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"The only thing I respect is intellectual honesty, of which, of course, intellectual courage is a necessary part. A Socialist who goes to jail for his opinions seems to me a much finer man than the judge who sends him there, though I disagree with all the ideas of the Socialist and agree with some of those of the judge. But though he is fine, the Socialist is nevertheless foolish, for he suffers for what is untrue. If I knew what was true, I’d probably be willing to sweat and strive for it, and maybe even to die for it to the tune of bugle-blasts. But so far I have not found it."
H. L. Mencken
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Entire market is blood red because democrats are so fucking retarded they’re going to kill business in the most business friendly country on earth lol
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This one always stuck with me from my first read through. I feel it captures the persistent anxiety people carry in public environments these days.
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No phones on the table. No sense that the moment might be captured, replayed, judged later. You could drift. Say the wrong thing. Laugh too loud. Sit there doing nothing.
Now everyone’s slightly braced. Slightly performing. Even when we’re relaxed, we’re not really loose. There’s always a small part of us watching ourselves.
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“The woman in Roomette 9, Car No. 12, was a housewife who believed that she had the right to elect politicians, of whom she knew nothing, to control giant industries, of which she had no knowledge.”
I was on FaceTime with a close friend of mine since childhood, while she had six of her girlfriends over. They live in NYC and are “corporate girlies” in their late 20s. They’re all college graduates, very pretty, normal, dress well, go to Pilates, enjoy their $10 matcha everyday. They’re MAHA (without knowing it).
They were asking me about my social media and all claim to “not be political” but I know every single one of the votes left or doesn’t vote at all.
One of them said my social media is crazy and I have some insane takes. I asked for an example so maybe I could help expand on how I reached whatever conclusion I did. There was no example provided.
I started asking about what they knew about our political climate. I started basic and asked if any of them know who our VP is. NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM COULD NAME OUR VICE PRESIDENT!!!!!
I asked more questions, and was equally disappointed in their lack of knowledge. They said they just don’t like getting involved in politics. Yet they all voted for Kamala.
They don’t know how laws get passed, they don’t know the branches of government, they don’t know why we’re at war with Iran, they just think it’s “unnecessary”, I could go on.
We have a major education crisis in our country.
Everyone talks about how they want to lead a "happy" life. That their main pursuit is "happiness".
I cannot subscribe to that vision. I want a life of beauty. Beauty is a much better goal. The highest aim.
A woman who complains about wanting to split cooking and cleaning duties is like a man complaining about wanting to split the rent and dinner bills.
Simple as I can put it.
The Equal Opportunity for All Investors Act of 2025 (H.R.3339) would make it as simple as passing an examination demonstrating financial literacy in order to attain "Accredited Investor" status allowing US citizens to participate in private markets.
This bill is largely viewed as bipartisan and passed the house in July of 2025. Why is it taking so long for this bill to get brought before the Senate @SenateBanking ?
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Certain people are Knowers. I’m not exactly sure what it is that they Know, but you know a Knower when you see one. There’s a certain twinkle in their eye. It’s written on their face.
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Just so you know, all the answers you need are already inside you.
You won't find them here or anywhere else. Happy New Year.
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Democracy has a ton of flaws, but no one has come up with anything better yet - so allow me to humbly enter my proposal for a superior political system:
Cincinnatucy
You see, apart from the general populace responsible for electing officials in a Democracy being retarded, it is also a massive issue that nearly every person running for office is a power hungry psychopath who is completely out of touch with the real world.
Under a Cincinnatucy, it will be compulsory for every male manual laborer to complete a standardized, generalized aptitude test. Those with marks in the upper quartile will all be entered into a drawing and one will be selected at random to become the leader of their nation for a set term length. The chosen laborer will be awarded a salary set at 50x their current rate, granted absolute power, and their acceptance of the office is mandatory under the penalty of execution. At the conclusion of the term, a new drawing will be conducted.
Replying to @avidseries
American politics has been a shallow, empty popularity contest for over a century. This isn’t new or different.
Democracy caters to the average person and the average person is a complete retard. As long as democracy is the system, unserious and vapid discourse is the result.
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It never fails to astound me that women step outside into a world that was made by men to facilitate the flourishing of the human race and keep the perils of nature at bay and are not only completely oblivious to that fact, but in the most recent generations also have the audacity to be so utterly ungrateful, so disrespectful, and so openly antagonistic to males.
The first step you take outside, your foot lands on a sidewalk. Who do you think poured that cement? Who do you think transported the cement to the site? Who do you think harvested the raw materials that create it? Who do you think works in the cement mills? Who do you think invented cement in the first place? Who do you think started the company that got the contract to pour that sidewalk?
I'll tell you the answer: Men.
What about the cement truck that drove it in? Who do you think invented that? Who do you think assembled that truck in the factory? Who do you think built the engine? Who do you think extracted the ore to make the metal? Who do you think smelts that ore? Who do you think transports the ore and the metal? Who do you think invented the machines and processes that do all of the ore extraction and smelting? Who do you think forges and shapes the metal into the parts that make up the truck? Who do you think transported the gasoline that the truck runs on to the gas stations? Who do you think works in the refineries that distilled the crude oil? Who do you think works in the oil fields and oil rigs? Who do you think invented the oil extraction processes? Who do you think the chemists that contributed to the science of oil refinement and discovered all of the products we create with it were?
I'll tell you the answer: Men.
What about the food that feeds all of these men doing all of this work? Who do you think tills the fields? Who do you think harvests the crops? Who do you think invented all of the complex machinery used in modern farming? Who do you think stewards the land used to farm on? Who do you think cares for the livestock? Who do you think works in the slaughterhouses? Who do you think the butchers are?
I'll tell you the answer: Men.
One single step out into the world required all of this work by men. I won't even start on the very house that you stepped out of. Or the roads. Or the sewers. Or the water treatment plants. Or the light posts. Or the powerlines. Or the power plants. Or the gas lines underground. Or the skyscrapers. Or the phone in your hand. Or all of the code written to make it work. Or the glass used to make the screen. Or the battery inside of it. Or the computer chips. Or the chip fabrication facilities. Or the radio and cellphone towers. Or the planes in the sky. Or the ships in the port. Or the satellites in space. Or the rockets used to put them there.
Every single object that your eyes land on that isn't nature is MAN made. One would imagine, in a normal and sane world, that because women are completely and utterly helpless and 100% dependent on men for their survival, they would be overflowing with gratitude. But alas, we no longer live in a normal and sane world. The threats of nature have become so far removed that we take our present situation and all of the sacrifices made to achieve it for granted. Women don't spend one second of their lives thinking of all the work and genius that went in to making their existence so incredibly comfortable and easy. They use technology invented and produced by men to mock and slander them rather than thank and respect them. God bless the brilliance, the sacrifices, the blood, sweat, and tears of men. Lord knows that many of us don't deserve it.
Beauty can be experienced through all 5 senses
There are beautiful sights and ugly sights
There are beautiful sounds and ugly sounds
There are beautiful tastes and ugly tastes
There are beautiful scents and ugly scents
There are beautiful tactile sensations and ugly tactile sensations
But what's more is that one can also know beauty beyond the senses, somewhere outside the physical realm
There are beautiful emotions and ugly emotions
There are beautiful thoughts and ugly thoughts
There are beautiful actions and ugly actions
The question is, what has happened within leftists to orient them towards the ugly instead of the beautiful? What could cause someone to want to bring as much ugliness as possible into the world? I don't have the answer, but one should consider whether it's worth exposing the beautiful world that our ancestors worked and sacrificed to achieve to the ideas and presence of these ugly (physically and spiritually) people.
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The high level, zoomed out, 30,000 foot problem with women today is that they've been convinced they should be serious people.
Ladies, you are not serious people. Trying to be serious and talk about serious things and thinking you should have opinions about serious things is not in your nature. You suck at it, you have bad opinions, you don't know how to think about or navigate complex topics. Your attempts at seriousness are making you utterly unappealing to men, but more importantly - it's making you miserable.
You should abandon all opinions about serious things, and surrender all pretenses that you are capable of, or desire to be, serious. Instead, embrace the whimsy in life. Focus on cultivating beauty in yourself and your surroundings. Laugh and frolic in nature. Task yourself with the creation of ever more delicious culinary concoctions. Birth the next generation of humans and fill them to the brim with your love. Have get togethers with other unserious women and participate in unserious hobbies. Provide the men you love with a place of welcoming respite from seriousness.
Your great blessing as a woman was that your only toil was to be child birth. Men were cursed to plow the land, wrestle with nature, and confront the brutalities of reality. That you ever thought it wise to wade into this territory was a grave error not only for yourselves, but for your children and family as well.
Reject the foolish idea of being a serious woman.
Embrace your true feminine nature.
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Latest fad with mentally ill feminists is to tell everyone that their dog “doesn’t like men” (get it, because men toxic, trash, evil, etc, etc)
Then when you stick your hand out and let them smell it for a few seconds and their tail starts wagging the owner acts all surprised.
“Oh wow he never does that with men”
Yeah, I’m sure Jasmine…
"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
-T.E. Lawrence
"One of the mystical properties of life is that it is the medium in which dreams can be fulfilled"
Really beautiful framing @OrionTaraban
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"One of the mystical properties of life is that it is the medium in which dreams can be fulfilled"
Really beautiful framing @OrionTaraban





