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• 4 May 2022: Such as?
• 4 May 2022: Actually have zero respect for PUA culture and I frequently deride it. The most unfortunate thing about it is that it seems to work for a lot of people when it comes to getting laid, but it's pretty poisonous.
• 4 May 2022: Yeah I wasn't posting what you'd call manosphere content until recently. I usually stick to actual politics and none of the MRA junk.
• 4 May 2022: That's a relatively recent development, aside from Thiel experimenting in patronage with specific individuals getting some funding. We're only now really starting to get our shit together where we can amplify messaging. I've eating this shit sandwich since GamerGate.
• 4 May 2022: I think it's disproportionate because of the megaphone that gets applied to the loudest voices in the room by social media.
• 4 May 2022: That's not what the woke keep screaming in our faces 24/7. If you're a straight white dude you suddenly "need" to do a whole lot of things according to them, and I don't appreciate people impolitely demanding I do things.
• 4 May 2022: Why would I want to kneecap myself for someone elses benefit who has a grudge against me, I mean you brought up game theory and that makes no sense to do that for anyone who knows anything about game theory. It's literally inviting someone to abuse you.
• 4 May 2022: Women want desire, men want sex. Men and Women trade these things to feel fulfilled, with an ancillary desire of their own for these things too. Women like sex, men like feeling desired, but generally speaking it's secondary.
• 4 May 2022: I've read many an essay on the nightmare that is Bonobo society for men, I don't want to live in it. It's all masturbation and matriarchs doling out sex for conflict resolution. No thank you.
• 4 May 2022: lmao what am I supposed to do then, lose game theory on purpose like I'm letting my son win a game of air hockey to humor him?
• 4 May 2022: Not gonna happen sister, humans are flawed, we always will be, and we have finite resources and time and mental capacity with which to decide what we can improve or fix. Sunk cost and 2nd/3rd order effects are a thing. Perfection is a gilded lie, we can just try to do our best.
• 4 May 2022: Even though I find most of wokeness objectionable, it is because there is no room for me in it, or my beliefs. I will not grovel on the floor for being white, or being male, or being straight, or for crimes I have not committed. I am more normal than most of those cultists.
• 4 May 2022: I think that is bound for disaster. I think a lot of the norms that humans have always had are there for a reason, because these problems have been experimented with before and we're not necessarily smarter than our forebears.
• 4 May 2022: I think there's a degree of natural order to the world that we should always appreciate and adapt to, instead of trying to flex it into utopian ideals. I see wokies and leftism in general as trying to force a square peg into a round hole, to "design" a perfect world.
• 4 May 2022: I enjoy off color humor to include racist shit, but I have friends of many races and backgrounds, I don't think men can be women and women can be men, and endorsing the delusions of the mentally ill is gross and dangerous.
• 4 May 2022: The idea that being a straight white male makes you an oppressor or a villain unless you pay penance at the altar of victimhood is what's doing it. The people screaming this at us the most are women, usually women with quite a bit of privilege themselves. It breeds resentment.
• 4 May 2022: I do sincerely hope that you find what makes you happy. 👍
• 4 May 2022: I personally found, as a bit of a nerd intellectual myself, that it was really hard to be happy until I started using that intuition a little more and just kind of tried to go with the flow and navigate obstacles as they were, and thought a little less.
• 4 May 2022: Life is messy, organic, and complicated. It's not some problem universities can mathematically solve or perfect or fix. There's no utopia we can actually build. Use your intuition a little more and your brain a bit less. You've got a good brain, so don't stop using it, but still.
• 4 May 2022: On the one hand he's kind of a jerk, but on the other hand, I'm gonna go back to work, but I do have one piece of advice that I think would help you a lot.
• 4 May 2022: Marriage is, in a way, a partial surrender to each other. That's kind of what commitment is all about. Trust and a bit of vulnerability.
• 4 May 2022: Well you're interesting, I'll give you that, I'd say maybe inject a bit more humor into your life though. There's some dude out there for you, y'all just gotta find each other.
• 4 May 2022: I'd say worry more about how you can find a man that treats you in a way that you like before projecting that resentment on society at large though. That advice goes for both men and women though.
• 4 May 2022: I think moral standards for men and women should be balanced in a way that is both different but mutually reinforcing to the best degree possible that can organically emerge. The scale always starts to tip too far one way or another and gets balanced out. It's art not science
• 4 May 2022: If you're a TERF you've got yourself a shot, there's hope for you yet pic.twitter.com/CBN9om5Mll
• 4 May 2022: Man it don't work that way my wifes got the masters degree but I pay the mortgage pic.twitter.com/osLdF4tqin
• 4 May 2022: I'd say that's fair and reasonable.
• 4 May 2022: @MediClit @Esmenet @bearmace @pmarca lmao I think with your situation in particular I can see how that's quite the dealbreaker, and for the record I'd lean towards your argument over his excuse on that one.
• 4 May 2022: People who aren't rich don't have the luxury of being obsessed with that shit, we're too busy living our lives, and I'd really recommend you look for someone who is also too busy living their lives to do anything other than just try to treat people kindly.
• 4 May 2022: I was a pretty centrist egalitarian until this stuff started getting shoved in my face everywhere I went, I know many many other men feel the same way. White women in particular never shut the hell up about it which is probably why my wife is hispanic.
• 4 May 2022: I mean, you aren't going to find any woke men with healthy testosterone levels, you literally just aren't going to. It's a pretty feminine invention. Unconscious bias influences decision but it's not up to pseudointellectuals to decide what others unconscious biases are.
• 4 May 2022: You probably need to go on a few dates with a plumber or something without talking about politics even if it doesn't have staying power just to reset yourself if I'm being honest. As someone who is also overtly political, sometimes hard not to let it live rent free in your head.
• 4 May 2022: The men who are liberal are mostly going to be kind of pathetic examples of men, not that there aren't pathetic conservatives too, obviously there are. But the liberal men who are good looking are generally psychopaths and the rest of them are usually redditoids. pic.twitter.com/E7mov8xxeK
• 4 May 2022: Eh, relationships are give and take. It's never a completely equal distribution, but it's also not something set theory and math should be applied to, or it ends up tit for tat, and that ends badly. The problem you are having is a pretty common problem though.
• 4 May 2022: Hey I'm not knocking the pantsuit, just the personality that goes with it.
• 4 May 2022: Keep in mind, people don't want to debate all the time, I'm guilty of this with my wife at times, I'm sure it annoys her sometimes when she'd rather talk about something else and I'm on a rant. But my wife kind of started out as a center lefty.
• 4 May 2022: Was he apolitical and felt like you were forcing him to care? Sounds like a guy who cares but can debate without taking it personally would be a better fit.
• 4 May 2022: "elites" and "potential elites" and "strivers" are all, without exception, terrible human beings. The men, the women, they are usually miserable people if they aren't psychopathic enough to enjoy being the way they are. They lie, they cheat, they tend to have freaky proclivities.
• 4 May 2022: No, you couldn't, they'll just pay lip service to it in public. How many Generals and CEO's pay tons of lip service to lame DEI initiatives and then get busted for sexually assaulting a female subordinate? It happens all the time. That's what I mean by cynical.
• 4 May 2022: I've worked in an office job with many women before and found this to still be the case as well. I work in IT now, and of all my clients that need assistance with an issue it's like 80 percent women, the men google the problem first.
• 4 May 2022: I mean there's apolitical guys too, who just don't really care about all that stuff, but if you care a lot about politics the apolitical guy might be more obnoxious to you than the conservative you can debate with.
• 4 May 2022: Many such cases What I mean is you probably need to find yourself a guy who isn't a total neoliberal twat Jessica. Go give a Republican a try sometime and you might be surprised. I don't know any liberal men with happy wives.
• 4 May 2022: It's a better comparison for sure, but every feminist thinks they are Lysistrata
• 4 May 2022: Don't think of it as a system, these are supposed to be people you want to fall in love with and want to fall in love with you, they're humans, not products. That's like the biggest problem with my wifes college friend, the air force pilot. She practically has a flow chart.
• 4 May 2022: @MediClit @Esmenet @bearmace @pmarca No by rule following I mean they are strivers. They'll change on a dime and do whatever the power structure tells them they need to do or say. They're the cynical CEO type.
• 4 May 2022: And if that's the case, I'm sorry to tell you, people in high society are only in there because they tend to be rule following power hungry psychopaths, I.E., the men are narcissists and the women are neurotic. Take a walk on the wild side and date a guy who's closer to normal
• 4 May 2022: I'm stereotyping here, but I get the vibe and feeling that there's a certain degree of urbanite pedigree that goes into your selection process, and none of these men are normal dudes in their 30's. You're looking for "elite" 30-somethings.
• 4 May 2022: And by that I mean, how much of your selection criteria that excludes other men is on the basis of things like education or the "status" of the job someone has? I'm not saying go date the burger flipper, but would you date, say, a master tradesman who owns his own business?
• 4 May 2022: It sounds like that went on for a bit too long, and that he didn't really like you, I don't know if you guys had chemistry to begin with, or if you felt like you had chemistry with him or not. I mean I don't know you, I can't back this up, but how much of this is pedigree?
• 4 May 2022: What did he do for a living?
• 4 May 2022: I think it's manipulative and abusive and distasteful, but it's also a way men have been getting women to sleep with them since time immemorial.
• 4 May 2022: Just an FYI, I am actually somewhere in that thread replying and saying he's an idiot, and that strategy is only good for getting women to sleep with you (because it is) and not good for actually finding a wife. I distinctly remember that thread.
• 4 May 2022: My wife is older than me, actually.
• 4 May 2022: Just to preface, I'm acting in good faith and genuinely asking.
• 4 May 2022: How did he mistreat you?
• 4 May 2022: I don't hate her, or women in general. I have a wife and a daughter and love them very much.
• 4 May 2022: When my wife found me, I was a Staff Sergeant in the Air Force, and she certainly wasn't having a whole lot of luck with other people who had masters degrees like her. Most of them were egotistical assholes.
• 4 May 2022: When my wife lived in LA and we started dating, one of her complaints was that most of the eligible men were either preening metrosexuals, vain educated intelligentsia, or attractive dudes who were just players. Maybe the pool where you are kind of sucks.
• 4 May 2022: Like I get that you're a woman who is highly educated and has been published, etc, but what I'm saying is how much have you considered men who are perhaps outside of the same social strata, and that doesn't even mean financially.
• 4 May 2022: I mean are the guys you are going after all university educated and high on their own farts and egos, there's a type. Are we talking researchers/professors etc?
• 4 May 2022: What type of men are you not meeting that could be good men? Are these dudes all masters degree bearing doctors and lawyers? Are these all pseudointellectual ivy leaguers?
• 4 May 2022: My wife has a college friend, very professional woman, very high powered, high achieving, she's a pilot in the Air Force. She's absolutely neurotic, she love bombs dudes and plays 20 questions on the very first date about long term goals like it's some Gattaca test.
• 4 May 2022: I'm saying perhaps there is something in your selection process that is flawed.
• 4 May 2022: Sometimes this was hard, when I was with one particular girl that I really enjoyed spending time with, but knew I didn't have a long term future with. She was cool, and she was fun, but I didn't want to waste either of our time and broke it off.
• 4 May 2022: I never was dating or seeing more than one woman at a time, I felt it would be dishonest as well as distracting. I broke up with women I firmly felt I didn't have a future with or wasn't enjoying spending time with.
• 4 May 2022: I kind of feel like your first problem is that you keep a ranked list of men who are "prospects". It kind of sounds like the hypocrisy of the women who complained about "West Elm Caleb"
• 4 May 2022: I loved my motorcycle, I used to ride all the time. I don't have one now, I have a family who depends on me, it's risky behavior I can't really afford. These things are about commitment and sacrifice for a bigger picture.
• 4 May 2022: Change of priorities? Learning to grow up? I mean we limit our life choices too. I don't get to do all sorts of things I could do when I was single, that's the sacrifice you make with starting a family or committing to another person to share lives with.
• 4 May 2022: Enough frustration from both themselves and men I suppose, and maybe a change in priorities. These things aren't easy to solve, it's about millions of people at a macro level so it's a tough nut to crack.
• 4 May 2022: If women don't like fucking 90 percent of men then there just aren't enough men for all of them, and we're gonna laugh at you and mock you when you complain about it.
• 4 May 2022: I didn't say they should, just that they will. I'm not a fuckin wizard lady, human nature is human nature and chads are gonna chad and stacies are gonna stacy.
• 4 May 2022: If it's any consolation, you don't seem like a mean shrew of a woman, and you are an attractive woman, I hope you find that person because you deserve to.
• 4 May 2022: Have very little control? If half the women are sleeping with a tenth of the men, who's got the control? Look, I'm sorry that you've had difficulties and struggles, but the entire sexual marketplace is pretty fucked up right now.
• 4 May 2022: Thank you sir!
• 4 May 2022: Polyamory seems to always follow the pattern of one person who is willing to leave if they aren't allowed to fuck other people, and another who is scared of being alone and tolerates it under duress.
• 4 May 2022: lmao I don't care if women live independently, men just don't want another dudes sloppy seconds if we're gonna be footing the bill for stuff, women generally don't like sharing their men either
• 4 May 2022: lmao yeah, most men in the lower 90 think the top 10 are admirable, and why wouldn't we? They're generally good looking and charismatic and successful. Jealousy is an ugly emotion. If we pick wrong, it's child support and alimony.
• 4 May 2022: If it's just sex then whatever, but that's not a healthy way to raise children.
• 4 May 2022: That's a whole lot easier than telling every man under 6 feet to magically find a way to get taller
• 4 May 2022: You can get dicked down by the top 10 percent whenever you want, but if what you want is exclusivity and a family, you're gonna need to look at the other 90 percent and find someone actually compatible.
• 4 May 2022: Why should they be picky? They get to drown in poontang, I can't speak for the top 10 percent living high on the hog, I'm part of the 90 percent who actually had to put in effort.
• 4 May 2022: You don't have time? Tell that to every average dude who has made a dating profile and had a thoughtful message ignored by all but 1 of every 50 women they message. I'm so glad I started dating my wife right when Tinder got big and missed the boat on all that.
• 4 May 2022: But monogamy is not optional if women want commitment from men, we're not sharing.
• 4 May 2022: It's still valuable to learn a skill and have a job that you can backstop on if you need to. I mean my wife has her masters and she's a housewife now. If I got hit by a bus she could go back to work in a heartbeat if she felt like it.
• 4 May 2022: A key that can open any lock is a really good key, a lock that opens for any key is a pretty crappy lock
• 4 May 2022: @zedverism211 @MediClit Thanks to dating apps women can basically only swipe right on the top 10 percentile of men, who get to have sex with at least half of the eligible women who want to hook up casually. It's a big problem but if you bring it up women would just call you an incel or something.
• 4 May 2022: A good write-up worth a read https://twitter.com/BurtonComments/status/1521887699317141504
• 4 May 2022: I agree very much with your premise and have made similar points in the past to many of the ones you brought up, a great write up. That's why I referenced sex and the city, under the tuscan sun, and eat, pray, love, in my thread.
• 4 May 2022: Like I'm not even an advocate for abstaining until marriage, I just think the ideal circumstances are people getting into actual relationships and getting to know each other before having sex, courtship basically doesn't exist now.
• 4 May 2022: When one sex disproportionately chooses if sex occurs or does not occur, the burden of that responsibility is not terribly equal. Women have always historically been the gatekeepers of the sexual marketplace. Tinder and Onlyfans are what devalued it so much.
• 4 May 2022: I can't speak for other men but I knew not only about the clitoris but its geographical coordinates before I even lost my virginity in high school. Honestly I agree with you that there's no reason to omit it from sex ed, they're trying to teach kids about fetishes but not clits?
• 4 May 2022: Either bizarre height standards like "Be at least 6 foot" on some vain womans tinder profile or materialistic standards for how much money we make, woman are just as cruel, if not worse, towards men. The worst we'll tend to do is mock you, and usually for your minds at that.
• 4 May 2022: I'm sorry that happened to you, but I can't be that sympathetic to girls getting mocked about vaginas. The go-to for every female on the internet is to immediately accuse men of having small dicks, or being sexually unsuccessful. Like it's the default insult.
• 4 May 2022: I will have you know that I am firmly against genital mutilation, have never had any issues or problems with the noble clitoris, which I am a raving fan of.
• 4 May 2022: I can sympathize with that, and I'm sorry it's been difficult for you. Millennial men have a ton of problems as well. The problem I had is when I was in my early 20's and was a guy who had his shit together, I couldn't find any women who actually wanted to settle down.
• 4 May 2022: Why would your parents not stop you from doing something that crazy? Roastie is mostly a metaphor, I've never known a man terribly invested in what a specific vagina looks like, they're all pretty great.
• 4 May 2022: Lady all that is hardly oppression, my wife makes more decisions than I do in our household by a pretty large margin, she's a former air force officer with a masters degree who's lived in several asian and european countries and is a very impressive woman.
• 4 May 2022: Check out "Assemblywomen" by Aristophanes, boy did he know
• 4 May 2022: I'm glad you agree, both men and women need to grow up and place a higher priority on getting married and starting families younger. When do you plan on starting?
• 4 May 2022: The reddit manchild phenomena is a real problem, but as I've already expressed to you, the subject of the thread was Lysistrata, not small souled bugmen being men unworthy of marriage.
• 4 May 2022: I more mean the battle of the sexes
• 4 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/IWdsy3XqEJ
• 4 May 2022: Now all of it is like skid row. Venice, muscle beach, santa monica, basically destroyed.
• 4 May 2022: When my wife and I were dating, she had an apartment right on Venice blvd, just a few blocks from muscle beach, that was maybe 8 or 9 years ago. It was beautiful, and Santa Monica was that "weird place with homeless people everywhere" and skid row was considered post apocalypse
• 4 May 2022: If these plays by Aristophanes were wildly popular 2500 years ago, the lindy effect applies pretty strongly
• 4 May 2022: He's communicating that by our standards, that's impressive and based, and by your standards, that's somehow negative and terrible.
• 4 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/GIVKh8ugEs
• 4 May 2022: Then maybe both men and women need to start a bit earlier. My wife and I got married before 30 but we waited a bit too long on kids and wish we had done it earlier.
• 4 May 2022: My wife and I both wish we did it earlier, we had kids a little bit late and both traveled and had careers before we found each other. It's exhausting having two young kids in your 30's
• 4 May 2022: It is, it's a beautiful and funny story, the classic and always poignant "battle of the sexes" comedy.
• 4 May 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
• 4 May 2022: wow sounds based
• 4 May 2022: RALLY THE BANNERMEN TONIGHT WE DINE ON ROAST BEEF! https://twitter.com/conan_esq/status/1521881552031944704 pic.twitter.com/GamfNNCWlI
• 4 May 2022: But a lot of feminists clutch to Lysistrata like it's some pearl of wisdom for them and that's what motivated my thread, so that was the angle from which I was discussing it, and honestly, I was discussing the more serious themes of the comedy.
• 4 May 2022: It is, everyone is absurd, everyone, for the men in Lysistrata it's the old men trying to retake the Acropolis and the herald coming back with the raging boner et cetera. There's something for everyone in a good Greek comedy
• 4 May 2022: Ok so have you found a husband yet
• 4 May 2022: Thank you!
• 4 May 2022: The eternal dance, men and women cursed to never completely understand the other, but blessed to be able to love each other
• 4 May 2022: lmao no it's just funny, I am an ardent clitoris appreciator
• 4 May 2022: Thank you for the thoughts and consideration, it's a good read and I hadn't considered it from that angle. I'm not college educated, I just read a lot of classical literature, so I was mystified at how many people read it wrong.
• 4 May 2022: They're men who either already have children from previous relationships, or decided they don't want them, so what's the point in marrying you if you're already having sex with them? There's no reason to hitch you to his wagon with commitment and obligations.
• 4 May 2022: A dude who takes care of himself can still make money and screw women well into his 50's and 60's if he plays his cards right. Women invest in men for resources, men invest in women for children. That's why you're wondering about 40 year old men "wasting your time"
• 4 May 2022: Men can't have kids, any man who wants a family probably prefers women who don't qualify as a geriatric pregnancy, which comes with risks of complications for the child, etc. Men provide two things women are interested in, we work in exchange for money and resources, and we fuck.
• 4 May 2022: That's literally what I just said.
• 4 May 2022: That isn't actually the point of the phrase.
• 4 May 2022: It's to mock single women who've had a large plethora of male partners and won't settle down and get married or start a family, and I mean, I don't know you Jessica but uhh, "A hit dog will holler" as they say.
• 4 May 2022: It's a joke that generally is applying to middle or upper class women who are spinsters. I don't think I've ever seen a married woman called a roastie. I sure hope my daughter doesn't spend all of her prime years prancing around doing a live action rendition of eat pray love.
• 4 May 2022: Oh lord you're gonna start another thread because @pmarca follows me aren't you
• 4 May 2022: I mean people will do what people will do, but men have a social value as mates that starts pretty close to 0 as young adults and grows with age, women start at 100 and slowly go down as they age. Are you married? Do you have kids?
• 4 May 2022: Men arent the ones with the key to the castle when it comes to the sexual marketplace, we'll have sex with just about any woman who will let us, why aren't middle and upper class white women getting married until they're about to turn 40? All the good men are gone married by then
• 4 May 2022: I thought you were the expert
• 4 May 2022: If this were a wider conversation I'd blame both, but this thread is about Lysistrata specifically. Men have plenty of things to be called to the carpet for as well.
• 4 May 2022: I'm a veteran noticer with a highly developed ultra instinct already, just pointing it out for everyone else
• 4 May 2022: The war needed to end because of the 2nd and 3rd order effects it was having on societies back home. And the home is the domain women have mastery over, so it was directly impacting female society after 20 years of war.
• 4 May 2022: Aristo was obviously very anti-war, but Lysistrata isn't about ending war for its own sake, and many midwits in universities seem to want to dumb down Lysistrata to a convenient american feminist narrative of "Women hate war so they use sex as a weapon to end it"
• 4 May 2022: I can respect that. I have always really been burned about how many college educated women missed the larger points of this story, and just use it as a cudgel to laugh about wielding sex like a weapon, when it is much more nuanced than that.
• 4 May 2022: any Orthodox or Conservative Jews might want to uhh, check on these folks, because history kind of shows they're the ones who cause pogroms
• 4 May 2022: Hmm. Curious. Several of the groups that support this site have sizeable donations from Alexander Soros too. How did they know two weeks ago about this ruling to prepare? pic.twitter.com/6XGTrQQ0xZ
• 4 May 2022: Thank you mucho femanon we're all in this together
• 4 May 2022: Some people make Lindy as a concept kind of cringe when they overdo it but it's still valid. Aristophanes battle of the sexes is very lindy, because all of his works hold up today and are accessible and hilarious to this day without needing historical context to enjoy.
• 4 May 2022: It shows how midwitted a lot of feministas who went to college are that they can somehow think any work by Aristophanes is to be taken that way. Especially after reading any of his other works. They're basically all "Women are capricious and hysterical but we also love them"
• 4 May 2022: Yeah Assemblywomen was supposed to be a comedy because it was so unthinkable in his time, and then when it plays out not too dissimilarly in real life unironically, it's quite the tragedy.
• 4 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/KBu7yjzjAH
• 4 May 2022: I'd avoid the Mark Adamo version, he missed the point imo and felt it wasn't dramatic enough and basically rewrote the entire thing https://www.markadamo.com/compositions/lysistrata
• 4 May 2022: yes very cool canadian pronoun man on wheels, run along now
• 4 May 2022: https://youtu.be/BYY88WNC_1Q Colleges and universities do them all the time for their drama classes and classics clubs though.
• 4 May 2022: Hmm, it really depends. Obviously live action plays are not super duper common, and them doing Aristophanes work is still not as common. In Greece they keep the tradition alive and it's very easy to find troupes doing it.
• 4 May 2022: The ultimate point of Lysistrata is very poignant for women, she really is the heroine, and she restores balance to a situation where the men are being excessive and shirking their responsibilities and the women are unhappy. Both sides look very silly.
• 4 May 2022: Most of his works are essentially a critique of Athenian society, told from absurd situations where people are caricatures. Many of his most famous works do indeed use women as hysterical drunken caricatures, but he also lampoons warmongering and Athenian leadership.
• 4 May 2022: Same, to be honest Lysistrata is good, but Thesmophoria is funnier and Assemblywomen is more funny in its absurdity
• 4 May 2022: I guess for the Chads too as if they had that kind of willpower or the women who were doing it were somehow desirable. (They don't and aren't)
• 4 May 2022: I feel very uneasy about what the future holds for that topic for the same reasons you do I'm sure, it's not a good situation.
• 4 May 2022: Pressing issues indeed, my wife is a national guard officer who didn't take it and lashed herself to the mast and pretty much told them no. After a few months it's like all the institutional pressure just disappeared and they haven't brought it up since.
• 4 May 2022: The concept of the "battle of the sexes as comedy" is rather obviously as old as time, because we still make works riffing that concept to this day, and Aristophanes was scribbling them down almost 2500 years ago.
• 4 May 2022: Aristophanes didn't hate women, he just frequently lampooned the differences between men and women for comedic effect, something that has been pretty popular throughout human history, and sometimes we're the butt of the joke and sometimes women are.
• 4 May 2022: Unfettered pursuit of infinite growth? Absolutely as unhealthy as infinite war. Growth can never be infinite, it's unsustainable and the ponzi always comes down sometime.
• 4 May 2022: Haha I appreciate that. Women with a sense of humor who don't take themselves too seriously get a kick out of his plays too, and honestly what makes or breaks a live action Aristophanes play is always talented actresses, and not the male actors.
• 4 May 2022: Uhh, I'm happily married with two kids, love my wife, and generally speaking she has the run of a pretty significant part of our families lives, and nobody is abused. You sound like you've got a complex, though I sympathize with anyone who receives abuse in a relationship.
• 4 May 2022: He realizes this, but the women are just as afraid of him cutting open the wineskin and wasting the wine as if it were an actual child, and when he cuts it open a woman dives to the floor with a large pan, trying to catch all the drops of wine before they hit the floor.
• 4 May 2022: For example, in Thesmophoria, the main character is cornered by a bunch of angry women who want to lynch him, he takes a "baby" from one of their arms and puts a knife to it and says he'll stab it, but it turns out to be a wineskin wrapped in a swaddle.
• 4 May 2022: I think the excess and drunkeness is what makes it an archetype. People in Greece all casually drank wine, but even today in Europe it's seen as being in poor taste to get drunk off of table wine regularly. Americans are absolute drunk ruffians compared to Euro norms
• 4 May 2022: Every Aristophanes play is really good on the condition that they get very good actresses who can roleplay as a melodramatic pain in the ass and enjoy themselves while they do it, the right impish actresses absolutely make or break it. Thesmophoria is probably the funniest tho
• 4 May 2022: It's very good as long as the women involved realize it's a comedy and not about empowerment
• 4 May 2022: Thank you friend
• 4 May 2022: Oh? What's your interpretation? It's not about empowerment sweetie.
• 4 May 2022: No more downton abbey for this nigga I'm just kidding I'm married. Please help. I'm.. starting.. TA SPEAK LOIK A COCKNEY SCULLERY MAID INNIT ROIGHT
• 4 May 2022: The meandering is a cardinal sin of mine, but it's a big topic and I just couldn't stop.
• 4 May 2022: My theory is either the position doesn't exist and Aristophanes was using it as a joke, or it's a woman on all fours doggystyle, but she's doing all the rocking back and forth instead of the dude thrusting, like she's on her knees moving a grader across a wheel of cheese.
• 4 May 2022: gonna be watchin this shit like pic.twitter.com/C3I1YtiUcL
• 4 May 2022: This is exactly the sort of endorsement I was hoping for https://twitter.com/Howlingmutant0/status/1520520509636632576
• 4 May 2022: https://twitter.com/AristophanesBox/status/1520255569671729153?s=20&t=aGxlDnKcv5Qb3sMtWoI7HA If you'd like to see some of my other work this one is a banger
• 4 May 2022: lmao the animation is amazing but the stab to the ass seemed a bit over the top
• 4 May 2022: This isn't meant to actually happen to a society, it's absurd, that's why it's funny, unfortunately, here we are.
• 4 May 2022: I chose that because every Aristophanes comedy is a nightmarish tragedy when viewed as serious and not satire. We're basically living through the plot of Assemblywomen right at this moment.
• 4 May 2022: It's an obvious comedy to anyone who is sane because the women are utterly hysterical, unfortunately that's become a reflection of reality. My original account handle when I first started using the Aristophanes moniker was "Aristophanes Tragedy"
• 4 May 2022: I bet they think Assemblywomen isn't satire and the contemporary stage production has Praxagora in a pantsuit and everybody claps when they're supposed to laugh.
• 4 May 2022: @MogTheUrbanite @SandpiperFax Chain them to the massive glass sun tea urn
• 4 May 2022: https://twitter.com/AristophanesBox/status/1521574155103182848?s=20&t=cF5Nr3tQc6V9j8T2yk3BWQ Since they keep referencing Lysistrata re: the sex strike plot...
• 4 May 2022: Doing my part, I learned a lot of this through trial and error, most millennials are well and truly lost, but I have high hopes for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
• 4 May 2022: Thank you ser, genuinely appreciate it
• 4 May 2022: Thank you friend, I really appreciate that.
• 4 May 2022: Yeah I was trying to find one and wasn't yielding any easy fruit there, I'd be interested to see it. And I don't mean that in a catty way or anything, I'd be genuinely interested to consider that breakdown.
• 4 May 2022: But feminism isn't about unity, it's about matriarchal domination and petty revenge haha
• 4 May 2022: I mean it's not even anti-feminist, which is the crazy part, it's pro Unity between the different but just as important sexes. Someone just linked my thread to shut down a Doctorate with "pitbull mom" in her bio incorrectly invoking it lmao
• 4 May 2022: We're gonna do our best! Wife and I are millennials who had less than ideal childhoods, so we're highly motivated to do right by our kids.
• 4 May 2022: With social security looking to be insolvent in the future and pension fund managers having the priorities they do, covid was a blessing to our financial elites.
• 4 May 2022: I don't think it's that cut and dry, immigration seemed to already be doing the heavy lifting there and most covid deaths were just tax base liabilities on social security, from a cynical elite perspective. It wasn't 1 million healthy workers. pic.twitter.com/Hw6pcu78K0
• 4 May 2022: My two kids are gen alpha, and we've gone full bore to do the best we can. I work from home, my wife stays at home to raise our children, we spend lots of time with and love them very much. We are a very close family. My son starts school soon, that's going to be rough for me.
• 4 May 2022: Haha I'm just amusing myself writing, I'm not a professional nor looking to be, but apparently a decent amount of people appreciated it so far. If this thread gets some people to go out and actually read some of Aristophanes plays and enjoy them, then I'll be pleased with it.
• 4 May 2022: Never said anything to the contrary, I'm not a free market respecter, GDP isn't a measure of prosperity or happiness, and free trade is only useful insofar as it can be used as a tool to increase actual prosperity and happiness.
• 4 May 2022: I also agree with that. The opinions of the proles are always used as cover fire for the cynical motivations of the institutions and power base. They wanted to double the labor pool to water down wages, and succeeded.
• 4 May 2022: I don't know much about the women of gen Z, I don't know how well they are doing, but a few of my gen Z friends online have married good women, so there's always hope.
• 4 May 2022: As a millennial dad, it's lonely, I loathe most of the other dads my age I meet, permanent reddit soyface and boring neoliberal opinions and a Marvel fetish. It's gross.
• 4 May 2022: Indeed. I am incredibly dismayed at the state of both men as well as women at present, but I have a lot of hope in gen Z men at the moment. There seems to be a lot of effort in that generation to try and be good at being men, and consistent effort is the primary ingredient.
• 4 May 2022: This is twitter you can take it or leave it but it's certainly not as pedestrian as roasties shouting "WE SHOULD GO ON A SEX STRIKE LIKE IT'S LYSISTRATA UNLESS THEY KEEP ROE V WADE" Literally just saw that from a woman with a doctorate with "pitbull mom" in her bio
• 4 May 2022: Women aren't to blame for the rise of the man-child, and I agree with you with regards to fatherhood and boomer abdication. But this thread is about Lysistrata, not about reddit manchildren and incels.
• 4 May 2022: Men aren't off the hook either, one look at reddit certainly shows a lot of men are in a pretty sorry state as well.
• 4 May 2022: The stated reason in the play is so women have access to husbands and families, but the moral of the story is that men and women become base creatures when they are left unchecked by each other and do not complement each other.
• 4 May 2022: I don't know if you mean me or them, but it's worth finishing the thread for context, because that is exactly the point I make by the end, that the moral of Lysistrata is balance and that men and women complete one another.
• 4 May 2022: I hope the doctorate and being a pitbull mom somehow manages to fill the void where a family belongs (Protip: It won't)
• 4 May 2022: It's a heavy burden that women who earn that type of respect carry, and they almost never find men who are their measure, but in exchange they gain the charismatic respect that can earn them loyalty that most men could only dream of.
• 4 May 2022: How many of you psychos are not married or are childless? Lysistrata executed her scheme to end the war because young women wanted husbands and families, which is hardly why you harpies are pissed about Roe, quite the opposite.
• 4 May 2022: Classing the joint up a bit
• 4 May 2022: Might as well just Gatsby theme it
• 4 May 2022: I don't know if they're afraid they'll magically turn into their parents or if it's just raw hedonism, or fear of commitment, but I think I'm somewhere over the target
• 4 May 2022: No reason to make it easy. But what I'm trying to say is there's an actual conversation about abortion in there that is entirely separate from what the activists are screaming about and they're being conflated.
• 3 May 2022: For some reason, they have this fear that settling down and living anything that looks like a normal life is going to remove their souls from their bodies if they can't run around eating exotic foods and drinking wine and sampling a wide variety of cocks before a cup of coffee.
• 3 May 2022: For middle class and upper class women, abortion is like a symbol to them, it's a symbol that backstops their motivation to never commit themselves to literally anything or anyone that they can't just drop the second they feel like it, they are afraid it'd be boring.
• 3 May 2022: Really at the millennial/zoomer level that's all this is, subconsciously or not. It's middle class white women who just absolutely fucking refuse to get a husband and pop out a kid and lay down roots. That's it. That's what this is about. Everyone else is along for the ride.
• 3 May 2022: Look, this whole roe vs wade debate is just one big proxy that could be easily solved right here, right now. White women, will you please grow the fuck up and get married and have children already? "NEVER FUCK YOU FASCIST" Ok, we'll see if no infanticide changes your minds. pic.twitter.com/b5YOAFyWYS
• 3 May 2022: That's how I know my thread is safe
• 3 May 2022: I'm so glad that I started dating my wife right around the time Tinder was just starting to get widespread, I'd only used the really primitive online dating stuff at the time and it had sucked.
• 3 May 2022: Maybe y'all should have thought of that before engaging in a full court press for shit that makes me not recognize the nation I grew up in by the ripe old age of 32, you damn cultists. The fuck is wrong with you people? pic.twitter.com/YB7IsXKscI
• 3 May 2022: I've often entertained the thought of being in Texas instead of the United States 🤣
• 3 May 2022: The thing is, a lot of my opposition doesn't feel this way. They make all sorts of stupid wild statements and act like the south is going to reinstate slavery if we're allowed to self-govern without a cabal of enlightened ivy league bureaucrats to get in our way.
• 3 May 2022: I don't give a single shit if another state I don't live in democratically decides they want to do all sorts of progressive stuff I think is heinous, more power to em if they live there and they decide on it. But when they try to use the fed like a hammer to force me? Problem.
• 3 May 2022: I think the differences are too pronounced, and some kind of eventual peaceful balkanization is really the only good outcome. I was born and raised in California, and I moved to Texas because I wanted to be in a place I culturally fit into about 8 years ago.
• 3 May 2022: Where's that tweet someone made about how progs will advocate for healthy societal norms as if they reinvented the wheel to own the right wingers
• 3 May 2022: Agreed. Prolly gonna need to flip the chessboard and start over on this one.
• 3 May 2022: The problem is, it's only the top 10-20 percent who fit those pre-requisites and get a swipe, and then these educated sophisticated women wonder why so many men in their 30's and 20's have become reactionary right wing misogynists'.
• 3 May 2022: Women used to take a whole lot of schmoozing and wining and dining to get into bed, now it's just plopping down on the couch after a bit of precursor background checking via Tinder profile? Women really cheapened themselves, they ask no investment from a man as long as he fits.
• 3 May 2022: We didn't really get a lot of quality time with him for that time frame, we were exhausted or he was at daycare, now I work from home, she stays at home and both of my kids are at home, and we're an incredibly close knit family.
• 3 May 2022: My wife routinely feels judged or has pangs of guilt over staying at home. She was a career woman, a Major in the Air Force and has her Masters degree. But we were just so damn exhausted all the time when we both worked and got home after picking up our son.
• 3 May 2022: Ironically, a pretty large segment of the right and left, at the very least, can agree what the problems are, which are sacred cows to the people who puppeteer the center. And when you can agree on the problem it's easy to find rational solutions both sides are happy with.
• 3 May 2022: So when is everyone gonna start mocking roasties for appropriating horse medicine for human purposes? Feel like I've seen this episode before. https://twitter.com/motherboard/status/1521511916912488448
• 3 May 2022: I think it's because the center-left and center-right aren't very ideologically motivated or passionate, they're basically rooting for a sports team with gotchas and canned replies they've held elsewhere to score points on an imaginary board in their minds.
• 3 May 2022: Yeah I think as a rather hardcore right winger, I have much more fruitful and interesting conversations with even ardent leftists than I do with neoliberal or neoconservative goons who don't have their own informed opinions.
• 3 May 2022: I adore women, and I want them to be the best women they can be, I have a daughter myself, I don't want them to be a shitty pantomime of a young man competing against men. I want them to be really fantastic women.
• 3 May 2022: Women don't need to be some pantsuit wearing girlboss warrior to be the hero, that's a masculine hero. Women in this age seem so eager to throw all of the gifts of femininity right in the garbage can to just compete as a sub-par male.
• 3 May 2022: That being said, I have one thing to add here. Lysistrata herself, she is not a villain, despite the comedic and smug way the story is presented, she is the heroine, she is the one who restores balance to society, she is valorous, clever, and a leader.
• 3 May 2022: The whole thing is kind of distasteful, I'd rather the internet was a battleground for all ideas that could stay nice and segmented from IRL. Like if we all hate each other that much there's always a block button and a lot of people seem to forget that or are too prideful.
• 3 May 2022: Euripedes and Aristophanes collaborated a ton, Thesmophoria ends with Euripedes trying several times unsuccessfully to break his friend who infiltrated the festival out of jail with escape plots themed for his various plays in a 4th wall breaking kind of way.
• 3 May 2022: I've never engaged in a campaign to destroy someone, but from everything I've seen over the past years, the right sucks at it and the left engages in it with IRL consequences for their victims frequently.
• 3 May 2022: It's a matter of motivations and priorities. Edgy reddit atheists usually have a secular religion of their own that revolves around worshipping progressivism.
• 3 May 2022: I mean I'm not a christian, but I have an immense distaste for really virulent hatred for christians because it goes encouraged and allowed while everybody else gets a pass.
• 3 May 2022: It's funny that the people who say that always seem to really explicitly ignore and give zero attention to other religions that act in a manner they would deem barbaric.
• 3 May 2022: uhh, what he said was legitimately pretty fucked up and he deserves to be dragged for it pic.twitter.com/c6YTZipjhn
• 3 May 2022: It's truly glorious with the right actors, especially good actresses who like to be kind of impish and pretend to be petulant and hedonistic, a good actress absolutely kills it with a live action aristophanes play
• 3 May 2022: The scene was literally so popular it got painted on pots and urns and cups pic.twitter.com/fQ8Zw9FFA7
• 3 May 2022: Yeah, I address that part at the end of the thread. Guess I better get ready for harem time!
• 3 May 2022: Entropy is like that, the chance is never zero, and everything that has happened shall happen again with the only variable being time.
• 3 May 2022: He slits its "throat" anyway and a woman dives to the floor with a pan to try and keep the wine from going to waste as she sobs and cries. It's physical comedy that would still be fucking hilarious today, wine aunts are a permanent fixture of humanity.
• 3 May 2022: When cornered he grabs a baby in a swaddle from a woman and holds a knife to its throat and threatens to kill it, the women gasp in terror and back up, and he realizes it's not a baby, it's a leatherskin of wine dressed in a swaddle that she was cradling like a child.
• 3 May 2022: It's really really funny, TLDR: Euripedes tasks his friend to dress as a woman and infiltrate a female-only festival because he thinks they are plotting to assassinate him. He gets outed by the male "ambassador" to the festival, a flamboyantly gay "ally" of the women.
• 3 May 2022: Chappelle got pretty close sometimes when he still used skits as a format, but they're pretty big clown shoes to fill
• 3 May 2022: "See? Now the men and the women can be happy, and we'll keep making fat stacks of cash, so we're happy too!"
• 3 May 2022: So goddamn relevant even today, the man was a master of human nature as comedy
• 3 May 2022: It's such a crime that there are complete plays he made that didn't survive to be recorded. The rivalry/friendship between him and Euripedes shows in his plays like Thesmophoria and is hilarious.
• 3 May 2022: I hear ya, it's a precarious situation and if we're being honest, it's mostly, but not completely, the fault of female decisions. Overturning Roe is perhaps the splash of cold water they need to grow up.
• 3 May 2022: If there are any angry women who make it this far to the bottom of the thread, my only rebuttal is if you think you're mad now, read Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen.
• 3 May 2022: Well, let me back up, Thesmophoria is about female excess but mostly with wine and drunkenness, Assemblywomen is about this, with sex and infantile demands.
• 3 May 2022: Very common theme in Aristophanes plays is pointing this out. Thesmophoria is hilarious and almost completely about this concept + wine. pic.twitter.com/DCHvayN5PE
• 3 May 2022: I am very lucky. My wife led a very exciting and adventurous life, as did I, and we both settled down, she stays at home with our kids and I pay the bills. It's a big financial sacrifice in the economic realities of this country but we're so much happier for it.
• 3 May 2022: They reinvent the wheel and act like they're fucking geniuses, because as usual, women think everything good was their idea and everything bad is a mans fault, kind of like marriage.
• 3 May 2022: Who am I kidding, that's what you wanted all along anyway. (END) pic.twitter.com/4xpCeIgPJp
• 3 May 2022: Men aren't going to sacrifice their net worth for you if you won't sacrifice your youth to them, so we as a civilization have to figure this out, or it's back to barbarism we go, and you know the deck is stacked in our favor in that scenario and you don't get a say! pic.twitter.com/b5qcgqPKmL
• 3 May 2022: The hoes are busy trifling until they start to get ugly and blame a lack of "good men" for why they are alone, and the men aren't motivated to build a castle just to let some wine aunt roastie move in, so women, get your shit together and stop fucking around until 35!
• 3 May 2022: Just as Lysistrata was married and speaking in sympathy of the young women who wanted wives, I am married and speak in sympathy of the young men in search of worthy wives.
• 3 May 2022: These are the role models millennial roasties grew up on, it's no surprise they sought to emulate them by moving to large metro areas and pursuing "careers" society doesn't need like pseudo-journalism, being "Influencers", or Marketing/Communications. Fake jobs, really.
• 3 May 2022: You can blame a lot of things, personally I assign a lot of the blame to Sex and the City, Under The Tuscan Sun and Eat, Pray, Love. All of which glorify female author/writers staying single and engaging in adventure and debauchery until the last possible moment and skipping kids
• 3 May 2022: When you look at the loudest cheerleaders for abortion rights at the moment, it mostly looks like an ocean of unmarried 30/40/50 year old spinsters, most of whom are unmarried, and even more of whom are childless. This is largely, their fault.
• 3 May 2022: It doesn't take a genius to see that this has seriously fucked up the sexual marketplace, along with looser sexual norms, dating apps, less and less first interactions between men and women being in the real world, and finally, less risks and consequences for promiscuity.
• 3 May 2022: So the money went to pursuits women aren't terribly suited for, such as higher education, white collar jobs, etc, and generally speaking men are willing to marry down because we're the head of the household and women are not, so we're competing at a disadvantage.
• 3 May 2022: Regardless of what some psychotic intersectionite might say, men can't give birth, that entire aspect of the roles of man and woman are closed off to us, but a woman has increasing potential to get a job and earn a wage, which was once our realm while they handled childrearing.
• 3 May 2022: Women, inversely, don't want to do gross jobs, they don't generally do jobs they aren't physically equipped for that involve hard labor either. But the playing field with men is much more level in the office and at the desk as technology advanced and devalued the labor of men.
• 3 May 2022: This led to a very significant blurring of the lines of male and female roles in the family. I'm not including exceptions, to which there are plenty, but in general men don't like housework, and don't want to be a stay at home dad. That is the strong majority of men.
• 3 May 2022: While the mass damage of every industrialized economy in the west except for ours by the war gave us one hell of a leg up, the price of labor kept going down and eventually, wages struggled to compete. This eventually gave rise to dual income families being way more common.
• 3 May 2022: But it is an indisputable fact that in the west, men are struggling to become whole. I think this all started in earnest when women took a larger market share of the workforce while the men were away at war during WW2. What happens to the labor supply when the war was over?
• 3 May 2022: Before some bluecheck or re/tard goes and cries incel, I'm a man in my 30's, I'm happily married, love my wife, and I have two children that I tweet about the antics of often. I love fatherhood.
• 3 May 2022: I would argue it would be a closer to correct invocation of the actual spirit of Lysistrata to say that overturning Roe and placing stricter restrictions on abortion is our punitive strike against the excesses of women, and there are many components as to why.
• 3 May 2022: Human beings in general do not like to admit when they are displaying gross levels of excess. The men in Lysistrata did not, and you'll never catch women of our rather feminized contemporary era do it either. You have to use a degree of force to bring people to heel.
• 3 May 2022: The women needed husbands to complete them so that they could start families and nurture, and the men needed families to temper their urge to become base creatures who live only to destroy and wage war, and not to create or build.
• 3 May 2022: My rambling point that I will finally get to, is that feminists ranting about going on a sex strike over Roe v Wade is not a correct invocation of Lysistrata. Lysistrata is a story about how men and women complement each other, like many of Aristophanes plays.
• 3 May 2022: Also worth mentioning that they all praise Athene at the end, who aside from being popularly known as the goddess of wisdom in the Greek pantheon, is also the personification of chastity, and chastity is not just abstaining, but also only abstaining from unlawful or immoral sex
• 3 May 2022: During the actual stage play, there is a chorus for the women and a chorus for the men, and at the end when everyone agrees to end the war, both choruses start to sing as one chorus instead of two. Afterwards there is celebration and both sexes are happy again.
• 3 May 2022: At the last arc of the play as the men are discussing negotiations and truce and those parts of the story are playing out, it's noted that all the men are walking around with massive erections, the women teasing the men sexually to make it worse etc.
• 3 May 2022: But they are also realistic, possess more wisdom, and are not as hot headed. I'm kind of skipping around but there's a hilarious scene where the old men try to put together mock siege equipment to break into the Acropolis and the old women dump buckets of water on them.
• 3 May 2022: Ultimately the negotiations of the truce come from the negotiations between the old men, and the old women, who are obviously still in the cities and not away at war. They are both sympathetic to the passions of the young men who want glory and the young women who want families.
• 3 May 2022: This is literally the honest to god reason, it's not some "Women have an equal voice in democracy and demand an end to the horrors of war" it's about women getting married and having children while they are still young enough to do it! Modernity ignores this, obviously.. pic.twitter.com/g440BQ06t1
• 3 May 2022: The women are angry because their husbands are away at war for years at a time, and thus not around to sire children, and the younger women are getting older and have a limited supply of eligible husbands, and want to get married before they hit the wall. pic.twitter.com/nVspFZcWkm
• 3 May 2022: The women seize and lock themselves in the Acropolis, which is also where the treasury is, so that Athens cannot finance their part in the war. What all these college educated roasties never seem to talk about, is why the women engage in this endeavor in the first place. pic.twitter.com/4hj1QBtULD
• 3 May 2022: They gather the representatives of the various cities women, and they swear an oath to pursue this mission over a wine bowl (Aristophanes is a peak shitposter, he dunks on women 24/7 in his plays with jokes about wine and hysteria and sex, but feminists don't get Lysistrata)
• 3 May 2022: The title character is an Athenian woman, Lysistrata, who engages in a mission to end the war by conspiring with women from all the states involved in the war, on both sides, by withholding all sexual relations with their men. pic.twitter.com/E98yS9zvmS
• 3 May 2022: The play was written in 411 BC, the Peloponnesian war would be a long one, lasting 27 years in total. At the time it was written, the war had been going on for 20 years at the time, so keep that in mind for context. pic.twitter.com/7r2XlKThk9
• 3 May 2022: Lets talk about Lysistrata, the Greek play by Aristophanes, because it's being frequently referenced by seething feminists who skimmed the cliff notes in college and think it's about using sex as a weapon to get what you want, and how as usual they missed the nuance. (THREAD) pic.twitter.com/SYooFwQOcH
• 3 May 2022: The reason that feminists keep using Lysistrata like some totem is because the message they got from skimming the wikipedia description of it was that women used sex as a weapon to get what they wanted, but that isn't what the story is really about.
• 3 May 2022: It's also patently incorrect. The moral of Lysistrata was that men and women have a duty to each other. They conspired to end the war because women wanted to get married while they were still young and marriageable but the men were all away for years at a time at war.
• 3 May 2022: The moral of Lysistrata was that men and women have a duty to each other, not that women should use sex as a weapon to get what they want.
• 3 May 2022: This isn't an accurate reference to Lysistrata, they conspired to end the war because the women actually wanted to get married and the men were away for years at a time fighting the war, not because they wanted to be empowered to have promiscuous sex and kill their offspring.
• 3 May 2022: The women conspired to end the war because they wanted to get married and were aging out of their most marriageable years while the men were at war. This is more like the Magistrates description of the women as hysterically obsessed with wine and promiscuous sex.
• 3 May 2022: uhh whatever will we do with the ensuing labor shortage that brings wages up to pre WW2 levels before women entered the workforce, when a man with an ok job could raise a family and his wife could stay at home with ease https://twitter.com/julieverhage/status/1521441451737034752
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• 3 May 2022: She got to get the whole gamut, college grad air force officer with a masters to housewife lmao.
• 3 May 2022: She'll probably go back to work when the kids are older, but it's been way better than when we both worked kind of high powered jobs and were stressed out keeping up with the house etc, and our son was always in daycare. Now I work remote, her and kids at home, life is good.
• 3 May 2022: @LinManuelRwanda https://t.co/sAgC6jYR5p
• 3 May 2022: Yeah my wife stays at home and raises our two children and keeps house, she's not worried about this at all and just kind of casually laughing about all the salt, she's not even particularly right wing.
• 3 May 2022: Women that actually do all of the things she's talking about aren't that worried about needing an abortion because they have a husband and kids. https://twitter.com/MrsGreyBull/status/1521347199266869248
• 3 May 2022: 1/3rd of my generation was aborted, this free-love shit needs to take a step back and people need to be a bit more responsible, and they aren't going to do that if there's no consequences, and the ripples of this topic are impacting all of society at every level.
• 3 May 2022: Abortion is supposed to be a last resort, not a button you push to make consequences of hook-up culture go away. People need to be more responsible sexually, like I get it, stuff is always gonna happen, but something needs to be reined in, because it's starting to cause cracks.
• 3 May 2022: You were talking about people who have "already built their lives" I'm actually not a pro-life hardliner, if I were making policy on this matter I'd be pretty middle of the road, but I'm tired of the pretentious rhetoric from 30-something hedonistic millennial women.
• 3 May 2022: https://twitter.com/AristophanesBox/status/1520452245510402049?s=20&t=reHWhHp5XTq6jPCIJ97XeQ shilling my thread shamelessly
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/WIAVNsUBGf
• 3 May 2022: "the same amount of fetuses" Yeah no, not the case. 1/3rd of my generation was aborted, and that required the abortion mills that have actual industrial efficiency. If you've built your life, then start a family already.
• 3 May 2022: I mean it's fine to have that opinion, but I'm also of the opinion it's not fine to suddenly void the legal process that is used to define the rules in place for the sake of expediency, which goes for both sides of the political spectrum. Court activism is very bad at macro lvl
• 3 May 2022: I remember when I was like 19 and in California we used a referendum to cancel it, and then the feds intervened for the whole country.
• 3 May 2022: Because at that point you can start justifying some pretty crazy shit. "I have a right to do X because it's part of how I pursue happiness" where X can be something that has wide 2nd and 3rd order consequences for society, like abortion.
• 3 May 2022: You can't start giving the courts the ability to add new rights to the bill of rights based on some nebulous definition of "pursuit of liberty/happiness" as the litmus test instead of actually amending the constitution itself, which is the intended process.
• 3 May 2022: If the nation wanted it enshrined as a right, then they could have passed legislation in congress or amended the constitution. Since there isn't a significant plurality to get that done, it is far from a settled issue, and the federal government has no right to override the state
• 3 May 2022: Abortion is not anywhere in the bill of rights or the constitution, and is not a deeply rooted long settled right to begin with. That's a big part of the reason right there that Roe has to go. I'm not rabidly pro-life, but this issue is emblematic of court activism.
• 3 May 2022: States can choose their own abortion policy with Roe overturned, and the state is a more direct representation of the people of a state than the federal govt jamming it down everyones throat by force via an activist court ruling
• 3 May 2022: E
• 3 May 2022: coulda just got yourself a man and outsourced all that
• 3 May 2022: A rare breed and I wish we had more of them.
• 3 May 2022: There's a lot of people who don't walk the walk but she definitely did. 3 kids of her own and now a 4th child she got the parental rights to right out the gate not long after the birth.
• 3 May 2022: I do think that the foster care and adoption system needs extensive reform, my aunt volunteers with one of those pro-life crisis centers, she just adopted a baby that was very much on track to be aborted.
• 3 May 2022: lmao did he actually reply to me before he blocked me? all I did was copy the format of his own post that he directed towards christians
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/S5cY8dGvql
• 3 May 2022: I have a few of my own, which were all planned and conceived after I got married!
• 3 May 2022: https://twitter.com/AristophanesBox/status/1521375523577942016?s=20&t=s0ujHDKjcpcn7LrvtlTMpA SHED NO TEARS FOR ME FRIENDS FOR I WILL DINE IN VALHALLA WHEN I HAVE HAD MORE TWITTER ACCOUNTS THAN NATIONS THAT HAVE EXPELLED THEM https://twitter.com/RabbiHarvey/status/1521311895713722369
• 3 May 2022: Fuck Jews and their never ending sophistic, duplicitous, usurious matriarchy that pits the majority and the minority against each other as if it's to keep themselves safe instead of to undermine nations to their own benefit. 109 nations can't be wrong. FUCK. YOU.
• 3 May 2022: If you have a committed partner and you're pregnant, it's probably gods way of telling you it's time to start a family
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/1rFDoYyxJO
• 3 May 2022: Enjoy trying to eat
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/GmQc2KD0d5
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/qOtZAI7edu
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/Z5aquiEI02
• 3 May 2022: bye
• 3 May 2022: They can't actually legally do that. I'm against abortion but that would enter federal territory because states cannot regulate inter-state commerce. It'd be like saying people from New Jersey can't go to Disney World or something.
• 3 May 2022: decision you make when you spread your legs, not my fault the hoes are mad
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/zzFCezxVMi
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/dq0qkR4IqR
• 3 May 2022: If it stops 1/3rd of gen alpha from being aborted the way 1/3rd of mine was then I'd say mission accomplished
• 3 May 2022: wtf could possibly make jill stein relevant again
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/XT3MfBdk9I
• 3 May 2022: of course you don't
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/FdAqlKMwfr
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/f9WXuOIRPu
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/55Oe7xbYs2
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/ZRzeTgwFgE
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/1tOxnWU86C
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/n7f25Kth1l
• 3 May 2022: maybe you should have gotten married first
• 3 May 2022: A whole lot of people screeching about #RoeVWade but all I'm seeing is a shitton of these pic.twitter.com/PVg4PyZ0NX
• 3 May 2022: hey Jamie, pull up Early Life on wikipedia for Hart and Celler
• 3 May 2022: all the entitlement of white liberals with none of the guilt and even more pronounced comfort with a rigid caste system of who is better and who is lower
• 3 May 2022: what if I am disabled with epilepsy, this flag could trigger a seizure
• 3 May 2022: That "maternal fetal specialist" just also had the vibe that she's never had kids of her own, maybe that's why it's so easy for her to aggressively urge people kill their children. Yes, I googled "fat jewish woman" for inspiration
• 3 May 2022: It felt like because we were married middle class people with a planned pregnancy and a house that fat yenta was obsessed with telling us to get an abortion or otherwise endangering our son. (He turned out just fine, he's tall for his age and a pretty smart kid)
• 3 May 2022: have down syndrome, and that we may want to consider an abortion. We were both horrified at how aggressive she was about it, and how aggressive she was about doing some test involving piercing the amniotic sac which frequently results in miscarriage.
• 3 May 2022: I remember when my wife was pregnant with our son, and some absolute goblin of a female who looked something like this +40 pounds said our son had some marker that meant there was like a 1-in-640 chance that our son would have a gene that had a 1-in-6000 chance he would- https://twitter.com/Refills4Free/status/1521312005306597376 pic.twitter.com/1VfD2OP2e7
• 3 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/h3Ffm7Q4Fv
• 3 May 2022: Pretty sure we need to do some Logans Run shit to millennial women who don't have a kid by 40 because otherwise they're just going to be a vocal pain in the ass as they get older and older with nothing but money and time to chimp out 24/7.
• 3 May 2022: They're what's left of the post-roe generation. 1/3rd of which was aborted.
• 3 May 2022: I ask only because it sounds like if you have this much resentment towards masculine norms you probably failed to reproduce too.
• 3 May 2022: Do you have any children?
• 3 May 2022: No you aren't.
• 3 May 2022: It's called being normal, just because nobody wanted you on their kickball team doesn't mean you've got some right to project your failure to compete successfully on the rest of society.
• 3 May 2022: "Oh no someone is gifting books that will communicate masculine values that have been the norm since essentially antiquity, they must be trying to breed child soldiers"
• 3 May 2022: Why is it the "cult" of the speaker? You could make the same argument about literally any piece of work that glorifies heroism in battle. You're the one injecting that.
• 3 May 2022: Like that's all it is, you're just some simpering fool who has some sort of father figure/role model issues, and you probably learned as a kid that the easiest way to get his attention was to act out and get him to come tell you to cut it out, now you do it out of reflex.
• 3 May 2022: Ready to start investing in salt and tears pic.twitter.com/pXVI67zbbN
• 3 May 2022: which religious sect? because you're accusing a guy of indoctrinating kids into catholicism by gifting them copies of a story written by a pagan millennia ago. You don't have any real complaints, you just hate your dad
• 3 May 2022: ok guys lets compromise, taxpayer subsidized abortions for People of Color because of systemic racism, criminalized abortions for white women that involve being pilloried and/or capital punishment I mean it's what we all actually want anyway
• 3 May 2022: Figured it out, we got a hold of the owner, the dog is a 14 year old shih tzu poodle mix
• 2 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/LDMZkLUNuX
• 2 May 2022: cough cough google metcalf substation attacks cough cough
• 2 May 2022: my wife grabbed her from the busy main drag of our neighborhood after a few cars almost hit her, then immediately drove hom and deposited her with me and took off for Costco 4 hours ago, she's got a good disposition and isn't skiddish though.
• 2 May 2022: Serves as a heat spreader/coolant of sorts, if you were to puncture one and the oil all ran out it would overheat and melt itself down
• 2 May 2022: Looks like some sort of terrier, maybe a Wheaten, but the floofy tail is kind of throwing me off while I look up pictures. I've put out ads for the owners but she had no collar and is a little bit older, so I'm not holding out much hope. Friendly disposition though.
• 2 May 2022: Need help identifying dog breed and guessing at age.. my wife brought a stray home that might become our new dog, as ours died a few months ago. pic.twitter.com/LUClnbNsEb
• 2 May 2022: I felt disdain when a door to door salesman thanked me for my time and offered a fist bump in lieu of a handshake. Would have felt better not being offered anything at all.
• 2 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/BJdYhB31lA
• 2 May 2022: Uhh Tekk is actually in right now, and did the same thing I did when I was in, odds are you were in some dipshit job where you never had to carry a weapon if it wasn't to qualify.
• 2 May 2022: "Catholic Church or whatever" lmao you just hate the vibe out or resentment and don't even know what he's about, tell us about your relationship with your dad for the inevitable explanation of why you feel this way
• 2 May 2022: I agree but I still think the similarities made this picture hilarious
• 2 May 2022: "Oh we know the citizens just revolted against a standing colonial army using their privately owned firearms, which started when they tried to confiscate them at Lexington and Concord, but maybe we need to make sure the government can stop that from ever happening again!"
• 2 May 2022: Like they were writing a document about inalienable rights for their citizens, and then took a break to put something in there to let the government regulate firearms, and then went right back to writing down more inalienable rights...
• 2 May 2022: I don't think while they were on a roll writing a bill that spelled out the things citizens had an immutable right to do that they took a break to make sure it said the government could raise civilian armies in the same document, and then got back to the other citizen rights.
• 2 May 2022: Government troops don't need to have a "right" to bear arms because the government is literally telling them to do so and has authority. Civilians have the right to bear arms, which is why they included it in the bill that includes all of the other rights granted to you
• 2 May 2022: "Oh wow we're free because a ton of armed farmers LARPing as Romans fought back against a standing army. Now that we're a nation though, I donno about this right to bear arms stuff, that seems dangerous!"
• 2 May 2022: Brought* Also jfc use some context, what intention do you think a nation that was just founded by a rebellion by armed civilians had with the 2nd amendment? Lexington and Concord happened because the British Army wanted to confiscate firearms and cannons that were civvie owned.
• 2 May 2022: Well regulated, in the parlance of the time, meant properly equipped. This notation on the second amendment was over complaints by Washington that the militia didn't have proper equipment, and broad shotguns with birdshot and other inferior weapons to service.
• 2 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/2rkIOZp8iP
• 2 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/wCXxsRJM2h
• 2 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/Ji9XdFHdGZ
• 2 May 2022: Picasso's work "The Rape of the Sabine Women" which focuses on when the gang of Romulus (founder of Rome) were kidnapping women from cities as to start families in Rome. The dude with his nuts hanging out looks suspiciously like the Chad meme. pic.twitter.com/NL2LZBJOK5
• 2 May 2022: Stick to a guy who informs his worldview from historical comedians and tragedians (nothing contemporary) instead, much better barometer.
• 2 May 2022: There's no anglos left in London anyway
• 2 May 2022: "I am old enough to remember something that happened 2 years ago"
• 30 April 2022: I can't believe I didn't end this thread this way, but: He's gonna keep getting away with it pic.twitter.com/acPtgTQl9h
• 30 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/DimAnBo2f4
• 30 April 2022: yes
• 30 April 2022: If I get droned for saying the enwerd tell my mutuals it was worth it
• 30 April 2022: "You mistake the freedom of our system for disorder" pic.twitter.com/SIsiBm7kNI
• 30 April 2022: peace out pic.twitter.com/4XETbhlKTr
• 30 April 2022: It's been another 500 years, and the worlds are once again colliding. I wonder what the next costume will be. pic.twitter.com/UAiO0v8XtG
• 30 April 2022: What does @wigger want? Who fucking knows, lulz I guess. pic.twitter.com/XTMSjJQ9aJ
• 30 April 2022: He would do as he always had, to test and temper man for his own amusement, to teach them discernment by trial, and in his own small way, make man better than they were without him. pic.twitter.com/BpTLa0duX9
• 30 April 2022: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hide He would be a man, once again, right at fault lines of these colliding worlds. pic.twitter.com/INu2RiltHl
• 30 April 2022: That is, until the old world met the new, and new faces arrived that were also old faces. He always changed costumes as worlds began to collide, a new countenance for a new reality, something these events clearly signaled. pic.twitter.com/k79lnzK5qC
• 30 April 2022: What's another name? Another Costume? For half a millennium, he will play new parts. That of Coyote, Raven, Kokopelli, Old Man, Iktomi, and settle into the beliefs of these new minds and peoples. pic.twitter.com/fcyUJ3MaW4
• 30 April 2022: But something was on that ship, and it's found a new home, it has bought itself time. It has gone by many names as time has gone by, Reynard, Puck, Loki, Mercury, Hermes, Set. pic.twitter.com/iK2WHq7Bti
• 30 April 2022: When the ship finally finds land, there are no men left alive aboard. No men, but something disembarks. Something old. Something ancient. Something fleeing a land losing belief in it. pic.twitter.com/ob3QZNAfLE
• 30 April 2022: These are the last days of the old gods of the Norse, 100 years from now most Vikings will be Christians, even as the Great Heathen Army descended upon the British Isles less than a century before. Denmark officially becomes Christian in less than a decade from now. pic.twitter.com/sOpmaoukhJ
• 30 April 2022: The ferocious storm tosses the ship around for days before calming, and slowly but surely it drifts with the tides toward lands and sands it has never seen before. pic.twitter.com/hANBddItOZ
• 30 April 2022: The year is 957 AD, a Viking longship off the coast of Greenland is caught in a terrible squall, its rigging tears loose in the howling wind, sending it off course, while the men aboard cling for dear life and pray. (Thread) pic.twitter.com/WqOPr5ephL
• 30 April 2022: Why are teachers so eager to teach 6 year Olds about sex is the better question
• 30 April 2022: Sophistry
• 30 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/mPsfexegWu
• 30 April 2022: @man_integrated
• 30 April 2022: Use Victorian insults, call them catamites and mutton shunters
• 30 April 2022: So naked in the forest would be more appropriate
• 30 April 2022: What jungle in western Europe were we hunting naked in pray tell
• 30 April 2022: They could have just all turned into freaks like Rothblatt and Pritzker instead of trying to turn hundreds of millions into freaks, work smarter not harder
• 30 April 2022: https://archive.ph/DzRUi
• 29 April 2022: Compete with low wages by using automation to compensate. It'll create less overall jobs, sure, but it will still create lots of jobs that pay well, which bolsters all of the other industries that support it.
• 29 April 2022: Yeah I would agree that's the priority. Higher wages relative to cost of living is #1 issue. Stopping the flow of cheap labor is a big component of that, as is engaging in mercantilism and protectionism with regards to reindustrializing the united states.
• 29 April 2022: There's poor whites who get into shit with police, or commit crime, but there isn't an entire culture and zeitgeist built around it. Nobody is worried about gangs of "youths" being white kids preying on people. It just doesn't happen in any significant numbers.
• 29 April 2022: We've got tons of poor whites with drug addiction problems and they don't seem to be shooting each other for "disrespect" nearly as often. At the very minimum there is a cultural component that mostly expressed in inner city blacks, because you don't see broke whites doing this.
• 29 April 2022: I think it's best to just go with the rising tides float all boats analogy. Stick to policies that are good for everybody, and just go to those ethnic groups and say as much. "Hey, this is good for literally everybody. Less imported labor means better wages for you, for me etc"
• 29 April 2022: Saying "OOOH LOOK HOW RACIST THEY ARE" just plays into their system they've created of "Whoever is less racist is better" Better to say their attempts to simp for racial minorities is patronizing and infantilizing towards them, it takes their agency away.
• 29 April 2022: Traditional American principles includes siding with winners, America likes winners, it hates losers, which is way more important to actually winning people over than "Oh wow look how racist they are" because that reinforces this gay mythos that racism is some original sin here.
• 29 April 2022: Pointing out hypocrisy isn't an american value. It makes you just look impotent and weak when they don't give a shit, and normies don't like people who are impotent and weak, they don't want to side with them.
• 29 April 2022: But just because sometimes its out of ignorance doesn't mean it gets to be some elephant in the room, we need to actually deal with it and throwing repeat offenders who can't reform in cages is generally the best way to do that.
• 29 April 2022: And I mean a little bit of subtlety is good, sure. Like yeah, blacks have a crime problem. It impacts everybody who lives here regardless of race, and it causes people to look at blacks with suspicion, sometimes it's out of ignorance, sometimes it's justified.
• 29 April 2022: If you're smart you're smart, if you're not you're not, racial crime stats are real and it's a real problem that you can't remove the ethnic component from, but it's simultaneously not to be used as damning to every member of that ethnic group. Like just use actual honesty.
• 29 April 2022: "Hey Hispanic community here's why my policies are more in line with your interests than theirs" is ok, that's not pandering, it's also being realistic and truthful and up-front. Gushing over why you love hispanics so much and pulling reasons out of your ass (GOP does this) aint
• 29 April 2022: So no "based black guy" shit, it's embarrassing. No "the dems are the real racists" shit, it's also embarrassing. Just vocally voice the opinion that weighting people up or down by race is wrong, and that merit rules the day, while acknowledging in-group preference exists.
• 29 April 2022: Pointing out hypocrisy makes you look pathetic, so my general rule of thumb is not to do it. They know they're hypocrites, they don't care, they don't have a rule against hypocrisy. Pandering + pointing out hypocrisy are both super gay.
• 29 April 2022: Women like AOC screech and rail about everything but in their heart of hearts all they want is some dude to drag them by the hair into a cave and make them property, the rest is just theater where they're acting out.
• 29 April 2022: That being said the type of people who can cackle at jokes about racial stereotypes including their own are the type of people I generally like to associate with, regardless of race, because I don't like people who take themselves too seriously.
• 29 April 2022: Y'all screech and kvetch way more than we do
• 29 April 2022: I mean we've had this conversation before, but open disenfranchisement of whites by institutions and movements openly calling for it is bad, should be called out, and actively attacked. We shouldn't be silent about that.
• 29 April 2022: racial humor is the cornerstone of this movement, I don't see anyone seriously unironically advocating for racial policy, I don't think I've ever seen anyone worth listening to ever advocate for racial policy beyond "Hey giving people explicit benefits based on racial tier is bad
• 29 April 2022: What is important is to show up IRL and not be a dysgenic weirdo and simultaneously espouse these ideas in a rational way as if they are simply common sense, which they are.
• 29 April 2022: So some random 0 follower account who does nothing but search "pitbull" on twitter to tweet reply angrily is a white pitbull owner, imagine my shawk pic.twitter.com/hOqYEwrWpC
• 29 April 2022: https://youtu.be/O_3_-UrhZH0 gonna be the "Dixie" of the next civil war imo
• 29 April 2022: *Ghenghis Juan
• 29 April 2022: If we cleave the midterms as well as I think we're going to, then executive power will be the only thing left for him to wield, and he's not going to act helpless and restrained with it like Trump was, he's going to act like a child throwing a tantrum.
• 29 April 2022: Like Mike, my wife listens to both FO and S2U, and sometimes I can't tell which one she's listening to, you guys sound super similar, and also simultaneously like every other intel briefer with a healthy T-level I've ever heard speak
• 29 April 2022: @grayzonewarlord always reminds me of a ur-example of it, every active duty army vet either still actively talks with that accent or slips into it really easily when around it.
• 29 April 2022: Whenever I'm around people who speak it I instantly revert back to "Military English" which is an actual dialect, it's a mix of midwestern newscaster english with texas drawl. It's painfully clear enunciation with a little bit of drawl on the back.
• 29 April 2022: I know a korean woman with this accent (I'm in Houston) and it's always a trip, nice old korean lady who worked in oil and gas and sounds like a southern belle
• 29 April 2022: Weird, I don't see it on my Pixel.
• 29 April 2022: It isn't on my phone
• 29 April 2022: I'm on the bleeding edge and just use groomer now, but I'm also usually right given the selection of people I don't like.
• 29 April 2022: Nobody really buys that shit, so they don't send that much. It wouldn't be hard if a couple people did this once or twice a week for them to run out of inventory, which will cause them to send larger shipments of it, which more people can ruin, costing more money.
• 29 April 2022: 2. The grocery stores don't pay for Impossible/Beyond, you aren't hurting them. Those products are "loss leaders" they are using the investment money to pay stores for shelf space and restaurants to carry it and giving them inventory to sell in order to build demand.
• 29 April 2022: 1. You aren't stealing, it never leaves the store, people put stuff in their cart and change their mind and put it on a random shelf all the time, ask any grocery stocker.
• 29 April 2022: This is why I work in infrastructure, there's nobody like that at my job because it's not glamorous and it absolutely requires competence.
• 29 April 2022: Imagine if everybody else did this, there'd never be any in stock.
• 29 April 2022: ESG Samizdat Grindset: When grocery shopping w/ family, always take one Impossible or Beyond product from the meat aisle, put in cart, and put it on some random shelf in the middle of the store. Night stockers will find it and put it back where it belongs, in the trash.
• 29 April 2022: danke sir, that's what I was thinking my shorts carry is a P238, but it looks like y'all don't do belt-less for those
• 29 April 2022: I feel like they are saying this because they want to do some stupid hitler analogues about him micromanaging the war
• 29 April 2022: @25th_Prestige Hey fam I'm gonna order a holster from y'all, how does the belt-less attach and how firm is it? This is for a glock 17, so I want to make sure it can handle the chonky boi, if that might be a bit too much weigh I'll just go for a typical model that needs a belt.
• 29 April 2022: it's like adopting a black kid or something
• 29 April 2022: Why not? How many stories have you seen about blonde qt3.14's going on rampages in walmart?
• 29 April 2022: How often do we ever hear about a retriever or a lab or shepard going apeshit on their owner or a bystander? Hardly ever.
• 29 April 2022: I see just as many white suburban and urban pitbull owners have their dogs lose their shit. Like a couple times a year some liberal white woman who jogs with her "sweetie" pitbull gets eaten by it out of nowhere.
• 29 April 2022: https://youtu.be/O_3_-UrhZH0 palate cleanser
• 29 April 2022: In this case I think just mannish for a female, like Mariska Hargitay
• 29 April 2022: White people buy pitbulls because they aren't legally allowed to buy a slave and teach it to read so they can brag to their friends how virtuous they are.
• 29 April 2022: I feel like upper/middle class whites who are enthusiastic pitbull advocates literally have them as a proxy for outright owning blacks or something, it's like they buy pitbulls so they can evangelize liberation theology for a dog breed the same way they do for ethnicities.
• 29 April 2022: Inner city blacks who own pitbulls actually treat them like they are as dangerous as they are, and I see just as many pitbulls owned by effete urban white people go crazy as inner city ones, so it's clearly not about upbringing and lifestyle of the owners/dog.
• 29 April 2022: How many times do you hear about other equally or more popular breeds doing this stuff in the news, anecdotally? Like how often do golden retrievers lose their shit and eat their owners or bite a kid or kill another dog while on a walk? Shepards? Boxers?
• 29 April 2022: It's literally the same thing, people go "Man how come it's disproportionately pitbulls/blacks in these incidents/crimes" "YOU ASSHOLE/RACIST IT'S THE OWNER/POVERTY" pic.twitter.com/4zTtBTdivI
• 29 April 2022: Because they obviously weren't thinking of german shepards when they wrote the article, it's projection. Whenever a pitbull goes and bites someone or eats a babies face or w/e, pit owners come rushing to the rescue like a cult.. Arguments similar to BLM
• 29 April 2022: I always blow peoples minds when pitbull owners get all weird about shit on some normie neighborhood facebook page and I say "Compare how pitbull owners talk about their dogs to BLM rhetoric and it's literally the same argument" https://twitter.com/wasphyxiation/status/1519816834131927040
• 29 April 2022: geez it's gonna be like having two israels isnt it
• 29 April 2022: Uhh Kamala Harris was famous for being a piece of ass to the married mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, before she ever did anything noteworthy as a career. It's a pretty well known fact to people who are actually from CA.
• 29 April 2022: They're making the frickin cereal gay! pic.twitter.com/XfIva9CFGs
• 29 April 2022: Been my plan all along
• 28 April 2022: Is Thune to the right of McConnell or at least less of a corrupt grifter? I'm not super familiar with him. Just tired of legislative promises always turning into really crappy compromises.
• 28 April 2022: It's more fun than the blue church, you should try it sometime
• 28 April 2022: I'm not poor or rich, I'm middle class, and left policies seem really intent on making me poor when I don't want to be.
• 28 April 2022: Oh man, with you leaving where are we going to find accounts that talk about NFT's
• 28 April 2022: Social mores aren't supposed to become practically unrecognizable in a decade. Your edit just makes it look like you do whatever looks popular, which is probably true.
• 28 April 2022: Funko Pop inflation
• 28 April 2022: Man it's like Republicans don't want to actually win, it's pathetic. Always trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
• 28 April 2022: lmao how do they have enough troops to be doing an exercise anywhere
• 28 April 2022: Pretty sure there's gonna be logs in slack and email traffic anyway
• 28 April 2022: who cares jfc
• 28 April 2022: Yep, pretty much exactly.
• 28 April 2022: thank you for your cervix
• 27 April 2022: Hey @RedBalloonInd I'm gonna order a holster from you guys, how do the beltless holsters secure themselves and how solid do they hold on? I usually go with a belt but just curious, gonna be for glock 17 IWB and I want to make sure it's not too big to work well with belt-less.
• 27 April 2022: Heck there's benefits to being grug brained even
• 27 April 2022: Well they have fields and fields of cold war carry cost that they can just let get obliterated
• 27 April 2022: I really don't know, I've wondered why the russians haven't been doing much at all with drones, they have them and didn't start using them until late and that was just ISR stuff. They seem to be really cautious about using fast movers, I guess because they are expensive?
• 27 April 2022: I watched the trailer for the new Top Gun movie, which I know and the DoD knows every single aviator in the US military is going to go watch, and from what I can tell the plot hints at the idea that the next major air engagement isn't going to be pretty and they need to prepare.
• 27 April 2022: First live fire engagement with the S-400 and they sniped a Ukie bomber from like 100 miles away and set a world record for air defense artillery, I know that scared the shit out of American pilots.
• 27 April 2022: You would have to perform SEAD within russian and belarussian soil against entire division strength groups of dug in S-400's and the tiers of AA below them, I'm not sure even with a full commitment of our air power we could succeed and even then it'd start WW3.
• 27 April 2022: I know for a fact there's been briefings of American pilots on the disposition of russian AA and their capabilities that has probably made for some serious pucker factor. While people talked about a no fly zone, pilots know the truth, which is that it isn't possible.
• 27 April 2022: The concept of casualties is just as foreign to most of the US military as it is to most of the American populace. Like real casualties from a conventional war, not a steady trickle of amputees from IED's
• 27 April 2022: Which isn't some "hurdur russia awesome" sentiment, we've just become quite the paper tiger in the last 10 years.
• 27 April 2022: @Lying_Troll @Amirabaroness I can say from personal experience the US Military has already rapidly approached said clusterfuck and the results are exactly what one would expect. It's why NATO has zero desire to go hot with Russia, the actual result would differ quite a lot from our constructed reality.
• 27 April 2022: This seems like an extremely poor choice for any protracted engagement with a high volume of fire.
• 27 April 2022: Did you see the saga of "seed oil disrespecter"? Guy made a big anti seed oil account grifting off of the concerns of the DR community, and then immediately helped launch and try to pimp some new synthetic cooking oil replacement that is just as bad by ESG people.
• 27 April 2022: What if furries have a genetic predisposition to it because of human microchimerism from their mothers "exploratory" co-ed phase pic.twitter.com/BSDUqzBlW6
• 27 April 2022: If you had told me 5 minutes ago you could figure out how to get most of /pol/ to watch BET I'd have called you a fool but this idea sounds hilarious https://twitter.com/nocontextdrumar/status/1519034593999044609
• 27 April 2022: These people and their minions are playing for keeps in their efforts to devour our world. Make sure they choke on it.
• 27 April 2022: The only way to beat this leviathan is to be such an immovable pain in the ass that they scratch their claws to stumps trying to get through you to corrupt the things you love. For the sake of everything you love, remember that hate is the immune system of the soul. pic.twitter.com/GVfP3ihwUb
• 27 April 2022: You need to be treating them like Tyranids, not the other side of the table at some prep school debate tournament. They will devour all that has utility, cast aside that which doesn't, and destroy all that impedes them. pic.twitter.com/bJpYxbgXZl
• 27 April 2022: What they like is stunning and brave, no matter how dysgenic and abominable, what they don't like is bigoted and evil, no matter how normal or innocent it might be. What's strengthens them is good, what weakens them is bad. Those are their only rules.
• 27 April 2022: Conservatives need to realize, these people operate with no principle, pointing out that they are hypocrites is useless. They won't get it, and if they do they'll just laugh at you. There aren't rules to this game. To them this is total war, there's no geneva convention.
• 27 April 2022: In case anyone is too foolish not to realize: Any influence that isn't theirs is bad. Any information that isn't theirs is misinformation. When they say something is a threat to "Our Democracy" it doesn't mean Democracy for the citizens of this nation. It means their team.
• 27 April 2022: "Something the matter Patrick?" "No no, it's nice, very nice" >Patricks lamp post pic.twitter.com/y6CVTMNZ5h
• 27 April 2022: The tasteful coat of arms...
• 27 April 2022: We're an international brotherhood, for whatever comfort that provides. @EsoterrorIKA is hueanon and good fren
• 27 April 2022: It's definitely wild, I know a few anon lawyers. For my part, I'm in a position where I have decision power over hiring on a regional IT team, and I've basically stacked the deck politically as much as possible, and I dox all of my hires. Rejected a few antifa since near PNW
• 27 April 2022: RT @absynot: @AristophanesBox https://t.co/mxODECZ0wm
• 27 April 2022: I'm on a few regional committees now, every time I get some mic time I feel the urge to say "Hello friends" in a BAP voice just to steer some neurotic dusty uterus opposition research people into a dead end.
• 27 April 2022: I can't imagine what shit is going to be like when there are anons in positions of real power and responsibility in the world, particularly when we start to age into our 40's and 50's over the next 20 years. TPTB better hurry up and flip the table or they're fucked.
• 27 April 2022: I was at a political event for some GOP primary runoff candidates this weekend, and shooting the shit with the regional director for one in a very important race. We get to talking and essentially admit we're both 30-somethings who grew up on the chans in the 00's. Wild.
• 26 April 2022: Finally, my 7 day twitter jail sentence ended the day after Musk buys it, man I missed a lot of tears and salt yesterday and could only watch from the sidelines!
• 19 April 2022: They're more racially aware now than my generation was at their age, by far. I've got some hope for the zoomers.
• 19 April 2022: There is no religion that hasn't been used to justify something terrible at some point in time. That's just a human trait.
• 19 April 2022: Anyone saying stupid shit like "decolonize christianity" is obviously a religious zealot, and not of the christian variety.
• 19 April 2022: I block universalists because you believe in nothing.
• 19 April 2022: Lmao I'm armed to the hilt if I go into the city these days
• 18 April 2022: I've been to two state conventions, and every precinct and senate convention since becoming active, am a precinct chair, and on a committee, and while I make headway I'm just... tired.
• 18 April 2022: I find that the boomer shadow hanging over everything keeps other people of my age and inclination from wanting to participate at the meatspace level. I know this because I am the only one my age participating and frequently want to just give up on it.
• 18 April 2022: The good part is it seems PSA has succeeded in its mission of making the AR-15 so ubiquitous that it can't be banned under the "Common Use" clause from.. I think it was either Miller or Cruikshank.
• 18 April 2022: Bet Bill Gates is laughing his way to the bank after buying all that farmland right about now.
• 18 April 2022: I feel like it might just take too long, and those people will still be at the reins to squander our advantage when we need to be pressing it. Thiel/Mercer aggressively providing a better model is probably our only hope.
• 18 April 2022: It feels like they are doing this on purpose so they can try to argue for another assault weapons ban like in the 90's, this time without the "mistake" of a sunset clause. I'm noticing frequent use of full auto giggle switches on glocks among the local fauna in Houston.
• 18 April 2022: Oh stfu, the masks don't make a difference. Whole family got covid when this all started including pregnant wife and my 2 year old at the time. Just live your life and take the pacifier off your mouth.
• 18 April 2022: I'm usually the youngest guy at any meeting or event in Houston politics that I go to at a whopping 32 years old, and I can get Gen X'ers eating out of my hand connecting dots that they knew were problems but struggled to define. Boomers just short circuit, and they're in charge.
• 18 April 2022: And because they are boomers, they completely lack the ability to listen to anything that they are told by Gen X or Millennial repubs who are much more schooled on the current reality than them. They just refuse. I have great success with Gen X dads, boomers get defensive.
• 18 April 2022: What I see is a generational incapability to cope with current circumstances and change their frame. Most GOP boomers who are actually in positions of authority will never be able to see the world differently. And I mean the 30 year local political machine guys on committees.
• 18 April 2022: The problem is, we need the tap actually turned off so we can get them to that point in adequate numbers, and a lot of the GOP "professionals" have economic interests that are vested in cheap labor, which is why they never fix the problem even when they are in power.
• 18 April 2022: Fucking with the economy this badly is going to send a ton of them across the picket line, and what I've found as a grassroots GOP dudebro, has been that once someone crosses over to our side we've basically got them for life.
• 18 April 2022: It is, along with experience of what the cartels have to offer and not wanting it here. But these sentiments still pay dividends nationwide and stats are bearing that out. Mainly because mexicans aren't as ideological until at least 3rd gen, the economy is the button for them
• 18 April 2022: You're the one saying it pretty clearly. 2A doesn't mean you have the right to shoot people at the Galleria because they "dithrethpected" you.
• 18 April 2022: Also, these problems way way predate permitless carry, Houston has been a pretty violent city for a long time, but it's gone downhill fast in the last 8 years, and permitless carry is very recent by comparison and doesn't trend with the surge in violence.
• 18 April 2022: lol if it's for everyone why do blacks in particular use it to shoot each other but whites and mexicans don't? Like we can't have the 2A because blacks aren't responsible enough to have it so no one should? That sounds like your argument.
• 18 April 2022: That excuse is the basis for why Ogg and Hidalgo push policy downward to give everyone HPD arrests 50 dollar bail or deferred adjudication, which then demoralizes the shit out of the police because they can't keep any of these clowns off the streets so they retire or go elsewhere
• 18 April 2022: HPD getting defunded wasn't the issue (they weren't) the fact that we don't put anyone in jail anymore is the issue. The judges who got elected don't show up to work, and the massive backlog for sentencing gives them the excuse to say "The jails are too full"
• 18 April 2022: Who's shooting who because I don't see very many mug shots of whites or mexicans here in Houston on the news despite both groups outnumbering blacks.
• 18 April 2022: the people shooting everybody in the city are mostly repeat offenders who already have a record, they aren't giving up diddly just because the govt says so I carry in a responsible fashion precisely because those people exist and are not going away anytime soon.
• 18 April 2022: You can mock atonement theory without calling Jesus "some dude who died so that you don't have to be tortured by his dad". That is the specific sentiment I am particularly cross with.
• 18 April 2022: There are plenty of issues with churches, which is what I assume was the source of abuse she suffered, but mocking the resurrection and going on brainless benders about "Decolonization" is not a rational reaction to that abuse if you're actually Christian.
• 18 April 2022: No one with criminal intent in Harris County is intimidated whatsoever by the thought of consequences, because unless you do something truly heinous, you're getting double digit bail and deferred adjudication on an endless loop until you do something so bad they have no choice.
• 18 April 2022: Houston had already reached this level of suck before permitless carry passed. Maybe if the Dems had ran someone who didn't have the sole intent of lawn darting the criminal justice system (ogg) or being incompetent and corrupt (Hidalgo) we wouldn't be in this mess.
• 18 April 2022: "a dude died for a weekend so I don't have to be tortured by his daddy" is not a rational christian sentiment, trauma isn't some excuse, she's mocking the core reason the religion even exists with one side of her mouth while saying she's a christian out the other.
• 18 April 2022: Above all that, she's wrong. It hasn't been "dangerous for years". I moved here about 8 years ago, and the Galleria was a really nice place where this type of thing was unthinkable. The city has been going progressively downhill, but Hidalgo and Ogg cut the brakes and hit the gas
• 18 April 2022: lmao 10 years ago the Galleria was a pretty premium place where this shit would never have been allowed. The city keeps getting worse, but Hidalgo and Ogg cut the brakes and hit the gas.
• 18 April 2022: The Galleria was awful nice a few years ago and has only gotten worse, and Houston hasn't gotten redder. What do you think changed I wonder?
• 18 April 2022: Post Katrina was when the downfall started and it just kept getting progressively(no pun intended) worse. Hidalgo and Ogg being elected accelerated things.
• 18 April 2022: Cypress is a "nice" area of Harris County, and we just had a woman in my area get carjacked while at a baseball game in broad daylight.
• 18 April 2022: This is the Texas GOP in my case. They are resting on their laurels as events take shape around us that we need to be getting out in front of. This needs to be fought more like a war and less like a debate, because that's how the enemy sees it. FL is the only good blueprint.
• 18 April 2022: I live here it's true
• 18 April 2022: Yeah I just conceal carry and pay no attention to signs. I figure if I actually need it, my last concern is going to be the legal ramifications of being somewhere armed where I wasn't wanted.
• 18 April 2022: Hispanics are a key demographic we're starting to make major gains in despite ourselves, and in real terms, only because the economy is being lawn darted on purpose in real time by the opposition and not because of anything the GOP is doing.
• 18 April 2022: The boomers lack the competence for any of this. They aren't fit to lead yet they white knuckle the steering wheel. They have no IRL exposure to any of the very real problems we need to deal with ASAP.
• 18 April 2022: I use "School zone speed limit IQ" so I don't find myself being too charitable.
• 18 April 2022: It's not even that complex, she worships progressivism but doesn't have a formal religion to participate in so calls herself a christian as a placeholder.
• 18 April 2022: Yeah the thing to realize is she doesn't have some theological position she's pushing, she's literally just a vacuous progressive who says she's a christian, and then everything else that comes out of her mouth has absolutely nothing to do with christianity.
• 18 April 2022: I am not a christian but she is so pathologically compromised that my disgust response is triggered viscerally by people like this.
• 18 April 2022: There's a reason it's one of the few things that the entire species had in common for millennia and that most of the societies that went against that grain died out or were deracinated and then consumed by neighboring cultures with no such weakness.
• 18 April 2022: It's not that complicated, if you call yourself a christian but then make light of the resurrection as something that happened to some "dude" then you aren't a christian. This woman worships progressivism but it's not a formal religion she's figured out how to untether yet
• 18 April 2022: You literally make light of the event that is the basis for Christianity existing, you aren't a Christian, progressivism is your religion.
• 18 April 2022: jehovas witnesses
• 18 April 2022: I hope people realize what Trump was trying to do from a foreign policy perspective now when he was cozying up to Bolsonaro and Modi so much. He was trying to coax the B and the I from BRICS into being our guys, and that work has basically been flushed.
• 18 April 2022: https://youtu.be/73Wb14NZ01E @man_integrated gonna use a screencap of the horn of urgency every time I tag you in a logistics related tweet from now on, was just watching freakazoid with my son and had totally forgotten about this
• 18 April 2022: Until neocon think tanks like Hoover and the CNP change their stripes or lose their influence to newer orgs like Rockbridge, we're going to keep losing as citizens no matter how many elections we actually win.
• 18 April 2022: Didn't mean to tweet bomb you there, but it's an example I wanted to explain thoroughly of why I just don't believe in these "professionals" understanding what it takes to win. They will win that election, and we will get a useless representative who doesn't fix anything.
• 18 April 2022: Shit like this is gross, they act like they want some multi-ethnic coalition stuff, which I agree is the right way to proceed, but instead they just have corporate groomed diversity hires spouting the exact same agenda from the last 30-40 years.
• 18 April 2022: End result is the DC funded candidate who didn't go to any debates, had no on the ground support at all, had millions of dollars from groups like the Hoover Inst and just letterbombed the entire district with fliers in the last week and carried the election. A black Dan Crenshaw.
• 18 April 2022: I voted for, and campaigned for, the guy who got 2nd place in that poll, which was a Gen-X Tejano CFO who was extremely knowledgeable about the border, crypto, uncompromising on 2A, impressive speaker. It was close to a tie, and we ended up just dividing our efforts.
• 18 April 2022: The slim majority went for an old boomer evangelical who was simply not up to the task and wouldn't shut up about Israel, he got the most votes from existing chairs because they all knew him since he'd been part of local GOP politics in the county for 30 years.
• 18 April 2022: I was at a candidate forum where we were trying to find a candidate to rally behind at the grassroots level to oppose a DC funded one, this was a congressional race with no incumbent to muddy the waters. Precinct chairs all voted in a straw poll after a debate session.
• 18 April 2022: We've got a boomer donor class living insulated from these issues in perpetual leisure class margaritaville who seem pretty content to just die rich and happy and not care what happens after when they fail to adjust to new realities.
• 18 April 2022: As an elected GOP party official I have trouble seeing eye to eye with you on this, it's pretty hard to call the professional politicians in the GOP people who know how to win when they've been backsliding and losing for decades till we came along.
• 18 April 2022: If they don't care enough about their prime demographic to defend them from persecution then what value can they actually bring to begin with? I'm tired of being a punching bag and I know most other white dudes are too. I don't want my kids discriminated against.
• 18 April 2022: Attacking productive whites for imagined slights while ignoring the civilizational millstone that is noggery isn't any more valid of a policy position than thinking some white utopia in the US is a realistic proposition. Neither are sustainable.
• 18 April 2022: But there's not going to be any progress at the macro level towards what you speak of until we can get institutional players on our side to stop having a blind spot for people attacking downscale whites and a blind spot for the faults of downscale darkies.
• 18 April 2022: The reality of it is that I've got friends from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds, who are all of a similar ideological bent, and we all love to laugh at racist shit for fun while acknowledging the degrees of truth in our own jokes.
• 18 April 2022: I generally agree, but on the same note it's not acceptable to carry on with the status quo that conservatives won't utter the words "anti-white" while they are simping at the "based black guy".
• 18 April 2022: I'm in Blazes camp, I keep the same round loaded, and I just press check in the morning when I wake up to give me the warm fuzzy that a round is in the chamber.
• 18 April 2022: What about people you don't like feeling free to speak? If you think free speech only includes anything that doesn't make the rainbow reich feel uncomfortable, then you have a toddlers grasp on societal issues.
• 18 April 2022: Winning is a matter of degrees and some wars last generations. I just take things a day at a time.
• 18 April 2022: If ZHP was in DM's with someone named "mediclit" then I'm pretty sure he knew that you would probably be posting these DM's and is laughing his ass off right now
• 18 April 2022: If you have to water your policies down you aren't winning
• 18 April 2022: we call it the modern agoge
• 18 April 2022: Marc and I are mutuals and I am not in this screenshot, I need to be a bit more controversial it seems
• 18 April 2022: The Africans we get in the US are the ones who can afford the plane ticket. We have a lot of them in Houston, they're generally college educated or at least from productive families. Honestly, I've had nothing but good experiences. The ones who float on a dinghy to europe tho?
• 18 April 2022: You will always be held accountable for your choices, either by others or by the consequences of those choices. Female accountability is pathetic by comparison, and many men can't seem to square that reality.
• 18 April 2022: At its core, masculinity is about responsibility even more than physicality or vitality. It is about being responsible for yourself and not making excuses, and being responsible for others within context. What circles back is that you are responsible for your physicality.
• 18 April 2022: new COD map just dropped
• 18 April 2022: I mean come on, it's so obvious. These cultists, regardless of subject, are obsessed with evangelizing their religion using any stretch possible. pic.twitter.com/2NVxnXz9Az
• 18 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/GdclgVTx1L
• 18 April 2022: Reims and Volkel air bases are now unblurred, and have been obfuscated for years.
• 18 April 2022: They have unblurred some in other nations too, perhaps by accident. Volkel and Reims air bases have historically been blurred, and now are not.
• 18 April 2022: They stopped hiding a bunch of other stuff too, Volkel Air Base and Reims Air Base can be seen now, and historically have always been blurred.
• 18 April 2022: If I could make a good living cutting down trees and carrying heavy loads, I would do it in a heartbeat, most men would.
• 18 April 2022: I visualize it as titans fighting each other, but we're all still just ants to all of those players.
• 18 April 2022: Me but I got suspended for it
• 18 April 2022: Debasing
• 18 April 2022: Same
• 18 April 2022: I'm late to the party for precisely that reason but self debating apologetic open letters like this are very gay regardless of what the apology is even about
• 18 April 2022: This is what selling out looks like https://twitter.com/terrorhousemag/status/1515389658171027460
• 17 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/HPnP77RNAO
• 17 April 2022: I love bluebonnet time, endless fields of little stars of texas pic.twitter.com/RThuXSGoVg
• 17 April 2022: A house husband who is both effective at doing that and also happy doing that long term is the exception and not the rule. The rare exception.
• 17 April 2022: No standard of living can replace an attentive mother at those ages. My wife will start working again in a few years when our kids are older. But kids need mothers, not absent pantsuit executives.
• 17 April 2022: My wife has more education than me, she has a masters and I have no degree, but kids need a mother. I make about 80k a year and we manage a humble home in the suburbs with one income and two kids. Better this way for toddlers.
• 17 April 2022: It's about what your standards are, I'm not a rich man, I don't make six figures, but we manage. It is more important to tighten your belt and raise your kids right than to chase money so someone else can raise them.
• 17 April 2022: That's why it's a sacrifice, for some it's not, but it's important to prioritize your kids above things like career
• 17 April 2022: https://www.cfindustries.com/newsroom/2022/union-pacific-shipping-restrictions @man_integrated why is UP doing this?
• 15 April 2022: I mean I'm not a rich man but we made the financial sacrifice and my wife stays home with our kids. Realtalk daycare is fuckin expensive, once you have 2 or more kids who aren't school age yet it's just not cost effective to work.
• 15 April 2022: My wife stays home and raises our kids and we're way happier than when we both worked, and we spend way more time with our kids.
• 15 April 2022: they took this from us
• 15 April 2022: stuff of nightmares
• 15 April 2022: Nah nah there's a statute, -must have been banned prior to musk purchasing the company- This is like account #8 so I'm gonna be their new manager, I don't make the rules
• 15 April 2022: Fire all of them, make a requirement to get their jobs having been banned from twitter before
• 15 April 2022: This is why Twitter needs to be bought https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1514970658345832448
• 15 April 2022: I usually throw this one at em when they start going all inter-species https://youtu.be/rV-Exeal17s
• 15 April 2022: https://youtu.be/rV-Exeal17s I link this video every single time they say that sort of shit
• 15 April 2022: The gospel as well as tradition are more important than the feelings of jews, pass.
• 15 April 2022: Humans aren't insects
• 15 April 2022: @remnantposting This is why it is important to be in places like twitter and not running off to some echo chamber, be the little voices of doubt and mockery, even if it's in the comments section, because some of the sheep, even a small amount, will go "Yeah that doesn't make sense"
• 15 April 2022: I think I could replace all of them, by myself
• 15 April 2022: Just replace all of the customer support staff with people who've all been banned at least once.
• 15 April 2022: Schiff is gonna be insufferable tho
• 15 April 2022: Caressing my shiny lindy metals rn
• 15 April 2022: Whenever I'm going to say DNS at work for the next week I'm just gonna say "Ed Bucks house" and see which of my colleagues gets the joke.
• 15 April 2022: It's a value that is far and well beyond ad revenue or user base or monetization, a value that can't be measured correctly in USD, which is why you have people at NPR shrieking and freaking the fuck out, because god forbid the TOS get applied without bias.
• 15 April 2022: Twitter is absolutely terrible at being profitable, the main reason it's not for sale should be pretty obvious, it's a valuable tool of empire for the same reasons the Habsburgs wouldn't have sold the Catholic Church at the height of their power if that were an option.
• 15 April 2022: Yeah most of us kind of planned on doing that until you started putting intersectional garbage in video games and school curriculum.
• 15 April 2022: This I'd the crux of the problem, I've had it with this velvet revolution shit of "you're not allowed to be disgusted in anything we promote or you're a bigot!" When much of it is genuinely disgusting
• 15 April 2022: I get the feeling you're just trying to be patronizing, we all know what the culture twitter shows fealty considers itself aligned with
• 15 April 2022: If the intelligentsia acted more like Musk I'd consider it an improvement but not perfect
• 14 April 2022: Yeah I don't want to explore depravity, but thanks.
• 14 April 2022: People should be allowed to poo fling all they want, because there is always a block button. One side being allowed to fling poo with rainbow colored sprinkles in it while the other side gets doxxed and persecuted if they fling poo, is not an acceptable state of affairs.
• 14 April 2022: Talking a bit of trash on the internet isn't being a dick, twitter is not a real place.
• 14 April 2022: I would be tickled pink if twitter was ran by someone who was in it for the money instead of a bunch of NPR listeners who hand out verified checkmarks based on their level of devotion to the regime
• 14 April 2022: this is not human flourishing, at what point can we say "Ok this shit is gross" and not get screamed at and called bigots by people who are generally childless urbanites when I actually have kids that I don't want to be influenced by this trash pic.twitter.com/wlyDjFFfaZ
• 14 April 2022: It's certainly not doing a great job now if you aren't a neoliberal who worships the party line of the united states intelligentsia establishment.
• 14 April 2022: How is Musk the evil corporate billionaire when Twitter has Saudi billionaires as long term investors? Nobody had a problem with the Saudi royal family having their fingers in this company for years and employees being arrested for spying for them, but the Musk is a problem?
• 14 April 2022: Pretty sure your camp doesn't have a problem with how twitter runs things here.
• 14 April 2022: The problem is the people who think like this keep saying "our" democracy, but their use of "our" doesn't include people like "me" even though I live here and was born here and pay taxes here too. This country is gross now and unregulated social media isn't the reason.
• 14 April 2022: Yeah unfortunately "don't be a dick" apparently isn't enough to build an entire grift complex with jobs and salaries and donations around, oh well
• 14 April 2022: I can stay schizo longer than they can stay solvent
• 14 April 2022: You do realize that no normal middle class person with investments in vanguard has any decision power over what vanguard chooses to buy or what they do with their voting power right
• 14 April 2022: It's the cynical and self-aware version of redditors being able to pivot on a dime whenever the news changes the narrative.
• 14 April 2022: Like it or not the "moral majority" and folks who were freaking out about dungeons and dragons being demonic were mostly conservatives.
• 14 April 2022: I feel like there's more of that going on than any unironic ESG support, when it comes to people who actually have liquidity.
• 14 April 2022: Surgically applied with no lubrication, for sure.
• 14 April 2022: I feel like having 20k in silver and gold bullion in a safe is going to feel way better than "I have shares of facebook and apple" if people start having food riots because of Weimar tier inflation.
• 14 April 2022: I feel like the entire industry of "anti-racism" could simply be replaced with popularizing the concept of "Don't be a dick" Like you could just throw out all the dumb leninist language and just have a flow-chart that says "Is this person being a dick? Y/N"
• 14 April 2022: The really sad part is that subconsciously, all the dumb guilt isn't really even about black people, or guilt. The lefties who keep bringing it up ad nauseum are really just using it as a cudgel to smack around downscale whites they're projecting feelings about their dad onto.
• 14 April 2022: It really does look like projection
• 14 April 2022: Yeah it's not the fucking jim crow era anymore you nerd, it hasn't been for a long ass time, and race relations have gotten worse and not better in the last years since "anti-racism" became popular
• 14 April 2022: Most popular configuration of firearm in Houston, has probably never hit anything it's been aimed at to this day. pic.twitter.com/MZyvaMC2A1
• 14 April 2022: If Elon wanted to make his own platform to beat twitter, all he would have to do is make something that mimics the usability of the UI and the reliability of the infrastructure, and then have a clear and reasonable TOS that is actually enforced fairly across the board.
• 14 April 2022: Like half the power, politically, in social media, is having a "public square" and not an echo chamber. Arguments and debates and controversy are how you bring the attention to the yard, which is the only thing that keeps anyone on twitter.
• 14 April 2022: GETTR/Parler/Truth, they all have huge security breaches, often ask for you to self-dox, and they'll censor you if you question a republican sacred cow like criticizing Israel, which isn't going to attract anyone but stupid boomers with a track record like that.
• 14 April 2022: I feel like Trump should just be on the platform and not actually be associated with the management, because thus far every "Lets make a replacement twitter!" has failed because of things like that.
• 14 April 2022: I've never had one but tbh looks pretty good
• 14 April 2022: They do realize most of the people on twitter, by a large margin, are not shitlib morons living in lofts in the city right? Because that's the "brand" they are referencing.
• 14 April 2022: musk is the punisher and the bluechecks and their masters are the cartel that killed frank castles family
• 14 April 2022: Feel like he probably just bought a ton of proof of stake coins before he said that and it was the main driver of those comments knowing him.
• 14 April 2022: Yes there is, and I say that as a conservative.
• 14 April 2022: Oh no, it's not a threat to your democracy, or my democracy. When they say it's a threat to "our" democracy, they don't mean us+them. They just mean "me and people who agree with me"
• 14 April 2022: It's kind of lmao seeing the best neolibs and lolberts on twitter can come up with is "What will you do when Elon Musk censors criticism of HIM?! CHECKMATE INCEL" Why do I give enough of a fuck about anything Musk does to criticize him or value criticizing him?
• 14 April 2022: Yeah but Elon doesn't hate any of the things I care about, twitter employees and management on the other hand, they hate almost all the things I care about.
• 14 April 2022: I can deal with not criticizing one guy if it means I can criticize every single other guy. Like how many individual forms of criticisms are censored in some form now? Hundreds if not more.
• 14 April 2022: Hey Marc maybe you and Thiel can go in on twitter with him.
• 14 April 2022: Very pedestrian, here in Houston we prefer a draco with a loudener and a drum magazine
• 14 April 2022: lmao I like how the slogans on the signs are whatever the most oppressed possible creature they can come up with is "The year is 2025 and the 'black spiderkin trans pedophile dogwife lives matter' parade has turned into a full scale riot"
• 14 April 2022: aww which aisle in toys r us do I go to for the scale model
• 14 April 2022: If it's any consolation they're probably ran by a bunch of fat poles in Warsaw at a NATO fusion cell, Ukies are a bit too busy for that rn
• 14 April 2022: The average american doesn't like the idea that stuff that is so easy to make fun of is being gatekept as off limits by threats of moderation or canceling on social media. Dabbing on troons and wokescolds is a pretty good strategy imo.
• 14 April 2022: Jogging back to the 00's, it was really easy to win over the culture dunking on sour people like dick cheney and others, freedom to mog trannies has the same impact for us. Picture that "It's MAAM" meme, but on a megaphone scale
• 14 April 2022: I just want the normies to see that our side has more fun than their side. That will help us win more than a million debates. People like humor. It used to be edgy lefties slaughtering sacred cows of stuffy people and laughing about it, and it worked.
• 14 April 2022: didn't you know glenn? apparently fascists historically used freedom of speech and the marketplace of ideas to take over, or so I've been being told today
• 14 April 2022: speech is speech, you can always just block people
• 14 April 2022: I mean it's technically correct
• 14 April 2022: Truth, GETTR, and Parler all suck, because their primary demographics are dissident right wingers, but then they turn around and demand you dox yourself lmao
• 14 April 2022: Truth and Gab don't have issues because of moderation, they have issues because their servers don't perform that well because the level of service people expect from enterprise level shit is extremely expensive and difficult to build.
• 14 April 2022: lmao you aren't going anywhere
• 14 April 2022: Goyranium, as it were
• 14 April 2022: Israel is wakanda for jews, but instead of vibranium they have US dollars from politicians the diaspora bribes
• 14 April 2022: We've had hypersonics since the 1970's, and there's a large DoD hypersonic lab at Texas A&M. I think people freaking out about Russia and China doing it were just fueling the idea that we need to give more money to the MIC so rivals can't achieve parity or something
• 14 April 2022: Strap me to the mirror and fire me at tel aviv, I am ready
• 14 April 2022: https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-zelensky-from-comedian Someone preserved my Zelensky thread! Many thanks to whoever they are, I thought it was lost!
• 14 April 2022: AH someone preserved most of it here: https://dailyexpose.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Thread-by-@AristophanesTX-on-Thread-Reader-App-1.pdf
• 14 April 2022: I have tried to learn a lot about both sides of this conflict, and it has been interesting to talk to Russians about it. I had a thread that hit over half a million views where I did a deep dive on the history of Zelensky and the oligarch who appointed him. had maybe elon fix
• 14 April 2022: I'll gladly replace one of their senior moderation team folks.
• 14 April 2022: I call people kaffirs all the time instead, smh he's gonna take my other power word
• 14 April 2022: Fifth generation warfare is sieging american urban centers with speakers blaring the word of power until ritual suicide or surrender occurs pic.twitter.com/6YsUdXeY8P
• 14 April 2022: NATO (primarily the US) wants what it wants, and Russia wants what it wants, and nobody really cares what Ukraine wants, which changes depending on who in Ukraine you ask. Rough situation all around.
• 14 April 2022: Yeah, I'm really not sure what the solution is. Ukraine has the unfortunate honor of being a buffer state between two great powers, a place where historically major fuckery always occurs.
• 14 April 2022: Haha sorry, I meant to reply to a different tweet and not yours, I actually agree with you wholeheartedly. Marketplace of ideas should always be a thing.
• 14 April 2022: I mean it makes sense, the ukies were putting a ton of stuff on display in the beginning so NATO could wage a propaganda war, now they're settling in for just a military engagement where the propaganda is secondary. Both sides did a lot of lying back then though.
• 14 April 2022: Look what happened to the reddit battalion because they had phones pronouns was/were
• 14 April 2022: Censoring us = private company Not censoring us = threat to our democracy (We're not included in your use of "our")
• 14 April 2022: Some of what you call bigotry is what most of the human population calls reality. You don't get to decide what free speech doesn't apply to.
• 14 April 2022: I donno ask an abortion advocate
• 14 April 2022: lmao, says the guy who probably has all sorts of ideological enemies he thinks should be banned here
• 14 April 2022: I mocked all the evangelicals when I was more liberal in my late teens and gay marriage was a big topic of debate, but they said this was a slippery slope and tbh I was wrong and they were right. I'm not a religious dude but they were right and now the world is pretty fucked up.
• 14 April 2022: Like how long until we're legalizing middle schoolers having consensual sex with 40 year old men because they deserve to be "extended freedom from the shackles of their parents" or legally recognizing marriage to dogs? When is enough enough?
• 14 April 2022: Yeah what happens when those "groups to extend freedom to" are exhausted? At this point, there is literally nothing you are allowed to judge as being "wrong" and our social policing mechanism has been inverted.
• 14 April 2022: Yeah but how is it a problem when you can just block them? I block people all the time if I feel like I'd never want to see their content or they're just trying to get a rise out of me with low effort reply guy shenanigans
• 14 April 2022: gross, you guys don't accomplish anything
• 14 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/MGhLp3EyNB
• 14 April 2022: I grew up on the 90's internet, when we still believed there was no reason to share your real name with the world. What value is there in me using my real name or photo? Just seems like clout chasing or something.
• 14 April 2022: All you end up getting is corporate controlled neoliberalism slowly moving in a more psychotic direction. They're never going to be on the side of the tankies or the nazis, and that's fine by me, but I didn't agree to any of these "norms" they push now.
• 14 April 2022: The thing is, it doesn't. "Extreme views" is subjective, I think men taking hormones competing in womens sports is extreme, but Hulu showed me an Adidas commercial praising it like 5 times in 2 hours last night and there's no way to go "I don't like this ad" like on twitter.
• 14 April 2022: And if you aren't in agreement with the ideological biases of the moderation? What then? Just "fuck off you don't get freedom of speech"? If Twitter discriminates against people you don't like "They're a private company" but now it's a "threat to our democracy"
• 14 April 2022: Yeah if you agree with the ideological stance of the moderators, I'm sure it's a decent hypothesis. But what if you don't?
• 14 April 2022: Maybe I could get my last 6 accounts back
• 14 April 2022: @SmaxOfCharacter @saveusculture He's been right in front of us the entire time, we just never looked up https://t.co/xoVROqqYFZ
• 14 April 2022: This thread is a pretty wild ride, saw a lot of scattered names I'm familiar with like Marion Pettie linked to a lot of other names like Jeffrey Epstein. https://twitter.com/DrBlobb/status/1513678317701976072
• 14 April 2022: I got carried away and made some observations on musk, I don't think we should consider him /ourguy/ or some ally, but I do like it when he pisses in the cornflakes of our enemies. That being said, Thiel and him go way back to Paypal, and look what Thiel is up to these days... https://twitter.com/AristophanesBox/status/1514646063193501708
• 14 April 2022: Spaceships and cool cars are basically a throwback to what is thought of as the most prosperous time to be an American, and whether people know it or not, that's probably what they like so much about him in the back of their mind. Goals that aren't psychological warfare.
• 14 April 2022: I mean what other visions of the future do we have lined up? Deracinated consumer slaves cheering for increasingly disgusting "stunning and brave" displays of depravity like drag kids and trannies dominating womens sports. The world is gross and unserious rn, and Musk isn't.
• 14 April 2022: That being said, Musk dreams big and fakes it till he makes it, there's very much a sort of Howard Hughes esque vitality and energy to the vision of the future he has, and that, for pretty understandable reasons, excites a lot of people across the board. Futurism is fun.
• 14 April 2022: He did this with literally every major endeavor he's in. He did it with Paypal (His payment processor "X" merged with Paypal and he fought tooth and nail for a "founder" title) and then he did the exact same thing with Tesla.
• 14 April 2022: Musk is an interesting character. His real past involves a lot of extremely shady business practices, his MO is to get into an innovative company, insert himself center stage, and then get "founder" status by title, and using marketing to be associated with it like a creator.
• 14 April 2022: On the right, it seems really obvious that Musk and the neoliberal regime in charge don't really like each other much, and so dissidents kind of automatically go "Well they hate him so I like him" They want powerful people who at the very least don't align with neoliberalism.
• 14 April 2022: I'm personally not part of his cult of personality and try to judge him as he is, but I can definitely guess. A lot of reddit tier people love him either because they're green-obsessed and like solar panels and electric vehicles, there's also that "I fucking love science" crowd
• 14 April 2022: lmao can you imagine what it'd feel like to be in a Humvee and getting struck by a cannonball, good god the pucker factor
• 14 April 2022: why are neolibs throwing such a hissy fit over the idea that they can't use moderation as a political weapon on https://twitter.com
• 14 April 2022: lmao you got 67 votes cowboy slow down neolibs who censor political opposition are the only people mad about this
• 14 April 2022: Maybe the limits shouldn't be rich liberal bullshit
• 14 April 2022: There once was a cholo from nantucket
• 14 April 2022: NATO depends almost entirely on US command and control and logistics like mid-air refueling and electronic warfare. France is the only nation that can reliably get beans/bullets/bodies/bandages where they intend to on time, UK is hit or miss on this.
• 14 April 2022: This isn't that unreasonable, France is the only other NATO member that has even halfway competent enough logistics to actually perform any sort of force projection, and despite mixed results, at least has experience with this in north and west africa. No other nation does at all
• 14 April 2022: That's not what she actually said. She wants France to withdraw from NATO military command, meaning she wants France to leave Unified Command to operate on its own while still being a NATO member. This was the status quo for them until 2009.
• 14 April 2022: @smcroasters are the guys, outstanding coffee and unapologetically standing for what is right.
• 14 April 2022: I want The Battle of Athens vibes, not girls gone wild with guns and beards
• 14 April 2022: As a veteran I'm extremely disappointed at vetbro culture never standing up for what's right. They just want to shoot guns on YouTube while shotgunning beers and doing wet t shirt contests.
• 14 April 2022: I like him too, but he's not the guy running the company
• 14 April 2022: A lot of people, myself included, were excited about BRCC because we wanted a successful company that represented the views of gun culture at large, not a corporation playing it safe with a big marketing facade.
• 14 April 2022: Yeah, and that "one guy" is the CEO. Nobody else contradicted him and he never apologized. Like it'd be different if this were Dutch brothers or something, but this is black rifle coffee. I expected enthusiastic support for Kyle, not silence or condemnation.
• 14 April 2022: People thinking that need to read Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough, the same people like Bill Ayers are still involved. They just spent a few decades regrouping.
• 14 April 2022: They forget that the tea party was also a big component back then, and was mainstreaming questions about the federal reserve and getting harassed by the IRS, OWS was a bunch of tards in tents who were slowly figuring it out
• 14 April 2022: Cool as hell
• 14 April 2022: Like dude you are using an oven mitt to hold the plate use some common sense
• 14 April 2022: How i look at the 20 something waiter when he says "watch out the fajita plate is really hot!" But then sets it down right next to my 2 year old daughter in a high chair, well within her reach pic.twitter.com/owi3zSnShg
• 13 April 2022: Moves from the Inland Empire in southern cali to a rural part of western pennsylvania and wonders to herself why everyone is white and conservative, smh she's living the dream while I'm playing diversity soup in Houston
• 13 April 2022: my GenX mom is a limousine liberal even though she grew up going to a private christian school with a broke single mom... she's basically the opposite of my grandma, who is practically a saint. Just caught up in keeping up with the joneses.
• 13 April 2022: These protests on the mexican side probably don't even exist. They probably paid some of them to park their trucks and hold up signs for a photo and go back to work. We all saw how they responded when the Canadian trucker strike started to actually impact the system.
• 13 April 2022: Nah, I'd rather get starbucks or dutch brothers any day. I will never set foot in a BRCC establishment after how they treated Kyle.
• 13 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/omxkUeXfby
• 13 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/cH3kJmms0T
• 13 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/fTrmEmkpi3
• 13 April 2022: Party Official in the streets, anon in the sheets
• 13 April 2022: If they could repeat Reaganite slogans until the boomers parroted them, we can compress and repeat our own until Gen X on down parrots a simplified version of our logic. Just takes time and memes make the process faster.
• 13 April 2022: I endorse their cultural sentiments right up until the point where they start counter-signaling me like a neoliberal rubberband.
• 13 April 2022: What made it dry up?
• 13 April 2022: Gen X dad precinct chairs and volunteers however, seem to be very interested in my schtick and less and less interested in the schtick they've been sold by Reagan Republicans for decades.
• 13 April 2022: I'm not motivated by the same things. I'm not an evangelical, I'm not a zionist, and I don't worship GDP and free trade as a measure of prosperity. This basically leaves firearms and healthy families, two things a lot of boomers pretend to care about but just don't.
• 13 April 2022: I'm not saying I don't endorse it, I just don't communicate at the same level as the average Lindell respecter, I've got different motivations and linguistics and humor that is often incompatible with them, as I continuously discover as an under 40 y/o GOP elected official.
• 13 April 2022: Feel like a lot of us would.
• 13 April 2022: Lindell will kick around being a boomer for the other boomers with the stupid shit that works on them, while kind of working in parallel with more forward thinking folks like Rockbridge. The generational divide is just too much from an ideological perspective.
• 13 April 2022: nah man he'll just look like he's got a bunch of soot on him and walk away frazzled pic.twitter.com/uPNn9MkpDH
• 13 April 2022: Lindell is still to naïve of a boomer to really be that effective. Love em or hate em Thiel and Mercer are the future we're getting
• 13 April 2022: we do a little navel gazing it's called we do a little navel gazing
• 13 April 2022: They can't haha
• 13 April 2022: Soon as the economy starts to sag it's time for a massive event with huge ramifications so they have narrative cover to change things. They just seem utterly unwilling to go "Well guys shit sucks, infinite growth isn't possible"
• 13 April 2022: I'm just saying we're a nation that has been at war for almost our entire history in some way or another despite having a populace that is extremely isolationist when they are allowed to return to the mean. And it's always the bankers leaving the fingerprints.
• 13 April 2022: So I think these people don't actually know how to fix it, a few of them have long shot ideas but it's essentially just desperate flailing and demanding obedience in the process. Regardless, every Ponzi has a point where the loop must close. Infinite growth is not possible.
• 13 April 2022: I think part of this is because smart but extremely flawed and subjectively quite evil people like Kissinger, are dying and retiring, and leaving this complex machine to people selected for ideology and not for competence. Increasingly schizophrenic.
• 13 April 2022: We had this whole 90's and 00's era of knocking over anyone in the middle east or north africa who threatened the petrodollar and must have just gone "Ah fuck it's either invade Iran or start a pandemic, lets flip a coin" and we got COVID. But the OODA loop closes faster+++
• 13 April 2022: The pattern would sure seem that way. Everything in this world happens faster now. From WW1 to great depression to WW2 to baby boom to 1970s switching fully out of metals to petrodollar, to 9/11 and Iraq and Libya to protect it.
• 13 April 2022: War is why the gold standard went away haha, governments needed to print to afford them.
• 13 April 2022: I mean, Fort Sumpter, Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, 9/11, WMD's in Iraq, there's pretty good indications we had a little something to do with every one of these events that let us restructure the economy, which is pretty sickening.
• 13 April 2022: If you think about it historically, the US cyclically seems to always make this mistake. Banks overleverage for madcap growth, get overextended, then we start a war to absolve debts and move money around and throw receipts in the trash.
• 13 April 2022: lmao I'd be like "Because critics rate movies filled with regime approved forced diversity and gay shit or else they'll stop getting invited to cocktail parties and normal people hate that shit" I'm a former analyst/researcher (not for them) but I like just being up front now.
• 13 April 2022: Maybe it's out of their hands and they are too incompetent to keep the ponzi going, so they're trying to just fake it till they make it (or don't)
• 13 April 2022: Urbanites who already live in or rent apartments/duplexes/townhouses do, the rest of us want space and not to be around so many people.
• 13 April 2022: me me me
• 13 April 2022: Just his sheer weird circumstances makes it look like he'd have to be glowing, but on the flip side he asks politely for donations often, and I've seen him state on the ground information that is the type the State Dept wouldn't acknowledge as it goes against the plot.
• 13 April 2022: I'll be honest if he wasn't on foreign offices radar before Afghanistan he sure is now, that being said if he's a cheeky lad who shares interesting stuff from his excursion, I'm all for it. That being said, I don't feel like he's pushed any narratives anywhere.
• 13 April 2022: Miles is probably a fed but to be fair is (lmao) a former banker intern and hasn't said he's prior military or intelligence or LE or whatever. That being said I do enjoy his exploits and overall cheekiness but odds are MI6 funds his excursions.
• 13 April 2022: So Washington DC then https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1514286353579659278
• 13 April 2022: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/tony-dedolph-sentencing-logan-melgar/ I feel like you're thinking of the same type of thing I'm thinking of.
• 13 April 2022: I was gonna say lmao, I totally trust papa sailer but damn it's a miracle he hasn't got the axe somehow
• 13 April 2022: As someone with a front row seat it already has. Officers and some SNCO's are afraid to punish shamming enlisted who are black and abusing the telework policy hardcore.
• 13 April 2022: Price discovery is gonna be fun in the near future
• 13 April 2022: I'm cross with Trump right now, he endorsed shitty people across the board in the Texas primary
• 13 April 2022: -squeak squeak squeak noises-
• 13 April 2022: Very possible, I wouldn't rule it out
• 12 April 2022: There's always the possibility one of the goons talks in exchange for leniency, find it hard to believe all 3 flunkies will fall on the sword and take the bid like a G
• 12 April 2022: That less than 1 percent is demanding the overwhelming 99.9 percent play along with their delusions. That's why it's a problem.
• 12 April 2022: Nope, I'm totally disconnected from the govt besides a couple hundred in VA gibs that is just extra income
• 12 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/xEjN2W5fx0
• 12 April 2022: I'm fortunate to have the job I do
• 12 April 2022: I would love to see that happen but I just really doubt melenchon voters will vote le pen to spite macron
• 12 April 2022: I have a hard time seeing a plurality of melenchon voters go for le pen, even to spite macron
• 12 April 2022: Based
• 11 April 2022: Opining on the current state of the military, particularly aviation mindset. https://twitter.com/AristophanesBox/status/1513524586796797957
• 11 April 2022: Feel like @man_integrated might have some fun observations on that for some reason, but I think I'm right.
• 11 April 2022: I guarantee you every military aviator is going to go watch this movie, and that the folks advising on the movie from the DoD are fully aware of that. It presents the start of a doctrine shift in psychology if I had to bet.
• 11 April 2022: https://youtu.be/giXco2jaZ_4 I mean catch the trailer for the new Top Gun coming out, whole plot isn't out, but obviously it's about him being brought in to bring that cold war mindset of nonpermissive air environments to the aviators. Film is heavy DoD collab like first one.
• 11 April 2022: The irony is that twitter shares fell after he announced he won't be joining the board, sounds like a great time for him to buy more lmao
• 11 April 2022: If the only thing that comes out of this is the reaction of the bluechecks when Trump comes back to twitter, I'll be pretty happy
• 11 April 2022: Sounds like we're undermining ourselves more than being undermined by others. All these unforced errors lately.
• 11 April 2022: It seems really weird to me that we allegedly have all these foreign dignitaries and leaders safely meeting with Zelensky in Kiev all the time when the place is a warzone? Common sense seems to be dictating to me that Zelensky may not even be in Ukraine.
• 11 April 2022: Shouldn't it concern you that people that wield a pretty decent element of power in this country consider a good time to be eating fake bodyparts with a weird serbian witch. That's not normal behavior, normal folks don't go "Wow what a good time!"
• 11 April 2022: Yes how absolutely normal and cheeky, to have serbian new agey witch impersonators that use satanic imagery host parties where people eat food made to look like human bodyparts. No dude, no one normal has the urge to do shit like that.
• 11 April 2022: Just look at california, they repealed civil rights laws there because it kept them from discriminating against whites and asians. They might just do it for us so they can treat blacks the way indians treat cows.
• 11 April 2022: Meaning every group that can do actual maneuver combat has an element of artillery to go with it, the US ratio is like 3:1 or 5:1 now. All this maneuver and less artillery. That's a scary fucking prospect to anyone on the ground.
• 11 April 2022: The important take away is no pilot is taught to think they could ever be in a position where the airspace isn't permissive and no ground troop is taught to think they could ever be subject to an artillery barrage or an airstrike, ever. Russia has a 1:1 maneuver to fires element.
• 11 April 2022: All the cold war guys who spent their entire careers preparing to get into a near-peer confrontation with the USSR who were taught to think that way, they're all gone at this point. No one thinks like that anymore. I met some of those last few when I was a wee young lad in USAF
• 11 April 2022: It's very easy for americans in general to believe our own propaganda. The truth is, our logistics are our biggest advantage, not necessarily our warfighters or equipment. We've been fighting insurgencies since the late 60's and haven't had a fight close to peer ever since.
• 11 April 2022: That would be a bigger political loss than a military loss, and it'd be a very substantial military loss. Even if we succeeded in the SEAD, taking heavy losses, even with victory, would in itself be a loss.
• 11 April 2022: Like ffs his taxpayer dollars literally funded me being in exercises where we roleplayed a russian invasion of continental europe and the inverse, maybe he should just listen.
• 11 April 2022: I'm the one he's accusing of being a Vatnick lmao, he made a claim we could steamroll into Moscow with ease in a war, and as someone with the background to actually know better, I gave pretty thorough details as to why he was wrong and he pulled that neolib "russian bot" shit
• 11 April 2022: It's such a major weakness for the gaslit neolib to think "Anyone who thinks I'm full of shit is obviously some Vatnik behind 7 proxies"
• 11 April 2022: lmao I am, I'm an air force veteran who lives in the suburbs of Houston and has worked out of Rammstein AFB where these things are thought of pretty often.
• 11 April 2022: Which Army? I'm American.
• 11 April 2022: What I'm saying is, what do you propose NATO do exactly? We don't have any military options that have costs we are willing to pay. There is no "March effortlessly into Moscow and collect 200 dollars after passing go" option. Stop getting high off Atlantic Council farts.
• 11 April 2022: Like could we potentially win on the ground invading? Sure, eventually, with many many casualties, and the world order we've set up around ourselves absolutely fucking destroyed when wheat and fertilizer exports worldwide are cut by over half.
• 11 April 2022: NATO will not get into some air war against russia on their home turf, because our air assets would take staggering losses that the US has never faced before which would destroy morale both in the military and at home, with no motivation for some on the ground conventional grind.
• 11 April 2022: What I'm trying to say is, you're way the fuck out of your league to be having such affirmative statements about how you think this could go from a strategic military perspective.
• 11 April 2022: Russians already used subs to cut the Svalbard deep sea internet cable to demonstrate they can do it, which if NATO really wanted this war, they'd be talking about on the news nonstop. Attempting, probably unsuccessful SEAD on Russian soil invites everything from nukes to cyber..
• 11 April 2022: There is no way to contain the war to just Ukraine when they have SAM's that can intercept aircraft halfway across Ukraine from inside the Russian border, which would necessitate first strikes by us within Russia and Belarus, which opens up all sorts of retaliation.
• 11 April 2022: Uhh, no, we couldn't. The US military cannot function without air superiority, and most of the USAF pisses their pants at the idea of trying to SEAD multiple divisions of S-400's, I've been in those briefings and seen the "Oh fuck" on the faces of pilots.
• 11 April 2022: "Russia BTFO, it's all over any day now!" says increasingly nervous twitter pedophiles
• 11 April 2022: I think most of us on the RW were frustrated lolberts once upon a time, I know I was.
• 10 April 2022: @NexaNemur @kriegszimmer @witte_sergei @remnantposting Getting there is the thing lolberts struggle with, because you can't dismantle this system from the outside, and lolbs are terrible at working together
• 10 April 2022: How a bunch of men lost a vote to give women the right to vote is beyond me but it was a mistake of epic proportions
• 10 April 2022: start with trannies
• 10 April 2022: What is your position on age of consent.
• 10 April 2022: Lmao read to the end https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1513219299284074506
• 10 April 2022: I was about to QRT this talking about how negging other men is gay af then I got to this post and laughed my ass off
• 10 April 2022: could at least do it with state schools
• 10 April 2022: Much like with lab grown beef, some of us have an innate compass that knows that both child porn and fake beef is wrong.
• 10 April 2022: Interesting sympathies you've got there
• 10 April 2022: I was on a galleon firing cannonballs at other ships yarr
• 10 April 2022: Killing pedophiles
• 10 April 2022: This is why the followup research is important
• 10 April 2022: I do both for follow through
• 9 April 2022: GWOT was imperialism too. We didn't stay in Afghanistan for 20 years to nation build or beat al qaeda, we stayed to keep China from expanding their market share of lithium and the CIA heroin slush fund.
• 9 April 2022: It doesn't matter if you or I are imperialists or not. We're not the ones making decisions. The US engages in cultural imperialism everywhere and Russia is doing it old school. It's the real world.
• 9 April 2022: The Ukrainians are stuck in the middle of the Great Game unfortunately.
• 9 April 2022: There's a lot of complications to it. RU took Crimea, because we were trying to topple Assad on the sly, and RU's only warm water Mediterranean naval base was in Syria at the time. That gambit failed and Assad stayed in power, but taking Crimea was a hedge against that.
• 9 April 2022: The whole thing is unfortunate, which is kind of your lot in life when you are a buffer state between two great powers, but Ukraine are being used as pawns in a game.
• 9 April 2022: I've seen pictures of actual NATO property laptops in Mariupol with cage code stickers on them with Azov, and the whole war to change all the placenames all of a sudden to spite Russia isn't helping things. "Kiev" being "Kyiv" and other nonsense.
• 9 April 2022: I'm pretty schooled up on this conflict and there's a lot more to it than that. There's history there in the form of Stepan Banderas work, and no one asks why Azov who are unironic actual nazi LARPers, have Atlantic Council representatives hanging out with them in pictures.
• 9 April 2022: "Hmm, every MSM outlet, the younger Rothschilds that are on Twitter, and all of Reddit, is screaming their support of Ukraine right now. Ergo they are probably the bad guys or being used as pawns." Then I did the research and sure enough.
• 9 April 2022: I think lots of civilians are being killed, particularly when you've got urban warfare with tanks and high caliber vehicle mounted weapons being sprayed into tenements and such. That being said, I don't think Russia is rounding up random people and executing them.
• 9 April 2022: This is all really simple if you take a pretty broad assessment of who your enemies are and just realize that you should be, with no compromise, against absolutely anything they advocate for. That's how I knew to research Ukraine when a lot of RW'ers were all "Muh based Azov"
• 9 April 2022: It's a lot of hypocrisy when we've got congressmen like Graham literally telling normal russian people to assassinate Putin
• 9 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/Ke5OFuIauI
• 9 April 2022: Oh I know, boy do I know, and Hidalgo.
• 9 April 2022: I don't think it's an error. All the English speakers are doing it too. It's sensationalism.
• 9 April 2022: God I hope we get food riots. Nobody gives a fuck about trannies when they're hungry, and anyone who still does when everyone else is hungry is going to get gutted like a deer.
• 9 April 2022: Thiel is starting to curb that by using his tech influence to build a cultural cache in Austin against them. It's not gonna turn the tide overnight but at least it's an arrow in the quiver.
• 9 April 2022: They're gonna donate money to anyone who can stop it and they're gonna threaten to stop donating their money to places like A&M and Texas State if they don't, and the ones who don't vote will be radicalized into doing so, and many will be radicalized into volunteering.
• 9 April 2022: If he was a bigger man, he could have been a massive figure of history right now, but he was not up to the task. DeSantis is that type of man, but in the meantime the best we can do is relentlessly bully Abbott and try to frustrate the people who give him money.
• 9 April 2022: And guess what the Alumni are gonna do when that happens? All those people with their A&M founders club stickers on their cars? pic.twitter.com/qrzp8Kwa7E
• 9 April 2022: There's a new GOP combatant phenotype rearing its head, we just need the boomers to die or get out of the goddamn way, most of them just aren't smart enough to play this game and are too set in their ways.
• 9 April 2022: Yeah but if one actually crashed, we would immediately be telling everyone because it'd mean the Russians fucked up, and that's politically useful right now.
• 9 April 2022: Instead of beating them, we'll just try and popularize charter schools by appealing to the donor class that hate this shit, and suck all the funding out from under them. Anyone taking their kids education seriously will want to be in them instead.
• 9 April 2022: Yeah even I'm not ambitious enough to try and tackle that hill, only to contain it as much as possible, and then lobby for school choice so we can undercut them and then start to take them apart piece by piece.
• 9 April 2022: Yeah that's my stomping ground.
• 9 April 2022: More likely would have something to do with Elmendorf Air Force Base, they have F-22's and such there, so I'd check and see if there is a bombing range near that mountain.
• 9 April 2022: If it was a Russian jet we'd be crowing about it nonstop
• 9 April 2022: Cy-Fair and the Woodlands are basically the political maginot line of Houston now. pic.twitter.com/DdmJrpzJB0
• 9 April 2022: No, Cy-Fair, massive school district of middle class suburbia in west houston. We ejected two milquetoast morons not up to the task, and a hyper leftist black pastor who was the one funneling all the race grievance bullshit and was essentially the ADL hookup into the district.
• 9 April 2022: They were definitely big in getting the messaging standardized there. Pinning down the language of what they were doing via Rufo's efforts was huge. Now is the time to drive it home with "groomer" 24/7. We need ideological grooming associated with pedophiles to keep the stink on.
• 9 April 2022: What we need is a DeSantis style governor here, and I hope by next election we can get one that's been groomed by Thiel and Mercer and coached appropriately.
• 9 April 2022: That's what I was really hoping for and I threw a lot of heat behind Allen West, unfortunately this Primary was disappointing in a lot of ways, and a lot of that was Trumps fault.
• 9 April 2022: We're trying. I'm affiliated with a small local PAC in Houston that just flipped every school board seat on the docket in one of the top 5 largest school districts in Texas. Most of us are transplants, old or recent. But we've got some generous and wealthy natives too.
• 9 April 2022: The blue transplants are loud and obnoxious and stick out like a sore thumb, while the red ones blend in relatively easily, and it makes them look like a bigger part of the problem than they actually are.
• 9 April 2022: We're all shellshocked psychos who have seen what they plan to do, and we're starting to build some pretty impressive grassroots engines including our own small PAC's to start running roughshod on local elections and influencing larger ones.
• 9 April 2022: Honestly, what was really kicking Texas in the ass, was native Texans going to college and doing the whole "Embarrassed Yokel" shit to spite their dads. What's been turning that around slowly but surely has, ironically, been transplants.
• 9 April 2022: Mellon just gave 55 million to construct a pretty large expanse of the border wall that was planned under Trump with state money, and construction is going pretty well. That was a major shot across the bow, but I'm hoping groups like Rockbridge (Thiel and Mercer) can do more.
• 9 April 2022: Yep, he lacks the spine (lmao) to do that, I'm hoping now that we have major billionaire donors up his ass like the Mellon family leaving Margaritaville to put some pressure on him, that may change, but this primary will embolden him to continue being weak for a long time.
• 9 April 2022: The CBP guys are great, they're really frustrated for clearly understandable reasons, and have been really great partners for DPS. They do a ton of shit behind the backs of their political appointees and benedict arnold sector chiefs.
• 9 April 2022: I blame Abbott for a lot of that, he's incentivizing too much growth in Austin by encouraging all these hostile ass corporations to come here and bring their rabble employees. Round Rock is in that district and is exploding with suburbanite carpetbagger trash.
• 9 April 2022: At this rate, in a few years, we will have an extremely experienced Texas Border Patrol in all but name, and hopefully the new Adjutant General can make it better by actually utilizing the forces we've paid for instead of playing grabass.
• 9 April 2022: The ranchers and farmers along the border have started kicking their assistance into high gear, forming intelligence and surveillance networks and cooperating to a really high degree in this. CBP rank and file are also helping a ton in a low key way. They hate what's happening.
• 9 April 2022: There's a state prison in Pearsall, by the border, and we've been rounding up coyotes and illegals and prosecuting them for state charges like trafficking and trespassing and imprisoning them there, essentially running CBP-lite under the radar. I agree that Abbott is a bitch tho
• 9 April 2022: DPS is really kicking ass and taking names, and the State Guard is doing a phenomenal job helping them. The natty guard proper was really the weak point. None of it really makes the news.
• 9 April 2022: We could and should be doing a lot more, but we've been doing way more than people are aware of. We just sacked the adjutant general of the national guard and we've been giving the Texas State Guard tons of funding. We've started massive DPS operations down there.
• 9 April 2022: Now keeping the nation is a whole other story, unfortunately, but I can only do what I can, and that's a problem FL will have to deal with just as much.
• 9 April 2022: At current trajectory, we're getting redder, and transplants are conservative by a factor of +10 according to recent polling. On the state front as a whole I'm optimistic. We're passing legislation that we failed to pass in the last several years, like permitless carry.
• 9 April 2022: Doesn't need to be like FL to keep the state. More worried about current GOP leadership than I am the competition as a guy who works on a lot of campaigns these days. Even with DNC chicanery in cities we had a 650k vote lead on dems in 2020, I expect that lead to expand.
• 9 April 2022: Gas cans always loaded with stabil and rotated so I can make it easily without refueling
• 9 April 2022: Have an uncle with a 50 acre ranch to retreat to, pretty far from civilization
• 9 April 2022: The economy shitting the bed seems to be winning over a lot of the hispanic vote, they don't give a shit about culture war stuff till their 4th gen, but you mess with their money and they get pissed like you kicked a hornets nest.
• 9 April 2022: Sorry friend but I'm Texas ride or die, that being said as a precinct chair I've been seeing pretty good things thus far, like strong majority hispanic counties like Zapata going red, I think for 22' we can probably flip the whole border with the exception of El Paso/Brownsville
• 9 April 2022: That makes FW area doable at least, but a bit high priced and without a lot of other things attracting us to the area aside from not being urbanized and being close to DFW
• 9 April 2022: I want to buy a homestead near fort worth, or in brazos county, or in Tyler, because I have connections in all those places. But our need for an airport that has decent prices for flights over the next 2 years really hamstrings that.
• 9 April 2022: In case you haven't noticed, there's a war going on. That doesn't make it a "MASS GRAVE" which kind of hints at a bunch of bodies chucked in a ditch with a bobcat, not, a bunch of people died and were buried in an organized fashion. Sophistry.
• 9 April 2022: That's a real cemetery you moron, check the death dates
• 9 April 2022: Nobody knows how to dispose of a body (of an animal) quite like a serb https://twitter.com/3rdincarnate/status/1512579343570059274
• 8 April 2022: congrats! good milestone
• 8 April 2022: As a 32 year old dad with a daughter I don't think I could bring myself to bone a 20 year old at this point, that's so young and stupid they're practically still kids anyway.
• 8 April 2022: You can only stop doing something addictive or compulsive by actively wanting to stop doing it and stopping. People who do not make a firm decision for themselves to kick an addiction have a ridiculous rate of relapse. Loli porn is not going to help a pedophile.
• 8 April 2022: It will always lead to relapse if you are doing some "lite" version of what you want to stop. If you smoke meth, you don't smoke weed to ward off the meth demons. It might work as a cope temporarily, but you're always letting yourself want meth.
• 8 April 2022: I liken it to the fact that I was a cigarette smoker for a long time. Aella says people with that compulsion need child porn to "cope" with it. You don't cope with a compulsion or addiction with something softer.
• 8 April 2022: It's a total tell, because people who don't want to fuck kids know that it isn't difficult not to want to fuck kids. They don't view pedophiles as people with a condition that needs to be "managed" with anything more complicated than a cage or a noose.
• 8 April 2022: If you can react to Aellas "idea" with anything other than outright hostility, I'm pretty sure what is potentially in your head, if not already in your search history and hard drive.
• 8 April 2022: It's stupid that I even have to say it, but absolutely anyone who is not utterly disgusted not just by actual pedophilia but even by child porn, drawn, virtual, or otherwise, is not worth listening to and should be actively ostracized.
• 8 April 2022: Overnight? They've always been kind of an enemy to social conservatives, while being in bed with big business neoconservatives until the social conservatism started to get a larger voice.
• 8 April 2022: He's always given me massive degen vibes going back ages, so I've always just had him blocked and missed most of his drama. If the Dam has one big crack, then there are more to be found if you look, and considering he's poly he's probably up to all sorts of other shit.
• 8 April 2022: The biggest complaint about how that stuff is written is one of the first things that happens in grooming is that "Shh can you keep a secret?" testing of the waters those sickos do.
• 8 April 2022: That doesn't make any sense as a response, seeing as that's what they've been doing. We just had a large incident at a school in my area because a teacher was telling a child not to tell their parents particularly things they were being told at school. That's grooming.
• 8 April 2022: It also is worded in a way which makes it rather reasonable to assume they may have bad intentions of their own, what with how many instances there have been lately of teachers telling kids not to tell their parents certain things, particularly wrt ideological curriculum.
• 8 April 2022: @DavidWatts__ @ChristinaPushaw It absolutely happens, but is not grounds to say "You should trust teachers more than your parents" That just isn't the case with most kids situations, and SOP's are generally supposed to be built around the rule, not the exception.
• 8 April 2022: Everyone tries to talk about what form of government or organizing is superior, but at the end of the day it's all about human capital, and if you're out of it, you're hosed regardless of system.
• 8 April 2022: It's much more likely that a non parent adult is going to touch them
• 8 April 2022: I do too, to a point, but his kids are both already all fucked in the head and Will was also kind of part of that I think.
• 8 April 2022: Cut the fat with elective classes and a lot of the gen ed. That would also get rid of a lot of the brainwashing problems. One of the main reasons I never went to college after a few classes and I dropped out to enlist is because I didn't want to do gen ed and electives.
• 8 April 2022: But open marriages seem different, it seems like a coping mechanism for people who shouldn't be married anymore to put their marriage on life support, neither living nor dead, because one of them is checked out and one of them is codependent or afraid of being alone.
• 8 April 2022: From what I've observed, the swinger types genuinely like each other and just taste from other troughs for fun and amusement, none of it is about what they aren't getting from their marriage. It's still gross and against my values but at least they seemed happy.
• 8 April 2022: She got a bit sauced at a squadron party and was talking to her husband, and she was this little cute short stack with massive milkers, but she said her husband "Is like a boomerang, he always comes back" and cackled. They both seemed genuinely on board with it like some kink.
• 8 April 2022: I'm disgusted and creeped out by Swingers too, but they seem a little different, like it's a shared kink that both of them are into. There was an officer couple I knew in the military who were swingers (disgustingly common phenomena) And I'll never forget what the wife said once.
• 8 April 2022: I think that's a great idea.
• 8 April 2022: Every open marriage I've ever seen, and I've known a few people in my personal life who tried this, has consisted of one person who wants to fuck other people, and another person scared they'll leave them if they don't allow it. https://twitter.com/Raddsurfer/status/1512154005790605322
• 8 April 2022: Every open marriage I've ever seen has consisted of one person who wants to fuck other people and the other person feeling like they'll leave and be alone if they don't let them. Swingers creep me out but at least they're generally just people with a kink who stay together
• 8 April 2022: ngl I see both sides here, if my wife cheated on me I'd leave her, but she radiates so much evil I'm surprised Will didn't figure this out sooner
• 8 April 2022: obviously not you're on twitter
• 8 April 2022: Mrs Bogdanoff
• 8 April 2022: Part of me would feel extremely bitter that they got to be cut loose of the loans they got for that vaunted piece of paper that has haunted me my entire life, the dumb assumptions that without a degree you're confined to service sector slavery. But that'd just be personal.
• 8 April 2022: The Ohioan cries out in pain as he strikes you What on earth is this it's not Chili pic.twitter.com/rmkFoeuIDf
• 8 April 2022: I didn't mean to imply you did, I just see a lot of folks who say that, inevitably all being people who owe such loans. If you told the banks that shit was void and that's that, I could be ok with that to a point.
• 8 April 2022: @man_integrated
• 8 April 2022: Reminds me of the luger scene in band of brothers, when the dude who had been yammering the entire war about getting a souvenir luger, and then he accidentally shoots himself with it when he gets it
• 8 April 2022: Wait why did sightmark even show up to the party when Vortex and Holosun didn't
• 8 April 2022: You know I generally want to agree Gruntpa, but I enlisted so that I wouldn't have to take those loans and was smart enough to make that decision at 18. On the one hand you're completely right, on the other I don't want their shit paid off with my tax money (unless I get a check)
• 8 April 2022: We already do background checks genius, it's called NICS
• 8 April 2022: I don't think so either, I do like Zemmour quite a lot, but I don't think he's got a shot... yet.
• 8 April 2022: Zemmour is starting to devour Le Pens base anyway, and he's a better candidate than her as it is.
• 8 April 2022: I have always hated those dumbass emails and texts, and have always been like "This is so fucking annoying only someone who hates Trump could be doing this"
• 8 April 2022: So I think Rick Wilson is a garbage human being, but his thread in totality essentially agrees with you. Basically says the Jordan/Hawley/Gaetz model is going to win and McConnell is just grifting for power and losing his grip. Personally the Winred part was interesting.
• 8 April 2022: I mean when you look at the history of Stepan Bandera it all kind of makes sense.
• 8 April 2022: I saw this thread too and it was pretty compelling. It'd also mean if it was IDF, the Ukies would have done it, Russians aren't shelling themselves.
• 8 April 2022: They keep saying there's tons of bodies with gunshots, and that there's satellite imagery, but the satellite imagery just proves they're dead. I've seen pictures of those dead people and there's no pools of blood or visible gunshots. Whole thing is sketch.
• 8 April 2022: It makes very little sense to start executing civilians in the street in an area you occupy, so this is definitely sketchy... Especially when none of them look like they were running away.. A guy with his car keys in his hands, a guy dead right next to his bike.
• 8 April 2022: You too brutha
• 8 April 2022: I don't think I've ever seen one of these on the road with a driver who didn't drive like absolute shit
• 8 April 2022: Worth considering, thank you.
• 8 April 2022: My son could have many faults, but if the one thing I get is for him to turn into a man who stands up for those who can't and doesn't lie or deceive, I've done at least an ok job.
• 8 April 2022: Crocodile tears are for psychopaths who deserve the belt, so I am ever watchful to nip that if it ever rears its head.
• 8 April 2022: It's all good, I appreciate the counsel. I think it's largely because the one thing that would get my son an absolute ass whooping from hell, would be if I caught him playing the victim after being the initiator of a fight. Defiance and lying are my lines in the sand for my kids.
• 8 April 2022: I guess I'm cautious about my kid being a pissant and me blindly believing him. I've seen a lot of kids who are total pieces of shit with hypocrite parents who just believe them, and I never want to be that. I'll be slower to cast judgement though.
• 8 April 2022: In a parent teacher conference, the head of their pre-K basically said "he reminds me of my daughter who was always stuck in dreamworld, sometimes it was worrisome, but overall it worked out pretty good for her" Cant hurt you if you aren't paying attention
• 8 April 2022: You don't want to be the parent who thinks their kid is always the victim, or that they can do no wrong, but you also don't want to take the word of a teacher at face value if you can do a bit of interrogation yourself. Because a lot of teachers are really fucking stupid.
• 8 April 2022: If there's any advice I can pass on, it's to try and be patient and hear your kids out, slowly, patiently, but run your inquisition thoroughly, because kids can lie with a straight face, and adequate questioning can catch them in it, but their faces betray them easily.
• 8 April 2022: I squared this with myself by virtue of only borrowing those fights and arguments from people who didn't deserve them in the first place. It's ok to fight an asshole. He wants to fight too, so why not? My wife cringes but I hope my son is that way too. I'll be proud.
• 8 April 2022: And I'll be honest about it, I think I learned that reflex because I figured out that I like to fight, and I like to argue, from a young age. And if I didn't have enough fights and arguments to get my fill, I'd borrow someone elses.
• 8 April 2022: I debriefed my wife, who rolled her eyes and said "He's just like you" She's more of a "mind your business" type, even when someone else is kind of getting shat on. The double edged sword I've always dealt with is having a bit of an overdeveloped sense of justice.
• 8 April 2022: On the one hand I feel bad that we had a very energetic and kinetic reaction when he got home, but on the other hand he was still a cunt about it to his teachers, but maybe it explains why he didn't want to apologize when they asked him to. I'm pleased, a good start to life.
• 8 April 2022: He beamed and jumped up smiling, when he understood that I understood, and that's when I felt like he was most likely telling the truth. I told him that to punch or push first makes you a bad guy, but that I would never be mad if he had to fight someone to protect others or him
• 8 April 2022: When I repeated his version of events back to him, as I understood them, I told him that if he was telling the truth, and that was what happened, that I was proud of him and that he did the right thing and the teachers may not understand what actually happened.
• 8 April 2022: My son said because he was doing that to her, he decided to fight him, and he punched him. Keep in mind with a 4 year old, this takes like 30 minutes and a special socratic method style of questioning from every angle to get all the details. They don't know how to explain things.
• 8 April 2022: I explained the concept of bullying, the difference between mean words and actual physical bullying, and how to handle it. He said the boy was trying to fight him because my son told him to listen to the teachers, and then he started fighting his little girlfriend, Ella.
• 8 April 2022: I just sat down with him and got the long version, and keep in mind, kids lie all the time in sort of an unmalicious way where it's totally a lie, but to them they aren't doing anything wrong, so they can be unreliable narrators.. However..
• 8 April 2022: Anyhow, we were busy being kind of pissed at him, and when we asked him what happened and why, he said Bennett was being mean to Ella and so he was trying to "save her" etc. We were cooking dinner so we still let him sweat in the slammer after the spanking.
• 8 April 2022: Like I could give him an action figure of a pirate or a soldier or something or a stuffed animal, and be like "What's his name bud?" and he'd go "SNORFY!" or "SOOCY" or something. He couldn't come up with "Bennett"
• 8 April 2022: I know Bennett is a real person because 1. We live in the suburbs and named like Kaeden or Bennett are dumb suburban yuppie names I see here, and 2. My son makes up names of imaginary friends and animals he sees all the time, and they're nonsense names like mecco or sorcy etc
• 8 April 2022: Apparently there's a boy who's a bully, a bit of a dickhead. Wife is pretty sure he's the one who had like 3 brothers that are older that were mysteriously allowed on the field trip, with a mom who the teachers were all talking to, named "Bennett"
• 8 April 2022: He cried a bit, was angry, we told him not to get into fights with other kids. Son is a little bit of a spergy daydreamer, wife chaperoned a field trip and felt like the teachers and a lot of the other kids don't like him much. There's a girl that is his friend, Ella.
• 8 April 2022: So obviously, wanting to nip this and make a very clear example out of him not to fight other kids, and not to be a guttersnipe about it when the teachers handle it, we spanked him pretty good. Put him in his room and unplugged his little DVD player he's learned how to work
• 8 April 2022: Wife was told when picking him up that he fought another kid then he wouldn't apologize, got angry and adamant about not apologizing and was sent to the office. We're the type who don't want our kids misbehaving or being a spectacle, or the type who think our kids can do no wrong
• 8 April 2022: Dealt with an interesting fatherhood scenario today, felt I'd share. 4 year old son in pre-k, it's kind of a cliquey baptist church, will be happy when he's done with it and getting ready for kinder. He's a nice kid, pretty smart, not a violent kid really. short thread:
• 8 April 2022: Never say never I've got a fat stack of benjamins burning a hole in my pocket
• 7 April 2022: Warden sounds good, but this whole thought experiment reminds me of the cringe of people on github and hackernews coming after the term Master/Slave in computer terminology.
• 7 April 2022: It's also one of the top destinations for "high culture" California yuppies of both GOP and DNC bents who are selling their overpriced homes to buy property with cash in red states to leave their dumpster fire.
• 7 April 2022: This makes me want to ask if there's some large movement to get rid of the phrase DM, so that I can be annoyed and angry that such a thing exists.
• 7 April 2022: No, actually, I don't. I don't take anything at face value, but you obviously take everything at face value.
• 7 April 2022: No more likely to take their words at face value than I would RT or ASB, propaganda is propaganda.
• 7 April 2022: Speaking of deluded, the Kiev Independent is not a good source, they're the same idiots pumping Zelensky's personal propaganda drum with obviously fake shit like the ghost of Kiev, who really is a ghost because no one ever heard of him again.
• 7 April 2022: I've seen the pictures, I'm not taking their word for it.
• 7 April 2022: when the road head is too much
• 7 April 2022: This is generally the way of war unfortunately.
• 7 April 2022: I think in smaller environments like that it's time to do a bit of because it's easier to get away with it
• 7 April 2022: I do a two week course, Fenben isn't going to damage your liver in that time span, we're talking like 9 months to a year, I just mean don't like, make it a part of your daily regimen
• 7 April 2022: You mean like we did in any number of other countries? I mean Syria is a sovereign land, and we were somehow able to use ISIS as an excuse to plant ourselves in Syria without permission? What about Iraq? The WMD's were never found. I don't like hypocrisy.
• 7 April 2022: Russians aren't some evil caricature, just like the Ukrainians aren't.
• 7 April 2022: The point I am trying to make here, is to take the pictures and video and context you see, and to decide what you think is likely or probable, instead of just taking someone elses word for it. What are the motives of the actors involved? What behavior makes sense?
• 7 April 2022: Those people did die, the satellite images don't do much to prove how they died beyond confirming that they did. pic.twitter.com/EkOopbrBZY
• 7 April 2022: Not that I need to prove it to you, but I'm a dad in Texas who is a GWOT veteran. I've seen the way war propaganda papers over civilian deaths and attributes them in the way that is most useful to whoever dominates the propaganda cycle. We are not innocent either.
• 7 April 2022: It'd be foolish (and propagandistic) to say that Russia hasn't killed any civilians. Do I think they are randomly executing people riding bicycles? No.
• 7 April 2022: Now do I think Russia has killed civilians? Absolutely, they're driving around towns and cities using artillery platforms for direct fire in urban areas and firing high caliber weapons into tenements as part of combat. I absolutely think they have.
• 7 April 2022: The Ukrainians and NATO have every incentive to cause as many civilian deaths that can be attributed to Russia as possible. It causes sympathy, outrage, provokes more aid being sent, etc.
• 7 April 2022: @stonesshows @Halsrethink @amlivemon Acting impartially, I have seen nothing thus far to make me logically think the russians probably killed those people in Bucha, just NATO media saying "trust me bro we've seen evidence"
• 7 April 2022: They're wearing the white armbands you see in russian controlled areas, and the russians have no incentive to kill civilians in the areas they hold, or more particularly to shell themselves (since the Bucha deaths don't have visible gunshot wounds or pools of blood)
• 7 April 2022: The dead people in Bucha do not look like they were running from someone who was trying to kill them when they died, there's a man with his car keys still in his hands, someone laying next to their bicycle like they were riding it as they fell, people generally run away.
• 7 April 2022: So all I can go on is that anything from media outlets or governments from either sides is probably going to be very sketchy, and that when I see actual videos I can only support whatever the most rational explanation is.
• 7 April 2022: I have seen a pro ukrainian blogger who was in Bucha who said he didn't see anyone shot, but in this information war I'm not depending on either side being honest or truthful in the matter. I do know that with my own eyes I have seen videos of executed russian prisoners.
• 7 April 2022: All I can say is that they didn't appear to link those recordings, and that technically speaking they could get anyone who speaks russian to say anything and the West could release it as "proof" and nobody would believe any denials from Russia, noo matter what it was.
• 7 April 2022: I watched it dad I'm sorry
• 7 April 2022: That blade cuts both ways, you sure you wanna go there with us?
• 7 April 2022: Meanwhile we have pretty good confirmation on video of the Ukrainians executing captured soldiers with extreme prejudice. I've seen the videos of russian camo clad troops with bound hands laying in rows with gunshot wounds to the head. I don't think RF are the war criminals here.
• 7 April 2022: Not saying that as some moral qualification of Russia, only that there is no tactical or strategic value to doing so and they don't appear to have been executed by gunshot wounds. I ponder if the Ukes are willing to shell their own captured areas to claim war crimes for west aid.
• 7 April 2022: People on the ground with bicycles right next to them as if they were just riding on them, etc, in an area that at the time was firmly under russian control, to include bodies with white armbands (used in russian controlled areas) Russia has no interest in executing civilians.
• 7 April 2022: Harald, some have made a good case that some of these events, such as Bucha, may have actually been Ukrainian artillery strikes on Russian held suburbs (like Bucha). The people in question don't appear to have any gunshot wounds and all look like they were just in the street.
• 7 April 2022: We're working on it, it's just been really hard to meet people and we've lived in this neighborhood for several years now. It's all Gen-X'ers with teenagers who just kind of don't care about anything.
• 7 April 2022: It's like being a muslim and getting shot by a bullet oiled with bacon grease. This is why I keep my stribog around, to make sure goontwitter doesn't get any ideas.
• 7 April 2022: I don't get in fair fights on my front lawn
• 7 April 2022: Dan is basically Bill Kristol with a bit less passion, so I expect this of him
• 7 April 2022: Pretty sure a gun could very easily "save" me from someone like "yourself" lmao You aren't faster than the entire magazine of a glock 17
• 7 April 2022: I aced the tests and ignored the homework and barely graduated. I was bored and busy thinking about going to work or reading a book or playing video games the second the damn bell rang and I could leave.
• 7 April 2022: Feel like I'd be discriminated against by the local cliques of ivy league grads if I lived there.
• 7 April 2022: sometimes you gotta wash your clothes man
• 7 April 2022: I mean the Adam's apple doesn't fall far from the tree if penny has a tranny sibling right
• 6 April 2022: If the choice is between that and this, give me the fucking armband, because I'll put it on and it will be your fault I did. pic.twitter.com/3SgQm687NQ
• 6 April 2022: The first books the nazis burned were tranny books too, so maybe you should have taken a note from history and treaded lightly
• 6 April 2022: This doesn't jive with "everyone under 40 hates you" comment. How old do you think groypers et al actually are
• 6 April 2022: I'm under 40 and I'm one of them, maybe you're in a bubble of elitist catamites.
• 6 April 2022: Suspiciously specific reference nobody asked about that you conflated that with buddy.
• 6 April 2022: 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/3Un37bo3oQ
• 6 April 2022: Also don't forget that it was Penny Pritzker who put Obama on his path to the stratosphere when he was introduced to her by Bill Ayers, founder of the Weather underground, at his home during a party in Chicago. Or that JB Pritzker, governor of Illinois, is part of it.
• 6 April 2022: Do Martine Rothblatt next
• 6 April 2022: Much love to Sailer, the happy warrior.
• 6 April 2022: We've had hypersonic missile technology since the 70's, this is a lot of hubbub over nothing
• 6 April 2022: I don't like the idea of anything that lets my car deny me my ability to drive it being baked into it, whatsoever.
• 6 April 2022: This is why you're one of my single digit number of notification bell twitter accounts
• 6 April 2022: Can I say the N word? Come on Mayor Adams the podium says "say whatever you want"
• 6 April 2022: It's true, the poorest quintile of whites commit homicide less than the wealthiest of blacks in the US. You are wrong and should probably re-evaluate the dumbass worldview someone else let you rent out from them.
• 6 April 2022: As many people have pointed out, you don't math well. If blacks are 13 percent of the population, but they commit drastically more murders than the largest ethnic group in the population, that's a per capita disparity.
• 6 April 2022: How about addressing underlying factors that lead someone to actually kill themselves instead of just trying to punish the wider citizenry by attacking a tool used to perform the act? If someone is determined to kill themselves, they don't need a gun to do it. A rope will do.
• 6 April 2022: Like any implication that the system may fail, even temporarily, is some sort of indictment of that system (It is I guess) which somehow is in and of itself offensive or causes physical pain or anxiety for them to consider. Yet we froze with no power for 4 days last year.
• 6 April 2022: This feels like a very subtle "community watches are racist" thing, even if that wasn't what was suggested in explicit terms. In every occasion where I've tried to launch an effort like this, it always ends up coming across like my neighbors are stuck in margaritaville.
• 6 April 2022: Now I mean I get it, logistics and food supplies are important, but I'm a 32 year old dad, I'm not really trying to start a sewing circle of 60 year old women who garden. But I can't seem to dissuade suburban dads into stepping away from sportsball and BBQ to think about this.
• 6 April 2022: I've noticed this in the past, and have had several failures right at the start when broaching the subject on neighborhood social media. The problem I also see, is if I frame it in the least militant preparedness terms possible, then you basically end up the grandma brigade.
• 6 April 2022: Even if you try to couch it in things like gardening and hurricane/power outage preparedness, something just inexplicably makes people absolutely lose their chili over such a suggestion, in an overwhelmingly conservative voting neighborhood, when it's couched in un-militant terms
• 6 April 2022: The leroy jenkins brothers decided to carjack a woman in broad daylight during a little league game, and one of the coaches followed him on the line with the constables, and he put a lexus SUV through a subdivision sign. Gently introduced idea of neighborhood emergency group.
• 6 April 2022: @grayzonewarlord Any advice for the phenomenon where someone brings up the idea of neighborhood preparedness in the most mild terms possible in an otherwise "conservative" suburb after a carjacking occurs, and people reflexively lash out in strange ways?
• 6 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/fvr6d9KP57
• 6 April 2022: That is indeed the question.
• 6 April 2022: I'm actually not aware of what you're referencing here, if you can easily pull it up I'd be interested to see.
• 6 April 2022: For no reason at all he endorsed a system which would make it easier to suppress most of his following. Which made people understandably upset, even if he threw it out as an afterthought and not as a very serious proposition. I think he kind of gets that now.
• 6 April 2022: imagine being someone like Krugman, so high in the ivory tower that this is even up for debate, talk about out of touch
• 6 April 2022: Per capita it is, I'm just pointing out the absurdity of her war on straight men being her rationale for why kids need to be taught tons of gay and tranny shit
• 6 April 2022: Nah you can resume a pretty normal eating schedule coming out of the fast. Some people say to just drink broth or soup or light snacks and take it easy ending a fast, but I've got no problem eating a burger and fries or a steak or whatever as my first post fast meal.
• 6 April 2022: If @elonmusk really wanted to fix domestic problems he would buy PBS and force it to air Dragon Ball Z and Evangelion reruns 24/7. Crime would plummet. IYKYK
• 6 April 2022: No, water fasts are just good for you in general and you also shit out all sorts of stuff that's been hanging out inside you anyway. Starve the bugs while also poisoning them
• 6 April 2022: The garage is dark, perfect place to test the COTI
• 6 April 2022: Yeah and most homicides are done by black men, are you on a crusade against them too?
• 6 April 2022: It sounds like you're just an old bitter femcel with an axe to grind enjoy passing alone when no one desires you and you have no progeny, and the only company you keep is your bitterness
• 6 April 2022: You want to make the world as ugly as you so you'll feel like you'll fit in. It's not going to work.
• 6 April 2022: My prediction is you're a spinster who rolled snake eyes in the genetic lottery and have always been too ugly to be desirable, and brainwashing kids into being disgusting sexual freaks is your own method of trying to get revenge on a world you felt was cruel to you.
• 6 April 2022: Maybe you were abused, maybe a guy just thought you were ugly, who knows, but none of this is about gays, or trannies, or kids, it's all about you pathologizing your hatred for straight men. That's all it's about and this is just a vehicle for you to do it. By manipulating kids.
• 6 April 2022: Ding ding ding, and that's what this is actually about. For some reason that happened in your past, you have a blanket hatred for straight men and a desire for revenge, and to you that revenge is in the form of demonizing straight men and grooming children to be as bitter as you
• 6 April 2022: Conan complains about exposing children to various retarded sexual motifs like trannies and gays in school, and your first thought is that somehow he's the abuser, but you're the one engaging in vociferous defense of absolutely abnormal sexual content being normalized for kids.
• 6 April 2022: It sounds like you're someone who was exposed to abuse and projects it on all men because you hate men, while ironically promoting that sort of degenerate behavior to try and "stick it" to the patriarchy, when ironically the stuff you're promoting results in said abuse.
• 6 April 2022: Then why is it so important to them to not let us stop them from talking to kids about weird forms of sex? You would think it wouldn't be a big deal if that's not a priority for them, right?
• 6 April 2022: A friend of mine did, (and posted accompanying gross pictures to prove it) when he did the exact same cleanse. I didn't visibly see anything but I wasn't looking all that hard, but I also am a lifelong nicotine user, which is an anti-parasitic.
• 6 April 2022: I do pill fenben, liquid tincture
• 6 April 2022: some "black national anthem" nonsense I'm sure
• 6 April 2022: same, I remember playing it as a little kid and enjoying how open ended it was, and spending most of my time spending my c-bills to choose what weapons to get and playing around with heat sinks and armor. I was always a Nova Cat 3 PPC's and a crapload of heat sinks guy
• 6 April 2022: We need to Make Bullying Great Again because it was clearly an effective mechanism for shoving all the neoliberal nerds in metaphorical lockers. Look what happened as soon as it became "mean" to cyberbully people.
• 6 April 2022: Kids these days would think you were talking about call of duty with MW2 old niggas know
• 6 April 2022: I remember when what people now call Guilds and such because of MMO's were all called Clans because of Mechwarrior. Counter-Strike Clans are named such because of Mechwarrior online play from that era.
• 6 April 2022: Was one of the first franchises I became really familiar with as a kid, my dad was a huge battletech fan, and I remember watching him eagerly play mechwarrior online with his clan, using the ultimate advantage: The first PTT voice comms for gaming, Roger Wilco
• 6 April 2022: That does, however, sound like they used that stat in the math problem to at the very least imply "whites make more than blacks" to try and make people draw certain conclusions based on drawing specific attention to those stats, but it's not nearly the most egregious example.
• 6 April 2022: Yeah, I mean it's maybe a little bit weird to be using that on the basis of a problem. When I was in school they never would have used a statistic on race as a math problem in a statistics class, I can see the narrative they want to push there to a degree, but bigger fish to fry.
• 6 April 2022: Personally would rather we could just cut to the chase and say "Liberal zealots have a severe outgroup preference that seems to create a compulsion to spread anti-white narratives even though most of them are white themselves, and this is hurting the body politic and must stop"
• 6 April 2022: Yeah that sounds like a bit of an overreaction unless the discussion context after that is warped to try and say it's because of racism. Statistics on income by race alone are not inherently a problem, it's when you contextualize it into "being kept down by white supremacy"
• 6 April 2022: The most poisonous thing to our civics is for people with absolutely dysgenic idiotic takes to feel empowered to give those takes with minimal criticism, and the healthiest thing is to absolutely mock and lambaste them publicly in full view of everybody else.
• 6 April 2022: Yeah, and I don't wish MM ill will, I just really want him to realize this aspect of it, because it's something Tim Pool, Jordan Peterson, several people who all made their bed on the attention of an anonymized audience who want people to speak against power, have done.
• 6 April 2022: This special protection of their cult by institutional power is necessary to its continued operation, and a lot of us realize this, which is why we want to expand in every possible way how visibly we can criticize it. Muting anons is counter to that.
• 6 April 2022: Because without the "You're forbidden from criticizing this openly" factor, people would have also been allowed to actually defend themselves from rioters without being unpersoned for muh raycism. If a bunch of whites rioted looters being shot would be acceptable to them.
• 6 April 2022: The current regime has such absolutely weak, anti-human, simpering worldviews that they are not to be openly resisted and mocked, because it can't survive that kind of scrutiny. Imagine if there was no consequential element to criticizing BLM? Would have ended two days later.
• 6 April 2022: Look at their reaction to Musk buying a significant stake in twitter, they immediately engaged in a prey/fear response of "Oh no imagine what would happen if we weren't allowed to use institutional powers to defend our shitty opinions from criticism or competition!?"
• 6 April 2022: Yeah if I could make fun of trannies in womens sports and jeer at catamite soychuggers with pronouns in their bios consequence free with my real name, I'd be inclined to do so. But the nature of neolib shit is that it's not acceptable to mock their little religion.
• 6 April 2022: Supreme doubt, I mean I'd be happy if it were true, but we don't send 3 stars to active warzones and Mariupol was always destined to fall despite more than ample time to get out before it was encircled.
• 6 April 2022: If you take away anything from this furball today, it's that something that was an afterthought to you, was received by your audience as you advocating to make it even easier for people they hate to ignore them. That's why everybody sperged out, some more gracefully than others
• 6 April 2022: I think that's what people actually got mad about, if it's any consolation. Taking away the power of the checkmark by giving it to anyone who actually self-doxxes is not harmful itself. I do respect your work, but you know how it gets when there's blood in the water on twitter.
• 6 April 2022: That's really the crux of the issue, how did MM go from "We're deincentivizing the checkmark" to "A button that mutes all anonymous accounts" One is a major problem, the other is a minor annoyance.
• 6 April 2022: What do you consider to be an example of his psychotic behavior? (I agree with your take on a liberal POV) Im genuinely asking, that's not a loaded question. He blocked me when I called him out over his dumb "Ok time to focus on gatekeeping and suppressing the right wing!" tweet
• 6 April 2022: I mean this was the initial intention of the verified checkmark to begin with, to verify who someone was to ward off impersonation, not to signal regime clout.
• 6 April 2022: Wouldn't removing that primary status marker without having the option to mute anons be better? If you want verified status to protect you from being impersonated, you can easily get it, but it takes away its value as a clout badge without making it easy to muzzle criticism.
• 6 April 2022: wow lmao no kidding, context aside that's really impressive
• 6 April 2022: And at the end of the day, it is important to the body politic that absolutely ridiculous sanctimonious bluechecks are ridiculed by anons from every angle for their stupid worldview. That is fundamentally civically important, even if that seems silly on its face.
• 6 April 2022: People are upset that you made that leap on your own, when the core of your audience are not self-doxxed, and would probably not self-dox if the system you are talking about was implemented. To us it's like you're advocating for making it easy for neolibs to muzzle us.
• 6 April 2022: I know people are flinging a lot of shit at you right now from a lot of directions, but I think the above is the absolute root of the reason why. Somehow you made that leap, and it makes people question your own internal motives and positions on things.
• 6 April 2022: I mean you're right MM, you're utterly right that there is perverse incentivization in the blue checkmark right now. I won't argue that at all. But you went from "lets change who gets a checkmark" to "have a button that lets you mute everyone who doesn't have a checkmark"
• 6 April 2022: This seems like a tacit admission that the shittiest people are anon, which is a matter of perspective. I don't think it's good to implement controls that try to steer that as such when all of the most sanctimonious catamites on here are self-doxxed people like Brooklyn Dad.
• 6 April 2022: I would rather hear wise words from an anonymous persona, than duplicitous regime propaganda from someone who has self-doxxed, and the world is entirely formed and shaped like a malleable metal by incentive structures. Systems of incentives are the most important part of society.
• 6 April 2022: This is why every "conservative" social media platform keeps utterly failing. GETTR, Parler, Truth, they all have various forms of either deanonymization, even if private. I mean it's ok if you disagree, but I think that the words are what matter, not the identity.
• 6 April 2022: I'm saying your proposal would alter incentive structures to potentially make it even worse, which honestly is a way more important point than what tweets you can see or not. I remember the 00's internet, it was wonderful, and people rarely crossed online/IRL persona streams.
• 6 April 2022: When you incentivize self-doxxing to get a verified checkmark, you're also incentivizing the behavior that is not a threat to your verified checkmark, in the same way that leftist talking points are acceptable on LinkedIn. I'm not saying the state of things now is good.
• 6 April 2022: Why formalize it and make it worse? Just take away verified checkmarks altogether if you're trying to make a change for the better. We shouldn't be incentivizing self-doxxing with the attention economy, which was actually the first point I made this morning to you.
• 6 April 2022: Yeah, at least he gets hundreds of thousands of dollars for it and gets to talk for a living. Imagine being just some normal dude with a job and enduring that while you're trying to commute to work and raise children.
• 6 April 2022: That would be taken away from us if we couldn't reach out into self-doxxed regime friendly LinkedIn twitter. The power of ridicule is literally one of the only weapons you have if you're against the neolib panopticon.
• 6 April 2022: The fact that we are actively suppressed and shadowbanned on here if we go against the orthodoxy means one of the only things we can do in the public square is be the mocking jeering crowd in the comments section of people in power, pointing out their flawed worldview.
• 6 April 2022: It effectively muzzles anonymity by denying us access to a gen pop of people willing to self-dox because their risk exposure is minimal, either because they have an actual monetized brand or because their opinions are safe.
• 6 April 2022: It's absolutely acceptable. How acceptable is it to do the inverse? Not at all acceptable. That's the problem I find with your proposal.
• 6 April 2022: If you go on LinkedIn, how acceptable is it to spew neoliberal regime talking points in what is supposed to be a professional environment? It's acceptable to go ranting about LGBT support and pronouns and trans rights and how great your anti-white DEI class was at work
• 6 April 2022: @martyrmade Because it effectively bifurcates twitter into an echo chamber, so that any solid ideas or thoughts anon twitter has can be watered down to be "acceptable" before they are given to the people on LinkedIn Twitter, in that scenario.
• 6 April 2022: Hillary probably more comfortable with the gamer word than MM if we're being honest
• 6 April 2022: If you want to have conversations with only verified self-doxxed people, ask yourself why nobody talks about anything other than shameless self-promotion on LinkedIn, that's what that twitter would be like, complete with neoliberal regime sycophants talking about LGBT inclusion.
• 6 April 2022: That isn't even the point (and has never been a reason I've been suspended) He's talking about bifurcating anons into an echo chamber so you basically have shitty regime LinkedIn twitter, and wild anon twitter, and that's a mistake because it gatekeeps dissident thought.
• 6 April 2022: MM is making this leap to say we're getting suppressed for just juvenile antics, that's not the case, I've got like 7 accounts that no longer exist to prove it and none of them were suspended for saying the gamer word.
• 6 April 2022: Like my last account got banned because I posted a picture of Azov Battalion in a lineup for a photo op where they had a NATO flag, a Ukie flag, and a swastika flag, all lined up behind them, in a thread critical of Ukraine. I'm not getting policed for random casual racism.
• 6 April 2022: But the point many of us are making is we don't want to reduce the wild shit, we can't normalize dissident thought locked in an echo chamber, having any salient points we make watered down to be made acceptable for common discourse. It just reads like gatekeeping.
• 6 April 2022: Same, though my company gives less of a shit about that sort of thing. MM and Tim complaining about anonymity is really easy from their ivory tower of self-employment, we can't all be podcast hosts
• 6 April 2022: This is just like when Tim Pool went on these big rants about how everyone should self-dox to be taken seriously. It's really easy to say when your personality is your paycheck, Darryl is literally acting like Tim Pool cuck tier.
• 6 April 2022: You can get the wormwood/black walnut/clover tincture pre-mixed on amazon for a fair price, it isn't too rough on you and you're gonna shit your brains out during a water fast anyway, so no reason not to do both, it's not any harder or easier.
• 6 April 2022: Lindsay isn't a nut but he's been recently showing himself to be a bit of a little bitch. All these personalities get attention based on an audience of anons, and once they "make it" they try to disavow us. It's a huge pattern of cuckold behavior and I hate it. They're users.
• 6 April 2022: Counter-signaling makes you an enemy and Lindsay betrayed everyone when he started making comments about how it was time for him to pivot to fending off "the right". This supreme neoliberal centrist shit is the enemy.
• 6 April 2022: What this is really about is Darryl disparaging anonymity because he's "made it" and can't be canceled because he doesn't have a boss and his persona is literally how he gets paid. Now he's trying to cut loose the type of audience that helped launch him.
• 6 April 2022: But after 3 days, you will also have sudden massive spikes of fatigue randomly throughout the day, like you'll have lots of focus and energy, and then suddenly want to sleep for hours.
• 6 April 2022: I mean start small, I recommend anyone who has never done a water fast before, to do 3 days. The first day is gonna kind of suck, the second day is going to be mental torture, and the third day is going to be pretty ok, after that you're going to start to feel really good.
• 6 April 2022: I'm very much aware of that. NATO are getting beat to the punch, just like when Putin hedged his bets in Syria with Crimea capture to keep from losing his warm water port in the Med
• 6 April 2022: Do not take fenben for too long, it's not some regular thing you should take all the time for a permanent regimen, and can give you liver damage if you do so long term (like on the order of months)
• 6 April 2022: So you might be taking an anti-parasitic that kills them in the larval stage and adult stage, but by the time you finish taking it, you've still got eggs which will progress to the larval stage unscathed. So you have to give it at least a week or two to be thorough.
• 6 April 2022: The problem is that parasites have 3 stages, and most anti-parasitics don't deal with all 3. You've got eggs, larva, and adult. You need to stay on the regimen long enough to where you've basically dealt with all of these as they develop.
• 6 April 2022: Use Fenbendazol in conjunction with the tincture, and just hit it really hard, like 3 teaspoons throughout the day, take the fenben once in the morning and before bed. It's a pretty broad spectrum anti-parasitic that way.
• 6 April 2022: When you do it combined with a water fast, it's hard to see which results are the deworming with fenbendazol and the tincture and what is the water fast, because either regimen will make you feel really good.
• 6 April 2022: Pretty good, tbh I love the taste of the wormwood tincture. I always had some suspicions related to all this, because I was a smoker for a long time, and a joke tidbit I used in the military to justify my smoking was that nicotine is an anti-parasitic.
• 6 April 2022: Glad to see a fellow dewormer. I did the wormwood/black walnut/clover mixed with water fasting cleanse for 5 days, be prepared for some bizarre stuff to come out.
• 6 April 2022: We need to start normalizing calling rich assholes in the West "oligarchs" like we do with eastern european ones, so thanks for that Robert Reich
• 6 April 2022: I'M ON MY 7TH ACCOUNT PARAG COME GET ME YOU STREET SHITTER
• 6 April 2022: It wouldn't be the first time, I just laugh about it now, screw twitter
• 6 April 2022: I'm going to be an embarrassing to be around old nigga at like 70 years old talking about chin chan and cracky chan and shit and the anons of the future are going to wonder wtf my deal is. pic.twitter.com/bjQzNubNar
• 6 April 2022: Being a frog is intrinsic to my identity even if I'm getting old and boring and I don't meme very hard anymore. I love my fellow anons and am disgusted at such cowardice when we could have people of power coming from anon circles actually being honest speakers for us.
• 6 April 2022: I will probably never be some e-famous person who makes my living from being an online talker or poaster or whatever, but if I did, I am ride or die with the anons even if I became a self-doxxed celebrity. My online presence started incubating in the bowels of 4chan in 04'.
• 6 April 2022: This is not honorable behavior. It is not respectable. It is treasonous longhouse cowardice and they know what they are doing, and every person seems to succumb to this when they feel they have used us adequately.
• 6 April 2022: You see this all over the place, so many people get propelled into legit no bullshit careers over being thought speakers in the frog spawning pool, or having frogs as their main audience amplifying them, only for them to turn absolute cuckold when they get to the normies.
• 6 April 2022: On MartyrMade and James Woods anti anonymity stuff today: Many of these people develop their fame because of frogs. Their chief audience for the longest time are frogs. It disgusts me how when people make it "big" and start getting a normie audience, they start disavowal.
• 6 April 2022: I'd just take the money, make an alt, and expose that they paid me to stop posting if they complained about it and laugh at how morally bankrupt they are.
• 6 April 2022: It's like someone vomited my follows list onto a page
• 6 April 2022: oh wow it's like one big list of my follows, awesome
• 6 April 2022: Veterans Today is not credible. I'm about as pro russia as they come as an American, I understand that the Ukraine conflict is a long time coming from a result of NATO agitation etc, but this is not a credible story from a credible outlet. It's Ghost of Kiev tier nonsense.
• 6 April 2022: Hmmmm I have my doubts, a uniformed 3 star would not be operating in the midst of all this. He would have gotten out. Unless he's some retired contractor or something.
• 5 April 2022: Yeah that would make more sense. A Ukrainian General who does NATO work
• 5 April 2022: He can joke about putting kids into woodchippers, but you make one joke about putting them in furnaces and everyone loses their minds. pic.twitter.com/wfU2VuuiiG
• 5 April 2022: James Gunn was talking about putting kids in woodchippers because they had political opinions that disagreed with his as an adult man(child) definitely a bit more than a mistake, and that's not even acknowledging the creepy shit Gunn has done which is worse
• 5 April 2022: "Oh, that wojak edit? We don't talk about him"
• 5 April 2022: 4chan figured this out on a fully anonymous board with timestamped selfies, yet Silicon Valley just doesn't know what to do
• 5 April 2022: Enough about airplanes Demp, I want to hear you talk about trains again
• 5 April 2022: If Joe Bidens dementia made 1970's Joe Biden suddenly come back, he might actually be my president
• 5 April 2022: @RWApodcast man stuff like this really discredits the russian side, much as it'd be hilarious in its error on the NATO side if it were true, there's no way it is, it's assuming Americans use generals in the field the way the Russian Army does, which we don't.
• 5 April 2022: Like even in Afghanistan and Iraq, 3 stars were hanging out at Al Udeid in Qatar, or in the green zone in Iraq at best. The highest officer rank that could ever be caught dead in the field in an actual warzone without an American presence would be a Captain, if that.
• 5 April 2022: lmao, I'm actually rooting for the russians, but this is pure vatnik cope and propaganda, Americans don't deploy 3 star generals to the field in our own actual wars except on little inspection field trips, you would certainly never see one in the field without a US presence.
• 5 April 2022: It's still a more tolerable place to be than a blue area, which was kind of the point. I mean they listed places like Houston, where we literally have anarcho tyranny, on the basis of Montgomery County being nearby and a good place to live. I'd say SD and OC qualify.
• 5 April 2022: As a Houstonian unfortunately stuck in the very edge of Harris, couldn't agree more.
• 5 April 2022: Everything has limits, anonymity is no less important or valuable.
• 5 April 2022: planning to bring bofa deez nuts back to the office
• 5 April 2022: Man Biden supported all the good shit back in the day
• 5 April 2022: Just start handing out glocks and let the problem fix itself
• 5 April 2022: Anons are valuable supporters, with the freedom to extend or retract that support based on approval. Steppe tribes in search of Attila, as it were.
• 5 April 2022: I only get a dopamine hit when a bluecheck is mad enough about something I say to comment on how much they don't like it. If a bluecheck likes one of my tweets I'm disappointed.
• 5 April 2022: Yeah it'd be a ghost town is what it'd be, same way nobody has any real conversations on LinkedIn
• 5 April 2022: This is gross of you James, most of your followers are anonymous for very real fear of retaliation for their personal opinions.
• 5 April 2022: They would just keep all the psychological warfare shit turned on for the unverified users, and leave the verified users who can actually complain about stuff alone.
• 5 April 2022: whatafightclub https://twitter.com/calebbrobledoo/status/1510135303062781953
• 5 April 2022: based as fuck, whataburger fight club
• 5 April 2022: Hot girl with a charleston drawl reading the "hilarity does not ensue" chapter with the shit on the sheets, muh lawd
• 5 April 2022: I remember being 20-something when that book was making the rounds, sitting around a smoke pit full of navy seabees while this cute E-5 with sandy blonde hair from Charleston was elected to read it aloud to everyone. Good times.
• 5 April 2022: Someone could impersonate you, or me, just take the bluecheck away entirely then. The internet was fine before verified twitter accounts existed.
• 5 April 2022: Now there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time
• 5 April 2022: https://twitter.com/AristophanesBox/status/1511372710651351047?s=20&t=M-xDzr8R75-nnZyUfFzWOg I like to think I posed a good counterpoint to you on this. If anything we should get rid of checkmarks for anyone that is not an official brand or govt/corporate official position.
• 5 April 2022: @martyrmade @remnantposting Todd the bugman trumpets his Maddow inspired tweets from the rooftops and has pronouns in his bio because he hopes when he applies for that job at Crowdstrike they decide he's a "great hire who aligns with our values" Do you not see that perverse incentivization?
• 5 April 2022: This is why the majority of people who are not self employed who self-dox are all regime supporting neolibs or progressives, they're simping to authority and parroting opinions endorsed by JP Morgan Chase. We can't all be authors and podcast hosts you know.
• 5 April 2022: This brand building is toxic and harmful because people started looking at it like an employment meta instead of an employment risk. "What if my employer doesn't like what I say online" became "Maybe this fortune 500 will hire me if they like my regime endorsed opinions"
• 5 April 2022: The vaunted "checkmark" incentivizes this type of approach as a status signifier, it's not supposed to be a clout badge, it's supposed to be for public figures who are at risk of popular impersonation by sockpuppets. Todd the bugman from Austin TX is not at that risk.
• 5 April 2022: Discourse on the internet was better, not worse, when people respected the unwritten rule that you shouldn't cross the streams with your IRL identity and your online Persona, unless you're actually doing something like a show or publication as a business.
• 5 April 2022: I use anonymity so I can speak freely without people getting out pitchforks and trying to come after my job, we shouldn't be incentivizing de-anonymization, because it's literally what encouraged an entire generation to become online narcissists who are building "a brand"
• 5 April 2022: It ain't much but it's honest work pic.twitter.com/zHhUWAKVpb
• 5 April 2022: Like it's easy to argue that Boromir or Aragorn or Gandalf are far greater heroes and far more heroic than any of the Hobbits, but in the case of the ring, heroic people lack the strength to cast it into the fire, which was ultimately needed much more than martial heroics.
• 5 April 2022: Right now, we're essentially living in Numenor before the great wave sundered it. The only Numenorians who survived were the faithful, and the only ones who continued their traditions in the long term were the Dunedain, who had to accept the fall of Numenor adjust accordingly.
• 5 April 2022: I love me some Howard but Tolkien will always be the king for me along with CS Lewis, they had visions of something much more grand and ambitious as a worldview. Howard is there to take you back down to earth and reality, but if I'm gonna dream, I'm gonna dream big.
• 5 April 2022: A good comparison is the current neoliberal order. Many reactionaries think the current US led order can be controlled and steered and brought back to our side, but that unipolarity caused the decadence and problems we see today. It will hurt but it must be thrown into mt doom
• 5 April 2022: I think the idea was that the rings twist the ambitions of the people wearing them, no matter how noble, that's just their nature. Hobbits, by nature, have almost no ambition whatsoever. It's not saying being meek and humble is a superior virtue, just for carrying the ring it is
• 5 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/3POHZnYyZK
• 5 April 2022: I don't need it, too many of the people associated with ZAF are anti cow, tells me everything I need to know about if they're the type of people to trust.
• 5 April 2022: You've been marketing to the wrong crowd then, go hit up the fake meat respecters
• 5 April 2022: We're not "coming after you" were calling out deceptive marketing and bad faith
• 5 April 2022: It's not resolving the problem to promote a different kind of synthetic zogslop and say it's better than the other kind.
• 5 April 2022: There's a general in the CA national guard who is about to have a very bad day courtesy if the LA Times. He's a real piece of shit though.
• 5 April 2022: They should probably worry when they create a world where normal productive suburban dads have nothing left to do but scheme about how to seize power, because when focused and undistracted by child rearing we're definitively better at just about everything than bugmen.
• 5 April 2022: There's a whole lot more to life than simping for power, the problem is that the type of people who desperately seek it are absolutely the ones who should never have it.
• 4 April 2022: Says the poster with the rainbow and ukraine flags.. How do you react to anything outside of your echo chamber I wonder?
• 4 April 2022: @tysaylorphoto @verge I think he understands that acutely, that's why he just bought the largest stake in the company owned by any one person.
• 4 April 2022: why goodbye? the worst Elon would do is not let you run to the mods when someone presents viewpoints you don't like
• 4 April 2022: This is exposing what ridiculous margins luxury goods run at
• 4 April 2022: maybe a banger of a tweet by some bluechecks can totally reverse this!
• 4 April 2022: My wife does all our grocery shopping and has said she noticed this
• 4 April 2022: Yeah I have image and file level backups nightly to the NAS in my closet
• 4 April 2022: I dropped like 3 grand on that bitch before my last deployment in the military, the absolute best of everything, and it's still chugging along playing what I like to play on a GTX 960m lmao it's also my primary work computer.
• 4 April 2022: If you parted it out for a build you'll probably be fine, I haven't been seeing too much sketch like that component wise, it's just been parts with defects making it to production so get the insurance/warranty. I'm still nervously running on my 2014 iBuyPower laptop
• 4 April 2022: Trader Joes is actually a decent quality grocery store, I mean it's a step up in price but also a step up in quality, which actually makes sense. Whole Foods be doin weird shit like "Asparagus Water" and marketing to the weird people crowd.
• 4 April 2022: I think what they are doing is passing stuff through QA they normally wouldn't to meet demand, and going "It's ok we'll fix any issues on the warranty side when they run into problems, has a 2 year comprehensive warranty after all"
• 4 April 2022: This has been going on for like 7 months now or so. I ordered like 8 laptops for a client directly from Dell, as our supplier (Trend Micro) was having inventory issues. Of the 8, 3 of them had an issue requiring warranty repairs within a month. New battery, Mobo replacement, etc.
• 4 April 2022: I've had mine start sprouting way faster than normal. So I planted some of them in my garden lmao.
• 4 April 2022: I think this is similar to what I noticed with computers in my line of work, we've been getting way more lemons with QA issues right out the gate from Dell. I think in order to meet demand, they are passing stuff through QA and fixing it on the warranty side, to make supply
• 4 April 2022: I don't know man I liked it, it's got some good scenes like when the food critic is taken back to his childhood. Thought that was clever cinematography.
• 4 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/MrDhOjB7xB
• 3 April 2022: It's all the things
• 3 April 2022: Bravo
• 3 April 2022: This is my main
• 3 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/frkMVprToJ
• 3 April 2022: I side willingly with the trickster
• 3 April 2022: This is exactly what I am going to discuss when my kids quit trying to discuss the finer points of scooby doo with me against my will, make a nice good slightly esoteric thread on the nature of these egregores and their relationship with "power".
• 3 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/Qbb6MKm4Yz
• 3 April 2022: Day 4 of just me and my kids, wife is out of state on a trip, out of pizza rolls, kids subsisting on goldfish crackers and chicken in a biskit, please send help
• 3 April 2022: Gay Green Grift
• 3 April 2022: No, the US is too big and spread out, we don't all live in cities, and that'd give govt too much control over freedom of movement which is probably why socialists are such train respecters
• 3 April 2022: What the fuck
• 3 April 2022: And in reaction to the birth of that colossal and freakish lovecraftian monster, a yin was birthed to their yang, because every action has a reaction... pic.twitter.com/CGlVNs2y3c
• 3 April 2022: Perhaps, they created this when they started committing enough psychological warfare on progs after Occupy Wallstreet/Tea Party got too close to the root of the problem, and they boosted intersectionality so much they birthed an egregore they can't properly control.
• 3 April 2022: So maybe these new "things" we've birthed into reality are the new big dick on the block. The egregores fight like gojira and kong, and the boomer power structure can only try to steer and gaslight them, but never completely control them.
• 3 April 2022: I will reiterate that this may be possible by virtue of boomers being very internet stupid. I mean who thinks Klaus Schwab is really a mastermind? Maybe all that old power is trying to harness all this new power, because a cultural WMD is stronger than a nuke. https://twitter.com/AristophanesBox/status/1510363871084748803
• 3 April 2022: I chose my autocult before it existed
• 2 April 2022: Gonna do a thread later when my brain puts all these puzzle pieces together just right. Gonna anthropomorphize these egregores
• 2 April 2022: If I had to describe this conflict, it would be the Skinner Box Panopticon vs the Coyote. pic.twitter.com/NC1Me9On7d
• 2 April 2022: The chans are not just some "RW message board", chan culture as a metaphysical entity transcends even politics or the right or left to something even greater, just as tumblrina predilections are bigger than just politics in their ambitions and implications.
• 2 April 2022: I went jet skiing on the colorado river recently with some family friends, one of whom has a 16 year old and brought some of his friends, I was pulling them around on a tire with a rope on it, and just hanging with them a bit, they talk like channers who have never visited.
• 2 April 2022: It's more subtle. One is trying to build digital rome, one is digital steppe tribes. Adherents to these egregores want different things out of life and have differing ambitions. One wants to be Jupiter or Zeus, the other wants to be Puck/Mercury/Loki/Coyote.
• 2 April 2022: I no shit saw a Ukraine relief fund lemonade stand in front of my neighborhood rec center today in Texas, gross. The cold war programming hits the boomercons extra hard.
• 2 April 2022: Ah, simpler times, oh to be sitting on 4chan waiting for the oroville dam to collapse again
• 2 April 2022: I echo this thought process 100% https://twitter.com/DagoSupremacy/status/1510275031783383048
• 2 April 2022: No. There is no common ground or common good to be had with the "Beyond" and "Impossible" crowd. They are against natural foods and want you living off of fake imitation food for the rest of your life. Don't trust them.
• 2 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/v6cB1ujR33
• 2 April 2022: "The barbarians are becoming more aggressive and restless at our borders!" says the tumblr-core eunuch wearing drag queen makeup to the privy council
• 2 April 2022: They're basically Rome during late decline period, and we're the Huns looking for our Attilla so that we can become the Sea Peoples or Great Heathen Army we know we can be.
• 2 April 2022: The battlefields are Twitter and Reddit. The Tumblr army have mods and bluechecks as their officer corps with a centralized power structure in corporations and institutions. The chans have some popular chieftains people choose to follow.
• 2 April 2022: So this war is actually between the Tumblr and 4chan egregores that have gained sentience via the internet and are actively bleeding over into real life. All the billionaire and deep state shenanigans are mostly trying to figure out how to take advantage of this.
• 2 April 2022: NATO can manipulate that narrative all they want, tank crews aren't scrolling twitter and narratives can flex a lot, but ultimately must always obey reality when reality demands it.
• 2 April 2022: but at least I'm not black
• 2 April 2022: I wish I was a serb, god said I wasn't good enough and so he made me an american
• 2 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/1Bnp1PbSm6
• 2 April 2022: Try hitting up @TomOliverson as it's his bill and he's pretty responsive, particularly on facebook but on Twitter sometimes too.
• 2 April 2022: I think Tom knows that Abbott lacks the spine for that and this was the best the legislature could do on their end.
• 2 April 2022: Instead they're just gonna take govt money to hand out food to junkies to keep them subsisting as wards of the state till they accidentally OD and nobody has any narcan around. There are very adequate resources for homeless people who aren't mentally ill or addicts.
• 2 April 2022: I care about homeless people in the context of the ones we can actually get independent at some point. I have a lot of homelessness related NGO's as clients, and I get the feeling it's a problem they never want to solve because it'd work them out of a job.
• 2 April 2022: The DEA can only execute on drug policy because it's an enterprise that is worldwide/nationwide and spans state lines, same for the ATF. There is nowhere that says "The feds have the right to enforce drug and gun policies in state jurisdictions"
• 2 April 2022: Limitations on Interstate Commerce expand to so, so, so much else. If we could call it into question to rein it in, we could do so much to weaken the federal government. Almost all federal law enforcement and federal agencies derive their power not from org mandate but from ICC
• 2 April 2022: Unless @TomOliverson has a different take on it, it was his bill after all, but that's how I've interpreted it. Being able to find and fix the limitations of interstate commerce clause is something the feds do not want to ever do.
• 2 April 2022: This isn't as awesome as "fuck the feds drill the third hole" but it's long game smart. The feds are not going to be willing to bring interstate commerce into legal discussion of its limits over suppressors, I think they'll relent.
• 2 April 2022: Like you aren't supposed to actually go out and make made in texas suppressors, the law essentially is for the AG to be able to petition the ATF for an answer on if they can create a suppressor that stays within the state it was made in, so that Interstate Commerce doesn't apply.
• 2 April 2022: The problem is they've done that in at least one state in the midwest, forget which, and the ATF just went and arrested them on their own. Texas just passed a law for made in texas suppressors, but it's written to make for a legal argument to challenge interstate commerce.
• 2 April 2022: 2A advocacy is one of the only areas of lobbying that conservatives actually have a lot of passionate volunteers and success in. Despite some small stupid blips like bump stocks and forced reset triggers, overall we've been winning the 2A fight pretty hard. pic.twitter.com/RQR7zD5lzk
• 2 April 2022: You are losing this particular fight, get over it pic.twitter.com/Jx1mdYy6kb
• 2 April 2022: Texas hasn't had a spike in issues since passing permitless carry and Houston has like 6 million people in its metro area. We were however already in the middle of a massive spike in crime due to bail "reform" by prog DA's.
• 2 April 2022: We've had this for a while in Texas, a very populous state, and it hasn't resulted in some massive murder spree. Come to think of it any of the other states that passed it haven't seen major changes. In fact carry permit requests go up afterwards.
• 2 April 2022: The funny part is that in terms of crime etc, very little changed after we passed this in Texas. What ever happened to "wild west pimp style"
• 2 April 2022: I don't know my man I just scream into the void sometimes
• 1 April 2022: Wish 10 year old me knew that
• 1 April 2022: I've got one friend from high school I still talk to regularly, my roomate from when I was in the military, and one of my colleagues at work that I gel with really well. So essentially only 3 friends who are very close friends.
• 1 April 2022: Does happen, I didn't lose any actual close friends over politics, but at some point I started unplugging "Facebook Friend" tier friends who were progs because they kept being reply guys about anything I wanted to talk about and I never really saw them much IRL anyway.
• 1 April 2022: I didn't have much of a choice, my dad died while I was in middle school and we moved across the state to be near family before my freshman year of high school, my mom pretty much had to drag me kicking and screaming. Stuff happens.
• 1 April 2022: lolno
• 1 April 2022: It's not some trauma or anything, he's just a simple dude
• 1 April 2022: If it's any consolation I didn't start to feel like I was making any progression whatsoever until around that age, mid 20's. Then everything happened very fast for me in my late 20's. Better job, wife, kids, etc.
• 1 April 2022: That being said, I know a lot of people who just did things sort of "right" and they did just always seem to have money and cars etc, but I think in retrospect maybe they were just taking on a shitton of debt to maintain a certain material comfort level.
• 1 April 2022: It's very common to feel that way at that age. In my early 20's I was struggling financially a lot, and early YouTube pumped all these travel influencers like anyone can just drop everything and afford to go travel abroad for a week or two at a time. A lot of it is propaganda.
• 1 April 2022: I have lots of buddies, but I basically have 3 friends and my wife, so I feel you. None of those friends live in my state even though we talk constantly online.
• 31 March 2022: He showed up and we got drunk and he gelled great with my groomsmen who could actually make it, and he breakdanced at the reception after my wedding, and he told me it meant a lot that I thought of him, and it meant a lot to me that he came.
• 31 March 2022: We hadn't spoken in many years beyond the occasional facebook like, and my groomsmen were mostly going to be guys from my unit, I had left the military the year prior, and unfortunately they all got deployed and I was super short on groomsmen, and Nick pinch hit like a champ.
• 31 March 2022: It's hard, I left for the Air Force, though I hadn't seen him at all in High School so we'd already been drifting apart for a few years because social media didn't exist yet except a bit of MySpace in its infancy. The military is an entire lifestyle that is very all-consuming.
• 31 March 2022: Yeah either of us could talk to each other right now, just ring the other up, but as men tend to, we just sorta... don't. One of us is gonna get a wild hair to call the other up someday and one of us will be dead or something. It's weird like that.
• 31 March 2022: I really hope Nick finds a woman who sincerely and deeply loves and appreciates his excruciatingly genuine and sincere personality. He's a hard worker with low ambitions, but a goofy guy with infinite optimism, and he deserves it. The epitome of the Delta Male.
• 31 March 2022: If you made it to the bottom of this musing, I'll have you know Lionheart was enough damage to kill the last boss and win the game, with one character at 1/10th his health left standing. It was an epic moment. Simpler times. Having a 90's childhood and 00's adulthood = curse
• 31 March 2022: I wonder if everyone has a friend that they sort of "outgrow", and if they don't, they might be that friend. But I just can't imagine spending the rest of my life just smoking weed on the weekends, playing videogames, and driving a truck down bumpy country roads, forever.
• 31 March 2022: It's a strange thing. I have no friends from my childhood, apart from being able to call good ol' reliable Nick, and I know we'd catch up and have a great time, he's a good guy, a fun guy, but it's very sad when you lose touch with someone.
• 31 March 2022: I could call him, right now, or message, but I don't know what we would talk about besides reminiscing about childhood. He's a stoner in an apartment who probably leaves the tri county area 2-3 times a year. I lived overseas in the military and got married and have 2 kids.
• 31 March 2022: Nick came in clutch when I got married, and I came out of nowhere to recruit him as one of my groomsmen. That's real lifetime loyalty, but the last time I visited him, he was just a stoner who drove a truck and played a ton of WoW. Townie Syndrome was terminal.
• 31 March 2022: He was still in the same town, kicking around with his dad, his mother had passed. His older brother still lived there too and got married and got a job at the university doing HVAC, like his dad. Nick drives a truck delivering farm equipment and mechanical parts for machines.
• 31 March 2022: But then we moved a few blocks away, and just saw each other at school. Then we got zoned to different middle schools, and after middle school we moved away across the state. I didn't hear much from Nick until facebook came around and we added each other and caught up a bit.
• 31 March 2022: I think about Nick sometimes, when I got moved to a different "track" (set of classes that follow each other and have the same vacation) I was starting the next grade with nobody I'd had in my class before. Nick made his parents switch him too so he could stay with me.
• 31 March 2022: It was the final boss of the game, everyone was dead but Squall, who was fucked up, but he got a limit break, and I had never gotten his last one, Lionheart, and I used the limit break and went "I'm never gonna get a... LIONHEART?!" in the spergy way kids do.
• 31 March 2022: My best memory I had, the one that came back to me all of a sudden, was when we were playing Final Fantasy 8 on playstation the groggy morning of a sleepover, we both loved that game and had never beat it and played it straight through the night taking turns.
• 31 March 2022: Nick lived down the street from me and we started kinder together, his parents were really nice people and had their kids a bit older and were good mentors to my parents. His mom was actually in witness protection over being a mob wife or something, living my small town.
• 31 March 2022: Have you ever "outgrown" a close friend? It's hard to talk about without sounding patronizing. This morning in the shower I randomly thought about a time in my childhood with my best friend, Nick. He was like one of those actually best friends. Short thread:
• 31 March 2022: If this got normalized all over the country, SIDS deaths would plummet. Because my theory is that SIDS is actually mothers rolling over or otherwise smothering their children by accident, or by malice over not having enough sleep or no attachment to the child.
• 31 March 2022: Gonna need to dumb it down, were explaining this to MBAs, not Marines
• 31 March 2022: roommate. Took vanity fair two years to do this? Could have sure used some skepticism a year ago when it was actually difficult
• 31 March 2022: Given this was southern California BAH but I had a dirt cheap apartment with a roomate.
• 31 March 2022: When I was an NCO living off base I was basically a 22 year old making around the same as someone making 80k but my health insurance was free and my tax burden was way lighter. As an E-5. There's normal people slaving away who will make less than that in their 30s or 40s.
• 31 March 2022: Which is how you get an O6 spot where someone is a glorified secretary as "Vice Commander of the Office of the Assistant to the Function Chief" type shit.
• 31 March 2022: This will never happen though, because people started creating BS positions out of thin air to promote their troops, and then those troops did that for their troops etc. They aren't going to close out their own BS make-work promotion slots.
• 31 March 2022: Like I get it, it sucks to not be able to promote and make more money, but there's legions of people just doing normal jobs for like 20 years, postal carriers, etc. We need to reserve SNCO and higher officer slots for only the most competent and remove higher tenure.
• 31 March 2022: The problem is when those jobs, even the important ones, are O-3 or Lt difficulty level, but you've got an O-6 doing it. Promotions used to be harder to get, and we didn't do things like higher tenure, we were a more bottom heavy force and that's why people retired as O4/E5 reg
• 31 March 2022: Voters who aren't bougie trust fund kids on twitter (the majority of people) care about inflation way more than gender make-believe. Only progs who are absolute zealots see "abolishing the gender binary" as a platform issue.
• 31 March 2022: Once that happens, they tend to stall, bumped to some staff job at the pentagon to not hold their own command (since they already fucked that up) and they just sort of... exist.. until O5 or O6 like you say.
• 31 March 2022: As a more operational role they got to have all these achievements from whipping the absolute shit out of the enlisted and using them like pawns in their own careers, and then when they are subject to enlisted review they get decimated.
• 31 March 2022: The average trajectory for most toxic Air Force officers is glowing reviews on paper because for some reason the brass love those sociopaths, and when they get their first command they absolutely lawn dart due to unit climate surveys.
• 31 March 2022: Same as the enlisted side, having issues retaining E-5 ready to make E-6, because that's when your first long-form contract ends (6 years) and people who decide they want to punch out, that's the first time for them to consider it or officers with tuition obligations finished.
• 30 March 2022: And the "golden child" officers always are complete backstabbing psychopaths who will lawn dart their first command and as a result become permanent staff officers
• 30 March 2022: You can have oodles of suicides and piss poor retention but somehow still get that in residence at war College while the officer with the happy troops and high productivity can't get a two week tdy for new skills.
• 30 March 2022: This is the real problem, I'm prior and my wife is about to put on lt colonel, and it feels like certain officers are always "on the track" where their mistakes and fuckups just don't matter and they get the best opportunities, while everyone else gets nitpicked.
• 30 March 2022: The officer corps is too top heavy as it is, there's so many random generals and colonels running around doing admin shit at the pentagon
• 30 March 2022: I always felt like Starship Troopers really got the "vibe" for the officer corps as it should have been. pic.twitter.com/t243ABg4iU
• 30 March 2022: Lmao what are you talking about birthrate are in the shitter, you wouldn't say this about some African family with 10 kids below the poverty line
• 30 March 2022: He ain't shooting blanks that's for sure
• 30 March 2022: Just actually being nice and not treating it like some competitive game. I don't want some pantsuit bad bitch, just be a normal human who doesn't go into every sentence with some expectation or game theory. That's what I liked about my wife when we met.
• 30 March 2022: As always certain things skinned parties prefer the exception to the rule
• 30 March 2022: Still needs odessa
• 29 March 2022: I think a historical fiction shaka zulu series could be pretty dope tbh, or even the Aksumite empire which is now Ethiopia.
• 29 March 2022: Not even holding out for that, just pure law of entropy. Everything ends, nothing is forever, certainly not this geriatric kleptocracy where every one of them who retires is replaced by a drastically less competent moron selected for ideology.
• 29 March 2022: what you mean I could have been lynching people this entire time and it'd have been legal and I wasn't aware of this?
• 29 March 2022: based
• 29 March 2022: I mean I saw some family pictures, but that was about it. That being said I don't particularly want my kids having gay teachers either way, I don't approve of that lifestyle and don't want it normalized to my kids.
• 29 March 2022: Not sure where you went to school but I don't think I ever met a teachers spouse whatsoever in public school, except my econ teacher who was married to another teacher at the school. 90's California public school.
• 29 March 2022: I just keep it simple stupid with a Rhino 2
• 29 March 2022: No, this was pretty common in the 90's and 00's, you really felt like it was privileged info if a teacher was talking about their personal life at all.
• 29 March 2022: I specifically remember my teachers being very private about that sort of thing all throughout my time in school.
• 29 March 2022: I don't want my kids to have gay teachers, much less gay teachers talking about their gay paddle boarding trips.
• 29 March 2022: We'll be left with incompetent and irrational millennial middle managers who lash out and project.
• 29 March 2022: It is weakening. but it's going to get more irrational and dangerous. I attribute this largely to the fact that western economy is always a ponzi that can only be reset by a world war or some other pivot, and that the competent architects of this panopticon are dying.
• 29 March 2022: I am always brought back to the anecdote I once heard of a plane with most of its engines out, slowly starting to crash. A man sits calmly, analyzing the situation, and someone says "WHY AREN'T YOU PANICKING?!" The man looks at him, shrugs, and says "Would it help if I did?"
• 29 March 2022: My cope is that it's all going to be ok in the end, and that even if we don't win, they will lose. Not necessarily because I think that's exactly how things go down, I don't know, but because anything less than fatalistic optimism isn't very useful.
• 29 March 2022: I was gonna move but I've got a 2.75 fixed interest rate and bought my house 8 years ago. I want to leave suburbia and Houston, but damn if I'm not awful pleased about a 1300 mortgage payment rn
• 29 March 2022: These are Hush and Tek shenanigans imo
• 29 March 2022: Those colorized black and white 1930's videos of people just walking around in american cities wearing suits and dresses, no one looks like a street urchin or criminal.
• 29 March 2022: Comparisons like these do a better job than any technological achievement, real or not. pic.twitter.com/CtP9CDzjxb
• 29 March 2022: I don't know why you feel this way, but you are abdicating your duty as a husband and father, which is to protect your children and your wife. This is flamboyantly dishonorable and a sin all on its own.
• 29 March 2022: You're just a coward. It's thou shall not MURDER. The entire point is that innocent blood shall not be shed. The bible emphasizes that murderers should be put to death, and just about every abrahamic faith recognizes that killing in self-defense is justified except weird fringes.
• 29 March 2022: That... literally just makes you a coward.
• 29 March 2022: Such a weird position, there's no moral hill he's standing on there, it just makes him a coward, plain and simple.
• 29 March 2022: in the future when asked about zoomers, schizos will say do not research
• 29 March 2022: pic.twitter.com/NxVKQCOmrx
• 29 March 2022: I just had an annual /k/fest meetup, and one of our members is a paramedic and I used to teach TCCC, so we gave everyone a course and recommended they not skimp on where they buy equipment (like Amazon chinese CAT's etc) I told them to buy kits at Solatac to simplify it :)
• 29 March 2022: Good plan, it's great here.
• 29 March 2022: "This time I want full ride 100% VA if I live, not that paltry 30 percent you gave me for the 5 metal rods in my legs you fucking joos"
• 29 March 2022: Yeah, I left southern california for Texas 10 years ago, before I had my kids. Now I have them and probably have the lowest mortgage I'm ever gonna have for the rest of my life, but at least I have some land. We can only do our best and hope things work out.
• 29 March 2022: Yeah I hate the GAE but as a former NCO I might consider it if there's a promotion in the works. Always wanted to make E-7 and I'd only have to survive for 12 years for an AD retirement.
• 29 March 2022: Half of the millennial psychosis is caused by having a really good childhood followed by an absolute wakeup call of a shitty adulthood. It's juxtaposed expectations. At least Zoomers never had any reason to have an expectation things would be good.
• 28 March 2022: It's because they are flexing to accomodate her, not forcing her to accomodate for them. My wife was a sort of centrist neoliberal who did whatever MSNBC said when I met her, some years later under a constant barrage of "noticing" and she's reading the book of enoch and shit
• 28 March 2022: Jada looked at him with eyes that said "If you don't do something ima cheat on you again" and here we are
• 28 March 2022: Maybe you should turn the + into a P because we know that's what it essentially means.
• 28 March 2022: One mans heaven is another mans hell
• 28 March 2022: + Kids pic.twitter.com/IxneS4IXe3
• 28 March 2022: Graham calling for russian citizens to assassinate him was a pretty big one too
• 28 March 2022: I don't feel invested in professional development or pursuing a promotion or a certification. Just doesn't seem like it will matter or be worth it for my dumb white collar email caste job.
• 28 March 2022: At least from me anecdotally, people (including me) are drastically much lazier at work, and expectations are lower. I'm amused that nobody is giving me subtle jabs about poor KPI's on Teams, but they aren't working that hard either. It's like we're all waiting for something.
• 28 March 2022: Like this is a very large garden, I'm more of a long term storage prepper and not a gardener, and I pushed back and sandbagged for a long time because I know it's my ass that will end up watering and taking care of it. Like when your kids want you to buy a dog.
• 28 March 2022: My wife started as a centrist neoliberal wine-chick when we met and now is more concerned than even me with regard to preps, and keeps studying biblical mysteries like Gog and Magog, Nephilim, etc. She just pushed my to install a massive raised bed garden and chicken next.
• 28 March 2022: I'll take it, it's an improvement. Before that the women were saying "NO DON'T FIGHT YOU'LL ROCK THE BOAT"
• 28 March 2022: There's going to be a point where all of them are going to have no choice but to want to look at their own books and what their resources are spent on, and they're gonna look at their ideological hebraic money managers and go "What. The. Fuck."
• 28 March 2022: That 1% is also very isolated. Not as much when they are young, but the older ones are in a bubble of people like themselves, leisure class boomers who are eternally in margaritaville attending board of overseer meetings and being on committees with packed calendars.
• 28 March 2022: I was camping with some friends this weekend, and had a similar conversation from the perspective of anyone in a public trust sort of position like the military, law enforcement, or fire/EMS. It's all "brotherhood" until you end up on the wrong side of the back office eunuchs.
• 28 March 2022: As a former Guardsman, I will say this much, if a Katrina scale disaster happened in 3 separate cities at the same time, the combined strength of the entire national guard nationwide could not handle it. The eye of Sauron can basically focus on one place at a time.
• 28 March 2022: Would have made it the first oscars worth watching in forever, maybe
• 28 March 2022: Norway in particular, dat sovereign fund
• 28 March 2022: Albert, I don't think Chris Rock can curb stomp anybody
• 28 March 2022: You can have New York. All of it. Hell take some more of New England if you want. It's all bougie trash who interfere with the lives of everybody else in the nation anyway. Take the coastal PNW too, nothing of value lost if Seattle/Portland/San Fran become Russian clay.
• 28 March 2022: It's rapidly becoming competitive or worse than Detroit and all it took was a bunch of absolutely looney tunes elected officials.
• 28 March 2022: My wifes cousin moved back home to Texas because during the Floyd riots they burned her car and she just had to watch in fear from her apartment window. Screw that gross ass city.
• 28 March 2022: RT @ampol_moment: William Howard Taft tried to start the next big thing with Billy Possums to replace Teddy Bears, all of it starting becau…
• 25 March 2022: This is why the only play by Aristophanes most people ever hear about is Lysistrata, because feminists have no sense of irony or sarcasm and don't know they are being mocked.
• 25 March 2022: It's literally women scheming about how they can keep their husbands from leaving to go chase glory and adventure so they can stay home and do shit for them. Men watch it and go "haha stupid femoids" and women think it displays the power of the pussy.
• 25 March 2022: Lysistrata has an interesting legacy, it's easily not one of his best plays, but feminists not realizing he is mocking how absurd the female mind is think it's feminist and empowering. It's about women withholding poon to get the men to stop going to war so they can stay home.
• 25 March 2022: I understand why the Greek classics and assorted writings were so treasured, they prove that there truly is nothing new under the sun. They dab on wine aunts, jews, women in general, gays, Greek poets/philosophers/playwrights were literally frogposters.
• 25 March 2022: After realizing this to comedic effect, he stabs it anyway, and a woman leaps to the floor with a pan to catch the wine before it can spill all over the floor. He is ultimately jailed, and Euripedes has a hilarious benny hill style sequence trying to spring him.
• 25 March 2022: He gets found out when the gay man exposes him, and grabs a baby from one of the womens hands and holds a knife to its "throat" but it's really a wine skin wearing baby booties and a swaddle.
• 25 March 2022: It's about a Poet, Euripedes, who has offended the women of the city with his poems critical of them, so he convinces his friend to dress in drag and infiltrate the festival because he thinks they are plotting his assassination there.
• 25 March 2022: Thesmophoriazusae is excellent. It's about a bunch of women holding a women only fertility festival, where the "ambassador" for men is a flamboyantly gay man who is treasonous towards the men of Athens.
• 25 March 2022: Would honestly recommend Aristophanes plays to anyone, they really hold up. They're basically just 4chan greentexts mocking the failures of feminism exaggerated to the greatest possible degree. Lysistrata gets way too much credit though, it's hardly his best play.
• 25 March 2022: I was gonna agree with you until I realized this was pretty much the sum of my experience with the dutch when I lived in Europe. Mostly kidding. Mostly.
• 25 March 2022: I just keep watching the first two seasons of Man In The High Castle and to this day I've never seen the rest, it's a show about a bunch of dysgenic domestic terrorists trying to disrupt a thriving and peaceful postwar america
• 25 March 2022: pic.twitter.com/MqqL4qyjEd
• 25 March 2022: god I love Altama boots, I had a set of Altama Hoplites that I absolutely beat the fuck up for years
• 25 March 2022: Split it along the dnipr
• 25 March 2022: Uhh our own economy isn't exactly doing that hot either
• 25 March 2022: 4 year old son drawing our recently deceased dog on the sidewalk with chalk. Then puts a big ass dong on him and goes "That's his peepee hahaha"
• 25 March 2022: Firing up project blue beam tests so they can tell us the ayys aren't coming because putin is mean to zelensky I'm only half joking https://twitter.com/BrandiKHOU/status/1506828895336771596
• 25 March 2022: Now do Israel
• 25 March 2022: My wife joins in so I'm doing something right
• 25 March 2022: pic.twitter.com/jJDqZ54nHu
• 24 March 2022: This is so trite and stupid, common parlance is king in this topic, not faux-intellectual specificity.
• 24 March 2022: -little dark age playing at max volume in Jeffs digital consciousness, forever-
• 24 March 2022: Thinking about a timeline where Jeff Bezos is uploading his consciousness to AWS, and the spurned sysadmin who lost out on CTO to some brahmin H1B uploads him to a thumbdrive running TempleOS so he's trapped with Terry for eternity. "You're in my world now Jeff." pic.twitter.com/RIn4Zj1Tbj
• 24 March 2022: I want to go back bros how do I go back pic.twitter.com/48TW0kWxtk
• 24 March 2022: Being shitty at something for a really long time entitling you to be in charge of that something you were shitty at is peak bureaucracy
• 24 March 2022: 1/3rd of my generation was aborted and this witch acts like this somehow doesn't impact men enough for us to get a vote on reproductive policy. https://twitter.com/amy_bresnen/status/1505713282493079552
• 24 March 2022: Don't care. Reproductive policy shapes the society men are forced to live in. That's why we get a say too. 1/3rd of my generation was aborted you witch.
• 24 March 2022: You do realize there are Special Forces troops in the National Guard and Reserves and that most of them are prior active right
• 24 March 2022: Worse than astroturfed, an amusing joke that people took seriously, upon which the jokesters are in conference deciding on if they should take it seriously too
• 24 March 2022: Hello frens, I'm back from an involuntary hiatus. Some of you may remember me from such hits as "Zelensky is an oligarchal puppet and fake antichrist" or "I took my son to the park and we pretended society collapsed as practice"
• 24 March 2022: Yes. Almost completely.