Corleone the Coyote

Best coyote on X.

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

Quoting so I can pin this post.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

Here are six easy ways to know you live in a propaganda bubble and the Fake News Industry is malicious:

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

@PolicyJosh @JesseKellyDC You changed the subject. I accept your concession.

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@PolicyJosh @JesseKellyDC That doesn’t sound voluntary to me

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

@RyanAFournier I think this is a rendering.

I was there yesterday and it was about a quarter full, as it has been for a month or more. Construction fences and equipment all up and down the reflecting pool.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

While everyone is talking about the LA election, just remember that posting discrepancies about the 2020 election used to be grounds for suspension on Twitter 1.0

Trump himself was banned here

That's how bad it was before

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

@sivori @PaulSkallas

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

This wasn’t even a “dangerous” or out of the way place.

This past Feb, Blue line between Farragut West (White House) and Smithsonian station. 7pm on a weeknight.

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

In DC, a drug person stood up a few rows in front of me, paced the aisle of the metro car, pulled a knife and started stabbing the interior wall of the car.

“I’m gonna kill a b***h” etc.

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

In DC, a drug person stood up a few rows in front of me, paced the aisle of the metro car, pulled a knife and started stabbing the interior wall of the car.

“I’m gonna kill a b***h” etc.

[Anish Koka, MD @anish_koka]

I’m a cardiologist in Philadelphia —
Patients routinely tell me they won’t take the subway / public transit because it’s too dangerous. So Medicaid patients would rather pay $40 to park then risk someone urinating next to them (or worse).

An employee was chased by two individuals on the Market Line, never took the subway to come to work again.

Cleansing up the streets should 💯 be a bipartisan issue.

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

@AmericanDebunk That episode will go down in history. I remember where I was when I heard the chatbot say “snoffufafufolifilopolos”, and cracked up alongside Scott.

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

Does this feel like “Taxpayer-Funded Voluntary Deportation Program” to anyone else?

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

My most black-pilled thought is we won’t have this same country 100 years from now because there’s no long-term future for any country where half the citizens hate the place.

You just can’t keep a house when half the residents want to burn it down.

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

“Man experiencing homelessness experiences his knife stabbing into 5 innocent bystanders.”

[Peak Seattle @PeakSeattle]

Yesterday in Penn Station, a bunch of people ended up experiencing a stabbing by a man "experiencing homelessness."

I'm relieved to see ABC use the preferred progressive terminology for the feral human. We mustn't dehumanize those who try to stab others to death. It might hurt their feelings.

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

@Barefoot_Will_ Sorry you went through that, and also glad you made it into something even better! Inspiring story.

[Chief Chainsaw Officer @Hispeedlowdrug]

When I was learning to wrap my wrists for boxing, one very common reason I saw mentioned was that wrapping your knuckles a few extra turns was "padding" which made absolutely no sense to me. How is three layers of cotton supposed to cushion my knuckles??

Eventually I saw an in-depth video by an MMA coach explaining that the knuckle wrap is to hold the small bones of your hand in place. This helps prevent injury, and also helps you hit harder if your hand is "more like a glove full of rocks than a bag of jelly with some hard bits in it".

Aaaaahhhhhh, this makes way more sense to me. So why isn't this the common explanation?

This isn't apparent to anyone who hasn't both trained boxing AND also lacks experience punching people in the face without any gear on. In order for the old-timey boxing advice to make sense, you need extensive experience both within and outside of formal, geared up boxing.

If you are just some random soft hands modern person, you can gain extensive experience within the narrow discipline and still not have the breadth of experience to appreciate the wisdom of the old explanations.

A lot of old-timey wisdom is like this. The stated reason for doing something may or may not make any logical sense at all, and might even be utter nonsense. But the bigger picture is often that there's deep wisdom that only comes from deep and wide experience behind it.

It's just that the people passing on the wisdom were inarticulate (or even illiterate), and so they just made up some story to help it stick with the young knuckleheads they were trying to teach. Yeah yeah whatever kid, just do it ok.

A lot of things in sports, the physical, and the human mind are like this. Just because the old-timey wisdom makes no sense when you think about it for ten seconds doesn't mean it's bad advice. In fact it may be the opposite.

It's common for online smarty pants types to make a big deal about debunking old-timey wisdom based on this kind of logic. But logic is different than wisdom, and often inferior.

I've learned to distrust superficially logical explanations for any complicated phenomenon, and yes, punching people in the face is a surprisingly complicated phenomenon.

I see this trait of over reliance on logical consistency in midrange engineers, atheists, people just learning a trade/craft, sports neophytes, people who built their identity around being the smartest teenager in the room, and other habitual deboonker reddit types.

This is why the bell curve meme has such wide applicability. Very relatable. It can also be seen as illustrating a journey every thoughtful person has made. From credulous neophyte, to know-it-all midwit, to seasoned wisdom respecter.

Chestertons fence etc....

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

@newstart_2024 Is this the same Megyn Kelly who told women "you can have it all" and "The only thing stopping you is your decision to settle for less"?

🤔

https://t.co/DMHwGgadN7

[Megyn Kelly @megynkelly]

Ladies, it is possible to make your own money, have your own career, pay for your own swanky nyc apartment (etc), AND find a man who loves you, wants to have & raise kids w/you & wants to be w/you and only you. The only thing stopping you? Your decision to settle for less.

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

The same Megyn Kelly who told women "you can have it all" and "The only thing stopping you is your decision to settle for less"?

🤔
https://t.co/DMHwGgadN7

[Camus @newstart_2024]

1 in 3 American men and 1 in 5 women haven’t had sex in the past year.

Birth rates across the rich world are collapsing below replacement level.

Megyn Kelly played Ben Sasse’s sobering 60 Minutes interview where he said we’ve stopped having babies and even stopped having sex, distracted by phones and dopamine hits instead of the most basic human drives, connection and building the future.

It’s a quiet but massive cultural shift that’s happening right in front of us.

A society that stops reproducing and connecting is choosing a slow decline, no matter how “advanced” it looks.

Do you think technology and modern life are quietly killing our drive for real human connection?

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

@JoshuaLisec Have you heard of this book?

Essentially a Chinese PLA playbook, written in 1999 by two Army colonels.

How to beat other countries through low-intensity, irregular warfare with tactics that slip past their political immune systems...

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

@JackNapierNot Free is even better.

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"I don't know if I want to actually get married again, because I know how much weddings cost."

You know it's possible to get married for like $20, right?

Get a prenup, and . . . $10k?

[Jack Napier @JackNapierNot]

"I realized she was an alcoholic."

You don't realize someone's an alcoholic out of nowhere. You smell it, you notice it in their behavior.

She was willfully ignorant of his substance abuse until he was no longer of value.

https://t.co/glHAZiTl2H

[Corleone the Coyote @CorleoneTheOne]

@Handre Parents of daughter killed in a DUI asked for the killer to write them a $1 check every week.

The killer eventually tried to pay all at once, because he was "haunted by the crash and the weekly payments were such painful reminders."

https://t.co/JqIM4jgi6H

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@2irl4u Yikes