Zephran

Through inaction and false equivalency that CC has an equal. My point of reference is the NBA and how they promoted bird/magic - MJ - Curry with success. Logic would dictate that someone with the largest gatedraw and never before seen playmaking ability would get this same treatment and promotion. But they are not operating to create profit and the commissioner wore a dress of one of the teams in the finals of the product she in charge of managing.

@Zephran150108 @ShokFromTheYah @ClayTravis How does the W suppress CC . Provide me with an example.

If Caitlin Clark were a gay black woman, the WNBA would promote her all the time. But she’s straight and white & that drives the league crazy. She’s the WNBA’s Jordan, Kobe or LeBron, the league should market her like crazy! Insanity they don’t.

@ShokFromTheYah @ClayTravis So why is CC artificially suppressed by NIKE, Team USA and the WNBA? What is the reason the whistle against her is so obviously biased?

@ClayTravis You have no proof of your Statement the two top Black WNBA players who are promoted is AJA and Angel Reese and they both are straight with Boyfriends in the NBA. In the past it was Maya Moore, Skyler Diggins, Candace Parker who are all Straight as well

@Braveniner84 Thank you for speaking truth…

Gotta address the realization of this player. She’s popular because she tried to bully a white popular girl on social media live. It’s never been about basketball, always about racial insecurities. She’s earned everything negative coming her way. Lfg.

@stoolpresidente @WNBA NIKE is defrauding shareholders by not promoting her front and center and releasing a signature lineup of her gear.

There is no conclusion to make other than the @WNBA hates Caitlin Clark by today’s marketing decision

@IsolationNBA One of the best…

No lo juzgamos a Van Gundy. Imaginate tener a este tipo como rival.

@sapphireauras Thank you for speaking the obvious truth in front of everyone’s eyeballs. NIKE should be sued by its shareholders for shelving the most valuable marketing asset they have.

WHAT SHE SAID 🗣️📣

@dapackersglazer @HighSchoolOT Everything but their own actions and being responsible for rejecting previous warnings….just stolen for no reason right? They don’t deserve the track, uniform, bus, food and fuel the tax base paid for. What an embarrassment to their school, if they can feel that…

@HighSchoolOT they just stole a memory of a lifetime away from a whole team. no shot they dead called this

Mallard Creek boys track and field was disqualified for unsportsmanlike conduct after winning the 4x400 relay in the final event of the day. Had the result stayed, the Mavericks would have won the team state championship. Instead, they remained in second place. You can read the full story on the NCHSAA 8A Track and Field State Championships at highschoolot.com/story/live-upd…

@Anonhottakes @HighSchoolOT The only people with the fortitude to invent, implement and defend modern civilized society. They have no equal and have awakened.

@HighSchoolOT What race were the judges? I’ll hang up and listen.

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.

@SoonersJared35 Matt McCoy fake for the win against Midzou - the Riverboat Bob days

What’s the most clutch Oklahoma Sooners football moment ever?

@SoonersJared35 FIU - T Y HILTON

What’s the most random Oklahoma Sooners football game you remember for no reason?

@Daywrotethis Truth, my wife is constantly pawed at and after 3 kids and 20 years, we are better together than when we started. Every day before is the day we loved each other less…

@Unitedcajunnavy @RealDeanCain @splcenter @60Minutes Agreed!! These evil and vile propagandists just project how they actually operate. They can’t fathom decency and Christian values. Leslie has lied so much she has negative credibility, predictable with her and her companies allegiance to America last…

We have many media outlets that are very good to us. Then there's this trash. This SCREAMS "Funded by the @splcenter"... Even though we aren't mentioned, we would still be happy to comment ON THE RECORD about what 🐴 💩 this is. It's time to put @60Minutes out to pasture, Holla!

@VictorBrow4516 I knew when Tulsa launched its own flag Chicago style and the Thunder demanded papers to enter a building that Oklahoma would eventually change. It has been targeted by Hollywood and the globalists for change. I say this as a proud Sooner with eyes wide open.

I don't post a lot, mainly II repost because others usually say it better. But, my Great Grandfather settled in Oklahoma, and we have been here ever since. I was born in New Mexico, but am of proud Okie stock. I am proud to consider myself a native of the "reddest of the red", 77 counties for Trump and freedom. But, as I get older, and hopefully wiser, and thanks to my friends from Oklahoma on X, I get more informed, I am afraid that our great state may be Republican, but our representatives and Senators are not MAGA and certainly not America first. Bice, Cole, Lankford, Lucas and the others consistently vote deep state and deep party. How do we get the word out to all the great patriots in this state about who to vote for? How do we make sure they know who is MAGA and who is not? I am so tired of seeing Lankford gaze adoringly at Thune during Thune's press releases. It nauseates me, and I want to be proud of who represents me.

@Devon_Eriksen_ @kenzietuff This is the weakness of an inherited paradise that lacks the gumption to confront the behavior that destroys it. Someone has to be on the wall, and that doesn’t indicate lesser morality or enlightenment. The opposite actually.

The Mailbox Test, like the breakfast test, is an excellent way to tell who you can allow to wield power in your society. Goes like this: If someone is hurt trying to destroy someone else's stuff in order to take pleasure from their pain, do you sympathize with... The aggressor because he got hurt? Or with the guy who owns the stuff, because he wasn't the aggressor? You can have people in your society who fail the Mailbox Test. That's okay... they can work at hospices, or shelters for orphaned kittens, or something. But you cannot allow them to vote, or otherwise wield political power. Because if you do, they will open the gates of the city to the enemy. I am personally tired of everyone pretending that people who enjoy ruining things for random strangers are just kewt smol beans who are only aggressive because of all the complex socioeconomic factors and lack of resources. They knew someone would be hurt by what they did. They knew that someone had done literally nothing harmful to them. And those two ideas, in combination made them feel pleasure. And they went and did it. That is the sign of a rotten soul. Defending ourselves and our property is not just a right, it's a moral obligation. Otherwise, we just kick the can down the road for someone else to deal with, someone who may not be able to defend herself. I don't care if a vandal breaks his arms trying to destroy my stuff. Because I value my stuff more than a vandal's arms. And the fact that he tried to destroy somebody else's stuff shows that he, too, values his arms less than the opportunity to hurt somebody. We cannot allow such people inside the city, and we cannot give the keys to those who would open the gates for them.

@theblessedsalt @hEachthighearne Vandals, rapists, terrorists, aggressors etc… Do not ever get to dictate the terms of response. That is up to the offended and they should hope that it’s not a zero sum outcome oriented person they have offended.

Proportionality is a moral measure, not a physical (as in pertaining to literal physics) measure. That hitting a mailbox with X amount of force results in an equal-but-opposite reaction is not the kind of proportionality either just war theory or I were discussing. The two things to compare are the harm of my damaged mailbox and the harm of shattered arm bones and permanent disability. While I will — and did, in the thread — absolutely defend visible fortification of the mailbox (e.g., a solid brick or even visibly concrete mailbox), the stealthy nature of hiding concrete reinforcement within the mailbox so as to catch the vandal by surprise indicates a particular malice. The intention here is not to prevent the smashing of the mailbox, but to visit retribution on one who would do such a thing as to smash my mailbox, that retribution being so far out of proportion to the crime. Put it another way: suppose that, in place of the concrete, I placed a mechanism that shot the vandal dead. Would that be acceptable? Or suppose, as a friend suggested, that we changed the law so that vandals who smash in mailboxes get their arm bones shattered by law. Would we find that to be a just punishment? If you would be appalled at the state's doing this, then you should be even more appalled at the vigilante doing it — the state does it with authority and with the forewarning of statutes while the vigilante does it with no authority and no forewarning. If, on the other hand, you would not be appalled by the state's doing this, then I'm not sure there can be any common ground between us for this discussion to bear fruit, but I wish you luck with the state you would be supporting.

@theblessedsalt @hEachthighearne This ignores your ability to discern intent. The destruction of property was an “assumed soft target” , consequence free - just like gun free zones. Is it deceptive to carry a concealed sidearm in a gun free zone?

@theblessedsalt During open campus for HS lunch some kids would run through a pile of leaves a retiree raked up in the fall and the exploding pile looked so cool. After several occurrences, the man smartly stood up multiple cinder blocks inside his leaf piles. Shredded oil pan halted this.

This post is an excellent litmus test for understanding of just war theory. Despite the fact that I can see how effective this would be, I must oppose it because the damage it would do to my enemy (who bashes in my mailbox) would far outweigh the good of saving my mailbox. Its disproportionality is opposed by our duty in charity (and even justice) to watch out even for the good of our enemies. (Yes, by the way, I have had my mailbox bashed in by random vandals.)

@Ric_RTP This happens in way too many commercial enterprises. It is illegal, period.

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

Joe Rogan and Francis Foster were talking about mass surveillance and it got uncomfortably real. Rogan recalled arguing with a friend after the Snowden leaks. The friend said, “I’ve got nothing to hide — they can look at my stuff.” Rogan’s reply: “Who are these perfect people watching everything? You don’t think any of them have financial or power incentives to silence voices or manipulate people?” Foster added the bigger danger: even if today’s government is honorable, what about the next one? Once they have access to every email, call, and message, it’s easy to dig up something from 14 years ago and use it against you. Rogan pointed out how quickly power corrupts — referencing the Patriot Act, NDAA indefinite detention, and how the Founding Fathers built checks and balances precisely because they understood human nature and tyranny. It’s a sobering reminder that “nothing to hide” stops being a defense the moment someone in power decides they don’t like what you’re saying.