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Navigating the Upside Down World

[Taylor @CryptoDiggy]

Banning discussions of COVID by qualified Doctors is like banning patients from getting a 2nd opinion on a diagnosis.

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

I used to be a liberal on basically every issue from gay rights to abortion to drug legalisation and Dawkins era takes on Christianity.

Then I began to question mass migration.

Slowly I realised that 100% of left/liberal people either want it to continue until we're entirely replaced or want to feign frustration around the edges but not actually do anything to stop or reverse it.

And the REALLY crazy part is just how common this is - I imagine MANY of you are ex liberals who probed this ONE question and came back feeling like people have gone insane.

They've literally manufactured a massive right wing movement which didn't exist before by refusing to concede on this one issue - allowing people to change sides on virtually every other question against them.

THEN you realise we're in the greatest propaganda bubble ever propagated in history and that it spans way more than just race and migration.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Let me tell you what every population does the moment it comes into money.

I mean every single one of them. Every continent, every culture, no exceptions.

Japan in the 1950s. South Korea in the 1970s. China in the 1980s. Brazil in the 1990s. Vietnam in the 2000s. Every economy that has clawed its way up in the last hundred years has done the identical thing.

The first thing they spend the new money on is animal protein. Meat, dairy, eggs. Steak, pork, chicken, milk. The oat milk and the lab-grown burger from the Californian startup never get a look in.

And in every case, within a single generation, the children come out taller. The old illnesses of going without fade away, and in their place arrive the illnesses of plenty, which turn up hand in hand with the sugar, the refined flour, the seed oils, the processed food and the sitting down all day that prosperity also delivers. The meat rode all the way up the income curve alongside the extra height and the longer lives, which makes it a curious thing to point the finger at.

The people lecturing us to eat like the poor villages their families escaped are almost never the ones who actually grew up in them.

The ones who did are sitting down to steak.

They can taste the difference between an ideology and a dinner.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Lee Kuan Yew:

“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency."

[Brandon Straka #WalkAway @BrandonStraka]

When Trump ran in 2016, he surged in popularity because a huge portion of America felt forgotten and invisible.

His populist MAGA movement crossed generational, racial, religious, and ideological lines, building a massive and diverse coalition.

What’s happening now is that many conservatives under 40 are beginning to feel the way that coalition felt in 2016: disenfranchised, ignored, and disillusioned by the system.

Meanwhile, many Baby Boomers are generally satisfied. Their property values are rising, their 401(k)s are growing, and they strongly support America’s relationship with Israel.

As a result, many younger conservatives are becoming increasingly unhappy not only with the direction of American politics, but also increasingly resentful toward a generation they feel they have less and less in common with — and toward an administration they believe caters to that generation at their expense.

Caught in the middle is Gen X, often split between both sides entirely, or issue by issue.

But one thing is becoming abundantly clear: the conservative movement 10 years from now will bear little resemblance to the conservative movement of today.

As feelings of anger, betrayal, and resentment compound, most of the ideas being accepted as the standard today are going to be thrown out.

The next generations are going to tear the system down.

And that is the great disappointment of this moment.

It could have been different.

There was every opportunity to begin building the future of the conservative movement right now — by listening to younger generations and including them in discussions about the decisions being made today that will shape their lives tomorrow.

It could have been a multi-generational coalition built on mutual respect, leading toward a smooth passing of the baton.

Instead, this increasingly feels like an administration designed almost exclusively around the priorities of the oldest generation.

It’s not sustainable. In its current form, it leaves little room for adaptation, transition, or expansion. It’s alienating.

The next 10 years of the conservative movement are going to be the Wild West. And though there will be great uncertainty, there will also be great opportunity.

[Taylor @CryptoDiggy]

@WallStreetApes The truck itself looks illegal. It's 2 levels below a 2005 Nissan Altima and 3 below any Dodge Charger.

[Taylor @CryptoDiggy]

@MattWalshBlog All of this seems to go along with the Jimmy Carter Alien disclosure stories.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Many of the things you assume to be normal and universal are actually a product of a high-trust society

When you change the people you change the culture, when you change the culture systems that were built for the previous population fail

[Matt Morse @MattMorseTV]

No one is more Right-wing than a blue-state conservative.

Unless you've seen first hand, up close and personal, the damage that the far-Left is capable of causing, it's all theoretical.

I spent the first 25 years of my life in Portland, Oregon. I have seen, with my own two eyes, the real world consequences of far-Left political ideology.

Neighborhoods - destroyed.
Crime rates - skyrocketing.
Small businesses - gutted.
Homeless population - through the roof.
Illegal aliens - everywhere.
Housing costs - stratospheric.
Public parks and playgrounds - littered with used needles.
Sidewalks - covered in graffiti and human feces.
Your old friend from highschool - overdosed, dead.

Take it as a warning from me -- we can NEVER let these people win.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1776, when the American colonies broke from the British Empire, the average American man was 5'9".

This was three inches taller than the average Englishman. It was taller than the Dutch, taller than the French, taller than the Swedes. George Washington, at 6'2", was tall by any standard, but his soldiers were not the Lilliputians the popular image suggests. At 5'7" the average Continental Army private was significantly taller than a typical European soldier, because he had grown up on a diet that the typical European soldier had not.

The diet was meat. Dairy. Eggs from the back garden. Game from the woods that belonged to nobody. The abundance of colonial America, where the protein was not controlled by a landlord or rationed by a church or restricted by a forest law, had produced a population that was, by the skeletal standards of the eighteenth century, the tallest on earth.

Americans stayed the tallest people in the world for nearly two hundred years.

Then they stopped.

American height plateaued in the 1950s. It has not meaningfully increased since. The average American man born in 1996 is approximately 5'9", which is the same height as the average American man born in 1950, and roughly the same height as the average American man in 1776.

In the same period, the Dutch grew six inches. The Scandinavians grew five. The Germans grew four. The South Koreans grew nearly four. One by one, the European populations that had been shorter than Americans in 1900 overtook them. The Dutch, who had been among the shortest Europeans in 1860, are now the tallest people on earth at an average of 6 foot for men. Americans have dropped to 37th.

Thirty-seventh.

The richest country in the history of the world, spending more per capita on food than almost any other nation, is now shorter than the Dutch, the Danes, the Norwegians, the Swedes, the Germans, the Croatians, the Czechs, the Estonians, the Latvians, the Lithuanians, the Slovenians, the Montenegrins, the Bosnians, the Serbs, the Icelanders, the Belgians, the Austrians, the Swiss, the Australians, the New Zealanders, the Canadians, the Bermudans, and the Finns.

The conventional explanation blames inequality. Healthcare access. Poverty. These are real factors. They are also downstream of something more fundamental.
The American diet changed.

In the 1950s, the average American ate butter, whole milk, eggs, and red meat as the nutritional backbone of the diet. By the 1990s, the average American was eating margarine, skimmed milk, egg whites, chicken breast, and a long list of processed foods that had been reformulated to remove animal fat and replace it with sugar and seed oil, because the dietary guidelines had told them to.

The Dutch, in the same period, continued eating dairy. Full-fat dairy. Roughly a kilogram per person per day. Cheese for breakfast. Cheese for lunch. Milk with dinner. Butter on everything. The Dutch ignored the American dietary guidelines and kept eating the food that was making them tall.

The Americans followed the guidelines and stopped growing.

The Dutch ignored the guidelines and became the tallest people on earth.

The experiment has been running for fifty years. It is running in real time. The results are in the conscription records and the school growth charts and the anthropometric surveys that are published every year and that nobody in a position to update the dietary guidance appears to be reading.

America was the tallest country on earth when it was eating butter.

America is the 37th tallest country on earth now that it is eating the guidelines.

The guidelines have not been updated.

The Dutch are still eating the cheese.

[Taylor @CryptoDiggy]

@OverlyTrev @elonmusk Waymo had Way Mo accidents than the Tesla.

[Taylor @CryptoDiggy]

@bdguan @FarmerGarlic The "Version" of America that I like is one where people have balls, ethics, values, innovation and are self sustainable. Where good people alienate and shun abusers and assholes. And people can thrive outside big govt or corporate monopolies.

[STARSEED ASTROLOGY 🇺🇸 @starseedastro]

Truth

[PostRanger @post_ranger]

@EmeraldRobinson Why doesn't Trump seem interested in finding out who tried to assassinate him. The FBI closed the investigation before following up on any open leads

[Taylor @CryptoDiggy]

@AtlRey Someone gave an offer he couldn't refuse after Butler but more after Kirk's killing. He is compromised. And he really doesn't focus much on whom shot him and Kirk which is not his standard punching back response.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Trump should have said nothing. The podcasters moved the needle in 2024. The rebranded Never Trump’ers, who have said even worse about Trump, did not. It was bad politics. If you’re POTUS, you take the hits and remember who got you over the finish line. Comes with the office.

[Taylor @CryptoDiggy]

@FinancialWarden @elonmusk That's the problem in Cuba. They don't even have the spices to make proper Cuban food anymore.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: White House official announces Israel has also agreed to a temporary 2-week Iranian ceasefire.

[Taylor @CryptoDiggy]

@benjamincowen It's not professional. That said it's coming from a Country that teaches kids "Death to America" at an early age.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Rep. Tim Burchett says a source told him the U.S. has knowledge of both "non-human life and non-earthly machinery"

[Taylor @CryptoDiggy]

@sagesteele @stephenasmith Would Neil DeGrasse Tyson be more or less famous if he was, White, Asian, or Middle Eastern?

Because to me I wouldn't know who Neil was if he wasn't Black. Our Race, Gender, etc give us Pros and Cons. And the Social Algorithm changes frequently. Should always be about character