Spare me the pearl-clutching — especially from Republican Members of Congress and online MAGA grifters who have cheered President Trump's weaponization of the government against those he doesn’t like, as recently as last week. This is a subject I know something about: Less than a year ago, Trump directed the DOJ and FBI to investigate me, and then tried to criminally indict me for a 90 second video, exercising basic free speech. The same free speech you’re exercising now, lying about what I said in this clip. If not for an anonymous group of grand jury members standing up for America's laws, I’d be criminally indicted for sedition. President Trump has turned the government against people, with raucous support from you and virtually all D.C. Republicans. So spare us the manufactured outrage.
America must be a place where the rule of law still matters. Those laws should apply to everyone equally. If you have aided in the corrupt use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to benefit the President or his family, or you have violated the law in order to carry out guidance from the President, you should be held accountable. And given how rampant that corruption appears to the average American, people looking to work for his Administration should realize that while the Supreme Court has granted the President immunity, it has not done the same for those who do illegal things at his behest.
i am eating at the counter at a diner and a pair of baby boomers are just sitting here with an ipad, speakers on full blast, watching reels of AI slop. there are maybe 10,000 sentient human beings on earth
NOW - Macron addresses the nation, calling for order and says that the youth of France are "expressing great anguish and concern about the future... we need to pay heed to what they are saying and we must not minimise the hardships that they are facing."
They say a job gives people dignity and self-respect. That’s possible. I can see that.
I didn’t see it when I worked in corporate, where grown-ass adult coworkers got reprimanded like kids, begged for permission to take time off, or clapped like seals at town hall meetings, kissing ass, all just to avoid losing their jobs.
Dignity and self-respect in full display lol
Imagine growing up seeing the demopublican government uniparty be utterly incompetent for your entire life, unable to build new energy, exporting factories, failing over and over at its ambitions in space, becoming bigger and more bloated and slower year after year until it threatens to eat the entirety of the U.S. economy, with the same geriatric 90 year olds piddling away the future year after year
Then suddenly you have an administration which accepts a flood of young people in government at every level, from the lowest bureaucrats to the halls of the White House
There is fierce debate and plenty of conflict, but there are also motions in policy which we've only dreamed of for decades. Five nuclear reactors turn on under the DOE after decades of stagnation. America returns to orbit the moon
Imagine seeing that and the reaction of a sitting senator is “haha yeah let’s put those fuckin kids in jail to make an example!!”
Goiter was a problem in Michigan in the 20s. They resolved it by introducing iodized salt into diets. IQ rose by 15 points, a whole standard deviation.
The U.S. started integrating this across the nation.
Latin America didn’t start doing it until the mid 70s.
Africa and West Asia had the worst cases of goiter and other mental disabilities.
Reagan granting amnesty to millions of illegals in the mid 80s had unforeseen consequences we are now seeing manifest.
I think the difference is the European continent has limitations on speech and the right to defense.
Over here that is the bastion of what’s keeping that level of darkness at bay.
So yes, it is immigration and yes it IS the strains produced by it.
“Surface level analysis”, all problems we have here are downstream of immigration.
What’s happening in Paris and Milan is no surprise to anyone who has spent time around young people in Europe during the 2010s:
Virtually all of them were working on their 4th masters degree in social welfare, were unmarried, attended communist dinners every night, and regularly participated in riots.
Now the economy is suddenly transforming and they have nothing to show for it.
Stupid people don’t know they are being forced into a dialectic designed to lead them into certain foreign policy choices. Hence why you’re allowed to say “Islam is not compatible with the West,” yet not allowed to oppose third world mass migration.
Today's "Safe Horny" discourse surrounding Castlevania & Hades is bizarre. Hades 2 is one of the horniest games of the last decade. Characters wear blatantly revealing outfits. No one wears shoes. There's multiple romances. You see naked women and think man?
Seek help.