We are getting to that point of doom on Iran where X got to on Ukraine. Back then without gas and food we were going to be cholipping frozen, starved, dead Europeans of the streets. This time it's oil, gas, fertilizer and helium all about to bring about the end of humanity as we know it....
As a former progressive, this is absolutely accurate and caused me endless frustration with my co-partisans. They fundamentally don’t care if their ideas work. They hardly even have a concept of ideas working. Their entire evaluation function is based on social perception and emotionalism which is, in fact, profoundly selfish and unvirtuous. If you care more about feeling like/being seen as good than you do about results, you’re a selfish parasite. Hardly exclusive to the left, but it defines the leftist project in a way it doesn’t define any other political faction.
You've gotta leave your loser friends behind.
My childhood best friend is a great example.
We grew up together doing everything. We rode bikes and went clubbing.
As we got older we both liked to drink alcohol. We had some fun nights.
One evening we went back to his new girlfriend's place. We had some drinks.
Then he pulled out a crack pipe.
I didn't know anything about the drug. But I knew there was no f*cking way I was smoking it.
The next day I googled it. Homeless people take it. It ruins families & has a high likelihood of ending in death
I thought maybe this night was a one off lapse of judgement. I tried to forget it.
But the following Saturday the same thing happened. After they smoked we went clubbing.
My friend drove his girlfriend's VW convertible. We went down a narrow alley. He was so high he ran into over a dozen parked cars.
It was embarrassing.
But it got worse. Soon crack wasn't hard enough. He started experimenting with other drugs.
In the years that followed he lost many of his new friends to drug overdoses.
I stopped talking to him.
He got mad. He tried everything to get me back. I barred his calls and blocked his number.
It wasn't easy. I felt cruel. But it saved me from becoming a junkie.
Be careful who you hang out with.
Losers will drag you down and make you a drug addict if you let them. Don't do it. Audit your inner circle.
The idea that a criminal can bypass border security and then the US taxpayer is on the hook to pay $40,000 per year for eighteen years to educate their children is simply insane. It never should have been allowed to happen.
I don’t think pay-per-impressions is a great model anyway, since it incentivizes sensationalism.
That’s part of why I’ve never taken a moment to turn on monetization for this app, despite my reach.
Reading before bed has improved my sleep hygiene more than anything else.
5-10 mins of a book in bed and I’m out like a light no matter what I’ve done before.
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I am kindly asking everyone, on all sides of the Israel issue, to stop obscuring the fact that my friend and boss was murdered by a radical left-winger who killed him because of his view on the trans issue.
@Tenji93 If you are an Arab then you are rooting for your team despite them being bloodthirsty Jihadis
If you are a Christian ur hatred for Israel is pure moral cowardice- u think the Muslims will leave you alone if you throw the israelis under the bus- in the long run you are dead wrong
@Tenji93 You like to play God when it comes to redistributing a single tiny speck of land run by Jews, which btw has millions of Arabs living in too
Go play that game with any other piece of land on earth- but its not as fun without a population of Jihadis who want to be in perpetual war
@Tenji93 All religions believe they are the "chosen ones" whether its accepting Jesus to get into Heaven of Muslims raping your wives bec you are just an infidel.
Historically Islam & Christianity regimes have treated other religions like shit. Jews did not have the power to do so.
This is why I straight up don't care about Gaza.
Look at the way Islamists speak about their enemies - the murderous glee they display towards the people they want to kill. You think these people are concerned humanitarians? They're just sad that they are on the losing side.
If Islamists had a fraction of Israel's military power for even a single day they would just massacre all 7 million Israeli Jews. Abundantly clear at this point. If you can't see it at this point you're mentally retarded. They would sraight up march every Israeli family in death columns into the sea.
You saw this on October 7. Palestinian militants had about 4-5 hours where they possessed the power of life and death over random Israeli teenagers, grandmas, families. What did they do? Their first instinct was to go on a medieval rape and pillage massacre rampage. They massacred hundreds of teenagers at a music festival, they raped teenage women to death, they went door to door executing families and taking hostages, shooting pet dogs in the head.
This is what they want for their enemies. This is what Mohammed Hijab wants for his enemies. Barbaric rape and pillage slaughter. He's not sad about Gaza, he's sad that he's not the death camp guard at Auschwitz, herding Jewish kids, women and grandparents into gas chambers. This is so obviously what Islamists like Mohammed Hijab want.
When Islamists like Mohammad Hijab cry about human rights and international law, really they are like pitbulls - crying and cowering in the corner with a sad face, hoping to guilt you into letting them off their chain so they can maul you to death and rip off your face.