Daniel Corrigan

Troy, but instead of Brad Pitt, it’s Elliot Page.

@BrandonDonkey2 Allow smoking fentanyl but ban cigarettes just straight up anarcho tyranny

The city with shit all over the place and junkies on every corneris gonna ban outdoor smoking? What a fucking joke.

@TsarevnaOlga @JonnyMicro @ATLCWorker What are the basic necessities that the govt should provide? Be specific.

@JonnyMicro @ATLCWorker Crazy that you put everyone deserving the basic necessities to survive on the same shelf as the Tooth Fairy.

We’re all born Socialists until they try to indoctrinate you. Just ask a child if everyone deserves food and shelter.

@Mudflow777 @PsyGuy007 This young woman was wearing normal clothing. Not that would make it right anyway, but thanks for proving you’re a disgusting piece of shit trying to normalize kidnapping and rape.

🇺🇸 SHOCKING: The sexual predator arrested for first-degree attempted kidnapping of a barista that was caught on video just outside of Seattle has been released from jail on cashless bail. This is precisely why women in America are being r*ped and murdered by repeat offenders.

This is a dude who sees humans as nothing more than widgets.

Wood chipper feet first

Can confirm. I have two Guinea’s and while they might be the dumbest animals on the planet they will destroy all the bugs in your yard.

The year is 2028, and the United States has just elected the first woman from Alabama as president. A few days after the election, the president-elect calls her father and says, “So, Daddy, I assume you’ll be coming to my inauguration?” “I don’t think so,” he replies. “It’s a 16-hour drive, your mother isn’t as young as she used to be, and my arthritis is acting up again.” “Don’t worry, Daddy,” she says. “I’ll send Air Force One to pick you up. A limousine will take you from your door.” “I don’t know,” he says. “Everyone will be so fancy. What would your mother wear?” “Oh, Daddy,” she replies, “I’ll make sure she has a beautiful gown, custom made by the best designer in Washington.” “Sweetheart,” he continues, “you know I can’t eat those rich foods you and your friends like.” “Don’t worry,” she says. “The entire affair will be handled by the best caterer in Washington. I’ll make sure your meals are salt-free. I really want you to come.” So the father reluctantly agrees. On January 20th, 2029, the first woman from Alabama is sworn in as President of the United States. In the front row sit her mother and father. The father leans over to the Supreme Court Justice next to him and whispers, “You see that woman up there, hand on the Bible, becoming President of the United States?” “Yes,” the Justice replies. The father says proudly, “Her brother played football for the University of Alabama.”

A lot of the responses to this image have used it to argue that China had the technology to explore the world, chose not to, and thereby missed the great age of European expansion through cultural sclerosis or bureaucratic timidity. The argument has the comparative outcome right, but the structural picture it implies is wrong, and the actual story is more interesting than Twitter's little morality play would suggest. Zheng He was a Muslim eunuch admiral of the Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty, who between 1405 and 1433 (the original poster say "14th century", which is wrong) led seven enormous diplomatic-tributary expeditions across the Indian Ocean to Southeast Asia, India, Arabia, and the East African coast. The voyages involved fleets of over 250 ships and 27,000 personnel, with the largest treasure ships running probably 200 to 250 feet long, several times larger than anything contemporary Europe was building. The purpose wasn't commercial. The voyages were prestige projects designed to enroll foreign rulers in the Ming tribute system, with the Chinese state distributing more wealth in gifts than it received back. They projected the Yongle Emperor's status as the cosmic center of a world order that extended to the African coast, and they were one element in his broader program of grand imperial assertion that included the construction of Beijing as the new capital and the campaigns against the Mongols. After Zheng He's death on his seventh voyage, the program was discontinued. The largest treasure ships were broken up, the shipyards were closed, and the technical knowledge of building vessels at that scale was lost within a generation. The standard explanation for this is that Confucian officials, suspicious of foreign contact and hostile to the eunuchs running the program, persuaded the emperor to abandon it. The actual reasoning, though, was less ideological. The voyages cost enormous sums and did not produce an economic return commensurate with their cost. The empire's strategic threat lay overland on the Mongolian steppe, where naval power was useless, and the post-Yongle state was already running deficits the agricultural tax base could not sustain. The bureaucracy that argued against the voyages was making a budgetary case rather than a cultural one. The Tumu Crisis of 1449, in which the emperor was personally captured by Mongols at a battle the Ming should have won, vindicated the people who had argued that the empire's military attention needed to be on the steppe. The deeper question is why the Ming did not subsequently develop a global navy and colonize the world the way the European states would. The answer is structural rather than cultural. The European maritime expansion was driven by Ottoman closure of land routes to Asia, by the search for precious metals to fund European debt, by Christian missionary imperatives, and above all by competitive pressure among rival European states forced to match each other's overseas capabilities. None of these conditions obtained in the Chinese case. China already had access to the goods Europeans were crossing the oceans for. It had no debt crisis overseas gold could solve. It had no missionary religion. And it had no rival of comparable resources whose maritime expansion would have forced China to respond. For the Ming to have undertaken European-style colonization would have been the strategic equivalent of Rome at its height pivoting to Atlantic exploration. The technology was available but the incentives were not. The framing that China was sclerotic for not colonizing the world treats European maritime imperialism as the default trajectory any healthy civilization would have taken. The reverse framing is at least as defensible: European colonization was the response of small, capital-poor, militarily-pressured peripheral states under specific competitive and ideological conditions, with consequences the responding states themselves often could not predict or control. China's continental imperial form, sustained for two thousand years across multiple dynasties, is the historical norm. European maritime imperialism is the historical anomaly. The Ming made a defensible decision to remain the historical norm.

Mayor @RudyGiuliani devoted his life to this city, from his days as a federal prosecutor to leading New York through 9/11. He was there when we needed him most. I’m praying for Rudy and his family and hoping for a full recovery. We shared a cigar in Florida not too long ago. I’m saving one for when you’re back home, my friend.

@MrsGoresDiary My best friend got chickens this year and his two year old hugged on to death.

I told my kids they should ask their granddaddy some questions about when he was little while we ate supper at their house not long ago. “What was your first animal?” one of them asked. “That I ate??” he replied. “No!! That you loved!!” they corrected. “Oh…” he said, “it was a duck. Daddy brought him home…” “Aww!!” the kids said. “…but he died the first day,” Dad continued. “I was holding him by the neck and he choked to death.” 😳😳😳😳😳 (The above emojis represent the faces of my five listening children at this nostalgic childhood tale.) (And here was mine, while simultaneously pulling up a memo to jot this story down: 😂) Anyway. I think maybe my dad looked like Secretary Kennedy here when his first animal went to ducky heaven.

Why are threesomes only for sex? Why can't I join in on a couple's argument in public if I have a good point to make?

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A high school senior in Philadelphia made a video series asking fellow seniors to read a simple sentence written in english and they're incapable of completing the simple task. If you go to his IG (handle on right side of the video) you'll see he makes tons of seemingly humorous videos like this but this one went viral for obvious reasons and now the school is saying he may not be allowed to graduate from the charter school due to the videos. The school seems completely fine with students not being able to read but they're not okay with the public seeing that they can't read. Telling... #CityLife #philadelphia #reading #literacy #Government #education #3rdWorld #PreparatoryCharterSchool #FailedState #decay #urban #democrats

This account says some of the dumbest shit, lol. "No technology...just courage and belief." What do you call a purpose built, multi-mast multi-sail ship you putz? Do you think shipbuilders just guessed at what would work, threw some wood & canvas together & put it on the ocean?

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A Syrian refugee household admitted under Biden in 2023 was receiving $850 a month in SNAP payments. OBBBA and other Agriculture Dept. moves ended SNAP for refugees. She asks how she will feed her children? What exactly is her husband doing?

You haven’t seen my byline much in @realdailywire lately. Here’s why: I’ve spent the last 2 months working on what might be the biggest fraud, waste & abuse find of my 20-year career. I’m back from Ohio & TOMORROW AM we publish Part 1 of a major series. Get ready to get angry.

It never gets easier receiving a text that someone you cared about deeply has passed away unexpectedly. I’ll miss his random tees, captivating stories, and infectious smile. Hug your people a little tighter. Don’t take the time you have for granted.

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