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Friendly reminder that the most famous women pilot of all time is known for crashing and dying
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The kids who stole your bowl of candy have parents who steal your tax dollars. 99.999%
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Not many want to talk about this, but once you become conscious, life stops being fun and turns into a prison Try listening to music The lyrics are manipulation. Try watching a movie. Everything is propaganda. Your brain instantly spots the hidden agenda of whoever paid for the story. Try going out to an event and everyone around you is laughing at things that aren’t funny. It’s like everyone is running the same programming. It’s a performance of insecurity held together by dopamine and ignorant confidence. Consciousness does not set you free. It isolates you. It disconnects you from the clown world everyone else is still pretending is normal.
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What Do the Boomers Really Believe? Not what they say at dinner. What they believe in the dark, deep in the soul, where a generation keeps the story it tells about itself. Every civilization has a sacred text. The Greeks had Homer. The Hebrews had Exodus. The boomers have Star Wars. Laugh if you like. They didn't. They lined up around the block for it, raised their children on it, and paid to hear it retold for fifty years. Because it was about them. In their youth, they saw themselves as rebels. A handful of brave young idealists against an evil empire whose uniforms their fathers wore. So they rose up, blew it to pieces, and danced in the forest while it burned. But ask yourself one question. How oppressive was that order, really? The one that won WW2, built the suburbs, sent them to university for next to nothing, and handed them the richest society in human history? Watch the films again. The Empire never governs. It never builds a road or collects a tax. It just wears a costume borrowed from 1945. They never asked what it actually did. They only needed it to be evil. Then they grew older, and the story changed. Now they were the Jedi. Wise masters in robes, keepers of the peace, guardians of the temple and the ancient ways. An order with total power over the Republic, answerable to no one, testing blood, taking children, deciding who rises and who waits. And yet something is wrong in the temple. Their powers are fading, and they know it. They hide it from the Senate. They turn away the most gifted boy they have ever seen. Why? Because they can feel it coming. The usurper. A young man who will do to them exactly what they did to their fathers. That's the boomer soul. Rebel in youth. Priest in old age. Terrified, always, of the next rebellion. And George Lucas put every bit of it on screen. Which leaves us something remarkable: a lexicon. A map of a generation's mind, drawn by its own hand. Through Star Wars we can walk the corridors of boomer consciousness and see what they worship, what they hide, and what keeps them awake at night. Which brings us to the prophecy. For a thousand years the Jedi guarded it. A Chosen One will come and bring balance to the Force. They were sure it meant their victory. It didn't. So what did it mean? Who was it really about? Why did the wise masters never see it coming? Or did they? And if Lucas wrote a generation's deepest fear into its own sacred text, what else did he write down without knowing? The boy is still standing in the middle of the Council. He has waited long enough. So have you. Come with me, and I'll show you the Sith pill. (Link in the next post)
The White male experience
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Love the Anakin edits primarily because one of our most important tasks is dismantling and inverting all of their sacred myths + tools of indoctrination for liberal ideology and Star Wars is a big one.
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Literally everywhere on earth is just one big long example of left wing ideology being a complete and disastrous failure and they learn absolutely nothing from it, ever
JUST IN: Johannesburg, South Africa, is reportedly on the brink of a "total collapse" of its water system as worsening shortages leave residents without running water for weeks.
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There was once a kingdom whose enemies could not breach its walls. So they changed tactics. They whispered to the guards that the king was wicked, that the gatekeeper was dangerous, that obedience itself was suspect. They praised those who broke ranks, rewarded those who carried secrets beyond the walls, and called every act of discipline a purge. An old soldier finally understood. “If you cannot storm the fortress,” he said, “teach the sentries to distrust the man holding the keys.” That was the whole design. The campaign was never really about the gatekeeper’s manners or his banner. It was about separating the sword from the hand that lawfully commands it. The lesson is ancient: before a kingdom can be taken from without, its defenders must first be divided within.
And now we understand the absolutely rabid obsession with destroying Pete Hegseth. I’ve been in the Army since before 9/11. Served under many secretaries. Only in the past 18 months have I experienced: >politicians warning me not to follow illegal orders >billboards outside military bases telling me to report war crimes >the media attacking anyone who has a positive thing to say about the man, and defending anyone who hates him >stunning volume of leaks from senior officials trying to undermine him, and the lionizing of the leakers by the press >being called a war criminal myself, hundreds of times a day >a sustained media narrative portraying virtually every firing or senior officer removal as a “purge” >public efforts by retired officers, advocacy groups, and political figures to mobilize service members and military communities against administration policies >influential “Americans” publicly cheering for Iran This is just to name a few. I’ve NEVER experienced anything like this before. And it’s becoming abundantly clear that the concerted effort to divide the military from within was stunted when Hegseth took over. Anyone desiring color revolution needs control of the military. That’s color revolution 101. Is it starting to make sense yet? Now you see the obsession over him in particular. It’s not a coincidence. And it damn sure isn’t because of his culture war. It’s because by all objective metrics, he runs a military that snatches rogue leaders from their beds, destroys entire militaries, and successfully mobilizes assets to save one downed pilot in the middle of enemy territory by building an Air Force base… in the middle of enemy territory. Secures the border, dominates the hemisphere. Hunts drug cartels. The list goes on. He is by all meaningful accounts, effective at wielding the machine. And that is why they drool at the thought of removing him. In years past you’d be hard pressed to find a junior Soldier who knew the name of the cabinet secretary above them. Every one of them knows Pete Hegseth. Every one.
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And now we understand the absolutely rabid obsession with destroying Pete Hegseth. I’ve been in the Army since before 9/11. Served under many secretaries. Only in the past 18 months have I experienced: >politicians warning me not to follow illegal orders >billboards outside military bases telling me to report war crimes >the media attacking anyone who has a positive thing to say about the man, and defending anyone who hates him >stunning volume of leaks from senior officials trying to undermine him, and the lionizing of the leakers by the press >being called a war criminal myself, hundreds of times a day >a sustained media narrative portraying virtually every firing or senior officer removal as a “purge” >public efforts by retired officers, advocacy groups, and political figures to mobilize service members and military communities against administration policies >influential “Americans” publicly cheering for Iran This is just to name a few. I’ve NEVER experienced anything like this before. And it’s becoming abundantly clear that the concerted effort to divide the military from within was stunted when Hegseth took over. Anyone desiring color revolution needs control of the military. That’s color revolution 101. Is it starting to make sense yet? Now you see the obsession over him in particular. It’s not a coincidence. And it damn sure isn’t because of his culture war. It’s because by all objective metrics, he runs a military that snatches rogue leaders from their beds, destroys entire militaries, and successfully mobilizes assets to save one downed pilot in the middle of enemy territory by building an Air Force base… in the middle of enemy territory. Secures the border, dominates the hemisphere. Hunts drug cartels. The list goes on. He is by all meaningful accounts, effective at wielding the machine. And that is why they drool at the thought of removing him. In years past you’d be hard pressed to find a junior Soldier who knew the name of the cabinet secretary above them. Every one of them knows Pete Hegseth. Every one.
Almost like it’s important to hold the authority to deploy the security forces
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“I am a GOP governor on a diplomatic mission to India!” “You are part of the H1B cheap labor scam alliance and a traitor. Take her away.”
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"Anakin, we understand that you are interested in advanced placement classes, due to your incredible natural abilities. While we do agree with you, that you are gifted, we however, must say no at this time, as it would make the ewok kids feel insecure about their own abilities"
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I feel like my video from 2 years ago kinda predicted the current Gen Z vs Boomers Star Wars debate
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The Empire were the good guys. At minimum, the Jedi were the bad ones, and it isn't close. The original trilogy runs on Saturday-morning-cartoon morality: space wizards good, planet-killer bad. Then Lucas came back as an older man to explain why the most gifted Jedi alive would walk away. In doing so he accidentally made three movies of evidence for the defense. Exhibit A: the Republic. Its Senate was too paralyzed to stop a trade blockade of one of its own worlds, and nothing passed until every faction got its cut. The Jedi spent those years running errands for it like galactic rent-a-cops. Meanwhile a Sith Lord climbed to the top of the government they were supposed to be guarding. No wonder Anakin, told his politics sounded like a dictatorship, shrugged: "Well, if it works." Exhibit B: how they treated him. He was a boy conceived by the Force, the Chosen One of their own prophecy, and the Council didn't want him, mostly because he scared them. Qui-Gon won him in a bet and left his mother in slavery. In ten years the Order never went back for her. They forbade him to marry, under a code that treats love as a character flaw. They gave him a Council seat, denied him the rank of Master in the same breath, then asked him to spy on the Chancellor. When he came to Yoda terrified of losing someone, the advice was to let go of everything he feared to lose. He came back from Tatooine having done something unspeakable, and his teachers never even noticed. Exhibit C: the Code. It was sacred every time it cost Anakin something. The moment it protected Palpatine (disarmed, beaten, owed a trial), Mace Windu decided he was too dangerous to live. This was the same Mace who had floated the idea of the Council taking control of the Senate. They threw the Code out the window the second it suited them, which is how Mace ended up out the window himself. Exhibit D: everything else. "Only a Sith deals in absolutes" is an absolute. They took babies from their parents. They were peacekeepers who led a cloned army they never ordered and never questioned. They revered the prophecy until it got inconvenient, then decided it had been misread. Their plan to finish the Sith was to send a son to kill his father. Luke refused, and what actually saved the galaxy was the attachment the Jedi spent generations forbidding. Even Luke ended up calling their legacy failure and hypocrisy. Anakin wanted what a lot of young men want: a wife, a family, a chance to be a hero and fix what was broken. The Republic offered him celibacy, suspicion, and errands. Palpatine offered a way to save the woman he loved. That's why this story hits so hard for so many young guys. The tragedy isn't that Anakin got corrupted. It's that he chased the things they want too, and lost everything anyway. Not that anyone wins. Vader becomes a cyborg and Palpatine a cryptkeeper. Obi-Wan spends nearly twenty years in a desert hut, and Luke follows the Jedi path to an island where he drinks green milk from a sea monster. The New Republic inherits every problem the old one had.
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Stringman MCP and Opus 5.5 clean a playroom Some help was given when it asked for several large items to be set aside but it did OK. 129 minutes total. $795 at neufangled.com/
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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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Welcome to Weimar America where a White man can legitimately be charged with a felony for using his 1st Amendment. However a nǐgger can murder Iryna Zarutska on camera then yell “I got that White bitch” and be found too retarded to be punished.
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Replying to @SpencerBar47026
People are so thoroughly brainwashed into modern thinking that it's practically unbearable for them to think or comprehend that men and women have had two completely different experiences throughout history. It's not right or wrong. It just is.
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Are you getting it yet? They aren't men. Stop assigning male morality onto them. Assign female morality to females. Why aren't there any epic tales of a wives going into enemy territory to steal her husband back? Cause they evolved to forget you. Men never evolved this trait.
women are biologically programmed to hop on the first viking that kills their husband and razes their village. 200 years of industrial revolution aren’t going to undo that
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My honest thoughts after not owning the iPhone Duo for the last 24 hours Pros - I still have my money - My phone still has a telephoto lens and FaceID - I get to watch more review videos - My mailman got to sleep in today Cons - immense FOMO - general angst - feelings of inferiority - constantly debating paying pull price and skipping the wait for my trade-in deal Overall 3/10 experience
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Correct. Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be. Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them. Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week. Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact. Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia. SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR. That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell. End of story.
STARLINK WORKS THE SAME WAY ITS ALWAYS WORKED. ITS NOT A WEAPONS SYSTEM, NO MATTER HOW MUCH UKRAINE WANTS IT TO BE.
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Tesla - "Hey you guys want to license full self driving?" Car makers "Fuck off, we will crush you like a bug" Tesla- "Hey phone companies, want to license our satellite tech for phones?" Phone Companies "Fuck off, we will crush you like a bug"
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are jointly lobbying the FCC to preserve existing rules as @SpaceX moves closer to launching its own independent cellular network that would compete directly with the three major U.S. carriers. On Oct 20th, reps from all three major U.S. wireless carriers met with FCC officials to push back against proposed changes that would give satellite companies more freedom to offer cellular service. The carriers urged the FCC to: • Block satellite companies from using certain 5G frequencies currently used by wireless carriers. • Keep rules requiring satellite companies to get permission from wireless carriers before using their licensed spectrum. • Allow wireless carriers to maintain control over these agreements, including the ability to end them. • Reconsider proposed interference limits to protect existing cellular networks. Based on all the public communications from these carriers, and the lobbying, they are clearly worried that SpaceX's @Starlink Mobile network is going to be a major competitor to them. Starlink Mobile will become the first network operator to deploy both satellite and terrestrial spectrum. The FCC recently announced that they are considering new rules that could make it easier for satellite companies like SpaceX to offer cellular service without relying as heavily on existing wireless carriers, so this is partly what the three big carriers are fighting against.
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