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Co-host of @alittlebitculty and @spinningitpod

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Bruh

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@MaryamF12389 Ten

[Jan @Jan812314]

Just Shaquille O’Neal doing “Shaq” things once again!

What a man!
What a legend! 🏀💙

[Willis Eschenbach @WEschenbach]

I was born in February 1947. When I was born:

17 states had "Jim Crow" laws authorizing legal segregation of hotels, restaurants, and other places of business, along with segregated schools, hospitals, transportation, pools, phone booths, cinemas, beaches, and even water fountains.

Jackie Robinson hadn't yet become the first black man to integrate major league baseball.

30 states had laws forbidding inter-racial marriages.

10 states had voter literacy tests.

6 states had poll taxes.

Black people were excluded from many skilled trades and government positions.

All branches of the military enforced racial segregation.

More than 100 lynchings of black men were still to come.

It was eight years before Rosa Parks was arrested for riding in the front of the bus.

Federal and local policies (redlining, restrictive covenants, FHA underwriting rules) and private practice kept neighborhoods segregated and limited Black homeownership.

I had graduated from high school before the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

So I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I hear some 25-year-old saying "This redistricting ruling is just like Jim Crow" … yeah, no. It's not. I lived through the real thing, and while racism still exists, it is NOTHING like the institutional, pervasive, common, unquestioned punitive racism of my youth.

To me, the change in the racial relationships in the US in my lifetime is nothing short of astounding … or at least it was until we elected Obama. I voted for him the first time, hoping that this would seal the deal and put racism in its grave.

Instead, he fomented and supported racism, pushing hatred between the races, advocating for DEI villainization, backing BLM and the "Hands Up Don't Shoot" hoax, and claiming that white people were the cause of all of the suffering of black people.

And astoundingly, he and his wife are still pushing that same line. The US has given them everything—fame, fortune, power … and they're using it to tell us just how hard their lives are.

Seriously?

Sorry. They live better than 99.999% of the planet. They have zero to complain about. I've seen real racism, up close and personal … and this ain't it.

So let us continue to work through this most contentious issue, but let us start from the fact that we have come immensely far, that we've been amazingly successful in getting rid of virtually all organized and institutional racism, and that unlike the ugly reality of my youth, racism is now ILLEGAL in the US.

I've worked all over the world—Africa, Asia, Europe, Central and South America, Australia, the Pacific islands, and I will tell you that of the 35 countries I've worked in or visited, the US is one of the least racist countries of all.

As I said, it doesn't mean there's no racism … but please, let's attack what's left from a position of previous huge success, not from a position of failure.

In the hopes of better times and better understandings between the races, I remain,

Yr. Obdt. Svt.,

w.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Professor Gad Saad: ‘Say Goodbye To America, it’s all Over’

Gad Saad says America will fall to Islam, and we will allow it to happen

He categorizes it as a “Stage 4 cancer”

“We are approaching stage 4, but there is a cure. Here's where I get pessimistic. The problem is that there is no indication that the West has the stomach and the testicular fortitude to actually implement what is easily available.

So for example, when it comes to immigrants, any immigrant that belongs to an ideology that has tenets that are contrary to the Western tradition, that ideology should be banned. And you can't use the freedom of religion argument to render us all impotent as we go to the abyss of infinite lunacy. So there is a way to solve it.

I worry that nobody has the ability to do so”

What he’s talking about is Hijrah (Islamic migration for conquest), combined with higher birth rates and exploiting Western freedoms and guilt against itself

He says Islamist theorists have openly declared this strategy, and the West lacks the testicular fortitude to respond with ideological vetting and bans on doctrines opposing liberal democracy. Mainly sharia supremacism

There is a “cure”

- Ban immigration from groups whose core ideology conflicts with Western traditions
- Reject “freedom of religion” as a shield for supremacist political ideologies
- Prioritize cultural compatibility over empathy signaling

Literally common sense

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😂😂

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Confidently stupid

[EH3 @EHetz3]

@EndWokeness Borrowing from @TheAtlasSociety

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@FurkanGozukara Wow.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“There are very few Marxists left in the world... they’re all in American universities.”

— Milton Friedman

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Reminder that the Iranian Revolution started as a student-led leftist Marxist movement to overthrow the Shah. Then Muslims joined in, presenting themselves as ‘anti-imperialists’ too.

Once the Islamic regime took power, those same leftist students and their progressive ideals were the first to be killed.

Leftist students in American and Western universities are literally making the same mistake right now. They never learned the lesson.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jonathan Haidt just delivered a sharp warning about where identity politics has gone wrong.

He argues we need both left and right — a healthy yin-yang of perspectives. But many current left-leaning policies and academic approaches that frame everything as oppressor vs oppressed are ramping up destructive tribalism. Instead of highlighting common humanity, they push binaries that turn normal rivalry into hatred.

Haidt uses sports as analogy: friendly competition builds energy and effort. Take it too far and you get soccer hooligans smashing skulls. The better path? Address real issues of exclusion while constantly emphasizing what unites us.

This resonates because I’ve watched how quickly “us vs them” framing turns disagreement into something toxic. Balanced tension sharpens ideas; constant moral warfare just fractures trust.

In deeply polarized times, remembering shared humanity and the value of constructive disagreement could be key to keeping institutions and societies from breaking down.

Have we let identity politics go too far down the division route, or is this framing still essential for addressing real injustices?

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Yup

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

DAMN!!!🔥🔥

"The white liberal is the WORST enemy for the black man!"

"Coming in here acting like y'all representing some social justice... when all along all you going is trying to use black people to find a reason to make some money!"

PREACH IT!!!!

[Catholic League @CatholicLeague]

Besides an insatiable appetite for control, what defines the Left is an equally insatiable appetite for envy. No one epitomizes these vices today better than New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a young Muslim man born to privilege who has never had a real job.
https://t.co/OHyB25590d

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@PolitiBunny If birth control was a person.

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@Jnet_margarita The scary part is she has an audience and there is an ecosystem that has normalized her behavior. She confidently stupid.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

"Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death."

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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@DefiantLs If birth control was a person.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 REP. WESLEY HUNT (R-TX) just gave the PERFECT response:

Q: There won't be any black Republicans left in the House?

HUNT: "It's not relevant."

"I'm not here because I'm black."

"I am here because I am a qualified representative for Congressional District 38."

"The American people choose who they want to choose."

"I don't want to get into this game of RACE BAIT all day, every day."

"If there's 4? If there's 10? If there's NONE."

"I represent a white majority district that President Trump would have won by over 20 points, and I won by over 25 points."

"I'm being judged not by the color of my skin, but the content of my character."

🇺🇸🇺🇸

📽️ @PabloReports @WesleyHuntTX

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

If you’re a white kid today, you’re shit out of luck.

You’re systematically excluded from equal opportunities, not because of anything you’ve done, but to atone for historical sins committed by others long before you were born.

This is the fundamental flaw of “social justice.” As Friedrich Hayek observed, it cannot deliver justice because it requires the state to treat people unequally in order to engineer equal outcomes.

The entire framework rests on collective guilt and inherited blame.
Individuals are judged and penalized not for their own actions, but for the supposed crimes of their ancestors. It is guilt by association and by bloodline.

This mirrors North Korea’s brutal yeonjwaje (“three generations of punishment”) policy, under which the children, parents, and even grandparents of a political offender are imprisoned or executed for offenses they themselves did not commit.

Punishing people for crimes they did not commit is not justice. It is tyranny.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If extremely violent criminals are not imprisoned, eventually they will murder innocent people