@3xcalibaneur I could see Vivek doing it this cycle. Blake Masters in 2022 and '24 was adjacent.
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It’s only a matter of time until MAGA adopts Mamdani-kitsch imo.
Gabe Blanc@Gabe_Blanc
I’m running for Toronto City Council in Ward 11 University–Rosedale.
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I think you could appeal to a certain Chesterton's Fence conservatism. Why is the fence there? Sex work probably spread disease + caused paternity/family structure issues. Those issues don't matter as much with modern tech. Still, it's dangerous to mess with the sexual marketplace
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One of my most reactionary takes is that I think prostitution and sex work is so thoroughly negative for society that the government should tax the income of these people at 99.99% and ensure they’re left with less than what minimum wage would give them.
validate@validclipx
Sophie Rain praised her financial adviser a week ago & revealed that he only gives her $5k every month & invests the rest in businesses which she has no idea about. Only to find out mid-podcast today that he’s been actually Scamming & Pocketing most of her income 😳
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@3xcalibaneur I feel for you. It's a raped world out there, and the rapists are winning. You're not alone.
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It's hilarious that it's INDIANS that Groypers have decided to focus on—literally the best-performing statistically meaningful immigrant group.
There's no justification for this. It's just racism.
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@blancmontagnard A massive chunk will be wasted on end-of-life care, surgeries, medications for 87 year olds, pointlessly extending the lives of those who are effectively already dead.
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@bronzeagemantis Wasting of lives is terrible, and fixing immigration and the economy will be far easier and may only be possible if intelligent white men are no longer shut out
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This very big crisis. Coming to position that maybe more urgent and important than even immigration is the discrimination and exclusion of intelligent white men from USA leading institutions. Many lives being ruined and stalled right now
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@FischerKing64 They see the end in sight. Discredit Trump + MAGA over the next two years, take the hit in the midterms and in '28, regroup for '32 with Trump gone and MAGA neutered. Trump will have had a lasting impact on the GOP, but there's a solid chance the 2032 GOP is more 2002 than 2022.
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Senate Republicans are slow-walking Trump nominations to prevent any change - at the behest of donors. More than 60 of 93 US Attorney positions are also vacant. They won’t pass the SAVE Act. But they’re pedal to the metal on Middle East Wars.
Jeremy Carl@realJeremyCarl
This will be a bit more formal than usual, but I wanted to announce that I am withdrawing my nomination for consideration as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. I am tremendously grateful to President Trump for nominating me and then (upon expiration of my original nomination) renominating me for this role, and I am also grateful to Secretary Rubio and his team for their continued support throughout this long and time-consuming process. The fact that they chose to nominate me and were so supportive of my candidacy was one of many indications that this is an administration that was not satisfied to simply do business as usual nor to simply pick nominees from the same stable of “business as usual” possibilities. Unfortunately, for senior positions such as this one, the support of the President and Secretary of State is very important but not sufficient. We also needed the unanimous support of every GOP Senator on the Committee on Foreign Relations, given the unanimous opposition of Senate Democrats to my candidacy, and unfortunately, at this time this unanimous support was not forthcoming. Under our Constitutional system, that is the role that the Senate has in deciding Presidential appointments at this level and I accept that political reality, and do not wish to have the President, Secretary Rubio, or the rest of his team waste valuable time and energy attempting to change that decision. I remain extremely confident in President Trump, Secretary Rubio, and the rest of the outstanding team at State (a group of leaders that includes many close friends). I know they will continue to pursue a foreign policy that puts America first, and that they will work to ensure America is able to exercise its power and influence in the world like never before.
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How much difference could 1/1000 of Elon's wealth make? 1/100? For pocket change, he could own the world. If he doesn't, those billions mean nothing.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
@iam_smx *trillioniare
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@blancmontagnard I see most of my +1500 SAT friends (even myself included) growing lazy + retarded in college, failing to get internships, eventually giving up on classes and networking and dreams of grad or law school, probably becoming less competent over time bc of disillusion and atrophy
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@blancmontagnard @zarathustra5150 I think that's fair, as is Yarvin's assessment that Musk (not uniquely) doesn't understand patronage and needs to learn to tolerate spending money in ways that have less immediate, measurable returns
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@blancmontagnard @zarathustra5150 SpaceX and Tesla are so successful because Musk organized the talent and money to make them so. He genuinely doesn't seem to understand that politics operates under the same basic rules as business. And without winning politically, there is no Mars, no SpaceX, no Tesla, no Elon
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@blancmontagnard @zarathustra5150 The richest man in history terminally believes in muh "public square" and "marketplace of ideas." He's willing to plaster the same boilerplate across the X timeline a million times before he'll put a single dollar toward actually pursuing those ideas he says he cares about
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“If Musk wants to undo the damage he’s done he must actively start deboosting Rupert Lowe, and all associated with him.”
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@aqualover420 Tax dollars are most noticeable, it's a direct material hit. But opportunity is flagrantly thieved away. Spaces of recreation or innovation are sullied. Institutions are completely denatured. The university and the modern workplace are hell because they have been captured.
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@aqualover420 The entire economy is based on pillaging the excellent few in the name of the masses. Education, health care, welfare, the entire job market. Men are pilfered from for women, whites are pilfered from for browns, even the young are pilfered from for the old.
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As a white citizen of the U.S. you are actually totally justified in being upset that your society has turned upside down in the last 40 years & disqualified huge swaths of its highly competent human resources from elite tracks in favor of semisentient minorities and foreigners.
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