Christopher Lasch Appreciator

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[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

The most infuriating part about this is how small minded these people are. Of course every business owner wants low wage slaves. You're telling me I can hire illegals for pennies on the dollar pocket all the difference and get rich because of it? Sign me up.

That's where their thinking stops. But once you let roofers hire slaves everyone wants slaves. Tech wants H-1B slaves from india. Hospitality wants South American slaves to work as housekeepers. Farmers want Mexican slaves to work the fields.

Soon you've hollowed out your entire workforce and Americans can't find work. Or you've lowered wages so much that Americans can't do the job. So they petition the govt for more slaves.

The whole thing is treason. If you want slaves that badly come out and advocate for legalizing slavery. You won't do that obviously because you're a bitch so you cry about not being able to find workers. Fuck you.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

This clip from Charlie Kirk at a roofing conference is particularly impressive. Here is why.

Charlie knows he is speaking to a conservative audience that in theory, supports borders and law and order, but not if it affects their cash cow (roofing), which functions almost entirely on illegal labor. He catches it right away and has no problem calling them out to their faces.

Being a "roofer" in America is very different from what the general public thinks. The vast majority of roofing companies have never installed a single roof themselves. They sell roofs. Illegal laborers replace the old roofs and install the new roofs.

Roofers make insane money. If you are from out West, you more than likely have had multiple roofers come to your door, especially if you have been hit by a hailstorm. The commissions on these jobs are huge, and it is not uncommon for the most talented roofing salespeople to make seven figures in a year.

I am not knocking them for wanting to make great money, but the fundamental part of the business is based on using illegal labor to get rich. The insurance company pays for the job as if it were a legal American company doing the work. That is almost never the case, it is crews from Latin America that come up and do the actual work. Once the job is done the roofer holds. the total claim check, gives them a small chunk of it, and pockets the rest.

This business causes Americans to vastly overpay for homeowners insurance and car insurance, due to these industries that chase hailstorms and look for bogus insurance claims, costing insurance companies billions of dollars every year before being passed on to consumers.

To fix our immigration system, it would take time and a willingness to rip off a bandaid, while also undoing the consequences of years spent becoming a gluttonous nation reliant on the hard work and cheap labor of others. I like many believe this will blow up in our faces down the line.

Charlie is essentially saying, if Americans are not willing to make even small sacrifices for the long term, then we don't deserve the nation we claim we want to build.

And I greatly admire someone like Charlie who would criticize even his own fans or party for being hypocrites.

Thanks for sharing @AndrewKolvet

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

It is important to understand something:

1. Most people are a net negative on the world

2. A few people are a genuine net positive

3. We shouldn't treat the net negatives badly simply because they lack the ability to be more than they are.

BUT we also shouldn't hang them around the neck of the positives like an albatross.

Being born with talent and ability doesn't oblige you to carry those who were not, just as it doesn't give you the right to kill or harm them.

4. The ultimate goal of any sensible people is to improve the quality of the next generation sufficient to tackle the problems they'll face.

That we refuse to deal with this fact is why 75-84% of the global population has an IQ under 100.

[Uncommon Sense @Uncommonsince76]

The fact that the populace is opposed to flock cameras and yet they continue to go up at lighting speed, shows how much of an illusion democracy is.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

The UK has a comprehensive network of CCTV cameras that did not stop the mass rape of white women but was used to track down every man that protested those rapes

Why would it be different here?

Every time I bring this up the proponents of Flock cameras have no answers

[Pepijn Leonard Demortier @PepijnDemortier]

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them under the concept of luxury ~ Roger Scruton

[The People's Therapist 👏Expert👏 @Careerflex]

We have confused safety with health.

Safety minimizes demands.

Health increases the range of demands you can survive.

Those are not the same project.

[John @market_sleuth]

This is a sensitive topic & so I’d prefer to tell a story.

When I was married my former wife Mary Beth was a NICU nurse. Several times I had the opportunity to watch her care for these premature babies. It was her passion. I always knew when a baby died in her care because when she’d arrive home she didn’t speak much. Often I just had to say “Did one not make it?” She’d simply nod & remain quiet. I never pressed for more info. I knew how much it grieved her.

One day she called me & said she was caring for a 24-week-old preemie, which at the time was extremely rare. She asked if I wanted to see the infant so I went to the hospital, put on scrubs & entered the NICU to watch her care for this baby in its isolette.

The baby weighed 600 grams. I watched her carefully feed it & administer care with the utmost of precision to not harm its delicate skin. To strong a touch & it felt horrible pain, to bright a light & the baby would go into distress, to loud a sound & it would cry uncontrollably. This why when you enter a NICU they keep things quiet, lights dim etc. That baby is now a thriving 21-year-old man in college. The parents kept in touch with Mary Beth to update her on his progress.

Hence, to watch these women clap, smile & celebrate as the governor of Massachusetts signs a bill extending abortion to birth, well beyond 24 weeks, is blatant, sickening & vile evil. Period.

[joedirt5 @joedirt501]

It's like we're living in the great depression but filled with Indians too

[Christopher Lasch Appreciator @RevoltofElites]

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[Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby]

Yesterday I went to Minneapolis polls disguised as a Muslim woman.

Poll workers were going to let me vote in other people’s names, and then vouch for 8 other unregistered foreigners.

Full video coming soon. Stay tuned.
@ctznjusticelg

[Christopher Lasch Appreciator @RevoltofElites]

The cost of civilization is high.

Those 401ks ain’t gonna grow themselves!

[Duck Enlightenment @_jokeocracy]

"oh haha yeah admittedly Human Sacrifice 1.0 was kinda crazy"

[Second City Bureaucrat @CityBureaucrat]

Did Iran follow appropriate competitive bidding procedures? Did they obtain permits from city council or buildings? Did they obtain an environmental impact assessment? Was the awarded contractor licensed? Were minority and women business contracting proportions observed? Were union shops prioritized?

The cost of civilization is high, barbarians.

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

Sometimes I think people exaggerate when they say “RW anons and YouTubers would’ve been college professors” but then I learn what the professors are teaching

[Hannah Spier, MD @hannahspierMD]

The term "masking" is spreading like a bad rash. Let’s call it what it actually is: emotional regulation necessary for "adulting."
If you’ve learned to “mask” your emotions, congratulations, you are no longer 14 years old. You’re just a properly socialized adult.
The people pushing this term desperately want to be shoehorned into a mental health label to gain the social status attached, without fulfilling the criteria for it.

[Department Of Deportations @DoDeportations]

It turns out there there’s actually one million less jobs in America than claimed.

There is no labor shortage. There’s simply a shortage of companies who are willing to hire Americans when they can import slaves for half the cost.

[Kyle Davis @orcawhale]

Literally everyone has explained this, but Michael was busy with his head in his ass.

Flock cameras don't just see you if you're doing back things. They see you *always.* The videos are stored significantly longer than they claim, which has been proven... repeatedly.

They record your kids. They record your family. They record you.

They then store that in a database so that police can track you, if needed! Or if not needed. If they DECIDE to. Which we have seen *thousands* of times just in the last month from Flock alone (not including Axon).

Now, as a security researcher, this gets even worse. The cameras have already had multiple vulnerabilities, even allowing a layman to stroll up to them, connect to them, and do whatever they wanted. Let's pretend Flock fixes that (they can't), though.

Those videos are in a database. Assuming you can trust Flock to not look into those databases (you can't), then you still have the weak link in ANY security system: the users.

Do you trust cops to have good, strong passwords? To never fall for phishing, smishing, spear phishing, or other social attacks? Because, if you do, you're stupid. Putting a badge on doesn't stop you from being human and even the best security firms have social attacks on them.

Once a hacker's in and can track anyone, can you really not see how that's a problem? If you say you can't, then you're not being honest.

Flock (and any ALPR, etc) has nothing but downsides. You're violating the 4th Amendment rights of hundreds of millions of people just in case police can't do their jobs while also trying to sell the lie that they'll never abuse their position. It's laughably stupid.

The surveillance state is evil and will never be anything less than evil. The "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" crowd should go ahead and post their location online at all times so anyone can track them. They're not doing anything wrong, right?

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

When it's your friends and classmates, you have trouble thinking of it as "the elite" and even more trouble grasping why others fear it. You just played squash with the guy; he can't be an evil genius, like some believe. (Especially since you beat him.) So why are these dummies saying these awful things? Don't they know hard we've worked? And thanklessly sometimes, and in their interests?

This top-down impression of a major misunderstanding can turn easily to resentment, a giant grudge. Soon enough, you wonder about your countrymen, much as they've been wondering about you. And since they seem hellbent on dissing you, you start to hide those errors and misdemeanors that you're sure they'd use against you to press their ignorant, unfair case. You hide your own and your squash opponent's too. He does the same for you -- a sporting guy. Then a felony is committed. Well, hide it too.

This goes on for awhile. The Yin and Yang of it. The gulf grows wider and fills with a foul stream.

Whose responsibility is it to close the gulf? To drain the dark water and shine the light?

It's yours, of course. You pick up the staff -- the squash racket -- you accept the noble role. So play it. Otherwise it's all a selfish game and you are hardly the knight you thought you were and -- remember? -- trained hard to be.

[Kintak @Kintakus]

"Your children should be forced to compete for their birthright and livelihood with 8 billion other people while you are taxed outrageously to cover the price of importing, feeding, housing, and educating them all while suffering their criminal elements."

Yeah I don't think so.

[Matt Quan @matthewrquan]

@NYMag In 2023, the former Chinese Ambassador and MFA and his mistress used a surrogate for this child, who until @StateDept @SecRubio declares otherwise, he will be eligible to run for President in 2060.

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

One of the obvious ways Vivek can fuck over Ohio, which I haven't seen anyone discuss, is that he can take Ohio's 5 pension funds of ~$284.3 billion and invest the money into the Indian economy. He can, and will, rob you of almost $300 billion by losing it in the Indian economy