John Sears

@ContrarianSaver You obviously don't read enough and should stick to coloring books.

I’m not saying “no one should go into the trades” - just that the media (especially social media) underplays the downsides: - takes a physical toll on your body; work life is limited - virtually no upside unless you start your own business - job gets harder as you age; white collar jobs get easier and better compensated with experience You can be a plumber if you want just please - don’t fall for the hype

@ZeroH65316 @AmiriKing Let me get this straight, because "Beta-cuckAIbot" spits out some garbage about Official Investigations showing that the typical behavior of the group outside the superdome suddenly stopped once that group was stranded inside the superdome, and you fucking swallowed it whole? Lol

@AmiriKing you're a predator

Watched this tonight. It’s basically just a documentary magnifying how the majority of inner city blacks are completely reliant on the government. Out of the people who couldn’t evacuate Katrina, 76% were black vs 28% white. The majority of whites stayed by choice, mostly to offer assistance and volunteer. The majority of blacks couldn’t evacuate because they don’t work, are on welfare, section 8, etc. Hence, no car, no gas. 30,000 blacks sheltered in the Superdome where they beat and raped each other. Vending machines were smashed and looted. Drugs and chaos were rampant. The rest of the documentary is just blacks bitching about how the government didn’t come in and save them enough. Poor them. Victims always. It’s not enough that the government houses and feeds these people. They should receive free cars as well.

@NoahRevoy Why would a wife stay married and continue to compromise when she can find "Mr. Right" (bank account), plop out a kid or two, then take the house he paid for, a good portion of his income, and finally get to "date" whoever she wants? Why would she stay married?

Millions of millennial men got married following boomer-coded advice from their parents, only to discover ten years later that the rules had changed, their wives were feminists, and what their fathers generation considered doing a great job as a husband and father was now considered insufficient by modern women. Now they are all getting divorced. It is a massive civilisational tragedy.

@NoahRevoy Interesting perspective! Good work.

How do most women feel about friends with benefits? Not good. Kind of yucky right? Why? Because it is sexual access without commitment. Now turn it around. What is commitment without sexual access? How do you think husbands experience that? Especially in a marriage? If a man is expected to provide, protect, listen, work, and stay faithful, but is denied sexual access, what is his wife asking him to be? Not a husband. Not any longer. Or something closer to a friend with duties? What do we call it when a single man gives attention, care, loyalty, and investment, to a woman but gets no romantic reciprocity? The FRIEND ZONE. So what happens when a wife Friend Zones her husband? She has demoted him from HUSBAND to FRIEND. Can you see why that might wound a man? Can you see why that might lead to divorce?

@linadreaamy 70?

bunu çözersen, IQ seviyen ortalamanın üstündedir. Peki sen zekana güveniyor musun? çözebilir misin?

@Simi_2210_ 20?

@Seraphinaf5 71

@xansnds Savage takedown! You earned yourself a follow.

Nope. Peak midwit behavior. You’ll find 110 to 125 IQ smart types usually college educated consultants or higher status career climbers playing these recognition games to feel a sense of superiority over everyone around them. Meanwhile the legit smartest most perceptive people simply act smart and witty because they realize there is no need for the games at all. A couple minutes of real convo tells you everything you need to know about someones intelligence. How quickly they respond. How deep their line of questioning goes. How they reason and challenge points. How they are perceiving you. Where their eyes go during the convo. How they jump topics. And so on. There is literally no need for recognition games when you can perceive someones intelligence with your own eyes and nervous system. At that point it is clearly just a waste of time. An egotistical social game or a hierarchy hack to climb into “high status” (relative) groups. Or straight up pretending to be smart around your peers when you could actually be being smart. I experienced that repulsive smug shit constantly when I was younger. I usually knew exactly what they were talking about. I just did not have full context and refused to pretend or audition. I would rather shut my mouth and observe than play their little recognition games to fit in. Guy It is very anti social behavior from people clinging desperately to their slightly above average intelligence because it is the only thing that makes them feel unique special valuable. So they guard their little acronym club hard and exclude anyone who will not play along. True intelligence does not seek recognition or run tests to spot peers. It is obvious as fuck to everyone around it. If you have to pronounce your intelligence or play silly little games to recognize equals you are not as smart as you think you are.

@MW4Liberty Great post! Happy independence day brother.

Scientists at the Library of Congress recently looked under a microscope at Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence. Using spectral imaging, they found what was originally written underneath: "our fellow subjects." Jefferson literally scraped that word away and wrote "citizens" right on top of it. This is the exact moment the American mindset shifted. A subject is ruled by a government or a king. A subject is subservient. A citizen is a free individual with inherent rights, answering to no one. Today I believe our government thinks we are once again subjects. It’s time to rewrite that once again. 🇺🇸

@spikebrehm @jgebbia They should've had a national lottery (Trump supporters only) to sending an incendiary down the mineshaft on 7-4 as a symbol of burying of the old beaurocracy, complete with fireworks and news coverage and a Trump- delivered plaque... missed opportunity there.

they did it. the mad lads actually did it. i never talked about my time at DOGE last year because it was so controversial and contentious (remember that?) early last year, @jgebbia recruited a handful of his most trusted early Airbnb engineers to embed at the Office of Personnel Management to solve the "retirement paper" problem. processing a federal retirement took months, and in the extreme retirees could wait up to 6 months for their full pension to arrive. what was the holdup? paper. remember hearing Elon talk about "the mine" in Pennsylvania? we got to visit it. in deep underground caverns blasted out of limestone, there were literally acres of file cabinets, as far as the eye could see, storing files detailing federal employees' employment and paystub history. a simple "case" might be only a quarter or half inch thick, but really complex cases filled up whole filing cabinets. one famously took up a whole pallet. each case was hand processed by case workers in cubicles deep underground. they checked calculations, made sure forms were filled out properly (many weren't), and handled a long tail of complex issues. we'd watch as they keyed data into a black and white terminal, transmitting to the COBOL mainframe built many decades ago. since cases were processed by hand, there were multiple rounds of human review, and additional rounds for complex cases. case files were walked around between one worker's outbox and another's inbox. sometimes it would sit in one place for days, waiting to be picked up. to OPM's credit, they'd done multiple rounds of "digital transformation" spanning decades, so some systems were newer than others. there was a big effort in the mid-90s. but the systems were disparate, and it was a total maze getting them to talk to each other. there was a big effort to build a web app where employees applying for retirement could digitally fill out the necessary forms — just to be mailed to the mine and stuffed into the paper file. and few federal agencies were even using it. when we arrived, OPM was midway through a fresh attempt at digital transformation, delivered by a software contractor. the blackpill was seeing the terrible quality of the software and interacting with the contractors. coming from silicon valley, i couldn't believe how low the talent and quality bar was for selling software to the government. it's clear, as the OG USDS people explained to me a decade ago, the primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. it's a huge moat. delivery of quality product be damned. we fired the vendor and took over the project. they'd been working on it for more than a year, and there was another year before they were going to deliver it. at first we tried to bend it to our will, to actually connect all the various data sources and get to a decent UX for case workers in the mine to use, but we soon realized we were going to have to rebuild the whole stack from scratch. it was around this time I had to go back to new york — i had a new job waiting for me, a four month old, and a wife whose patience was running out. but i got to watch from afar as the team cranked day and night, hitting early milestones. and now they've fully done it. huge congrats to Joe and the team. @yatshitcray was the hero in the trenches. indefatigable, unrelentingly optimistic, and determined to see this project through. when i recruited him for "ok i can do two, maybe three months", he stuck it out over a year making this project a reality. while the retirement project was under the DOGE banner, it operated different from what you heard from the breathless, negative media — we came in with the attitude of partnering with career OPM employees. we were team members determined to bring our software talents to bear on the problem they've been trying to fix for years, which they hadn't had the resources to solve before. they were wary at first, not sure about us, but they quickly saw how authentic and determined we were to work together toward the same goal. props to Joe for developing those relationships, setting the example of how to collaborate together. what's the end result? lifelong federal employees, veterans, postal carriers get their full pension installments almost immediately. days instead of months. peace of mind for these people to devoted their careers to serving our country. massively streamlined operations inside of OPM. and NO MORE PAPER 🫡🇺🇸

@TheSCIF Am I dreaming? Did I just hear someone in CNN say the D- word? I thought that was a crazy conspiracy theory. Great post!

Hillary Clinton urges federal employees NOT to cooperate after President Trump authorizes Pulte to DECLASSIFY anything he wants while he serves as DNI. Even CNN stated that Hillary Clinton's comment seemed a little "Deep Statey." "The DNI has access to everything, everything that they want to see," said Clinton. "I mean, I hope there are career and even political appointees in various of the agencies that are slow-walking or refusing to share information with Pulte." - Hillary Clinton It's only a matter of time, and they know it.

@Z4BTC_ Great post! Very interesting.

Women like this won’t enter the future with us. They’re genetic dead ends and risk becoming examples of what not to do in life. Beyond that, they’re a fiscal burden. Their obsession with travel, exorbitant lifestyles, and excessive BNPL spending shows they’re not saving for the future. Nor do they plan on having families to care for them. So what happens when these women reach retirement? What happens if the economy breaks before then? Does society have the balls to let them face the consequences of their financial decisions? Probably not. The choices are to either print more money to bail them out or take someone else’s money to do the same. Either way, the most productive people in society pay the bill, whether through taxes or the silent tax of inflation. We are transitioning from a boomer welfare state to a girl boss welfare state. I can’t see men willing to subsidize Chelsea’s 5th vacation any longer.

@GenAcc69 Yeah, or, this is all completely made up garbage intended to hide humanity's true history. I recommend people read the book of Genesis to find all the answers about man's origins which they are seeking.

Feminism has so successfully monopolized academia (esp social sciences) that even moderately feminist academics sometimes feel compelled to (reluctantly) fact check the more extremist feminist academics when the latter attempts to promote anti-science. Here's an example: Feminists are trying to erase the scientific evidence that in ancient societies the hunters were mostly male, the gatherers were mostly female. So other academics (who are also feminists, but more grounded in science than the first group) have released a counter study fact-checking the earlier anti-science study: Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter sciencedirect.com/science/articl… I recommend people read that link's whole page, but here's a quick summary: It's a study by feminist anthropologists who reluctantly fact-check other feminist anthropologists who tried to push the misconception that women did as much or more hunting than men. This misconception was made possible by feminists selectively ignoring the enormous body of scientific evidence that shows a different reality that most feminists don't want to admit. The reality: Women did some hunting, but not at much as men. Men did some gathering, but not as much as women.

@RealPaulElam Nice! You earned yourself a follow with this one, my friend.

Dear idiotic jerkoff, Over forty years of counseling men I've picked up on a few reasons that men can be hostile toward women. 1. Abuse in all forms. Financial, emotional, psychological, sexual, physical. Relational aggression (if you don't know what that is, consult AI) 2. Divorce-rape. Having lifelong work and assets wiped out, property and future seized, because she had to "find herself." 3. False allegations - all sorts. Rape, domestic abuse, child abuse, financial abuse, and anything else that will affecting him socially and legally. (see divorce-rape) 4. Entitlement and privilege - women putting chronic, unreasonable, and untenable demands on men in relationships. 5. Parental alienation (also see divorce-rape) women who poison the minds of their children, damaging them for life, just so they can express their disapproval toward the father. Happens a lot, not that anyone like you would notice. 6. Paternity fraud. Knowingly cucking men with lies who are not the actual fathers of their children, just so they can defraud them of assets. That's just 6 right off the top of my head. There's more, but I'm not tryna waste keystrokes here. Now, this is where an asshat like you retorts with either denials, projected blame on to men for the abuse they've endured, or some other idiotic rationale for why we should ignore, minimize, or excuse all this garbage. And why? Because you read a handful of social media posts and assumed that meant you actually knew anything about anything. You don't. You're just an ignorant twit, pathetically seeking female approval with this shit-stain virtue signaling. Now, there's your answer. Have a nice day and kindly GFY.

@LoudOutside I wonder where here learned his social skills?

Family members of a Texas teen crashes out in court as judge sentences him to 25 years in prison for robbing a convenience store. Judge Raquel West sharply criticizes 18-year-old Caden James Fontenette before handing down the sentence “There was a time some years ago that there really wasn't even a question. State's attorneys were recommending youthful offenders probation. Let's give everybody an opportunity” West said. “You don't have a good likelihood of being successful if I were to put you on probation, I'm going to sentence you to a term of 25 years.”

@isaacrrr7 I believe this guy is what's called a "male feminist". He's simply giving this female the same treatment he would give a male. Isn't that what they've been striving to achieve? Equality with men? What's the issue here?

Una chica negra decide agredir a un chico blanco y él reacciona. Quiero saber tu opinión. ¿Estuvo justificada su reacción o se pasó de la raya?

@RepThomasMassie It has no legal authority and all you idiots think congress actually did something meaningful. You keep falling for this same bullshit over and over. Morons.

The Iran War Powers Resolution, H.Con.Res. 86, passed the Senate last night. I was the only House Republican to cosponsor this WPR. The American people want to end the Iran war, and both chambers of Congress have finally voted to end it.

@SenMarkKelly If you're upset, I'm happy 😊 GO FUCK YOURSELF

"Cancelled." Donald Trump just cancelled signing a bill that's strongly supported by Republicans and Democrats to help Americans afford a home. Rent, home ownership, affording a place to live, all of it is a big challenge for millions of Americans. But again, Donald Trump doesn't care.

@WallStreetApes Breastfeeding is free. I just cut the bill in half.

American mother says she can’t have a second kid, not because she doesn’t want one but because she can’t afford it This mother bought one can of formula and one box of diapers. It was $92 “Who in the f*ck decided we could make diapers and formula, the 2 most needed things when you have a child, the most expensive things on this planet? These 3 things just costed me $92. Oh, you want me to start thinking about having a second kid? Simply how? How? I can't afford that. Abso-f*cking-lutely not” I looked into this, over the last 10 years - Diapers have increased 50%+ in price - Baby Formula is up about 40%, sometimes way more if you want without seed oils - A better brand can cost $52+ and only last about 5 days We need to make having a baby much more affordable

@DemocraticWins This is purely politically theater. It has no legal teeth. It's meaningless

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Democrats just helped pass a War Powers Resolution that will constrain Donald Trump's ability to wage war in Iran. This is amazing.