Matthew Mickelson

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Matthew Mickelson

Matthew Mickelson

@mattlinla

Katılım Temmuz 2023
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Christian Heiens 🏛
Christian Heiens 🏛@ChristianHeiens·
At an ice cream shop in the middle of rural central Virginia, and everyone around me is wearing veils and speaking Hindi. I’m so tired of this man.
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Reddit Retards
Reddit Retards@Reddit_Retards·
I DESPISE this art style
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Matthew Mickelson@mattlinla·
@feelsdesperate Also, the dumb inner world. Did he learn something when the overweight, old Trump easily survived the “deadly covid”? No.
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Chris
Chris@chriswithans·
Louis Lucas’ Virginia Senate seat is safe D but she’s not invulnerable. She still has to spend time and money to defend it. Won by 18 points in 2023. She could be primaried next next. Or she could conceivably face so much backlash that she loses to a Republican.
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Matthew Mickelson
Matthew Mickelson@mattlinla·
@razibkhan @L0m3z @scrowder The incumbents who are legally here under current law get to stay. No ex post facto laws and all that jazz. Current and future illegals are prevented from entering and deported without mercy. In progress: changing laws to reduce immigration to as close to zero as possible.
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Orcbrand's Kojimaic Matters
Orcbrand's Kojimaic Matters@kojimaicmatters·
I've explained the process multiple times at length. If you want a foreigner to assimilate you have to isolate him from his own people and force him to interact and make his way among the locals, without any diaspora community or whatever anywhere near him. After a certain number of years (and under favorable circumstances e.g. political and economic stability), he will "go native." It's not like this stuff is rocket science. It's like what's even the point of anthropology departments, to yap about all the sad genocides? "Immigrant communities" actively inhibit the assimilation process. They function as a force of foreign cultural inertia. The people from the old country, clustered together, maintain the behavior patterns of the old country, reproduce the social relationalities of the old country, and recreate the problems of their old country. Family traditions are baggage. Family history is baggage. That baggage is structural support for a self-identity and self-conception of being "built different" as compared to people around you. Communities are power networks. An immigrant community which can maintain itself through its own associations without needing to interact with and live with the locals according to the expectations of the locals constantly (not a hyperbolic exaggeration, actual constancy of necessary local interaction) is just a foreign colony in your own borders. No assimilation is possible under such circumstances, and no amount of accommodation, cultural sensitivity or concessions from locals will make it any more possible, in fact, it only entrenches the foreign culture as separate from the general population. Cultural assimilation into a foreign country is not compatible with a country that cultivates multicultural diversity as a matter of policy. In such a country, policies of "welcoming," "accommodation" and "sensitivity" immigrants and promoting foreign cultural practices create real structural incentives to maintain such practices and to never assimilate whatsoever. If you want assimilation though, you need to throw all those ideas in the trash, and you have to stop treating immigrants as a special category of people who need special protection. If you want assimilation, the national policy for foreigners is to set an expectation upon them to comply with the norms, practices and ways of the local population, and to insist on the primacy of local culture over all others. This doesn't mean there can be no tolerance for different cultures as it's necessary when you're a player in a global economy that there will be people from all over visiting or staying for a while and they have to be treated well enough to maintain favorable relations for the benefit of the local population... Consider this, when in China you defer to the Chinese, and they do not defer to you. If a foreigner is offended by something Chinese they laugh at you and say go away you stupid foreigner we're in China and you're not Chinese. If you're not a Muslim, you're not entering Mecca and fuck you if you think that's unfair. If you're in Saudi Arabia they cut your head off if you think you have a right to be a reddit atheist too loudly. But in a lot of countries in the west things are backwards. Locals are browbeaten to be sensitive to foreigners while foreigners are treated with kids' gloves like "cultural differences" is an excuse for violating pre-existing social expectation. What's the incentive here to assimilate under those conditions? To cuck yourself and have your aunts and uncles cry that America has made you gay? The incentive is to be as foreign as possible, because being foreign gives you power, and never be a local, because this subjects you to power. As for me, being foreign gave me no power whatsoever when I was growing up because no one cares about a Ukrainian in 2001, there's no war, we're not refugees, and we're white. Maintaining this identity had no advantages at all, because there was also no big or strong diaspora in my vicinity... Whereas being in good standing with Americans, and being indistinguishable from Americans made it easier to live among Americans. Assimilation was rational and easy as a result. It wasn't even an intentional choice. It's an output of a process and a circumstance.
GreatestNietzchean@NietzcheanPlus

@kojimaicmatters What magic potion did you drink that made you assimilate?

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Devon Eriksen
Devon Eriksen@Devon_Eriksen_·
@tetsuya_00x Because they aren't the same people. Most of the people who voted Democrat in the last mayoral election weren't even in America in 2001. They were in some third world garbage dump, or they hadn't been born at all.
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Matthew Mickelson@mattlinla·
@ChristianHeiens The question is the same one that faced the European great powers pre WWI and the US-Soviets during the Cold War- strike first and start a war to gain advantage and avoid destruction, or refrain from attack in the hope of muddling through.
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Christian Heiens 🏛
Christian Heiens 🏛@ChristianHeiens·
The greatest divide on the Right today is not over taxes, trade, immigration, foreign affairs, or any other policy question. The divide isn’t even over how to fight. It’s whether there should be a fight at all. By and large, older Conservatives still can’t bring themselves to think outside of proceduralism because that’s all they’ve ever known, while the younger Right wants the permanent disempowerment of the Left, because it sees them as an existential threat.
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Oilfield Rando
Oilfield Rando@Oilfield_Rando·
It’s tough to make boomers understand that universities are the enemy, just a generational thing. A lot of them get butthurt if you mildly regulate their curriculum. They just don’t understand how bad it’s gotten.
Donald J Trump Truth Social Posts On X@TrumpTruthOnX

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump: '500k Chinese students — good students, by the way If you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out'

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Christian Heiens 🏛
Christian Heiens 🏛@ChristianHeiens·
I honestly hate the bottom 1% of society more than I do the top 1%.
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The Suburbanist
The Suburbanist@The_Suburbanist·
"Make density legal" Well, here you go: Zoned for density, and even bikeable to downtown St Louis. Put it all here.
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Curtis Yarvin
Curtis Yarvin@curtis_yarvin·
Is civilian air and sea traffic going to test this blockade? Lol you’re insane. Is the US military going to start attacking Chinese air and naval assets? Lol you’re insane. Are the Taiwanese going to grind out the blockade by distilling pine roots for fuel, like Japan 1945? Lol
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Curtis Yarvin
Curtis Yarvin@curtis_yarvin·
The complete larping retardation of the neocon. June 1, 2027: China proposes final status negotiations. Deadline, 30 days. July 1, 2027: No deal reached. China closes Taiwan airspace. August 1, 2027: No deal reached. China closes Taiwan waters
Gray Connolly@GrayConnolly

Re Taiwan/China: I have been asked what is my 'position' on China & Taiwan. Herewith a brief thread on the matter, as an Australian, but, also, as, hopefully, a sober realist of military affairs. This is just my opinion & am happy to be wrong (well, not to a nuclear escalation).

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Saliu Adekunle
Saliu Adekunle@Saliu_ade·
Bro said Islamic takeover like seriously Muslims are just 6% of Britain. I'm sitting in Nigeria reading this and genuinely laughing at you. This man is terrified of one in seventeen people. By 2100 not next year, not in your lifetime, in 2100 Muslims might be 19% of Britain. That's the nightmare he's losing sleep over. A country that is still 81% non Muslim. I'm a Muslim. I wake up, I pray, I mind my business, I try to be a good person. That's it. That's the threat. The most da*ngerous thing in that post isn't Islam. It's a man so afraid of people who are different beliefs from him that he built an entire political party around that fear. Britain has real problems. Muslims praying five times a day isn't one of them.
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Rupert Lowe MP
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10·
Muslims electing Muslims exactly because they’re Muslims - they then govern as Muslims, for Muslims. Demographic changes, birth rates and mass immigration mean that this is going to accelerate, rapidly. What is our country going to look like in fifty years? Twenty years? Ten years? Honestly, think about that. On current projections, Britain has an Islamic future. That is just a fact. I don’t like it, in fact it terrifies me, but it’s true. I do not want my grandchildren’s children to grow up in a Muslim Britain. Tower Hamlets. Rochdale. Birmingham. Luton. Blackburn. Large parts of London. I could go on. A sectarian nightmare. Deep divisions across the community in parts of those towns, in others it’s entirely united - united by Islam. That is our future. Unless we act, unless we organise, unless we vote. There is still time. Restore Britain is the only serious political party that has the courage to stand up for a Christian Britain. We are the only political party with the courage to do what is necessary. Mass immigration from Islamic countries will end, day one. Banning halal slaughter, cousin marriage, the burqa/niqab. Dominating Islamic prayer will be outlawed, along with any form of Sharia Law. We will not tolerate the call to prayer being blared out across British towns. The colonisation of our cities by foreign enclaves practising medieval practices will end. The islamification of Britain will be halted and reversed. That is what Restore Britain will do. If you agree, then join us. Join the party, attend your local meetings, volunteer. Help us. Because we need it, and nobody else is going to do it. Not Farage, not the Tories, certainly not Labour. This is up to us now. And there is one answer. Restore Britain.
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Matthew Mickelson
Matthew Mickelson@mattlinla·
@jc2339505924 @Enzorpheus The question is WHY? Don’t “capitalists” want to make more money? What is happening is definitely not what we were told would happen. But how is that possible?
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SaaS Dumbass
SaaS Dumbass@jc2339505924·
I was in a long-term relationship with a girl who was a low-level SWE at Google, one of only two women in her 50 person org, and who had secured permanent remote status coming out of COVID. I could not help but notice she very rarely seemed to be working. At one point she told me verbatim "I have basically done no work for the last eight months I just BS all the status updates on the thing I'm supposed to be working on and say I need more time." She wasn't happy at all. She would vent to me about how she was sure she was the dumbest person on her team and everybody knew it, her manager had obviously written her off as useless, etc. A while later she was (finally) formally given a negative performance review. She freaked out about it, and got her therapist to write a letter and took six weeks of FMLA leave for anxiety. For a few months after her return she did seem to focus more, and after four months of apparently adequate work she was given a significant raise and put on a promotion track. It is hard to imagine a man ever getting the same outcome from the same sequence of events - eight months of no work, six weeks of leave, four months of adequate work. This is going on in large and small ways, everywhere, all the time.
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Enzo
Enzo@Enzorpheus·
The generation of men whose careers were stalled by this will never recover. They may end up successful, but only on their own terms and most not quite to the degree they would had they not been discriminated against. We can never let this go.
Thrawnisbest@KiawanC

@Enzorpheus I was always dragged into 'training sessions' and lectured that I needed to hire more women engineers. They told me to ignore law and make this a priority. "Ability does not matter, we can train them".

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