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James
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Think local, act local. | Top 4% of Dave Matthews fans | The only reality that *can* exist is the reality that *does* exist. Act accordingly.
Minneapolis, MN Katılım Mayıs 2009
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MAHA works with MAGA, so MAGA helps MAHA
Libertarians try to tear down MAGA, so MAGA defends itself
Pretty simple folks
Tyler Bowyer@tylerbowyer
embrace MAHA and win. reject MAHA and lose.
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For decades, courts required states to carve out congressional districts based on their racial makeup, in direct violation of the 15th Amendment and VRA. Several Supreme Courts allowed it, but they made clear the practice of privileging certain constituencies over others based on race would eventually need to end. That happened yesterday.
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@Devon_Eriksen_ @Phil_Lewis_ Please, explain this “privilege”.
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Supreme Court paves the way for largest-ever drop in Black representation in Congress npr.org/2026/04/30/nx-…
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Many NGOs are founded with good intentions, but eventually realize that their existence and growth depends on the foe they were founded to abolish also existing and growing. Their goal pivots from actually trying to eliminate their foe to making them seem more powerful than ever to justify asking donors for endless funding.
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The founding fathers were not Calvinists, the Massachusetts bay colony was.
Specifically High Calvinists
That cultural group wasn’t able to stamp a singular vision on America until the progressive era
This is another way the left uses half truths to undermine your foundations
Instead of recognizing how the progressive era was colored by a specific sect of puritanical Protestantism so we can reverse those errors, they want to confuse it into tainting the revolution
The revolution was about federalism and liberty
The Massachusetts bay colonists were theocrats. They tried and failed to take over the Church of England and so started their own. But they had no intention of dominating the US, they specifically wanted state independence so they could maintain their highly exclusionary society.
They later became influential in the bureaucracy cause they founded the university system and rode the wave of Yankee dominance.
But not all Calvanists are bad and the founders weren’t the High Calvanists associated with modern progressivism.
I’ll include more on the history of the Massachusetts bay colony below
Stu Smith@thestustustudio
👀 Didn’t have time to watch 4 hours of SNEAKO x Dugin x Jiang? I got you. This supercut shows exactly what it was, foreign propaganda targeted at young American men and designed to turn them against their own country. Topics included “the Founding Fathers were heretical Calvinists,” the claim that “the root of the problem is 1694” because that is when “the Bank of England was first chartered,” “the Statue of Liberty is Hecate, the goddess of hell,” and “America is a financial Ponzi scheme… there would be economic collapse, civil war.” They even spiral into interpreting Trump’s social media posts, casting Trump as a Christ figure “healing” what looked like Jeffrey Epstein, with references to Moloch and the Statue of Liberty layered in. And if someone is telling you the Enlightenment is evil, rest assured they are advancing an authoritarian worldview.
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The libertarian movement had the trajectory of a dying star.
First it emanated outward spreading its light throughout the universe.
Everyone was learning about inflation, the folly of forever wars, constitutional originalism, real history.
Then it exploded into a black hole.
They valued anti elitism over a better elite and so the movement has no choice but to die of irrelevance, but not without pulling everyone in its orbit into the wormhole.
The gravitational force will be impossible to resist for those invested but the movement will become increasingly consolidated around that core, and smaller, no longer able to emanate outwards.
The good news is the positive ideas will continue but they will be enacted by those who are able to integrate them with the responsibility of managing a system… rather than taking a purely critical deconstructive approach that fails to adopt any skin in the game.
If you find yourself saying the only solution is to dismantle the system or to root for Americas enemies in war to humble your supposed political opposition (even if you agree with the Babylon Bee on 80% of issues) then you are no different than a communist.
Aside from the fact communists have an actual path to political power through the Dems, which you are ironically facilitating.
But it doesn’t matter cause we’ll beat the left anyways with or without the people who should know best how bad they are.
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@ConceptualJames @BridgetPhetasy That was the last “big event in history” that I was alive for but don’t have memory of because I was too young.
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@BridgetPhetasy Everyone who was school-age in 1986, yooooo
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An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying local alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.
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Just incredible but strangely predictable: energy lockdowns mapped out by the International Energy Agency. You can read the report iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/01fe3dd…
x.com/AaronRDay/stat…
Aaron Day@AaronRDay
THE IEA JUST PUBLISHED AN ENERGY LOCKDOWN PLAYBOOK (LOCKDOWNS 2.0) The International Energy Agency released a 10-point plan telling governments to restrict driving, ground flights, force remote work, and ban gas cooking. They called it "Sheltering from Oil Shocks." Read that title again. 1/ Alternating driving days based on your license plate number. Odd plates drive Monday. Even plates drive Tuesday. Countries are already implementing this. This is not a suggestion. It is the architecture of a permit system for movement. 2/ Mandatory speed limit reductions on every highway. Not safety. Fuel rationing by another name. You can still drive. Just slower, less often, and only when the government says your plate number qualifies. 3/ Avoid air travel "where alternatives exist." The IEA does not define what qualifies as an alternative. A 12-hour train ride? A video call? The ambiguity is the feature. It lets regulators decide after the fact whether your trip was essential. 4/ Switch from gas cooking to electric. The IEA is now telling you what appliance to use in your own kitchen. The same agency that published "Net Zero by 2050" calling for thermostats capped at 19 degrees and a ban on new gas boilers. This is not new. It is accelerating. 5/ Work from home "where possible." In 2020 they locked down the world and called it public health. In 2026 they are locking down movement and calling it energy security. The template is identical. The excuse changed. The IEA's own Net Zero roadmap calls for personal behavioral changes modeled on COVID compliance. They said it out loud. "COVID-19 has increased general awareness of how behavioural changes can be effective." This is not crisis management. This is the beta test for a permanent energy credit system. Restrict supply. Ration access. Digitize compliance. Repeat.
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I'm an American Imperialist by virtue of the fact I am a Civilizationalist, an American, a Nationalist, and a Realist.
We have an Empire. Unless we are willing to surrender it to the Chinese Communist Party and plunge the world into widespread war and famine, the Empire must be maintained. We are the light in the darkness.
Maintaining that Empire requires utilizing useful allies and destroying disruptive enemies.
America and Israel are not BFFs. The idea that there's any religious connection between America and Israel is American Reformation drivel. Nation-states do not have friends; they have interests. We are two nation-states who happen to have very similar objectives and interests in the region—largely because of the fact we were both opposed to/by Iran.
Our economy is based in the Middle East. Unless and until that changes, we're there to stay. If we're going to stay, then we need decent allies.
The single reason I like having Israel as an ally is because they are extremely competent. Pound-for-pound, the IDF is the best military in the world; America just has a lot more pounds—that's our way. Their intelligence, targeteering, weaponeering, precision strike capability, its all just absolutely beautiful as a military man.
Anyone who denies the efficacy of the IDF should be disregarded on all matters military. They are seriously a work of art in that arena.
I completely understand people who get really annoyed with the fact it seems like you're not allowed to criticize Israel in most places or on most platforms. I think that's extremely stupid and needs to stop—if for no other reason than the fact that these policies generate more antisemites than they stop by probably a 20:1 ratio.
I completely understand people who are sick of American politicians sucking up to Israel. Ted Cruz actually makes me want to throw up when he starts talking about having some duty to Israel. Anyone who attempts to clothe Israel in my Catholic Christian faith is immediately suspect to me as a likely enemy.
But none of that changes the fact that our interests in the Middle East are deep, very hard (if not impossible) to remove, and that Israel is by a wide margin the most competent ally the United States has had since World War II.
For those of y'all not really paying much attention—if we don't have Israel as our ally, we really don't have anybody. The GCC is militarily useless, Britain and Canada seem to actually be an enemy state at this point, the rest of Europe gobbles Russian balls/energy while simultaneously waging a proxy war against them, and Japan has no military.
We may have other allies on paper, but in the field the vast majority of our allies are next to useless.
There's a reason rival powers want the top two militaries in the world to be enemies and its not because they have an earnest desire to see America free of bankers and entertainment producers.
Philip Levens@PhilipLevens
@Howlingmutant0 @jtalexander It’s been phenomenal. If anything, the success has been underreported. We’ve never had an ally as lethal as Israel before. Just shows us how useless all of our European allies have been all these years.
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This seemed glib to me, so I asked Grok to unpack it a little, and it did a good enough job to paste here:
JT Alexander (@jtalexander) quote-tweeted Philip Pilkington's post with the blunt line: "It costs literally $0.00 to not be this stupid."
He's calling Pilkington stupid (or at least the take stupid) because he sees the claim as wildly off-base and revealing a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation—specifically, the Trump administration's grasp of Iran.
Pilkington argued that "Many in the Trump admin seem to think [Iran] is a janky Arab dictatorship" rather than "an enormous civilisational power with a huge, well-organised military," and framed this as a key reason the US is mishandling / losing the war.
From JT's perspective (as someone who positions himself as a Middle East geopolitical expert, veteran, and frequent commentator on Iran/IRGC matters), this take flips reality on its head:
- He believes key parts of the administration **do** understand Iran's real strength, organizational depth, civilizational nature, asymmetric capabilities, etc.—and that's precisely why they went in anyway (or escalated the way they did).
- Pilkington's framing implies the administration is blithely underestimating Iran in a cartoonish, ignorant way (treating it like some ramshackle Arab regime instead of Persia 2.0 with deep institutional resilience).
- JT views that as not just wrong, but embarrassingly, avoidably wrong—hence the "costs $0 to not be this stupid" jab. It's a dismissal of what he sees as lazy, evidence-free contrarianism from an outside observer (Pilkington is a macroeconomist/podcaster, not a regional security specialist).
Why "stupid" instead of a calm, point-by-point refutation?
- **Rhetorical style**: JT's feed shows he frequently uses blunt, cutting language ("stupid," "idiot," "laughably stupid," etc.) when he thinks something is obviously incorrect or dangerously misleading. He doesn't always default to patient essays; he often goes for the quick, stinging dismissal when he believes the error is egregious or in bad faith.
- **Audience and context**: On X in 2026, amid a hot war with high stakes, emotional temperature is elevated. A snappy "this is dumb" + eye-roll energy lands harder and spreads faster than a 10-tweet thread laying out intel assessments, IRGC structure, pre-war planning leaks, etc.
- **Frustration factor**: JT has repeatedly posted about people underestimating Iran in the **opposite** direction (e.g., calling out claims that Iran posed "no threat," criticizing figures like Joe Kent as liars/idiots on Iran knowledge, mocking ideas that planning ignored basics like Hormuz). So when he sees the narrative swing to "the administration is totally clueless about how strong Iran is," it probably strikes him as the latest flavor of uniformed hot take—worthy of contempt rather than charitable debate.
In short, JT jumps to "stupid" because he thinks Pilkington's diagnosis badly misreads who actually understands what, and he finds that misreading not just incorrect, but gratuitously foolish in a moment where getting the basics wrong has real consequences. He could have refuted it more granularly, but chose the verbal equivalent of a facepalm instead.
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It costs literally $0.00 to not be this stupid.
Philip Pilkington@philippilk
Watching the US response to the impending loss of the war, I have realised that the Americans simply do not understand what Iran is. It is an enormous civilisational power with a huge, well-organised military. Many in the Trump admin seem to think its a janky Arab dictatorship.
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@RalphCapocci @TaylorRMarshall @ConceptualJames To be fair, Taylor Marshall is the James Lindsey of Catholics. Both are mostly insufferable outside their little tribes.
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@ConceptualJames Taylor Marshall is infinitely more intelligent than you and speaks the truth.
You resort to ascribing motives, ad hominem attacks and shapeshifting language.
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I'm sure this guy wonders why so few people like him. Maybe if he removed the beam from his own eye, he could see. Who knows? Seems stupid too.
Dr Taylor Marshall™️@TaylorRMarshall
Non serviam:
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Because existing law is unenforceable. In states that have no real election security requirements (automatic voter registration and Election Day balloting based on the honor system, basically), anyone can pretend to be anyone else and cast a ballot in their name. Even in the rare case where they eventually get caught, the ballot has been counted and there’s no way to undo the damage done by the fraud. All you have to do is get a list of registered voters, find out which ones don’t usually actually show up to vote in elections, and pretend to be that person. It’s a huge problem.
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🚨🇺🇸 The Senate is voting on the SAVE Act Wednesday
No talking filibuster. Thune is moving fast.
The bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote has 85% public support according to its supporters.
Democrats are about to have to go on record against it.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇺🇸 Trump's take on Thune flopping the SAVE Act votes: "He's wonderful... but he can't do it, and that's BAD." So, what Trump really means is: Sen Thune, step UP or step ASIDE x.com/EricLDaugh/sta…
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Somebody told me about this, and I didn't believe them.
No way, I thought. You're exaggerating.
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Dustin Grage@GrageDustin
🚨 Minnesota State Representative Dave Pinto (D) just said they should be studying the benefits of shoplifting and retail theft. “Perhaps people are relying on that.” Absolutely insane.
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@VinceLyle2161 @ChristianHeiens I was a Ron Paul kid turned anarchocapitalist for many years, and this realization is what brought me out of it a couple of years ago. My logic was, I disagreed with everyone, so everyone else who also disagrees with everyone must be a de facto ally. It just ain’t so.
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@ChristianHeiens Dissidents these days have fully internalized "if there's flak, you must be over the target."
Thirty years ago, if everyone was criticizing you, it was good evidence you were probably wrong or misinformed.
Not so these days. Ignorance and confidence go together too much.
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Someone once said there’s two sides of the Dissident Right, the dissidents and the rightists.
It would be easy for me to come out and say “I condemn the Dissident Right” after three days of non-stop Third World worship, AI slop posting, and blatant campaign ads to vote Democrat. But that would just be the equivalent of condemning a bunch of counter-signaling malcontents who see in current world events an opportunity to work towards the same exact goals as the Left while pretending to be edgy contrarians about it.
The fact is, no amount of low IQ idiocy takes away from the reality that the Right side of the Dissident Right are fundamentally correct in their critiques of both Liberalism and Conservatism.
Yes, that means they’re still dissidents, but that doesn’t mean that all dissidents are cut from the same cloth. Some are in this for aesthetics that may change from season to season depending on the cultural zeitgeist (which is currently oriented towards Third Worldism), but others are in this for the structural critique of the existing liberal system, which remains timeless regardless of what is going on in the news cycle at any given moment.
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@MsMelChen @BobMurphyEcon Our lady, undoer of knots, pray for the people of Canada and all of us.
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James retweetledi
Every measure of a good, decent life in Canada is plummeting.
But euthanasia is booming.
This isn't compassion. This is darkness. This is a society that's given up.
Something is terribly, unforgivably wrong with a country that can't house its people or grow its economy but excels at helping them die.
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@boriquagato Well, yeah. If Friedman were serious I wouldn’t have cited the story. The city is implementing a classic socialist make-work program. The whole situation is a farce.
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@jameslj yes, but he was joking. keynes and krugman were serious
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NYC has got to be some kind of all time record for going from "piles of socialist promises for free stuff" to "we need you in the work gangs because our infrastructure is borked."
(bonus points for needing ID to sign up to shovel snow, but not to vote.)
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