@Legal_Fil But when I give the kids on the corner a bottle of whiskey, a carton of cigarettes, and a shotgun the cops go all "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" on me. It's a bother.
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“If we expand the electorate to include highly uninformed, grossly immature people that almost no other society deems responsible enough to vote, it will be a boon to socialists” is quite the admission from Jacobin.
Jacobin@jacobin
Changing the voting age in the US from 18 to 16 would make the country more democratic. It could also boost support for ambitious socialist politicians like Zohran Mamdani. jacobin.com/2026/07/democr…
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@MarkSKrikorian @screentime To be fair, all foreigners speak English with an American accent when they think no Americans are within earshot. Americans come around and its all mumbles and gesticulations.
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@screentime But everybody knows that people in the ancient world spoke with *British* accents.
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Christopher Nolan has explained why everyone in The Odyssey has an American accent
“What I wanted to do with this film was really take a modern audience and throw them into a very relatable world"
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There is one single idea that every “credal nation” libertarian and RINO needs to get through their skull.
The nation is its people. The “Constitution” is a descriptor, not an exportable document of conduct.
Liberia has a near carbon copy of our Constitution, they also have a problem with cannibalism.
This is why when you change the makeup (or constitution) of the people, the nation ceases to function, to exist.
The American Revolution was something specific to the American People. The French tried to replicate it and it ended in mass beheadings and Napoleon.
The less Americans we produce domestically and the more paperwork “Americans” (non-Americans) we import from heathendom, the less American we become as a whole.
Diversity and multiculturalism only ends in violent balkanization.
“A hyphenated American is not an American at all.”
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During your lifetime, the USA has given $300 billion to Israel, and is currently fighting a war instigated by Israel --and there is a move to integrate Israel to US military and intelligence. Do you not want lawmakers to investigate a country so heavily reliant on US funding? Or are US taxpayers just cows who should remain quiet and be milked indefinitely?
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Absolute idiot.
Imagine a French lawmaker going to an ICE facility at the southern border and demanding entry.
Ro Khanna is a despicable drama queen.
RNC Research@RNCResearch
Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna admits he went to the West Bank without coordinating with the Israeli Government. KHANNA: “I did that on purpose! I’ve been to Israel multiple times, I wanted to see the West Bank through the lens of the Palestinians.”
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@SethAMandel He’s the new commie Wesley Willis: Rock over London, rock on Chicago, Western Union, it’s the best way to send money.
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According to this photo collage, there's two duck shaped tomatoes.
(Because this is fake bullshit)
i like food@messedupfoods
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"What did it say that the red flags got so obscured in the process? Why did the idea of better vetting get so casually dismissed? And how was it that political neophytism was treated as an asset and not a liability?"
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If this keeps more kids from feeling a slight breeze and then flopping around like an epileptic at a strobe convention, I'm for the clubs bilking the loons out of their $15K. Metric Kickball is an assault on basic decency.
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year. That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer. FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset. US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records. So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros. Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability. Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business. They will not.
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@adrianmckinty I swear a week doesn’t go by where I don’t quote something from Politics and the English Language.
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Orwell wrote hundreds of good essays and dozens of great ones; but you're busy & have things to do so I'm only going to recommend 2 that you must read:
Inside The Whale
England Your England
both as relevant today as they were in 1940
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Europeans think they're better than Americans because they have old buildings. That's literally it. Old buildings that would sport giant swastikas if it weren't for us.
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@EsotericCD I've never been able to get past the feeling that Pavement is just a twee Pere Ubu.
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I suppose this is time for my national PSA: Pavement were the best band of the 1990's, period. What's that you say? Radiohead? Folks, there are maybe 40 people on earth who know more about Radiohead from 1989-?? than me. But *in the '90s*, Pavement wins. youtube.com/watch?v=IerFEA…
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TIL via NPR that Stephen Malkmus of Pavement fame is currently living in Chicago, and I look forward to running into him hugging the back wall of Schubas Tavern.
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@JeffMightBWrong This is a "McDonalds is the best food, look at the sales!" sort of argument. Also, this picture.
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I wanted to write about something fun today, so I wrote about how the Olympics (good, IMHO) compares to the World Cup (gooder, IMHO). (link in next tweet)
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@janecoaston @wil_da_beast630 Having to check "Caucasian" on every government form does have consequences, as stupid as they may be.
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@wil_da_beast630 right, the idea of a pan-European "white" entity where the Celts and Gauls all got along because they were all white (?) is both ahistorical and treats whiteness as the bonding agent, not culture.
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No we don't.
Most Black or Asian bidness types think constant cringing from Euro-descent people is unbearable. Whites have done...rather a lot, historically.
The sole issue with in-group pride - brown, white, etc - is that it very often becomes anti-OUT-group racism.
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@SonnyBunch Yay. I can't wait for the Starship Trooper-ization of another of my favorite novels growing up.
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@ClevelandFanLOL @jarvis_best That said, the greater positive impact would be just not subsidizing professional sport. That ship has sailed, however.
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He’s going to be so obnoxious this year he’s going to sign in some hellhole like Chicago and be surrounded by cameras and every single game ESPN is going to be like AN ABSOLUTE HISTORIC NIGHT FOLKS AS LEBRON JAMES PLAYS IN SACRAMENTO FOR THE SECOND TO LAST TIME EVER LETS NOW START OUR 47 HOUR DOCUMENTARY ON LEBRON’S GREATEST MOMENTS IN OL’ SAC TOWN including interviews with heads of state and whoever is anchoring Sports Center that night will openly weep and break the alabaster bottle and wash his feet with their tears and dry them with their hair. I’m already mad.
Kevin O'Connor@KevinOConnor
Sources: LeBron James has had discussions about filming this entire upcoming season for a documentary or episodic series. I ranked all 29 possible destinations for what could be his farewell tour: sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/le…
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@asymmetricinfo And it only took huge increases in federal law enforcement decades to break the mobs that they ran. I'd call it a success! (All Irish ancestry here and... somewhat joking. Somewhat.)
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My WASP ancestors were quite convinced that my Irish ancestors would be the end of the Republic.
Matt Glassman@MattGlassman312
The problem with every version of this take is that the Matt Walshes of 40 years ago were saying the same thing, as were the Matt Walshes of 80 years ago. Once you get far enough right, politics is all nostalgia for a fleeting familiar moment mistaken for a static. 1/
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@brodigan @GmorganJr Honestly, I am surprised there are so many people there jumping. I would think they would all denounce such movements as "ableist". And let's not even get into the aggressive yelling and clapping. To the DSA camps with them all!
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I haven't seen this many mediocre whites since I went shopping for box wine to prank @GmorganJr.
Rabbi Poupko@RabbiPoupko
The DSA victory party for @MelatKirosCO in Colorado tonight is another reminder how racist and not diverse the DSA actually is.
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@jimgeraghty To be fair, if you take money from advertising markets that allow porn adverts, you take money from porn companies.
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"Dude, you're such a hypocrite! There are Temu ads all over your web site!"
"Dude, advertising cookies and trackers monitor your online activity to create a detailed behavioral profile, which ad networks then use to serve you highly personalized, targeted ads." This also applies to the "why are adult sites advertising on your web site" complaint.
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