
And as I've said twice already, someone you have responsibilities to, but who has none to you, is a pet, or a child.
Since our ancestors, in a moment of foolishness and weakness, allowed women to vote, it is no longer legal to dole out the corrective spankings a great many of them both need and read pornographic novels about.
Therefore, the corrective measure, for any man who finds himself with a pet instead of a wife, is to withdraw from any husbandly duties and start actively searching for alternatives.
This can either result in a correction of the behavior, or the end of a relationship that offers no value. Either is acceptable.
This may strike some of you as dishonorable, but there is no honor in keeping a broken pact, or in serving those who despise you.
Men must have the pride and self-worth to say "I will be honored and respected, or I will depart to a place where I can be, even if I must be alone there."
Men must honor and respect themselves.
KD retweeted
a car just did something straight out of science fiction and half the internet immediately started debating commercial viability
not every engineering achievement needs a fucking business model. you are allowed to experience wonder
