…from out of town

[Anand Sanwal @asanwal]

The 4 types of college essays

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

I think not supporting voter ID at this point is a pretty clear indication you don’t want fair elections, and we need to stop treating people who don’t want fair elections like they have a simple difference of opinion. freedom has been a relatively brief experiment. it’s at risk.

[i/o @avidseries]

Hating reality — innate sex differences, innate ability differences, group differences, heritability — and then seeking to make taboo discussion of these differences is the beating heart of contemporary progressivism.

Stated differently: The blank slate is its beating heart.

[Oliver Traldi @olivertraldi]

There has long been a "replication crisis" of sorts in the humanities, in that if you try to "replicate" an argument by reading sources or following logic, you find that the sources say something different or the logic leads somewhere different.

[Info Battle Maiden @info_maiden]

It’s still unconscionable that foreign real estate agents were allowed to sell new American homes to visa workers in a foreign tongue, financed by government-backed loans paid for by our taxpayers.

This is how our towns and suburbs were destroyed. The traitors who who enabled this deserve treason charges.

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

So let’s me get this straight…

California, the home of hospice fraud, SNAP fraud, immigration fraud, and homelessness NGO fraud…

Is also a state with ZERO voter fraud.

Everything is fine. Nothing to see here, folks.

🤡

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

Aftermath. Be humble or get humbled…

[Robby Soave @robbysoave]

Happy red-pill anniversary

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

almost every city in the country now sits atop a system in which a minority of highly-productive young people are expected to work away their best years around the clock, just to cover rent, while giving away half their income to crazy people, criminals, and bureaucrats.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

We're all slaves to the bottom quintile and the collection of megacorporations that exploit the various subsidies lavished upon it

For example, the productive are taxed to fund SNAP, which the bottom quintile uses to buy carbonated corn syrup called soda, and SNAP is about a quarter of Coca-Cola/PepsiCo revenue. Soda is the number one item bought with SNAP. We then are taxed yet more to fund the Medicaid for the bottom quintile, so our tax dollars can pay for the diabetes treatments for the corn syrup enjoyers, so they can continue consuming more corn syrup while relying on SNAP and Medicaid.

So, those who are destroying the West's topsoil at a rapid rate to grow corn benefit (they're subsidized through other programs as well), Pepsi and Coca Cola benefit, and the bottom quintile benefits

The average net taxpayer, on the other hand, receives absolutely no benefits from this...unless he owns shares in those companies, the gains on and dividends of which are then taxed again to further keep the ridiculous cycle of yeast life subsidization going

[Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific]

People don’t go to mass to show others how great they’re doing. They go to mass because all these years in they’re still a mess and they need to grab hold of the rope.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman: “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.”

“If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or borrowing.”

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

“We should have a communist area and a capitalist area beside each other to see who wins.”

North Korea vs South Korea

East Germany vs West Germany

South America vs North American

We’ve already run this test.

Communism always loses.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The progressive idea of "Let's make everyone equal at math by just not making anyone learn math" is going just about as well as you'd expect

[Chad Crowley @CCrowley100]

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

— Plato, The Republic

[i/o @avidseries]

Trans activists: “Just call people what they want to be called. It’s basic decency.”

OK, maybe this is fine in personal interactions. But, at a policy level, the denial of biological reality becomes a civilizational threat because it obliterates one of the most fundamental realities of human existence and replaces it with a requirement that we affirm the disordered thinking of a small percentage of individuals.

[i/o @avidseries]

Another way of putting it: At a personal level, if I meet a guy who tells me he's a woman, I have no problem maintaining that fiction for his benefit. But if we build policy and institutions and science upon that fiction, we will end up embedding his disorder across the entirety of our society.

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

You want to rebel?
WIN.