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Being a Man: the Warring Man-credo. Seeing what some young guys are buying into with the "alpha" nonsense I figured I would share what being a Man means as it was taught to me.
This has some rough language in it, so sorry if that offends. But this is how I was taught. Well, some of it might have been even rougher when I heard it over a campfire, on a jobsite, or on a long drive with my father.
This is about being a Man and living to the code, or credo, that a real man should try to follow. This does not mean that all or part does not apply to being a Woman, but I am not qualified to speak to being a woman.
I believe all of the below without reservation and struggle each day to live up to it. As a man, I own up to being a work in progress and continue to fall short, despite the better examples I can look to. Without further ado, below is the credo I was taught and have learned over the years.
1. There is no such thing as “fair”, that is a word we made up hoping to make children feel equally valid and loved while accepting things they don’t like. There is Just and Unjust. There is Right and Wrong. These things apply differently to different people and situations. Dealing with everyone in the same way is not right nor just in many situations. Paying the same wage to a firefighter and dishwasher is not right. Allowing a narcoleptic to be a bus driver is not right nor just. So, every time you hear yourself thinking something is not fair throw that out the window and ask yourself if it is Just and Right instead.
2. Honor, Justice, Humility, Compassion, and Chivalry are ideals that a Man lives to, or he is just an animal and not a Man. A man stands up for what is right and just, even if it costs him. A man says what he means and means what he says. A man keeps his promises and meets his responsibilities. A man is not a bully. A man protects those that can’t protect themselves. A man speaks for those that can’t speak for themselves or are not being heard. A man never raises his hand to a woman. A man never hurts or threatens to hurt those weaker than himself for his own benefit or satisfaction. A man never humiliates or belittles others.
3. A Man loves freely and tries not to hate even those he has to fight. The only thing we build of lasting value is love. All the rest rusts and erodes with time. A man loves his family unconditionally, even when he must disagree or stand against their choices. Real strength comes from love and not from anger or righteousness. If you are not acting from a place of love and compassion you are acting for the wrong reasons.
4. The more powerful you are the gentler you must be, otherwise you are a bully. I won’t abide bullies, nor will any real man. Striking fear in others is little better than hitting them. A two-year-old all bowed up and ready to hit you is not scary, but someone 3 times your size in the same way is scary as hell. If you are a big guy you must act calmly in conflict or you are being a bully. This is true for all kinds of power. Violence or the threat of violence should always be our last choice for dealing with conflict. And if you are forced to it, then make sure you put your opponent down and get the hell out, because you never know when someone might have a knife or a gun. Or a friend with one.
5. The rules for being a man are different than for being a woman. Call it society, nature, or whatever you want. Deal with it. They deal with their own shit end of the stick that is worse than ours, so suck it up. A man raging can be jailed even if not touching anything, and charged with endangerment, threatening behavior, etc. If a woman raises her hand to you, walk away.
6. If you are looking for a reason to feel better about something you did, well then you did something wrong, so own it. A real man faces up to the music for what he does. If you hurt someone you did something wrong. Even if you had to do it. Even if you would have to do it again. Doesn’t matter. Just because you have a reason or no other recourse it doesn’t take away the wrong of a thing. Boys think otherwise, but that is not how a Man thinks.
7. Don’t listen to your friends or your enemies when it comes to being a man. There are plenty of fully grown boys running around being assholes. Don’t be one of those, even if you hang out with them. A real man stands alone when his friends don’t stand up for what is right.
8. Real strength means withholding your power when it isn’t right to use it. Real strength means being gentle especially when you don’t want to. Real strength means getting back up no matter how many times you fall.
9. Real courage means doing what you have to do, even when it scares the hell out of you. Being fearless is stupid a lot of the time. But doing the right thing even when you are terrified and expect to have your ass handed to you, that is true courage.
10. Being a real man means serving God and those that you love. Act with compassion, love, honor, and service and you will be what a Man is meant to be. Men that serve themselves and act with dishonor are no better than spoiled little boys, no matter how powerful they are or what they attain. Being a real man is its own reward. Live this and you will understand it.
everyone needs to calm down
teapaw.org/i/grok/share/2069fe6ee…
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· “Not Voted” = VEP minus the sum of Democratic + Republican House vote totals (third-party/write-in votes are small and folded into the residual).
· In 2026, Democrats received a higher share of Texas VEP (~24.2%) than Republicans (~21.6%), with non-voters at ~54.1% and overall House-related turnout elevated relative to the 2022 midterm baseline.
Presidential years show higher overall participation than midterms, as expected.
Percentages are of VEP (Voting Eligible Population: voting-age citizens minus ineligible felons), using Michael McDonald / UF Election Lab estimates as the denominator.
“Democrat” and “Republican” are major-party House popular-vote totals (primarily from Green Papers / FEC-style compilations). Third-party and write-in votes are small (usually ~1%) and are folded into the residual.
“Not Voted” is VEP minus the sum of the two major-party House totals.
2026 figures are preliminary (early November 2026, with most but not all ballots counted). National VEP turnout is running about 49.4% — the second-highest modern midterm after 2018. House vote shares are approximate projections consistent with reported totals.
Presidential years (2016, 2020, 2024) show higher overall participation than midterms, as expected. The 2026 midterm participation is elevated relative to the recent midterm baseline (2022) but still well below presidential-year levels.
For those arriving at this post and not understanding that participation drives the outcome and sentiment drives participation, this is solid evidence of why more of the left came out to vote. teapaw.org/TedWarring/status/2119…
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You want to understand why more of the left came out for a mid-term than usual? Here is all the evidence a realistic person needs to see that they are much more engaged.
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Concise source note for skeptics:
These figures apply the same discount (typically 20–35% off pure organizer claims, favoring independent medians, local media, police, and venue capacities) to both sides. Left-side volume is driven by four coordinated No Kings days plus ongoing anti-ICE activity. Independent estimates include G. Elliott Morris / Strength in Numbers (June 2025 ~4–6M; Oct 2025 median ~5–5.2M), Crowd Counting Consortium (Harvard Kennedy / UConn) partial tallies and event counts showing multi-million single-day scale and far higher overall protest volume than 2017, plus Britannica and local reporting. March 2026 organizer claims of ~8M were discounted accordingly; smaller events and anti-ICE spikes were added conservatively from CCC-tracked volume.
Right-side volume comes primarily from ~29 Trump midterm rallies (mostly 4k–9k capacity venues with reported fills or near-fills, some empty seats) plus local GOP/surrogate GOTV events, scaled from local reporting and venue data. No comparable multi-million street mobilizations were documented.Exact outdoor counts remain approximate; the disparity reflects verified event scale and frequency, not raw organizer totals.
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Anyone surprised and confused by outcomes without questioning their own assumptions and narrative is, well, probably captured by a narrative and disconnected from reality.
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The default human heuristic when approaching a subject beyond our cognitive depth is to remove features until there is nothing left but a comfortably absolute but no longer meaningful model to make statements about.
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We have equal challenge with people being sure what contemporary AI is NOT as we do with people being sure what contemporary AI in fact IS. Despite the high emotional levers driving almost existential need for certainty in people, we have weak understanding of intelligence.
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Extremism: a sickness of the mind that makes us think the cure is more of the same disease. This illness leads to believing evil actions are morally sound. Human history is rife with examples.
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"My superpower is pattern recognition" = fundamental expression of the dysfunction in conspiracy theorist minds. Pareidolia but for paranoid schizo tendencies.
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The biggest threat to extremist agendas is old and young people not lost to irrational anger coming together and rejecting the extremist dystopian fantasies. This is why we are seeing the rage baiting so much right now. Don't buy into it.
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Ted Warring retweeted
"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.
There is a lot of generational hate and blame nonsense going on right now. Our politics and public policy has caused the real pains all age cohorts are experiencing. But wealth has always been a function of time for each generation. Those seeking to divide have bad intentions
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The real per-person chart uses Federal Reserve Distributional Financial Accounts net-worth levels by generation (nominal dollars, 1990–2026, as tabulated from the Fed series), divided by approximate living population in each cohort and converted to 2026 dollars with CPI-U. Boomer population counts are Pew Research tabulations of Census estimates; other cohort sizes are approximate Census anchors. The Fed does not split Millennials from Gen Z, so the Millennial line uses only people born 1981–1996 as the denominator and assigns that cohort essentially all of the Fed’s “born 1981 or later” wealth until 2015, then about 92% in 2020 and 85% in 2026, on the grounds that the oldest Gen Z members are still under 30. Age tags mark the midpoint birth year of each cohort (Silent ~1936, Boomers 1955, Gen X ~1973, Millennials ~1989), not the age of every member. Figures are averages, so they are pulled up by wealthy households, and the non-Boomer population counts are approximate; the chart is a size- and inflation-adjusted comparison, not an official Fed per-capita series.
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