Unsure, donāt know if thereās any publicly available numbers! Iām more responding to the general need for a private schools infrastructure - no such need in Miami, because you can get away from the bottom quintile of society for free if youāre 105> IQ. Not quite the case in most of the country.
You get a lot older if you donāt grow up. A fit healthy 28 year old guy with two toddlers is still young. A 32 year old whose Twitter bio says āyour local rat gfā is ancient, a decaying entity.
Not sure if Miami will be *the* city of the 21st century, but certainly itās on track to being just that. Impressive model for how to reclaim and subsequently re-develop downtowns - itās even more remarkable when you consider itās been able to do so incognito, away from NGO/gov scrutiny
Bezmenov (a hack soviet reporter who was stationed in India and regarded as unreliable by western intelligence) is a perfect example of the phenomenon Iām describing, the ultimate grifter there to tell American conservative types what they want to hear: that they are soooo much smarter than their liberal opponents because they didnāt fall for the āROOSKIE PSYOPā (er⦠Chinese now or whatever).
Do you want to know what the problem is with Western liberals? the problem is that they are wrong. They are not psyopped, they have not been tricked by shadowy KGB operatives planted throughout our institutions. They are simply wrong, and arrogantly so. They have a set of beliefs about the world (e.g. crime is caused by poverty and alienation, wealth is produced via exploitation and should be redistributed, ēē) that are simply incorrect. Because these beliefs sound very nice, and because their believers can somewhat insulate themselves from the consequences, and because of demographic replacement/welfarism that allows for the de-facto purchasing of votes, these people also have managed to finagle themselves into possessing immense power and influence over the course of the country/your city council/your local school board.
Liberals are not hoodwinked little victims ready to slap their heads and go āDāOh!ā when you finally stop the Chinese/Russian/Cuban/North Korean/Angolan propaganda operation. Their ideology is homegrown and self-perpetuating. It exists at the nexus of immense reserves of money (provided by domestic billionaires, heiresses, and corporations), status (elite institutions of every stripe), and ideological context (vast volumes of philosophy and theory designed to justify itself).
āForeign adversaries intelligence agenciesā are not, have never been, and will not be necessary to start, support, expand, or activate this system. Whatever extent they do influence it to is minuscule compared to the dangers of a single post-divorce tech CEOās wife that you might as well just completely ignore it. Liberalism isnāt some Chinese guy slipping back alley briefcases to antifa, itās McKenzie Scott-Bezos (oops scratch that part) openly bankrolling organizations whose stated mission is to āeradicate whitenessā or whatever to the tune of tens of millions a year.
@bionic_ooze@skibidiblazor Re: language gaps - surprised itās not spoken about more often. A large portion of <30s are functionally languageless - poor English, elementary proficiency in their heritage language. What can you even do with these people?
The premise of this āanti-cancel cultureā movie THE DRAMA is that a guy learns his fiance almost committed a mass shooting at 15, but then didnāt go through with it.
This completely wrecks their relationship. People around him tell him she is a psycho and he must immediately call the police.
You, the viewer, are meant to tap yourself on the back for being empathetic and forgiving towards her while everyone else acts insane about this total non issue.
If my gf told me she almost did that at 15 I would be like wow thatās fuckin crazy - but I wouldnāt break up with her or have it ruin my perception of her because I am an adult, who was also a teenager, who also had dark and erratic thoughts, like literally everyone else. It would be fascinating more than anything. Almost everyone I know would behave the same way.
This couple wears Harperās magazine shirts and quotes Freud, and weāre supposed to believe they are incredible intelligent literary types with mature understandings of the human condition who simply cannot contextualize this fact of someoneās childhood.
There is something so condescending about the films thesis. It is meant to be a reeducation camp that teaches us to empathize with people we already empathize with. It assumes we are judgmental and wags its finger at us when we are in fact already cured of its supposed ills. Simply not a film that was made for adults.
We live in the age of Autism, the most soulless of all mental disorders, hollowed out, precise, bloodless, and without spirit, the disposition of the machine.
@plumedsnake@meoww739 Defines around 2/3 of immigrant children in the country - from Egyptian children in Queens to Mexican youth in East Los Angeles. Interesting to see what a largely languageless society looks like
France has culture of politeness that is not two-faced, is not ironic, and meant to preserve amicable relations between men all while keeping a certain elegance.
The way you speak matters, how you conduct yourself.
If you respect those rules, we love you. If not, contempt
Everyone is addicted to a dozen supplements, goes to the gym, does yoga or both, and clings to one or two pseudo-spiritual beliefs alongside some obscure diet. Getting better is no longer a conduit to live better but a goal in itself. The world is turning into a hellish infirmary
Geriatric millenials interrupted opening night of Carmen at the Met Opera tn - almost killed before the ushers escorted them out. Wonder if weāll start seeing more chimp outs like these when climate-americans āprotestā at museumsā¦
What I appreciate about French authors (Montherlant, Montaigne, Celine, Benoist, La Rochefoucauld, Stendhal) above all others is their demand for complete lucidity and clarity. Sentimentality to them is a narcotic that clouds us from seeing clearly. They go straight to violence, sex, and human wretchedness to uncover what's really going on. No moralizing. Clear, cold perception of reality as a spiritual duty. That is what it means to be French.