Snap Out Of It

Pop culture, current events, sports, music and geo politics. What do these all have in common? They’re filled with people who need to Snap Out Of It!

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@CityofVancouver Water reservoir is at 100% and this shit is starting already.

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NATO isn’t just facing a funding problem — it’s facing an identity crisis that runs much deeper, and almost no one is talking about it.
The real threat isn’t military spending. It’s cultural and psychological.
For eighty years, Europeans didn’t simply accept American protection. They constructed an entire self-image around the belief that they had somehow transcended the need for it — that they had become more advanced, more refined, more evolved than the very power keeping them safe.
That self-image has now become the single greatest barrier to the survival of the West. And the brutal irony? The Americans helped create it.
After World War II, Europe lay in ruins — not just its factories and roads, but its spirit, its institutions, its sense of itself. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the physical economy. But something else happened during the Cold War.
The Americans turned Western Europe into a living advertisement for the good life. American money, diplomats, artists, and intellectuals poured in. They rebuilt universities, funded orchestras, restored museums, and cultivated an intellectual and artistic scene that felt like the pinnacle of human achievement. It wasn’t charity for charity’s sake. It was strategic: they wanted the people on the other side of the Iron Curtain to look across and see a version of Europe that made their own existence feel unbearable.
They were deliberately manufacturing envy. And it worked. The Wall fell.
What no one planned for was the hangover.
When a society enjoys the highest levels of comfort, culture, and leisure on someone else’s dime for long enough, it stops remembering it was a gift. It starts believing it earned it all on its own.
Meanwhile, the country footing the bill — the one still busy forging semiconductors, drilling shale, building aircraft carriers, and powering the global economy — starts to look crude by comparison. An American in a baseball cap, eating a burger, driving a pickup, building strip malls instead of cathedrals. To a culture steeped in aesthetics but stripped of strategic realism, that American looks primitive.
And once you decide another civilization is beneath you, you stop listening to it entirely.
Americans talk about the necessity of hard power? Primitive.
Energy independence as the foundation of prosperity? Unsophisticated.
Entrepreneurs in garages changing the world? Tacky.
Global finance keeping the system alive? Vulgar.
Europe, meanwhile, has no serious military, no energy independence, no dominant tech sector, and no real capacity in AI or advanced manufacturing. What it does have is a refined cultural identity — the very one the Americans subsidized for decades while they put their own cultural development on the back burner.
For a long time they tolerated the eye-rolling because the deal worked. They protected the sea lanes, funded the museums, and let the quiet contempt slide.
Then the contempt stopped being quiet. It spilled into European media, parliaments, and global speeches: Americans are dumb. Americans are violent. Americans are the real danger to democracy.
The Americans could have done what empires have always done — stripped the best artists, thinkers, and treasures and brought them home. They could have made New York the new Louvre and California the new Venice. History is full of conquerors who did exactly that.
Instead they chose to underwrite Europe’s renaissance and guard its borders. All they asked was the right to visit.
Today Europeans lack the military to defend themselves, the technology to compete, and the energy to keep the lights on without pleading with authoritarians. Yet they still cling to an 80-year superiority complex that was built, bankrolled, and protected by American power — all while convincing themselves that cultural refinement equals actual civilization.
It doesn’t. Real civilization is the ability to sustain and defend itself. By that standard, Europe isn’t a rising cultural beacon. It’s a subsidized lifestyle brand with excellent wine.
This isn’t an insult. It’s just reality.
Europe can choose to build a real navy and a real defense capability, or it can keep lecturing the people who made its comfortable illusion possible. But the sneering has to stop.
America’s “crude” priorities, its “unsophisticated” focus on hard power and industry, its “ugly” practical infrastructure — those weren’t failures of taste. They were the deliberate trade-off the Americans made so Europe could afford to have better taste.

[EmergencyInfoBC @EmergencyInfoBC]

The Central Coast Regional District has issued an Evacuation Order for parts of Ocean Falls in Electoral Area A due to landslide hazard risk. Anyone in the impacted area must leave NOW.

The evacuation route is from Fifth Street along Bennet Street, Lewthwaite Street or Marine Drive toward Front Street. Evacuees may request and register for support at the Old Bank Inn, 1 Front Street, Ocean Falls, BC.

More info: https://t.co/vNSAsELouh #BCFlood #BC

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@GlobalBC Deport their families

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@EmergencyInfoBC Did they not pay their carbon tax?

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@BurnabyRCMP Released on bail!!!?!?

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@BurnabyRCMP What’s going on at Burnaby North Secondary School? Reports of an active shooter are popping up on social media.

[il Donaldo Trumpo @PapiTrumpo]

BOOOOOOOM!!!💥🔥🔥🔥

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You won’t like it when Christian’s stop turning the other cheek.

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@SNewmanPodcast Unroll @UnrollHelper do your thing

[Andy Lee @RealAndyLeeShow]

I warned you.

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@joeroganhq @realDonaldTrump Fuck yeah. Press him on the ufo and jfk thing.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺 EU FACES FERTILITY CRISIS: BIRTHS HIT RECORD LOW

For the first time since 1960, the EU’s live births dropped below 4 million, with just 3.88 million babies born in 2022.

The EU’s average fertility rate is now 1.46, well below the global average of 2.27.

Malta (1.08), Spain (1.16), Italy (1.24), Greece (1.32), and Cyprus (1.37) have the lowest fertility rates in Europe.

Live births have plunged from 5.1 million in 1990 to this record low.

Source: Euronews

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@TripperDallas The red only exists because of the west. Enjoy your welfare province while you can

[EmergencyInfoBC @EmergencyInfoBC]

ONGOING: A #BC Emergency Alert has been issued by the Province of BC. People & boaters are asked to leave the following areas IMMEDIATELY:
- Banks of Chilcotin River from Hanceville to Fraser River,
- The Fraser River from Chilcotin River to #HopeBC
More info: https://t.co/NSRxtCR61w #BCFlood #Landslide

[Dan Mazier @DanMazierMP]

BREAKING NEWS

Justin Trudeau's handpicked chair of the Liberal government's Green Slush Fund has been found GUILTY by Canada's Ethics Commissioner.

This verdict follows a damning report by Canada's Auditor General that exposed Trudeau's Green Slush Fund spent nearly $76 MILLION on projects connected to the Liberals’ friends appointed to run the fund.

On top of this, $12 million was given to projects that were both ineligible and had a conflict of interest.

In one instance, Trudeau’s handpicked Green Slush Fund chair siphoned off $217,000 to her own company.

The corruption runs deep in Trudeau's government.

More to come.

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@Perpetualmaniac I have no clue what you said here but I’m saving it for later

[Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower @Perpetualmaniac]

Crowdstrike Analysis:

It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this stack trace dump for you.

[@JosetteCaruso Josette Caruso @JosetteCaruso_]

On early Friday, July 12th, AT&T announced that the call and text message records of tens of millions of customers and non-customers in mid-to-late 2022 were leaked in a HUGE data breach.
"Nearly all" the telephone numbers of AT&T's customers between May 1st, 2022, and October 31st, 2022 have been
Compromised. The company also reported that that data of a "very small number" of AT&T customers on January 2nd, 2023 were also leaked. Thankfully, the actual content of the calls and text messages have not been exposed, according to the communication company. AT&T also believes that customers' names have not been exposed during this data breach.
As of our publication date, the company does not believe that the exposed data has been released publicly.
Why is this happening? Why were customers' data breached in the first place?
Well, AT&T is saying that it is because of an "illegal download" on a third-party platform. The company shared that they learned about this back in April of this year.

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@DianneWatts4BC I’m moving because there’s too many “NEW” Canadians that brought their dogshit culture along with them.