Mike

Georgetown Law ‘27; LSU ‘22; USMC Vet

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

Costco haul culture transfers the cost of storing goods from the retailer to the household.

In a city, you can live with a smaller kitchen, pantry, and refrigerator because the neighborhood itself functions as your pantry. Multiple grocers, bakeries, pharmacies, etc are storing things nearby until you need them.

In the burbs, the stores are farther away, so households have to buy in bulk and store things at home. The big house, basement, garage … all needed to compensate for lack of neighborhood amenities. suburbs relocate the warehouse from the merchant to your house.

[Pablo Antonio @PabloAntonio]

We should build like this, but from the future.

[Emily Jashinsky @emilyjashinsky]

This example is instructive: "Move the at-home spouse into the labor market and every service she provided must be repurchased from the latest private equity roll-up (nursery, takeaway, cleaner, security system…). GDP records each purchase as growth. A family can thus be measured as substantially richer while consuming the same services — only now they spend less time together."

As @moveincircles often points out, work outside the home — for men and women — is a relatively modern/industrial construct anyway.

[Christopher Rufo @christopherrufo]

This kind of rhetoric was good in the 1980s when America was going through a consumer product boom, but it’s not going to meet the current moment. The Left’s easy counter is, “Sure, you can buy a cheap fridge, but you can’t afford housing, education, and healthcare.”

We’re not going to get the DSA generation to change their minds with an appeal to consumerism and recycled arguments from “I, Pencil.” Sadly, we’re way beyond that point.

[Samyaza Speaks @SamyazaSpeaks]

The Biblical Experience

Music: Holy Place by BENNETT

[𝙲𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚢 @steppedenizen]

It’s not about how much space you have. But how you use it!

Here are 3 steps to achieve privacy in outdoor space Traditional New Orleanians have known and used for generations.

[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

This is a terrorist. Why are they not treated like terrorists?

[Mike Fragoso @mike_frags]

“Here’s the play, Amy. I’m gonna recommend you to Trump and you’re going to get rid of Roe, get rid of Chevron, keep Trump on the ballot, give him immunity, eliminate affirmative action, eliminate NY’s gun laws, get rid of majority-minority districts, let Trump get rid of TPS but keep metering, protect girls’ sports, get rid of independent agencies, and get rid of Lemon. But when it comes time to let states count ballots after Election Day, that’s when you’ll strike with a narrow opinion deferring to Congress. Got it? We play the long game in Kentucky.”

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I haven’t moved on from the Karmelo Anthony fundraiser. They donated half a million as a reward for killing a white kid. Zero evidence or reason to think it was “self defense,” and they didn’t care. It was a reward for killing a white kid. I’ll never forget it. Neither should you

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

The only thing that stops violent men from raping you and your society are other men who are equally willing to be violent in stopping the rapists. The West has decided that the highest virtue is to quietly comply with the destruction of your civilization because to do otherwise is bigoted toward the rapists. It really is that simple.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear.

It migrated inward.

Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space.

That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons.

So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public.

The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it.

The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open.

The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility.

That is the trade.

A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation.

This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question.

The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults.

It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation.

The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.

[Christopher Rufo @christopherrufo]

This is what "taking the middle ground" gets you within the institutions. To compromise with leftist ideologies—Jacobinism, Bolshevism, racialism—all lead to the same place: getting purged.

There is nothing "beautiful" about losing in this manner.

[U.S. in Holy See @USinHolySee]

Ambassador Burch spoke today with His Eminence Cardinal Pierre, the outgoing papal nuncio to the United States, regarding his January meeting with Under Secretary Elbridge Colby. 1/4

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

Even after all these years, many people remain entirely befuddled by Trump. It's impressive.

[Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher]

Aren’t you people ashamed of yourselves by now? Falling for the same thing every time? When did Salena Zito say “seriously but not literally”? Nearly a decade ago?

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

The reaction to this from the "online right" has been nothing but pathetic.

For 10 years, since I was in HIGHSCHOOL, I have watched and participated in endless posting about "saracens", "bring back the crusades", "retake constantinople" and all sorts of pro-violence rhetoric against muslims and the middle east.

Now we have a president (likely bluffing) who is stating he wants to do that and you people blink. How pathetic. None of you people are serious. None of you are the "strong men" that you pretend to be.

Every leftist is serious, they wouldn't say they want to "liquidate white people" but they will happily go work for NGOs to defraud the country, or work as pro-bono legal clerks to keep repeat offending murderers and rapists out of jail.

Every leftist was serious when they went to go work for the CIA, FBI, and NSA they did the dirty work for Bush, Obama, and Biden against their precious browns as hospitals and weddings were bombed. You know why? Because after that they got to spy on Americans, they got to debank and arrest people for memes.

Leftists do this shit because they are serious, because even if they are opposed to the random inbred browns getting drone striked 7,000 miles away, they know that at the end of it they will still get to weaponize their will, even the smallest most infinitesimal amount of it to enact their worldview on YOU.

None of you people are willing to do that which is why we lose. Even those who will go and say "well Yarvin is right about the hobbits" are hand wringing at the idea of displaying true and real power, and more importantly getting the fuck out of this mess.

But no, you keep posting crusader crosses and Kingdom of Heaven edits while crying about Iran. Meanwhile leftists are going to do everything they can to ruin your life and will do anything at the opprotunity to do so. Including nuking Tehran.

[Muck Boot Nationalist @kulakelite]

In my ~4 decades as a Catholic, this hits home and is why I’ve been mulling over EO.

Leaving politics out of it, it is still a black eye on Catholic moral teaching and church culture.

Sadly, the bishops have said w/their actions that I’m a welfare ATM and my children don’t matter.

[Kevin DeAnna @VDAREJamesK]

If your morality mandates your defeat, it was probably pushed on you by an enemy.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

It just feels so painfully obvious that the 14th amendment does not mean that a 9-months pregnant woman from Mexico can cross the Rio Grande illegally, give birth, and be allowed to stay because her child is now a natural born citizen.

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

Lots of self-flagellating stupidity like "if the Iranian regime survives, it wins."

No it doesn't you idiots. It began the war with a senior leadership class, air defenses, a navy, an Air Force, and a defense industrial base. It no longer has those things. That's losing