Fionn McPhee

[Lillie Winger @LillieWinger]

“im too busy for a relationship” is no longer a valid excuse. jensen huang found the time for THREE and he ran a multi billion dollar company.

lock in.

[evkiefni milkin @evkiefni_milkin]

people forget that a part of being a sports fan is being a hypocrite

[wanye @xwanyex]

One of the most revealing things people say when they hear about a new development is that, “they should build [some other thing] instead.”

What they? There’s no they! There’s only the private owner of the lot. If Walgreens owns the lot, then Walgreens is going to build a Walgreens. If a gas station company owns a lot, which they purchased to build a gas station, then they’re going to build a gas station. You can’t see the gas station going up and say, “you know what we really need there is a pool supply store.”

What in the world are you talking about?

People are natural central planners.

You have to take away their right to influence these kinds of decisions at all. You have to create the legal conditions under which they are not allowed to affect these decisions. Because if you let regular people weigh in, they will reveal that they have an insane theory of how the world should work.

They will see a Walgreens going up on a private lot owned by Walgreens and say out loud, “they should build apartments there instead” like scheming little Soviets.

[Fionn McPhee @HighwayGiraffe]

@CoolDudeClub @TulliusNovus @25YearsAgoLive 2003 is in the future, goes the reasoning.

[Fionn McPhee @HighwayGiraffe]

@TulliusNovus @25YearsAgoLive My bad, maybe this newfangled Wikipedia thing isn't so reliable.

[Fionn McPhee @HighwayGiraffe]

@TulliusNovus @25YearsAgoLive No, it actually happened. https://t.co/Y9Vpv4SzyV

[Fionn McPhee @HighwayGiraffe]

@RadishHarmers I'm glad chess is safe.

[Dr Charlie Ward @DrcharlieWardQ]

BREAKING 🚨: Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working, ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.”

Jemele Hill: “How is it not?”

Kmele Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is. That is not white supremacy.”

Jemele Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”

Kmele Foster: “I’ve actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”

Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”

Kmele Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”

Jemele Hill: “How was it absurd?”

Kmele Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”

Jemele Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”

Kmele Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy?… What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?”

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

I want to follow up on this and say that like most Americans, I genuinely want what is best for Black people here, which is why I find this blatant dishonesty and inverse reality of the current situation so frustrating.

If you see a Black child outside, there is a well over 50% chance his father is not in his life. It’s one of many cultural issues now, and framing everything through systemic injustices for decades has done very little to help Black people and has often made them worse off.

People like Ibram X Kendi and Ta Nehisi Coates help one Black person, and it’s themselves, and they do so at the expense of the advancement of Black Americans as a whole. It doesn't matter how Black the MSNBC staff is or how many Black candidates the overwhelmingly white DSA decides to run for office to make themselves feel virtuous, if they don't support measures or start a conversation about how to help Black Americans as a whole without blanket pandering and victimhood lines or lying that some magical reparations check of $300K is coming for every black American and even warranted in the first place.

If we continue to ignore crime rates, fatherlessness rates, and the glaring cultural issues within the community, we are doing a disservice to the entire incoming generation of Black Americans, and everyone in the country will suffer for it eventually, despite paying to live elsewhere, and for their kids to go to private schools while pretending these problems don't exist.

If you were to give our country’s biggest virtue signalers free rent in a luxury place in a low-income Black neighborhood for a year, they wouldn’t take it.

There is a very direct correlation with the most wealthy and liberal places in this country. Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and the whole state of Massachusetts are heavily liberal because they are completely cloistered from this. They do not understand the implications for the future if it’s not confronted, so it’s better to say the nice thing and ignore it. That way you get to be a “good person.”

We currently are pretending Black Americans are under attack by racists, and not being given opportunity when the uncomfortable truth is it's in plain sight not the case, and we have implemented measures across the spectrum that were supposed to fix this and completely fail to fix these underlying issues, because they ignore them entirely.

If you know public school teachers in this community, they will be the first to tell you the situation is out of control, and the same people that refuse to have the conversation (wealthy liberals) do not put their kids in those schools intentionally. So we have people cloistered from the problem further enabling it, and it is genuinely one of the biggest issues for the future of America.

Philadelphia has a 52% functional illiteracy rate. And the most disgraceful part is that instead of challenging our students and being strict, we move to indoctrinate them into a faux victimhood framing for their issues.

We have done mental gymnastics to ignore the fact that our country has been worshipping cultural degeneracy as artistry, and making constant excuses for shortcomings because people are so terrified of being called racist or any other form of bigot.

We care so much more as a society about having the perception of being a good person rather than having an honest conversation about issues that we are seemingly okay with throwing them under the bus as long as it’s not an issue we have to deal with.

This is why I have deep admiration for Black Americans that ignore the social programming of victimhood and frame these conversations on how to make genuine improvements rather than pointing to something else.

It's not "woke" and Conservatives/Moderates should actually shoutout some of the Black Americans that refuse to follow the trends on this and try to help Black America. Here are some I recommend following @IsaiahLCarter @CoreyWriting @chadojackson @the_jefferymead @thatsKAIZEN @MatNuclear

[christoph @Halalcoholism]

Just learning it’s islamophobic to be horrified by a regime that forced women into headscarves, segregated them from public spaces and reduced the age of marriage of girls to 9. I’m sorry I will try to do better and correct these bigoted opinions

[James Lippens @ShamebyJames2]

It’s a huge problem that “arrest people criminally harassing others on public transport” is coded as a conservative opinion

[Melanie Bennet @MelanieBennet_]

Call me crazy but I would prefer that universities not decolonize engineering programs.

[Bob "The" 𝔻𝕌₡𝕂 🪔 @punished_bobda]

they used to teach latin

[Tor Parsons ⍼ @parsons_tor]

What it means to say an image or video "looks AI-generated"
Pre-2019: Not a thing
2019-23: Dreamlike, trippy, indistinct
2023-25: Anodyne, ugly, off-putting in a funny way
2025-26: Airbrushed, hyperreal
Post-2026: You don't like the person who posted it

[JACBailey @JACBailey1]

Find me one man in the "manosphere" who has said something as vile as Pichfesty here then ill consider the manosphere to he a problem that needs addressing

[Sportsnet Stats @SNstats]

Following tonight's victory, Oilers goaltenders own an NHL-best .918 save percentage since October 3.

[Mr. Reply Guy @GenericSnarky]

This is actually how all leftists reason, he's just being honest about his source