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[fedaykin reepicheep @mauddweeb]

@cranbypaws_ “Is that your culture?”

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

What can a vintage refrigerator tell us about capitalism? Quite a lot, actually!

Find out more in my latest for @WSJFreeEx

[Dudley Newright @NewRightPoast]

Libs play a game I call "How Much Pain Can I Tolerate?" where they think, it's just chess pieces. Trivial to replace. Costs basically nothing. No big deal. Why would I put someone in jail for stealing them, are you insane? How selfish can you be? I can easily tolerate the pain of having to replace chess pieces for a couple of bucks every once in a while.

My 1 point of discomfort for tolerating the behavior easily outweighs by the 9999 points of discomfort that punishing the behavior would generate. You want me to put some kid in jail over a couple hunks of plastic?

Why would I arrest a guy for buying a banana with counterfeit money? Why would I chase someone down for Skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea? Why would I disrupt the houseless schizo shooting up and jacking off on the subway, it doesn't really affect me. It's easy to ignore. These people are already suffering.

But the chess pieces keep getting stolen. Old chess guys stop using the park. Rowdy teenagers take over. Moms stop bringing their kids. The park fills up with crackheads.

You see this phenomenon everywhere you look. Libs let petty crime slide because they think "I can take it." And maybe they can. But every time they do this, they add a little bit of pointless friction to every day life. A sliver of pain, a cost that adds up and up.

Now your Rite Aid shampoo is locked up. Now the shop has to hire a security guard (and raises prices accordingly). Now there's needles under the jungle gym. Now there's no old people on the corner keeping an eye on things. Now your kid can't run to the corner store after dark. Now your wife gets catcalled on her way home from work. Now there's loud reggaeton playing all the time. Life gets a little shittier and shittier. But hey, you can tolerate it. No big deal.

[Evan Barker @evanwch]

How the staffer class is holding the Democratic Party hostage and forcing them to take unpopular positions on issues voters care about

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

Leftists have fully absorbed the propaganda and stopped trying

It is great to see them called on the nonsense

[aether @bluewdrift]

Major life hack: Don't complain, ever. Nobody likes a complainer. They drain the energy of everyone around them. It's exhausting spending time around someone who constantly complains about things outside their control. If it's within your control, go do something about it. If it's not, you're just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

A 4-year-old boy whose father left him, stood outside every single day for months waving at strangers... just hoping somebody would say hi back, in North Carolina.

Then one neighbor walked across the street to meet him.

Now an ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD shows up for his soccer games, his swim lessons, his birthday parties.

Roman Butzlaff is 4 years old, from Concord NC, just outside Charlotte.

His mom says he wakes up every single morning excited to say "hi" to somebody. It's the very first thing he wants to do.

But behind that big smile was a hurting little heart. His parents split about a year ago and his dad moved away.

Then a neighbor named Wade Fulgum did the simplest, most powerful thing in the world.

He just walked across the street... and met the little boy who was always waving at him.

And it spread.

Now about a DOZEN neighbors, people who barely knew each other's names, show up for Roman's soccer games.

His basketball games. His swimming lessons. Even his preschool open house. His birthday party guest list was basically a map of the block.

One neighbor said it best: "If the world was like this child, what an awesome, awesome place it would be."

[Hieronymus Scott @HieronymusScott]

Hannah's fellow villagers were slaughtered, her newborn baby's skull was crushed, she was kidnapped and gang-raped, by Red Indians. She eventually managed to escape, and as she escaped she managed to kill some of her captors as they slept. You do not hate The Guardian enough.

[Memes to End Abortion @endabortionmeme]

right but "yOu hAvEnT aDoPtEd aNy fOsTeR kiDs"

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

My random side quest has been listening to interviews of Americans of Japanese ancestry interred during WWII.

I’ve listened to 30? 40? 50 interviews?

Can’t seem to find even one example of anyone saying they hate America. They don’t even criticize the fact that they were interred. At least I haven’t found one to say it yet.

Fast forward to 2026 and we get room temperature IQ “migrants” from the 3rd world who get insane benefits while enjoying total freedom yet openly state they want to destroy our country from within.

Make it make sense.

[Wokal Distance @wokal_distance]

This reminds me of the time publishing giant Penguin Random House agreed to publish a book by Jordan Peterson, and several of their staff responded by quite literally bursting into tears duting meetings.

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

Imagine telling writers not to submit stories featuring Republicans, Zionists, police, or the military—and pretending publishing isn't ideological.

You don't need a formal ban to make it notoriously difficult for conservatives to break into publishing. You just need enough literary agents with their personal "preferences."

Even conservatives who don't write overtly "conservative" fiction face the possibility of rejection for promoting "dated ideals of relationships," whatever that means.

This is soft censorship at its finest.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Communists use video from a privately-run park with private security paid for by private vendors and claim it as a victory of socialists. I can’t tell if they’re really this dumb, or they just think you are.

[Dr Charlie Ward @DrcharlieWardQ]

HOLY CRAP 🚨: Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY): “Federal law prohibits undocumented immigrants from receiving Medicaid benefits.”

Scott Jennings: “Then why are 1.4 million on it?”

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY): "That‘s a figment of your imagination."

Scott Jennings: "It‘s a figment of the CBO‘s documents."

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY): "Let me explain the facts to you."

Scott Jennings: "Is it or not?"

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY): "Let me explain — it‘s not, actually."

Scott Jennings: “You are lying. Literally lying."

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY): "No, that is not — it is not true."

Scott Jennings: "Lie. Liar. Lying.”

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Unbelievable

[CinemaCopa @CopaExMachina]

If there wasn't a double standard in Hollywood right now they'd have no standards at all.

We're told stories like Moana off limits to cultural tampering while western myths like The Odyssey are just fiction and representation shouldn't matter it all.

"It's just a myth chuds."

"It never happened."

"The myth is so universal you can cast whoever you want it doesn't change the story."

Moana never existed so why does representation matter? Maui is a folk hero therefore he could be any color. The island of Motunui is entirely made up so why not shoot it off the coast of Croatia?

The same people who foam at the mouth about legitimate concerns with The Odyssey's casting will either ignore this double standard or praise it.

The double standard is that Hollywood treating non-Western folklore with a hyperfixated reverence for cultural accuracy, while treating Western classical text like an open-source sandbox anyone can play in. History and regional identity can be entirely erased because "it's fiction, chud." As long as it's a western myth it can be bent, pillaged, subverted, and sacrificed for the sake of progressive inclusivity.

You don't get to argue that lineage is sacred for one culture's myths and completely irrelevant for another's just because it fits a corporate marketing narrative and makes you feel like a good person.

[Dr Charlie Ward @DrcharlieWardQ]

BREAKING 🚨: Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar attempted to send $1.46 million dollars in funding to an address for a nonprofit called “Generation Hope”

The address to receive the money isn’t a treatment facility, it’s a restaurant

After this was discovered House Republicans stripped the earmarked money to “Generation Hope” over fraud concerns. Senators called for DOJ investigations into the group

Ilhan Omar tried to launder $1.46 million dollars taxpayer money and got caught

Imagine how many times she didn’t get caught over the years

[Meghan Daum @meghan_daum]

What every fool cries out on the way to the gulag: "If I just explain it, they'll understand!"

[Mustafa @oprydai]

i often think about this…

[CCP IS ASSHOE @CCPISASSH0E]

Murica 🔥