@NateSilver538 Yeah, how is he supposed to remember what he got paid $100K per year to post.
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Not super interested in this particular controversy, but dude who tweets all the time doing this fey little "oh my, my friend just reminded of my bad tweet 😂" give me a fucking break.
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Donovan Cleckley nailed his summary of Andrew Wilson's views on women:
"His position is very interesting to me because it displays the no-win contempt for women.
On the one hand, he believes that feminism is bad because women should be stay-at-home mothers and not have lives outside the home in the world. In that case, without money of their own, they would need to depend on their husbands exclusively for economic support.
Then, when women are stay-at-home mothers, his view of them is that they are essentially parasites who do nothing of value—unlike men doing the real work in the world.
In other words, nothing a woman does is worthy, and even the praise for motherhood is a lie when the true view of mothers is as parasites."
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Elon is a pedophile with no friends
Justin🦩Boldaji@justinboldaji
Can’t wait until someone tweets “Elon is a pedophile with no friends” and it becomes a Certified Banger and they have to delete the whole thing
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Trump is destroying the world to cover up his crimes with Epstein
Brian Allen@allenanalysis
🚨 Rep. Ted Lieu says the full unreleased Epstein files contain evidence that Trump raped children. That’s what’s being hidden. Trump started a war with Iran days after Epstein release pressure peaked. The Senate gave him unlimited war powers. The files stay sealed. The arrests never come. And the war keeps everyone looking the other way. Release everything.
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The media moved on like nothing happened.
A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.
Keep sharing this so it doesn’t get buried.
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The PBS NewsHour has documented the Trump family's unprecedented conflicts of interest. Jared Kushner, a 'volunteer' with no official position, has $6 billion in assets from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar-the same governments he is negotiating with on Middle East peace. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have invested in drone companies that are now competing for Pentagon contracts in the war their father started.
Forbes estimated that Eric and Don Jr., they were worth about $40, $50 million each before the 2024 election. About a year later, Eric at $400 million and Donald Trump Jr. at about $300 million.
They're using war and diplomacy to enrich themselves
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@Moonlight_myths He can’t handle your job for a few hours and he says you are the proud one? You should go away for a week without giving him any warning. Just get up early one morning and go. Leave a note so he knows you’ve not been kidnapped. Let him sort his own mess!
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The next day, i woke up late.
He had to cancel a meeting to make breakfast. Then the kids made a mess in the kitchen with dirt from outside and he had to clean it up. I felt sorry for him, but i just wanted an apology. When he finally started his meeting, the kids started fighting and interrupted him after just 20 minutes. It was an important meeting, so he got mad at me for not stopping them. I reminded him that he said he could handle it alone and that it was easy and he should have asked for help. He said i shouldn't be so stubborn and proud, but he never admitted how tough my job is. Am i the bad one here?
_ Anonymous
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My husband said he would take care of our kids for a day to show how easy my job is, but now he's upset with me.
We have 2 kids, aged 3 and 5. My husband has the option to work from home some days, but he prefers going to the office. I run a small buisness from home that brings in a third of our income, but since I'm at home i also handle the kids and most of the house work. A few days ago, i was really tired and didn’t cook dinner. When he got home, i suggested he order something and he got upset. He said since i was home all day, the least i could do was cook. I tried to explain that he didnt know how much i did during the day and he said he would stay home to prove how easy my job was..
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@WolvesforKamala @SussexHenryVIII My mother didn’t let me socialize at 13 either. Now she complains that I am not married and haven’t given her grandchildren. Missing developmental windows for social skills is bad!!
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@SussexHenryVIII The comments to those posts are absolutely wild to me. You don't let your 13 year old go to a movie with friends or anywhere else without supervision? Wtaf?!?!
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At 16 you can drive a car.
But your 16 year old isn't going to want to drive a car because you are still treating them like they are 8.
The REAL Suburban Mom@ItsMrsPlugg
13 is the perfect age where you go with your child & friends and sit 3-4 rows behind on opposite side of the theater. 15 is the age where you are in theater watching a different movie 16+ they can go alone. Idk why it’s so hard to grasp.
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@AnarchaWren @sapphyreblayze Not all! It was starting a bit even then…unfortunately for me, my parents were early adopters. They also were extremely judgmental about more reasonable parents. That’s also a cause of overprotection.
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@sapphyreblayze what's wild is as a millennial, all our parents thought this too (satanic panic and all that followed, etc) but they still let us fuckin go outside
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A generation of children are deprived of basic formative experiences because their parents listen to too many true crime podcasts and think that every single person their kid encounters is going to be a child molesting serial killer.
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@lymanstoneky The official denominational requirements might be different on paper (belief in the Trinity, baptism, official interpretation of various verses), but *socially* no one in the American traditional church scene *really* cares about all that.
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@lymanstoneky I don’t believe that you really believe this. In every trad church I’ve ever been to, the *de facto* line on whether you were socially accepted as a “true believer” or a “lukewarm Christian” was whether you followed the no-sex-outside-het-marriage rule.
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1) yes
2) yes
3) yes
humans are wonderful.
more humans is more wonderful.
these are all factors leading to not-more-humans.
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
the entire marriage/fertility debate is so underspecified. is the problem that college educated women need to get married earlier and have more kids? is it that working class men need to become more marriageable? is it on net good if working class women have kids out of wedlock?
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@MiamiNiiice @AdrienneRoyer Churches need to repent of the harms they have caused. I still panic when a man speaks kindly to me, because it was so drilled into my head that “leading him on” = flirting = sinful lust. I haven’t figured out with *years* of trying how to decondition myself.
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I've noticed some trends among church women that can be problematic to getting asked out.
1. They are not involved in any church activities that would allow a single man to casually speak to them, get to know them. These groups often have single men in them, but the rest is either the elderly, married, or literal children.
2. They vanish after service making speaking to one after church basically impossible.
3. Like the dinosaurs, they move in herds. A man is going to have nerves about approaching a woman by herself. If she and 2-3 of her single friends are all grouped together before, during, and after service, or at church activities you've basically erected an invisible force field only the men who want to ask you out can see. Getting turned down is painful, embarrassing, and highly likely. When she's in the herd is a 99.9999999999% failure rate.
4. And this is the most important one, you as a woman have to act like being approached and even asked out is something you want. A lot of godly polite women can carry a conversation about as well as a man can breastfeed. Everyone likes to make fun of men for being socially clueless but Christian women can be the most agonizing females to converse with and give off the impression that she's either completely ambivalent to a man's attention or conversation or are petrified with awkwardness which the man picks up on and assumes she finds him repulsive and so he abandons ship, never to approach again.
5. Lastly a lot of women are deathly afraid of marriage, sex, the whole thing. They live in eternal adolescents because they've been moralized into thinking female and male sexual desire, be that kissing or sex, is basically dirty and sinful even inside of marriage, so when a man approaches her to talk, not even date, or marry, she picks up on his sexual desire, labels him a pervert and dies an old maid.
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@ChristinaPushaw @AdrienneRoyer This was *taught* to me in church as the proper way to behave. It’s purity culture. “Dating is for marriage.” = Ask out someone/accept a request for a date only if you think you might marry them. Otherwise, you are a cad / leading them on = impure.
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Interesting perspective, I can honestly say I have never met someone who thinks like this (in America anyway, I am sure I've encountered people in conservative predominantly Muslim villages that did this). Even in our grandparents' generation which was generally trad, let's say 1940s-50s, young people would casually go on dates with a few people simultaneously and later decide on one to "go steady" with. And even that didn't mean an engagement would certainly follow. What you are describing seems too high pressure and for what reason?
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@AdrienneRoyer This was *taught* to me in church as the proper way to behave. It’s purity culture. “Dating is for marriage.” = Ask out someone/accept a request for a date only if you think you might marry them. Otherwise, you are a cad / leading them on = impure.
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@crystalxduan My mother has sad eyes and is nice to strangers too. The whole family would not be at different levels of estrangement from her if she was as nice to us as she is to strangers.
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in college, i did all my journalism internships in the midwest (since i went to mizzou). my first one in 2015 tasked me with covering a diff small town each week near Grand Forks, North Dakota.
everyone i met in those diners, kindly offering me coffee and sad eyes, was estranged from their 'big city' living kids who look down at them, about to vote for new political upstart donald trump bc he didn't 'talk down to them', and found my kindness 'refreshing' and that i didn't have a 'coastal elite' affect to my way of communicating.
of course i never think about this now. i definitely don’t bristle when people who’ve only ever lived in like two major metro areas talk about how they want to “reach the masses.” I’m sure everyone talking a big game about AI deeply cares about people in middle america as individuals. their feelings could never have consequences. surely not.
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when i was doing an intake form for a homeless shelter, i knew i was different than the crowd there cause the intake lady said i was the only person who could actually read the form and fill it out on my own normally her job was to fill it in for other people, and she even struggled to read it herself i corrected her on a line item and she started threatening to kick me out, until her supervisor came over to see why she was yelling at me, and then demanded that she fix all the prior forms she messed up on—this totaled over 5k, so she was quite angry she refused to apologize to me, so her supervisor had to step in and do it on her behalf as a result, i thought this was a poorly run homeless shelter, but i was later told this was actually one of the best in SF ever it’s weird growing up and experiencing being so different than the people around you it was one of the most alienating experiences as a kid to be able to read a tier above your peers as you couldn’t share the latest tom clancy you read, or even the NYT article on the iraq war (back in the ‘oughts) getting kicked out of GATE because we were poor and asian in a white only town was a weird experience—the first i realized how gatekeeping worked (pun not intended) if you think it’s crazy someone else couldn’t possibly read below a elementary school level, then you haven’t been paying attention to how our current president is doing his 2nd term and definitely live in a bubble interacting with actual normal americans without disdain (like hilary’s surprised face at that kitchen) is absolutely key if you wish to bridge any gaps i see how many of you PMC (professional middle class) types treat our midwestern friends who come to SF or LA, i see how the PMC types think their the elite, and to their credit it’s true they are quite rare when you compare them to the rest of america hinge filters for example: if you mark that you don’t have a college degree, a good number of people filter you out; it’s a dealbreaker for most having no high school puts me in an awkward place because i straddle and experienced both the very top and bottom of the rung, which results in the horseshoe theory of the opposite sides think i’m lying because they can’t fathom the activities of how the other side lives i haven’t even gotten into how this varies across different countries—finding the low and highs in africa fundamentally changed how i view the world now, for better or for worse this isn’t the most coherent thing i’ve written, and i still don’t understand how to process eating gold flakes and unlimited caviar and earlier that week watching a mob physically rip and hack a teen apart with blades for theft and dump the body parts on the dirt road (except they kept the hand that stole the item) tl;dr: y’all in bubbles you can’t even imagine
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@anders_aslund I have been trying to do that since Trump’s election. But I can’t find a European or even Canadian bank that does business with person who only hold US citizenship. Any recommendations?
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Considering how unreliable the US has become under the actual dictator Trump, this is the only reasonable action: Move valuables out of the US while you still can.
Frid 🇪🇺🦌@Frid45
The Banque de France has replaced its gold held in New York with newly standardised bars and moved them to Paris. The operation (2025–2026) generated 12.8bn € in gains, driven by rising gold prices. Now, all of France’s gold is held on its own soil. 🇫🇷
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@CrankyFed Incorruptible by Michael Hollinger
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A heist movie, but it's about monks from one medieval monastery plotting to boost relics from another monastery
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@RichardHanania My parents are from Oklahoma and this is exactly how they talk. Yes— they love to talk about how much fun it was to spank me and no—they do not understand why move 2000 miles away.
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Markwayne Mullin: I’d try to spank my daughter, and she would go “no daddy” and I couldn’t get her to bend over to “bust her butt.”
Is this how real Americans talk?
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reminds me of a story from the desert fathers where a woman accuses a monk of fathering her illegitimate child and he raises the child as not to scandalize her even though she's lying
little of contemporary Christian mass culture would look at such situations as masculine virtue
дса православная какус 🍞 🍷🌹@dsaorthocaucus
came for the gulag stories and stayed for the heartrending story of forgiveness and repentance in a marriage after the wife had a child with another man while he was away in the war.
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