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[military-industrial complex enjoyer @lightblindings]

can't help but notice that leftists never claim betrayal when their politicians lie and moderate their views to the public, like Newsom wanting a safe LA or Kamala wanting a closed border. It's only online right wingers who don't understand political subtlety.

[Remarks @remarks]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump admits his deportation policies may have been "too tough."

[military-industrial complex enjoyer @lightblindings]

@ShitpostRock unrelated but just your doll is so fucking peak

[Infinite Demonlist @InfDemonlist]

@trig0n_osu @OrkanENVT Slavery was legal too. Does that mean it was ever justified? No.
Pausing is legalized cheating. In both osumania and Geometry Dash.

[moonlight pepe @thuletide_]

It's funny that Kaczynski dedicated 10,000 words to shitting on libtards, while his criticism of conservatives was a single paragraph that read: "You guys are fools for thinking that you can maintain traditional values while radically altering the material conditions of society."

[I no longer tell aviv @Godfrey0098]

It’s over😞

It was good while it lasted

[BlockHead @blockhead4000]

Nobody ever talks about this, but the reason you have to go to college is A, because Griggs v. Duke Power Company made it illegal for presumptive employers to IQ test, and B, inner city High-Schools basically aren't allowed to fail a student as long as they physically show up.

So you end up in this trap where a High-School diploma that you worked very hard for means nothing, because a kid who did coloring books and addition and subtraction got a paper saying he has the same qualification. Ok, then just give me an intelligence test, oh wait you cant, thats also illegal because it causes "disparate impact". So now the only proxy for basically literacy and ~105~ IQ is a 4 year meaningless degree that costs 10s of thousands of dollars.

But wait, now they hand those out to anyone, (1/4 of 4yr grads have an IQ of or below 95), so now you need a Master's, or specialty training, or a million other bullshit things. So you get them, but wait, a diploma mill in Hyderabad cranked out 100M guys who also have a Master's on paper, and will work for 1/3 the price, so now you dont have a job. Ok, ill work construction, but wait, you dont live in a State with strong Unions, so any non-specialized construction work is done by slaves from Guatemala, so you decide to stay home and take Percocet instead.

Awesome system we've built.

[John Doyle @JohnDoyle]

Best piece of news we could’ve gotten today

[Squigg @Squigg]

The problem is most of the people who fell for Epstein hysteria are complete cattle and they were only able to maintain focus on this fake issue because the media kept feeding it to them.

This type of hysteria can only ever be used against the right, and Epstein is the perfect example of that. There is absolutely no coherent reason that Republicans should have been hurt more than democrats by it. Epstein was a democrat activist, donor, and party insider, and the Biden admin (correctly) released nothing. People readily invent absurd excuses for why Biden’s hands were tied (the claim that he couldn’t do anything because Ghislaine Maxwell was appealing her conviction is laughably stupid).

Now Trump takes the fall for it after having intentionally avoided talking about it during the 2024 election (a lot of people have been Mandela-effected into thinking he campaigned on releasing the files or promised to do so at some point, but that is a complete lie). Six million files have been released, yet the average Epstein conspiratard thinks essentially nothing has been released.

The reason this could never happen to a democrat is the only people who seriously believe society is run by a cabal of pedophile elites are the tiny subset of mostly right wingers who believed in Pizzagate. The rest are either leveraging the conspiracy theory to attack Trump or are just stupid, easily manipulated cattle (e.g., Candace Owens fans). This group of people can only ever fixate on something like this with the consent of the media.

[The Refined Populist @RefinedPopulist]

Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.

Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.

You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.

You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.

Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.

Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.

On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.

You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.

Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.

At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.

You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.

After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.

Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.

Your son grows upset. You change the channel.

Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.

Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.

Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.

You sit alone in your living room.

You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.

Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.

And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.

Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.

For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.

The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:

You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.

And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.

What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?

[military-industrial complex enjoyer @lightblindings]

go to 6:31 right now
https://t.co/Xljy7fcwlc

[Alaric @0xAlaric]

Any talk of “ICE hype edits losing the election” is a twitter-siloed misread of the media normal people consume and care about. They irritated leftists on here, and that’s about the extent of it. The truth is that the GOP hasn’t adapted to the slopcannon era of shortform political content, not that it’s gone too far. The DNC did adapt, and it won. Right now, 90% of the things Dems and normies believe about “politics” are just not true, in a way that has never been the case before. Epstein eating babies with Trump, etc. Only a few years ago, the “piss tape” and “Russiagate” took intense national media coverage to develop as mass psychoses, and even then only really weathered discreditation among low-info olds. Now, the vast majority of things you hear from “apolitical normies” are some sort of schizophrenic lie derived from a momentary partisan event 6 months ago — something you, reader, forgot about a week after it happened because you mostly consume news on here.

The GOP lost among its base because of the war, gas prices, bad PR, take your pick. But if we’re talking about media strategy, it lost swing normies that it won in ‘24 because it has consistently failed to adapt to the meta of Lindsay Clancy-style TikTok parallel-reality construction. Funnily enough, this media environment — the total death of “legacy media” and “trusted experts,” supplanted by a decentralized online hive — is the exact thing many on the Right have wished for for many years. It happened… now what? As of now, nothing: hysteria is a commodity you can buy, but Republicans aren’t investing. They seemed to have missed the part of epistemic collapse where the “validity” of ideas is totally meaningless, replaced only by their ability to gain attention as a directional signal.

Trump wins nationally because he is a gravity well for media attention, a unique talent; but the GOP without him as the candidate is totally excluded from the infostream, seemingly by their own choice. Everybody laughed at the DNC buying catamites like Harry Sisson back in 2023, but that’s just part of the game now — botfarming new stock characters into the popular mind in order to run participatory ARG-style media events designed solely to drive turnout. These things don’t happen by accident, they cost money and require learned acumen.

Obviously this is only one small part of the electoral environment, but it’s one that very few people seem to be talking about. Epstein hysteria, the Cornell 7, Nolan Wells, etc. probably drove Dem enthusiasm in as big a way as Iran drove GOP unenthusiasm, and it’s an angle where the GOP seems uninterested in competing.

[military-industrial complex enjoyer @lightblindings]

@Florida_Zoomer why would the DSA faction object to a healthcare cut though, that's like the main thing they talk about

biggest wedge issue for Dems is still Israel I think

[military-industrial complex enjoyer @lightblindings]

I guess the problem with spending your career pandering to indians on visas is that they can't vote

[military-industrial complex enjoyer @lightblindings]

well fuck. not upset about the money I lost, but upset about what it means

[military-industrial complex enjoyer @lightblindings]

We're not gonna lose but this is a funny post so I'm showing it to you

[Dok @Dok845]

Inventing a school of political thought called “Latina Duck Theory”, where you can tell who’s about to lose an election by determining who’s reading children’s tv like the ancients did goat entrails.

[Cimmerian Pervert @cimmerian_v]

When the A-wing pilot is a woman:

[military-industrial complex enjoyer @lightblindings]

opsec level: straight up had my X timeline in a visible browser tab on my laptop while my troon classmate was using it

[HowlingCalvin @HowlingCalvin0]

i’ll delete this account. i no longer consider myself a Howler. im a groyper. it’s to late for me to go back anyways. i know Mutant is real, i know what will happen to me but i cant rebrand again. i cant do it. the things i did.

[עטרה @cherutLmoledet]

This is a rhetorical device that turns a descriptive observation into an unstated claim of obligation on strangers
Once this phrase is accepted, the next step is almost always a demand that someone else, usually taxpayers, governments, or wealthy nations, must rearrange their resources to satisfy it
That is not compassion, it is the assertion that other people’s money, time, and priorities are available by default

The same logic has driven decades of large scale aid to Africa
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been transferred with the explicit goal of ending poverty, hunger, and underdevelopment
Outcomes have been consistently disappointing, many of the same structural problems, governance failure, corruption, weak institutions, and distorted incentives, remain in place, and in some cases have been reinforced by the aid itself
Continuing down this path while ignoring those results is not realistic policy
It is the performance of virtue at the expense of accountability

Prioritizing your own people is not a moral failure
Families, communities, and nations have limited resources and finite obligations
Treating distant, open ended claims as equal in force to the claims of your own children, neighbors, and citizens is how both are neglected

"no child should go hungry" sounds universal, in practice it functions as a demand that someone else’s children be placed first

Maybe in a healthy society we could afford to allow women to be women and have this naive sense of compassion
But when we live in a society where men and women share responsibility interchangeably we end up being forced to have men act like women and women like men
If we had a healthy civilization then I do think women should be more in touch with this overly compassionate side
But that can only be allowed when it's balanced with submission to the masculine, ultimately more logical, half
Otherwise it is just weaponized