Willa Golightly

The music is just too perfect

Explain to me how mass immigration is a 'left wing' concept. I can't fathom how people swallowed this idea wholesale. - Endless supply of cheap labour helps capitalists, not workers - Strip mining of talent from developing countries is a form of neocolonialism - Endless pressure on the housing market inflates assets and prevents the poorest from having reasonably priced homes - A refusal to train enough people here removes vocation paths that the working class used to follow - The most negative social and cultural second order consequences are happening to working class, deindustrialised or neglected areas So it's left wing how? I can see how anti-immigrant sentiment can be seen as ethnonationalism and therefore right wing. But I can't see how support for mass immigration is left wing. And to be clear: it's not just a part of left wing thought. It's now so central to left wing thought, apparently, that any divergence from this immediately makes you 'far right'.

@MsMelChen It's Russia all over again. Trump plays nice and acts like friends to the media while using as much of his actual leverage as possible on the actua front lines of the conflict/where it matters.

Everyone who is up in arms about Trump "kissing Xi's ass" needs to understand that this is realpolitik and dealmaking. Trump is, by a mile, the most aggressive president America has had against the CCP in modern history. No one else imposed sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods, banned Huawei from domestic networks, put the entire CCP military-linked ecosystem on the entity list, restricted semiconductor exports, strengthened the Quad, and publicly called out China's currency manipulation, IP theft, forced tech transfers, and South China Sea aggression the way he did. Pre-presidency Trump was blunt. If you recall, as a candidate, he often complained about how "China was screwing us over." Literally in 2016 on the campaign trail, he said that "China is raping us." You need to understand that this posture completely shattered what was bipartisan elite consensus at the time - which was that more engagement with China on economic terms would liberalize and democratize China (ethnocentric projection once again), and that as China became more integrated into the global system, they would act more and more like responsible stakeholders. Every President since Nixon pushed closer economic integration while ignoring the OBVIOUS signs. This was especially supercharged under Bush, Clinton and Obama (but not Biden). And yet at the time, the mainstream media painted him as a xenophobe for this kind of rhetoric. It wasn't even a subtext - they directly alluded to how Trump was being racist against the Chinese for calling out their unfair trade practices. Once in office, Trump refined it into a strategy that actually moved the needle while dialing back his strong rhetoric. The personal flattery - calling Xi a "great leader," talking up respect for China, saying they'll have a "fantastic future together," is all Machiavellian Art of the Deal stuff. Flattery costs nothing and makes the other guy more willing to give ground without looking like he's folding domestically. The CCP's entire system is built on the leader's prestige. Publicly humiliating Xi or treating him like a subordinate would make him dig in, rally nationalists, and push him to retaliate harder just to save face. I don't actually think Trump knows about Chinese "honor culture" and the obsession with mianzi (face), but for whatever reason, Trump instinctively understands authoritarian psychology and how to work with it. The problem is that intellectual types, especially those steeped in liberal internationalist frameworks, tend to struggle with parsing the difference between rhetoric vs. revealed preferences. They're hard-wired to overweight the former. They treat diplomatic language as a window into the soul, as if it maps directly onto intent rather than as front-facing tool of statecraft. China weaponizes this brilliantly. It's a lesson everyone should've learned by now. With Trump, ignore the optics and ignore what he says. Just look at his actions, and look at his results.

May we all live as long as the yoga pants fashion trend.

@wil_da_beast630 @sourpatchlyds Your wife would despise you forever for saving her over her baby, which she would gladly give her life for.

I'd save my wife. The obvious point that you should rescue your true love, and the lover with whom you can make MORE kids - as vs, say, your teenage son - would have been a no brainer everywhere on Earth before modern emo-world. Equation might change if you have seven children. But, the average up-middle US couple has 1.2.

I'd really like to hear the arguments for both. Your hypothetical: A married father is in a position to save EITHER the wife and mother OR the child/children. Which should it be, and why?

@MartinShkreli @vijaya @jack @elonmusk It was basically the only thing Trump needed to win the presidency in 2016

X accounts are very valuable: a digital identity, voice, address. never forget there was an era when @vijaya (and by abdication, @jack) would ban anyone that didn't conform to a specific world view. whatever you think of @elonmusk, thank god for his sacrifice

@mjfree Literally the opposite. Republicans have followed the laws in their states. California had to rip up their commission and do an emergency election to change their laws. Virginia just said fuck it and got caught. Just like Biden’s policies got struck down by SCOTUS, not Trump’s.

Just so I understand, Republicans can ILLEGALLY redistrict but Democrats can't LEGALLY redistrict? Do I have this right?

@QueenAnticommie If you’re not hot enough to get tips, don’t be a server.

I agree with this! If you can’t afford a tip, stay home

@Angel_Paradize “Respect our culture while we are disgusted by yours”

Le "side-eye" est monté au niveau maximum... 😒💀 ​POV : Quand ton style dérange mais que tu brilles quand même ✨👺

@MasterMaliq No, we decided that if you won’t police your own from killing us, then we won’t bother trying to treat you differently from one another either.

Some non-Muslims decided all Muslims are terrorists the second they heard the word “Islam”. Cool. So I’m supposed to apologise for murders I never committed? Defend psychos I despise? Carry the sins of 2 billion humans? This is insane. Stop the collective blame game.

@FroemelAndy @akafaceUS The only people with enough land and food delivery services to believe this are Americans.

@akafaceUS If you ride your bike onto a highway, you are at fault. Also, you can’t deliver food with a bike.

A woman says DoorDash is putting her life at risk after the app reportedly directed her onto a highway, leaving her stranded and vulnerable.

@tanpukunokami We know how you feel

To those considering moving to Japan, let me be honest with you. Last week, a 300-year-old shrine in Niigata burned down. It wasn't the first. Shrines, pig farms, graveyards, set on fire and desecrated. Things we've quietly protected for centuries are disappearing, one after another. If you cannot honor our gods, please don't come. If you cannot eat pork, please don't come. If you cannot accept cremation, please don't come. This is a sincere request from us. If you come to Japan, you will be unhappy, and so will we.

@fights_fanatic He picked the wrong one

A bus driver beat the shit of a dude for spitting on him...valid reaction or no ?

@pirooooon3 That one that crashed into the water was pretty meaningless

日本を守るために命を投げ出した人がいる 特攻隊員の命は無駄死にだったと言う友人がいる 無駄死にだったのか！ 日本の礎だっのか！ あなたは、どう感じますか？

@QueenAnticommie lol, if every black person was kicked out of an establishment for not giving a fuck, we would be back in the segregated south.

I don’t know about this. I mean, the guy might be a douche bag, but he shouldn’t be kicked out of the gym.

@DefiantLs Cancel this man now

Dr. Matthew Liao at the WEF: We can engineer meat allergies using Lone Star Ticks to stop people from eating beef or other meat

@AnthonyMeres @RoKhanna @TheLastWord The only actual known, demonstrable Epstein puppet in Congress and both sides are refusing to do anything about her. Tells you everything you need to know.

@RoKhanna @TheLastWord Everybody forgot about her texting Epstein in 2018. During a congressional hearing.

Lutnick was sweating, mumbling, and lying to Oversight about his connections to Epstein. He has no business representing America or American business around the world. @TheLastWord

@ArthurMacwaters You can’t audit your current net worth because your current net worth is actually your wife’s money before you were married 10 years ago? You haven’t made a penny in 10 years? Do you even have a bank account? Try harder representative.

> be Ro Khanna > #2 most active “trader” in Congress > literally $600m in trades > net worth 10s-100s of millions > “it’s not my money it’s my wife’s” >… > “tax the billionaires” > asset seizure with explicit direct path to every citizen > already caused the largest wealth exodus in history > 1T of net worth fled CA > Bolshevik hypocrite > every time looking forward to @MartinShkreli docs

Most transparent president of all time. He's locked in the conspiracy theorist vote forever.war.gov/UFO/

@IterIntellectus Getting really into feminism

what’s the female equivalent of a man playing video games?

@AgingAnarchist It was light vandalism if there was even any damage at all but now he’s committing false imprisonment

アメリカって信じられないレベルのアホが普通に生息している。