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Live servative; not in servitude.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Washington Post,

Are these people in the group of 10 officials you mention? Because they're all over my files where they're working with the same ex-USAID officials plotting to rewrite the Constitution.

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

The French are interesting as I’ve never seen a people so proud of their culture yet also so willing to give it up.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: WNBA formally tells Congress that only biological women can play in the league, declaring Enes Kanter Freedom & Royce White ineligible because "both are men.”

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

Europe is toast. Canada and Australia have been captured.

It is not an exaggeration to say that America is the last remaining remnant of 4,000 years of Western Civilization. And anyone sitting home in November cuz gas prices is complicit in our cultural extinction.

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@el_samiel @PlotWeaver I appreciate that though - made me look into it, and I can add that to the Scout First-Aid knowledge.

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@el_samiel @PlotWeaver Appreciate the advice, but in this case these spines aren't that barbed. Grok says Saguaro spines are stiff, relatively long, and unbarbed so sources note they usually come out cleanly with a straight pull; twisting can increase the chance of snapping the spine inside tissue.

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@PlotWeaver Are you an ex-IBMer?

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@PlotWeaver Those winds were the strongest sustained winds I ever remember in Tucson.

[Happy Granddaddd @PlotWeaver]

@servative This is why you don't hike alone - so someone can pull the several hundred pound cactus off of you when it falls.

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@PlotWeaver Amen, Brother. First rule of wilderness survival.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

On my way to the office this morning, I passed a group of young people protesting, a Palestinian flag draped over their shoulders.

And I asked myself a question I can't shake: why does this generation always fall into the same trap? No matter the history. No matter the context. Even the ones from wealthy families, who went to the best schools, who were dealt every good card. Always the same trap.

I don't think it's stupidity. I think it's a mechanism. And a mechanism can be taken apart, piece by piece.

A. The observation: everything the state touches becomes unaffordable.

Look at economist Mark Perry's famous chart, the one people call "the chart of the century." It tracks US prices since 2000.

At the top, what explodes: hospital services, college tuition, textbooks, childcare, housing. Increases of +100%, +150%, up to +250%, far above general inflation.

At the bottom, what collapses: TVs, software, phones, toys, clothing. A TV today costs a fraction of what it did in 2000, for an infinitely better product.

Look at what separates the two groups. It isn't technology. It isn't complexity. It's one variable: how much the state is involved.

At the top, sectors that are subsidized, regulated, shielded from competition, where the state funds demand and blocks supply. At the bottom, sectors where companies fight every single morning to serve you better and cheaper.

B. The mechanism: why it's systematic.

When the state subsidizes demand without freeing supply, prices rise. Every time. Guaranteed student loans, and universities raise tuition. Housing aid plus blocked building permits, and rents skyrocket. Administered healthcare, and bureaucracy eats the budget before it ever reaches the patient.

In France it's even more vicious, because the price doesn't disappear: it hides. You never see the hospital bill, you pay it through payroll contributions. You never see the cost of school, you pay it through taxes. Public spending at 57% of GDP, one of the heaviest tax burdens in the world, more than €3.4 trillion in debt. And the result? Overflowing ERs, falling PISA scores, young people who can't afford to live in the city where they work.

The market didn't fail in these sectors. It was never allowed in.

C. Suffering demands a culprit.

A 22-year-old lives all of this in their bones. They can't find a place to live. Their degree either buries them in debt or opens no doors. The future feels blocked. That suffering is real, and I don't deny it for a second.

But human beings can't stand suffering without a culprit. They need a face. A scapegoat.

And this is where everything is decided: who taught them how to read the world?

D. Whoever tells the story picks the villain.

Schools are public. Universities are public. Culture runs on grants. Film goes through funding committees. Public broadcasting shapes the narratives. The people handing down the interpretive framework are, overwhelmingly, paid by the very system that creates the problem.

Do you really think that system is going to name itself as the culprit?

No. It names the capitalist. The boss. The landlord. "The rich." The multinational. The commercial West. Same role, same casting, every time.

E. One lens, a thousand causes.

And this brings me back to that flag. A generation taught to read every situation through a single lens, oppressor on one side, rich, Western, capitalist, oppressed on the other, will apply that lens everywhere. To housing. To climate. To conflicts on the other side of the world. The cause changes, the lens stays. That's why the trap is always the same: it's not the cause that draws them in, it's the way of thinking that was installed in them.

F. The perfect inversion.

Here's the irony. Capitalism is the force that drove down the price of almost everything it touched. The state is the force that blew up the price of almost everything it captured. And young people blame the first for the crimes of the second.

It's like blaming the firefighter for the fire because you saw him at the scene.

G. The ballot box confirms it.

In the US, a few weeks out from the midterms, a large share of urban young voters is getting ready to vote Democrat for more state, more spending, more regulation. New York elected a self-described socialist mayor, carried by young voters, on promises of rent freezes and city-run grocery stores. Rent freezes, the policy that has made housing scarcer everywhere it's been tried. The cure that worsens the disease.

In France, it's the same play in two acts. Part of the youth votes for the radical left, which promises more state. Another part votes for the center, which promises to "manage" the state well, and has dug the debt deeper than ever. Two different ballots, one shared assumption: the problem is the market, the solution is the state.

H. The way out.

These young people aren't stupid. They're right to be angry. They're just aiming at the wrong target.

The day they understand that their rent, their tuition and their hospital are expensive precisely because the state runs them, their anger will change direction. They'll stop protesting against those who create. They'll start protesting against those who capture.

That day, the greatest intellectual scam of our time will be over.

[unseen1 @unseen1_unseen]

No one has yet made a case on why we should return power to a party that is promoting anti-American policies and who when they had power made everyone's life worse.

The dems tried to destroy the oil industry. Thry tried to destroy the cattle industry. They tried to destroy the egg industry.

They want to tax everyone and everything to pay for their fraud and corruption.

They blew the doors open on federal spending causing historic inflation that we are still dealing with 2 years later.

They opened the borders to a flood of illegal and legal migrants.

Their weak foreign policy allowed Russia to invade Ukraine and Iran to go full steam ahead on developing a nuke.

Their weak trade policy caused 10,000s of factories to shut down, thousands and millions to lose their good paying middle class jobs to China and other nations.

Their lack of law enforcement caused thousands to lose their life and property.

Their lack of morals and deviant behavior allowed men into women sports and locker rooms among other thingd. That behavior also saw the destruction of the nuclear family and a destruction of religion within the nation.

It's clear from their comments that they have not learned anything from being out of power and will just continue what they started if given power again.

There is no case anyone can make on why returning these people to power will change anything for the better but many points of evidence to fear returning them to power will just make everything worse once again.

[I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande @smitty_one_each]

If only there were some...institution...that could provide cultural norms that guide behavior in a way that maximizes protection for emotions.

Such a device might even support people growing old together, and carrying on the culture through producing new generations.

If really successful, this idea might even come to rival the popularity of marriage.

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@EmmanuelMacron You tell 'em, Manny!

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America let cities burn all Summer. Same thing.

[🍹 Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock @kimmie_c_]

That's French sign language for "cut class sizes & need more books"

[🍹 Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock @kimmie_c_]

Imagine standing through 2 World Wars but being taking out by "diversity"

[PubliusNV @PubliusNV]

Home from my cruise, so Friday Follows!
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[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

ROADSTER: n. a convertible top 2 seat automobile with no side windows and a detachable windshield

You lot are just sitting there like a bunch of morons letting Elon get away with calling a parakeet a poodle