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“i’ll love you even if you’re ordinary” carries a very bizarre set of implications. not sure most tiny kids have ever thought about love as conditional on anything, much less how “ordinary” they are (another thing they’ve probably never considered). feels like implanting neuroses
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The White underclass is a miracle, and probably why the West has succeeded.
Thomas Frank wrote “What’s the Matter with Kansas” to explore why poor Whites don’t vote for socialist policies that would (narrowly, in the short-term) benefit them. Of course he concluded it was about racism, as he was predetermined to do by his ideology.
But I actually think he highlighted an incredibly important fact: poor White Americans, uniquely among underclasses globally, don’t vote for socialism.
The typical dynamic is rich people trying to keep what they have and poor people trying to take it. But the American lower-class White does not behave this way, because he has a deontological aversion to government interference. The collection of attitudes and beliefs described as “rugged individualism” are often assessed in terms of how they impact the individual, but I think it’s much more important to consider how they impact a nation.
(White) America has the world’s least resentful or grasping underclass. This is a treasure. They should be preserved and rewarded. Many might be net-negative fiscally in a narrow sense, but they are hugely net-positive if you consider their votes. Trump famously said “I love the poorly educated.” He was right to say this. Every nation has an elite. No other nation has such a high quality of virtuous common people.
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This guys always spot on.. he doesn’t give a damn what anyone thinks and just lets it rip.. love it…
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Nothing disgusts me more than seeing American "missionaries" go to Catholic and Orthodox countries to "spread the Gospel."
Like y'all, they already have the Gospel. Their Churches predate your denomination's founding by hundreds of years.
Have some balls: go to a Muslim country. Go to uncontacted tribes. Go deep into Hindu country, or into Communist China. Those people actually need the Gospel and very well may be unfamiliar with it...
Going to a place where the Gospel's already been for hundreds of years to "show them the truth?" It's truly absurd -- and the fact they raise money for this is disgusting.
If anything, they'd be better to go to such countries asking what THEY can learn from the Christians who've been there for centuries already...
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Should’ve been a plowboy
Should’ve learned to plant and drive
Should have learned the difference between Case and Deere
Oh I should’ve been a plowboy
Sat around the backyard grill
Writing songs about tractors and drinking ice cold beer… haha needs a little more work
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Along Highway 18 in central Kansas, the two-lane asphalt runs straight into the horizon until the curvature of the earth bends it into the wheat.
Nobody passes without permission.
I was driving my ancient four-cylinder sedan at sixty miles per hour when I crested a low rise and encountered an emerald green John Deere combine harvester moving at precisely eleven miles per hour.
The machine was wider than a battleship. Its six-foot rubber tires occupied eighty percent of my lane and forty percent of the oncoming lane. Its metal cutting auger bristled like a siege ram.
I slowed to twelve miles per hour behind its churning dust plume.
I did not honk. I did not flash my high beams.
To challenge a forty-ton agricultural titan on its native soil was madness. I prepared to follow the green leviathan across fifty miles of prairie until the harvest was completed in November.
Then the machine tilted.
The driver, an elderly farmer named Earl wearing a straw hat and denim bib overalls, checked his convex side mirror.
He did not wait for a passing zone. He did not wave frantically.
With deliberate, unhurried grace, Earl steered his massive right wheels completely off the pavement into the muddy prairie ditch. Dust exploded thirty feet into the sky. The combine leaned at a fifteen-degree angle, grinding through goldenrod and gravel, leaving the paved lane wide open for my humble sedan.
As I drew alongside the cab, eighty feet above the soil, Earl looked down.
He did not yell. He did not shake his fist.
Earl rested his left forearm on the steering wheel, raised his index finger three inches from the leather, and gave the single-finger rural wave.
It was not an apology. It was an imperial gesture of courtesy from a monarch who owned the earth beneath our tires, granting passage to a wandering swordsman who had somewhere to be before sundown.
I rolled down my window into the howling Kansas wind.
I raised both hands in a two-handed salute toward the cab.
Thank you, Lord Earl! I shouted above the roar of the diesel turbo.
Earl tapped the brim of his straw hat with his thumb, eased his titan back onto the pavement behind me, and vanished into the golden dust of the Great Plains.
Back in my land, when a lord of the province travels the highway, commoners kneel face-down in the roadside ditch until his retinue passes into the next valley.
Here, the lord of the province drives forty tons of green steel directly into the ditch so that a stranger in a four-cylinder rust-bucket does not arrive late for supper.
I pulled over by the sunflowers and sat with the engine idling.
The road was clear. The honor of the soil was intact.
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Want to hear a SMART explanation for WHY Kansas schools crying for MORE state dollars are full of it?!
State legislator Kristey Williams has been on my show multiple times to explain... (FULL podcast with Kristey Williams in the comments... subscribe and listen ⤵️).
1) The state IS funding Kansas Students, including special education, at its full amount based on appropriations, meaning the legislature needs to look at all expenditures to decide its total amount. The state legislature did fully fulfill the Gannon lawsuit that went to the Kansas Supreme Court in 2019, which includes special education.
2) The state doesn't print money, the schools are just going after taxpayers in a different way (state vs. property taxes).
3) Outcomes keep declining, yet the schools keep demanding more money.
4) Cash reserves for K-12 in the past 10 years have added $500+ million, so the schools are sitting on $2.1 billion in cash reserves, including special education in cash reserves (about $278 million).
5) State has provided annual increases per Kansas Supreme Court decision.
6) Audits have shown that money is not being used legally where it's supposed to.
7) Taxpayers are paying $220 million for special education that is not counted towards the school districts' formula. It makes it look like the state isn't doing its share, but it is.
FULL interview, please share this with parents/Olathe/Johnson County residents who need to hear it... below in the comments. ⤵️
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In 2005, Oneida shut the flatware factory in Sherrill, New York.
A town that had made silverware for MORE THAN 100 YEARS was supposed to be finished.
Two men refused to let that happen.
Their names are Matt Roberts and Greg Owens.
Roberts had managed that factory. Owens was another former Oneida manufacturing manager. When the company ended U.S. production, they bought the plant and the equipment and reopened it the NEXT DAY as Sherrill Manufacturing.
They did not have a giant rescue fund.
They did not have a Hollywood ending waiting.
They had a building, some machines, and a workforce that knew how to make forks, knives, and spoons.
At first they kept making product for Oneida.
Then Oneida pulled the remaining American work and sent it overseas.
That should have been the end.
It wasn’t.
They took government flatware contracts to keep the lights on. In 2010 they filed Chapter 11. They sold unused equipment. They sold space they could no longer fill. They leased back only the part of the factory they could still run.
They came out of bankruptcy in 2013.
Then they did the thing that saved the company.
They built their own brand: Liberty Tabletop.
They sold 18/10 stainless flatware straight to customers who wanted tableware MADE IN THE UNITED STATES.
Not through a department store that could drop them overnight.
Direct.
Today Liberty Tabletop is the only company still manufacturing stainless steel flatware in America.
Same town.
Same trade.
U.S. steel.
About 70 jobs.
They did not bring back 2,000 workers. Nobody did.
What they saved was the last line.
If you want American-made forks and spoons, this is the factory that still makes them.
Support Liberty Tabletop.
THIS is what keeping manufacturing in America actually looks like. 🇺🇸
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Keeping your border closed is the best way to keep your country from spoiling.
Keeping your fridge and freezer closed is the best way to keep food fresh for as long as possible. - @nbcselected nbcnews.com/select/shopping/…
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We have a few notable freedoms in the USA, but in general, everything is illegal.
Hanging around the home depot pro area to load materials for cash is breaking a dozen different laws.
But are they actually going to lock you up?
Probably not. Many things are like this.
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My youngest son is experiencing puppy love for the first time. A girl he met at church camp many hours away. The other day she informed him that there was a western dance near where she lived and he rightly arranged one of his older brothers to take him.
Today she texted him that there's a baseball game near us thursday, and she is going.
He told her he doesn't know what she means. She told him that THERE'S A BASEBALL GAME AND SHE'S GOING. NEARBY WHERE HE LIVES.
He persisted in pretending to not know why she was telling him. She started retracting what she had told him, creating caveats on why perhaps it doesn't matter that he now knows.
That was a cruel thing he did, pretending to not know.
His brothers found out and scorned him for being a weeb. They told him that as my son, he has no justification in pretending to not understand things, nor take a bold stance.
He's still persisted in being coy with them, so they summoned me.
I have instructed him that fuckfuck games are for women and weebs, and as my son I require that he treat this young girl well by creating clarity:
If she is bold enough to invite him to a ball game in the way girls do (nuclear hint-dropping from orbit), he will be bold enough to give her a solid response.
But requiring her to spell everything out as though he were a dumbass ruins--- for her --- the romance, the fantasy. If he wants women to interact with him as though they were men, declare himself gay now and date men, because it causes women psychic harm to force them to be more direct than is their nature.
The flighty chaos of women finds form, rest, and repose in the strong frame of men. Men find inspiration and purpose in part because the vitality of their women. And it is crucial for men to honor the inferences and wishes of their women, just as it is crucial for women to respect the planning and execution of their men.
This is why fathers are important in the development of sons.
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I guess I view the right to un-supervised homeschooling as similar to other basic rights.
With every single right, you can point to some tragedy caused by the right.
For instance, banning guns and swimming pools WOULD save the lives of kids.
But you can't go down that road.
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It's fine if you never interact with Japanese people for the rest of your life and never speak to the "yellow monkeys" at the edge of the Earth.
Please understand that 99% of Japanese people strongly believe supporting the Democratic Party means you either have a brain disease, are a Chinese spy, or are pure evil.
If you ever travel to Japan or do business with Japanese people, you should definitely hide the fact that you support the Democratic Party.
It is equivalent to saying that you "damn Japs" will bow down to the Chinese and become their slaves.
You will never be genuinely trusted.
Please realize that you are viewed as devils who would betray the world if given a small sum of money.
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“Education doesn’t take that much time; indoctrination does.”
This is probably the best quote I’ve ever heard about education!
Wow!!
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We need a different word for places that warm frozen Sysco food and bring it to you because that isn’t the same thing as a restaurant
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Lots of guys wanting to throat punch a meteorologists this morning.
Take their models and shove them up their ass.
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Debt.
A home is 500k because people are willing to finance 500k dollars.
A college degree is 50-100k because people are willing to finance 50-100k dollars.
Mcdonalds is 40 dollars because people are willing to klarna 40 dollars.
If enough idiots are willing to enslave themselves for things they cant afford, the effects are felt everywhere. The buying power of those with restraint is diminished because idiots are willing to sell everyones future for a big mac.
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Our generation cut off their mufflers.
This generation cut off their dicks.
We are not the same.
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The concept of a "duty to care" is arguably the most poisonous concept ever applied to politics.
We absolutely do NOT have a "duty to care" for every poor or disadvantaged person on the planet. If we did, that's ALL we'd do, eventually producing more and more of it until we couldn't feed even ourselves.
This is the category of "altruism" that Ayn Rand criticized: not helping others when you can but sacrificing yourself independent of values. It's evil.
All government is coercive. The application of "duty to care" to politics misapplies the emotional dynamic, infusing the mother/child bond where it doesn't belong. This is what makes modern wars so devastating. There's no room for a rational trade-off in a negotiated ceasefire. For example, Ukraine couldn't just surrender a bit of territory in order to maintain their existence. Instead, they're waging an existential war that will absolutely destroy them, even if they win it. This is how a mother should protect a child, NOT how a sovereign should protect his people.
"we have a duty to care for them"
A huge part of modern politics is women leveraging the state to satisfy their desire to nurture a baby but without the risk or commitment. This is the fundamental problem with democracy and universal suffrage.
Any group can leverage the state against any other. Boomers can leverage government against their own children. Poor people can leverage it against the rich. In this case, it's women.
Sometimes it's childless women but often it's women who simply didn't have enough children or grandchildren. Childless women will use the state to give them a replacement baby. Thus, universal suffrage cannot survive low-birth rates.
Women want to "care" for things. Democratic government lets them do so with your money and at your risk. More so, they simultaneously leverage the state to "provide" for them, which they've done via endless social programs and NGOs (funded via government).
Lots of voters abuse the institution of democracy. Ethnic groups favor each other. Poor people rob from the rich and even the middle. Corporations leverage the state against their competitors. All of this is recognized as wrong, but we seemingly ignore the political abuse of women using the state to satisfy their nurturing impulse while neglecting their own obligations.
Women benefit from the sacrifices of their ancestors and the labor of their countrymen, just as men do. As such, they have duties to contribute, and the primary way to do so is having children. Yet few things are as radioactive as the word "duty" next to the phrase "have kids."
One can argue that our society isn't doing enough for women (fine, argue away) but here's hard reality:
1. Women can say "give me more and I'll have children."
2. But they can't say "I refuse to have children" and still benefit from the culture.
I'm not suggesting we force women to have children. I'm suggesting that NOT having children is, akin, to men not paying taxes. Women not paying taxes is NOT the same thing because it's less valuable than them having children.
What does this mean? It means that women aren't doing their part.
I have suggested ideas, such as limiting voting to people who fight in the military, women who have kids, and men who pay a certain amount of taxes. Perhaps we need to be more aggressive and consider the benefits of being a citizen. So here's an idea:
1. Instead of just limiting voting as I described, we restrict citizenship entirely.
2. Only citizens can own land, vote, go into public parks, use public transportation, get access to social programs, use the library, and so on.
The point is to make clear what we are uncomfortable saying: women have duties just as men do. To question whether or not men are doing their duty is entirely reasonable. Maybe men aren't, but women definitely aren't and that's needs to be acknowledged. The concept of falling birth rates isn't independent of biological sex. We have to stop ignoring that this is a problem of and with women.
Democracy will not survive universal suffrage, and Western civilization will not survive women without duty.