limit2
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Eating alone is one of if not the most sacred experience you can have on this earth
CineVow@cinevow
Jake Gyllenhaal eating alone
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@JamesSurowiecki @StacheAutonomy @itslegitnow Just meditate on this exchange for a little while. As an exercise, just let yourself ruminate on this freely and see if you can find anything wrong with it.
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Classic "I'm just asking questions/people are saying" nonsense. There is no plausible argument for men being allowed to vote while women are denied the vote, and Wanye doesn't even try to make one. He just wants to imply that maybe female suffrage is a bad idea.
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@PapalOrthodixie @EmpiresPodcast If you really believe that the pope is sending a million Catholics to hell through excommunication, you would do anything to avoid schism and drop the liturgy. If you think the liturgy itself is what will send people to hell… you are in the wrong church anyways.
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@EmpiresPodcast You can literally just go sleepwalk your way into Hell with that infernal liturgy like the rest of my confirmation class did.
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Pope Leo thinks Christ wants him to excommunicate a million faithful Catholics instead of just granting them the bishop they asked for. That is a cruel and heartless man. Preferring to condemn a million souls to Hell rather than giving them a single bishop is downright demonic.
Michael Haynes 🇻🇦@MLJHaynes
BREAKING: Pope Leo on the SSPX consecrations — “I am considering making another appeal and saying ‘don't do this, let's try to live the communion of the Church.’ But it is their choice. We must realize what it means for them and for the Church. Certainly, the division among Christians is a painful point. However, they refuse to accept some fundamental elements of the Church, starting with several points of the Second Vatican Council. If they make that choice, I am sorry. But we must move forward”
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@voteredflorida2 I’m Catholic and this is my favorite translation. Certified Anglophile.
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I carry the one thing that orthodox and Catholic are afraid to read
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an overlooked part of the culture war was when liberal elites decided that the American flag was “cringe”
Tom Elliott@tomselliott
CNN: "Just 27 percent of Democrats say they'll display the flag on July 4th ... just 29 percent of Democrats say they’re extremely, or very proud, to be an American."
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There have been have so many memorable days and proud accomplishments for the President and his team.
The G7 was a huge success and an opportunity to make sure the members and other participates see “America First” in action. Not America Only, America First.
The trip was capped off with a beautiful dinner and birthday celebration for President Trump at Versailles. This was truly spectacular - particularly after his blistering schedule of bilateral and other meetings and working sessions. Nobody works harder.
President Trump signed the MOU with Iranians while he was at dinner. While the next 60 days will present challenges as important details are worked out, signing was a great step forward for America and, indeed, the world.
Enjoy this photo of President Trump signing the document (through the flowers) and the Presidential motorcade, entering the gates front gates of Versailles.
Another successful G7 in the books
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@limit2984p @ZaidJilani It can happen back and forth without violence. That's called open borders.
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Matt Walsh is fine spreading a made up number for the same reason he would’ve been fine working for Joseph Goebbels. The goal is extermination of the troublesome minority group. Truth is secondary.
Thanos Angelopoulos@Th_Angelopoulos
.@RupertLowe10 says 250,000 white girls were raped by "primarily Pakistani Muslim men". Here are the official numbers: Casey's national audit (2025): 700 recorded group-based CSE offences in 2023. Police chiefs (NPCC): Pakistani suspects 13.7% of group gangs, white suspects 63%. Run his claim. 700 a year, 13.7% Pakistani, is about 96. Over 25 years, 2,400. The data is under-reported, so I will be generous and multiply it by 10. That's 24,000. And I will double it again to 48,000. Still a fifth of his number, with every assumption stacked in his favour. So either the figure is wrong. Or it is real. And if it is real, it cuts the other way too. White suspects are 63% of group gangs, four and a half times the Pakistani share. On his own number that is more than a million white-gang victims. Lowe says nothing about. And Casey records 500,000 children sexually abused every year in total. The largest group of perpetrators are white men. Either way the headline collapses on its own arithmetic. And more importantly, he appears to be weaponising victims and survivors for political gain. Pathetic.
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@CoreyWriting "who's culture becomes the single culture?" he asks as if there wasn't a homogenous stable one in place since the country's founding that made everyone want to move there.
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"Whose culture becomes the single culture?"
Simple. The culture should be modeled after the people who built Australia: the Anglo-Celtic Australians.
The English rule of law and institutions are what made Australia successful and highly-desirable for immigrants.
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@DrewPavlou
Leftists are ethno nationalists for Aboriginal Australians and nobody else
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The 250k number in the report has a footnote attached to it, it cites the following testimony to the UK parliament. The testimony itself does not describe the methodology of how they arrived at the 250k number. But they do say its likely an underestimate because if you extrapolate the 1400 Rotherham victims you get a much larger number than 250k. hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2019-05-…
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@howlingshepard Most people reading this have been in a near word for word verbatim conversation with their boomer parents. Wild.
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My mom got upset at me when I told her blacks and middle eastern men rape more than White men.
She then went onto say, “well White men rape too.” I had to correct her and say, yes they do but they rape disproportionally less than nons.
Then she babbled on about how she’s been on this earth twice as long as me.
It’s upsetting how she’s almost defending nons raping Whites.
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@HotFudgePandae @ZaidJilani No I was thinking the whole mass rape thing when I said conflict. And if migration can happen without violence in one direction, it can happen without violence in the other.
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@limit2984p @ZaidJilani By "this kind of conflict" you mean people getting angry about poorly constructed estimates. Segregation on a global or national level has historically required violence. It's often the end goal of ethnically motivated violence.
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@UsingLyft @JamesSurowiecki @StacheAutonomy I feel like if you gave this guy any of Schopenhauer's writings - he would quite simply short circuit.
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@JamesSurowiecki @StacheAutonomy Oh ok yeah you’re just an idiot. And here I was thinking you had some sense. Are you fucking serious right now
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What makes America better at assimilating immigrants? Are there things we used to do to new arrivals that made it so they were absorbed fairly rapidly into the melting pot (whether they liked it or not) that we no longer do? Do you think there is even a 1% chance of some of those things happening again?
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I don't know if I agree with everything in this framing, but it captures something important. Europe is not as good at integrating immigrants as America is. Their societies were not prepared for mass immigration from the Muslim world, and have handled it generally poorly.
i/o@avidseries
Maybe this is my American bias intruding, but my guess is that if the US had faced what several European nations have faced with respect to Muslim immigrants — parallel societies, crime rates 10 to 50 times greater than native rates, full-time employment rates below 50%, majorities leeching one way or another off welfare and social services, church burnings, street beheadings, craven obsequiousness by governments in the face of Muslim cultural aggression, laws prosecuting and imprisoning citizens for speaking up about immigration, mass organized gang raping of white girls, no-go zones, selective government recognition of Sharia law, bombings, constant unending propaganda about the value of global south immigration and the evils of speaking up against it, preferences in favor of immigrants in public housing, government suppression of anti-immigrant political groups and parties (and of its own data about immigrants), riots, Muslim politicians from some of the most racist countries on earth lecturing white people in legislatures about "Islamophobia", exponential growth in the population share of Muslims, immigrant descendants demonstrating higher criminality and more anti-West hatred than their parents, majority percentages of Muslim immigrants expressing support for Sharia law — if we, as Americans, had faced what the citizens of many European nations have faced, it would not have taken long before our rage, if unacknowledged and not effectively addressed by our government, would have likely led to the formation of organized groups committed to violent retribution against those responsible for the mess.
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I'm going stick out my neck trying to articulate something here about human nature: I don't think people look at images like this and react because they have negative feelings towards Asian Americans, or because Asians haven't "assimilated" (of course they have! In fact, most people really like Asian Americans!) I think what they are reacting to is how they feel when they see a place/circle that used to feel aspirational and it no longer does. If you're a white person looking at this... you get the sense that Harvard/Stanford is no longer something you want to particularly aspire to. You're correct to asses that it's the feeling of something having been taken from "heritage Americans" (not in the sense that now they CANT achieve it, but in the sense that they genuinely no longer want to). You can call that racist, classist, or whatever you want... (not sure there is a word for that) but you cant change how people feel.
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The original post about the SF dating event was cringe (yet innocent!). The reactions to it, though, are becoming a pattern. See the attached image.
I think we’re facing a cultural assimilation problem that remains largely invisible because these groups do well financially and are otherwise prosocial.
Because of this, I worry that East and South Asians have become the face of misplaced anger toward “coastal elites.”
If you live in these circles you might not see it, but a lot of Americans will have a hard time accepting 2nd-gen East/South Asian immigrants as the new professional class. Merit doesn’t matter to many of these people because they read much of "striver" culture as crass therefore undeserving status.
And on top of that, they’re seen as “stealing” a birthright from downwardly mobile heritage Americans.
Mehul Agarwal@meh_agarwal
We hosted SF's only co-ed mixer with more women than men. 45 women, 35 men, and 4 relationships I personally know came out of it. And I'm the guy who went viral for staying "single until series B." Here's the storytime: One random Sunday I tweeted that there should be a singles mixer for YC and a16z speedrun founders. The shitpost hit top news on X. Consensus: "no women will sign up." Instead, dozens of women DMed me: "please make it happen, just keep the ratio right." @dianeemccormack from Fondo offered to run it. @peggy_wang from SparkChat & @parthma said they're single and in. While we planned, I went viral again with my bro @contextconor for joking I'd stay "single until series B." @gregisenberg called it the single worst trend to come out of silicon valley. People called me "everything wrong with SF," said incels were killing the city's dating culture (fun fact: it doesn't exist). So now I was the "single until series B" guy throwing SF's biggest singles mixer. The irony was not lost on me. But a million views, thousands of DMs, and hundreds on the waitlist were counting on me. @pulley signed on to sponsor. So I leaned in. I asked @peggy_wang to be the face of it, dunking on the techbros: sign up so you don't end up like me, single until series B. I was guiding people to a treasure I couldn't possess. And it worked. Best event I've ever hosted. Curated people from every walk of life, not just YC founders, actually hit it off. The girls' group chat is still popping lol. Moral: you can have your cake and eat it too. It's just harder. You can stay "single until series B" and still help everyone else find their person. As @gregisenberg put it in his tweet calling us out: you can have it all. (all love, I like his work) This is independent of my startup @KoyalAI, which helps people make films with AI. Yes, also controversial. I can't help it.
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@Amina_io @jordanmcgillis Are you sure that middle class white parents are moving their kids out of districts due to "fear of competition?" I don't think it would be good for Asians to have that takeaway.
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Do people have to consciously think of themselves or a situation as something, verbatim, for an observation to be true?
"Heritage Americans" is a loaded term but I have no idea what else to call people who are Americans with a non-recent immigrant background.
All over the country middle class white parents are moving their kids out of districts due to fear of competition with Asian students. Whether people know the term "striver" is irrelevant to the point. There are a lot of cultural quirks that are at odds with is considered long-standing norms in America. See the outrage over Vivek Ramaswamy's Xmas post as one example.
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@aidannonx When he received the VP nomination there was a theory going around that basically amounted to: Trump chose JD as a hedge against his own assassination.
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