Hot Take
The Onceler aka The Hustler was not the bad guy in The Lorax. The Lorax was a Progressive Tree Hugger who was crushed under Capitalism. Instead of asking for or pushing through government restrictions on Thneed production, or forcing The Onceler to pay into projects to replanting Trees and reinvestment into the forest to rebuild for the animals. The Lorax formed a stupid union and protested and ultimately ended up a loser. Like most piety green tree hugger protester do anyways.
And in the end the Trees ended up getting replanted anyways. So he complained over nothing.
The Hustler was a successful young man providing for a family whom he loved even though they did not always view him well and understood and thanked him once he did become successful when they realized they were wrong.
The Lorax was a fat probably smelly loser who probably never worked for anything in his life and out of envy used this so called noble mission to take from The Onceler the means of production to give back to the animals.
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Nick Fuentes compares the Iran war to Iraq and says Trump’s legacy has become the tragic inversion of what he promised: the man elected to drain the swamp is serving the same machine he built his entire political identity opposing.
"His message staring down the barrel of this political extinction is to say, I don't care about America anymore. That doesn't matter to me."
"Look at where we are. 10 years later, we are in another regime change war in the Persian Gulf, exactly the same as Iraq. The pretext is that we are there to disarm Iran with its nuclear arsenal, which does not exist exactly like Iraq."
"What are the consequences of the war? The consequences of the war is that gas prices are going up, inflation is going up. It's causing interest rates to go up, which is slowing the economy down, which is hurting the purchasing and buying power of consumers. Wages are falling behind inflation. In other words, we're literally getting poorer."
"He says the only thing I care about is making sure Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon. Isn't that what George W. Bush said about Saddam Hussein?"
"And you realize there's something poetic here. It's not just that Trump has failed or he hasn't kept his promises. It's deeper than that, which is that Trump has now become the enemy that he swore to destroy."
"He was supposed to be a departure from all of this, and now he's a part of it. He's an integral part of that legacy. He's actually adding maybe the most substantial chapter to that legacy in 20 years."
"And who is the ultimate beneficiary of this? We all know it's Israel.
We all know that in the end, all of these wars...you could even argue from the Iran-Iraq war, going back to 1980, for 40 years, for just as long, we've been fighting Israel's enemies, fighting Iraq, fighting Syria, fighting Iran in the Persian Gulf under this pretext that we can't let them get a nuclear bomb.
Destroying those Arab countries and Persian country, building them up again, all the while clearing the way for total Israeli hegemony over the Middle East."
You can put your college degree on the wall. You can put a promotion on a resume. You can count your money. You can count your followers. You can list exactly all the countries you visit, but how do you measure what happens in a home? How do you measure ordinary days? How do you measure all the years watching your parents be married, or your grandparents? How do you measure hard work or your parents loving you, and having mercy and forgiveness for each other?
How do you measure that? You don’t. You can’t.
But we act as if the most important things in life are the ones we can measure. The ones we can show off. I happen to think the most important things we’ll ever know and the most important ways we will ever be formed are in fact by ordinary life, by watching our parents, by watching our grandparents, not by their accomplishments on the wall, but instead by their actions, their words and choices on the every ordinary days of their lives.
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