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[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

The order of operations when you take power is simple.

You should always do something that makes the next thing easier to do.

Every political action creates winners and losers. If you attempt the most controversial reform first, every interest group that benefits from the status quo will immediately mobilize against you.

So instead of trying to just ram something through, you should instead remove the institutional incentives that constantly regenerate opposition to whatever it is you’re working towards.

For example, if we want to repeal Hart-Celler one day, we should first marginalize whatever the opposition would obviously emerge to oppose such a repeal if a vote to do so were held in Congress tomorrow.

That means cutting off the flow of money to anyone and everyone that facilitates open borders and mass migration, which includes the immigration NGO complex, sanctuary cities (and states), charities, as well as businesses and industries that hire illegals or foreigners in disproportionate numbers.

Make each of the independent coalition partners of the mass migration side pay such a price for their views that they either throw in the towel and back off, or they become so toxic that no one wants to associate with them for fear of the blowback coming for them as well.

The true believers will still vote NO when the time comes, but many of them won’t be in the House or Senate to do so.

This mechanism works for almost everything, by the way, and it’s the same playbook the Left used to advance virtually every Progressive cause you can think of. They made the social and political costs of opposing them too steep for anyone to bother trying. That’s one of the reasons “cancel culture” became a thing in the first place.

[Gena Gorlin @Gena_I_Gorlin]

If you’re looking for a startup idea, the baby monitor industry is EXTREMELY ripe for disruption

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

Dude is big on locking people in rooms against their will, apparently.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: In Sweden a woman has committed suicide after a judge released the migrant who raped her citing 'Not enough evidence'.

[i/o @avidseries]

For years, I've had this relaxing ritual that I do right before I go to bed: I pick a town on the map and look at its online real estate listings. What you see below is not unusual in the Midwest or Southeast.

I don't understand why certain types of like-minded people or creatives (like painters and writers) don't work together in a group to buy up property (especially dirt-cheap Main Street storefront property with upstairs loft living space) in these towns. This type of cooperative approach would be a hedge against moving to a place only to find that you can't relate to the people there.

[Emma @Emma___Gordon]

@Romy_Holland I joined my high school debate team and desensitized that way.

I guess being a public figure does start to break down the "everyone is in their own world and not paying attention to me" thing

[Jeremy Boreing @JeremyDBoreing]

No. The story was not overlooked or buried.

Israel immediately informed us the attack happened. There were numerous investigations. The Captain of the USS Liberty was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Israel apologized and paid reparations.

The truth is, it's just not a big story. It's a tragic story, and no doubt. But it isn't a big story.

34 Americans died on the USS Liberty in 1967.

11,363 Americans died in the jungles of Vietnam in 1967.

Friendly Fire is horrific, but not uncommon. There is very little reason for a sixty-year old friendly fire incident to be widely known about, much less widely discussed.

For example, that same year, 1967, a US Marine Corp jet attacked a US Army position on Hill 875 in Vietnam, killing 42 American soldiers.

59 years later, not many remember Hill 875, not because it wasn't horrific -- it killed more Americans than the attack on the USS Liberty -- but because it isn't useful as a talking point to implicate the US/Israel relationship.

As to the second part of your question, we aren't discussing the USS Liberty today because of new information. We are discussing the USS Liberty today because of old -- even ancient -- grudges.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

In 1991 during the Gulf War, American A-10 Warthogs mistakenly targeted and opened fire on a column of allied British armored vehicles.

9 British soldiers were tragically killed. 11 more were injured.

Why haven't you heard about it? Why aren't there false-flag conspiracies? Why isn't Marjorie Taylor Greene posting on X about it?

Because Jews weren't involved.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

In the last few months, PIJ and Hamas have been releasing obituaries on commanders killed during the war. Interesting to look back how those deaths were covered.

Ex:

In June 2024, Reuters reported on an air strike killing Palestinian soccer player Ahmed Abu Al-Atta. Now PIJ confirms he was a deputy platoon commander in the rocket unit.

[Legal Phil @Legal_Fil]

Saying “I would jail anyone I dislike who might get in the way of my side acquiring power” isn’t really the best way to convince people that you aren’t a, well, you know.

[Emma @Emma___Gordon]

@GoodPyre Haredim tend to refer to unmarried men and women as "boys and girls". It's like you're not even an adult to them until you've had kids

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

“Why can’t I just retreat to my little hovel and meanly subsist? Why must the state join with nature in always demanding something of me?”

There are plenty of societies like that. Africa, for example, or Latin America or the Australian aborigines.

We went to the moon. Pay up.

[Jake Kozloski @jakozloski]

I used to think attractiveness was 80% objective, 20% subjective. It's not.

We showed 20,000 faces to 100+ raters each. When two people stop and actually study the same face, they give it the same rating only about 30% of the time. They agree less the harder they look, not more.

And that's just on looks. The subjectivity gets multiplied across hundreds of attributes.

There really is someone out there for everyone. The doom is overblown.

[𝕮𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖆𝖎𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖔𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕷𝖆𝖉𝖞 @sailnoblelady]

@found_it_funny

[RoyalArmyBerserker 🟦⬜️🟩 @RAB_iF]

If you wrote this into a novel people would accuse you of leaning too heavily on satire.

“They used the details of my assault to identify and arrest me. No, the person who assaulted me still hasn’t been arrested.” Is genuinely fucking dystopian. Orwell is spinning in his grave!

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

How is Platner ‘working class’?

He comes from a distinguished and affluent family.

He went to a prestigious boarding school, Hotchkiss.

His family bought his home.

He has a vanity business.

Prior to Maine he sloshed around in DC with political elites and activists.

Dysfunctional, downwardly mobile leftists always try to pass off their destination as their origin story, but if you pay attention at all it’s not convincing.

[Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson]

Bespectacled liberal men talk about working class men like they’re uncontacted tribes in the Amazon

[Marlo Slayback @marlo_safi]

Respectfully I used to be this way and then realized I was missing an entire register of human experience because I had underdeveloped social intelligence. Even Jane Austen understood how seemingly trivial small talk was actually a window into the moral world

[James Kirchick @jkirchick]

People used to say Donald Trump was a poor person’s idea of a rich person.

Graham Platner is a rich person’s idea of a poor person.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

Here are things that might come out:
1. "I thought we were serious and he clearly wasn't."
2. "I introduced him to my family and we still broke up."
3. "He was an ass."
Things that won't:
"He locked me in a room for any length of time."
"He manhandled me."
"He scared me."