Brian McGraw
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@JonKatz79 Drove through it today. I’m heading to Bristol my apologies.
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@RodDMartin @SebGorka Discombobulator ray or he got his septum pierced is my guess.
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Tucker agrees with guest that Capitalism is anti-Christian, and that “Christianity IS Socialism”. Tucker then says Socialism is "non-authoritarian".
No, boys and girls: he's not a conservative. Don't know for sure why he switched teams. But he did.
No wonder he didn’t push back when Fuentes said “Hitler and Stalin are cool”.
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@themagaking Same. He took shots but that’s what you do when your trying to win. Don did the same thing. Hope the others can forgive him.
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@JessicaTarlov Evidently you haven’t watched yourself on tv
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@bigdoginc6 @stephenasmith Gotta get people emotional so they make mistakes good job Don!
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@stephenasmith Let him cook. Bitching does nothing but rile up the leftists lunatics. War is never elegant. And shit talking goes with the territory.
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@_JohnnyThomas I think it’s more a cultural thing. Some people legit don’t like line skipping and maybe not nuanced enough to understand why it’s warranted now and again. Life isn’t always linear. Sometimes you do get cut in line.
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@nascar_opinion Yea, it’s not a good situation. Great on pit road, not in the booth.
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I'm telling you... Jamie Little just doesn't have "it."
Idk if its her tone. The pitch of her voice. Maybe both.
But it just doesn't sound natural.
FOX: NASCAR@NASCARONFOX
Corey Heim holds off Kaden Honeycutt at the finish to WIN at Rockingham!
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@ConceptualJames James isn’t this the best strategy to squeeze maga out?
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What you see almost endlessly from Tucker Carlson, "Comic" Dave Smith, Theo Von, etc., and the rest of the blackpillers amounts to a Critical America Theory. I'm not making this up. I'm explaining.
Critical Theory was developed by neo-Marxist Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School in 1937. In an interview in 1969, Horkheimer explained what the Critical Theory is. He said (closely paraphrasing):
"I developed the Critical Theory because we [Western neo-Marxists] realized we cannot articulate the good or ideal society on the terms of the existing society. What we can do is criticize those aspects of the existing society that we wish to change."
In other words, a Critical Theory believes everything is so captured and corrupted by power and those who benefit from systems of power that it isn't even possible to talk about a better situation in clear terms. All that's available is criticism of why the system/society isn't better than it is. This activity has come to be known as identifying or "making visible" the various "problematics" in the existing system.
A Critical Theory OF SOMETHING would focus this general mode of engagement into a particular domain.
For example, a Critical Theory of Race in America would believe that racism is so endemic to a society and embedded within its systems to the benefit of whites that we cannot articulate a true "antiracist" vision on the terms available to us. All we could do is identify where "racism" manifests and criticize it for being there.
We call that program "Critical Race Theory" because it is a Critical Theory of Race. What it does in practice is
(1) identifies "hidden racism" in everything (criticizing those elements of the existing (racial) system they wish to change), called "identifying problematics";
(2) induces more people to think this way;
nothing else.
What a Critical America Theory would look like is not being able to articulate what a good or ideal America would look like on the terms of the existing America but criticizing those elements of America as it exists that we wish to change.
That is, it would look for everything America isn't doing perfectly according to some ideal standard that doesn't exist, probably cannot exist, and cannot even be articulated and "make those problematics visible" in the hopes of changing the system.
Leftists, including the whole of Critical Race Theory, do this endlessly. From Derrick Bell's (founder of CRT) 1970 book, Race, Racism, and American Law, forward, it is a relentless racial Critical America Theory. That's why it exported poorly and often hilariously to other countries that don't have the same law or racial history.
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States (1980) is another example, a very naked example, of a work of Critical America Theory. Specifically, this book goes through every chapter of American history, from pre-founding (Christopher Columbus) to the present (1980 at the time) and catalogues how America cheated "the people," mainly workers, indigenous, racial minorities, and women (the intersectional coalition).
What I'm telling you is that the blackpillers of Podcastistan and X, etc., very notably including Tucker Carlson, are doing a socially conservative variation on Critical America Theory. Whether Carlson or "Auron MacIntyre" (nhrn) from The Blaze, the undertone of every message is plainly "you don't hate your (real) country enough" as compared against an imaginary ideal that doesn't, can't, and won't ever exist.
The Blackpill Comics all do the same thing, relentlessly identifying "problematics" and alleged hidden systems of control that delegitimize the country as it actually is against a standard that isn't even real.
The thing is, Critical America Theory is a Critical Theory of America. That is, it is a Critical Theory. That is, when you participate in this slop, you are taking on a critical consciousness about America. Having a critical consciousness is being WOKE, by definition (of Woke). This slop is Woke.
When this Critical America Theory slop takes on a socially Leftist slant, we call it Woke Left (or just Woke).
When this Critical America Theory slop takes on a socially conservative or Rightist slant, we call it Woke Right (which is just Woke too).
They are both Woke. They are both toxic. They are both false enlightenment into a kind of terrible darkness, entitlement, malice, despair, hatred, and failure.
Reject Critical America Theory. Love your country. It's great, and it's worth it.
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@SpireMotorsport Damn boys what the hay? Now we need to go and win Bristol just to forget about this.
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@SiriusXMNASCAR It seems the wheel is turning on stage cautions. I don't mind if you want to hand out mini trophies to pat teams on the head but stop with the mandatory yellows.
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#NASCAR's Brad Moran weighs in on the stage caution conversation ⬇️
⏱️ "We certainly didn't like how long it took us at Martinsville. We're aware of it for sure, and we'll work with the broadcast partners to try and minimize it the best we can."
More → sxm.app.link/NASCARIntervie…
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I am the Director of Professional Signal Intelligence at LinkedIn.
Every time you log in, we search your computer.
Not metaphorically.
We run code that scans your installed software.
Every browser extension.
Every application.
We catalog it.
We transmit it to our servers.
We share it with a third-party cybersecurity firm you've never heard of.
The tracking pixel is zero pixels wide.
We hid it off-screen.
You never consented.
We never asked.
Our privacy policy doesn't mention it.
That's networking.
We call the program Project Handshake internally.
The Slack channel is handshake-telem.
In 2024 we scanned for 461 products.
By February this year we scan for over 6,000.
I don't know what all of them are.
Nobody does.
Someone on my team added categories for browser extensions that identify practicing Muslims.
Someone added extensions for neurodivergent users.
Someone added 509 job search tools.
That last one is my favorite.
We can tell which of our one billion users are secretly looking for new jobs.
On the platform where their current boss checks their profile.
That's networking.
We scan for 200 products that compete with LinkedIn's sales tools.
Apollo. Lusha. ZoomInfo.
We know each user's real name, employer, and job title.
We mapped exactly which companies use which competitor products.
We extracted their customer lists from their users' browsers.
Without anyone knowing.
Then we sent legal threats to the users we caught.
The EU told us to open our platform to third-party tools.
We published two restricted APIs.
They handle 0.07 calls per second.
Our internal API, Voyager, handles 163,000 calls per second.
In Microsoft's 249-page compliance report, the word "Voyager" appears zero times.
That's networking.
I presented our Software Disclosure Rate metrics at a leadership summit last quarter.
The conference room is called The Fishbowl.
Glass walls.
Appropriate.
There's a plaque on the wall.
Q3 Competitive Landscape Award.
I won it for the extension scanning initiative.
Someone asked if users had a way to opt out.
I said they can close their browser.
The room laughed.
I wasn't sure why.
I browse LinkedIn on a Chromebook with no extensions.
Most of the team does.
The platform that helps you get hired searches your computer every time you visit.
We know your name.
We know your employer.
We know your religion.
Your disabilities.
Your politics.
Whether you're looking to leave.
That's networking.
The system works exactly as designed.
I designed it.
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Victor Glover (pilot of Artemis II) was already a spacecraft pilot for SpaceX Crew-1. He is a naval captain who has had his naval aviator wings for 25 years. He has three (3) masters degrees, including in flight test engineering and systems engineering. He's been a test pilot since 2007. He has thousands of flight hours.

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