Smells Like Teen Statism

Me: "I can do 3 years standing in my head!"
Twitter: "Three years it is."
Me: "Wait, no, I was just joking!"

[Smells Like Teen Statism @BlueEightySeven]

@Junebagio @aelfred_D @ItsToad_ AI used mostly for trolling is the future we are destined for.

[Smells Like Teen Statism @BlueEightySeven]

@MarkWarner You're a useful idiot for Islamists. Even Lebanon proper has had enough of Hezbollah, you buffoon.

[Smells Like Teen Statism @BlueEightySeven]

@alvinfoo

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Eileen’s mom raised her alone, paid for lessons, drove her to training and hospitals through every injury, so Eileen chose to represent China to honor her mom and thank her for every sacrifice. ❤️

Credit: TikTok @ acige

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

You think you have it bad? Try being an Air Defense planner in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Perspective folks. Perspective.

Bless.

[Smells Like Teen Statism @BlueEightySeven]

@brad_polumbo The Army is a meritocracy. I still would have beenpunished or kicked out if I publicly bad mouthed the president.

[Smells Like Teen Statism @BlueEightySeven]

@brad_polumbo Representing your country overseas is a privilege funded by taxpayers and donations.

We should not be sending over people who hate America. At bare minimum there should be an expectation or agreement that you don't go overseas and disparage your country.

[Sovey @SoveyX]

You’re asking what I’ve lived through?

Cute.

I grew up in Korea, which you call “South Korea” because you’ve never left your mom’s basement in Cleveland, but should’ve learned by the fifth grade.

It is a country with a hostile regime 30 miles north that can hit my hometown with artillery. Not symbolic range. Real range. That’s the distance between Dallas and Fort Worth.

I have been aware of this and fearful of it since I was conscious.

Did you live in fear of Vancouver or Toronto hitting you with a maple syrup bomb?

I could drive to the artillery pointed at my city in under thirty minutes.

My grandparents lived through the Korean War.
Cities flattened.
Families split permanently.

I am free today because the American military intervened.
My father and grandfather are veterans.
I support American veteran charities, and there’s a reason it’s one of the few words in my bio.

I do not take that lightly. If they had not, my family would be living under a regime that enslaves its own people.

The people north of that border are genetically identical to me. Same ancestry. On average, they are shorter and lighter because a dictatorship rationed calories and crushed an entire population for generations.

That is not rhetoric. That is measurable.

I am an American, and I love Americans.

I am deeply grateful to this country. But do not confuse gratitude with ignorance.

You read about communism in a classroom. I grew up within artillery range of it.

If you have never lived with that proximity to tyranny, do not lecture me about what it feels like.

Respectfully, shut your ignorant mouth.

[Smells Like Teen Statism @BlueEightySeven]

@JillFilipovic Welcome to the party, Jill

[USA Hockey @usahockey]

Watching this on repeat 🔁 #WinterOlympics

[𝕏 Dogs @_XDogs]

This dog's name was Gunner. My uncle brought him back from WW2. He was raised and slept under my uncle's anti- aircraft gun. The gun crew shared their rations to feed him. By the time he was 18 months old, my uncle said he would stand up and look at the sky. If he laid back down they knew all was ok. If he growled and put his hackles up they got at the ready. He knew the sound of the German aircraft and my uncle said he never got it wrong. He said Gunner was better than any early warning system. I'm probably the only one left in the family that knows that story now, so I thought I'd tell it before it's lost forever, like many stories must be from that time. Thanks for reading it.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Read her answer here. She is an actual Uyghur genocide enabler and China CCP propagandist.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

This guy spent 14 hours waiting for a squirrel to set off this Rube Goldberg Machine

[Colin Gorrie @colingorrie]

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

The Spelling of our Tongue was in the main ſettled ere the eighteenth Century, & the Grammar has ſuffer'd but little Alteration ſince. Yet before this happy Settlement, things were exceeding ſtrange.

In Shakeſpeares dayes, ſpelling was much more variable, & you ſhall finde notable differences in the grammar: "thou" could bee intimate or inſulting, depending vpon whom you ſayd it to; to chooſe amiſse had conſequences.

Wende we now tuo hundred ȝeer bifore, to Chauceres tyme. It seemeth ȝit as Englisshe, but it nis nat esy to reden withouten greet connynge.

Yet tuo hundred wintre er, sone after þat the Normans comen to þis londe, is Englisch on muchel wandlunge. Þe tunges work is tobroken, Frensce wordes comeþ in, and þe writunge is al totwemed.

Þy furðor þu underbæc færst, þy gelicor biþ Englisc gesewen þære Deniscan spræce. Englisce bec þæs m. geare ne mæg nan mann rædan buton he sundorlice geleornad sy.

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

a little on the nose for a dog named Nazgul to interfere at an event where the official symbol is five rings

[Puppies & Positivity @Puppieslover]

This is Aspen. He's a Great Pyrenees livestock guardian who "sneaks" into the barn at night. Actually just checking on his baby goat pals. They climb all over him like a fluffy playground. Takes it in stride with infinite patience. Gentle giant.

[Coots @YaBoyCoots]

Like literally what is Quinn Hughes? Waves off the coach to stay on the ice in OT

Then dances around out there, rolled the Swedish players into a bunch of meatballs and snipes one post-in

Guy has no pulse

[Smells Like Teen Statism @BlueEightySeven]

@AndyBxxx @redsteeze

[Smells Like Teen Statism @BlueEightySeven]

Her voice and speech make me want to shove a meat thermometer in my ears

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Outside of being a traitor to the United States, interactions like this, make Eileen Gu even more unlikeable…

This was a fine question, that she spun into an insult.

“I’m ThE MosT DeCoRateD FeMalE SkIeR” 🙄

Get over yourself.