i realized something recently
bernie sanders and AOC have damaged the fabric of america immensely but we rarely talk about it
bernie/AOC have vilified successful businessmen & women. calling CEOs like elon musk, bezos, zuck evil. yes these people have shortcomings - but they are also truly self made, come from normal/humble backgrounds. with hard work they created trillions in economic value. isn’t that a fundamental part of what america is about? the land of opportunity?
in the 2000s when i was in elementary school, bill gates and steve jobs were viewed as role models. our teachers taught us about how much they achieved + given to society. these CEOs were actually respected and i believe this culture brought up a generation of ambitious hard working americans
now, kids are being taught that working hard and becoming a billionaire is evil. we’re essentially telling them to have victim mindset and stay poor
i know bernie/AOC & crew are never going to take responsibility. i can’t even tell if they realize what they’re doing
This is what our society fails to comprehend.
If I work as a physical therapist, and I’m good, I’ll make $100,000/yr. And pay $15,000 in taxes. I can see 60 patients per week. But that’s the end of it. No additional tax money, no more patients can get my services. I provide a living for myself and my family.
If I own a practice and employee 10 therapists that each make $100,000, now I’m providing a living for 10 families, and because of my efforts there is now $250,000 in tax revenue.
So why should businesses get taxed more? Why should they even have to pay payroll taxes? My value to society is way more than 10X at this point.
But the vast majority of Americans can’t comprehend that, neither do our congressional representatives.
Someone built a fitness app using the same psychological mechanics as gambling
This might work better than every normal fitness app 😭😭
You bet money on whether you’ll hit 10,000 steps today
If you fail, you lose your money
If you succeed, you split the money from everyone who didn’t
So disciplined people literally profit off lazy people
Most fitness apps try motivating you with streaks and notifications
This one motivates you with financial fear
Imagine realizing at 11:52pm you still need 1,700 more steps or you lose $30
Entire friend groups would be outside walking laps around their neighborhood before midnight trying not to lose their steppa challenge
It sounds stupid but this would probably motivate people better than any other fitness product
Would you use this yourself?
Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”
One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.
Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.
Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.
Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.
They conquered until they collapsed.
America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.
And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.
Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
Almost unprecedented?
It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.
The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.
It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.
America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.
That’s not policy.
That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.
You’re being told a story right now.
That America is the villain of history.
You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.
Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”
Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.
The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.
And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”
Probably right.
China has historically built walls, not fleets.
But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.
We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.
AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.
If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?
The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?
Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.
Billions lifted out of poverty.
All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.
And carries no guarantee of being repeated.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.
It was what it didn’t do after.
🚨 BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt SHOCKS the Fake News by holding up proof Border Czar Tom Homan used to be heralded as a HERO by Democrats
"I would remind everyone in this room that it was former President Barack Hussein Obama who awarded a MEDAL to Mr. Homan!"
"This is a Washington Post headline from nine years ago, 2016. 'Meet the man the White House has honored for deporting illegal immigrants!'"
"So he's obviously very qualified. He has the full trust and faith of the President."
"He will continue to have these meetings in the hopes that ICE and local law enforcement can cooperate and work together to have successful immigration enforcement, as we've seen in almost every other state across the country."
America loves Tom Homan!
Chaps, there's a reason these demonstrators are using whistles, horns, and making so much noise in all the video clips you are watching.
They don't do these when protesting climate change or LGBTQ rights.
Those sudden, impulsive noises trigger the acoustic startle response. It's a rapid, involuntary reaction mediated by the brainstem, involving muscle tension, elevated heart rate, and adrenaline release.
That repetitive exposure from them fatigues neural pathways but sustains heightened arousal, diverting cognitive resources from higher-order tasks to basic threat monitoring.
It is an acute stressor, activating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and sympathetic nervous system, which releases cortisol and adrenaline.
Long exposure to this stuff impairs prefrontal cortex function critical for decision making.
Pair this with the sheer annoyance, these tactics are a low-tech escalation of protest disruption, rooted in documented physiological responses to noise.
In layman's terms, they're putting these officers on edge and triggering them to act. Pretti and Good was exactly what they wanted. It's usually someone else who ends up dying and not the instigator.
This is a great example.
Watch the guy at the rear strike an officer against the head with an object. These officers, already on edge, are very likely to react to something like that. When someone ends up getting hurt, they're all innocent.
These events aren't random.
These are organised tactics. 80% of the people protesting aren't aware that they're being used by their own team as cannon fodder to generate outrage.
Just like Renee Good, who lost her life after attempting to run over a federal officer. The lesson is straightforward: don’t try to run over an officer, and you won’t lose your life.
Do you agree that shooting this driver was self-defense?
A. Yes
B. No
Via @Azariel91
ICE is doing what should be very mundane work of deporting people who aren't allowed to be in the country anymore, by law. Just as they have for years.
However, a bunch of lunatics, encouraged by the media and reckless democrat officials, have decided that basic immigration enforcement is 'literally fascism' and declared war, turning routine enforcement activity into dangerous civil war cosplay. And people are getting hurt because of it.
The federal government has every right to enforce immigration law, in every jurisdiction of the country. The legal fiction of the 'sanctuary city' is completely irrelevant.
Municipalities don't get to set their own immigration policy, and they don't get to obstruct federal law enforcement.
And they certainly don't get to foment and deploy an army of dangerous foot soldiers to physically attack federal agents, for no other reason than a political disagreement over immigration law. It's actually insane that this even needs to be said.
These people are coming dangerously close to committing insurrection, and the consequences of that will be monumental. This is not the fight they want, and everyone with even half a brain should be urging these Democrats to seriously back off immediately.
If Democrats believe our immigration laws are wrong, we have an election coming up in November and they can run on an explicit platform of repealing these laws, ending immigration enforcement, and re-opening the border.
But they won't, because they know that platform is a loser outside of a very few very far-left districts. So they'll continue to pretend that routine immigration enforcement is actually a replay of 1939 Germany, and continue to send mentally unwell liberal women and antifa activists out to risk injury and legal peril in order to win a few news cycles.
Very very sad. And it needs to stop.
The AI boom may end up accidentally liberating people from technology. When you can't trust your eyes, your ears, your thoughts, when everything you experience online could be digitally false, when passwords, bank accounts, nothing is secure, you go offline. You only meet with others in real life. If robots exist you cut a body to see if it bleeds, you can show proof of humanity, you only trust those in your immediate circles, and before you know it, you've remembered the value of community. Essentially, by poisoning the well of the digital, you may ultimately become free to be fully human.
what you do in private, shows in public. reading shows in a conversation. your diet shows in energy. your discipline shows in confidence. your focus shows in your results. you are what you cultivate when no one is watching. prioritize your time & focus on discipline/consistency
When you sexualize a conversation early, you’re not just flirting or testing the waters. You’re fundamentally reframing what kind of interaction this is. And the other person has to decide, right then, whether they’re willing to operate inside that frame. If they were interested in you as a person, curious about your thoughts, drawn to your energy, maybe even attracted but not ready to make it the center of everything yet, you’ve just asked them to skip about seven steps.
Most people won’t tell you that you’ve done this. They’ll just drift. They’ll match your energy for a bit out of politeness, or awkwardness, or because they’re trying to figure out if they misread you. But the curiosity is gone. You’ve answered a question they weren’t asking yet.
I think this happens because we confuse attraction with urgency. Like, if you feel it, you have to do something about it immediately, or the moment dies. But real attraction doesn’t actually work like that. It builds. It breathes. It happens in the margins of normal conversation, in the way someone laughs at your joke, or the fact that they remembered something you said three days ago, or the split second where you both go quiet and it doesn’t feel empty.
There’s this idea that if someone’s really into you, they’ll match your sexual energy right away. That anything else is just performance or playing games. But that assumes everyone experiences desire on the same timeline, in the same way. Some people feel attraction as a slow burn. It starts as intrigue, then comfort, then one day they look at you differently and suddenly it’s there. For them, leading with sex isn’t authentic, it’s disorienting. It doesn’t feel like honesty. It feels like a test they didn’t know they were taking.
When you sexualize too soon, you’re collapsing all of that into a single transaction. You’re saying, “I want to know if this is going somewhere now.” And maybe it was. But now they have to wonder if you were ever interested in them, or just interested in what they represent.
The fumble isn’t that you expressed desire. It’s that you made desire the whole conversation before there was anything else to hold it up.
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