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[tk @tkisrage]

This Schopenhauer essay is like stoicism for high-functioning disagreeable autists and has drastically improved my life

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

A/C is one of the most revolutionary technologies ever invented

[Lukas (computer)🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

Men want sex and if they are too short or ugly to achieve it from women, they will take whatever else they can get

There is no other chart that illustrates this phenomenon so clearly

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

The Nowak case clearly highlights that we need to stop treating racism as an ~infinite evil, not because Nowak was racist (no evidence of this) but because any time you create a social superweapon like accusations of racism are now, it’ll be misused horribly.

What is racism? Ask 10 people and you’ll get 12 opinions. Historically, it meant someone who treats people badly in interpersonal interactions because of their race. Which is just, like, kinda annoying and slightly boorish. It’s not the apocalypse. There are many personal traits that are equally or more annoying.

Now the definition has been ludicrously expanded to include a bunch of things even less objectionable than that, including belief in very plausible scientific claims and policy preferences that were near-universal for almost all of human history.

Racism just isn’t a big deal. We have to take it off its pedestal. If Nowak had said something racist, it would morally change exactly nothing about the horror of what happened to him. He didn’t, but I feel over-focusing on that distracts from the fact that it wouldn’t matter if he had.

Murder is worse than racism. Hell, shoplifting is worse than racism. Enough. Who cares.

[Covfefe Anon @CovfefeAnon]

This is what I've called "the logic of parasitism"

For your band of parasites to not turn on each other they have to some up with some reason why they're not actually parasites - their theft is justified - and the justification is that the host is actually the criminal and the parasitism is actually justice

This is why they can never stop or even be "grateful"

[Matt Parrott @MatthewParrott]

A reliable heuristic to apply to "We must do X or China will win" hysterics is to ask yourself if China itself is even doing the thing in question.

China is not importing infinity Indians.

[Yama Pain @yama_pain]

We had a word for looksmaxxers well over a decade ago: metrosexuals. We also had a word for metrosexuals: fucking faggots.

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

Not just in temperament, Australia in general is proof of the innate potential of the British working class, how ‘Free-Range’ Anglos will develop into a physically more robust, taller and healthier version of the type when they aren’t cooped up on a grey, rainy overcrowded island

[Melian Refugee @escapefrommelos]

>there isn’t a single good argument against eating with your hands

the humble Diarrheal Diseases Death Rate Map:

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

Been thinking about this for more than a week now.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Large numbers of people are incapable of performing or understanding irony. Comedy requires verbal dexterity, a playfulness with reality, that is just beyond many people.

Part of the Trump phenomenon, and the unreal hatred, boils down to this basic stupidity. Not getting a joke.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

The long run meaning of Trump is to delegitimize the system. He was never going to save us. But he has made the ruling class ridiculous. He used social media to show we are ruled by fools.

Whatever comes next - this was a necessary revelation.

[Rafael R. Guthmann @GuthmannR]

Hayek's fundamental argument about information economics implies that central planning is impossible because the information required for economic activity is only manifested in the practice of economic activity by the agents.

Blocking private enterprise means blocking the process by which this information is manifested.

It's not a problem of the central planner lacking computational power, or even a problem of providing incentives in order to extract the information (i.e., it's not a problem of mechanism design).

His argument is that this information fundamentally does not exist in a form that can be articulated and communicated through, lets say, writing.

Lets consider an example: can the average person write down their utility function in a piece of paper and give the paper to the government in such a way that the central planning computer can replicate that person's consumption patterns over a period of lets say, a year?

[Sólionath @Anarseldain]

Your career was kickstarted by weighing in on American politics; so clearly it’s not fair to pretend that intra-Anglo or even intra-European / intra-White political input is off the table. Regardless, I like you, so I will explain in good faith the problem that people have.

Every country in the West is currently being invaded, raped, and murdered by foreign hordes, because its rulers want its native White inhabitants themselves to be raped and murdered. All of these inhabitants are being slowly stripped of every freedom imaginable, including self-defense; so they can’t even choose what kind of life they wish to live before they’re slaughtered. So the problem right now is not “too much freedom,” but too little; and things like modern pоrn culture and whatever other vice you may point to, are symptoms of a people without any agency or freedom in their own country, rather than being the root of the issue. Moralising about pоrnography indicates a backwards set of priorities; especially because focusing on pоrn provides a backdoor to censorship in other areas, the way that the U.S. is now facing an encroaching wave of digital ID mandates because stupid “trads” cheered for years for the censorship of the internet to “protect the children” from “pоrn,” primarily as a way to excuse their own lazy parenting. Moralistic hysteria is always used to slip in dystopian, draconian measures elsewhere; so while trads petitioned payment processors to ban adult content, payment processors made a fake show of doing so (but obviously still allow it; OF is one of the most profitable companies on the planet), while quietly beginning to debunk conservatives. The problem here is that everything you’re advocating for will be used against you, and more specifically, against us young men, because you’re placing the cart before the horse. The U.S. has a far larger religious Right than the U.K., so we’re telling you what will inevitably happen if you make this your priority, because we’ve seen it play out.

Moreover, blaming things like pоrnography consumption for the downfall of society, rather than blaming the downfall of society for things like pоrnography consumption, is either implicitly or explicitly feminist in nature; it’s an attempt to shift the blame onto young men. Sure, you can argue that you’re trying to punish the people responsible for creating the modern pоrn industry, and of course we know which group is mostly responsible, but that’s why I say that, if it is not explicitly feminist, it is implicitly feminist; because the cause for blame always blows back on young men as a class for funding and consuming it. I don’t even watch pоrnography, because I think it’s unhealthy, and yet I’m blamed routinely for such things; because in the West, criticism always falls at the feet of young men. Young men aren’t refusing to get married because they’re watching pоrn; if they’re watching porn, it’s usually because they can’t get married; because they have been deprived of marriage. Dating in the West is a retarded humiliation ritual that gives all power to women, and the whole of society is designed to disenfranchise young men, and things like home ownership and having a large family, even if young men do get married, are increasingly unattainable. Pоrn is an unhealthy way of coping with the actual root issues which you should be focusing on.

You’re essentially giving into the feminist framing by which society attributes agency to young men only when they do something “bad.” This is the real issue, and people use terms like “Ned Flanders nationalism” to describe it because politics in the U.S. has proven that “trads” are the most devoted soldiers of the Longhouse. By focusing on banning pоrnography, without addressing the root issues causing so many young men to turn to it, you are essentially advocating a return to traditional, patriarchal behaviour, without trying to restore traditional, patriarchal norms and powers to young men: a one-way fidelity.

[Lukas (computer)🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

I heard there was a “gay cabal” in San Francisco that would invest in my startup if I pretended to be a homo. Peter Theil, Sam Altman, the Apple guy, etc

What I didn’t realize is that they make you prove it

I thought I could string them along for a check, but they’re too smart for that. So I quickly found myself in an uncomfortable position

Fortunately, the stuff isn’t too complicated. If you’ve only ever seen women try you’d assume it’s rocket science, but a few minutes behind the wheel and you’ll be outperforming even the most ‘tenured’ of females

At this point, I’m an absolute pro

Today marks day 739 of pretending to be a homosexual in San Francisco

Thus far, zero investors

But I won’t give up

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

You don’t understand. I’ve watched a ton of congressional defense hearings. In EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. the Admirals and Generals say “we are only strong because of our allies.”

At first I believed it.

Then I started attending defense conferences overseas. I watched U.S. GOFOs get treated like royalty. Five-star hotels. Wined and dined. Told how great they are for “being such great allies.”

The pattern became obvious. Europeans spend lavishly on ego-boosting, awards dinners, and fine wine… and in exchange, every GOFO goes home and tells Congress how indispensable our allies are.
And our “allies” save a fortune on defense.

Then a buddy got a job at European Command and confirmed everything—except it wasn’t just GOFOs. There are entire departments of people working in “intelligence” who are basically travel agents for generals and members of Congress.

Then I started digging into the UN. Guess what? They hold a massive number of “security” conferences too—except most of theirs are in straight-up resort towns.

Then I got inside a few think tanks. You want to see posh surroundings and excellent wine and food? Buddy up with them.

I started posting about all this a few years ago and got MASSIVE pushback—which I knew meant I was on the right track.

But I still wasn’t 100% sure. Most of it was grift, but maybe some parts were essential… until Midnight Hammer. Then Maduro. Now this.

My European friends were totally blindsided by all of it. And guess what? We performed better without these great “allies.”

Why?

Going all the way back to Korea, one thing has remained true: Europeans don’t fully trust us—and they like having a little power over us. So they are absolute sticklers for Rules of Engagement.

They wine and dine our JAGs. They hold endless conferences about “the rule of law” to reinforce the “importance of ROEs.”

And ROEs are what kills our military.
Nobody is suggesting soldiers should do anything immoral. Nobody is saying there shouldn’t be consequences for atrocities. What I am saying is that having a battalion of JAGs and a dozen allied nations—each with their own ROEs—breathing down every commander’s neck is why we lose wars.

That includes Vietnam, where most “allies” refused to fight but every one of them put serious diplomatic pressure on DC to tighten ROEs.

All of this “allies are our strength” dogma gets reinforced at these conferences, at war colleges, by European-influenced media, and through think tanks.

The reason we’re suddenly so effective is because @PeteHegseth has cut all this out.

Our allies are flying blind. They can’t throw up a million legal objections because they don’t know the details behind these missions any sooner than we do.

Just look at Starmer’s body language. He’s clueless.

And it’s not just our allies that no longer get to micromanage everything but media and UN diplomats and think tanks and bureaucrats and more.

Now if we could just cut Congress off from this “allies are great” grift, we could probably start passing legislation too.

P.S. I see no signs of Hegseth or DoW weakening our allies or alliances. They genuinely seem to want Europe to be stronger. They just aren’t asking permission anymore or giving allies veto power over everything like before.

[surf champ @handsomeskeg]

@AuronMacintyre @MrPrudentialist @elonmusk This would be a great stream with a great guest, that I think I would really enjoy

[Patrick Casey @restoreorderusa]

@heatherkkeenan @GavinNewsom Hi Heather. It isn't my job to educate you.