James M Johnson

@SaysSimulation The only problem is that "our" red states are mostly governed by big business friendly RINO cucks. They are not going to do anything radical...ever.

This is the view from VA, similar to RW urbanites in NY & CA. It is one of rational self-interest - and the Heartland must reject it. Rescuing the urban coasts would be a pitched battle with a ~50% chance of success By consolidating power where we are strong, it goes to 80%+. 1/

@shagbark_hick We just want a new elite that doesn't hate us.

Populism in our era is actually preposterous when you think about it. Who looks at the most complex civilization in human history and thinks: "The plain 'ol regular folk oughta run this thing instead of the damned elites!" It takes a certain kind of high-born genius to even begin to comprehend the system we've constructed, much less to actually know how to govern it well. Though perhaps we needed a wild, chaotic period in political history in order to attain the degree of technological progress we have attained -- at a certain point, there are too many variables at play, and the revolutionary chaos of the hoi polloi has reached its point of diminishing returns. Democracy and civilizational complexity strike me as being very much at odds. Current events seem to tell us we may be at the turning point where we must choose one or the other. Said differently, it may be true that the West has dismantled the Ancien Regime only to be forced to eventually reinvent it from first principles -- or die.

@johnkonrad But the early boomers had it so easy they're unreasonably optimistic. And have no empathy or understanding for what young people are experiencing. "Lift yourself up by your bootstraps...I did!"

@johnkonrad Im not sure of the characterization, but the younger boomers, so called generation jones, had much less economic opportunity than the older boomers. The "deaths of despair" started going up for those born starting in the mid 50s. So, yes, the younger ones are "doomers".

You really can’t explain how bad education was in the 80s because of young liberal boomer teachers. Tucker tries here but doesn’t go far enough . They like to portray themselves as organic free love hippies but the youngest boomers were four years old when that era ended. The oldest boomers were mostly great but the defining moment for younger boomers was the 70s. Cocaine. Disco. Polyester. Urban decay. Hard drugs. Hard sex. Plastics.Pollution. They taught my generation (late X) that EVERYTHING was going to kill you. Oral sex will give you AIDS. Being gay is a death sentence. The rain forests are dying. Acid rain is melting our brains. All food is laced with DDT. The whales are extinct. And if a nuclear meltdown doesn’t kill you, nuclear war will. Liberal boomers are so selfish because they genuinely believe the world has no future. So you might as well raid Wall Street, vote in entitlements and snort cocaine. It’s really two very different generations. Those born 1945 to 1951 did have some free love, and the based ones did fight in Vietnam. The defining moment was March 31, 1968. Right after the media told everyone we “lost” the Tet Offensive and LBJ withdrew from reelection. If you were born 1945 to early 1950 and turned 18 before Nixon’s election, you had some hope left. You’re a Boomer. You suffered massive disappointment but still believe America can recover. There was some momentum after that. Some hope Nixon would save the nation. But by the 1970 midterms that was gone. So those born 1950 to 1952 are a mixed bag. But if you turned 18 after 1970, you are not a Boomer. You’re a Doomer. Now, of course, there are many great Doomers. They got educated at levels unprecedented. Not just books but hands-on training and experience. Some of my favorite people are Doomers because the based ones ignored politics, hated disco, and focused on their work. We got great blue collar workers and fantastic white collar engineers. (That said, even the best have something broken inside them.) But the vast majority of Doomers in soft jobs are the absolute worst. And the worst of the worst were the liberal ones in jobs around kids. This is why they are such hands-off grandparents. Subconsciously they don’t think their grandkids will live to 30. Pesticides, or global warming, or “orange man starting WW3” will kill their grandchildren. If the nation is doomed anyway then why not open the borders to the third world? They are also subconsciously angry at God too, for dooming them. Doomers are responsible for the hollowing out of religion. If your grandkids won’t live to 30 and God hates them so heaven isn’t possible, then what’s the point of nurturing and educating them? Now I’m not saying they are consciously aware of this. No Doomer wakes up & says “my Grandkids are screwed so I’m going to rob their saving”, that’s not how human nature works. They love their grandchildren. They want a better future for all. They just can’t believe it’s possible so subconsciously they make selfish decisions. My dad (the oldest in his family) was born in 1945. Mom was born in 1950. I have aunts & uncles born in the early fifties. There is a massive difference in their friend groups. Dad’s cohort was polarized. They are either devoutly religious, devout anti-communist, hard workers, or idealistic peace-loving hippies. Mom’s cohort is all over the place with both Boomer & Doomer traits. My Doomer aunts & uncles are firmly different. They either have the work hard, die hard mentality or they are greedy nihilists. P.S. It wasn’t all bad. The reason the 80s & early 90s were such a revival is because the Boomers worked their asses off & hated commies & the based Doomers embraced “greed is good” capitalism. Ignoring their kids (Gen X was free range) gave them time to work more. We got the internet revolution in the late 90s because the best of Gen X wanted to build something completely new, apart from the Doomers.

@Oilfield_Rando @AuronMacintyre Red state governors are the real problem. And barely anyone is trying to fix it.

Mfw a republican governor brags about how many foreigners and blue staters he resettled in his red state

@johnkonrad They are just going to pay the ransom. Barbary pirates redux.

“Military operation would take an infinite amount of time and expose forces to immense coastal and ballistic risks.” He is correct. But what he won’t say is that France and Europe are incapable, but the US, South Korea, Japan, and China could. We already saw this in the Red Sea. French frigates performed exceptionally, but they are small and ran out of missiles too fast, forcing them to use deck guns…. Which is supposed to be the backup. The UK has the opposite problem. They have destroyers with more missiles but have never upgraded their deck guns to handle missiles and drones. Neither nation has enough warships of any size to fill in the gaps while others reload. These nations have the technology but didn’t build enough ships to use it effectively. During the entire Red Sea operation against the Houthis, they weren’t able to deploy more than three ships at a time. And other navies had critical failures (Denmark) or, embarrassingly, rerouted around Africa to avoid the Houthis entirely (Germany). The Asian nations are too distrusting of each other to leave. It’s also going to require minesweepers and marines. UK soldiers off-load on marine transport ships. Italy has some, but you can’t send marines in without escort destroyers of their own. The US is the only nation on Earth I’m confident can do military convoys, and marine landings and minesweeping but Trump doesn’t want to take the risk. The US can keep casualties low, but some marines will die, and it would put a massive strain on our repair yards to surge enough destroyers at once. China maybe has enough but they have no combat experience and have been friendly with Iran. It would also be a major embarrassment to Xi if they performed poorly.

@1FreedomFries @AuronMacintyre Can't we make New York a prison? Good ideas should be used.

@AuronMacintyre Snake Plissken approved

"If the Japanese know who Americans are, then the least we can do is be proud to act like the Americans the Japanese love." theblaze.com/columns/opinio…

@blightersort The degeneracy can keep degenerating. There appear no limits.

IANAL(esbian) but i'd say if half the genitals at your lesbian orgy are penises you are not at a lesbian orgy

@pnshdvermonster This is always a danger. But nothing like facebook, where sometimes that's about the only thing I see.

My timeline is filled with attractive Japanese women. Normally I wouldn't complain but my wife noticed and she does not approve. :(

@blightersort She actually looks happy to be arrested. Maybe this is the solution to low TFR.

that is not the literal statue of liberty

@ruiyukimura @SuturesSelf I see this in Grenada in the Caribbean. Most of the cars there are used cars imported from Japan (they drive on the right side). The roads and parking spots are narrow. When you see an American car, it suddenly looks huge in comparison. Now, getting spare parts...

@SuturesSelf 日本の道は狭いので、アメリカの車で走ると車の両側が削れます😂

私のアメリカ人への偏見て。 陽気、肉が好き、燃費が悪くて見た目の良い馬鹿でかい車に乗ってる、肉が好き、冬でも半袖を着ている。 なのだけど「肉が好き」の部分だけは少なくとも偏見ではなく真実のようだな。 私は肉が好きだけど胃弱なのでBBQに参戦する自信がない。隣で七輪で魚焼いとくわ・・・。

@kausmickey Did they forget how to make gas engines or throw out all the machines that make them? Can't they just change course?

"Honda had declared that by 2040 it would only sell EVs and fuel cell vehicles, committing to an 'engine-free' future. The aggressive plan has now backfired." asia.nikkei.com/view-newslette… Many carmakers issued similar pledges. Honda seems to have actually meant it.

@eigenrobot Is that similar to the wheat growers over the rice growers?

no tea drinking nation has ever defeated a coffee drinking nation in a war

@girlmeetsNG "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they've tried everything else"

突然アメリカ人に日本語のツイートが読まれるようになり、アメリカ人のこと「バカ(だけど天才)」とか書いてマズい怒られる…と思ったら"Americans are idiots but also geniuses"に対しperfect、so true、the best description of Americans、That is a fair description of us等のコメントが並び最高

@ItIsHoeMath @bitcoinpanda69 Welfare and UBI are not going to work for the reasons given. Greatly enlarge the military? Dozens of servants for each productive person?

This is by far the most intelligent take on UBI that I have ever seen outside of my own. I don't know why it is so difficult and uncommon for people to just run a quick simulation of the average person before deciding how something will influence society, but congratulations on being number fucking one to do it

My strongest blackpill belief is that UBI will lead to an overwhelming amount of mental illness most people if they are honest w themselves need external boundaries and challenges imposed on them You're asking everyone on the planet to self-govern their whole lives when most cant even go to bed on time now when they have work early

@johnkonrad Can we make sure California is paying $10/gal for gas? For the environment.

Guess where California gets its diesel and gasoline to make up for Gavin Newsom’s refinery closures? South Korea! 🔥🔥

@asymmetricinfo Republicans are slowly learning lawfare...too slowly

It's not a new tactic--it was perfected by environmentalists using "sue and settle" to get stuff from friendly Democratic administrations and sympathetic EPA bureaucrats that they'd never have gotten legislatively.

@blightersort I think, contra to the saying, a Progressive is a Liberal who's been mugged by reality. Liberalism is a tool that promised to overcome differences between race, sex, etc. When social "freedom" is achieved, but the result is not "equality," stronger measures are needed.

yes, correct. as i regularly point out, a serious problem we have is that the left has no limiting principle. so you have the hard left arguing for radical change and the 'center' left thinking that's obviously where we need to go but we should be 'practical' and only roll out as much change as won't scare the sheep... but at the same time the 'centrists' mostly secretly long to be as open with their goals and dreams as the hard left. and then you have useful idiots like Noah who think there is an actual ideological difference between these two groups and wake up a few years or decades down the ratchet towards the radical surprised at where things have gone.

@ArtemisConsort @0x49fa98 One practical problem with "caloric deficit" is knowing how many calories you're burning. Measuring your food intake is "relatively" easier.

It’s not physically possible to gain weight in a caloric deficit. I’ve watched dozens of episodes of “my 600 pound life” and it seems the common thread is rejection of responsibility. They think if they can hoodwink the doctor about how much they’ve been eating, it will somehow solve their problems. Leftism is this mentality applied at scale.

@johnkonrad My daughter lives in Sudbury, MA. I like to go for a latte in the morning when I'm watching the grandkids. Can confirm that lefty convos are easy to overhear.

At my local liberal elite coffee shop a millennial woman is in tears because she can’t afford private school tuition. She’s on speakerphone so everyone hears. She qualifies for food stamps. She is an immigrant and a lesbian. Everyone is waiting for her to get off the phone to console her. OK. BUT… she just spent $3,000 on airline tickets for a vacation and booked $400 meal one of the nights. And summer camp for her kids while she goes. Every millennial I know is absolutely addicted to travel to foreign nations. WTF. They talk about it like it’s a human right. Why the F can’t she put her kids into her Subaru and drive them to Florida like a normal person? Or the thousands of great coastal vacation spots between Bar Harbor Maine and Key West. Why is nobody suggesting this to her? And it’s not just her. My millennial friends who have money are constantly jumping on planes overseas. Like if they go more than two months without travel they start freaking out. I’m generation x. I don’t get it. Someone please explain this to me in crayons. I mean I love traveling too but holy crap does it get expensive fast. Are these people all just in crazy debt?