Based Cuman

Praise Tengri

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐_𝕸𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖑_𝕰𝖓𝖏𝖔𝖞𝖊𝖗 @BlkMetalEnjoyer]

How it feels to turn 29

[Gregory K Bovino @GregoryKBovino]

It's time to break the addiction to cheap labor…Two groups keep defending large scale illegal immigration and both miss the same systems problem.

One side pushes rapid demographic change and dismisses concerns about cohesion, culture, and political power.

The other side is addicted to cheap labor. Business owners treat illegal hiring as a victimless crime.

Of course a business wants lower costs. That is rational short term.

The mistake is treating the quarterly spreadsheet as the whole picture.

They are not looking at the country their children will inherit.

They are not connecting the open border to longer emergency room waits, schools that keep struggling no matter the spending, or housing their kids may never afford.

New arrivals and their U.S. born children absorb education, emergency care, and other benefits.

Taxpayers cover those costs.

The public bill often offsets or exceeds the private savings from cheap labor.

Lower the fiscal burden and taxes could drop.

Higher take home pay and less wage pressure would make legal workers more available.

The labor shortage claim looks different once you stop socializing the costs.

Some industries say Americans will not do the work.

With higher wages and better conditions they often will.

The system creates the dependency then uses it as proof the system is necessary.

This is not victimless.

It is deferred and socialized.

Short term profits stay private.

Long term costs of higher taxes, strained services, and a lower trust country go to the next generation.

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

A few weeks before Charlie was killed, he gave a speech to a conference of roofers. He was shocked that a group which invited him to speak and largely voted Trump, was also hostile toward deportations. They felt their businesses needed illegals for cheap labor.

A couple of thoughts:

- We cannot be held hostage by industries that have grown addicted to low-wage illegals. It's a felony that undercuts American wages.

- I refuse to believe that Americans are unwilling or unable to do jobs like roofing. If you pay Americans a decent wage, the workers will come.

- If we are going to restore American sovereignty, and the rule of law, it will require sacrifice. These are relatively small in historical terms. Certian goods might cost more, even burritos!

This is the central question of our time: Are Americans tough enough or strong enough to take our medicine and save the country?

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

A lot of commentators and people in media and podcasters and politicians have never actually had to worry about how they would afford groceries. They've never had an overdrawn checking account. They've never been hassled by a landlord because their rent is overdo. They've never had their cell service cut off because they couldn't pay it. They've never had to put two gallons in their tank because they couldn't afford to fill it all the way up. They've never had a car break down because they couldn't afford to take it to the mechanic. I'm not one to talk about "lived experience" (which is a term I hate) but I do think that actually experiencing the stress and indignity of not being able to afford to participate in modern life is extremely clarifying, and gives you a perspective that sticks with you even after you achieve financial success. I think this is one of the dividing lines in the affordability debate. People who are flippant about affordability concerns obviously lack the perspective that being broke gives you.

[Based Cuman @based_cuman]

I thought this genre of white guy had died out by 2011?

[demonic tooter @yourwinterlight]

holy shit I actually just heard a coworker listening to this shit unironically I lowkey thought coworker music was just a bit but it’s real I can’t believe this

[Based Cuman @based_cuman]

@NSLitArchive Man, the Nazis were really spittin'.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States.

The State Department is exposing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country.

The American people deserve to know. https://t.co/ulHF9qiDTY

[Confirmed Miscer ⚔️🍁🔫 @ManDaveJobGood]

One underrated, nonideological reason for this is that they have struggled to get anyone besides Bernie into the Senate because the DSA is unpopular without the Democrat name attached

Much easier to go all in on these smaller scale elections with homeless and immigrant voters

[Nicholas J. Fuentes @NickJFuentes]

Muslims cry about Western colonialism and genocide, then scream that Islam will dominate the world and gloat about White Genocide in the next sentence.

They deserve ZERO sympathy. I’m done.

[Uubzu v4 @uubzu]

They obliviously keep pushing photos like this believing they still provoke the reaction they once did. People no longer think “oh those awful white racists”, they think “Jews airdropped niggers into a White neighborhood and some residents bravely, sensibly, and justly resisted”

[George 🇦���� @Georgie_KK]

What's the point of a "national team" if they're all foreigners and not a physical representation of the nations they're meant to represent?

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

We spent decades letting in hordes of brown immigrants from corrupt socialist countries and you’re never gonna believe what kind of politicians started getting elected

[Dave 🧊 @DavidCarlson]

This was the punishment for defying the elite’s wishes re Brexit.

[Douglass Mackey @douglassmackey]

They have an interesting conception of race. There were multiple ethnic minorities on the jury, but in their minds, if you’re not black, you’re white.

[Prowler @derzum_]

A significant number of non-Whites harbour violent hate against Whites, then use their voting rights to put Dems in power who will act on it.

Red AGs, DAs and law enforcement should be going after race agitators with whatever civil rights and incitement charges can apply.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

California keeps dumping votes. Odds are shifting because the vote dumps always seem to go one way.

Count until you get the result you want?

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

The fact that California elections often can't be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world.

[Adam Rossi @rossiadam]

This is a message for the fucking mopes out there:

Fix yourself. Physically first, then mentally.

Stop reading the doomer nihilistic bullshit.

You are bringing weakness into yourself and projecting it out onto the world.

It will drag you to hell.

[Based Cuman @based_cuman]

@admcrlsn Pollster shilling for Dems. "Muh Objectivity"