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@JungCookie8910 @Devon_Eriksen_ Uh - if you're not going to bother to stop Libyans from sailing across the Mediterranean on floating garbage, I don't think anyone can help you.

@Devon_Eriksen_ Europe's disease is America. The muttification of the world is being pushed by your ZOG government. Remind me again which country created a slave trade in Libya that facilitates the invasion into Europe as we speak.

Europe's disease is not a disease of America. It is a disease of World War 2. In 1946, after we rescued them from themselves and each other, Europeans crawled out of the rubble they had made of their continent, looked around at their mess, wept for a bit, and then formed the wrong conclusions. They decided that ethnic nations are bad. That patriotism is bad. That supporting your tribe, in preference to random strangers, is bad. They decided that these things had led to the horrors of global war and genocide in Europe itself, and so all vestiges of loyalty to one's own people must be stamped out. Nations were, forever afterward, to be post-ethnic, post-cultural legal and economic units filled with... well, anyone, really. A bunch of people who didn't, in fact shouldn't, share values, goals, morals, customs, or even a common language. Nations were to be mere fiefs, their boundaries determined by which set of political elites controlled them. America, having not been smashed to rubble in WW2, did not share this view. We saw WW2 as an expensive adventure in bailing out Europe, which we spent our treasure and our blood on (including my own grandfather's life, and his chance to ever see his grandson) precisely because we shared cultural and ethical values with the people we were rescuing. But they hate us for it. They see our patriotism as fascism precisely because they see all patriotism as fascism. Psychologists have long understood that humans respond to favors with gratitude only up until those favors become so great that they have no hope of repaying them. At that point, their gratitude turns to resentment. How dare we believe we did them a favor? How dare I believe that my father gave up his father so Europe could be safe, peaceful, and free? Don't we know that, because ${ELABORATE MENTAL GYMNASTICS}, we didn't do them any favors by fighting that war? Don't we know that, because ${ANY PATRIOTISM = HITLER}, our love of our country and favoring of its interests makes us fascist and problematic? Well, no. I don't know that. I don't think any European nation is our ally any more. Certainly, we have shared interests, but how much does that really matter, when they refuse to act in those shared interests, because they have come to believe that acting in your people's interest is bad? They hate us too much to work with us. They resent every ounce of the burden which they are asked to share. Our support has made Europe into a pack of idle welfare recipients, complete with sense of entitlement and self-destructive behavior. But if we didn't defend them... who would? Their native populations have been purged of all patriotism, and who would blame them if they didn't fight for ruling elites that hate them? Their imported third-world barbarians won't fight for them. The very idea is laughable. What's left? And what will make them wake up and think about these questions? Perhaps they need to dig themselves out of the rubble of another war.

@WopelTim @Tomhennessey69 @TrashOlympics24 Maybe some kind of supervised hard labor program...

@Tomhennessey69 @TrashOlympics24 At some point it all levels out. A broken dam is not a pleasant thing to deal with, but you must.

They can't arrest them for the same reason we can't have strict three-strikes laws or hold failing students back in government schools. The majority of blacks would end up without high school diplomas and in prison by age 35.

@Tomhennessey69 Also the same reason existing gun regulations make no sense, let alone new ones.

@AnnCoulter The need for immediate hot takes is causing wolf-crying on all sides.

I really wish "legal experts" hadn't screamed bloody murder about every little thing Trump did, so they could speak with authority now that he's actually committing war crimes.

@VirtualElena @samkkaufman @GarettJones @elocinationn Definitely in a restaurant gap relationship, but I have the money, they have the booze, and it makes her happy, so pass the finger bowl or whatever.

@samkkaufman @GarettJones @elocinationn you know what to do sam...QT from main 😈

sure NYT I believe that a “restaurant gap relationship” is not only a real thing but that a phenomenon that has only emerged in the past 5-10 years wrought by opportunistic opentable scrapers, private dining clubs, credit card points, concierge services, and nyc’s increasingly competitive restaurant scene is in fact “the ultimate test of compatibility”

@ReubenR80027912 So they needed fixed-wing to support the rotary-wing, I suppose?

-At airstrip (again built in 48hrs INSIDE a hostile country) planes can’t take off -A NEW set of planes fly in, scoop up pilot and ex filtration team -Once airborne, drop 20 bombs on our own planes so they can’t be re-engineered -100s of Iranians dead, all US personnel alive

To summarize last 72 hrs: -Russia smuggles in anti-air systems to Iran. Iran then shots down a plane whose 1st flight was before I was born -US flies slow moving rescue planes into the *middle* of Iran & retrieves 1 pilot -Simultaneously, we *built an airstrip inside Iran* 🧵

@MohammadsRadio @kcanon99 @IMAO_ Well, fine, that's retarded - fair enough! It's just that living through 100 conspiracies turning into facts tends to drive one a little nuts.

@TungstenBlock @kcanon99 @IMAO_ Of course not all conspiracies are of the same magnitude. This thread started with the allegation that Artemis wasn’t really going to the moon, requiring the obeisance of 1000’s of co-conspirators. In this case, respecting human nature, yes it is fake.

You can prove the moon landing without talking any about the evidence of it but simply by talking about the implausibility of a conspiracy to fake it. For one, are we supposed to believe that weird-smelling basement-dwellers are able to see it as obviously fake but the Soviets, who had the most knowledge and most motivation to expose it as a fraud, were fooled by it? Or was America’s greatest enemy in on the conspiracy? And that’s a fraction of the problem with the conspiracy narrative.

@texual @Chris_arnade Maybe so, but it's certainly a choice in some respects.

@TungstenBlock @Chris_arnade All those measures are probably impossible to achieve at this stage.

I love the US, and NYC, but coming back from five weeks in Japan/Korea can be so demoralizing. The E train from Jamaica to Port Authority was a mess. Filthy, depressing, and a minefield of possible problems. The car I was in had at least six guys in various states of distress. I sat next to one, a clearly mentally compromised man, muttering to himself, who made it clear he didn't like me being so close, but I bet he wasn't having a bad day. He wasn't because he was drugged into lethargy, but you never really can tell, and you always risk a miscalculation. I'm a pretty large guy and I've spent a lot of time around people like this, so I wasn't worried, but I felt bad for the women on there, some with kids, who have to play a far riskier game when riding the subway. Sure, the odds of something bad happening are small, but they should be zero, and they could be, if we only enforced the rules.

@DailyMail "Almost failed" also known as "spectacular victory against the odds."

@WallStreetMav Can you imagine how many people suddenly had other appointments so they had to miss the meeting?

Who is even remaining that they can negotiate with? 99% of the decision makers in the Iranian government (religious and military) are dead at this point.

🚨 “over 50 senior Iranian leaders were eliminated” in new U.S. attack on top officials who had gathered together. President Trump announced the attack on Truth Social

@PulpLibrarian The Rifftrax of this is funnier than the original, and that's saying something.

Cool As Ice (1991). Vanilla Ice is Johnny Van Owen, a rapping motorcycle drifter who falls in love with a small town girl whose father is in witness protection. Can his rapping save the day when tragedy strikes? You can buy this on Blu-Ray you know...

@SaysSimulation They're always surprised when the "soft" Westerners are harder than they are. This applies domestically too BTW.

There's a very dark, but fascinating symmetry in play here. Iran is trying to take down the world economy to punish America. They are willing to kill many millions of people with the resulting food shortages. So, Trump responds to that leverage harming Iran worse than 1/

BREAKING: Iranian Army warns of "massive historic surprise" tonight that the "world will remember for centuries."

@MohammadsRadio @kcanon99 @IMAO_ So basically any conspiracy that hasn't been revealed yet is fake because no one has talked...yet? Sounds logically circular to me. It's like saying "crime never pays" because you don't know about crime that did.

@TungstenBlock @kcanon99 @IMAO_ Very interesting, but former traders still talked to authorities.

@creepydotorg DEI

Former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak drove 900 miles non-stop to confront her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend, reportedly wearing adult diapers to avoid bathroom breaks. Armed with a knife, a BB gun, and trash bags, she attacked the woman in a parking lot but was arrested before she could cause serious harm.

@ArtemisConsort Except the money is stolen and many of the people involved are actual criminals. Call it what it is.

Defeat pedants with this one simple trick: add a “~” before your quantifying words.

@texual @Chris_arnade Your CANNOT fails to acknowledge measures of social control that were totally possible and encouraged for 99.9% of human history.

@Chris_arnade It is a city on the decline. Mental health crisis. We CANNOT fix a lot of the chronic stuff you are seeing on the trains, for long. Trust me.

@feelsdesperate 80s was worse ( I was there) but we had more effective law enforcement and judges who locked up perpetrators. If we decline to the social level of the 1980s with these Soros clowns in charge of justice, Katie bar the door.

My father had to take the E train deep into Queens every day for work temporarily a few years ago. He said that there were psychotics or passed out drug addicts on every subway car. He’s a veteran of ‘80s NYC so it says a lot that he was taken aback by the degree to which this important arterial transportation line had been give over to unwell people. Thankfully he only had to do it for 3-4 months but this type of stuff is a huge quality of life downgrade for working class people who often have long daily commutes on the subway.

@DailyMail I'd check the victim's Grindr account.

Man burned, strangled and pounded with 25LB dumbbells at his upscale DC condo after violent robbers took advantage of his kind-hearted act trib.al/QC9tiuM

@MohammadsRadio @kcanon99 @IMAO_ If you're interested in a really wide-ranging conspiracy look at LIBOR-fixing. Most people involved with fixed-income knew about it (10s of thousands) but no one said anything.

@kcanon99 @IMAO_ Why aren’t they secrets anymore?