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"...The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

اگر اینترنت قطع شد، از طرف خودم به همه همسنگران میهن‌پرست خارج از کشور این اختیار را میدهم که به نیابت از من در دهان هر آنکه از زیرساخت و نه به جنگ و...گفت، بکوبند من یکی حاضرم بدون آب و برق و گاز و... توی بیابون خاک بخورم ولی به هر قیمت که شده آخوند بره

President Trump: "The Iranian people want to be free. They have lived in a world that you know nothing about." Thank you President Trump. You're 100% right. The vast majority of people have no idea what Iranians have lived through. I've never felt more seen in my entire life.

Banned for an entire week because I said I don't give a fuck about the opinions of illiterate third worlders. Would someone be banned for saying they don't care about what an American's opinion is on the Middle East? Of course not Blatant double standard, I didn't break ToS

I am bleeding my pockets dry paying astronomical prices for a half broken internet connection just to read what the outside world is saying. And let me be honest, it is absolutely infuriating to see how completely disconnected so many of you are from the actual mood of the people inside Iran. Do not lose your nerve. Do not be afraid. The narrative you are seeing right now is a complete illusion. The voices currently being amplified online are fake, manipulated, and engineered by the cyber army of this cannibalistic regime. They have locked us in a digital prison and severed our connection to the world specifically so they can control the narrative and project a false sense of fear and submission. We are not cowering in the dark. We are watching a dying terrorist syndicate thrash in its final days. Do not judge the resolve of the Iranian people based on the fabricated noise of our captors. Wait until these walls come down. Wait until this internet blackout is broken and you can finally hear the unfiltered, undeniable roar of a nation that has been stripped to the bone. You will see exactly what an unstoppable force looks like. Hold the line. Level the playing field and we will finish the job.

You all really, seriously, need to pay attention to what's going on here. @TJMartinell1 has some explosive reporting here, and showing really why Democrats need all that tax revenue: They've blown through all the money. They can't even blame Trump. This is unsustainable

If you're sick of the Washington State legislature abusing the emergency clause to take away your right of voter referendum, I made a tracker so you can see every bill they abused. picsterola.github.io/wa-ec-tracker/…

The outside world looks at us Iranians and assumes every single one of us is only fighting because we have absolutely nothing left to lose. Let me shatter that illusion right now. I have a lot to lose. I am 28 years old. I have people I love fiercely and a future I want to build. Because I work as a remote freelancer for companies in Europe and Canada, I am shielded from the absolute worst of the economic starvation suffocating this country. I do not face the same crushing financial reality as most of my people. But that is exactly why every single cell in my body is screaming to fight. I look around and see the agonizing pain of my compatriots. I see my friends, my family, and the fathers on the street who cannot even afford a simple bag of groceries. Just look at what happened in Abdanan, one of our most impoverished and deprived cities. The people there, suffocating under extreme poverty, stormed a store that supplies provisions to the regime's oppressive thugs. They tore the bags open and threw the rice into the air. Despite their own crushing hunger, they did not take a single grain for themselves. They refused to steal, and they refused to eat the food of their executioners. That is the absolute, untouchable nobility of a nation that has been entirely stripped to the bone. And if that economic slaughter was not enough to begin with, I have had to watch this cannibalistic occupation murder our people simply because we dared to demand a free, prosperous life in our own homeland. I watched them take Nika Shahkarami, a brave, brilliant 16 year old kid full of hope and talent, and shatter her skull. She is just one of thousands. I refuse to look away. I fight because silence in the face of absolute oppression makes you an oppressor yourself. I fight because staying quiet is the exact fuel that creates their violence. We cannot afford neutrality. We demand absolute justice. Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

A short🧵for those insisting on a fiction: the Strait of Hormuz is not Iran’s sovereign toll gate, private cash machine, or maritime revenue stream. It is an international strait used by the world. Geography may give Iran a coastline on one side of it. It does not give Iran the right to invoice the rest of the planet for passage.

You have no clue what our people are actually living through. You are out here clutching your pearls over the words “stone age” while our people are literally stuck in one, total internet blackout, no connection for over a month. I haven’t even seen my family’s faces in weeks. Meanwhile you sit with unlimited internet, lecturing us because a desperate nation is fighting for the freedom you were born with. They’ve already spilled blood for it, and now they’re welcoming bombs on the people trying to kill them. All you want is to talk over us and shut our voices down. And guess what? You did it, Dave. I’m too exhausted to even argue back. Congrats. You successfully spoke over an entire population that can’t even log on to respond. While the ones cheering you on are the regime-approved accounts who actually get internet access to push their narrative. What an accomplishment.

@AutismCapital 😂

Trump's posts are getting unhinged.

In case you are all wondering if there is a way for the President and Feds to step in to help us here you go! If a state's population feels their government has become a "one-party regime" that ignores the will of the people, the U.S. Constitution actually has a specific "emergency brake" for that exact scenario. Here are the ways the federal government could theoretically "step in" to address a state government that has gone off the rails: 1. The "Guarantee Clause" (Article IV, Section 4) This is the most powerful—and rarest—tool in the Constitution. It states: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." What it means: A "Republican form" means a government where the people are represented and the laws aren't just dictated by a single ruler or a permanent party. How it works: If it can be proven that Washington State has effectively abolished fair elections or bypassed the people’s ability to change their government, the U.S. Congress or the President could argue that the state is no longer a Republic. This would allow the federal government to intervene to "restore" a constitutional government. 2. Federal Civil Rights Enforcement If the state’s election methods (like mail-in voting without ID) are proven to "dilute" or "disenfranchise" the votes of legal citizens, the Department of Justice (DOJ) can step in. The feds can sue the state in federal court, bypass the state’s own judges, and have a federal judge strike down state laws. If the state refuses to comply, the federal government can send in Federal Election Monitors to oversee the counting of ballots to ensure the state isn't "cooking the books." 3. Federal Preemption of State Law Under the Supremacy Clause, federal law beats state law. If Congress passes a National Voter ID Act or a law requiring in-person voting options, Washington’s leaders cannot legally ignore it. If the Governor tried to ignore a federal law, the President could deploy federal resources (like the U.S. Marshals or even the National Guard) to ensure federal laws are being followed, similar to how the federal government forced states to integrate schools in the 1950s. 4. Congressional Refusal to Seat Members Congress has the power to judge the elections of its own members. If the U.S. House or Senate believes Washington’s mail-in system is so fraudulent that the results can't be trusted, they can refuse to seat the representatives or senators sent from Washington. This effectively strips the state of its power in D.C. until it fixes its election system to meet federal standards. The "Catch": The federal government usually hesitates to do this because of "State Sovereignty"—the idea that states should run themselves. However, if a state truly becomes a "mini-communist state" where the people have no path to change their leadership through the ballot box, the Guarantee Clause is the ultimate legal "nuclear option" to force a reset. Keep writing and contacting the DOJ too! LET'S ROLL!!!! Deanna Shoemaker

What you see almost endlessly from Tucker Carlson, "Comic" Dave Smith, Theo Von, etc., and the rest of the blackpillers amounts to a Critical America Theory. I'm not making this up. I'm explaining. Critical Theory was developed by neo-Marxist Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School in 1937. In an interview in 1969, Horkheimer explained what the Critical Theory is. He said (closely paraphrasing): "I developed the Critical Theory because we [Western neo-Marxists] realized we cannot articulate the good or ideal society on the terms of the existing society. What we can do is criticize those aspects of the existing society that we wish to change." In other words, a Critical Theory believes everything is so captured and corrupted by power and those who benefit from systems of power that it isn't even possible to talk about a better situation in clear terms. All that's available is criticism of why the system/society isn't better than it is. This activity has come to be known as identifying or "making visible" the various "problematics" in the existing system. A Critical Theory OF SOMETHING would focus this general mode of engagement into a particular domain. For example, a Critical Theory of Race in America would believe that racism is so endemic to a society and embedded within its systems to the benefit of whites that we cannot articulate a true "antiracist" vision on the terms available to us. All we could do is identify where "racism" manifests and criticize it for being there. We call that program "Critical Race Theory" because it is a Critical Theory of Race. What it does in practice is (1) identifies "hidden racism" in everything (criticizing those elements of the existing (racial) system they wish to change), called "identifying problematics"; (2) induces more people to think this way; nothing else. What a Critical America Theory would look like is not being able to articulate what a good or ideal America would look like on the terms of the existing America but criticizing those elements of America as it exists that we wish to change. That is, it would look for everything America isn't doing perfectly according to some ideal standard that doesn't exist, probably cannot exist, and cannot even be articulated and "make those problematics visible" in the hopes of changing the system. Leftists, including the whole of Critical Race Theory, do this endlessly. From Derrick Bell's (founder of CRT) 1970 book, Race, Racism, and American Law, forward, it is a relentless racial Critical America Theory. That's why it exported poorly and often hilariously to other countries that don't have the same law or racial history. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States (1980) is another example, a very naked example, of a work of Critical America Theory. Specifically, this book goes through every chapter of American history, from pre-founding (Christopher Columbus) to the present (1980 at the time) and catalogues how America cheated "the people," mainly workers, indigenous, racial minorities, and women (the intersectional coalition). What I'm telling you is that the blackpillers of Podcastistan and X, etc., very notably including Tucker Carlson, are doing a socially conservative variation on Critical America Theory. Whether Carlson or "Auron MacIntyre" (nhrn) from The Blaze, the undertone of every message is plainly "you don't hate your (real) country enough" as compared against an imaginary ideal that doesn't, can't, and won't ever exist. The Blackpill Comics all do the same thing, relentlessly identifying "problematics" and alleged hidden systems of control that delegitimize the country as it actually is against a standard that isn't even real. The thing is, Critical America Theory is a Critical Theory of America. That is, it is a Critical Theory. That is, when you participate in this slop, you are taking on a critical consciousness about America. Having a critical consciousness is being WOKE, by definition (of Woke). This slop is Woke. When this Critical America Theory slop takes on a socially Leftist slant, we call it Woke Left (or just Woke). When this Critical America Theory slop takes on a socially conservative or Rightist slant, we call it Woke Right (which is just Woke too). They are both Woke. They are both toxic. They are both false enlightenment into a kind of terrible darkness, entitlement, malice, despair, hatred, and failure. Reject Critical America Theory. Love your country. It's great, and it's worth it.

It’s day 33 of the war, and my hometown is still being heavily bombed. Iranians are only now, with great difficulty, realizing that for all these years, they have essentially been living inside a massive military base the size of a country. They’re finally understanding why Iran, despite all its resources, has remained so poor: because all the money has been spent preparing the regime for its apocalyptic final war. None of this is defensive. It’s all offensive. After every strike, Israel posts reports in Persian explaining exactly what it has hit. The main reason for cutting off the internet is so that people won’t see or understand what’s really happening. Underground missile cities, bunkers built beneath residential neighborhoods, tunnels upon tunnels upon tunnels. It’s horrifying. This regime must go. #IranWar‌ #ThankYouTrump‌

@ThomasSowell Wow.

“Do you think I’m an evil person for having an abortion?”

It's Autism Day. I am not a fan of the classification system used within the DSM-V to indicate severity, and am proposing my own categories:

@hahaha8201 I think we have a lot more AI bots pretending to be people so they can push political points than any other country. Sorry you're exposed to the psyop army. It is a battle for your mind. Protect it.

イーロンが日米の垣根をなくした結果、英語圏から反応くるが、英語圏の政治アカウント、右も左も日本に比べて行動力ありすぎる。他人のリプライで喧嘩始めるし、どんどん参入してきて俺のタイムラインで左右の決戦が始まるのでめっちゃビビっている。

Although the average person doesn’t understand economics very well, he does understand that some people are getting rich without producing anything. In today’s US, a certain class of people have gotten rich because of inflation (theft), not production. How so? They’re wired to the government and the Fed. When fiat money is created, it goes to them first and in the largest amounts. The average guy doesn’t benefit from trillions of government spending. The “elite“ and members of the Deep State, however, benefit immediately and directly from fiat currency creation. The broad public suspects a theft is going on. They just can’t quite figure out who the thieves are. So they blame the producers. Which suits the government perfectly; they can “step in“ and pretend to be the hero. A society based less and less on production and more and more on the theft of pre-existing wealth inevitably becomes a Hobbesian warzone of all against all.

@PHall1443637 @AutismCapital Fair point. I meant the original internet was intended to be used for research. Only let kids use hard science websites.

@LDSLGBT @AutismCapital academic only? Lol academics can't even tell me what a woman is No Remove women from our institutions and stop funding feminism we All know the issue is Feminism not the internet things were fine a while ago and could be fixed if women didn't have all those gov programs

This is very very sad and very real. The new generation has zero room to actually shoot their shot without it being completely dissected, analyzed, and broadcast to the entire world. Every fumble, rejection, cringe ackward moment, can be blasted to the entire Earth to be mocked and made fun of, and it lives on the Internet forever. So what happens? The men give up. They quiet quit. They don't date, they become "incels", they got mocked for even THAT, and they say screw it and give up. The response to this can sometimes be "Well, those men suck anyways, beta!" or something similar. But the reality is the countrywide and even global birthrates are falling off of a cliff, its not just the "incels", it's everyone, and these societal incentives (clout over connection), lead to ideological differences that even end up becoming political. So the young man (and probably even some women tbh) decide screw it and just opt-out of societal participation. Because they have no room for error to be a spaz or cringe, because they're so worried about their worst moments being posted on social, or being cancelled by someone for being weird and unskilled in social situations, they just decide its not worth the risk and give up. No idea what turns this around. If you have ideas, share them. But this is a very real, very unfortunate, and SUPER SAD situation. It really really sucks to be young right now. It is not a fun time, the tools of technology, the ideological/political climate, the economy, the incentives, the everything have failed you and set you up for defeat. Your feelings are valid. youtube.com/watch?v=eRrNP7…

@DisrespectedThe Get off the internet. Go touch grass.

I have this overwhelming feeling in my soul that something bad is about to happen. Is anybody else feeling this way?