Links - 7th November 2024 (1)

This Maryland college student outsmarted his teacher on test day - "Tuesday was the first test day of the semester for assistant college professor Reb Beatty and his accounting class at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland. As always, he let students cram as much information as they could onto a 3x5 notecard.  The problem was—he didn’t specify that cheat sheet had to be 3x5 inches.  “Today a student shows up with this,” Beatty wrote on Facebook."
She followed the rules : r/technicallythetruth - "the handwritten cheat sheet wasn't to allow the kids to cheat btw. It's to trick the student into thinking they're allowed to cheat, so they look through the material, try to think of what would be on the test, and writing it all down. In other words, studying.  A test really only checks to see if the student studied correctly, so it's a real 5 head move from the teachers. It's like the classic joke about a kid memorizing the textbook so that they can cheat on the exam, and never being caught."
She followed the rules : r/technicallythetruth - "I had a Networking and Security class where every test was completely open Internet. The teacher said, "if I write questions that are easily Google-able, then I did a bad job."  The tests involved sending you a VM where he hid the answers in various places you had to be able to locate and occasionally crack open. Actually a 10/10 class"
She followed the rules : r/technicallythetruth - "Reminds me of some madlad in university. Our teacher allowed us to bring a cheat sheet, with the only rule being that we could only write on one side of it. Well, this guy walked into the physics exam with a cheat sheet that he glued togehter to form a mobius strip."
"When I was TA at an university, the Professors allowed you to bring whatever you wanted, provided it was a dead tree edition (no electronics besides what we gave ya).  Folks with 1-3 sheets of handwritten notes passed just fine, but folks with actual books spent waaay too much time in them and didn't have time to complete the test."
"We had exams like that, used to be called "open book exams". You could bring every bit of non-electronic help you wanted. I usually brought quite a bit of notes, a folder filled with all the test exams and other questions I used to prepare myself, and the relevant books for the subject at hand with me.  I never felt you could bring to much, as these exams were always done in the same way: you could only ever hope to pass them, if you had a solid understanding of the subject and everything you needed to do for each task. So basically, you had to know what you wanted to look up and where to find it, otherwise just looking trough the books wont be of any help, especially because of the very limited time in these exams.  Honestly liked those exams the most however, as its the closest to my actual day to day engineering work I do now. As I always like to say "I might not know the exact answer off the top of my head, but I sure know exactly where to find it"."

Man went on a four-month bender after discovering ATM glitch that gave him millions - "A bartender in Australia briefly lived a life of luxury after discovering an ATM glitch that saw him spend A$1.6 million (£944,000).  Dan Saunders worked out the hack could give him unlimited cash, and for four months he lived the life of Riley, splashing out on private jets and high-end restaurants... For four months, he lived the dream, partying and travelling the world. He chartered private flights, paid off friends’ student loans and even paid for homeless people to have a place to stay for the night, saying he “felt like a rockstar.”  Although the bank would call every now and then to make sure certain transactions had been made by him, they hadn’t noticed the glitch and never mentioned or questioned it."

Meme - "The extent of the destruction in Gaza is truly horrifying. My apologies, this is Detroit."

Meme - Helen Hywater: "single men in OHIO send me a private message ,, am looking for LOVE and companoinship"
Patricia Hannan: "I think you commented on the wrong info. We are praying for a beautiful 21 yr old girl, in ICU fighting for her life."
Helen Hywater: "she would want me to be happy"

Meme - PSYCHOLOGIST: "I don't diagnose you with depression"
14 year olds (Thanos): "Fine! I'll do it myself."

Meme - 🏛 Aristophanes 🏛 @Aristos_Revenge: "Lawyer friend just commissioned into the reserves as JAG, and these were his first thoughts on his first time at a military base while in-processing:"
"Almost every square foot of workspace had something on it reminding soldiers not to rape, not to be racist, not to lie, not to be racist, not to be racist, not to kill themselves, not to be sexist, not to be racist. No wonder morale is so terrible. It's a neverending fire hose of a message that the military is a terrible place to work. Even the bathroom (in terrible condition) had a dozen posters in it. Are soldiers really getting pimped and human trafficked? Awareness campaigns beget MORE of what they want to stop."
Wolf Bronsky on X - "This is true and they know it. I had a friend who participated in a VA funded study in grad school, after he got out. Suicide prevention. Part of the study was reaching out to "at risk" vets via phone on a regular basis, to ask about suicidal ideation and offer support. This constant reinforcement of the idea that the "at risk" population was at risk created the idea that these people *should* be, or had reason to be, considering suicide. The constant drumbeat of "are you thinking about killing yourself?" actually caused the suicide rate in this cohort to spike over the control group. They had to discontinue the study."
"Awareness" can be a self-fulfilling prophecy

Kelsea - in Christ on X - "We're doomed. I just saw a post where most of the people in the comments LEGITIMATELY thought it was a form of injustice that people can't get maternity leave for when they get a new puppy. That it's not fair to those who don't want or can't have kids to not have comparable time off to "get their new puppy settled" because "their pets are their kids."  I hate pet culture so much. And I have a dog and a cat that I love. But when people call their pets their children I want to vomit."

Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "That sinking feeling about America's future when you find out that only the less educated from each racial group are above the population replacement rate and the most educated are well below it."

Meme - "Not Just Bikes sent you a message. Twitter is being run into the ground by fascists. Anybody that gets the blue check is obviously OK with that, so I'm OK to block them. But it's irrelevant anyway; I'm not on Twitter anymore. I'm on Mastodon and Blue Sky though."
Everyone who isn't on the far left is a "fascist"

Meme - "Armor from a freaking coffee commercial *Nespresso The Quest with George Clooney, with detailed armour*
Armor from multi-milion dollars tv shows *Nilfgaard armour from The Witcher, Galadriel in Rings of Power, Saxon armour from Vikings, Ser Arthur Dayne in Game of Thrones*"

Actual Fact Bot: Revived | Facebook - "Ridley Scott tried to make Gladiator (2000) an authentic representation of Ancient Rome. An early script had Maximus doing a product endorsement for olive oil, which was historically accurate for famous gladiators to do, but the detail was left out in later scripts for being too unbelievable."

Meme - Emil O W Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil: "The Wikipedia donation scam. Begs for donations, but actually has 250+ million dollars in the bank, and growing.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_"

Meme - Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen: "Katherine Maher was formerly the Wikimedia CEO.  Wikipedia frequently asks for donations:
These donations are naturally assumed to be for Wikipedia, and to keep it running. However, Wikipedia has large reserves and income, and doesn't need your money.  Instead the money goes to Wikimedia staff, which has ballooned from $4 milllion in 2010 to $100 million today:
Another large item is grants, the recipients of which include explicitly left-wing interest organisations, such as Borealis Philantropy, or The SeRCH Foundation which makes this type of content:
The History, Politics, and Science of Black Hair,
Decolonized Mentoring
This foundation is clearly massively bloated. And it is borderline unethical how it uses the donations that are explicitly given to Wikipedia."

Shared post - The Wiki Piggy Bank - "Wikimedia grows rich as Wikipedia donations are used for political causes...
The Wikimedia Foundation received over $50 Million dollars more than they spent in 2021.  They made $50+ million in profit...
Q: Does Wikipedia desperately need your donations in order to continue operating?
A: No.  Not by a long-shot.  If donations dropped significantly, there would be no hit to Wikipedia operations.  Certainly not for quite some time.
When Wikipedia tells you they need your $5 donation to keep running?  They are lying to you...
Is it strange that Wikipedia donations are being sent, by the Millions, to be handled by a political orgainzation?  Yes.  That is, most definitely, strange.  Considering Wikipedia has repeatedly stated the importantce of neutrality... incredibly so.  But it gets... even weirder.  Neither Wikimedia nor The Tides Foundation publish details about how those funds are being used.  It appears to be a secret.  But, considering what The Tides Foundation does, it is something political.  And only on one side of the political spectrum.  Not neutral, like Wikipedia says they must be... Whatever your thoughts around any of those statements, it should be noted that Wikimedia is spending $4.5 Million dollars worth of Wikipedia donations to further those goals.  Money that is not being spent on running Wikipedia.  In fact... it is worth noting that the dollar figure being allocated towards this "Knowledge Equity Fund" is twice the size of the yearly Server Hosting costs for all of Wikipedia. Regardless of what any of us think about the specific political spending of Wikimedia, one thing is crystal clear:  A significant portion of donations -- solicited for the stated purpose of the running of Wikipedia -- are being spent furthing political goals.  Not on running Wikipedia.  All while Wikipedia is claiming to be barely surviving.  And Wikimedia is getting rich in the process."

Meme - Emil O W Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil: "Wikipedia / Wikimedia is not the only scam non-profit operation. Mozilla Firefox too. It's even richer, over a billion dollars in the bank.  Lunduke goes what other journalists should be doing.  https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/f"
Shared post - Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla - "Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that's just for starters...
The head of Mozilla earned roughly $5.6 Million during 2021. The rest of the executive team ranged, more or less, from $100k to $300k.  Interesting to note that the Mozilla CEO earned nearly as much ($5.6 M) as Mozilla received in donations ($7 M).  Also interesting that the CEO received a bonus of nearly $5 Million… considering the precarious position that Mozilla is in (being dependent on a single client continuing to pay for Search Engine placement). Unless there’s a secret deal going on, that looks like a company teetering on the edge to me. Strange to reward a CEO for that sort of future uncertainty... Mckensie Mack is a public speaker who regularly discusses her anger at “White Colonialism” and her dislike of “CIS” men and women. The “Mckensie Mack” company website blog primarily discusses abortion and Trans related issues.  Why would a company that develops a web browser want to pay her close to half a million dollars (in one year)? That remains unclear. It is, however, worth noting that this is a far larger expense than any of the executive team of Mozilla earn in salary (other than the CEO)... That founder, Neil Lewis Jr., appears to have focused his career on “vaccine acceptance”, problems with “white” people, and his theory that “white people” can not be victims of discrimination.  What does this “Action Research Collaborative” actually do? Why would Mozilla need their services and be willing to pay $100,000 for it?  That remains entirely unknown.  While The Lunduke Journal does not like to delve too deeply into the Political Woods (tm), it should be questioned why so much money — possibly millions of dollars donated by individuals who thought they were supporting a web browser — is being funneled into highly political organizations that seem to have no involvement with the World Wide Web, Web Browsers, or any related standards... Mozilla, the developer of Firefox, gave $375,000 to a “Fund” that specifically exists to provide money and services for political organizations of one particular “alignment”.  Why? In what way does this help Firefox? Or Firefox users?...
With the 70%+ reliance on Google (a competitor) for revenue, why is Mozilla spending money on projects that have no goal of being profitable (and have no relation to their core business)?
What happens when the Google funding goes away? Mozilla appears certain that it never will (based on their spending)…. why is that?
Why is Mozilla decreasing software development funding when development of Firefox is the cash cow?"
The amount of scams in the non profit industry is amazing. But of course, left wingers will never call for "taxing" rich charities - only churches (regardless of how rich they are), because they just hate Christians and Christianity

Facebook - "I WANT ALL OF THESE ESPECIALLY A DISAPPEARING STAIRCASE"

Meme - "This building looks like it was designed in Microsoft Word. *misaligned windows*"

Meme - "SCIENTIST: Let's name this spider Long Legs, for its long legs
SCIENTIST 2: Hmm not kinky enough"
On Daddy Long Legs

Meme - "Amsterdam Travel Tips and Hacks
Anonymous participant
This is a tip for Americans. Me and my wife got kicked out of a cheese store in Amsterdam because we called them out for pronouncing Gouda wrong! If you go over there beware they get very defensive over the correct pronunciations of words."

Meme - Mary Jane in Spider Man: "Peter, I don't want to hear about your 2 jobs, university, intemship, dead parents, dead uncle and 1 living related soul who is a sick old lady, financial struggles, loss of your house and your scooter that got demolished in a car accident. Why didn't you show up to my play? I haye to fuck Chad now, bye"

Meme - *Flashing Asian woman and Munch's The Scream at From Monet to Kandinsky, Visions Alive at River City Bangkok*

Meme - "My uncle 1976 Died 7 days after this picture was taken. *Happy old man beside busty woman exposing cleavage*"

Meme - *Black man and redhead at bar*
*Black man and redhead at woman's home with man overlooking her*
Redhead: "So, Is the stereotype true?"
Black man: "Damn right"
*Black man stabbing redhead to death and stealing her pink bag and leaving*

Meme - "Who was the behind the holocaust"
"Maurice. Fictional character" (from Madagascar)

Paul Elam on X - "Marriage based on romance has only been a thing for about 150 years, as opposed to the 6,000 years of civilization that preceded it. And romantically based marriages started falling apart completely the moment we removed the stigma attached to divorce.   Romance was a fad that is now failing and fading, largely because it's a lopsided and rather childish model on which to build a marriage and a family.   You can thank red pill men that the truth is coming out. #MarriageStrike"

Actual Fact Bot: Revived | Facebook - "Fort Saint-Jean in Marseille, France was built with cannons facing the city, not the sea, due to constant uprisings."

Baby on Japan store sign turns into horror poster child as ink melts in intense summer heat in recent years - "A sign outside a store in Shiga prefecture, Japan, which featured a photo of a baby, has turned into something out of a horror movie as the ink melted due to intense heat in recent years.  Many people have since stopped outside the store, Hangai Nagahama, to take pictures of the ghastly sign, the store owner told Japanese media FNN... he did not change the sign immediately as Japan's Obon holidays, observed from Aug. 13 to 16, was around the corner.  "I thought I'd leave it as it is for a while, so that people can enjoy it as a summer horror experience," he added."

Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete - "A former jockey who was left paralyzed from the waist down after a horse riding accident was able to walk again thanks to a cutting-edge piece of robotic tech: a $100,000 ReWalk Personal exoskeleton.  When one of its small parts malfunctioned, however, the entire device stopped working. Desperate to gain his mobility back, he reached out to the manufacturer, Lifeward, for repairs. But it turned him away, claiming his exoskeleton was too old... these companies can shut down entirely, leaving a patient stuck with proprietary tech that needs specialized software or hardware to maintain. One man, for example, was forced to spend enormous amounts of time and effort to teach himself how to repair a device that managed his debilitating cluster headaches, after the company that made it went belly up. Others lost their sight when the manufacturer of a bionic eye stopped supporting the devices. That some of these manufacturers can come and go isn't the point, though. As 404 notes, the issue is the nefarious practices that many of them use to make their devices difficult to fix without their help. In absence of strong regulations called right to repair laws, manufacturers aren't obligated to share the specialized parts, tools, and guides that make third party repairs possible. In the tech world, Apple is particularly notorious for its hostility towards using aftermarket parts to repair its devices. Some manufacturers will go as far to lean on people who share independently created repair guides for their products... Fortunately, Lifeward eventually capitulated and Straight was able to get his exoskeleton repaired — but that was only after an intense campaign in which he went on local TV, got highlighted in a horse industry publication, and gained steam on social media. If it weren't for that, he could still be struggling to find a way to get his mobility back again."

Meme - Gandalf: "I've brought you a fresh one Denethor"
*Denethor leering at Pippin*
Pippin: "...Gandalf?"
Gandalf: "I wish there was another way Pippin. We need Gondor"
*Denethor strokes Pippin's cheek and then looks down [implied blowjob?]*

Planets could be the reason early humans revolutionized farming - "Hunter-gatherers were better off than Neolithic farmers, diet-wise — until Earth was hit by seasonal extremes caused by Jupiter's gravity... There are a lot of Grand Theories about the multiple Neolithic Revolutions, and a new one by a 40-year-old Italian economist, Andrea Matranga, is the talk of econ Twitter this week. Matranga’s paper, “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” has been accepted by the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which is in itself a reputation-making achievement. It’s all the more impressive because the paper is sole-authored, and Matranga’s current academic platform is an assistant professorship at the unprepossessing Chapman University in Orange, Calif. Matranga’s own explanation for the invention of agriculture is: “Believe it or not, it is down to extraterrestrial forces.” Yes, that’s an actual quote from a cheeky Twitter thread in which Matranga summarizes his hypothesis colourfully. The real idea is that the period of the Neolithic Revolutions coincided with a time when seasonal temperature and rainfall differences were maximized by coinciding features of Earth’s orbit — features attributable mostly to Jupiter’s gravitational tug on us... the local Neolithic Revolutions coincide with maximum local seasonality, and then he builds some economic models of primitive society to suggest what effect this might have had on social organization and population evolution... For it’s not just the average that matters. In a world that was more or less the same year-round, hunter-gatherers didn’t have to worry about food storage: they could migrate cyclically within a small range, following wild game, to keep up with modest seasonal effects. But if the seasons then got more intense, food storage would become more important to the long-term survival of the group: one winter could now finish everyone off. Those hunter-gatherer skeletons from Neolithic times really are bigger and stronger than those of the farmers, but they are also marked noticeably, Matranga says, with “Harris lines” like the rings of a tree — a biological signal of periodic starvation. Those sedentary idiots eating grass — ancestors to most of us — might have been hungry year-round, but they prevailed, and eventually stumbled their way into civilization. For better or worse, as some would say."

Let’s be honest… the Conservatives are deluded - "Labour’s extraordinarily short honeymoon and the prospect of a new leader mean sunnier days appear to be on the horizon. There is perhaps even a sense of schadenfreude that the new government finds it just as hard as they did. In the immortal words of the leading philosopher of our age, Kamala Harris: what can be, unburdened by what has been. The trouble is – also in the words of Harris – the Tories don’t live in a coconut tree, they exist in a context. The last election result was their worst in their nearly 200-year history, a damning indictment of 14 years of Conservative government. The public lost trust in their competence, and that’s extremely difficult to regain from opposition."

Andrew Lloyd Webber condemns dynamic pricing for concert tickets - "Asked about dynamic pricing potentially being used for theatre tickets, Lord Lloyd-Webber told The Sundays Times magazine: ‘I don’t think theatres should be in the business of trying to push prices up. ‘You need to break even, but I don’t like making theatre inaccessible... ‘People just don’t realise the value of the arts,’ he said... 'I really believe that for every penny spent on music in schools, you will save it in policing costs related to knife crime, drugs, behavioural issues.’"
When you don't realise that dynamic pricing means the starting prices will be lower, and - either that or with static pricing there's a shortage (as there is today) and you have scalping and/or shortages, as we do today (and that is also condemned)

One in ten civil servants should be in prison because they were so bad, says Badenoch - "Kemi Badenoch claimed that up to 10 per cent of civil servants were so “very, very bad” that they should be in prison, claiming they leaked official secrets, undermined their ministers and agitated against them... Asked if he missed Boris Johnson, Stuart Andrew, the Conservative Party’s Chief Whip, replied: “I’m not getting in on any of the conversations about who should be the candidates. “You know I have to be impartial. I’m really pleased that we have got four excellent candidates.” When pressed on if he missed Mr Johnson, Mr Andrew said: “I’ve got four brilliant candidates to choose from. I’m happy with that.” Challenged again, he replied: “Everybody misses him.”... Kemi Badenoch has claimed that “a little bit of adversity” in life is good for mental health, writes Genevieve Holl-Allen. The Conservative leadership candidate said that not having “adversity” to overcome “is actually very bad for the human spirit”. Speaking at a hustings event last night, Ms Badenoch said:“The mental health crisis that we’ve been facing in the country is something that a lot of people talk about but I don’t think we’ve really got to the roots of. “It is not a function of income, many of the people with the most severe mental health crises actually live very comfortable lifestyles, some people call it ‘affluenza’. “That it’s just not being able to feel a need to do anything that is actually very bad for the human spirit. That we all need to have a little bit of adversity to help us cope. Those who don’t have any actually do badly.”"

Meme - "Mommy, what were you doing bouncing on Daddy's stomach last night?"
"I have to do that, or Daddy's belly gets very fat. Bouncing keeps him skinny."
"That's not going to work."
"Why not?"
"Because Tina the babysitter keeps blowing him back up again."

Links - 6th November 2024 (2 - China's 'Peaceful' Rise)

High-Net-Worth People Are Leaving China. - "Smart money, as the saying goes, is bailing out of China. The country’s millionaires and billionaires are emigrating in record numbers, with 2024 likely to see an out migration of 15,200 such people.  Henley & Partners, an investment migration firm, keeps track of such things and notes that this year’s expected figure is some 10% above 2023’s out migration of 13,800. Add to that the 500 or so high net worth individuals who are expected to leave Hong Kong, the out migration jump is that much greater. America and Singapore will receive most of the flow. There is no way to document how much wealth these people will take with them, but from past trends, Henley & Partners estimates that each migrant will take the equivalent wealth of between $30 million and $1.0 billion. Reasons migrants state for their move vary, as one would expect, but most mention the uncertainties implicit in China’s current economic situation and how those uncertainties raises questions about future investment returns. The ongoing property crisis and real estate turmoil loom large in this assessment of uncertainty, especially because falling real estate values have hurt household wealth and accordingly left questions about China’s general economic growth prospects. Some, in explaining their decision, reference the downgrading in China’s financial outlook by two credit rating agencies, Moody’s and Fitch. A motivator left unsaid, and for obvious reasons, is the hostility President Xi Jinping has in the past shown to privately owned businesses and personal wealth generally. Singapore has long been the preferred destination for such migrants. But recently, Singapore has stepped up its scrutiny of inbound Chinese wealth... Canada and the United States will remain popular alternatives for these Chinese and their money. The United Arab Emirates has also gained popularity, offering, as it does, zero income tax, a luxury lifestyle, and so-called “golden visas” that make the movement of investment funds easy and private. Japan, too, has gained popularity, because of its proximity to China, an attractive lifestyle, and the fact that it can advertise itself as one of the safest countries in the world.   To be fair to China, it is not the only country seeing an exodus of high-net-worth individuals and families. South Korea and Taiwan have also witnessed such departures. In the case of these two countries, security more than economics is the paramount concern. For the former, the belligerence of North Korea looms large. For Taiwan, it is China’s belligerence that prompts people who can to move their life, their assets, and their family out of potential harm’s way... China watchers can note two telling messages in this migration news. One is that it makes a clearly negative commentary on President Xi Jinping’s economic management. Second is that the departure of this wealth will make Beijing’s efforts to revitalize China’s economy that much more difficult, though there is no way to quantify the effect."
It's ironic that Xi Dada is causing rich people to leave both China and Taiwan, but for different reasons.

‘Faces of Sanxingdui’: Bronze Age relics shed light on mysterious ancient kingdom - "the narrative that the Shu kingdom was innately Chinese is contentious, according to Ian Johnson, a senior fellow for China Studies at US think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations. “Over the past few decades, the (Chinese Communist Party) has been trying to push a historical myth that all the peoples who have ever lived inside the current borders of the People’s Republic are ‘Chinese,’” he told CNN over email. “The basic idea is that the PRC (People’s Republic of China) encompasses people who naturally belong together and therefore, from today’s standpoint, form a nation. Hence any effort to have autonomy or even independence is taboo — it runs against history.”... there was little support for the idea that civilizations along the Yellow River had much in common with those in the Sichuan Basin. “They have commonalities but are not the same — just as ancient Assyrians and Phoenicians and Greeks weren’t the same, even if they shared certain things in common,” he said, adding: “sponsoring these kinds of exhibitions are popular and win the government credit.” When asked to comment, the Hong Kong Palace Museum said the exhibition was “curated based on academic and archaeological research” and that it reinforces its mission to deepen audiences’ “understanding of the lives and cultures of various regions and ethnic groups as well as exchanges among them in ancient China, which have contributed to the magnificence of China’s civilization and its ‘diversity in unity’ pattern of development.”"

LILLEY: The U.S. prosecutes government officials who allegedly act for China - "Kickbacks worth millions, promises of access to key politicians, blocking unfavourable messages disliked by Beijing. These are the allegations against a top political aid charged with acting as an agent of the Chinese government. The charges weren’t laid in Canada, though; they were laid in New York, where they take issues like foreign interference seriously... Linda Sun, 41, the former deputy chief of staff to New York Gov. Kathleen Hochul, was arrested along with her husband Chris Hu. Sun, not only worked for Hochul as a top aide, she had previously worked for Gov. Andrew Cuomo before he stepped down. “As alleged, while appearing to serve the people of New York as Deputy Chief of Staff within the New York State Executive Chamber, the defendant and her husband actually worked to further the interests of the Chinese government and the CCP,” stated United States Attorney Breon Peace . According to officials, Sun allegedly ensured that key messaging coming out of the governor’s office mirrored what Beijing wanted, that she blocked “representatives of the Taiwanese government from having access to high-level New York State officers” and arranged meetings between Chinese government officials and New York State government representatives. In exchange for the favours, the United States Department of Justice claims that Sun and her husband were given millions of dollars in kickbacks that allowed them to buy a $4-million home on Long Island, a $2.1-million condo in Hawaii, a Ferrari and other luxury cars. The indictment against the couple says that kickbacks were funnelled through Hu’s company and other benefits were offered to Sun’s family in China, including jobs, promotions, and invitations to events. The pair allegedly laundered money as part of the scheme, allowing them to live their lavish lifestyle... In the United States, actions like this result in criminal prosecution. In Canada, it results in Justin Trudeau trying to ignore the issue, then claiming he takes things seriously and then trying to pat us on the head and tell us we have nothing to worry about."

Richard Hanania on X - "Linda Sun was not a very good Chinese spy. While working for the governor’s office, she blocked an invitation for the NY governor to attend a banquet with the Taiwanese president. She then personally went to the banquet to protest."

China tried to drive voters away from Conservative candidate, inquiry hears - "investigators for the Commissioner of Canada Elections concluded that the Chinese government tried to get Chinese Canadian voters to vote against the Conservative Party (CPC) and then-Conservative MP Kenny Chiu in the 2021 election. Chiu was elected in the B.C. riding of Steveston-Richmond East in 2019 but lost to the Liberal candidate in 2021. "These efforts were motivated by elements of the CPC's election platform and by actions and statements made by member of Parliament Kenny Chiu that were leveraged to bolster claims that both the platform and Chiu were anti-China and were encouraging anti-Chinese discrimination and racism," the report says. "These messages were amplified through repetition in social media, chat groups, posts and in Chinese language online, print and radio media throughout the [Greater Vancouver Area]." The messages had an impact on voters, the report says. "According to Chinese Canadian interview subjects, this invoked a widespread fear amongst electors, described as a fear of retributive measures from Chinese authorities should a CPC government be elected," the report says. "This included the possibility that travel to and from China could be interfered with by Chinese authorities, as well as measures being taken against family members or business interests in China.""

US companies see record-low profits in China amid geopolitical tensions and slow growth, report says - "American companies in China are seeing record-low profits, with business confidence at an all-time low amid U.S.-China tensions and a slowing Chinese economy, according to a report published Thursday by a U.S. business group. Out of 306 companies polled, a record-low 66% were profitable in 2023, according to the China business report published by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. The report also found that only 47% of respondents were optimistic about their business outlook in China over the next five years, the lowest in the survey’s history of more than two decades. Beijing and Washington have been at odds in recent years over issues like trade and manufacturing, as well as China’s claims over the South China Sea. China is also grappling with a slowing domestic economy, with lackluster consumer demand and deflationary pressures persisting even post-COVID. The geopolitical tensions between both countries was the top challenge to businesses’ operations in China, the report found... Many businesses are now redirecting investments to other regions such as Vietnam, Malaysia and South Asia, Zheng said. A record high of 25% of companies polled cut investment in China in 2023, AmCham’s report found, largely driven by concerns over China’s slowing growth... The AmCham report came a day after the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China published a report with similar sentiments on the increasing risks of doing business in China. The report highlighted a lack of implementation on promised reforms and an increasingly politicized business environment."

The Chinese economy is slowing, and it could affect all of us - The Washington Post - "Growth in industrial output and retail sales has slowed, while the stock market and investment in real estate took a nosedive. Unemployment is up, and deflation remains an urgent issue.  Chinese officials, however, still appear reluctant to take action to reinvigorate the economy with the kinds of huge stimulus packages used after the 2008 global financial crisis, which many economists say is again necessary to stem the slowdown. Instead, the Chinese government continues to double down on its strategy of investment in advanced manufacturing and export-led growth, even as escalating trade tensions with the United States and Europe are undermining its ability to sell some its most valuable exports overseas... Landing a job is a particular challenge for young people: After the youth unemployment rate reached record highs last year, Chinese officials temporarily stopped releasing the statistic and concocted a new, more favorable metric. But even the new metric now looks dire — in July, youth unemployment in urban areas reached 17 percent... After taking power in 2013, Xi unleashed an all-encompassing anti-corruption drive, routing out graft while also taking down potential political opponents and centralizing power. Though the effort was mainly focused on corrupt officials at first, it has since expanded to the private sector, with the government moving to detain superstar bankers and investigate billionaires such as Xu Jiayin, founder of the embattled real estate firm Evergrande. In 2020, regulators called off the initial public offering of Jack Ma’s financial technology giant Ant Group, beginning a years-long crackdown on the once-booming Chinese tech industry, which the government views as monopolistic. Chen Zhiwu, a finance professor at the University of Hong Kong, said that the government’s assault on the private sector is at the root of China’s economic troubles. “There is a deep belief that the private-business owners and private businesses are in competition for power and for influence in the larger Chinese society with the [Chinese Communist] Party,” he said... Return to menu The Chinese government has not yet been willing to implement aggressive stimulus policies to boost consumer demand, despite increasing calls for measures such as bolstering social welfare systems, stabilizing the real estate market or making cash payments to struggling families to encourage them to go out and spend. “There is growing consensus among economists, myself included, there should be cash payouts to people, which I don’t think will happen,” said Zhu Ning, a finance professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, pointing to practical barriers and the enormous expense of handing out checks to a vast population. Zhu also cites a philosophical reason: “I think the policymakers are skeptical of the way the West has handled covid with handing out cash and don’t want to follow its example.” Instead, the Chinese government has focused on funding manufacturing, in part due to a key Communist Party priority to become self sufficient in critical technologies like semiconductors"

China new home prices fall at fastest pace in over 9 years in Aug - "The property market continues to grapple with deeply indebted developers, incomplete apartments, and declining buyer confidence, straining the financial system and endangering the 5% economic growth target for the year... Chinese policymakers have intensified efforts to support the sector including reducing mortgage rates and lowering home buying costs, which has partly revitalised demand in major cities. Smaller cities, which face fewer home purchase restrictions and have high levels of unsold inventory, are especially vulnerable, highlighting the challenges faced by authorities to balance demand and supply across various regions."

Japanese Schoolboy's Killing Spotlights China's Ultranationalism Problem - Newsweek - "The recent stabbing of an elementary student in Shenzhen has again raised concerns over anti-Japanese sentiment in China.  On September 18, a 10-year-old boy was attacked by a 44-year-old man, identified as Zhong, near the Shenzhen Japanese School where he was enrolled. The child died the next day.  The incident marked the second knife attack on Japanese nationals in under three months.  In June, a Japanese woman and her child were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after a knife-wielding assailant attacked them. A Chinese woman was stabbed while trying to protect the pair and later succumbed to her injuries. Analysts and Japanese commentators have pointed their fingers at the Chinese government, saying Beijing's frequent focus on historical and modern-day grievances against Japan has fueled such hatred.  Ou Si-fu, an associate research fellow and director at Taiwan's Institute for National Defense and Security Research, told Newsweek the September 18 attack demonstrated that underlying resentment toward Japan can boil over at any time.  Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor of international relations at Tokyo's Waseda University, told the South China Morning Post newspaper that, under China's President Xi Jinping, education has become more "aggressively anti-Japanese" than under previous Chinese leaders.  "Xi is using criticism of Japan to bolster his own support at a time when the Chinese economy is struggling, with the policy of 'love the nation' designed to safeguard his power," Shigemura added.  One of the more prominent nationalist displays came from a middle school in Shandong Province, where students reenacted the 2022 assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe... On Chinese social-media platforms such as Bilibili, some users questioned why the boy's murder was getting so much attention. "I don't understand why Japanese injuries are causing such a big response online in China," one user commented.  Another user warned: "If Japan blindly escalates the situation, it will only lead to more tragedy."" They said resentment toward Japan is not the product of education but of unaddressed grievances such as Japan's wartime atrocities in the 1930s and 1940s; the enshrinement of war criminals at Yasukuni Shrine; and the dumping of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which suffered a meltdown after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.  Last year, China stepped up its propaganda campaign over Fukushima, banning Japanese seafood and accusing Tokyo of irresponsibly threatening the environment, despite the International Atomic Energy Agency's report the treated water is "consistent with international safety standards... In a discussion with Japan's top diplomat, Yoko Kamikawa, in New York on Monday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China would handle the investigation according to the law but advised Japan to avoid politicizing the incident. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian reiterated Wang's statement at a press conference, saying that the murder was an isolated incident unrelated to anti-Japanese sentiment.  "Some in Japan are linking this case with so-called anti-Japan comments on Chinese social media, exaggerating and sensationalizing 'safety risks.' This rhetoric does not match the facts," Lin said, though he stated that the investigation was ongoing.  He added that China remains committed to ensuring the safety of foreign nationals and urged Japan not to "politicize or inflate" the incident."
It's ironic that the ones who caused the problem by politicising things claim others shouldn't politicise things
Good luck if Chinese people are attacked in Japan. Suddenly China will be bitching like hell

FIRST READING: Erin O'Toole warns of 'flirtatious' woman who may have been a Chinese spy - "O’Toole recounted an incident in which a “young, ethnic Chinese woman” repeatedly harassed him at public events. “Mr. O’Toole described the young woman as very flirtatious and as unprofessional and relentless in her attempts to obtain his phone number, to the point that he felt bothered and uncomfortable,” reads a summary compiled by commission lawyers... One odd detail that has emerged during commission hearings is that O’Toole’s name sounds similar to the Chinese word for “vomiting.” In a series of anti-Conservative social media posts with potential links to Chinese consulates, the Tory leader is referred to as “Vomiting.” O’Toole also described another potentially suspicious incident involving young Chinese women — although this one lacked any sexual overtones. During his first run at the Conservative leadership in 2017, he described his office being approached by two “lovely” young Chinese students offering their help in Chinese-language data entry and canvassing. “He thought it strange for international students to follow domestic politics so closely and even stranger that they would volunteer in the context of an internal party leadership race,” reads a summary of his testimony... “In the context of a busy political campaign, harried front-line staff do not have the time, resources, or training to scrutinize ambiguous behaviour,” read commission documents... In 2011, Conservative MP Bob Dechert was thrust into an embarrassing scandal in which it emerged that he had exchanged amorous messages with Shi Rong, an Ottawa-based correspondent for Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency. “You are so beautiful. I really like the picture of you by the water with your cheeks puffed,” read one of the messages, which were reportedly made public by Shi’s husband. Although the Shi affair lacked the usual hallmarks of a targeted Chinese operation, security analysts have noted that Xinhua is often used to move spies into foreign capitals. At the time, Dechert was parliamentary secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. In 2018, then senior Conservative MP Tony Clement revealed he had sent pictures of his genitalia to two West African men who had been posing as a female paramour. The motive in Clement’s case appeared to be a simple instance of financial blackmail, rather than an attempt at political interference... When it comes to alleged Chinese “honey traps” (espionage operations that use sex to gain access), one of the most successful in recent years occurred in the United States. In 2020, Axios broke the story of Christine Fang, a Chinese intelligence operative who had initiated romantic relationships with two California mayors — in addition to establishing close ties with federal politicians, including Congressman Eric Swalwell."

Can China’s Stimulus Package Help Save Its Economy, Property Markets? - Bloomberg - "Optimism was high as China exited pandemic curbs in late 2022 and reopened its borders that the nation would see a rapid recovery in consumer spending fueled by “revenge shopping,” eating out and travel. That boost failed to materialize as people fretted about what weak growth means for unemployment and incomes. The years-long real estate crisis also wiped out an estimated $18 trillion in wealth from households, prompting people to save rather than spend and pushing China into its longest streak of deflation since 1999. Chinese consumption edged up slightly during a major holiday in September, adding to signs the rebound in spending by households still had a way to go. Unemployment remains a concern, made worse by a regulatory crackdown on big technology companies that deprived many young, ambitious graduates of a lucrative career path. The youth jobless rate rose in August for the second straight month to its highest level this year."

Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius - "Few places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is Sri Lanka, 1,700km to the north-east. More than 50 types of shark live in its pristine reefs. But the archipelago’s main resident is much more lethal: a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island, leased to America by Britain since the 1970s. The case of Diego Garcia pulls together Britain’s troubling colonial legacy, modern concerns about human rights and international law, and the hard realities of geopolitics. Its location—midway between the Middle East and Asia—is strategically important; American planes flew sorties from it during both Gulf wars and the war in Afghanistan... On October 3rd the British government announced a preliminary deal to cede sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius. Under the agreement the Diego Garcia base will remain in British hands and under American control for the term of a (renewable) 99-year lease. Britain will also pay Mauritius to build infrastructure and, eventually, resettle some of the smaller Chagos islands. The deal is clearly good for Mauritius, and soothes a diplomatic irritant for Britain. But it doesn’t much help the Chagossians themselves. And the real beneficiary may well be the government in Beijing. The Mauritian government has argued that the deal marks the return of Britain’s last African colony and the righting of a historic injustice. That perspective has caught on internationally; the United Nations General Assembly voted in support of Mauritius’s claim. The reality is much messier. The link between Mauritius and the Chagos islands is fairly flimsy; the two territories are 2,000km apart and share no pre-colonial history. They were governed together as a single colony only between 1903 and 1965, when Britain paid Mauritius £3m (then $8.4m) to renounce its claim. Although the islands’ economic value is limited, claiming them allows Mauritius to greatly expand its territorial waters, as well as charge Britain and America for the Diego Garcia base. In 2019 the International Court of Justice issued a non-binding opinion determining that Britain’s separation of Mauritius and the Chagos Islands was unlawful, on the basis that international law forbade a colonial power from dividing a territory prior to independence. Although unenforceable, that decision galvanised international outrage and became an increasing diplomatic headache for Britain. Mostly left out of the negotiations leading up to this week’s announcement have been the Chagossians themselves. Initially taken, after expulsion, to the Seychelles or Mauritius, where many faced marginalisation and racial discrimination, they were eventually offered British citizenship; a sizable community now lives in Crawley, near Gatwick Airport. “The majority of us feel stabbed [in the back] by the UK government: unhappy, disappointed, frustrated,” says Pascalina Nellan, one British-based Chagossian. “We don’t want a change in sovereignty without consulting us. We were never consulted.” Peter Lamb, the MP for Crawley, said he has not heard a single local Chagossian voice in favour of ceding the islands to Mauritius. Pravind Jugnauth, the Mauritian prime minister, has used language that may mean only Chagossians with Mauritian citizenship would be eligible to resettle on the islands, leaving many in Britain or the Seychelles excluded... One particular worry is the prospect that China may have an easier time snooping if the archipelago is in the hands of Mauritius, which has substantial investment and trade links with the government in Beijing. The reason that Britain had previously opposed Chagossian resettlement, even outside Diego Garcia, was out of concern that a permanent local population could jeopardise the security of the base. Another option for espionage would arise if Mauritius allowed China’s fishing fleet into its waters; vessels with surveillance equipment could be easily mingled with legitimate fishing boats. Further out, the loss of sovereignty means future Mauritian governments could also call the lease into question. Backers of the deal argue that ending legal ambiguity about the base puts it on a firmer footing. But the Philippines closed an American naval base in Subic Bay in 1992 after the Senate in Manila rejected an extension. Libya shut British and American bases in the 1970s, after Muammar Qaddafi took power. “Mauritius can always renege. When you have sovereignty you can get away with almost anything really,” says Yuan Yi Zhu, a legal academic at Policy Exchange, a think-tank. “Sovereignty is very powerful; a lease isn’t.” For Britain the upside is a diplomatic boost and the end to an embarrassing narrative about a remnant of the British Empire. But just how much cachet Britain has bought remains uncertain. One former foreign secretary, opposed to the deal, is sceptical. “You won’t get the global south on board. This won’t do it. There will be another demand,” he says. “It is naive. Once you do something, you cannot reverse it. You’ve lost it for ever.”"
Is Mauritius going to pay the money back?
Left wing ideology is about crippling your country
The ignorant Chagossians don't know that "decolonisation" is a good thing

Meme - James 🚄 @TypeForVictory: "Here's a visualisation of why Diego Garcia isn't just "some tiny islands" as the Foreign Office seem to think.  The red circle is the combat range of an F-35A, giving air supremacy. The yellow circle is the B-1 Lancer. Why do you *think* India/China want to "decolonise" it? #BIOT"

Uncle Roger comedian deletes video with China critic - "Comedian Nigel Ng has deleted a video and apologised to his fans after featuring a YouTuber who had criticised the Chinese government.  Nigel Ng has three million subscribers on YouTube where he plays the character Uncle Roger and gives a running commentary on Asian recipe videos.  On Tuesday, Mr Ng apologised on Chinese social media for including Mike Chen, a popular YouTuber, in one of his videos.  Mr Chen has previously spoken out about the treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang... He added that he had not been aware of Mr Chen's "political thoughts and incorrect comments about China in the past"... Mr Chen told the South China Morning Post: "I hold no animosity towards Nigel for what he did, because it's hard to stand up to the [Chinese Communist Party]'s tactics. I do hope that he learns more about the human rights abuses that the CCP has committed because he lives in a free country where he can do that."  "I have always said that I love China, and I love the kind-hearted Chinese people. They are my people. The CCP, however, is not China and certainly should not be equated to the Chinese people," he added.  The apology and deletion of the video has caused some people to accuse Mr Ng of self-censoring for the sake of Chinese fans. One person on Twitter wrote: "Taste of RMB is much better than MSG. Isn't that right Uncle Roger", referring to the Chinese currency and a flavour enhancer commonly added to some Asian foods."
From 2021

New York Times praises China’s communist society as ‘freedom’ that Americans should envy - "Li Yuan writes that China is in fact a more free nation than the US or her western allies... "The pandemic has upended many perceptions, including ideas about freedom. Citizens of China don't have freedom of speech, freedom of worship, or freedom from fear—three of the four freedoms articulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt—but they have the freedom to move around and lead a normal day-to-day life. In a pandemic year, many of the world's people would envy this most basic form of freedom."... "While many countries are still reeling from Covid-19, China—where the pandemic originated—has become one of the safest places in the world," Li writes. "The country reported fewer than 100,000 infections for all of 2020. The United States has been reporting more than that every day since early November."  This is a drastic misunderstanding of what freedom is. Freedom is not freedom from danger, it is the freedom to assess danger and risks for one's self and behave as you see fit, not simply as the government permits."
From 2021. Freedom is slavery. This didn't age well with China's zero covid insanity

What Leftism Prizes / Blacks and Tests / Anti-White Hatred

Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1: "That is, in my opinion, what leftism boils down to The socialist economics, healthcare rambling, etc., isn't really it. That's not the point But instinctively taking the side of black criminals and doing everything possible to help them? Now that's leftism"
Jens @nightcorefan86: "If you call yourself leftist, you can get away with embracing non-socialist economic positions, and won't be kicked out of the club by peers. You can not get away with not affirming black worship, trannyism, and replacement migration. Therefore, that is what leftism is."

i/o @eyeslasho: "Not only were all traces of racial bias removed from the SAT by the 80s, the test has been dumbed down repeatedly since the late-70s to make it easier for blacks to do well. But nothing has meaningfully reduced the black-white score gap. The only SAT score gaps that have significantly changed are those between Asian test takers and everyone else (they've grown by a lot)."
Asian Dawn: "Almost two years later, this still cracks me up"
"Opinion: It's Not That Asian Students Perform Better On The SAT Than Black Students Because They Are Better. The SAT Is Just A Racist Test. Written by Rann Miller"

Quan Disick: "We blacks are always killed by em whites,,,,,it's our time to take over let's kill em all n make em slaves,,,# I can't breathe"

JeMeka MaRia Reese @da_beautyfull: "Aww fuk da whites! Kill em all! Well some of em! I kinda like some of them! Just a few!"

Links - 6th November 2024 (1 - Women)

Meme - MAMA DRAMA: Marissa Clarke: "My baby daddy crashed at my place last night after a long trip to see our daughter at Uni. We shared a bed and he didn't even tried to uckf me. I know I told him not to try but still."
When a lady says no, she means...

Meme - @Ada_twits: "A guy asked me out last week and i told him "NO" I wanted him to try harder. Why didn't he try again?"
CHIEF BOY @tharferanmi: "Because you said No"

Meme - "My sister in public VS My sister at home *Barney vs Jurassic Park T-Rex*"

Meme - "Him: You are the most beautiful woman I have ever met
Her: You just want to fuck me!
Him: Wow! and smart too"

Meme - "When you claim you want a nymphomaniac and you finally find one"
"Baby, I'm ready for your dick again"
"Oh my god, it's going to fall off"

Meme - Doctor: "ARE YOU SEXUALLY ACTIVE?"
Woman: "NO, I JUST LIE THERE."

Meme - "The chocolates are cos I love you. The flowers are cos I'm sorry.  The Tampax are cos I'm still not sure why I'm apologising so I guess you'll need these any day now."

Mack on X - "A married man will put up with a titanic amount of bullsh*t if you simply cook them meals and to be frank- sleep with them regularly. Many put up with it without those. The “putting up with” is ending and many are scrambling to stop that- be wary of those people."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "In my experience, female partners have more complex emotional needs, but it really is NOT hard to keep normal men happy - the old marriage-manual "food, sex, and a reasonable amount of respect" rule works about 99% of the time. And, hell: you can split the cooking if both people work.  Because of this, I, personally am fairly quick to leave the minority of relationships where I am not at least content. This usually implies either intentional effort in a negative direction ("I'll get him trained/raise his consciousness!") or the lack of any effort at all."

Richard Cooper on X - "Remove sex from a relationship, and you will discover that 90% of women have nothing to offer men in relationships. Conversely, remove money from a relationship, and you will learn that 90% of women won't see a reason to be in said relationship."
Abby Libby on X - "It's funny how you framed this. You could have said, "Remove sex and 90% of men won't see a reason to be in the relationship," but no. You had to frame both these generalities in a way that paints women as useless and bad rather than recognizing that men and women are differently motivated, and it's not a bad thing that women are motivated by security in relationships just like it's not a bad thing that men are motivated by sex."

Meme - "Triumph
The Triumph Seven Wonders of the Boob World
'Which boob are you?'
1. 'MICRONESIA' Smaller than the average boob, this pair of islands are definitely 'micro'. Triumph Magic Soft Padded Bra.
2. The 'HIMALAYAS' The Himalayas always stand to attention. Triumph Innocent Passion Underwired Bra.
3. 'AYERS ROCK' The boob type we all desire - not too big, not too small, and sacred to all that see it. Triumph Irresistible Curves Lightly Padded Balconette Bra
4. 'MOUNT EVEREST The biggest of the bunch, the Everest our largest (SS) (O) 100% real breast. Triumph Shape Sensation Minimiser Bra
5. The 'BEVERLY HILLS' We wont tell if you won't, let's face it there's always a fake pair in the bunch. Triumph Beautiful Floral Underwired Bra
6. The 'GRAND CANYON' Hung slightly lower than our previous breasts, the 'Grand Canyon' often needs a little 'support'... Triumph Daisy Desire Underwired Bra
7. The 'NORTH & SOUTH POLES' These breasts are far apart... Triumph Pure Desire Lightly Padded Balconette Bra"

Meme - "Why are you staring at my soup?" *cleavage*

Meme - "they wont. stop. growing. *woman exposing cleavage*"

Meme - *Game streamer exposing cleavage*
tuna3347: "Can you make Total War full screen I'm tryna see the battles not those honkers thanks"

Meme - "There is always room for improvement. *reasonably attractive woman* *reasonably attractive woman with sandwich*"

Meme - Samantha Angelina: "Hey.. heard ya don't like fat chicks.. let me give ya the run down. Us fat chicks aren't alive to please you and your needs. Neither are skinny chicks. Us fat chicks actually have disorders that maybe you should educate your dumbass self on and actually learn that we can't help being fat. Just like you can't help being fat and insecure. That's why you perfer skinny women huh? Because it helps you feel less insecure? Did I get that right? Men like YOU is what is wrong with society. Have fun being single ya loser."
"This person is unavailable on Messenger."
Men aren't allowed to have preferences

Meme - "Selling *peach* $1
Just tryna sell some *reasonably attractive woman*"

Bees 🐝 on X - "I think I speak for all women when I say: I’d rather a Chad violently beat me on a regular basis than engage romantically with an incel who treats me well"

Meme - "Y'all be eating p***y on your knees or do you lay on your stomach like a sniper"
"Sniper. One leg hiked up, arms wrapped around her thighs tight for the recoil"

Meme - "Why are men only nice to u for 3 weeks lol"
"that's the end of the free trial"

Meme - "r/strippers
'Is it fair for me to not want my bf going to strip clubs even tho I'm a dancer?'
'Tell him that we have strippers at home'"

Meme - *Starting off as I Bet He's Thinking About Other Women*
"Her: He's probably thinking about the mortgage, utility bills, taxes, grocery bills, medical bills..."
*Hugs him*

Meme - "When your girl trying to be cute and crawl up to you like this *breasts hanging down in an exaggerated way*"

Meme - "Steph, 32
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
I'm not here for a fling.
Where have all the nice boys gone""
She didn't get memo nice guys are creeps

Meme - "Jordan, 19
"Tinder needs a filter:
- no ugly guys
- not too short
- sexy voice
- tan
- strong and muscles and abs
- not too much of a douche
And if you're uglier then your tinder profile. I'm gonna stop talking to you"

Meme - "Olivia 41
Stepping back into the dating world after 18 years of marriage feels like embarking on a thrilling adventure! I'm eager to rediscover myself, explore new hobbies and embrace my newfound freedom!"

Meme - "how it started: Marrying him to make this Colonizer's kids brown , this one is for you Mexico
how it's going: *Woman with blonde haired, blue eyed baby*"

Meme - "Single moms flirting: "Yeah I have three kids, but I wish they were yours""

Meme - Lola Christina: "I see no reason on earth why a man should be a gynaecologist"
Memes That Will Help You Clean Up Your Friends List: "Interesting thought, female obgyn retire on average at age 42 and start a family, leaving only males in the field"
Another explanation for the gender pay gap

Meme - "Cassie"
"Have fun golfing (again)... please pick up dinner on your way home!"
"You got it Abby. Baby. Oooh boy here we go"

Meme - "*Household Chores*
When a man does them: "Stop celebrating it. It's the least any functional adult should do."
When a woman does them:
"It's unpaid work""

Catholic Herald on X - "Women priests activists disrupt papal Mass"
Seamus (FreedomToons) on X - ">woman becomes a "priest"
>immediately starts interrupting the pope"

Mack on X - "Real post I just saw in a mom group: “My husband was texting another woman explicitly. When I caught him he said he’d repeatedly told me his needs for years and I said no every time so he went elsewhere.”
Entire comment section: “He is gaslighting you, it isn’t your fault.”"

Jarvis on X - "Hahahahahaha Caitlin Clark has been battered this year with flagrant fouls designed to injure her, and a journo politely asked a player about one of those fouls and in response the WNBA players union released a hysterical statement demanding the journo be fired."
Mark Schipper on X - "And not just any journalist, one of the major female journalists of her generation, and a woman w/a career-long reputation for professionalism and integrity. The WNBA is the most women's league ever. They're going to police those tones, force that conformity, and ruin some reputations to get what they want."
The Man From Dystopia on X - "The WNBA is confirming stereotypes about how women handle competition."
Baxter Bentley on X - "WNBA needs to cancel all games until they can find players who can behave with some modicum of professionalism. If it is unwilling to do this, we should ban basketball. No athletic commission should sanction games with players who perpetrate & defend their racist violence."

Meme - balicia2186: "Only time I can capture a picture of this child. nooo mom I don't want any pictures!!! lol *woman exposing cleavage*"

Meme - hoe_math @ItIsHoeMath: ""Women choose the best men" is the same mistake in thinking that causes people to say "it's a doggy-dog world" or something common is a "diamond dozen."  The human mind tries to fill information gaps with what seems like the most likely missing pieces, then goes on believing it as if it was a fact.  The truth is that the female sex drive is optimized to select for stone-age tribal warrior types because we have recently spent a large amount of evolutionary time in situations that favored the survival of those men and their offspring.  In modern times, these choices are dysgenic and degrading to the gene pool. The average woman is more excited by a stupid brute (bad boy) than by an upstanding citizen with a promising future (good guy), assuming that he cannot emulate brutishness.  I learned in my 20s to emulate brutishness. It transformed my life and overturned my worldview. I built what I call "bad boy points" on my Zones map.  Assuming that culture and technology continue trending as they have been for 70 years or so, we now face two possible futures: either high-IQ men can learn to brute up and excite women, or dumb brutes will dominate reproduction and humanity will rot into an ugly, violent mess of struggling tribes, just like how we used to live before the dawn of agriculture.  If you are smart and you struggle with women, step 1 is to lift weights. Get swole, and the pieces will start to fit.  It turns out that your grandpa was right about a whole lot, and doing man things does in fact make you more of a man."
very moisturized @verymoisturized: "Most of the women claiming they want IQcels are lying. They would in all probability prefer someone dumber, based strictly on a visceral response."
Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx: "Adolescents with an IQ of 130 were 3-5 times less likely to have had intercourse than those with average IQ...boys with an IQ that would qualify for intellectual disability (60) were still more likely to have had sex than those with a very high IQ (130)."

Meme - "***, 20
5 miles away
Active 10 minutes ago
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Unemployed, single mom in the middle of a messy divorce. Will probably cry after letting you finger bang me in the car. I love cats, camping, beer, and making horrible life decisions. I had a c-section, my vagina is fine."

Meme - Woman: "Did I do something wrong? Send me a video of you jerking off and moaning"
Man: "YOUR LITERALLY ON A DATE WITH ANOTHER GUY"
Third person: "Imagine having such little self esteem that you need even more attention when you're already on a date"
Fourth person: "girl being a pick me isn't cute"
Fifth person: "girl shut up"

The Fertility Gap And Women's Happiness - "Across the globe, and especially in the developed world and the United States, fertility rates have fallen below the levels that women say they want. I've made this point many times, and in many ways, and have argued that this is a bad sign for society: a world where people systematically fail to experience the family life they desire is likely to be a less happy world... Women whose ideal fertility matches their achieved fertility are the most likely to report being very happy, and the least likely to report being not too happy. Both having more kids than desired and having fewer kids than desired are associated with a lower likelihood of being very happy; having more kids than desired is associated with considerably more unhappiness as well... Recent research has shown that while parents of young children used to be less happy than other people, nowadays that gap has vanished. And while some critics have suggested that these findings are due to poor controls for the composition of childless households, the actual explanation is far simpler. Research on a massive database of developed- country survey respondents shows that children are indeed associated with significantly higher happiness throughout a parent's life, once you control for financial difficulties. Moreover, if the sample is restricted to a parent's own children in households where the parents of that child remain together, the happiness effects are particularly large and durable. In other words: if you and your spouse stick together and have babies, and if you are able to avoid financial distress, those kids do indeed make people a lot happier. Those are big "ifs," but they point to the fact that it is not kids that makes people unhappy, it's the cost of kids. This helps explain why women who overshoot their fertility ideals are more unhappy than women who undershoot. It's not that those moms dislike their above-ideals children! It's that children are associated with greater financial distress, and financial distress causes unhappiness."

The Global Fertility Gap - "Most women around the world, even most women in countries outside of Europe and North America, are more likely to undershoot than overshoot their fertility ideals... Because much of the "population establishment" (as represented by the government and nongovernment organizations that organize conferences, coordinate donor money, and advise policymakers) operates from the mistaken assumption that most women have more kids than they want, they tend to give one-sided advice. When international NGOs talk about supporting women's empowerment, or committing resources to family planning, or enhancing women's sense of agency over their reproduction, they inevitably mean just one thing: helping women avoid unintended pregnancies. And, to be clear, that is valuable work. But it isn't enough."

Meme - "Lauren, 19
I'm a bundle of joy until you stop giving me your dick, at which I will tenderly caress your balls as you weep in front of me, and when I finally put the cork screw into your eye you will truly understand that if you don't give me the attention I deserve I will massacre you in a pool of your own blood and urine, and then move onto your whole family, and any work colleagues of yours, not pets though cause that would be wrong :)"

Meme - *Is this a butterfly meme*
"UNMARRIED DEMOCRAT WOMEN"
"US GOVERNMENT"
"IS THIS A HUSBAND?"

Meme - "Watching straight girls in the comments say "these would be so cute if those two weren't broken" is about to put me in the hospital *8 long multi-coloured nails with 2 short ones*"

Thread by @moorehn on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - " I saw a TikTok from a young woman about how she paid $1000 to go to a yacht event in Monaco and people invited her to parties on some yachts "because I was dressed to impress...you can dress to show you bring value to the yacht."  And I don't know if anyone will tell her that cute dresses are not why young women are invited to yacht parties. She's getting cooked in the comments -- but only because other young women don't think the dress is cute, not because anyone is pointing out the obvious fact that inviting young women with no money onto yachts is the equivalent of "ladies night" at a bar. The young women -- in any dress -- are there to bring the old men in. I think this is what happens when young women are told that Old Money is an aesthetic you can buy through clothes, rather than a set of rigid and unspoken social codes that you instinctually understand.  It's also a result of the current nonsense that's been going around for years about "high-value women" or "high-value men" where "high-value" is a euphemism for how much money they have. There's no understanding that people are not their net worth. she ends up going down a narcissistic spiral of how her choice of a (mass-market) dress has marked her as worthy of being on a yacht, and that the key to being in "high-value spaces" is how women dress when in fact she -- like so many other young women -- was just chosen as sexual chum for shady rich sharks. Who, by the way, are experts at reading people's social class no matter what they're wearing.  Anyway this is an eternal game (the Audrey Tatou movie "Priceless" is about this milieu in Monaco) but one eternal truth is that young women should not be paying $1000 for a ticket to be taken advantage of by the kind of people who go to yacht events.
Here's the very basic dress and a hint of her behavior on the yacht, where she dances by stomping around and whipping her arms in the air like someone in a New Jersey bar (no offense to New Jersey bars!). The baseball cap was a welcome gift from the company selling yachts (which, again, wants young women there in the same way that car shows used to have young women) and she doesn't know not to wear it.
Naïveté is nothing new but I can foresee a lot of Zoomers getting scammed or taken advantage of because they don't know how to function away from their phones. People have agendas, bbs. Be careful out there. By the way, the dress also costs close to $1000. It's great for a garden party in Westchester, but is not a look for Monaco or yachts.  Another indicator of how young people brought up on TikToks about the "Old Money Aesthetic" and "high-value women" can't contextualize appropriate dressing or know that just because something is expensive doesn't mean it's appropriate in all social spaces.  It reminds me of the (great) movie Le Divorce, with Kate Hudson carrying her little red Kelly bag from her rich French lover to the grocery store and book readings, and he has to remind her that it has a certain place.
People make fun of fashion as a frivolous pursuit but the truth is that fashion is inextricably caught up with economics, finance, politics, class, social codes and social belonging, and so many people who think it's just about some fabric end up crashing head-first into that realization one way or another eventually. We didn't roast the men of Monaco here but they also deserve some scrutiny
I should also point out, out of fairness, that no one in Monaco is "old money" anyway. It's a young country and a tax haven, and it attracts those who like brash displays of wealth. Another reason the "Old Money Aesthetic" flops there. I think this is really smart and sums up the fundamental problem. No shame to anyone who is in sex work or "sugar daddy" situations, but telling thousands of regular TikTok followers to do these things to be "high-value" is fundamentally misleading them about what the point and the transaction is. It's also incredibly dangerous for young women, especially if they're alone as this creator was."

ZUBY: on X - "All of these women can find lots of guys who would date them and even commit to them, but the men they want to date don't want to commit to them. This is the summary of ALL of these videos."

Thread by @SarahTheHaider on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This is one of those things guys have to intuit, because there isn’t much straightforwardness about it: Most straight women intensely punish displays of femininity in male partners.  They do not always say so, so as to be coherent with their politics. But also because that would defeat the purpose: Ideally one wants a man who is masculine, not merely performing masculinity. Women aren’t straightforward with their sexual preferences not because they like to mess with men (why would they want fewer options?), but because it is far more devastating for a female to choose the wrong partner than it is for a male.  They want accurate signals. The only workable advice for young men is: be clean, be fit, have interests, have functional knowledge, cultivate self-control and enjoy the resulting confidence. If then YOU want to paint your nails *for you*—do it!  Rockstars can do it because it is a flex—they are so confident in their ability to get women that they can counter-signal—they can do what they like.  Truly self-confident men can get this self-expressive freedom too. But you can’t fake your way into it."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "An important thing for guys to understand is that leftist and liberal women are simply lying about what they say they want in a man, for political reasons. Women now expect their guy to be nice to THEM, but any real polling - including what The Haider is linking here - shows that the percentage of women who really want "A non-dominant, non-warlike, male feminist who likes to play with gender and isn't too focused on money" is 0.00%.
I would actually bet that one of the biggest empirical predictors of inceldom is believing what women say.   "I always try to be the nice guy. I ask for consent before every kiss! I'd never dream of having sex if we've been drinking or partying!! I always let her take the lead!!! It doesn't WORK!!!"   Well, no shit, weirdo."

Links - 5th November 2024 (2 - Trump-Vance [including Vance & Car Seats and Liz Cheney])

Amy Hamm: J.D. Vance, salt of the earth - "Vance resembles other rising American political stars and commentators (Matt Walsh, anyone?). Canada, too, has seen a spate of young, white and conservative men — “nuclear family” archetypes — growing wildly popular in the past two years. Pierre Poilievre, with his young family, fits the bill, as does the west coast’s Aaron Gunn, the ex-military (viral) filmmaker turned BC Conservative candidate who, like Vance, possesses the forbidden appeal of all that is not a thinly-veiled diversity, equity, and inclusion candidate... Amidst the ruthless memes about Kamala Harris’ admittedly common, bewildering word salad diatribes — “Kamala Harris dumbest quotes” is an actual TikTok genre — you have Vance, referred to as an intellectual even by the critics who are simultaneously suggesting he is an illiberal authoritarian. Vance’s ethics could use an examination under the microscope, but his competence, at least, is visible to the naked eye of Republicans and Democrats alike... Whether Vance is the “New Right,” the right guy, or simply the right guy at the right time, the public — clearly — is all about the unrepentant revival of the prototypical, salt-of-the-earth family values candidate.    And Trump knows that."

Renson Seow | Facebook - "That's quite impressive.  Moderators for the US Vice Presidential debate lied about not fact checking both sides. Vance immediately put a stop to it and refuted citing evidence without needing to refer to notes. The media ended up being forced to cut his microphone... After watching the debate, I understood why Trump picked Vance. Basically he recognised what he was bad at (making a refined pitch, calm response) and picked someone who could do that, even though Vance was previously anti-Trump."
DogeDesigner on X - "JD Vance called out the moderators for lying to the audience, and CBS immediately muted him. Legacy media is clearly controlled by the Democrats."

Meme - Democrat with idiot hat with Democratic party. Ukraine,  trans pride flag, Antifa and Palestine symbols: "Sure, inflation is at a 40 year high, and millions of illegal immigrants are flooding across our borders, and we're on the verge of WWII... but did you hear JD Vance said eggs are $4 are dozen and they're actually $2 a dozen?"

JD Vance on X - "It has been 50 days since Kamala Harris became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party.   In the dead of night yesterday, she finally released her campaign policy page. Here's what I think of it 🧵"
Extensive analysis thoroughly dismantling her bullshit. No wonder the media hate him

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on X - "There's something surreal about these interviews.
JD Vance: "FEMA is incompetent."
Journalist: "But FEMA officials have stated that they are NOT incompetent, so that is clearly false, Senator."
Beyond parody."

Meme - John Shahidi @john: "The “weird” campaign didn’t age well.   Top comment about @JDVance  on Theo’s episode.   There are a few other comments saying the same."
"I can't believe I was told this guy was weird. Most normal MF I've ever heard talk."

The Robber Baron on X - "Yes, this really happened.
MODERATOR: How does immigration impact housing and rental prices?
VANCE: More people competing for the same number of houses makes homes cost more.
MODERATOR: But what does that have to do with immigration?
VANCE: Immigrants are people."

Charles Fain Lehman on X - "What this actually reveals is that Vance is the kind of guy who reads the literature."
Car Seats as Contraception by Jordan Nickerson, David H. Solomon :: SSRN
Trust the Science - unless it threatens the left wing agenda
It's amusing how many left wingers were mocking Vance, when they were just revealing their own ignorance covered with smug condescension

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 on X - "yes, JD Vance correctly read the literature. and to be clear, he made the comment in a hearing about transportation... where absolute dingbats were proposing TO BAN LAP INFANTS ON FLIGHTS."

wanye on X - "I think you have to admit that it’s objectively funny that the first true millennial candidate, a guy who’s online, who knows all the arguments, who goes down internet rabbit holes, who reads the literature, and so on, is not only a Republican, but on the Trump ticket. You know that drives normie liberals crazy."

Ashley Fitzgerald on X - "Car seats do not perform any better than chest seat belts for kids aged 2 to 6 on preventing death or serious injury. These unnecessary car seat laws and norms have huge impacts on family formation. Update your priors! I don't use a car seat past about 2.5 except for naps...
People hate this because they have a moral superiority complex about car seats and can't handle the cognitive dissonance but it's fine you can relax and stop using them past toddlerhood. BTW the chest seat belt means no booster. Just the belt. For those of you saying it's dangerous without a booster that is incorrect and for those saying it's uncomfortable, if the kid is sitting right next the the buckle the chest strap hits them right across the chest. Nbd"
It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong

Meme - The Other 98%: JJ @JJkinz: "JD Vance: The rules were you guys weren't going to fact check.
So you agree? You were lying?"
The Other 98%: "Fact checkers have been working overtime to protect The Heritage Foundation & Project 2025"
Fact checking is only good when it supports the left wing agenda

The left pretends Trump's 'rhetoric' worse than assassination attempt - "Donald Trump’s more deranged critics are so focused on tone and language that they are either dismissing the assassination attempt against him or they are outright blaming him for the attack. As regrettable as the Saturday shooting at the Trump rally was, his critics seem to think, what’s truly disturbing is the “rhetoric” that characterizes the U.S. presidential campaign. And by rhetoric, of course, they don’t mean the Democrats, and their water carriers in the media, constantly painting the former, and possible future, president as a fascist threat to the American republic. You know the kind of argument that might persuade an unstable 20 year-old owner of an AR-15 rifle that to save democracy, Trump can’t simply be defeated at the polls, he must be eliminated. No, Trump’s critics mean his tone, his choice of words, are the real problem.  After being shot in the ear, Trump could be heard saying “fight, fight, fight.” To any normal, well adjusted, person, that was a call for his supporters to stick with him in the election campaign. Politicians use fight and war terminology all the time, but when Trump uses such language, and only when Trump uses such language, it is interpreted as a literal call to violence.  So, predictably, a pearl-clutching CNN host scolded the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for his choice of words, calling them “odd.” A British journalist similarly called them “depressing.” On Sunday, writing in The Nation, author Sasha Abramsky argued that it would be a “terrible mistake” to “let the narrative take hold that Biden and the Democratic Party are to blame for this event.” Biden asking his supporters to forget about his mental capacity, and to, instead, “put Trump in a bullseye” apparently gets a pass. (Imagine what the reaction from progressives would be if Trump had said those words weeks before an assassination attempt on the current president.) Abramsky doesn’t even bother to address Biden’s comments, instead writing that “Trump’s violent rhetoric ought to be as disqualifying tomorrow as it was yesterday.”  So, there must be a long list of statements by Trump where he objectively incited violence, right? Well, not exactly.  Among the examples of such “rhetoric” that Abramsky takes issue with, is when during the Black Lives Matter riots, Trump posted on Twitter about possible plans to send in the military to quell the unrest. Abramsky doesn’t offer this context, and just highlights that the tweet included the phrase “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”  So actual violence in the form of rioting and looting should be allowed to unfold unchecked, but Trump’s admittedly careless tweet about sending in the military, “disqualifying.” Another example from Abramsky stretches what could be counted as “violent rhetoric” to the point of ridiculousness. “This is a man who said there were ‘very fine people’ among the neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville in 2017,” Abramsky wrote, referring to a news conference Trump gave at the time. Pretending “very fine people” is somehow violent is, at least, less egregious than implying that Trump was calling neo-Nazis “fine people.” In fact, anyone who looked at the transcript would see that “very fine people” was not a reference to neo-Nazis. “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally,” Trump said.  But, whatever. Expecting progressive media to accurately report on Trump is a foolish exercise best left to toddlers... Trump’s behaviour shouldn’t be excused, but the Democrats and progressive journalists rarely bother to wonder why so many Americans were willing to believe the fraud story. If they bothered to ask, they might discover that the false claims that Russian “collusion” with Trump led to his election in 2016, bred skepticism and distrust in American institutions. The same could be said about the false claim that the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in the 2020 election was Russian disinformation.  As norm breaking and disruptive as Trump was and is, U.S. institutions — Congress, the press, intelligence agencies, the justice department — have all responded to him by debasing what they stand for, by overtly politicizing and twisting their mission. After years of that, it seems pretty obvious why Trump voters might be open to believing the election was stolen, even though it wasn’t. But for progressives, the blame is almost always on the “rhetoric.” They aim to put words on equal footing with actual violence."

Shameful profs were quick to make light of Trump's near-assassination - "Their conduct sends the message that it doesn’t matter whether doctors and lawyers air in public their smug satisfaction that an effort to off the opposition — “fascists” and “dictators” no doubt — almost hit home. It’s a cue to students that such behaviour is normal and broadcastable.  Some will argue that professors should be fired, or at least met with some kind of consequence, for appearing to wish for or joke approvingly of violence. Others will argue that their comments shouldn’t be remarked on at all, to prevent online harassment. The best course is somewhere in the middle: sacking academics for poor-taste wisecracking on foreign politics bodes poorly for campus freedom, but observers should be free to rubberneck when filterless grown adults who work there bring embarrassment to their institutions. Article content  Academics are supposed to represent the best of Canada’s thinking class; they should behave with professionalism; they shouldn’t have to be told — they should just know. They’re setting an example for the next crop of people running this country, who we will depend upon in future years. I don’t yearn for universities to censor their speech, but I do wish that fewer faculty seats were reserved for the deranged fringe."

Allen Young on X - "So their "oppo" is Trump thinks Germany had some great generals in WW2? That's an empirical fact. They did have great generals. Trump is far from the only person who's acknowledged this fact."
Mathew Carson on X - "US Army doctrine for large scale, direct-action, armored warfare is based on German blitzkrieg strategy, pioneered by Guderian and Rommel. It has been the basis of US Army doctrine for three quarters of a century."

Kamala Harris on X - "Donald Trump vowed to be a dictator on day one. He vowed to use the military to carry out personal and political vendettas. His former chief of staff said he wanted generals like Hitler’s.    Trump wants unchecked power. In 13 days, the American people will decide what they want."
Auron MacIntyre on X - "We’re at an interesting inflection point politically. The left has basically done everything that can be done rhetorically. Racist, fascist, white supremacist, theocratic dictator, there’s really no where left to go. Kama is basically calling for someone to murder Trump on live television. They couldn’t put him in jail or strip him from the ballot, so what happens now if he wins? What if no one murders him for the left despite their desperate pleading and the people vote for him so overwhelmingly that the election can’t be credibly rigged?  Do they just walk away, shrug and admit Trump wasn’t that bad?  Or do they take their own rhetoric seriously and attempt a coup?  If they really believed Trump is what they say he is, how could they do anything else?"

Coddled affluent professional on X - "Sorry for the language but:  A lot of people don’t want to think about politics and want it to run silently in the background.  But libs have raised the stakes. For example, you have to worry about whether the midwit teacher is saying weird gender shit to your 6 year old (ours was).  A lot of people are going to be voting for Trump purely as a fuck you because libs irritate and provoke them and force them unnecessarily to spend time and attention on politics when there are 100 other things they would rather be doing."

Meme - Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli: "So, if Trump wins and Republicans are successful in kicking out all the undocumented immigrants, who is going to do all the necessary work that keeps the US economy afloat? It ain't gonna be MAGA. That's for sure. Anyone have any answers for the catastrophic consequences?"
Linda Stevens @Linda_Stevens: "They will put non white folks in detention camps and then have them work as prisoners. When they can't work, they will deport them or let them die."
steveo'no @SteveM112: "Yeah...just like he did during his last term. Oh...wait."

Meme - "How the Trump and Biden Economic Records Stack Against Each Other
Trump - Biden
Inflation (YoY rate) 1.89% - 5.28%
Inflation - (cumulative) 7.8% - 19.2%
Average gas prices -5.4% - +46.6%
30-year Mortgage rates -34.8% - +132%
Average rent costs +11.8% - +21.6%
Nasdaq composite +138.2% - +39.4%
Grocery prices +6.5% - +20.9%
Electricity prices +4.2% - +29.6%
Real hourly wages +6.8% - -2.2%
Sources: Federal Reserve, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Energy Information Agency, Nasdaq historical data"

i/o on X - "There has been no remotely convincing explanation of how Donald Trump could plausibly become an actual dictator if he were to become president. And yet this still seems to be the most popular talking point among Democrats.
Do I think that Trump has some authoritarian rhetoric and tendencies? Sure. (To begin with, his refusal to accept the results of the last election ought to concern every voter.)    But what exactly is the path he could take to install himself as an actual dictator?"

MSNBC Condemns Trump For Holding Rally On Planet Earth Where 66 Million Years Ago An Asteroid Caused Mass Extinction | Babylon Bee - "Amid the excitement of MAGA voters descending on Madison Square Garden, MSNBC condemned former President Donald Trump for holding a rally on the same planet where, 66 million years ago, an asteroid caused mass extinction."
Trump fills Madison Square Garden with anger, vitriol and racist threats - "The event at Madison Square Garden, in the center of Manhattan, had drawn comparisons to an infamous Nazi rally held at the arena in 1939"

Mail-In Ballot Fraud Study Finds Trump ‘Almost Certainly’ Won in 2020 - "roughly one in five mail-in voters admitted to potentially fraudulent actions in the presidential election... Jim Womack, president of the North Carolina Election Integrity Team, told The Epoch Times in an earlier interview and in additional written comments in response to the new study, that he believes the survey questions were flawed and make the survey statistically meaningless, though not without value...  Regardless, he praised the Heartland Institute for engaging with the topic of mail-in ballot fraud and raising public awareness about what he said is an important problem... Mr. McPherrin acknowledged that it’s legal for people who are blind, disabled, or illiterate to get help from someone in filling out a ballot.  However, he argued that the number of such individuals responding to the Heartland/Rasmussen survey (which was based on a representative sample of 1,085 likely voters) would likely have been tiny."

Thread by @sunnyright on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "A short list of things and people Democrats have told you are Nazis and/or Hitler.
1. Nikki Haley
2. McCain supporters
3. Ron DeSantis
4. John McCain
5. Paul Ryan
6. George Bush
7. Dick Cheney
8. NYC Republicans attending a campaign rally at a sporting venue
9. Glenn Youngkin voters
10. The entire United States
11. Mitch McConnell
12. The world’s only Jewish country, so many times it has its own Wikipedia article
13. Border Patrol
14. American police departments
15. People who oppose abortion
16. The First Amendment"
Clearly they are 100% right when they say Trump is Hitler. See also: Every Republican Presidential Candidate Is Hitler

Trump says Cheney wouldn’t be ‘war hawk’ if ‘guns are trained on her’
Sam Rogers on X - "Democrats spent 25 years saying that Dick Cheney's kids should have to go fight in a war and all it took was Donald Trump agreeing with them to change their minds."

Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板 on X - "Events like this were the beginning of the end for me. I remember early in Trump's first term people were enraged by certain things he was doing and it was the same exact thing Obama had done and I honestly didn't understand why these people were so infuriated. I would ask why they were so enraged and all I got was pat responses about how I didn't understand the threat to democracy."

Leighton 明 Woodhouse on X - "Maybe I'm naive but I honestly never imagined I'd ever see the Democratic nominee condemning the Republican nominee for saying that mouth-frothing war mongers like the Cheneys should go enlist themselves if they're so eager to start new wars all over the world."
"Harris calls Trump’s violent language about Liz Cheney ‘disqualifying’"

MSNBC on X - "BREAKING: Arizona AG investigates Trump's comments about Liz Cheney as a possible death threat."
Billy Binion on X - "Many on the left say the worst part of a Trump admin would be that he'd prosecute his critics. Meanwhile, a Democratic AG is threatening to prosecute him over a tasteless soundbite where he criticized someone's foreign policy. I'm no Trump fan, but this is just so unserious."

David Frum on X - ""Liz Cheney is a warmonger" is code for "I will betray Ukraine and Taiwan.""
Auron MacIntyre on X - "Neoconservatives would send your entire family to die for foreigners before defending the border of the United States while calling you a traitor"

Meme - Donald Trump: "All I'm saying about Liz Cheney is that she is a War Hawk, and a dumb one at that, but she wouldn't have "the guts" to fight herself. It's easy for her to talk, sitting far from where the death scenes take place, but put a gun in her hand, and let her go fight, and she'll say, "No thanks!" Her father decimated the Middle East, and other places, and got rich by doing so. He's caused plenty of DEATH, and probably never even gave it a thought. That's not what we want running our Country!"
i/o @eyeslasho" "If this were 1968, this kind of anti-war polemic would have come from the pen of a member of SDS or the Weather Underground — as would have yesterday's imagery of a politician facing enemy gun barrels — but today it comes from a Republican presidential nominee.
Who's the anti-war party? Who claims to be the party of free speech? Who claims to represent the working class? Whose ranks are filled with back-to-nature weirdos? Who wants tariffs? Who is being outspent in corporate donations?
1968: Democrats
2024: Republicans"

Ian Miles Cheong on X - "This Democrat fearmongering ad is amazing. It depicts JD Vance as President for life and Elon Musk opens up concentration camps for illegal aliens and homeless people before uploading his consciousness into a super AI to become immortal. So based."

Meme - ""San Francisco has so much *shit* on the sidewalks."
San Franciscans: "Tell me about it, I almost stepped in it!
"Every bizarre headline includes a Florida Man."
Floridians: *Put "Florida Man" in their bios.* *crocodile*
"NYC is Rat City!" *rat*
New Yorkers: *Shares GIFs of rats stealing pizza.*
Comedian: "There's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it is called Puerto Rico."
The Establishment: *triggered*"

Thread by @FischerKing64 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - " Imagine you’re a 110 IQ white liberal with pretensions at intelligence working a mid tier white collar job. You’ve watched MSNBC and read things like the New Republic for years. You believe in your bones that Trump is potentially Hitler. His election could be the end.  These people really exist. While Kamala or Chuck Schumer doesn’t believe Trump is a fascist, this white liberal does. And s/he is going to have a mental break if Trump wins. Seriously - there will be people in therapy, crying and coping - because they have believed all the nonsense, and are just smart enough not to understand how little they know.  One of the many reasons to tone down the hyperbole - just for the mental health of such people. In 2016 I read articles about public schools setting up counseling sessions for middle and high school kids utterly distraught at Trump’s victory. That kind of thing will happen again multiplied many times over. When I said tone down the hyperbole, I was referring to the press convincing people that electing Trump will be the end of the world. The press should chill for the health of its audience. Trump supporters shouldn’t tone down anything. Apparently this wasn’t obvious to some."

George on X - "WOW! It wasn't just Trump. Vivek Ramaswamy also became a professional garbage collector today 😂😂😂 We turned Biden's disgusting insult into a nationwide movement to get people to appreciate blue-collar workers again. This is what the America First movement is all about."

Thread by @Tyler_A_Harper on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I wrote about the question on everyone’s mind: are black men really going to vote for Donald Trump?   White Democrats imagine minorities as half-saints, half-superheroes who they team up with to fight fascism. But the pesky truth is many minority men have Trump-ish beliefs.🧵
For almost ten years, liberal politicians and pundits have spotlighted and relentlessly attacked Donald Trump’s open bigotry. And remarkably, these efforts didn’t just fail. They coincided with black and brown Americans moving in ever greater numbers toward the bigot’s party. These trends have been particularly acute among black men, whose support for Democratic presidential candidates has steadily decreased since 2012. Over the last year, polls have suggested Trump could get historic levels of support from black men. That wouldn’t be surprising. Black Democrats often have significantly more conservative views on immigration, gender, abortion and religion than other Dem racial demographics. A Pew poll this summer found black Dem voters were twice as likely as whites to say emphasizing family makes society better off. 64% of Black Dem voters said gender is determined by birth sex compared to 32% of whites. 53% said belief in God is required for morality vs 8% of whites. Another Pew poll found HALF of black men AND women think the government promotes abortion to control the black population. This isn’t just Black men: a recent poll found that 44% of young Hispanic men support Trump, and another found that OVER HALF of Hispanic men support deportations (51%) and building the wall (52%). They’re twice as likely to say Trump helped them personally compared to Biden. And it’s not just culture. Black voters also tend to have views on foreign policy that clash with the Democrats: they’re generally less supportive of sending money to Ukraine and Israel and more supportive of ceasefires. These are also views that don’t mesh well with the Dems.
Is it that surprising that Trump is polling so well with black voters, especially even more conservative black men? However, some political scientists told me that I shouldn’t take polls showing black men supporting Trump too seriously because the sample sizes are too small. They also argued that black discontent with the Democratic Party wasn’t new, neither were polls showing black men moving to the GOP. They felt these warning signs appear every four years, but typically fail to materialize on Election Day. These arguments are not unreasonable. But in my view they also discount the fact that Dems HAVE been bleeding black men for over a decade. And while many polls do sample small numbers of black people—and thus have higher error rates—that doesn’t explain why all the “errors” would be in one direction: to Trump. If we are in a racial realignment, it’s hard to see how Harris’ strategy will win these GOP-curious black men back (even if most black men still vote Dem). No matter how much she promises to expand the border wall, she can’t outflank Trump on conservative culture issues. So what can the Dems do? Black voters are perhaps the most conservative element of the Dem coalition, but they are also among the most progressive on economic issues. The key to winning these voters back is in my view the same as working-class white voters: it’s populism, stupid."

Birmingham church targets black Trump supporters ahead of election day using racial slurs - "New Era Baptist Church, a predominantly-black congregation in the city’s West End neighborhood, put up the sign as election day approaches on November 5, 2024... “Attention to all blacks who plan to vote for Trump you are an ignorant stupid Negro,” the sign currently reads on one side and, “Warning African Americans a vote for Trump will put blacks folks back to picking cotton,” on the other.   Jordan is no stranger to displaying inflammatory messages. In 2018, he made national headlines opposing the Church of the Highlands’ decision to establish a campus in Birmingham’s inner city. The church’s sign read, “Black Folks Need to Stay Out of White Churches” on one side and, “White Folks Refused to Be Our Neighbors” on the other.  During the 2020 election cycle, the church displayed a message saying, “A black vote for Trump is mental illness,” on one side and, “A white vote for Trump is pure racism,” on the other."
Left wingers are the racist ones

Shaun Maguire on X - "Barack Obama is using the “very fine people” hoax in an attempt to appeal to Jewish Voters Obama is smart and this is so thoroughly debunked that the only reasonable conclusion is that he’s deliberately lying"

Thread by @ggreenwald on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The most consequential - yet overlooked - Trump era change is many debates are no longer shaped by old left/right divisions, but instead by who loves, respects, and is loyal to institutions of authority (Dems) and who believes they're fundamentally corrupted (Trump supporters). Today's NYT column by @ezraklein notes obvious exceptions (abortion, gun control), yet argues the key difference between Kamala and Trump voters is how much one likes US ruling institutions.  Hence, Dems love CIA, FBI, DHS, corporate media. Even views of corporate power changed.  Think about key debates. Which is right or left?
- Trust in large media corporations.
- Opposition to BigTech/state internet censorship.
- Opposition to funding endless wars (Ukraine).
- Eagerness to remain tied to NATO and EU-based institutions.
Because leading institutions of ruling class authority -- the US Security State, the corporate media, the Pentagon/war machine, banking sectors -- began to view Trump as a threat, and thus Dems embraced them as their allies are thus loyal to them:"

Thread by @wassielawyer on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I feel gaslit by the US elections.
The party that:
- is in power
- is pro-war
- pro-censorship
- pro-judicial lawmaking
- controls media
- uses state apparatus against political enemies
- opposes secure elections
is running on the basis that their opponent threatens democracy? You don’t have to like Trump to realise that this is fully retarded. But somehow every journalist, every celebrity and every academic (shown on media) is repeating the exact same talking points that he is evil?"

When Heterodoxy Goes Too Far - The Atlantic
memetic_sisyphus on X - "By “heterodox” they mean cooky professors who say wild things from time to time but still come home to vote for the Dems every year. They mean Sam Harris."
Clearly, if you vote blue, no matter who, the Democratic party will listen to your voice and follow your priorities. Erstwhile Democrats who now support Trump must all be deluded or corrupt
Attacking Democracy = disagreeing with left wing elites
I like how if you don't vote for Harris you are "Black" (i.e. not really black)

Mason on X - "Call me crazy, but at an absolute bare minimum heterodoxy as a principle should leave room for people to vote for whichever candidate they like"

Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆🌴🥥🇺🇸 on X - "I’m not dating a guy who would let me die from a routine pregnancy complication, and neither should you."
Wokal Distance on X - "The consistent lying about the views of Trump and his supporters are the reason Trump has up in the polls. the social capital our institutions run on is trust, and every time these people hide the facts, twist the truth, or tell a lie they lose a little bit of that capital."
Clifton Duncan on X - "It's pretty insidious to divide men and women like this at a time when so many people are having trouble finding love They are driving social disintegration for political purposes and it's pretty vile"