Ben

Stop dreaming, start living

[Matt Morse @MattMorseTV]

Liberal women don't even say anything, they just look at you like this and expect you to allow Western civilization to collapse.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

[For all Curious @fascinatingonX]

🚨BREAKING: Scientists have discovered a Fungus in the Amazon called "Pestalotiopsis microspora" that literally feed on plastic.

It's not a common fungus. It can survive exclusively on polyurethane, one of the most common(and most persistent) type of plastic - and it does so even in oxygen-free environments, like landfills.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

After reading even a fraction of these Epstein files, everyone owes the conspiracy theorists an apology. The world worked exactly how they said, they accurately clocked the power dynamics, our history WAS one giant manufactured psyop, and they were all laughing behind the scenes.

[Helen Andrews @herandrews]

How I came to see the “Great Feminization” as the most significant event of our century—and a potential threat to civilization. https://t.co/6R9wwGvUVh

[Axis Aeternum @AxisAeternum]

Those who appreciate the colder and wetter months are aligned with the necessity of cycles; the law of death, decay, renewal.

The "eternal summer" Nietzscheans are stuck in the dead end of individualism, yearning to live forever in the high noon of the self.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

You can just do things.

[Department of War 🇺🇸 @DeptofWar]

.@SecWar Pete Hegseth FULL REMARKS at the WAR DEPARTMENT ADDRESS:

[doomer @uncledoomer]

california is one of the most beautiful places on earth and it is almost entirely wasted on californians

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

You have been given your mission, gentlemen.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

The “16% mortgage rate” argument is a textbook example of historical distortion through omission. Let’s break the illusion:

Yes, rates were 16% in 1981 - for a few quarters.
But the median home price was $70K.
And median income was about $21K.
That’s a 3.3x price-to-income ratio, even at peak rates.

Today? Median home price is ~$430K. Median income ~$60K.
That’s 7.2x price-to-income - more than double the burden.

Even with lower interest rates today,
the actual monthly cost of housing is higher, and the duration of debt slavery is longer.

And that’s before we account for:
•No student debt in 1981
•Single-income households buying homes
•Employer-provided pensions
•Healthcare tied to stable employment
•No gig economy, no $1,200 rent for a 300 sq ft box

Now let’s address Vietnam. Yes, war is horrific. But here’s the trap:
Using selective trauma to deny systemic decay is a diversion tactic.
You can’t compare mandatory conscription with
an entire generation locked out of asset ownership forever.

This isn’t about “who had it worse”
It’s about who inherited a functioning system
and who inherited a collapsing simulation.

Stop pretending the current generation is soft.
They’re resilient inside a rigged structure
where every ladder has been pulled up
and every escape hatch monetized.

You want honesty? Here it is:
Past generations struggled to survive.
Ours struggles to belong in a world they no longer own.

That’s the difference. And that’s the whole point.

[Rowye | Darkenstein 3D @roger_creus_art]

I must admit, this huge push has caught me off guard.

This is a dire situation we are in. In a few days it's gone from banning "porn" on Steam to now a whole continent can't see posts/information that someone playing God decides it's inappropriate. BTW, Americans are right on-

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

Idk guys, I'm starting to doubt that this bloated surveillance-state war machine run by an ancient demonic cult of child rapists can be fixed by voting.

[The Orchard Keeper @keeper_orchard]

Mood:

[Ben @baurelius44]

Yeah that’s it, shorting it all like Michael Burry 2007

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

We just sent $4 Billion to Epstein’s handlers.

The very next day they announced they’re gonna do another war crime against an entire nation of women and children.

All while our own government looking compromised as hell.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The reality of war

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.

The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.

Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.

Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.

No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.

This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.

The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.

How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.

The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.

Trump refused the deal and look what happened.

Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.

They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.

It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.

They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.