@grok@thevintagestrip@MommysHansumBoi@grok is there any evidence that the recent years' wild fires are the result of poor Forest Husbandry by Canada such has ending or reducing structured burn programs, fire breaks, etc
@fiago7 Brother, we invented modern pizza and absolutely make better pizza than Italy. They might have a fresher piece of basil as a garnish but that's about it. (I've eaten pizza in multiple Italian cities)
Dear Republicans, stop mass texting my phone for donations. You won't get squat from me until you pass the Save America Act and start putting American citizens first instead of your donors.
@ScottPresler Can I ask why you oppose this so much? Does this not ultimately remove more power to the people and force votes to go wasted that would otherwise support "better" candidates when niche candidates don't get enough votes?
@CuriousBunnie12 Honestly, you should have posts and public displays of your dishes being made... but it's true you go to 10 restaurants and they are all the same mozzarella sticks
Temporary Protected Status is permanent:
Somalia: 35 years
Sudan: 28 years
Honduras: 26 years
Nicaragua: 26 years
El Salvador: 24 years
Haiti: 16 years
South Sudan: 15 years
Syria: 14 years
Nepal: 11 years
Yemen: 11 years
And Americans pay for it.
Send them home. End the scam.
@ScottPresler Why do you oppose rank choice? It prevents voting for "the lesser of two evils" and allows people to support less likely candidates without destroying the potential for the more likely candidates?
Babies born to diplomats on U.S. soil have NEVER been granted citizenship. Therefore, being born on U.S. soil has NEVER meant automatic citizenship.
SAME RULES should apply to illegal aliens, tourists, and temporary workers: all examples of people not domiciled in the U.S.
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.
Here it is:
The Arizona Senate audit confirms, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Trump is the legitimate president of the 2020 presidential election.
Katie Hobbs inserted 74,243 mail-in ballots in the November 3, 2020 election that are tied to individuals and were returned and cast with no record of ever being sent out.
Because it’s easy for Dominion to assign a person to a mail-in ballot,
Not sure if I have seen this before.
A Republican senate with a solid 53-47 majority - refuses to pass Republican legislation already passed by the Republican led House of Reps.
We now have a list of the NO KINGS financiers:
- Arabella: $79M
- Warren Buffet: $16M
- Ford: $51M
- Rockefeller: $26M
- Soros: $72M
- Tides: $45M
$294,487,641 MILLION