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@handleitgrips Broken extractor. That happened to me once… hence the importance of rule #1

Yikes

@GoSanitaryHarry @amuse @ItIsHoeMath Yup. The’s the OG of explaining the modern dating market.

@amuse Lacks the visual style of @ItIsHoeMath

GENOCIDE? Algorithmically-curated dating apps have engineered a generational mismatch in romantic expectations that mirrors the worst dynamics of winner-take-all markets and positional goods inflation. Traditional courtship was bounded by geography, social circles, and time, forcing realistic self-assessment and holistic evaluation of partners across sustained interaction. Swipe-based platforms obliterated those constraints, collapsing all of human mate selection into a single ranked marketplace where hypergamy, the female preference for partners of equal or higher status, now operates without friction or limit. The data is not subtle: the top 20% of men on these platforms receive roughly 80% of female attention, a Gini-coefficient-level concentration of desire that has no precedent in the history of human courtship. Those men rationally respond to sudden abundance by abandoning commitment entirely, because the incentive to settle has been structurally demolished. At the same time, women who periodically access that top tier, regardless of how briefly or on what terms, permanently recalibrate their expectations upward, pricing themselves out of the realistic market of men who would have made them genuinely happy. Neither group is acting irrationally given the incentives presented to them, which is precisely what makes this so damaging: the apps have not corrupted individual character so much as they have poisoned the entire coordination mechanism through which generations of ordinary people found lasting partnership. The consequence is not a dating culture that is merely unsatisfying. It is one that is structurally incapable of producing the outcomes most of its participants actually want. h/t @Degen_Poster

@TheAKGuy You know… It’s just NOT that hard to not be in these situations. Just keep it in your pants at work. It’s not rocket science.

How I sleep at night knowing I don’t have to worry about this because I don’t sexually harass my staff.

@Timcast Animal Farm stands just fine on its own. This remake is both unnecessary and offensive to the original.

The Animal farm film could not be more pro communism and anti capitalist The villain is an evil corporation run by Elon Musk's mom, banking and finance are the principle motivators the whole time, it doesnt critique political power it critiques private equity. The ending is fucking wild and shits all over the book

@ywomendeservles That’s a man with a lot of options. You weren’t the one he chose. And you’re still pining for him. Time to recalibrate your expectations.

@CynicalPublius How quickly these people forget (or never knew in the first place) how many American lives the Iranians have taken over the last 50 years. They are owed this. Every bit of it.

Just freaking root for the United States of America. Why is that so hard for you Democrats?

@alphafox It’s either Borderline Personality Disorder, or Bipolar Disorder. Either is poison. Run. This girl will boil your pet rabbit on the stove if you don’t give her enough attention.

Is this red flag too much? 🤔

@ddowell327 @monsterhunter45 Our “allies” who would have covertly warned the Mullahs before we attacked, and then cut back-channel deals with them? Those allies? Feh.

@monsterhunter45 You started a war without consulting your allies. Your president insulted the allied soldiers that died fighting in your endless list of previous wars. You threatened to attack a NATO country and take their land. The US is incapable of introspection.

X today- Americans saying they are tired of subsidizing our NATO allies to pay for their good time- Europeans respond by saying Americans are crass, stupid, barbaric, loser idiots who should shut up and keep paying for Europe’s national defense because they’ve got free government healthcare and magic unicorn renewable energy which makes them superior, while Americans are all fat and have school shootings. We don’t need you uncultured American swine, because we’ve got two whole working ships and four and a half airplanes, and that’s plenty since we aren’t warmongers like you American trash. So yeah, that’s totally gonna sway some Americans right there. Good luck with that.

@BrianAtlas So she wanted to “go slowly” with this guy, and make him wait for it, all while slinging it to some ex-friend-with-benefits? Who on earth does something like that, and thinks it’s OK? Dude dodged a bullet.

BRUTAL RED PILL...

@CyborgPeds It’s one of the principle ways we differ from Russian/Chinese/etc militaries. They are VERY top-heavy, and lower-ranking officers have zero independence.

My small observation is that in the US military, autonomy and responsibility are pushed WAY down the chain of command. This results in an unequalled ability to adapt and improvise. The amount of freedom to act I had as a 26 year old aircraft commander has no parallel in the civilian world that I know of.

@philthatremains It’s almost like their values are completely different… incompatible even… with Americans. Huh.

this is EXACTLY correct

@KurtSchlichter @townhallcom

A bunch of scumbags want America to lose, and you should hate them and treat them like the trash they are. @townhallcom Our Own Ruling Class Desperately Wants to Lose This War townhall.com/columnists/kur…

@infantrydort @KurtSchlichter

I’m up in the middle of the night and am about to go back to sleep. But seeing the news of this pilot being rescued after one of the most daring rescue operations in history has me motivated beyond belief. To the media and the haters who’ve been obsessed with palace intrigue stories. Trying to sow division and calling for the heads of our leaders. I hope this news hurts. I hope it hurts a lot. I have my finger on the pulse of the information machine these days. And what I’ve seen over the past 48 hours is the weaponization of said machine. Bots, grifters, and partisan hacks all working in unison literally rooting for our failure. Rabid. Drooling. Damn near praying to satan for our own pilot to be killed or captured. Hyenas, the lot of them. All cheering against America. While they’ve all been groaning like demons for the heads of our leaders and warriors, people like @PeteHegseth, @SeanParnellASW and others have just been busily…. doing the job to get our guy back. Nothing I type here will matter at 0300. But when the world wakes up in a few hours, it’ll see the fruits of merit based leadership at echelon. All the way down the chain. An Airman safely home after evading capture for over a day. An epic rescue that will be remembered for generations. Millions inspired by the shear power and conviction of the United States military. And millions more disappointed by it, because they were praying for our national embarrassment. I’m not sorry you’re witnessing a competent war machine in action. I’m not sorry that our leadership will never leave anyone behind. I’m not sorry for any hurt feelings caused by this. Because you were never on our team anyway. God Bless America.🇺🇸

@jakeshieldsajj @GuntherEagleman Bro… you’ve really gone around the bend on this thing. Time to log off… maybe try decaf.

@GuntherEagleman Do you realize that those are all American not Iranian

🚨 ABSOLUTE DOMINATION! In the incredible Easter rescue of our downed F-15 pilot deep inside Iran, U.S. forces didn’t just get our hero out safely They BLEW UP the two left-behind C-130s that were being used as a temporary forward base! WE WIN! 🇺🇸

@KurtSchlichter Humans are more important than hardware.

Yes

@KurtSchlichter “That others may live.”

Air Force guys right now…

@MarioNawfal Yeah, that traffic jam is people trying to get OUT of the area. Before the A-10s come in and 30-mm anything moving within a 1/4 mile of that downed pilot.

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: Credible reports that the missing F-15E weapons systems officer has been recovered alive from inside Iran. Jack Murphy, a former Green Beret and national security journalist, reports the WSO was evading capture on the ground when rescue forces reached them. A "massive firefight" at the recovery site. If confirmed, American special operators just fought their way into Iran, found their pilot, and pulled them out alive. The most dramatic combat rescue since the war began. Possibly in decades. Source: @JackMurphyRGR @DropSiteNews

@WomenBeingAwful This woman is a cowbird. Her family is built upon lies. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Time to pay up.

@angertab I laughed when I saw that nonsense. It’s not even plausible. Like the Trump-hating media wouldn’t be all over that story like white on rice?

Posts like the one pictured below are at the heart of foreign disinformation designed to divide the USA. The younger enlisted soldiers would not be able to keep this quiet. Families of the fallen would not stay quiet. Don't believe the garbage. Don't engage with the garbage.

@CynicalPublius @KurtSchlichter @Miriam2626 Is this like the 2yo who says “Mommy, how can a diverse electorate embrace the racial implications of a second Trump administration?” And then a tearful mother hugs the child, while everybody claps?

I'm hearing a lot of remorse about voting for Kamala in my blue town where I'm a well known red dot. They tell me they had no idea how awesome America would be under Trump, and they are sorry for doubting me. That I was right. That ending mass illegal immigration, restoring voting integrity and bringing back good-paying jobs for Americans was the right course. And I don't rub it in their face. We are all united for Trump. We will get back to our differences once we have a lesser President. Then we all held hands, sang "Kumbaya" and skipped down the street to the mercantile to get egg creams.

I'm hearing a lot of remorse about Trump in my red town where I'm a welll known blue dot. They tell me they are sorry. That I was right. And I don't rub it in their face. We are all united against Trump. We will get back to our differences once we protected our country.