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Obviously here for life advice and to improve my mental health.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨 do you understand what Bessent just did..

the US government's checking account has $950 billion in it.. that's your tax money.. sitting there for emergencies.. and the Treasury Secretary just said he might spend it buying America's own bonds..

not because the economy needs stimulus.. because yields spiked after the tariffs and nobody wants to buy US debt at these prices anymore..

so instead of fixing why the world lost confidence.. he's using your money to fake demand for bonds the market is selling..

Yellen kept that account at $550 billion.. Bessent quietly doubled it.. now we know why..

they called it a "Treasury Twist".. it's your savings being used to make the government's debt look cheaper than it is

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The main difference between republicans and democrats is where on the globe they want us to be involved in a war.

[LT Jonathan Kendrick @PlisskenPatriot]

Incredible.

[V @support_kernel]

@jamesonhaslam Its all npnsense hes just trying to create value for himself

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 American wages have fallen to 43% of national income, the lowest since the Great Depression.

For every $1 the US economy produces, workers are getting less of it than at any point since 1929.

The rest is going to corporate profits, which are now at an all time high.

This is why the economy keeps growing but most Americans feel poorer. GDP goes up, wages go up in dollar terms, but workers are getting a smaller and smaller slice of what they actually produce.

Asset prices keep rising for the same reason.

Money that used to go to wages is now going to shareholders instead, and shareholders put it into stocks, real estate and other assets.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

brain-rot videos literally suppress activity in the parts of your brain responsible for cognitive control, the systems that help you resist impulses

fascinating

if used properly, short-form video seems almost perfectly designed as a cyberweapon: capture attention, weaken cognitive control, then control what millions of people see next and what they will impulsively act on

good thing nobody would ever build something like that lol

[ʎllǝuuop ʇuǝɹq @donnelly_brent]

2024: Key Square Group LP founder Scott Bessent, a prominent Donald Trump fundraiser, sharply criticized Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, accusing her of changing the the cadence of the composition of the Treasury issue to bolster President Joe Biden by juicing the economy ahead of the election.

2026: Bessent announces plan to buy more long bonds in a program that starts early September and ends one day before midterms.

Symmetry.

[Pat Stedman | Dating & Relationship Coach for Men @Pat_Stedman]

On a macro level we used to have these courtship rituals that allowed plausible deniability even for approaching / introductions. Dances were a major part of this: it was etiquette for women to accept, and you could test chemistry with without humiliation. All gone now.

It's why, while I admire cold approach, it's a sign of our cultural decline that it's even considered necessary. Men are not supposed to have to brave social rejection in such an overt way to date women, and women are not supposed to have to be prepared to handle a guy's advances out and about either. Society was supposed to facilitate their romance for them in various settings; approaches were more subtle.

No more. You're on your own. Funny how many of the "game tactics" are just things relearned from first principles to recreate those same subtexts to move things forward without embarrassing either party.

[Jeff @_Jeffery0]

“Do You Support Israel’s Right to Exist?” Mehdi Hasan FIRES BACK

Mehdi Hasan: I've been debating hardcore Zionists, Israeli supporters of Israel, for years. And the conversation always comes back to one talking point:

“Do you, or do you not support Israel’s right to exist?”

If you don't, you're an extremist, you're an anti-Semite, you want to wipe Israel and millions of Israeli Jews off the map.

But you don't have to concede on this point. It's a bullshit argument.

Number one: Right to exist where?

Israel is the only country in the world that refuses to define its borders.

So if you want me to recognize Israel's right to exist, does that extend into Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem all considered illegally occupied territory under international law?

So, right to exist where?

Number two: What is this right to exist? Where does it come from?

States don't have a right to exist. People, individuals have a right to exist. Human beings have that right. Not states, not countries.

The USSR broke up into Russia and 14 other states. Yugoslavia broke up. Czechoslovakia split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
What happened to their “right to exist”?
People have rights, not states.

And number three: If there is a right to exist, does Palestine have a right to exist?
Israel exists. It's a country with sovereignty, it's on the map.

The idea that in a world where Israel is genociding the Palestinians in Gaza, ethnically cleansing them in the West Bank, and blocking their legal right to return the idea that Israel's right to exist is the one we should be concerned about, and not Palestine's, is both ridiculous and, let's be honest, racist.

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

The biggest story going overlooked this week is the Trump administration did a federal investigation into the owner of the Lakers, to pressure him to sell, so that Bob Iger and a Trump in-law could purchase the team. Mafia level coercion. Not that I care about the ethics

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

The ugly truth about why .5% of men make it and most live sh!t lives...

Is that you can't work or motivate yourself to success.

You have to create a metaphoric gun to your head with a very real mental bullet. An outcome that is up there with death.

Let me explain:

You won't see growth in your life... personal or in income... from motivation. You can't willpower it either.

You will see it when you've endured enough pain that you have truly had enough and refuse to stay as you are.

Most men only stop drinking when it makes their life unbearable.

Most men only choose to take big risks and become successful when they reach a breaking point from the work they are stuck in.

I for example NEVER wanted to be an entrepreneur growing up. It wasn't till I was 22, broke and stuck and hating my job, that I literally couldn't live any longer in my current situation. I didn't want to build a business. I had to. My life was unbearable due to where coasting had gotten me.

Only when "at any cost, I can't live like this anymore" becomes your motivation will you see huge growth.

The way to achieve this is by removing what numbs you. The things that stop you from looking in the mirror and going "what the fucking fuck."

The cheap dopamine, cheap thrills, booze/pot/junk that leave you foggy and unclear. The things that let you feel okay, despite your life being very much "not okay" if you actually look it in the eye.

Most men never do this. They never look at the things they CHOOSE accept about themselves. Poor health. Poor habits. Awful results in everything.

They just open a beer, load up a video game, scroll social media and bury it. This is because looking at how ugly you are is hard. The best way to ensure you stay metaphorically fat and disgusting is simply to not look in the mirror.

You have to look at who you truly are and feel such disgust that you will no longer tolerate staying where you are.

Without this you will only get temporary bursts. You will only make do on willpower, which is finite.

Something close to a gun to your head must be created in your mind. You must vehemently reject who and what you are to the point that it keeps you up at night.

Then you'll simply make whatever you want happen.

This is why most men never unlock their potential till they hit rock bottom. Most, despite WANTING success, are always in a numb state of "mostly" comfortable. The years then pass, they get old, nothing changes.

Whatever it takes to trigger this. Do it.

The answer isn't a self help book. It isn't researching and admiring other role models. It isn't envisioning a better life and mapping out daily steps to get there.

It's unbridled-unholy-rage as a result of where your life choices have gotten you.

This won't sustain you forever....But shit damn...It will guaranteed get you over the initial hurtle and to the point where "love of the game" will carry you.

Like I said before, it usually comes down to removing everything that is distracting and numbing you so that you are forced to look at yourself for who you truly are.

[AF Post @AFpost]

Apple received a $2.2B tariff refund this quarter.

Consumers were stuck with the price of tariffs, with corporations now receiving massive refunds from the government, effectively passing Trump’s tariffs, which the president promised wouldn’t hurt consumers, onto the very people he promised to help.

Corporate wealth has exploded relative to the average American’s wealth under Trump.

Follow: @AFpost

[V @support_kernel]

@Dmonstersjeesh @RealDianeYap @datingbyblaine They have poor judgement

[Dimitri @thedimitri]

We used to understand some women were meant to be courtesans, prostitutes, or whores and now these same women expect to become wives

[James @MKUltraMoney]

Notice how he says “maybe some women shouldn’t be wives” and she immediately jumps to “men should fucking dіе”

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It really is astounding that the most reliable way to know whether Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington is that John Fetterman puts on a suit to show respect to his leader, but not for anyone else, including American leaders.

[Lukas (computer)🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

Nobody is going to leave an app that shows them hot people and move over to one that says “you’re a 4, here’s a fat loser who might love you”

People do not want (or tolerate) honest appraisals of their worth. They no longer have to, society was reorganized around this

[Cristine Rice @PstafarianPrice]

@nikitabier @signulll @cortadoedison Nikkita, please, leave me one last space on the internet where as a woman I can be judged by the content of my shitpoasts and not the size of my tits

imo photos with faces should be boosted to followers (they care!) deboosted to randos (who is this stranger, I don't care!)