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[Madeleine @JournoMaddie]

This image of a woman transporting a grinning male illegal immigrant across the sea is almost too perfect of a metaphor to be a real photo.

[seiko @seik0_pl]

@MattWalshBlog Oppenheimer felt the same way

[Octavian 🇪🇺 @posta_octavian]

The 2020s signify the return of politics and we need to celebrate that.

The left is much more honest than ever. The right is much more honest than ever. The center is being squeezed. The stakes are rising. The contradictions are deepening. The polarisation is strengthening. The left's radicalisation gives the right wing air to breathe and vice versa. Politics matter again. The technocratic era of the think tanks, of the Merkels, the Clintons, the David Camerons, the NGOs is ending. The boomers will eventually die.

The inertia of the 1990s is still holding the west in its grip, but it won't last forever. Prepare for the chaos that's to come.

[Aimee Terese @aimeeterese]

They aren’t trying to understand the right, they’re using us as a psychic container as a repository for projecting their shadow into, so they can disavow it. That’s why they’re always simply accusing us of the things they do and think. The right is their disavowed shadow.

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: "This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, for civilization itself."

[John⛵️🥥 @Jbn3ex]

Easy to laugh at this but I dont think people have internalized how big of a deal it is, especially for the 3rd world, that everyone on earth now has 24/7 instant access to a ~115 IQ person with an extremely broad knowledge base who speaks your native language. Yeah the information was already out there (in english) but you needed someone with time, inclination and intelligence to find it, parse it and apply it, those people are in short supply in rural Nigeria.

[Ryan Hiepler @ryjlocal]

Good example of strategy in life. 90% positioning, 10% explosive execution when the timing is right. Activity without achievement is a false god of the modern world.

[seiko @seik0_pl]

@SirJBritain Need to take that backpack away from him in situation like that

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

In 2026 ‘socialists’ don’t want central planning or to seize the means of production. (They don’t want real socialism.)

What they want is $175k a year NGO sinecures and welfare entitlements that used to be restricted to the underclass.

Do you think a 7th year ‘sociology PhD student’ wants to manage industrial production?

Lol, no, these people are too retarded and lazy and even if they weren’t they’re so entitled it’s their expectation that all this work will just magically be done by others.

It’s important to understand what their actual project is: they’re not trying to renegotiate important matters of political economy - what they want is public funding of semi-affluent urban living that’s out of reach for them.

A lot of the ‘socialist’ set pieces and theater kid ideological performance art are in service of obscuring the premise and true objectives of their political project which would humiliating to have to openly articulate. So, you have this pastiche of ‘socialism’ which, while malevolent and overflowing with ill intent, is more marketing and nostalgia than anything relating to the 20th century economic and political project that goes by the same name.

[Guy @nosilverv]

BREAKING: A second very tantalizing Jungian concept has hit the timeline

[Ed West @edwest]

https://t.co/cU33OA9EqP

[Chris Ward @MasterWambo]

Not only do we not live in cyberpunk, but cyberpunk will never happen for the exact reason it's such an alluring setting: The downtrodden underclass are never going to become super high agency computer wiz genius street samurai warriors, hacking into corpo supercomputers and committing acts of terrorism against THE MAN. They're actually just going to be fat degen gooners and addicts, outsourcing all cognitive function (and gambling action) to machines, eating kool-aid pineapple and sharing AI videos of African kids doing autobody work with brick and mortar. "Oh my God, can you believe this!?” And they'll drink fabric dye elixirs because their penis doesn't work, and shop at Walmart and traffic in novel hybrids of conspiracy theory on the techno-occult app.

The great conceit of cyberpunk is that it assumes most people are transhumanists at heart. That they're incredibly savvy and talented, and they'd all do so well if THE MAN just got out of their way and let them upgrade. As it turns out, people can't even handle the internet. They could barely handle the television. The camera has stricken them in hypnosis, reorienting their gaze to see things for it rather than themselves. Ubiquitous access to food has destroyed their bodies. All communication now routed through a sensory deprivation box, and suddenly they want to end their life. There will be no laser katanas.

The pioneering writers of the genre always assumed, like many people still do today, that technological pessimism relies on a corrupted design. There was nothing essential about it. The revealed dilemma is that man interacting with highly optimized systems doesn't need to be coerced into dysfunction much at all. We can do bad all by ourselves. You merely have to leave too much kibble in the bowl.

[Philosophy Sage @philosophysage]

14 HARVARD TECHNIQUES to be better than 99% of the world

1. The 5 - second rule

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Almost everyone has missed the actual point, here.

@politicalmath has made a slam-dunk argument-ending case that the left doesn't believe its own rhetoric.

Which is not only A relevant point, it's the ONLY relevant point.

Because if your own arguments are so weak that they don't even convince YOU, there is absolutely no reason for me to even listen to them, much less debate them.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

It bears repeating that the Democratic Party is only being held in place by gerontic sclerosis.

As that inevitably breaks apart ‘progressive politics’ will take the next logical step in its teleology much better captured by the insanity of DSA leftism than it is by any form of sunny, competent technocratic progressivism.

[F. A. Hayek Quotes @FAHayekSays]

Ludwig von Mises, Hayek’s early mentor, wrote one of the most brutal takedowns of socialism ever:

“The champions of socialism ... call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.

They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

I want to emphasize in Los Angeles, New York City, other Democrat strongholds it's impossible to vote your way out. Whites were chased out. Foreigners were brought in and put on welfare. The only successful solution is to send in federal troops, do mass deportations and audits.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

Been saying this for a few years. Transnational elites are basically their own tribe now, meaning that the populations they govern don't experience them as the leadership of their tribe, but as a foreign imposition.

There was some woman whining about this at the WEF a few years back. She made the point that thanks to meetups like Davos elites trust each other more and more, but lamented that as this happened their home populations trusted them less and less.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

The fix everything button is literally just to arrest criminals and keep them in jail

Bukele was able to do this in a matter of months

When you see the crime and rot in western cities and feel unsafe letting your wife walk around, know that it is a choice.