Dylan Gross

[Richard “Beebo” Russell @proverbs_14_23]

My grandfather stormed the beaches of Normandy. I once asked him what kept them pushing uphill and into the meat grinder, what kept them fighting? His answer absolutely floored me.

“We wanted Hatians to sell fake Gucci at the train station.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX was less than 10 people back then. We didn’t even have office furniture.

[Bron’s Best @LBJsBest]

This vid of LeBron leading the 2016 Cavs 3-1 comeback still gives me chills 🔥👑

(vid: @bronhistory)

[Charles Curran @charliebcurran]

Marco Rubio finding out he has to run Spirit Airlines now too.

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

LEBRON DOING REVERSE WINDMILLS IN YEAR 23 🤯👑

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

LET HIM COOK.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

“You’re spending 50% of your disposable income on a house a postman owned in 1917.”

Rory Sutherland just delivered a brutally funny takedown of London property madness.

He pointed out that people with good jobs are now paying enormous sums for a three-bedroom house in Fulham that’s essentially a boring, low-quality building — the real value is almost entirely in the land and planning permission (about 90% of the price).

Meanwhile, we live in an incredible technological age where you can buy jet skis, hot tubs, and amazing consumer goods — but most of our money goes into owning a “shit house” in a good postcode.

Rory’s friend has a flat in the Barbican and he gets that — it’s actually an amazing place to live. But most London housing? Dross.

Rory’s friend has a flat in the Barbican and he gets that — it’s actually an amazing place to live. But most London housing? Dross.

It’s like paying £60,000 a year for the parking space while driving a 1970s Ford Cortina.

What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve seen people spend huge money on just for location?

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.

The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural.

Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them.

That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it.
After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble.

The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first.
Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon.

American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life.
Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake.

Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs.

We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating.

So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving.
We were manufacturing jealousy.

And it worked. The Wall came down.

But here’s what no one accounted for.

When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs.

And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle.

An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas.

And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized.

So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening.

Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude.

Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated.

Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass.

Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar.

Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity.

What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle.

For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked.

Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid.

Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.”

We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries.

Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit.

You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators.

What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization.

It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine.

That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report.

Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us”

Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

[Dixon Uranus @RealDixonUranus]

When I see another White guy at Walmart:

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

Billy Bob Thornton opens up in the most raw way…

He looks straight into the camera and says the quiet truth most people never admit out loud:

“Yeah, I’ve never been the same since my brother died. There’s a melancholy in me that never goes away. I’m 50% happy and 50% sad at any given moment.”

He shares the only advice he has for anyone who’s lost someone that close:

“You won’t ever get over it. And the more you know that and embrace it, the better off you are.”

He doesn’t want to forget his brother — or even the pain — because that pain is how he honors how much his brother mattered.

“If I have to suffer and be sad for the rest of my life… then that’s the way I honor him.”

Raw, honest, and beautiful. 💔

[Scott Redler @RedDogT3]

Rick is old school

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

😭😭😭😭😭

https://t.co/2vW2Z31Hk6

[Hooman @hoomansv]

Live look at tech bros who rotated into oil last week

[Bron’s Best @LBJsBest]

This vid of LeBron leading the 2016 Cavs 3-1 comeback still gives me chills 🔥👑

(vid credit: @bronhistory)

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

In one of the most iconic moments in State of the Union history, Trump checkmated every Democrat by asking Congress to stand if they agree: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.

The Democrats stayed seated.

[𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 💀 @DeadsoundApp]

Don't think I've seen any late-night sickos posting this Robert Duvall clip yet. Here you are, sickos.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Robert Duvall has sadly passed away at the age of 95.

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”

— Jean-Luc Godard

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

Spot on.

[Drew Beatty @IronCityFilm]

There were a handful of turnover-worthy throws that were pretty rough, but Cam Ward's highs in Week 17 vs the Saints were probably his highest of this season. Just some flat-out insane throws

#Titans