@billybinion the pent up frustration from Covid and lockdowns exploded into mass hysteria. It accelerated cancel culture, spawned DEI, and caused numerous other problems. It was truly an Orwellian time. The social dysfunction was worse than the pandemic itself.
@AuronMacintyre Somehow I feel like we’ve gone back and forth enough times… is he mad at Netanyahu, is he humiliating Netanyahu, is Netanyahu actually controlling everything… I give up trying to feel like I have any clue what’s going on… I’ve become resistant to new tweets on the subject 😂
@pablosats@MattZeitlin@Nero I go for the cane sugar Mexican coke in the glass bottle… I swear there’s something about the glass that makes it taste better compared to coming out of a plastic bottle… it really hits the spot hahaha… that being said I’m currently on a diet so it’s iced unsweet tea for now
My grandfather was on a carrier in the pacific headed towards Japan. He was a mechanic but there was an invasion planned, they taught him how to fire a gun. He would have probably died storming the beaches of Japan but Truman dropped the bomb, Japan surrendered, the ship turned back, and now I’m here making this post. Amazing.
@mdubowitz I went to Michigan 01-05 and hung out with mostly Jews… had a ton of them in my dormitory freshman year who became my friends… seemed to be a lot of them there… sad to see things have changed apparently
I was very patriotic and pro war after 9/11… I posted on a few message boards back in 2001-2006… I hated all the conspiracy theories. I was a mainstream, believer of the official story kinda guy, and I always was arguing against Alex Jones supporters… I hated the guy. But over time I kinda learned to respect the game, and kinda sorta started to like him. Not that I was ever a supporter of it but I’m kinda sad to see it go, it’s kind of the end of an era… the end of the era I came of age in.
I have 2 grandparents from Italy and 2 grandparents from Greece. I grew up with no attachment to either country and grew up pledging allegiance to the flag of the United States in school… my wife is German and has a bit of polish blood. My kids are kinda… generically white. I don’t see how it’s appropriate to call them anything other than “American.”
I’m coming around to the idea… birthright citizenship is maybe fitting to a country using immigration to fill a vast untamed wilderness… but we are now a more mature country full of people that consider themselves unhyphenated Americans. If it made sense in the past, it doesn’t anymore. Americans are open and inclusive and we love immigrants and we don’t need birthright citizenship to maintain that character.
@RaminNasibov Everyone is living in a self contained pod - we are atomized, with our own individualized algorithmically curated reality beamed to our phones while we sit alone. And while the real world around us crumbles we can cling to that reality- a simulation of 1999.
I think actually congress should should be a better paying job than it currently is. If it’s too low only very wealthy people will want to be congressmen. If you’re a lawyer making $200k why would you want to be a congressman if it paid $60k? They don’t get rich off the salaries… it’s the shady dealing - ie becoming a multimillionaire while in office - that needs more scrutiny.
@SBAgov@USTreasury@SBA_Kelly When fraud is rampant it makes you feel like you’re the sucker that followed the rules. I really hope to see some enforcement here!