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Gilles, je vais démonter ta prémisse de départ, parce que tout le reste de ton argument s'effondre avec elle. Tu pars du principe qu'il faut une « sensibilité de gauche » pour ne pas laisser créver les gens de faim. C'est l'inverse total de ce que dit l'histoire économique des 50 dernières années. Les chiffres bruts. 1990 : 2,3 milliards de personnes en pauvreté extrême. 38% de l'humanité. 2025 : 831 millions. Environ 10%. 1,5 milliard d'êtres humains sortis de la misère absolue en 35 ans. La plus grande réduction de souffrance humaine de toute l'histoire de l'espèce. Qui a fait ça ? Pas l'aide internationale. Pas les ONG. Pas les programmes de redistribution. Pas la « sensibilité de gauche ». Le marché. L'ouverture commerciale. La Chine de Deng en 1978 qui abandonne le maoisme. L'Inde en 1991 qui libéralise. Le Vietnam, l'Indonésie, le Bangladesh qui s'ouvrent au capitalisme. Les seuls endroits où l'extrême pauvreté a EXPLOSÉ sur la même période ? Le Vénézuela socialiste : de 27% de pauvres en 2008 à plus de 80% en 2018, avec une inflation de 130 000% et un Vénézuélien moyen qui a perdu 11 kilos par dénutrition. La Corée du Nord. Cuba. Le Zimbabwe de Mugabe. La gauche ne nourrit pas les pauvres. Elle les fabrique. Le capitalisme produit tellement de richesse que même ses « perdants » américains vivent mieux que la classe moyenne soviétique. Un pauvre US a un frigo, une voiture, un téléphone, l'air conditionné, internet. Un pauvre cubain attend du riz. Ton argument selon lequel « le social aux USA est un désastre » repète une légende française. La réalité : le PIB par habitant américain est de 80 000$. Français : 45 000$. Un Mississippien — l'État US le plus pauvre — a un revenu médian supérieur au Français moyen. La vérité que la gauche française refuse de regarder : dans un système libéral, il y a plus de richesse créée, plus largement distribuée, et beaucoup moins de pauvres. Partout. Sans exception. Sur toutes les périodes mesurées. ÊTRE de gauche en 2026 face à ces données, ce n'est pas avoir de la « sensibilité ». C'est ignorer 35 ans de preuves accablantes. C'est préférer la posture morale au résultat. La compassion sans résultats, ça s'appelle de la vanité.

@marcelluswiley The juice pedal. Courtesy of Wham Bam Tesla Cam on youtube.

What do you call the gas pedal in an electric car? 😳 In our Tesla and the kids just asked me… Yo, I’m stuck?!? 🤯🤣

@alpharivelino Its pastors and probably whatever they are taught in seminary. Happy wife, happy life. Women are farer sex/your better half. Feminism has worked its way into everything and tells young men this is the way even though it makes miserable marriages.

The men who I’ve noticed to be the most innocently naive about the dark & destructive side of female psychology, they’re almost alway Christian men How and when did this happen? What are they teaching in the Church these days to produce such vulnerable & defenseless creatures?

@kharis_micheal Im glad my oldest son already does this. I tend to want to encourage him to stick with it a little bit to be sure, but he cuts them off quick. I think it will save him heartache in the end

normalize cutting women off the very first time they show you they’re not interested in you.

I still remember the first time I saw this chart. Something inside me died that day.

90% of religious discourse online is just feminism. Private male masturbation habits are the primary vector of sin, while females (who, when accounting for rape smut, probably consume “pоrn” at similar rates) are the victims of these evil, perverted males even when they’re the ones sending images of themselves (even unsolicited). If a man hasn’t been “X years clean from pоrn” (the requirements always shift upward – if a man is “only” “1 year clean,” he’s “just getting started,” for example) then it’s his fault he can’t find a wife, and he simply needs to humble himself before looking. In the meanwhile, literal nymphomaniac females are treated as entirely new people because they made it a few months without finding some random person to fuck. The very real female pоrn addiction plaguing society is played off as a “hah, look at this weird werewolf romance book section!” joke. If a young man hasn’t trouble finding a wife, it’s just assumed that he’s a “pоrn addict” who doesn’t “deserve” one. If he’s not, and he maintains his standards and wants to find a partner with a past of similar levels of sexual self-control, then he’s just being selfish and un-Christlike. Young men are turning away from religion in droves because every “hospital for the soul, not a court to judge it!” that they try to seek shelter in immediately condemns them for basically anything, and tells them that nothing they do to improve themselves or “clean up” their behaviour will ever be good enough, so they should just settle for whatever they can get – or just settle for nothing at all, in many cases. Genuinely one of the most heinous, evil attitudes in all of history. Women are never told this, and are repeatedly reassured that nothing from their past makes them in any way undeserving. If a man can’t look past her former life, then he’s just a bad person and a failure of a man; but if the man has any past at all, it’s in her absolute discretion to feel “not respected.” Girldadism is one of the most heinous plagues to have ever scoured the face of the earth, and none of the people who talk online about “charity” or “justice” have anything except massive amounts of contempt for young men. They genuinely believe that young men struggling in any way at all, even just by misfortune, is an indication of a lack of character, while even the most egregious failings of a woman is, in fact, just misfortune that must be overlooked. No charity for men, and no justice for women, is their worldview and ultimate, defining hope. These people tell young men, every day, with a straight face, that they need to show charity for every body a female has racked up, but that they aren’t fit to even lament the dating market’s poor prospects because they watched pоrn 2 years ago and it’s infected their brain like some voodoo curse. Some of them lie and say that being “pоrn-brained” is the reason that men think the dating market is bad, but often times they don’t even do that anymore. You just deserve a bad dating market now. It would be funny if it weren’t so heinous. Ancient playwrights would read an accurate account of the backwards, upside-down worldview of these people and think it too absurd to even serve as a satire. It’s one of the most vile, spiteful, and repulsive/disgusting movements in all of human history. Future generations will look back at our current girldadism as a repulsive worship of the most disgusting things imaginable, much like people today react when they’re told of the Ant Hill Kids. It is, if I’m to use the word at all, truly Satanic.

@tetsuya_00x You are giving them way too much credit for even thinking about that at all.

私は日本人だから、米国人、特にNewYorkers の心理がよく分かりません。 そこで米国人にお尋ねしたい。 このポストに書かれているように、イスラム過激派による9.11の悲劇を経験したNYがなぜムスリムの市長を選んだのですか？ その判断基準は何だったのですか？ その市長が米国人よりも移民に優しい政策を採ることは事前に十分に想定きたはずですが...

@Pat_Stedman If she really is changed and repentant then God has forgiven her, so if she checks all the other boxes for a great wife then I would be ok with it. None of us are perfect and I think its shitty to throw someone away when they have truly changed.

The reason this guy didn't pick up on the fact that his friend's wife was a whore was because she genuinely may have repented and changed. She may have actually become a good, Christian girl. That's why the husband himself had a happy marriage and didn't suspect anything either until he was shown the proof. Which leads us to probably the most pernicious problem facing Christian men today: does a woman's past really matter if she has chosen a different future? And can you truly extend grace to her as you are called to do? I am not posing this question to encourage men to "step up" or settle for a used up woman. The girl in this video's former acts were beyond any man's reasonable limit. But there are interesting general considerations here as to whether Christian men actually want a good wife or whether they want a pure woman, and how much these devout guys can actually practice the forgiveness they preach - especially when doing so triggers their shame and humiliation. The reality is that most women have gone through at least a period of promiscuity because they have been born into a degenerate culture and lack the "competence" barriers to sexual behavior men require. Some of them left that culture because they realized it degraded them, and they have grown from it and healed - but they still have the history and the notches. If in all other ways she's the girl of your dreams, and she only wants to be an amazing wife, can you let it go?

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear. It migrated inward. Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space. That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons. So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public. The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it. The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open. The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility. That is the trade. A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation. This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question. The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults. It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation. The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.

@sourpatchlyds @GiffLasta Some of us just are not funny. Even if I had more confidence i wouldn't be funny

@GiffLasta I see everyone thinks women are liars. That's great. Love to hear it. But the truth is that being stable and confident enough to be funny is a big factor in being attractive, and strength training can help that confidence.

Women say they want men who are "kind" and "funny" more than "muscular." So why do I advise men to start strength training as the best single change to improve a low-sex marriage? Why don't I tell them to be more kind and funny? Because...

@eagleseyeinc This happened to me. I was always more reserved but it was my dad's way or the highway. My boys have been raised different. They dont shrink.

never train a child with so much respect that you quietly beat confidence and self worth out of them. there’s a big difference between raising a child to be polite and raising one who feels small in the presence of others. when a child sees visitors and suddenly becomes timid, hides away or can’t even speak freely is not good manners, that’s learned inferiority. a lotta kids have been conditioned to believe other people matter more than they do, that their voice should shrink to make room for someone else’s importance. think about the little things we normalize. the house suddenly becomes special when we have visitors or guests arrive, we cook the best meals, the tone changes, the energy shifts, everywhere gets tidied... children notice that. then they start to associate worth with outsiders and not with themselves or their everyday environment. over time, that mindset quietly grows into adulthood, always deferring, always shrinking and always placing others on a pedestal. real home training should build both respect and self assurance. a child should be able to greet visitors confidently, speak clearly and still feel equal not inferior. respect shouldn’t come from fear or intimidation, it should come from understanding value both in others and in themselves. if we don’t correct that pattern, we are not raising respectful children, we are raising adults who struggle to stand tall in rooms they belong in. learnt something? bookmark and share with others buena suerte 👍

@NevrEnoughX @LamarMK I guess I just dont have money like you.

@MasterofSnor @LamarMK They were on sale for $60k for 10 Days at the end of February

I saw a RAM Truck on a car lot today for over $87,000 while FSD was driving me around in my Cybertruck. Now imagine paying that much and still spending around $150 every time you fill it up with gas. If that tank lasts a week, you're looking at about $600 a month just in fuel. You can buy a brand new Cybertruck today for around $69K, get more tech, more capability, a futuristic driving experience, and FSD that drives you around. Charge at home and you could spend around $150 for the entire month added to your electric bill. Even a 0 to 100% Supercharger session can be around $40. Which truck would you rather own?

@jonbrooks Try that with a Tesla isolation alert.

Everyone keeps saying “go into the trades.” I get it — but here’s my real experience: Called a local company to fix an icemaker on a 2007 fridge that still runs great. Tech shows up. Takes a picture. Can’t fix it. Charges $99 just for showing up. Then quotes me $1,300 to replace the icemaker. So I do what everyone can do now: I ChatGPT the model number. In 2 seconds: • Exact replacement part • Direct phone number • Cost: $300 Installation? 2 screws. 10 minutes. I’ll do it myself. Same thing happened with my pool heater: Repair guy quoted $2,000. I bought the part directly and fixed it myself for under $200. The problem isn’t the trades. It’s that information asymmetry is gone — and some businesses haven’t realized it yet.

@Devon_Eriksen_ I wish I could have grasped this 30 years ago. Now it feels like a lost cause for me and I hate it.

We don't need to say anything unless we have some need to control how he sees us. Which we only do if we need something from him. What we say is usually less important than what we hear. By listening, we have learned something about him. We know that he spent a good deal of money on a timepiece that is less accurate than his phone, more than we spent on a car. And that he very much wants us to know this. This tells us a good deal about who he is and what he wants. He wants us to see him in a certain way. He wants us to see him as not only successful, but superior to us. This is a need in him, so it constitutes a handle on him. We can use it to move him around, either by appearing to feel the admiration he needs, or by appearing not to, depending on what we want to make him do. In most interactions, the person who needs the other person less has more power. We can't always control who holds the keys to the things we physically need, but we can try to restrict our emotional needs to those we have existing positive relationships with. This makes us more independent of the opinions of random strangers.

Call it a millennial crisis if you want. But in my 30's, I realized l don't actually want the life I worked so hard for. I don't care about titles. I don't care about climbing anyone else's ladder. I care about time. I care about slow mornings. I care about peace. I care about bare feet at the beach with nowhere to be. I still want to make money.. just not at the cost of my life.

She just explained men in the best way possible

@LostMyHats Pastors always talk about mothers (and women in general) like they can do no wrong while always addressing men like we are lucky our wives put up with us. Men are under attack even at church. It needs to stop.

Praying for all the dads who endured a sermon extolling the universal sainthood of mothers today, knowing next month you’ll have to endure a sermon demanding you try harder and do better because you’re letting your family down. Thanks for suffering through this tradition.

@newstart_2024 This is me but I dont think my wife really knows she did it or that we are both unhappy because I have no frame.

Whitney Cummings said something that really landed on Bill Maher’s Club Random: Women are kinda trained to do this thing… “I love you — now let’s get to work.” Like here’s your cologne, here’s your manicurist, fix this, fix that. Then when he actually changes, she’s like “who even are you anymore?” And the guy’s sitting there thinking… yeah, you changed me. It’s that classic “I love you, but 60% of you needs improvement” energy. A lot of relationships quietly turn into renovation projects instead of partnerships — and nobody ends up happy. What do you think — have you seen this pattern in your own life or with people around you?