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Because the Founders were smarter than the local mayor and realized presidents should require more than just regional density to win, they should need a geographical balance.

Europeans said they were tired of being American vassal states because America was causing all their problems, so America said "okay we'll leave, we want Europe to be strong", and then the European bureaucrats said "no wait come back!"

Noble Savages by Napoleon Chagnon is a good book about the problem in anthropology. He found that tribal murder rates were among the highest in the world, and that tribesmen who had killed more people tended to have greater reproductive success. It’s not only about his time among the yanamomo, it’s also about virulent reaction of his fellow academics to his findings.

You really don’t realize just how badly the democrats ruined America during the Biden administration. Here is a fucking Saudi Goat herder in fucking North Carolina.

@BrianEastwoodx The public school longhouse problem. We were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. A lot of female teachers act like this & have been a multi generational problem, but we’re supposed to pretend they’re perfect.

I had a commie teacher in first grade. I brought $25 in quarters to school to hit up the pencil machine in the main hallways before school one day. The machine was filled with highly sought after official league sports pencils like these below. She confiscated the 100 pencils and called my parents. My dad laid into her so hard. He knew I wanted to spend my allowance on pencils and she gave them away to everyone in the class.

I keep saying: if environmentalists really cared about the environment, they’d be finding ways to sabotage China’s fishing fleet. Instead, they’re complaining about plastic straws.

The funny thing about this is that all it really does is demonstrate that the word "Oriental" was entirely correct and precise and that wiping out that word and using "Asian" as a drop in substitute was simply a stupid progressive power play and way to let progressives feel - for a brief moment - a smug superiority for knowing the new term x years later everyone knows the new term, no one gets to feel anything but the linguistic confusion persists and naturally, progressives take progressive offense at the use of the drop in term for vague reasons Language is too important to let it be subject to zero sum power plays like this

The “Epstein Files” created a new brand of schizo who, despite the files being released and being mostly a nothing-burger, still weren’t satisfied. They will continue to chant “Epstein Files!” for the rest of their lives, like the people who still insist COVID never ended.

As someone who's been writing military science-fiction for years, and have many friends in or formerly in the military (some of which are authors themselves,) I have something to say about this: If all Yoshiyuki Tomino has to say with his art is that "war is bad," then he should stop making art, as he's only going to waste our time. Any fool with two brain cells to rub together knows that war is ugly, brutal and costly. That doesn't mean war is pointless and should never be fought no matter the circumstances. In fact, such a statement is worse than pointless, as lethal conflict is a common constant of human civilization - and, for that matter, a constant among the vast majority of life existing on Earth, even between bacteria. If all your story does is shout "this is bad!" it's a childish lament that leaves a tremendous amount of this constant of human existence unexamined. Who fights wars - the elites, like the ancient Greek Hoplites, or the knights of the middle ages, or the common men who volunteer, like in many modern nations? What do they fight for - for the ideals of their beloved nation, for honor and glory, or to save the women and children in the city that stands at their backs? What defines a good soldier? What defines a good leader? These questions are just as essential for us as they were for our forefathers, because the world is a tumultuous place full of evil people and great dangers and the time is coming, sooner than many may think, where wars between great powers will shake the foundations of the world and the lives of millions will hang in the balance. To explore questions like this, of such import to our souls, is one of the core reasons people tell stories to begin with. And our tools and machines have always been essential to the conduct of war and the defense of all we hold dear. Men have told stories of talking swords or "tsukumogami" for as long as swords have existed; long before we could even conceptualize a thinking machine might be made with science; we dreamt of them existing through magic or spirit. Tools are what first brought us out of the trees to stride the earth as its masters; in the tools we shape and wield with our own hands we make manifest our intent, our will, our spirit. In the modern age, the vastness of our creations sometimes makes it easy to forget, but the human element is still the entire point. I quote from page 71 of "Shattered Sword" by Johnathan Parshall and Anthony Tully: "The study of naval warfare (more than any other form of combat) holds the potential to completely subordinate the human element to the weapons themselves. Naval combat is conducted almost exclusively by means of machines – machines that are in many cases so huge and grand that they often seem to take on a life and personality of their own that transcend the tiny figures that inhabit them. Yet, in the final analysis, it is men who live in the ship, command and fight the ship, and often die in the ship. Their story, no matter how seemingly eclipsed by the great vessels they serve in, is still the fundamental story to be related.” Its only natural we should be entranced with the great machines of war that we build, as they're the final product of the genius and labors of an entire society; fashioned into an incredible tool that is nothing if not wielded by the hand of a skilled warrior devoted to his craft and his mission. I know of not a single mecha story that runs afoul of Parshall and Tully's warning as quoted above; everyone seems to understand the assignment. The ones that don't are the likes of Tomino, or his fellow anti-war traveler Miyazaki. I can't understand a man who thinks fighter planes are beautiful but has little more to say about war than "it's bad;" he refuses to see that the beautiful form of a fighter plane follows its function, and that there's a savage, primal beauty in that function, like the fury that animates a thunderstorm. Or the fury and purpose that animate its pilot, for that matter. Tomino seems to think that "nothing of substance is getting across." I disagree. I think the substance came across very well, and many in younger generations just think that substance is woefully lacking. There's a cutscene in the Knights of the Old Republic, between Carth Onasi and Canderous, where Carth expounds on the difference between "soldiers" and "warriors," defining warriors as those who fight for plunder and the glory of conquest, and soldiers as those who fight to protect their nation and peoples - usually from warriors. He made a great point, but Canderous wasn't entirely wrong. As any fighter pilot can tell you, you need more than noble motivations to sacrifice and serve to be truly excellent - to overcome your enemy in an aerial duel, you need that urge to "lean in" to the fight; that competitive drive - a part of you needs to love the fight. Many soldiers over the ages have spoken of this; as Robert E. Lee said "it's well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." It's that primal urge drawn straight from our deepest instincts; that thirst to compete and win, that gives soldiers the fire and fury to do their utmost in combat, to win the challenge, to defeat those who would plunder their temples, raze their cities and enslave their women and children. That is the truth of war, every bit as much as the death and boredom and bloodshed and terror. And if you can only tell one half of that truth, because the other half doesn't align with your political or personal views, then I don't give a god damn what you have to say about it, or about the works of storytellers who do.

You graduated with a degree in “government” from Bowdoin in 2017. Tuition and fees are $91,300 a year. You never held a job outside government. You got elected to the TN State House in a 67% Black district with 20% voter turnout. You’re now seething because you were counting on running in a ridiculously racially gerrymandered VRA district to take your ridiculous Black Panther act, complete with gigantic Afro, to the federal level, and SCOTUS killed your dream of being a career taxpayer leech.

Every problem in western society is instantly solved by 1) executing violent criminals 2) repatriating foreigners If “democracy” stands in the way, then I don’t want democracy. If “diversity“ is offended, then I don’t want diversity. Somebody press the easy switch already.

quite literally the most insane thing to happen in modern american history and nobody talks about it inventing a key witness out of thin air and just.... nothing happened regarding that

@Houseofyogi @dyingscribe It was absolutely a win. For her & the dems. Ruining people’s lives while exercising power over them, showing that they can’t do anything without their permission like some Soviet commissar is a win. It’s why you can’t let the dems have power cause this is normal to them.

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000+ will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

@ShitpostRock2 *walks in* Gal Gohan is better. *leaves*

Hasan finally stopped larping and started reading peak

A decade later, they had another problem: their popular superintendent wanted to create an academic high school to help high-performing students. Within a few years, they solved that problem as well, inspiring him to resign and then pushing for lower standards. Success again!

Inbred retards like this are the reason why the UK government keeps getting away with shit like this. I genuinely hope to God you get arrested just for being a VTuber (oh sorry, I meant VTWEETER) in the first place. Fuckin dumb Brits proving they deserve everything they receive.

Black community equivalent of white moms making their kid a troon.

Mimi is a trial run for the what governments around the world want the Internet to look like. And I don't necessarily mean sterilized child friendly. They want everyone's name on full display. No anonymity, everyone from the most disgusting hater to the spinless politicians will know exactly who you are. To say the least I have nothing but contempt for everyone involved, not just Starmer, but the Officers, Prosecutor, and Judge that was involved with forcing her to dox herself. They are disgusting and deplorable. And I hesitate to call the "people". But some "people" will gladly cheer this on because it was the fictional content they didn't like. Mimi harmed no one, she minded her own business in her own corner. And if you don't understand how this is a bad thing for everyone then you are too fucking stupid to waste my time on.

He's got a cameraman following him around. This is a TikTok/streamer stunt. Unrelated: I believe the government should pass a law allowing IRL streamers to be [REDACTED] on sight.