Whiskey leaks.

You’re assuming wide popular opposition. Kwame Ture was advocating for minority rights in an era where popular movements were often lynch mobs.

Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture. Big pan-Africanist activist.

Where I live, there are American cockroaches. The good thing is that they don’t nest in homes, so their presence isn’t a commentary on your cleanliness. But they do wander into homes looking for food. And guys, they’re huge! Like you can hear them crawling.

I asked the pest control guy if there was a way to be finally rid of them and he said “move”.

A cousin uploaded a video to YT of her 4yo daughter playing with her friends in one of those inflatable pools. Just for family and the like. It was getting 500 views a day before she took it down. Creepy!

My first real girlfriend got pregnant soon after we broke up. Sometimes I wonder how my life would have been different if I did a teen pregnancy.

At this point in my life I’d barely traveled out of my red State; believed in Jesus; and the only contact I’d had with politics was Rush Limbaugh. Honestly, not ending up a Trump supporter with my demographics is like Neo-level bullet dodging.

Never let these cocksuckers like Brooks forget that they accepted the human cruelty and lawlessness of Trump. It was only when daddy tipped over the stock market that these men of reason started to wonder if Trump was qualified after all.

Bear with me:

Suppose there was a concentration camp that was basically an involuntary hotel/spa. Where the guards waited on the internees like servants. Even then, the existence of Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen with their incredible threat of violence would hang over every internee who might get transferred. Therefore even our imaginary pleasant concentration camp enforces order with violence.

In the antebellum South, the phrase for this principal was being “sold down the river” where enslaved people who cause trouble were offloaded to worse conditions. So remember that if you ever hear about “kind” slavers.

It’s not surprising that apologists for confederates and apologists for Nazis are working off the same script.

Men are stoic, women are ruled by emotion.

If you’ve got a revolver and read Sowell, I’m going to assume you are MAGA.

Though it does give me enormous pleasure to know conservative economists like Sowell and Laffer are alive and well to see Trump drive our economy into the ditch in the dumbest way possible.

So they’re taking a shitty tech trend away from the few people who found it useful in order to push the new shitty tech trend.

Many of these early communities on Atheism, which captured me for their sensibility and anti-orthodoxy, evolved into anti-progressivism and eventually evolved into the Redpill and Manosphere which is how millions of young boys today engage with their gender.

Everybody says I’m crazy when I point out that skeptic spaces in the 2010s were just as vulnerable as gamer spaces to hateful ideology. Islamophobia and Western Chauvinism were the red-pills of r/atheism.

In Reeve’s book “Black pill”, she notices a pattern in the alt-right leadership of terminally-online young men who are socially awkward, good test-takers, and high-IQ*, while having little academic, material, or dating success. Alt-right ideology was heavily correlated to autism. But Reeves points out that these were largely self-diagnosed “autists” who “identify” as having the one disability popularly conceived as a mental advantage. As opposed to all the other disabilities that make your life unworthy of living.

*IQ is bullshit

Who’s going to build these factories in the US when the tariffs are on-again off-again like a sitcom couple?

We’ve had about 9 different tariff regimes (all responding to the same “emergency”) in a little over two months. Trump thought he could ride into Tokyo on Godzilla’s shoulders only to raise a white flag out the bottom of a footprint moments later.

Steiner can still tariff from the North.

While 84% Tariffs is outrageous, It’s a measured response compared to 104%. The whole point is that China looks like the reasonable ones. They are the reasonable ones.

Applesauce and sausage gravy.

It shouldn’t be a surprise since pork pairs so well with sweet foods, but it’s as essential to biscuits and gravy as hot-sauce.

This is bad history.

Please explain what Chamberlain was supposed to have done differently. Explain how he was supposed to protect Czechoslovakia with zero military presence and zero contact with any resistance. Explain why Churchill’s plan to protect Poland was identical to Chamberlain’s plan to protect Czechoslovakia. (thoughts and prayers)

No, the “Chamberlain could have stopped Hitler if only…” meme is reactionary missive against diplomacy. It makes perfect sense, if you don’t think about it.

There were two kinds of people in our movement back then, the conservatives and the reactionaries.

No Mr. Brooks, you were all reactionaries. Just because MAGA doesn’t go around quoting Edmund Berk doesn’t mean that they don’t understand him, perhaps better than you. What did Burke advocate for if not for the French Revolutionaries to be brought low and for the kings to be restored?

You’re heroes resent extending political power to the bourgeoisie, so please stop talking about what conservatives thinkers want to do for the “working people”. Fuck off.

Who wants to bet that the idea of retaliatory tariffs wasn’t gamed out beforehand and they have no strategy?

It seems like if you want a trade war with China, you’d want partners to help you apply pressure and replace Chinese goods you can’t do without. Maybe somewhere like Vietnam for cheap labor; Canada for rare-earth minerals; and the EU to buy expensive American goods and services. Oh no.