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Independent thinker. Lapsed Catholic. Long suffering NY Jets fan.

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Removing the language barrier between everyday American and Japanese citizens has been a blessing to both countries. Thank you @elonmusk, @grok and everyone @X.
captain S.O@sow413

🇺🇸 やっとわかったよ、アメリカの友人たち。 何でそんなに日本を大事にしてくれるのかを。🤝 NATOの本当の危機は、防衛予算の数字だけじゃない。 それは欧州の「文化的優越感」だ。😤 80年間、**アメリカの納税者**が欧州の安全保障の大部分を負担してきた。💰 戦後のマーシャル・プランでは、アメリカ政府が約133億ドル(今日の価値で約1500億ドル相当)をほぼ全額、米国の税金で欧州に投入した。 冷戦期も、アメリカの政府と財団のお金で大学・美術館・オーケストラ・芸術活動を支え、「西側は洗練された自己実現の社会」と世界にアピールした。🎨 それでベルリンの壁は崩れた。🧱 しかし、皮肉な結果が生まれた。 他人のお金(主にアメリカの税金)**で長年「優雅さと高尚な文化」を享受すると、それを「自分たちの文明の成果」だと勘違いしてしまう。❌ 一方、アメリカは空母、工場、半導体、エネルギー開発といった現実的で地味な仕事を、汗水たらして担ってきた。💪 欧州の目には、それが「粗野なアメリカ」に映るらしい。 アメリカが「負担を公平に分け合おう」「エネルギー自立が大事だ」と言うと、「野蛮だ」「俗悪だ」と切り捨てる。🙄 現実を見よう。 欧州には世界をリードするグローバル企業も、完全なエネルギー自立も、米国抜きで本格的な軍事力を発揮する能力もない。 あるのは、アメリカが長年支えてきた文化と優越感だけだ。😌 文明とは、講義やシンフォニーではなく、自分で自分を守り、維持できる力のことだ。⚔️ 欧州よ、もう優位ぶるのはやめよう。 自分の海軍を強化し、エネルギーを自前で確保し、現実的な負担を果たせ。🚢 アメリカの強さを「当然の安全網」にしながら、見下すのはもう十分だ。⛔️ 私たちは十分に寛大だった。 本物の同盟とは、相互の責任を伴うものだ。講義ではなく、行動で示してくれ。✅ 一方、日本はどうだったか。 日本は日米同盟を基盤にしつつ、**自国の税金**で防衛力を着実に強化してきた。2025年にはGDP比約1.8%(約700億ドル規模)に達し、2026年以降さらに増額。 技術(半導体・AI・ロボット)やエネルギー自立にも実務的に投資し 「文化的優位で実務を軽視」する欧州型の心理とは明確に違う。🇯🇵 日本のように「同盟を大切にしつつ、自らしっかり負担する」姿勢こそが、健全な同盟の理想形だ。👍 アメリカの友人たち、そして日本の同志たちへ。❤️ 私たちアメリカ人は、80年間、自由を守るために血と汗と税金を注いできた。 日本は、その信頼に応え、静かに、しかし確実に自らの責任を果たしてきた。🙏 この絆を、感謝と敬意と現実的な行動で、さらに強くしていこう。 欧州の幻想に振り回されず、日米が手を取り合って、真の自立と相互尊重の同盟を築く時だ。🤝 私たちは、一緒にやれる。 そして、一緒に強くならなければならない。💪🔥 #NATO #BurdenSharing #JapanUSAlliance #AmericaFirst #StrongAlliances

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John Ʌ Konrad V
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·
More than anything else, we the people want the gaslighting to stop. Every failing organization in America, from commercial airlines to government agencies, runs the same meeting: Everyone in the room knows the truth. No one is allowed to say it. That meeting is the problem. Boyd’s OODA loop for solving problems starts with Observe. Lie at step one and every step after is theater. Read that again. If observation is a lie, the entire loop fails. Honesty isn’t a virtue. It’s infrastructure. Fix that first. Everything else follows. We the people know the system is broken. We know the problems. We know that 15 minute delay will become 8 hours. We know the SAVE Act won’t pass this month. We are wide awake. And some of us want revenge. Some want jail for the swamp creatures in DC. Some want to throw away the key. I want accountability too. Not violence. Not revenge. It isn’t the right that’s violent. I today’s left because when you are fed lies you become disoriented and confused and violence appears to be the only way out. What I care about more than revenge is information. Cold hard facts. Who is screwing us. How they are screwing us. Names. Dates. Locations. Intent. That’s why @nickshirleyy, @DataRepublican, and @MikeBenzCyber get millions of views. Half a dozen times @DataRepublican has reached out and offered to investigate a person or problem she sees on my feed. Her most common reply the next day? “Suspicious, but no hard evidence.” Then she moves on. And I thank her profusely. She doesn’t manipulate, spin, or trade in half truths. She publishes verifiable facts. Facts you can use to find solutions to our collective problems. There is a hunger for truth in this country. Why? Why is truth so powerful? Why does the bare exposure of a fact often satisfy more than results? The American spirit. We are the most innovative, most adaptable, most resourceful people on earth. Give us the truth and we will find a way. Maybe not for the whole nation, but absolutely for ourselves and our families. String us along on half truths and a steady diet of lies, and we are paralyzed. Look at Los Angeles. Look at the wildfires. Is there any doubt that most of those families would already be rebuilding if Karen Bass had not lied about cutting red tape? Even if she had said it would take two years to start rebuilding, people would have been furious. Then they would have found temporary solutions. They would have moved, leased, adapted, fought. When you can’t find the facts, when you can’t tell truth from fiction, you freeze. The American spirit runs on truth. Give us the facts. Even ugly ones. Even painful ones. We will find a way. We may even applaud the bad news. Spoon feed us bullshit, and we will hate you.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Superman resonated with Americans because he was right True, Justice and the American Way But what they didn’t teach you is that order is critical. Truth THEN Justice THEN the American Way STOP BULLSHITTING US We are Americans. We can handle the hard truth.
Robert Sterling@RobertMSterling

I just had the craziest experience at the airport. We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight. Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.” Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess. The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.” He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.” Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate… Start clapping. I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message. All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest. It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time. @Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.

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Rothmus 🏴
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus·
Often overlooked is the Frankfurt School’s central role, alongside French postmodernists, in forging Critical Theory and exporting it to America, where it evolved into one of the most influential (destructive) ideologies of our time. The Institute for Social Research was founded in Frankfurt in 1923 as an avowedly Marxist institution. When the European working class refused to fulfill Marx’s prophecy of revolution, Max Horkheimer and his colleagues changed course. They developed Critical Theory: not a tool for economic reform, but a sophisticated intellectual weapon designed to dismantle Western culture, the family, traditional authority, and the very concepts of objective reason and truth. Driven into exile by the Nazis, the Frankfurt School relocated to Columbia University in the United States. There, its ideas took root in academia and spread outward. This framework provided the direct intellectual foundation for Critical Race Theory. CRT simply replaced class with race while retaining the same core premises: society is a zero-sum power struggle between oppressors and oppressed, objective truth is a myth deployed by the powerful, and Western institutions are inherently racist by design. The consequences surround us: classrooms saturated in racial grievance, corporations imposing divisive DEI mandates, and a culture that has abandoned merit, colorblindness, and individual responsibility in favor of equity, identity politics, and inherited guilt. The Frankfurt School never aimed to improve the West. It trained generations in the art of deconstructing and ultimately destroying it. The antidote is to reclaim truth, merit, reason, and the foundational values of Western civilization. The “long march through the institutions” began here. It is time to march back.
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Brivael Le Pogam@brivael

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme). Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident. Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité. Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison. Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme. Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable. Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion. C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part. Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes. Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre. Alors pardon. Et au travail.

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James Woods
James Woods@RealJamesWoods·
Let’s get it clear once and for all. It’s not about race, folks. That’s a Democrat trick. It’s about CULTURE. Am I a racist? Absolutely not. Am I a culturalist? Unequivocally, yes. If you can’t assimilate to this culture, our values, our laws, and our traditions, get out.
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The🐰FOO
The🐰FOO@PolitiBunny·
All of this. 👇🏻
AG@AGHamilton29

Some of us on the right were and continue to be critical of Trump because of where he falls short of our principled views and/or policy preferences. It bothers us that Trump isn't concerned about the national debt, that he supports harmful tariff policies, that he abuses pardon powers etc. None of that prevents us from supporting his administration when they do good things that are consistent with our principles. It certainly doesn't prevent us from cheering on border enforcement, encouraging a strong national defense/counter-terrorism strategy, or supporting better tax policies. Other people formerly on the right have made opposing Trump the central principle of their political ideology. They determine all of their policy views based on Trump's current policy preferences. Then there is another group that determines all of its views based exclusively on Israel now. Again, their guiding principle is driven exclusively by opposition/hate. Both of these groups are now increasingly allying themselves with left-wing extremists because their guiding political principle is centered on things that have nothing to do with policy outcomes or what's good for America. Even if they sometimes call themselves "America First". You will notice that we aren't the ones who changed any of our views. We aren't the ones suddenly pretending the threat from Islamic terrorism is overblown, that communism isn't that bad, or that Democrat extremism isn't a problem. We aren't the ones coordinating messaging with the left. We aren't the ones allying ourselves with Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur, Anna Kasparian etc., or making excuses for open bigotry on the left. The mistake that some people have made is to assume that the group doing those things, which is now driven exclusively by hate (whether of Trump, Israel, Jews etc.) is still part of the right's coalition. They certainly aren't reliable elements of it, and there is no need to pander to them. Let them try to get power within their new coalition, while the right should focus on recruiting people who are driven by wanting competence and policy wins, not motivated exclusively by hate.

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American Citizen
American Citizen@paisnano·
@WallStreetApes Ever since Hillary used super delegates to steal states that Bernie won in 2016 primaries, the Dems have been more and more open about rigging things in their favor according to perceived need.
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Q STORM RIDER@_Qstormrider·
🚨 BREAKING: In a stunning blow to Democrats, 76% PERCENT of BLACK Americans want nationwide voter ID — in other words, the SAVE America Act White voters: 85% want it Latino voters: 82% want it Another leftist narrative just got decimated. Pass voter ID. GET THIS PASSED. 🇺🇸
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Hunter Eagleman™
Hunter Eagleman™@Hunter_Eagleman·
No helmets, No supervision and pure chaos! Nobody did it like Gen-X! 😎
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U.S TROOPS🇺🇲
U.S TROOPS🇺🇲@Ustroopss·
Mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests I say in Iryna’s memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system.. We will never forgot her ever
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James Blair
James Blair@JamesBlairUSA·
Republican Redistricting is about leveling the playing field against the Census that was rigged by the Biden Administration & the Judicial Gerrymandering Democrats’ have done for years. The Democrats are big mad that Republicans are finally fighting back! I explain 👇
Saturday in America@SatAmericaFNC

MEET THE MASTERMIND BEHIND THE REDISTRICTING BATTLE White House Deputy Chief of Staff @JamesBlair47 joins @KayleighMcEnany to discuss how GOP redistricting wins will shape the 2026 midterms. "I think they put us much closer to retain the House."

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X Freeze
X Freeze@XFreeze·
Woke is a death cult that executes common sense and devours anyone who tells the truth It spreads insanity like a plague and turns mental illness into the new standard Worst of all, it has turned pure evil into a religion and demands we worship it
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
Well said
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael

Tu confonds deux choses, et c'est exactement le piège que la French Theory a tendu. Liberté, égalité, fraternité — égalité *de droits*, égalité *devant la loi*, égalité *de dignité*. C'est la promesse républicaine, et personne ici ne l'attaque. Le wokisme, ce n'est pas ça. C'est l'égalitarisme des résultats. Et l'égalitarisme des résultats, contrairement à l'égalité des droits, n'est pas un élargissement de la liberté — c'est sa négation. Quelques exemples concrets : — San Francisco supprime les classes de maths avancées au collège pour "réduire les inégalités". Résultat : les écarts entre élèves explosent, les familles aisées prennent des cours privés, les pauvres se font enterrer. L'égalitarisme a creusé l'inégalité. — Les politiques de discrimination positive à Harvard : étudiants admis avec des scores très en dessous de leurs camarades, taux d'échec dispropportionné, sentiment d'imposture, ressentiment généralisé. On a saboté ceux qu'on voulait aider. — L'aide humanitaire qui distribue du riz gratuit pendant 30 ans en Afrique : effondrement des filières agricoles locales, dépendance institutionnalisée. Donner un poisson, c'est empêcher d'apprendre à pêcher. Le wokisme ne détruit pas l'humanité dans le sens dramatique. Il fait pire : il dessert systématiquement ceux qu'il prétend protéger, et il génère du ressentiment des deux côtés — ceux qu'on infantilise et ceux qu'on culpabilise. La fraternité républicaine dit : tu es mon égal, donc je te traite en adulte capable. Le wokisme dit : tu es ma victime, donc je dois te protéger de toi-même. L'un élève. L'autre infantilise. Ce n'est pas la même chose, et confondre les deux est exactement le tour de passe-passe qu'on dénonce.

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Tom Stiglich
Tom Stiglich@TStig822·
Inebriated babble.
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