Isaiah Payton

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

The brutal truth is that Candace is a divine judgment on the conservative movement

They brought her in from the left due to their obsession with the approval of the mainstream

They plastered her face everywhere because she was female

They elevated her rapidly because of their obsession with winning the black vote

They never cared about the quality or sincerity of her beliefs, just the boxes she ticked

Every terrible tendency of conservatives who bow and scrap for approval, who beg to stop being called racist or sexist, who will hand the keys of the kingdom to a stranger before elevating their own, who outsource their voice to whatever DIE hire who focus tests best with people who will never vote for them, it's all present in Owens

Her behavior is terrible but guess what, conservatives absolutely earned this and the plan is to learn nothing and repeat this pattern and then get outraged at the results

(This post is not about Steve who is great and has said most of this himself)

[Mojo Resin @MojoResin]

@MerriamWebster You have unlocked: Custom Meme Status! 🫡🦅🇺🇸

[Kyle Mann @The_Kyle_Mann]

@McJuggerNuggets You are evil

[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

I found out an acquaintance of mine was planning to do a not insignificant layoff of American workers at his company, so I asked him why he was doing it. Asked him if he had thought about the American families he's going to devastate when he delivers the news. And all for such a small amount of money in the grand scheme of things.

He looked like I hit him with a sledgehammer. Clearly had not thought about it once. The board told him there would be a significant structural contraction in the VC market and he would need to get creative on the budget side of things. The indian VC recommended he outsource to india and lay off a decent chunk of his American coder base. He would get the CEO in touch with a firm he trusts. The CEO was going to follow that suggestion.

In order to understand the sheer level of cruelty of some of these CEOs you have to understand that they literally operate inside of a cult like environment. For every independent thinking Founder like Elon there is 100 NPC retards who are the worst people you will ever meet. The entire industry has been transformed into a weird third world scam culture in a lot of ways.

And when you're a first time CEO and a VC makes a suggestion like that, most of these people will follow it without thinking twice. You might as well be talking to a robot.

Luckily I had a good relationship with this guy and outlined the actual risk of outsourcing your team to india and he changed course.

But it got me thinking why would an indian VC meddle like this, it's not really common for VCs to get involved in hiring and firing decisions for lower level employees and the amount of money saved wasn't significant enough for a VC to care.

What I later found out was that there is significant overseas pressure from the indian government for these big indian names in Silicon Valley to push business away from America and into india. It's a racket. A racket designed to scam Americans out of jobs so that indian politicians can brag to their voters that they are putting indians first. If millions of American families suffer it's fine. No one has ever mentioned it from our government. Not Trump, not Biden, not Obama, not Bush. No one.

[Brian Kennedy @brianpdx]

@jasonc_nc @mattyglesias The NFPA is a publishing company masquerading as a regulatory body that’s the agent of the most cohesive, well-organized public employee union in the United States. Maybe we should have some other voices in the conversation.

[Isaiah Payton @isaiah20412]

@thisisfoster @readwise save

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

If you let the same guy rob you at gunpoint every day for 50 years because he promised he was “just keeping it safe” and would give it all back later.

Then one day you see him robbing your adult kids at gunpoint. Do you:

A: Realize this is insane.

B: Yell at your kids to stop complaining and just give him the money so he can pay you back.

This post definitely is not about Social Security.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

They don't assimilate, they just take over, because they know something conservatives don't

A nation isn't t just a list of values someone reads off a card

A nation is its people, so when you import the people you import the nation, and your nation dies

[Info Battle Maiden @info_maiden]

Indian visa worker in Dallas.
Software Engineer.

Makes $120,000 per year through contract work.

No degree. No certificate. Just a 6-month online boot camp.

How did he get the job? By getting a “reference” from his compatriot that works in finance.

Straight from the source: not highly skilled. Not highly educated. Speaks poor English. Got his job from nepotism.

This is who is replacing you. This is why Americans are done.

[Bryan of Alexandria ✠🕊️ @DBryanRhodes]

In any meeting that goes longer than 20 minutes, someone will propose something which, if adopted, will ruin everything.
--ND Wilson

[OpenPew @openpewproject]

No matter what, PLEASE DON'T follow these instructions to print completely locally and block your printer from ever contacting the internet and notifying Kathy: https://t.co/X6jssFsmc6

[Jason 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎 𝑮𝒖𝒚 Tetro 🇨🇦 @JATetro]

Overheard behind me while watching #H5N1 NAS workshop today: "You want to really make a pandemic, make hantavirus human transmissible"

[Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 @ScottMGreer]

The essence of the Girldad phenomenon.

Ramsey usually gives tough (and warranted) advice to people with debt problems. But when a guy makes the same demands on his gf, Ramsey goes full girldad and rips into the guy for having sensible standards.

This says debt is only a guy’s problem. A girl is fine to have massive amounts of it and no serious plan to pay it off. It’s a MAN’s job to take care of it

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Conservatives are in suicidal denial about what time it is

There’s just nothing you can do to get them to take this stuff seriously

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

Sam Alberry is a sophisticated guy. He kept refining his position on “gay celibacy/orientation” until he had subtly redefined the Reformed understanding of concupiscence in a way that gave institutions and squishes plausible deniability. In a chapter from the 2024 book Ruined Sinners to Reclaim, Wedgeworth does a good job dissecting the differences between Allberry’s view and the historic one. Is it technically Side B? No, it isn’t. Alberry got wise and realized that position wasn’t tenable if you wanted institutional acceptance and respectability.

Now many of those same institutions are deleting him like he never existed. And the squishes are circling the wagons because, in many ways, they aren’t that different from Alberry in their willingness to play the game for institutional acceptance, even if they formally hold to the Reformed view of concupiscence.

Though I’ve mellowed with age, it’s not because I want to be found acceptable by the sort of people who will delete you overnight after years of partnership.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

The brutal truth is that our entire system relies on abortion

You can’t keep women in the work force without abortion

You can’t maintain the casual sex culture and disrupt family formation without abortion

Women with children find themselves dependent on men, single women find themselves dependent on the state

Women are more likely to take abuse from employers, less likely to demand raises, less likely to oppose their replacement

People have been conditioned to believe they couldn’t function in society without abortion, and at some level we’ve ensured that’s correct

We’re far from the first civilization to base itself on child sacrifice but don’t lie to yourself, that’s exactly what we’ve done

You can look back on the Mayans in horror because they did their sacrifices on an altar but they could never hope to match our level of slaughter

Until the paradigm shifts there will be no popular support for it’s restriction

[Isaiah Payton @isaiah20412]

@VivekGRamaswamy RR needed. (Ratio & Reality Check)

[Isaiah Payton @isaiah20412]

@jchasedavis @commonplacestdy @readwise save thread

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

Guys, is it starting? Are fire departments discovering they can drive slightly smaller trucks without fires becoming emboldened? That they can work with other public goals and maintain capability?

Deputy Chief: “Charlottesville is a very bike-friendly community, walk-friendly community. One of the expectations we hear often is about getting smaller fire trucks,” Broscious said. “They’re easier to drive and maneuver through city streets.”

The arrival of the newest engine means that the city’s front line is now entirely comprised of new, smaller models. He said these new trucks have a low hose bed, a shorter wheelbase that’s able to turn a lot easier than the classic, over-sized fire trucks.

Community member: “Having the city proactively getting these smaller trucks means that hopefully we’ll be able to have narrower streets. That makes room for bikes and walking, but it also makes the road itself safer for everybody...I’m so excited to see the city taking actual concrete steps to follow through on its goals of being a safer, more walkable, more bikeable city.”

Also as a side note see the pretty little gold filigree on the door that says “Class I ISO”? Turns out a smaller truck doesn’t suddenly cause them to lose ISO rating status or violate some mythical NFPA standard that equates truck size to capable response.

Now - Someone get me in touch so I can help them save money via commercial chassis instead of being abused by Pierce with an all-custom setup next time. And start a conversation about cheaper turntable ladders with superior capability.

[Bryan of Alexandria ✠🕊️ @DBryanRhodes]

@thisisfoster "Because of the Gospel" is a magical 4-word phrase that will excuse literally any left-coded thing you want to do.