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@MNaturalism @FeserEdward Boring 😴

@Kevin72127362 @FeserEdward But the question wasn’t “is he going to run for a third term”, it was simply “could he run for a third term”, and the answer should have been a simple, straightforward NO, but none of those clowns could bring themselves to say the obvious out of fear of angering the dear leader!

Just as left-wing nominees won’t answer “What is a woman?”, right-wing nominees won’t answer easy questions like this. The first are hostages to an ideological cult, the second are hostages to a personality cult. Both major parties are now corrupt and both are grave dangers to the country. The temptation to fixate on the question which is worse, as a way to excuse the sins of the other, must be resisted. Genuine patriotism requires refusing to acquiesce to lies, sophistry, and demagoguery regardless of who they come from. Only leaders who themselves refuse to do so should be supported.

@peterboghossian Grifters stick together.

The people criticizing Dawkins did not read past the paywall.

@nypost Is this accurate?

Alleged Palisades arsonist became 'fixated' with Luigi Mangione, started blaze 'out of resentment of the rich': prosecutors trib.al/nLHwEsr

@RonaldCHRIST12 Interesting take. Although that isn't accurate.

“Philosophy and theology are, I should say, two species of fantastic literature. Two species of science fiction, really. This is clearest in the case of theology. For example, the Ethics of Spinoza is far more fantastic than anything Edgar Allan Poe or H. G. Wells ever dreamed up.” Jorge Luis Borges, Borges at Eighty

@nypost Not surprised

Ex-JPMorgan banker Chirayu Rana pretended his dad was dead to get bereavement leave - but he's alive and spoke to The Post this weekend trib.al/mUjuzOo

@RyanHoliday He made a living by copying and pasting Stoic quotes. Only in America!!

Lol what kind of crime do you have to commit in a past life to be condemned to white knight for a member of the most corrupt family in the history of American politics? You're a fucking goober.

@AAGDhillon Crazy that it came to this

Go on….

@nickgillespie @reason Nick is following the exact script of spin he did for Charlie Kirk's assassination. Essentially it is "meaningless". Incredible.

'Cole Tomas Allen's actions just don't make sense, even in his own words, or in a time of political polarization.' My latest at @reason, on Donald Trump's would-be assassin. reason.com/2026/05/01/don…

@PalmerLuckey @chrisman Yup

@chrisman Ask them what the consequences should be for homeschooling parents who fail to educate children. Then ask what the consequences should be for public schools that do the same. The difference in answers is the game.

These anti-homeschool arguments always compare homeschooling to to a perfectly functioning public school system that only exists in their imagination. Meanwhile in the real world, 54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level.

@johnkonrad Eh, he just repackaged and sold other people's writings. I don't get his appeal at all.

Ryan was once a friend. He’s been out sailing on my boat. I helped him sketch the initial pivot to writing about the Stoics. Sadly, this isn’t his most shocking video. That distinction belongs to the ones featuring his kids at Trump rallies. He’s a smart guy and a deep thinker, but Trump has him tied up in knots. What made him popular is the unique, insightful advice he gives. That earned him a roster of “celebrity” friends, mostly authors, who reciprocated with network connections and advice of their own. His closest friend is @RobertGreene, who is genuinely a great person. Ryan worked as his assistant, and Robert introduced us. Both are voracious readers. Problem one: Robert is a dork (the best kind), while Ryan is the kind of guy everyone in high school liked. Put another way: Ryan is socially motivated. Robert is introspective and observant. Problem two: Robert had brutal experiences in the workforce and wrote The 48 Laws of Power, in essence, to understand why he kept getting screwed by alpha males. He wants to help people understand the world around them. He isn’t tilting at windmills. He’s offering insight grounded in historical context. Ryan wants to actually improve the world itself. I genuinely believe his motives are good, but unlike the actual Stoics, he lived a normal life that turned into a very charmed one. Ryan’s social radar is phenomenal. He reads trends and knows how to ride them in a modern context. But I don’t think this is an act. He genuinely seems to believe Trump is a monster. How did he arrive at that false conclusion? I don’t know for sure, but we share many mutual friends, and I can trace where our thinking began to diverge. What made me reject the popular “Trump is bad” narrative in our old friend group is the Bronx. My childhood there always lingers in the background. I was (briefly) an EMT in the Bronx. My mother was a visiting nurse in the projects. My father was a firefighter when the Bronx was burning. I’ve thought hard about the liberal policies, and a few conservative ones, that produced the war zone surrounding me. I’ve spent decades working alongside people with hard jobs: soldiers, first responders, offshore oil drillers, merchant mariners. I understand why Trump’s base loves him. I understand why they agree with his policies. Even that wasn’t enough. After January 6th, I had to reevaluate my feelings toward Trump. I hated the Democrats’ slide toward Marxism. But could I keep supporting Trump after so many first-term failures? So I read roughly a dozen biographies, not just about Trump, but by his friends and associates. People who loved him. People who hated him. A truer sense of the man began to emerge. Not all “good,” but realistic, intelligent, and possessed of a deep love for Americans of every type. What makes Ryan so smart is the sheer historical context he carries from a lifetime of reading. He can plug real, useful historical lessons into almost any problem. But you absolutely must understand the full context of a problem in order to fix it. And like the actual Stoics, you have to index the good you want to do against the first-hand disasters you have actually seen. Ryan genuinely wants to fix America, but he is unbalanced. His historical context runs deep. His modern context is superficial. Here he’s trying to solve a problem he has incorrectly indexed as “Trump is bad,” without firsthand exposure to the sufferings of real Americans who have lived through real danger and tragedy. He’s plugging that deep historical context into a superficial understanding of the problems Trump is actually trying to solve. The result? Frustration, anger and rhetorical bombardment that’s almost the polar opposite of stoicism.

@RobertKennedyJr @thomasbsauer He lived a wild life.

@memeticsisyphus Jon Stewart definitely had that fraudulent smile.

George Carlin infected Gen-X with this horrible apathy towards everything. The statue doesn’t just mock nationalism but belief itself. Any ideology, any group, any loyalty. It’s like they think they’re the first person to discover ideologies or positions all have tradeoffs, and because they’re not perfect it’s better to stand against them all. It’s as childish as it is false. A few minute conversation with anyone who puts on this front will quickly reveal which ideologies they feel are above such critiques. When exposed that John Stewart wry smile turns into the most vitriolic anger you’ve ever seen.

@thomasbsauer @bradleydevlin I'm just glad this the Female Crisis is going mainstream.

OUR GUY getting posted by Elon! Ladies and gentlemen… The Mighty @bradleydevlin!! 🇺🇸

Called it!!

It is finally here

@binyaameengori @MartinShkreli @Cernovich Cliche is a cliché, son.

In the 15th century once the print presses started firing up the Catholic Church was trying everything to subvert this as this was heresy and would be of detriment to their power. The flow of information allowed certain societies to thrive and conquer over others. The Written Word is powerful my friends.

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

@wil_da_beast630 It isn't racism as we know it. Just basic tribalism as most the world knows it.

The US Founding Fathers were mostly racists, but this is a meaningless "own." Everyone was a bigot at that point in history - simply read anything written by the Moorish princes of the time, or the Chinese. Noting this is like noting that ~all leaders today eat factory farmed meat. Importantly, this does not mean that USA is "an unalterably RACIST country," or any such. The Constitution includes a sophisticated mechanism for Amendment, and we at least formally banned slavery and most racial discrimination via the 13th-15th Amendments...in 1865-66. So, I mean, there's that.

@RyanHoliday Lol. "Most" corrupt (no evidence needed). And right after a record breaking 3 assassination attempts. His Publisher definitely put him up to this.

Lol. Rolling your eyes at the performative philosophy of a member of the most corrupt family in American history is apparently 'fuming'? Although if there was anything to be mad about these days, I think objecting to people lighting the world on fire so they can make a killing in prediction markets and kickbacks is probably it. yahoo.com/entertainment/…

The Female crisis is here: