🚨HOLY SHT: A fluffy Hispanic Woman parks her car in front of the ICE facility garage ramp in Los Angeles. She then refuses to comply with officers orders to move her shitty car and gets arrested. She resists and is handcuffed & dragged into the facility.
Shout out to the person at a social event who is the first to say they’re going home and breaks the seal for the rest of the guests to be like, “Guess we’ll head out too”
One of the reasons I don’t like socialism is public bathrooms.
A public bathroom is about as basic a shared resource as you can get. Everyone gets to use it, and everyone is expected to show a little consideration for the next person. The rules aren’t particularly complicated.
And yet, a shocking number of adults can’t even manage to throw their paper towels in the trash. Some will pee all over a toilet seat and leave it for the next person. And the next person, who didn’t make the mess, certainly isn’t going to clean it up either.
Now imagine trusting these same people to collectively manage an entire economy.
We can’t even get everyone to agree that cleaning up their own pee is a personal responsibility, but somehow we’re supposed to believe everyone will become hardworking, responsible, and considerate when we’re sharing the fruits of each other’s labor.
Now, compare your average public restroom to a Buc-ee’s bathroom.
Buc-ee’s figured something out. Clean bathrooms attract customers. Customers spend money. So the company has a financial incentive to keep those bathrooms spotless. They hire people to maintain them, hold employees accountable, and compete for your business.
And people will literally plan their road trips around stopping there.
That’s capitalism. Someone recognized a problem, found a way to solve it, and made money because people valued the result.
Of course, not everyone contributes equally to society. Some people work harder, make better decisions, and take more responsibility. Others seem perfectly content making life more difficult for everyone around them.
I believe people should have the freedom to live however they choose. I also believe in helping people who genuinely need it.
But I have a hard time accepting an economic philosophy that expects me to trust everyone to act in the collective interest when some people can’t be bothered to clean up after themselves.
Buc-ee’s figured out how to get people to willingly pay for a better experience.
Socialism wants me to believe the people leaving paper towels on the floor will suddenly become responsible stewards of everyone else’s resources.
I’m going with the beaver.
Just canceled @Starlink. I’ve been a good customer, but that didn’t stop them from raising the price two times in under a year. You had a chance to “make things right;” you blew it.
> A man cheats on his wife of 40 years with a Chinese spy, crashing the stock markets and potentially threatening national and global security
> Wow let's insult his wife!
Hey @realDonaldTrump! Since we are discussing amnesty deals and lowering deportations, let’s rename the gulf again!
President Trump must be talked out of this nonsense by the few patriots remaining in his administration.
🚨Governor DeSantis SLAMS Trump’s reversal on Mass Deportations and the idea that we should only deport illegal aliens who commit another crime!
“This idea that unless you're an axe murderer you should be able to stay that is not consistent with our laws and it's also not good policy. You know we have different people that are victimized by illegal aliens every day in this country!
Not all of them have criminal records at the time. In fact, probably most of them don't but under some view it's like okay yeah you come illegally and then you stay until you commit a really violent crime. That just doesn't work.”
"Bringing back jobs to America." - Bull Shit.
I present to you: a list of every American headquartered company with over 5,000 employees in the country of India alone.
This list continues to grow rapidly every year.
Then plainly:
The indictment is not that progressivism occasionally tolerates vice. It is that much of modern progressivism confers moral legitimacy on things that injure people, then treats resistance to those injuries as the sin.
Pornography does not merely “liberate sexuality.” It trains men to consume women, trains women to accept being consumed, and then calls the resulting degradation freedom.
A sexual culture organized around male appetite does not liberate women when women still bear the greater risks of pregnancy, abandonment, coercion, violence, humiliation, and bodily vulnerability. Calling that liberation does not alter who pays.
Women do not gain equality when male claims are allowed to override female privacy, sports, prisons, shelters, language, medical categories, or sex-based association. When women are ordered to surrender those things and condemned for refusing, that is not inclusion. It is domination of women dressed as compassion.
Race discrimination does not cease to be racism because the target is white. If institutions sort, exclude, stigmatize, or morally burden people because they are white, that is racism. “Equity” does not sanctify it.
A religion does not become benign because its adherents are locally fewer in number. Nor does Christianity become uniquely suspect because it is historically native to the West. When one faith receives indulgence and another receives suspicion according to an identity hierarchy, that is not pluralism. It is favoritism and religious prejudice.
A criminal does not become more morally important than his victim because his biography is politically useful. Mercy without justice is not mercy. It is abandonment of the innocent.
Children are not owed affirmation of every desire or identity claim that adults place before them. They are owed protection, judgment, restraint, and adults willing to say no.
Gambling companies do not become public benefactors because the state taxes them. Pornographers do not become liberators because they use feminist vocabulary. Cannabis dependence does not become harmless because it is legal. Appetite does not become virtue because commerce and politics profit from it.
And the family is not an antiquated obstacle standing between the individual and freedom. It is one of the principal institutions by which men are bound to duty, women and children gain durable claims upon others, and one generation accepts responsibility for the next. A culture that destroys those bonds and then offers bureaucracy, therapy, medication, entertainment, and consumption as substitutes has not liberated people. It has left them alone.
That is the charge.
The lie is not merely that these harms are regrettable side effects. The lie is that the harms themselves are progress.
The woman who objects is called hateful.
The parent who objects is called ignorant.
The Christian who objects is called reactionary.
The white person who objects to racial discrimination is told racism cannot really apply to him.
The Jew who objects to antisemitism is told to account first for Israel.
The citizen who asks why his country’s inherited norms must continually yield is told that his wish for continuity is itself suspect.
And thus the trick is completed: the injured person is placed in the dock, while the ideology that injured him assumes the robes of the judge.
That is not merely foolish. It is a corruption of moral judgment.
Cicero would ask whether a republic can endure when law ceases to be common.
Seneca would ask what sort of civilization calls surrender to appetite freedom.
Epictetus would ask by what right one citizen claims possession of another’s conscience, body, speech, or boundaries.
Marcus would ask what duties we have abandoned while congratulating ourselves on our virtue.
And Tacitus would recognize the darkest part immediately:
the language has been corrupted so thoroughly that the name of the vice is now used for the virtue that opposes it.
I have a theory about the @Starlink price increases. The residential space is unsustainable for them, so they’re intentionally driving people to walk away. That way, when they pull the rug completely, they can blame it on “declining subscribership.”
This is bullshit @elonmusk. Second @Starlink price increase in just a few months.
Maybe if you hadn’t subsidized new subscribers at the cost of longtime, loyal customers, you could have avoided losing my business.
I'm not at all comfortable with someone being found guilty of rape 15-20 years after the alleged rape.
With waiting so many years to report it, you can never prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, imo.
I know I can't be the only one who thinks this.🤔
Has anyone else noticed that its getting more difficult to type on your phone?
Like a definite increase in misspelled words.
My wife and sister have noticed it too.
Whats causing that?