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[JMAN @dweller0]

@25YearsAgoLive Thank you for approaching this with the respect it deserves

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 BOOM! All the hospices are gone. Not a single hospice remains. No more luxury vehicles and no more of your dollars funding their fraudulent scheme. They were all frauds.

In this one location alone we saved America $30 million+.

END IT ALL.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

A very smart political science professor told me this is one of the best replicated and most consistent findings in his field (but for some reason they don’t like to talk about it).

[wanye @xwanyex]

Just a reminder that lots of liberals don’t really believe in democracy, either, they just do this silly thing where they put all the times that democracy does something they don’t like into a separate bucket called, “populism,” so that they can ignore the will of the people without feeling self-conscious about it

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

You can close the borders, end third world migration, ban the transing of kids, eliminate gender ideology in schools, re-open the asylums, and otherwise completely dismantle virtually everything Progressives have done for the last 60 years, but you can’t justify doing these things based solely on individual liberty and consent alone.

You’re going to have to come up with some additional justification that probably looks something like “having a country,” “protecting kids,” “public order,” and “saving Western civilization from Marxism”. But all of these things simply presuppose what society should look like or how it should function.

You could easily just call that the “Common Good”.

And once you’ve admitted that politics naturally requires you to make these kind of value judgments that obviously go beyond individual consent or the harm principle, the debate is no longer about whether society will impose some conception of the good. The debate becomes which conception of the good it will impose and how.

This is why the moral panic you see from the usual suspects melting down about Postliberals and the Common Good is disingenuous or stupid. Everyone has a conception of the Common Good. They’re just mad that some are open and honest about what they believe that should look like, while they seek to impose their own conception of the Common Good through the backdoor while pretending no one else is allowed to contest it.

But of course, when your conception of the Common Good is to tie your own hands behind your back and declare that you can’t do anything while your enemies loot and pillage this country, don’t be surprised when guys who are ostensibly on your side look at you and reject your plan for being suicidally naive.

[JMAN @dweller0]

@Bob956961647214 @vincempls @cityofsaintpaul @StPaulFireDept Are you thinking of Bohemian Flats in Mpls?

[John Daniel Davidson @johnddavidson]

The hard truth about mass deportations is that they would almost certainly be met with resistance so widespread and persistent it would plunge the country into a state of sustained civil conflict.

That's not a reason not to do it, simply an acknowledgment of where we are.

Given the insane reaction in Minneapolis to what was in truth a rather mild attempt to enforce federal immigration law, we should expect mass deportations to trigger a reaction considerably more unhinged and violent.

No one wants to see that level of conflict in American cities and communities, but it's probably the only way to save the country at this point.

[JMAN @dweller0]

@SenJohnCurtis Traitor. Where’s your support for us Americans

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

I’m sick to my stomach…

This is going to prevent so many women and people of color from getting cheap groceries.

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

"Haiti is a s***hole country." ❌ (evil, racist, offensive)
"Haiti is hell." ✅ (compassionate, true)

[JMAN @dweller0]

@KSTP 🌭

[JMAN @dweller0]

@StarTribune 🌭

[JMAN @dweller0]

@mnhousegop For the love of god repeal this travesty

[Bennett's Phylactery @extradeadjcb]

So glad you asked - here's how we win:

The machinery of narrative control (by which managerial liberal regimes were previously steered) has been shattered, which means that *no one* can coordinate & steer the system

This means that we cannot coordinate to dislodge the incumbents - but it also means that incumbents cannot coordinate to steer around any of the crises that the system is shambling into

Those crises, in rough order of urgency:

1. The fiscal crisis: the system cannot prevent the bleed of internal looting & devaluation of currency

No political will exists to arrest this process, & by 2035 the debt will equal the value of all US equities - the govt will have effectively "eaten" the stock market

Unclear at what point the bond markets will puke - but if a thing can't go on forever, it won't

2. The security crisis: Managerial liberal states can no longer marshal the political will to fight and win wars

So when US hegemony is tested, USG either has to withdraw (emboldening the next challenger, & breaking the freedom of the seas on which the global economy rests) or try to fight from beyond visual range at overwhelming expense to avoid casualties

So the security crisis accelerates the fiscal crisis, & the fiscal crisis accelerates the security crisis

3. The demographic crisis: The compact between young & old has broken, & the young are "quiet quitting" the arrangement, withdrawing from family life & its precursors either by choice or by circumstance

The burden of a growing population of the old is falling on a dwindling population of the young, which makes it still harder to form families - a positive feedback loop

Each of these crises is a structural consequence of headless managerial liberalism - which means that decline & fragmentation will continue until the pieces are small enough to be capturable by human agency

So, how do we win?

By rebuilding human institutions capable of long-term thinking & coordinated action, which can navigate the coming volatility in ways managerial states cannot - & which adopt responsibilities that the state abdicates as it sheds capacity

It's not clear how deep that fragmentation has to progress before recapture becomes possible, but a) fragmentation and decline are certain, and b) the people who are better organized ahead of time will be in the best position to pick up the slack

On the specific question of revitalizing blighted inner cities:

The federal government currently props up corrupt & decaying state & municipal governments, & enforces the civil rights regime that prevents the healing of urban blight

If 2028 goes our way, we may get cracks in that system sooner, with Trump's stand-down of civil rights enforcement becoming permanent law, & parasitic Leftist institutions catching the brunt of austerity measures in the 2030s

Otherwise the state may have to gradually lose the *capacity* to enforce such directives before anything can be rebuilt

That way is harder, messier, & takes longer - which is good, because we'll need all the time we can get to build for it

Either way, the future belongs to human institutions, & we win by building them

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[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

A common piece of advice is to ask for things you want, even if you don’t think it’ll work or if you think you’ll look weird. If you don’t ask, you’ll never get it—and people can’t read your mind.

I thought this was great advice so I started doing it and it has never worked.

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

The craziest part about birth tourism is that eventually you're going to end up with a world wide population of foreign born Americans who never step foot in America but vote in American elections. Those 2 million kids in China being raised in China that have American citizenship? All their kids will be considered American and so on. It's an absolutely insane ruling by SCOTUS.

[Brian Karalus @briankaralus]

The public should know. Not because I say so. Because this was their courthouse. Their Constitution. Their justice system.

The media asked to televise the trial. I said yes. The State said no. Read that again.

A case built around a recording. A woman prosecuted because of what was captured on video. Yet when the public asked to watch the trial itself, the State fought to keep the cameras out.

Why?

What exactly was the public not supposed to see?

I argued—on the record—for transparency. Not for publicity. Transparency. I argued that the people of Rochester, the citizens of Olmsted County, the people of Minnesota, and every American should be allowed to watch the process. To see the witnesses. To hear the arguments. To watch the rulings. To decide for themselves whether justice was done.

The answer? DENIED! Yep.

Think about the contradiction. A camera in a park becomes the centerpiece of a criminal prosecution.

A camera in a courtroom becomes unacceptable. One camera is welcomed. The other is feared.

One camera used for a $340,000 shakedown and the other feared.

One used to convict a woman for protected speech. The other feared.

Justice is not a private club. It does not belong to judges. It does not belong to prosecutors. It belongs to the people.

Public confidence is not built by asking citizens to trust the system. It is built by letting them watch it. Sunlight is uncomfortable. So is accountability.

If a courtroom cannot withstand the scrutiny of the citizens it serves, then we have a much larger conversation to have than the outcome of a single case.

The people were told to trust the process. I asked that they be allowed to see it. Those are not the same thing.

It is time to wake the fuck up.

[Tom Hennessy @Tomhennessey69]

Brian Karalus, defense attorney for Shiloh Hendrix, shares just some of his thoughts on the case.

[JMAN @dweller0]

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