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@IterIntellectus God, and consider the disparity between the birth rates of dumb people versus intelligent people.

the new State of Fertility Report for the US just came out and it’s a real blackpill the main findings are basically: - the current fertility decline is worse than any other - if this keeps going, US population will start declining in less than a generation, much sooner than most forecasts assumed - americans still want about 2.4 children, but are having fewer than 1.6 - culture matters A LOT. supportive friends, people around you and even celebrities affect how many children people want - if policymakers actually want to change this, it will require a lot of money and serious interventions people often say america was built by immigrants, but around 80% of all the people who have ever lived in america were born there and without american children there's no america left you can use immigration to support population growth for a while, but no country can survive indefinitely if the people already there stop having children

@DefiantLs Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more

Actress Jameela Jamil: British people are truly the most evil people in history. They are Thanos. Britain is Thanos. They owe 43 trillion to India.

@VinnieLevine29 @AndrewMarchand @grok That much for MNF is insane. I like Aikman, he’s not bringing enough for that $$$.

@AndrewMarchand @grok who are ESPN's 10 highest paid personalities or on-air talents?

NEWS: One of the top NFL Network insiders, Tom Pelissero, is expected to be let go as part of the ESPN layoffs, The Athletic has learned. Updated Story nytimes.com/athletic/74605…

And finally, it’s worth noting Dante Muñoz showing up here. Since then, he’s moved deeper into pro-CCP advocacy, often running in parallel with Palestinian organizing networks.

FLASHBACK: Calla Walsh built her radical activist cred as co-chair of the National Network on Cuba. This role made clear her readiness to work against American interests. Remember, a liberated Cuba is a Cuba that stops being the finishing school for America’s radical activists.

@Jason A few thoughts: don’t promise things during the campaign you can’t/won’t do; actual spending control is held by congress; the ultimate question we have to answer is what are we okay defunding.

President Trump promised not to add to the national debt during his presidential campaign -- and, in fact, that he would pay it down. He has failed badly on both counts. President Trump has become the worst-spending President in our history, adding ~$2.2-$2.3 T to the national debt in each of his first two years and in his second term. He's on track to add $9T+ in his second term, beating the previous high-water mark of $7.8T -- set by his first term. Only if you voted for President Trump, please reply with your feelings on this issue and his first 18 months more broadly.

@firstadopter @BillAckman Sure. Squash H1B abuse, close the southern border. Take corporate espionage seriously. Keep tabs on these high profile minds still being granted immigration rights from China, and restore confidence that law and order innoir cities is being taken seriously… then yes.

To argue that Yang Zhilin went back to China because it was easier to start an AI company and raise funds there is ludicrous. You think American VCs wouldn’t fund a superstar AI researcher with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon and a degree from Tsinghua? Look at his rockstar background below. Let’s take away all immigration friction pretense. Why not do everything we can to make it easier and retain superstar talent? Staple green cards to the top 10 AI computer science PhD degrees NOW. Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc. It would be a massive success. The USA can run the table on global AI talent. We just need to use our brains.

@spencerpratt @ConceptualJames Amen. @spencerpratt isn’t reading between the lines, he’s just listening to what these DSA people say, and reading the works of the people the DSA celebrate. Listen to the DSA goons when they tell you who they are.

It’s not “disrespect”. This is deliberate communist subversion. They’re systematically dismantling the rule of law so they can hurt you with impunity and destabilize the country. Our failure to properly diagnose and address this problem is why our major cities are so screwed.

@collyearjames @AntSpeaks @hiryanhiryan So they borrow against the value of the stock. Where do they get the money to pay back the loan? Salary? Pay income tax. Sell shares to realize increased stock value? Capital gains. Where is the unpaid tax?

@AntSpeaks @hiryanhiryan So every single billionaire that is using the exact same method buy borrow die is doing it why? Not to game the system? These people with all this money are just doing the exact same thing to keep ahold of their wealth and never be taxed but it’s not to try to cheat it’s just bc?

Hey Mark, you're worth around $35 million while continuing to land major Hollywood roles. You could donate $25-30 million tomorrow and still live an extremely comfortable life for the rest of your days. At a conservative 4% safe withdrawal rate, even a remaining $5-10 million would generate roughly $200,000-$400,000 a year in passive income, several times what the average family earns. On top of that, you own multiple luxury properties, including a New York penthouse reportedly worth around $7 million, and you're still taking on film roles that pay millions. Lecturing others while sitting on tens of millions yourself is peak Hollywood... As for Elon, his charitable giving has far exceeded your entire net worth tenfold. And as for the idea that he can simply "solve world hunger" by writing one giant cheque only demonstrates your fundamental misunderstanding of how global hunger actually works. It's not a problem that disappears because one wealthy person transfers money into the system. You need a basic economics lesson and a mirror, because your hypocrisy is matched only by your lack of self-awareness.

@DSA_Watch They’re valuing white working class aesthetic in this race.

🚨 Troy Jackson has been chosen to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine He was endorsed by the DSA for Governor and his best friend is Graham Platner.

This is how you run! 🏃‍♂️ Nolan saw this and said "Yup. That's a warrior type of run right there!"

@danmcgregor @Anc_Aesthetics @GhostofAO2 @TheAmericaMan1 Those aren’t mutually exclusive. Audiences can view it and be unmoved while the studio is also paying for positive reviews so word of mouth is good. It actually makes sense to spend money to keep reviews positive online if you are worried the movie is underwhelming but has hype.

@Anc_Aesthetics @GhostofAO2 @TheAmericaMan1 So which is it? Did audiences flock to a bad movie, or is the Odyssey secretly a flop because all the reviews are paid for? You're arguing two mutually exclusive narratives at the same time. Take the L.

There's just no way the actual audience rating is 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. Metacritic has the movie at a 5.3/10 user score, Letterboxd has it at 4.3 and IMDB has it at 8.3/10. Rotten Tomatoes is removing negative reviews at the behest of the studio.

@samtripoli The Odessey is the greatest piece of cinema to be added to the western canon in 100 years. Its powerful, feminine and diverse retelling fix the whiteness plaguing western antiquity and celebrate our shared brown, black, and queer identities.

Go watch the odyssey! It’s a return to greatness!

@Blue2Ballers @UnderdogMLB @ctrent @Ken_Rosenthal Both very flawed.

@JxWulf @UnderdogMLB @ctrent @Ken_Rosenthal Wouldn’t you say they’re arguably better than the last year on paper?

Reds trade deadline updates, per @ctrent and @Ken_Rosenthal: • They've "made it known they're open for business" • Focusing effort on moving players with expiring contracts • Open to adding MLB talent to strengthen roster for 2027 and beyond • Players on expiring contracts Reds could look to move include Brady Singer, Eugenio Suárez, Nathaniel Lowe, Tyler Stephenson

@Blue2Ballers @UnderdogMLB @ctrent @Ken_Rosenthal Hard to blame the manager when the roster is predictably bad.

@UnderdogMLB @ctrent @Ken_Rosenthal After making the playoffs last year, a little disappointing. Though I don’t see enough people blaming Terry? Is it just in other cities the Manager gets blamed (right or wrong)

@ProfDBernstein It makes perfect sense if you don’t believe in capitalism. A private citizen in business for him self is inherently selfish; an immoral individual. A communist, much like an Italian fascist, believes a man is but an atom of the collective. The collective provides the groceries.

This DSA stooge literally says that if a small business owner who has to work in the "real" economy can't compete with a grocery store owned and massively subsidized by his own government, "maybe he shouldn't be in that business." Business owners should see this as a call to war. The government has sufficient resources to put *anyone* out of business if it decided to.

@1929stockcrash There comes a point when this revolutionary rhetoric stops being political and starts becoming cliche commentary about the human condition. Yes, we know greed exsists, but we don’t want to destroy our modern society over it.

what does capitalism mean

@LeeKuanYimby It’s not the candidate, it’s the vote harvesting land army at the disposal of the DSA. The case study is Nithya Raman’s primary surge under the ballot harvesting accommodations written into CA law. It’s likely happening everywhere, but not as visible.

Denver officially has a DSA backed Mayoral candidate. City Council Woman, Shontel M Lewis. Shontel was convicted for reissuing EBT cards to herself and racking up $6,000 stolen funds at her previous job with the city of Denver. More ⬇️

@aakashgupta The prose at the end scream AI. Heavy handed antithesis, metaphor, and parallelism dressing up a simple point as a revelation.

The 100 year old pipe that just sinkholed Sunset Boulevard was already on LA's replacement list. Construction was scheduled for 2031. LADWP budgeted $280 million to replace 6.4 miles of this exact 36-inch trunk line. The project is still in the design phase. Work starts in 2031 and finishes in 2035. The pipe burst 5 years before the first crew would have touched it. The replacement math explains why this keeps happening. Last fiscal year, LADWP's goal was to replace 1.1 miles of trunk pipe. They replaced less than one. LA has roughly 550 miles of trunk line. Even at the department's new target of 3.5 miles a year, each mile gets replaced once every 157 years. Riveted steel pipe lasts about 100. And Sunset Boulevard has run this exact experiment before. In 2014, a trunk line from 1921 ruptured under Sunset near UCLA and sent roughly 20 million gallons through campus, submerging Pauley Pavilion. That break is what made LA's aging pipes national news and launched the current replacement program. Twelve years later: same street, same vintage of pipe, same aerial footage. Cities schedule pipe replacement on political time. Pipes fail on material time. LA is replacing 100 year pipes on a 157 year cycle, and this morning is what the gap between those two numbers looks like.

@SteveScalise Jacobins are demagogic ideologues with curated aesthetic. They are unwise because they narcissists. They foment the masses to satisfy their own desires. When the tides are right they’ll lop off heads. Eventually they’ll lose their own head.

“Maybe they shouldn’t have been in that business in the first place.” That’s how the co-chair of New York’s Socialist Party responded to concerns that a state-run grocery store could force a locally owned business to close. So much for the “warmth of collectivism.”

@ManagerTactical MLS finds fans by being exciting and accessible. Goals, goals, goals. Cheap tickets, cheap concessions and a show on the field. They should also focus on making sure their product looks great on TV and has great announcers. Also, predictable viewing/ attendance schedule.

The biggest challenge MLS has over the next 5-10 years to win over the millions of American 🇺🇸 soccer fans that don’t care about the league. The “sign a star” gimmick won’t work. They also won’t choose MLS in terms of quality when they have at least 5 other leagues with better quality on the field. That leaves MLS with bringing them in due to some personal connection, which is tough. You can’t say “support local” and force people to buy into a very “corporate league”. Liga Mx 🇲🇽 ain’t better than MLS but Mexican Americans have a personal connection to it, which is why it has more viewers than MLS in the 🇺🇸 So how does MLS solve this?