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(not for torture-reasons)

[Bridget Jones @moomintroll41]

I’d just like to state that I, as a Scottish person, will be supporting England to beat Norway on Saturday & will be supporting Arthur Fery to beat Zyerev in the Wimbledon semi finals because I applaud British succes, & I’m not a bigoted Scottish nationalist moron like Lara Bird

[george @StokeyyG2]

😂😂😂😂😂

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

See, here's the thing: I don't really care about personal drama.

I've said repeatedly that Charlie and I weren't best friends. Maybe you were best friends with Charlie. Maybe not. I don’t know, nor do I care.

For ten months, you’ve been slandering Charlie's wife, his friends, and all of the people he worked with. You're working to acquit his murderer.

You're spreading conspiratorial poison for cash.

That’s something anyone of decency should condemn.

The fact that so many are unwilling to do so is demonstrative of widespread cowardice, stupidity, wickedness...or all three.
https://t.co/MBBTs8kJEJ

[Football Away Days @AwayDaysFB]

Harry Kane’s 32, married to his childhood sweetheart, got four kids, runs his own mental health charity and quietly donates to the armed forces and mental health causes. Barely drinks, doesn’t smoke, and in 15+ years in the spotlight he’s never had a single scandal. Proper clean living.

On the pitch? Ridiculous numbers. England’s all-time top scorer, Spurs’ all-time top scorer, six Golden Boots (four in the Prem, one at a World Cup). Most strikers could only dream of that.
Yet the bloke still gets written off and disrespected more than anyone in his generation. Gives everything for club and country, never puts a foot wrong off the field. Proper professional.

If you’re after a role model, it doesn’t get much better than Kane. The fact we even have to say it says it all, doesn’t it?

[Jack Subpar @SuisizeMe]

In my entire life I've only heard the phrase "boys will be boys" used when like a 7 year old breaks his leg trying to jump off a roof using an umbrella as a parachute

[Ryan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @TheEleventhChav]

The Americans don’t seem to realise getting all hyped up about your team just to be disappointed and heartbroken when they inevitably crash out of the tournament is what international football is all about

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

If Democrats want someone who hates capitalism, despises Trump, loves Nazi apologism, hugs America's enemies, has Cenk Uygur's endorsement, and cosplays as a blue collar working man even though he grew up silver spoon...Tucker Carlson does have a house in Maine.

[James May @MrJamesMay]

It must be expensive being a Scottish football fan. First you have to buy a Mexican flag. Then you have to buy a Norwegian flag. Where will it end?

[Jeremy Boreing @JeremyDBoreing]

It is utterly inappropriate to use my wife's name. She is not a public figure. She doesn't even have a public social media account. She is not the CEO of my business. She doesn't give interviews or seek fame. Your invocation of her here is a sign of your character, as though we needed another.

I was Candace's employer, sure enough. Like many of her former employers, I feel compelled to stand against her public behavior.

Candace is not only a "married woman" or a "pregnant mother." Candace is also a public figure. She is one of the most famous women in the world with one of the largest podcasts on earth. She chooses each day to sit in front of cameras and to engage in public discourse.

I have never once attacked her as a wife or a mother. I don't criticize her for her looks, or her wardrobe, or her sexuality. I don't dig into her family history, cast aspersions on her grandparents, or question whether or not she even loves her husband.

In short, I do not engage in any of the sort of personal slander your tribe levels at Erika Kirk -- all while hiding behind the idea that her role as CEO of TPUSA somehow makes it appropriate to talk about how much or how little she cries at funerals, or whether or not she is a good mother, or if she hugs someone too long, or, you know, if she murdered her husband, or engaged in child sex trafficking, or is a foreign intelligence asset.

I attack Candace's public work -- the lies she tells, the evil she spreads, the hate and the conspiracies she peddles for fame and fortune.

I do so with sadness for the role I played in her career and with sadness for the waste of such talent as she undeniably possesses.

But I do so secure in the knowledge that the lies she -- and you -- popularize can only be defeated with truth.

And so I am happy to share it.

[Jack @thejdtucker]

incredible use of our tv licence fees

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The benefit is that people enjoy it. The even greater benefit is that groups of people enjoy it together. They shouldn’t overdo it, obviously, but enjoying something is actually a worthwhile benefit for human beings. We aren’t robots. Not every single thing we do needs to be “optimized.” At a certain point you have to enjoy your life or else what’s even the point of trying to extend it?

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I’ve come to realize that some people never recovered from the paranoid hypochondria that gripped the nation during Covid. Now they’ve just transferred it to other things. That’s the only way I can explain why so many grown men are suddenly acting so brittle and fragile like a can of beer might kill them. I couldn’t care less whether you drink alcohol or not. Do whatever floats your boat. But the idea that “there’s no safe amount” is just paranoid hysteria. A grown man should be embarrassed to hysterically claim that a glass of wine is “unsafe.” It actually is totally safe, by any reasonable definition of the word. But it seems we are not operating with a reasonable definition.

[John Fadule @fadule_]

Benefits of drinking:

-hilarious situational laughs that add years to your life
-being 7 beers deep in the Sun with your friends realizing you almost forgot the point of life is to have fun with people who make you happy
-3 bottles of wine with your wife then smashing all night without a condom (lasting 975% longer)
-heartwarming couples dinners hugging goodnight thinking ‘I’m so glad we did this’
-concerts with your girlfriend and friends making lifelong memories favorite songs slapping mythologically
-backyard party watching your girlfriend hit it off with your Aunt while your friends and Uncles plan a road trip to a Big 10 football game “Hanging By A Moment” by Lifehouse jamming in the background wanting to freeze time and live this day every day the rest of your life realizing ‘wow life is a miracle I’m so lucky to be alive’

[The Little Platoon @PlatoonPod]

You can run with this premise and the conclusion remains absurd.

The UK has rapidly decarbonised already. It has made no difference, because the UK's share of carbon emissions was already statistically insignificant — which is only becoming more true over time.

We could hit Net Zero. We could hit negative carbon. Nothing would change, because China and India exist, and they do not give a damn about our political gestures.

(This is evidenced by their emissions increasing almost as quickly as our political gestures have proliferated, and over the same timeframe.)

No amount of decarbonisation in the UK will make any difference to summer temperatures. This is not an ethical or an ideological point - I like the environment, I dislike excessive heat - it is a mathematical one.

All it does is make us poorer and less able to adapt to the new reality.

A policy of increasing carbon emissions would, paradoxically, improve our climate resilience, because we'd be able to afford basic infrastructure like air conditioning while adding nothing of note to global emissions.

The only reason this is not widely accepted is that political environmentalism is a virtue cult. It has no interest in climate science, it has no interest in tangible outcomes, it is entirely concerned with allowing mediocrities to play act saving the world.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

This is so captivating precisely because it has become such a rare sight in modern European societies.

Each traveling World Cup fan base showcases the full, unfiltered expression of its national identity, something that now feels discouraged back home.

Mass migration and a prevailing culture of self-loathing have made open pride in one’s heritage increasingly unfashionable.

From Swedish fans raising maypoles and weaving flower crowns, to Norwegians rowing in unison like their Viking ancestors, to Scots marching in tartan to the sound of bagpipes. These are living portraits of a people, distilled to their purest essence. They embody the particular inheritance of language, custom, landscape, and ancestral memory that shaped who they are.

For a few short weeks, Swedes can be fully and unselfconsciously Swedish again. Norwegians and Scots the same. The joy on display is the visible relief of finally remembering who you are when the constant pressure to dilute (or apologize for) that identity is lifted.

These fans prove that the old nations still live on inside their people. Mass migration has transformed their homelands, and critical theory has instilled a deep sense of guilt, so much so that public displays of historic identity are now often seen as provocative rather than innocent and affectionate. Yet none of this has erased the fundamental human need to belong to a particular culture and story, and to express it without apology.

What’s tragic is that this authentic expression can now only be performed freely abroad, at events like the World Cup. Enjoy it while it lasts

[Morgan Barrett @MorganBarrettX]

Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen

Just one example (bear with me):

Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago.

The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows

But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered

Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle

There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive).

If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money.

Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins).

Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed

So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef

Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

"I want something to be true, and I have strong feelings about it. So I'm going to declare it true, despite the evidence."

He thinks and operates like a leftist.