The Respecter

@kozach514 @daviddupreejr just the northernmost truly southern city, is all. simple explanation

@TheeRespecter @daviddupreejr As someone from Baltimore its always funny to see my cities history Post 1940s: Hub of Black Culture Pre 1940s: The Union had to open fire on pro-confederacy rioters, Nazi party rallies openly held,

Only 3 cities north of the mason dixon line could reasonably make an argument for this and Philly ain’t one of em lol

This is a great example that illustrates how the left’s love for Islam actually makes perfect sense. Many don’t realize this, but Islam is incredibly longhoused. Some of its most brutal enforcers are middle aged mothers and aunties; hijab is both the ultimate act of female intrasexual competition - flattening the beauty hierarchy - as well as a tool for the neutralization of male sexuality. You can see how this perfectly serves the goals of women on the left, who want to exert unilateral control over relations between the sexes at best or even end heterosexuality at worst. The uglification of women in popular media is a form of hijab, hiding male-enticing beauty away “for women’s protection” and punishing male sexual attraction. These illiberal photo guidelines that feel like they’re from a conservative country are another example of the left’s adoption of virtual hijab as a tool for female sociopolitical dominance. You might think, “Doesn’t this contradict the sexual vulgarity & immodesty promoted by the left in the West?” Superficially, it might seem that way, but the popular left’s love of prostitution is/was a stepping stone in the transition from liberal hedonistic democracy to asexual authoritarian regime. They were seeking to “desexualize” the female body through exposure (while also exerting control over the male psyche: just because a woman is scantily clad in public doesn’t mean you have permission to think demonic sexual thoughts about her!). The argument of topless feminists in France is that boobs should evoke zero sexual feelings; they’re just a body part. The argument of OnlyFans feminists is that their body is a tool for extracting resources from men. None of this actually has to do with the promotion of sexual freedom. It’s all a game of flattening the SMV of women while exerting power over men through sexuality, and the tides are naturally shifting towards female-enforced asexuality (rather than female-enforced promiscuity). This is clear in the rhetoric of online Western feminists, who post more and more frequently about how scared they are of sex, how they avoid it (occasionally by going as far as to transition into men themselves). In this view, a feminist hijabi is completely rational, and perhaps even the perfected manifestation of an anti-male ideology. Do not think that the rise of Islam in the West will mean the return of the patriarchy. No, it will mutate with our broken gender relations to form a novel, putrid mixture of sexual communism and repression. The future is asexual hijabis, finger wagging you to death

@AbsentInsight @christopherrufo it's a lovely little essay cdn.mises.org/I%20Pencil.pdf

@christopherrufo I have no idea who I, Pencil is. But fuck communism. Capitalism rules.

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soccer is the older and more correct, more specific term. Soccer (short for asSOCiation football, as opposed to rugby football, gaelic football, gridiron football, australian rules football) was in use as a term in 1860, 30 years before the first Spanish futbol club formed. and the "football" part of the name had to do with separating sports played on foot vs sports played on horseback, not kicking a ball

@hpmcd1 Because it is called Football, not soccer.

Why are both World Cup semifinals in the middle of the day on weekdays?

@christopherrufo I PENCIL MENTIONED

This kind of rhetoric was good in the 1980s when America was going through a consumer product boom, but it’s not going to meet the current moment. The Left’s easy counter is, “Sure, you can buy a cheap fridge, but you can’t afford housing, education, and healthcare.” We’re not going to get the DSA generation to change their minds with an appeal to consumerism and recycled arguments from “I, Pencil.” Sadly, we’re way beyond that point.

@RogueScholarPr sad this isn't getting more likes

Trump to honor Lindsey Graham by putting him on new three dollar bill

@aimeeterese i think we need a grand bargain on my violent crimes from a few years ago, where I agree that it was unfortunate I did them, and you agree to stop complaining about all the physical and emotional pain I've caused you

Leftists are such worthless swine that even when purportedly conciliatory they take no accountability for their actions whatsoever, and the totality of their peace offering is demanding that the right not mention how much harm the left caused. They have NO leverage & yet they still offer us nothing. No gestures of peace or attempts to make amends, just a passive depersonalised admission that it “sucked”. I fucking hate these people so much.

@reighleyc he set his sister's kids up for life with trust funds

I'm hearing that Lindsey Graham died with about $2 million in assets. That's too small. He had no kids. Between his military pension and his Senate salary he made around 200k per year, not even accounting for graft. What did he spend it on?

@ofreacharound amnesty for hot people is unironically good compromise legislation special type of sexy asylum status i am completely serious

1) the "Kamala is for they/them" ad was devastating to the Democrats and they admitted as much in their little book report on the election 2) the trans issue is a mirror to everything else. I don't particularly care if an individual thinks the earth is flat, my life isn't affected. But if a political party declares the earth is flat, we've always known it, actually, the science is clear, and that you are a bad person if you disagree, and we should teach it in school, then a lot of people will check out from voting for that party even if they prefer their other positions on the issues, because it strikes people as insane to lie like that to appease a tiny minority of delusional people. Even worse when it's obvious lots of people in the party don't actually believe the earth is flat but don't have the courage to say so.

@JamesOKeefeIII this was the most powerful moment of the first Trump presidency

Regardless of what you think of him, this will always be one of the most powerful speeches in the history of the Senate. Back in 2018 when this happened, friends of mine who were not political teared up after watching this.

it's not analysis, I'm not engaging with scholarship. I'm telling you how reality works. Marxism and leftism is contra reality. Making the chair isn't that valuable a skill. Many people can do it. Building a chair company from nothing is an incredibly valuable skill. Only one man could do it in our story. Markets beautifully tell us so. In every communist country, this arrangement eventually rears its head, where talents and skills and work ethics that are rarer are compensated better than those that are not, despite the best regime efforts, because it is a law of reality. No wealth is "extracted" from the chair maker. He is free to work for someone else who will pay him more if he feels his wages are not reflective of the value of his labor, or organize and strike at his job for more compensation. You continue to dissemble with theory and insult and I provide real world examples that are clear and obvious. Financialization is not sales or vertically integrated business. I will leave you to reposting Ian Carroll conspiracy theories.

@TheeRespecter @pingu_pinguping @SwannMarcus89 Yes and the rapid expansion of the petite bourgeoisie into the PMC was already anticipated by Marx and described by the Ehrenreichs. Your analysis is barely approaching dorm-room bong-rip levels here. It’s just desperately underdeveloped and ignorant of rudimentary scholarship.

This YouTube comment section is doing a hell of a job showing why poor people hate progressives

in that situation, I'm there in the office earning more, doing white collar work, because my labor is more valuable to the company which sells chairs to customers. Tons of people can make the chair. Me and a few other guys are the only ones good enough to sell it. I speak Chinese and opened up the Asian market to our chairs. The guy who is my boss, or owns the chair company, took on risks, maybe spent all his money and time on his dream, and allocated his earnings wisely. He took out loans. He put his house up as collateral. In order to build his company he stopped making the chairs 10 years ago. HIS mental and physical labor and appetite for risk made the chair most of all. The guy in the workshop is the least important person in the chain.

@TheeRespecter @pingu_pinguping @SwannMarcus89 Well if you want to be incredibly facile about it — if we work for a company that makes chairs, and I’m down in the workshop building a chair while you’re sitting in an office upstairs, what does “everything about human experience” tell us about who’s labor made that chair?

Partisans are so out to lunch on what normal people think. I just saw a Megyn Kelly video on this same article where Michael Knowles claimed the GOP won in 2024 because it was a backlash against trans ideology Do any super politically active Americans ever talk to normal humans?

ICE dating app that shows pictures of Latina baddies and allows Americans to decide to swipe to deport or keep

this is a bunch of slogans "ownership should belong to labor" as if risk and leadership don't exist and have no value when everything about human experience tells us they do "this is due to finance capital" "a largely imaginary shell game" "Marxism allows us to understand the system" I'm against large-scale financialization of every inch of an economy as the next person, but you're not proving or explaining a single thing about your analysis. This is all tell no show. Jargon and slogans are not impressive or interesting.

@TheeRespecter @pingu_pinguping @SwannMarcus89 900 billion. This is due to finance capital, which is a largely imaginary shell game that only the ownership class gets to play, generating literally trillions of dollars from no labor at all. From literally nothing but an agreement between owners.

@theficouple $140,000 in 30 years will be worth about 55k in today's money, it's possible to live off that but you won't be traveling the world in style that's for sure. better not retire early!

Do whatever it takes to have $250,000 invested in the S&P 500 by age 38. After that, you can coast and only add another $200/mo. Live your life, travel and by age 62 you have ~$2.8 million & $140,000/yr of passive income. ...Compound interest is magic👌🏻

@HammurabiJeffe2 @pingu_pinguping @SwannMarcus89 i keep asking you how he should be compensated and what the structures of his companies should be, if any, and you dodge and dissemble and pilpul about definitions and analysis

@pingu_pinguping @TheeRespecter @SwannMarcus89 It actually, literally does matter how he’s compensated. It definitionally matters in the Marxist sense. You can say it doesn’t matter to YOU, and you have a different definition of “working class,” but this discussion has been about Marx’s definition, not yours.

@HammurabiJeffe2 @pingu_pinguping @SwannMarcus89 you are an excellent dissembler

@TheeRespecter @pingu_pinguping @SwannMarcus89 As for “what was Elon supposed to do” at various stages of his ascent into ownership class… once again you’re projecting a prescriptive value system to this. Which is something Marx never did yet capitalists constantly do, since this analysis is threatening to their status