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i just use this to store interesting articles at this point

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

MSNBC host accidentally nails it…

The far-left is driven by over-educated failures who can’t succeed in the real world, which is why they overwhelmingly hide in academia, NGOs and push socialism.

[Aleph @woke8yearold]

His show bored me but lefties hate him for showing how a lot of the American “poor” just make batshit insane finical choices and they aren’t an oppressed proletariat

[Seasonal Clickfarm Worker @ClickingSeason]

So close. Food deserts aren’t real, and healthy food is cheaper than processed food. Poor people are unhealthy for the same reason that poor people are poor: because they make poor choices.

[Callicrates @callicrates_]

The standard for taxation isn't "is this a good cause". The standard for taxation is "is this a cause good enough to take the hard earned money from a struggling American family"

The answer is obviously no. Is helping out Burmese citizens a good cause? Sure. And if you want to donate money yourself to help out you can do that. But there's zero case to be made that a struggling family in Ohio is better served sending their money to Burma than keeping it in their own pockets

Why is a (former) New Jersey congressmen fighting for Burma anyway? How does that even make sense

The role of the American government is not to help young people in Burma or anywhere else in the world. It's to serve American citizens

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

shitlibs don't want to admit this but a significant percent of homeless people aren't homeless because they're victims of some grand injustice - they're homeless because they're evil.

I am not talking about those experiencing transient homelessness - like individuals who have lost their homes due to an unexpected or unavoidable economic breakdown or personal devastation. People in that category almost always manage to regain footing at some point, even if that just means managing to secure themselves a slight bump upwards into dire poverty.

But the legions of blank-eyed men endlessly shuffling around the streets, groaning to themselves, screaming, shoving, causing needless death and destruction? There is no hope for them. They have no desire to be different. No will to change. No belief they should have to.

They are dangerously impulsive and antisocial, and need to be locked away permanently.

You cannot concede massive swaths of public life to an antisocial zombie horde just because some academics have an empathy boner them.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The western press is to blame for this. If they'd just told the truth instead of running "Palestinian child walks into bullet" headlines this whole time and telling everyone that boycotting Israel is genocide, political pressure could've long ago been brought about to force a peaceful and just resolution to this mess.

If they'd just done their jobs and reported the facts to the public, there never would've been enough public consent for the US empire to back a brutal apartheid regime which cannot exist without nonstop violence, and peaceful resolutions would've become possible.

Instead they hid all those abuses from the public for generations, creating an environment where peaceful resolutions are impossible and giving rise to Palestinian factions which understandably see violent force as the only viable answer.

This is their fault. They created this mess with a mountain of lies and obfuscation, and now those lies are being paid for with rivers of blood. The western press are war criminals. They've committed crimes against humanity.

[د @quresh__]

Only way to win is to not play

[Don Johnson @DonMiami3]

Modern day corporate America is essentially indentured servitude. They pay you enough monthly so you take out tons of liabilities that are enough to make you ‘comfortable’ - but not free from the payments of those liabilities.

Most Americans at the end of the month (or beginning) when they pay said liabilities put in their ATM card and have essentially little (or) no money left. The net relationship is essentially swapping your time to accumulate liabilities (swap time for net nothing) and said ‘luxuries’ - ie: I might be able to drive my two door sports car - but your employer can rug pull you at any moment interfering with that ability to continue paying your lenders to live a lifestyle you can’t actually afford.

Unfortunately I think 90+% of Americans are living a lifestyle they can’t actually afford (guilty of it myself, as well). We hear constantly about how it’s the best time to be alive this and that because we can turn on AC & go to a Starbucks on every other corner in town. I’d argue that actual happiness metrics have stagnated since the 80s/90s - or even dropped off as the law of diminishing returns has taken hold of how our society derives happiness. Instead of deriving our values from family, friends, and home building - it’s shifted almost entirely to material items and experiences (societal shift had been much more selfish and dramatic w/social media). Things like the birthrate speak to where we are as a late stage terminally ill society - I would call it. Wealth concentration continues to get more & more concentrated among the top 10% after each cycle & unlikely this trend reverses with a shrinking middle class.

No one actually has any solutions to all of these mounting problems - the preferred solution is always just kick the can and hope there’s ground for it to land on… (or) as it’s commonly said “don’t bet against America”. Is immigration still a barometer of a nations happiness? I would argue it’s a pretty poor one for countries like Canada right now…

This line has never been more true, especially among younger gens: We’re “buying things [we] don’t need to impress people [we] don’t like”. The opportunities to break out from one social class in America and advance to another are shrinking rapidly… Maybe attempting ‘modern monetary policy’ always set us on an inevitable pathway towards old economic structures.

Have a nice evening all & a fantastic holiday weekend.

DJ

[sarah @sahouraxo]

"Those who killed Muammar Gaddafi, today are coming to teach us about democracy."

Zambia's opposition leader, Fred M'membe, blasts Kamala Harris during her visit to Africa.

Absolutely powerful speech 🔥

[punnu - پُنّوں @punnu__khan]

"Dama Dam Mast Qalandar - The Trance of the Universe"

Undoubtedly world's most melodious qawwali that has been rendered by hundreds of singers, is said to have been penned by Khusrau, revised by Bulleh Shah, composed in folk traditions but that's not the whole story.

(1/17)🧵

[Mark Gutman @MarkGutman9]

Should the gvt protect the little people? Definitely. That’s the $250k guarantee (it can be argued that it could be higher, yes).

But should it protect sophisticated business people whose goal is multi-million or multi-billion exits? Absolutely not. Those are grown ups

[Murtaza Syed @murtazahsyed]

A thread on “Guns, Babies, and China” (with apologies to Jared Diamond). At the risk of over-simplification, I would argue that the seeds of our economic problems over the last quarter century were sown by 3 major forces, all of which were deliberate policy mis-choices:

[د @quresh__]

@thesamparr GLS 63 AMG

[Batameez Larki @pakcamel]

Here is some of the most moving Pakistani writing I have read recently. Thread:

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

A short history of the world in 13 maps & infographics:

1. Everybody alive today compared to everybody who has ever lived

[Nathan Barry @nathanbarry]

Did you know that 50% of motels in the United States are owned and operated by people of Indian origin?

This is the story about a Patel Motel Cartel.

It's my favorite example of hard work, community, and investing profits to build wealth.

[Jacob Sykes @jacobmsykes]

@sama I think @mwseibel put it best.

[Fabiola Plaza @Fabiola_Plaza1]

@LMSA_Northeast i made a google doc with a list of free clinics and organizations that support immigrants in NYC: https://t.co/iHnv3X895Q (if i missed any, my DMs are open!)

for those outside NYC, please check out https://t.co/EfNaR3x8J1 for free clinics in your area
@NAFClinics

[د @quresh__]

@COTA my family is 3-day passholder but have dietary restrictions & allergies. Are there exceptions made to the outside food/beverage policy for this?