MrAlavi

If you're reading this, I followed you before from a different account. This is a new account cleansed of the nonsense I used to see.

[Angela Belcamino @AngelaBelcamino]

There was a time when you could be a Democrat without embracing socialism.

That party is gone.

Today, if you oppose “free stuff” politics, you’re treated like the problem and ostracized.

Hard truth.

[MrAlavi @MrAlaviStarwind]

@farming_bro @DietBeginsMon This is not Presti mode. The 1sts OKC got in the Clippers trade are vastly better than what Charlotte has. It's also a 7 year timeline which is insane.

[Real Post Folder @RealPostFolder]

>the worse the streets look, the more money they demand next quarter

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Divorce lawyer James Sexton on why modern marriage feels unfair to men.

He says the man is expected to provide financially, protect, and be part of the family, all enforceable by the state. But the woman’s side (love, affection, sex, being a good mother) can’t be forced.

If he fails, he can go to jail. If she fails, nothing.

He told the story of an air traffic controller who lost his high-paying job due to anxiety after his mother died. The court still imputed his old salary for child support, leading to jail time when he couldn’t pay.

What’s your opinion, do you think the legal risks in marriage are unfairly stacked against men?

[MrAlavi @MrAlaviStarwind]

@IcedMeatba3620 @AnechoicMedia_ Not at all. We already experience it in NYC through the housing connect program. Years long wait lists for apartments that are still priced too high because the market can't function. Worst of both worlds.

[MrAlavi @MrAlaviStarwind]

@AdamGStock Feels like a terrible irl trade that turns out to be a fantasy goldmine for everyone involved.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Homeless, yachtless Elon Musk, who actually builds rockets, EVs, and neural tech trying to benefit humanity, should apparently cough up $50 billion in taxes on unrealized gains.

Meanwhile, Laurene Powell Jobs ($15B inherited), Nancy Walton ($20B inherited), and MacKenzie Scott ($40B divorce) never built shit, never risked shit, and never shipped a single product that changed the world.

But they get the praise and zero scrutiny. Because they have the right politics.

(BTW ~25% of Walmart employees are on government benefits.)

[Matt Bracken @Matt_Bracken48]

No point in bailing the boat while traitors are still busy chopping holes in the bottom.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

She’s always been like this.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Palestine is subduing all the identity movements on the American left.

It doesn't matter if you spent your life fighting for trans rights. If you're not maximally vocal about Palestine, some straight guy will show up and tell you that you're not Actually Queer.

[Art @ZarkFiles]

A boy named Marie
My mom was a feminist. She wanted to prove women were equal to men. This was why she left her husband, took my sister and I, and moved 3000 miles away. That was in 1968.

My clothes came from the Salvation army or Goodwill (once, directly from the donation bin at 9PM).
At times, we lived in our car.

We scrounged for coins in pay phone return slots for enough money to buy a cheeseburger at McDonald's. Once, we had to split three ways.

If we were lucky, my sister and I were fed leftovers from my mother's dates, brought home in doggie bags.

We were told that we would be kicked out at 15, with $1000 or a car, to make our way in life.

After 13 pregnancies, my mom had a hysterectomy. Three produced children — my two sisters and me. Ten were aborted or miscarried. I never met my older sister. She was adopted out at birth.

She used my sister and I as bait for would be adoption families, to extract money.

She dated every man she could find, it seemed, while telling me that all men were the most evil beings on the planet.

Many proposed. All were rejected. As a feminist, she didn't need a man. My sister moved in with friends when she was 12. They wanted to adopt her. Her family gave money to my mother.

Mom changed our family name to a girl's name, Marie, which caused me to get into many fist fights. My mom said it would build character, like the Johnny Cash song, "A boy named Sue."

She forced me to sign a contract agreeing to give her $50,000 of the first $50,000 I earned to pay back child-rearing expenses. My sister didn't have to sign. As a girl, my mother thought she would never be in a position to pay anything.

We moved 23 times before I was 16. That was when my father finally found us. Although it took most of his savings, he paid back the government for every dollar of welfare money my mother had received.

My sister and I moved in with him. And that was the end of my hobo youth.

My dad bought me and my sister new clothes. He didn't stay out all nights (or any night) on dates. He didn't tell me I was evil for being male. I changed my name back to what it had been before.

In 2005, I heard "A boy named Sue" on the radio for the first time. I had to pull over because I was laughing so hard. It was so true. All those fights, and all that blood, over a name.

That is what feminism means to me.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

Your wife celebrating October 7th was a thousand times worse.

[Time Preference @TimePreference_]

socialism is believing the politicians who can’t balance a budget will magically balance your life

capitalism is realizing nobody is coming to save you so you better start building

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is what people want to see

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Ernest Shackleton watched the ice slowly crush his ship past saving. He turned to his stranded crew and told them: ship and stores have gone, so now we'll go home.

It was 1915. He had sailed to Antarctica to cross the whole continent on foot, and his ship, the Endurance, got stuck in thick sea ice before he ever reached land. The ice held the ship for ten months, then crushed it until it broke apart. They left the ship that October and watched it sink that November, with no other people for hundreds of miles, no radio, and no one coming to look for them.

What the crew saw was a man who never lost his nerve. What they could not see was his diary. The night the ship was crushed, he wrote one line about it: it is hard to write what I feel. A crewmate later said it plainly. If Shackleton ever wanted to give up, he kept it to himself.

The calm was something he did on purpose. He held everyone to a strict daily routine so no one had time to lose hope. When the men threw out every heavy thing that might slow them down, he ordered them to keep the banjo, because music at night kept the men from falling apart. When his photographer lost his gloves, Shackleton gave away his own and let his fingers freeze.

They lived on the drifting ice for five months, eating seals and penguins. When the ice broke up, they rowed three small lifeboats about 180 miles to Elephant Island, a bare rock where no one lived and no ship would ever pass. Food ran so low that one of the men wrote they might have to eat whoever died first.

So Shackleton bet everything on a single boat. He and five others climbed into a 22-foot lifeboat and sailed 800 miles across the roughest ocean on Earth, through 16 days of freezing storms, aiming for a tiny island called South Georgia. They reached it. Then he crossed its mountains on foot for 36 hours straight, over ground no one had ever crossed, to reach a whaling station and get help.

Twenty-two men were still waiting back on Elephant Island. They waited 105 days. Three times a rescue ship was turned back by the ice before a small Chilean tug finally broke through, on August 30, 1916.

Shackleton stood on the bow as it neared the shore and called across the water, asking if they were all well. The answer came back: all safe, all well.

All 28 of them came home. He never let his men watch him break, and that was the whole point.

[𝐒𝐕𝐕𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐃 @SVVVAYED]

The best attitude towards AI is treating it like a dumbass to bounce ideas off, which nevertheless helps you think of the correct answer. Much like how House treats his team

[Ian Runkle/Runkle of the Bailey @ YouTube @IanRunkle]

Things my clients have done in police interviews:

- Ignored the cops to take a nap.

- Physically slammed their own head into a desk in an attempt to make it look like the police assaulted them.

- Told the cops that he was going to walk because the cop was a rookie and he was going to hire a good lawyer and just openly mocked them non-stop.

- Shrieked incoherently for 60+ minutes.

...and literally all of these things were better choices than answering any of the officers' questions.

[john @johnsemley3000]

top life tip: literally nobody is thinking about you. you are barely perceived. nobody is observing or regarding you.

[MrAlavi @MrAlaviStarwind]

@irish_learning @srichgetsrich @RealPostFolder This is fucking bullshit lol