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Three political truths: 1) People will always vote for free stuff. 2) People will always vote to tax people who aren't them. 3) People want infrastructure that isn't near them.
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Fjord is possibly the most important movie you will ever see. 👍👍
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"Why do you care about the Boomers if you're not a Boomer?!" Friendos, I care because I know what happened to the Kulaks. A hundred years ago the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia didn't just target the Tsar, his family, and his officers. It went after *anybody* who smelled even a teensy bit wealthy. Especially the small but growing Russian middle class. Who were half a step out of serfdom because they'd managed to get a little land and therefore had a little capital. The Bolsheviks hated the Kulaks even more than they hated the aristocracy, and the Kulaks were persecuted in their millions. Stripped of land. Sent to work camps. Or simply outright murdered by the NKVD, who were themselves the forerunners of the KGB. You didn't have to be a Richie Rich to be labeled a Kulak. You simply had to be on the Reds' list as having property, therefore you were a traitor to the Soviet State. So, when I see generational hatred directed against Boomers I know I am seeing the Kulakization of a class purely for the fact the Boomers are perceived as "haves" and angry Millennials and Gen Z perceive themselves as the "have nots" and people get themselves to a lather thinking maybe it's time for the "have nots" to settle the score. A sentiment as old as recorded human civilization. Except, it won't stop with Boomers. It never does. Who gets called a Kulak and why will be dumbed down again and again until it's Gen X, then Millennials, and then older Gen Z, and so forth. This is the DSA's plan. Same as in any Marxist revolution. Turn the people who think they have little against those who are perceived to have much. Notice that the DSA themselves—and their Big Corporate friends—will all remain affluent. Privileged. Set apart. They will only target the lower end of the Upper Middle, all of the Middle, and the upper end of the Lower classes. These will be the Kulaks. Until a permanent elite of AOC, Mamdani, et al., rule a sea of Lower class labor who have no ladders up, and are totally dependent on the caps-s State for food, housing, clothing, amenities, etc.. Ergo, America will be a nation of true Proles. And any time the Proles begin to figure out they've been had—that the AOCs of the world have made it impossible to move up or get out—the DSA will crank up the alert siren against Kulaks all over again. New lists of enemies will be invented. As has happened in every single caps-s Statist collective of the past 150 years. As Americans we have an opportunity to *not* do this. But it has to start NOW. We *cannot* indulge in Kulakization. Because you, friendo, are going to end up on the lists sooner or later. Even if you think you never will. Just give the DSA enough time. And no, the fact you were a good Party Man won't save you. The State is not a respecter of persons, comrade.
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First rule of government: What the government subsidizes, it can and will control.
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so geht das gut Voran hier im Land
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I spent the first eight months of the war working as a data analyst. I watched virtually every clip filmed by Hamas terrorists on their own cameras and uploaded to social media, over and over again. The paragliders. Civilians being abducted. Terrorists breaking into homes in the southern communities. Israelis being shot inside their own houses. Crowds in Gaza cheering and dancing while thousands more crossed the border to murder, rape, loot, and abduct. And throughout the war, more footage kept emerging. Hamas terrorists in civilian clothes firing mortars from tents and ambushing soldiers who were there searching for our hostages. Terrorists running in and out of residential buildings carrying RPGs and assault rifles, fighting from within civilian infrastructure and then disappearing back into it. I have also watched countless videos of crowds chanting, “Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews, October 7 will return.” Children calling for Jews to be killed. Hamas leaders like Ismail Haniyeh openly talking about exploiting civilian suffering to mobilize the region. I could say that the day Palestinians sit down and watch the atrocities they committed would be the day I sit down and watch a movie selling me their propaganda. But after watching October 7 celebrated, glorified, and openly promised again, I’m convinced they would probably enjoy it.
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Being a Man on The Lindsay Clancy Jury
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Over the last 40 years or so the government set out to make 3 things more affordable; health care, higher education and housing…how’d they do?
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Bad day for the DSA.
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My ranking of the blockbusters of 2026 so far: Project Hail Mary Spider-Man BND The Odyssey
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Why are prices so high? Inflation in 2022: January - 7.5% February - 7.9% March - 8.5% April - 8.3% May - 8.6% June - 9.1% July - 8.5% August - 8.3% September - 8.2% October - 7.7% November - 7.1% December - 6.5%
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My ranking of Supreme Court Justices: 1. Thomas 2. Alito 3. Barrett 4. Gorsuch 5. Kavanaugh 6. Roberts 7. Kagen 8. Sotomayor 9. Jackson
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I will always thank Lindsey Graham for this moment.
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July is Disability Pride Month. No parades No flags No special baseball uniforms What a difference.
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The Democratic establishment deserves a slow clap here. Really. Bravo. They spent years building the perfect little political terrarium: NGOs, activist salaries, university grievance factories, donor cash, media protection, blue-city patronage, “equity” rackets, and taxpayer-funded do-gooder laundromats all humming along under the sacred banner of “Our Democracy.” Then they looked at the radicals crawling around inside and said, “Surely these people will remain manageable.” Absolutely brilliant, guys. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries now look like substitute teachers trying to take attendance during a prison riot. The donors are sweating through their custom suits. The consultants are pretending this is just a “messaging challenge.” The media is polishing the same old turd and calling it “youth energy.” No, champ. This is not youth energy. This is the bill. You told them America was evil. You told them capitalism was theft. You told them police were the enemy. You told them borders were immoral. You told them every institution had to be “decolonized,” “reimagined,” or burned down and rebuilt by people with sociology degrees and untreated rage. Now they believe you. And worse, they want promotions. That is the humiliation. The party bosses thought they were renting radicals by the hour. Turns out the radicals thought they were being trained to run the place. Democrats built the hive, fed the hive, defended the hive, and called anyone who noticed a conspiracy theorist. Now the hive has the keys. Enjoy the buzzing. (article below)
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Equity vs. Equality with Thomas Sowell:
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We Asked AI To Simulate If The U.S. Had A Second Civil War
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"Congress has spent 60 years trying to make college affordable and has spent zero years trying to make TVs affordable." | Aaron Brown, Michael Mendelson, & @CliffordAsness thedispatch.com/article/affo…
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Avengers - if it was made in the 80s:
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