NN on X - "I’ve been racking my brain trying to understand what, exactly, the modern Democrat Party offers the American voter. And I’m genuinely asking. I’ve tried to remove my bias, step outside myself, and look at this from a neutral perspective…but I still can’t figure it out.
Mass amnesty does nothing for the average American.
Higher taxes to subsidize millions of illegal migrants do nothing for the average American.
Releasing violent repeat offenders back onto the streets and then gaslighting the public about “restorative justice” does nothing but hurt the average American.
Homeless “initiatives” that burn billions w no accountability help no one except the nonprofits running the grift. Our schools are a nightmare, discipline is gone, standards keep dropping, and parents who speak up are smeared as extremists. Then look at everything else:
• Energy policies that make everyday life more expensive, from gas to groceries
• DEI hiring that values ideology over competence- in medicine, aviation, law, and government…and somehow we’re all supposed to pretend this makes our country stronger.
• Child gender experiments that would have been illegal a decade ago, now framed as “healthcare,” w lifelong consequences we’re not allowed to question.
• Massive taxpayer fraud, whether it’s homeless nonprofits, childcare programs, Medicaid mills, unemployment theft, or “migrant emergency funding” that mysteriously vanishes into thin air.
• Open borders that flood working class communities with costs, crime, and competition for jobs and housing.
And even the two systems that were meant to help struggling Americans, healthcare and welfare, have become catastrophic liabilities.
• Endless welfare expansions w zero accountability. A safety net is good, but Democrats turned it into a political bribe… it is a system of permanent dependence instead of temporary stability.
• Healthcare subsidies that were supposed to make coverage affordable… but ended up raising premiums for everyone not on a government plan. The average family now pays more for healthcare than rent. How is that helping voters?
Every solution creates three new problems, none of which they ever fix. So what is the upside for the average American voter? What are Democrat voters actually getting in return for their loyalty? Because from where I’m standing, the only people winning under Democrat policies are:
➤ bureaucrats
➤ illegals
➤ activists
➤ NGOs
➤ government contractors
➤ and politicians who create chaos and then fundraise off the damage.
Everyone else pays the price."
Bin Xie on X - "China has way more college students than the USA — 11 million graduations each year, top the world. So China should be #1 in tech innovation and invention as well as scientific discovery, right? Wrong! USA is still #1! What’s the reason? A research paper published in July 2021 on Nature — Human Behavior gives the answer: Critical thinking skills levels in STEM education, that makes big difference. The researchers compared STEM education in China, India, Russia and USA and found out that STEM undergraduates in the three countries show no significant gains — and sometimes declines—in critical thinking skills over four years of college, trailing behind the U.S.. While Chinese students start with higher critical thinking and academic skills than their Indian and Russian counterparts, all three nations see stagnation or drops in these skills during their final two years.
Initial Levels: At the start of university, Chinese STEM students have a "large head start" in critical thinking and academic skills compared to students in India and Russia. Specifically, they score 1.4 to 1.5 standard deviations higher than Indian peers and 0.3 to 0.5 higher than Russian peers.
Skill Gains (4 Years): Students in all three countries do not experience significant gains in critical thinking over their four-year degree.
Declines: Studies indicate that critical thinking skills in China, India, and Russia often decline during the final two years of college.
Comparison to US: Unlike the three countries, students in the US demonstrate significant gains in critical thinking skills over four years.
Despite high initial skill levels, Chinese students' critical thinking and academic skills (math/physics) show little to no improvement, OFTEN DECLINING IN THE FINAL TWO YEARS (look at the chart below — students in China decline the most). This is attributed to less demanding, classroom-focused, and low-stakes assessment environments where students are almost guaranteed to graduate. You may think this research must be done by some crazy White supremacists with strong racial bias. Not true. The majority of the researchers in this study are Chinese in America. This explains why China still wants to send their students to America for education, and wants Chinese scientists and engineers in USA to go back — China’s education system simply cannot produce highly creative talents. So they have to get talented scientists and engineers from America, and keep copying and stealing from USA."
Sam B. on X - "Lol. China has millions of graduates that now ride uber bikes."
Chilling photo shows tourist's SELFIE with snow leopard seconds before being brutally mauled & left covered in blood - "A SMILING selfie shows the moment before a skier was mauled by a snow leopard and left with blood pouring from her face. The tourist spotted the dangerous predator while skiing off-piste and rushed over to get a cute snap with the wild beast. Seconds later, the big cat pounced and left the woman with serious injuries... The tourist was on her way back to her hotel in the resort town of Koktokay, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, when she spotted the rare cat in a wooded area nearby... She was able to get a foreboding selfie with the beast, before it suddenly lunged at her. The leopard mauled at her face and even bit down on her skull with its sharp jaws, according to witnesses... fortunately the predator was unable to penetrate her thick ski helmet. A brave ski instructor eventually chased away the cat by frantically waving his poles."
Why I Have to Conduct Raccoon Research in a Bikini #science #animals - YouTube
Meme - "My dear, I'm going to the horse races today, so I'll be back late."
"Don't bother. I called that mare. She won't be racing tonight"
Meme - "Jesus watching me get railed in a sundress by a trans catgirl waifu >UwU<
Oh hell yeah, these are the sins I died for"
Meme - "@darezuka
Translated from Japanese by Grok
Don't RT lewd art -> Your feed gets flooded with pointless arguments, flame wars, and gossip news. Eventually your heart grows barren and you lose your freedom.
Do RT lewd art -> The algorithm starts prioritizing lewd art and shows it to you first. Your heart stays calm with no waves stirred up, and you become free."
Meme - "no idea"
"just got a very nice laser projector and it came with a built in operating system that auto plays ads. already making me insane"
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews...: "Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?"
illuminatibot on X - "The job of the mainstream media today is to make you think that the views of 10 percent of the country are actually the views of 90 percent of the country."
S'pore woman places foodpanda priority order at 7:41pm on New Year's Eve, food arrives at 3:40am on Jan. 1 - "Due to the delay, the food arrived past the safe consumption period, she said, and was allegedly unrefrigerated for hours, resulting in it going bad. Lim's attempts to contact foodpanda's customer service to request for a refund were also rejected and she was informed that her case would be recorded as feedback."
19F) my dad found my horse dildo and I honestly want to die. : r/copypasta - "I still live at home and this happened last night. My dad knocked on my door because I asked for his help moving my bed. I hid my box of toys in the closet but my horse dildo is obviously huge so I just shoved it under the mattress. My bed has wheels but is very heavy and I wanted to move my dresser and my bed across the room for a different more open layout. We moved the dresser and started moving the bed but one of the wheels was stuck and my dad said, "It'd be easier if we got the mattress off." The sheets were off since I was washing them it was just the mattress. He lifted it RIGHT WHERE I KNEW THE TOY WAS and I said "NO WAIT!" But it was too late. He lifted the mattress and said "What is tha-....fuck!" and put the mattress back down. His face was bright red and he couldn't make eye contact with me and he said, "I'm gonna go go have a beer real quick. Lets try this again in a few minutes okay?" I said "Okay." and after he left I hid my toy in the dresser and he came back after a few minutes and said "Is it ok for us to take the mattress off?" I nodded and he lifted it and propped it against the wall and we moved the solid wood frame and he helped put the mattress back. I said, "Listen, dad about what you saw..." and he put his hand up shook his head and said "I don't know what you're talking about I didn't see anything other than a bed and a mattress." We talked about other things for a sec and he went back downstairs while I tried to forget that my father just saw my giant horse dildo and now knows that I own one. I was honestly so embarrassed I cried after he left."
M'sian man, 38, pretends to be US 'sugar daddy', forces 3 S'pore-based women to have sex with driver, who was also himworld - "An unemployed Malaysian man living in Malaysia with his wife and children posed as multiple characters in a ploy to ensnare three Singapore-based women to engage in sadistic sex with him. On Jan. 13, 2026, Rajwant Singh Gill Narajan Singh, 38, was sentenced to 12 years' jail and 15 strokes of the cane for crimes involving two of the women... Gill played two main personas, the first was a wealthy Caucasian "sugar daddy" named "Michael Nolan", "Mike" or "Thomas". He pretended to be an "American trader living on a yacht in Lumut, Perak, Malaysia". The second persona was that of "Sam" or "Raj", a driver who utilised a "soft" and good-natured personality to appeal to the victims on compassionate grounds. Often, "Sam" would offer his help to victims in the extortion process by pretending to settle the debts enforced by "Mike" as a form of goodwill. He used both personas to coerce the victims into "demeaning and intrusive sexual acts for his pleasure" and to assess whether to threaten or comfort them in the extortion process. He would scout for victims on Tinder before offering the "paid" arrangements, which established a "dominant-submissive relationship" from the start. "Absolute obedience, instant submission to unreasonable and perverted demands, and even apologising after being humiliatingly insulted, were status quo if they were to earn their keep." Gill deceived the victims into believing that he would pay large sums of money, which he never intended to pay. He would instruct the victims to send nude photographs and explicit videos of themselves to blackmail them and coerce them to have sexual intercourse with "Sam"... PW2 suffered immense physical abuse; court documents stated that Gill had engaged "a dominatrix to flog her, causing severe pain and numerous open wounds". "She performed intensely demeaning acts for the accused’s pleasure"... Gill made baseless claims and "claimed trial to the bitter end", forcing victims to relive their trauma. He ensured that his offences were harder to detect by acting across national borders and by moving conversations from Tinder to WhatsApp, an end-to-end encrypted service. Gill was arrested in a joint covert operation between the Singapore Police Force (SPF) and Royal Malaysian Police Force (PDRM) and "significant resources were utilised in carrying out this operation"."
PepsiCo to cut prices on popular chips like Doritos and Cheetos
The power of SNAP cuts
James Hickman on X - "PepsiCo spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep junk food eligible for food stamps. Then RFK got 18 states to ban SNAP purchases of soda, candy, and processed snacks. Within a week, PepsiCo cut Doritos, Lay's, and Tostitos prices by up to 15%. The CEO blamed "affordability." But the timing tells the real story. SNAP is a $100 billion-a-year program. According to the USDA, 20 cents of every SNAP dollar goes to junk food. Frito-Lay products appeared in 7.2% of all SNAP shopping trips. The moment the government stopped subsidizing demand, PepsiCo had to compete on price. No regulation. No price caps. No antitrust probe. The subsidy disappeared, and the market corrected overnight. Now consider that this same pattern — government money in, prices up — plays out in college tuition, healthcare, defense, and every other industry with a guaranteed government buyer. Pepsi was one company, one product line, one program. Imagine what happens when the subsidies stop across the board."
kevin smith on X - "You ever think the reason food is so expensive Is because like 50 million people are getting it for free"
The okayest poster there is on X - "Kevin, food stamps actually make food cheaper for the rest of us by subsidizing food producers, it's ok to admit you have no idea how agricultural subsidies work in this country"
Left wingers are economically illiterate, as usual
Matt Forney on X - "New Hampshire is living refutation of the blackpiller lie that "there is no political solution" (a nonsensical phrase) or "you can't vote your way out of this." 20 years ago, New Hampshire had been invaded by Massholes and was well on its way to becoming Vermont. It swung hard left in election after election and the Massholes were working overtime to make it just as awful as the state they fled. But the right got organized. They started fighting back, organizing to win elections and entrench right-wing policy. They took over the GOP at the grassroots level and purged all the cucks. The Republicans now hold every statewide elected position and both chambers of the legislature and are cementing the right-wing counterrevolution, driving the Massholes back to their shitty homeland. Next, they'll start purging the Democrats out of federal offices and winning the state for Republicans in presidential elections. If right-wingers had just given up, sat out elections, and did nothing, then New Hampshire would look like Colorado or Virginia right now. Instead, libtards are literally fleeing the state and the government is passing anti-libtard laws literally named after Charlie Kirk, something no Middle American state has done. There is no substitute for engaging with the political system. You don't sit out elections impotently whining or retreat to build some cult compound in the woods. You play the game and you play it to win. Because even if you aren't interested in politics, politics is interested in you."
Thread by @Chowpinglee on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Everyone: “Book your flight on a Tuesday at 3 pm, you’ll get the cheapest tickets!” As an airline veteran, this is a B.S. myth. Timing matters, but not in the way you think. If you've ever felt cheated by sudden price hikes, this is what most airlines don’t want you to know:
The best strategies to score cheap tickets according to conventional wisdom:
• Off-peak tickets
• Flexible destinations
• Flights with stopovers
These help. But to game the system, it helps to understand how airlines price their tickets.
Ever wondered why airline ticket prices fluctuate faster than you can keep up? It's not you. It's intentionally designed that way. Think AI-driven madness. Let's dive in:
Air fares have gone through a full makeover since the 1970s. In 1974, a NYC to LA round-trip cost $1,442 (in today's dollars). Then came the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act. Today, that same flight costs $268. An 81% drop. But how? Airlines use a secret code: Booking Classes. Not just economy or business. There's an alphabet soup of fare levels. F = full fare first class J = full-fare business Y = full fare economy But it gets crazy:
American Airlines and British Airways use D, C, R, I for discount business. United uses J, C, D, Z, P. United also uses R for premium economy. Do you follow? If that's not complicated enough, guess what:
A Boston to San Francisco round-trip has over 25 MILLION different valid fares. Where does all this insanity come from? Two words: AI algorithms.
• Leisure vs. business
• Past booking data
• Competitor prices
• Fuel costs
• Seasonal demand
Here's where it gets creepy:
Airlines profile YOU. Ever notice that prices are always higher the 2nd time you check? It’s not a coincidence. It’s because… They stalk you.
• Track searches
• Analyze behavior
• Fast-changing prices
So how can you beat the system?
Pro tip: The "Tuesday at 3 PM" booking myth is NOT TRUE. Instead:
• Be flexible with dates
• Use incognito mode to game the algorithm
• Set up price alerts
Remember: Timing matters, but it's not everything.
Another factor that tilts the odds in your favor: The "Southwest Effect". When low-cost carriers joined the game, big airlines scrambled to match prices. A 2013 MIT study showed major fare drops when Southwest and the rest started new routes. The competition between the airlines is good news for us. But understand this: Airlines aren't just selling you a seat. They're selling an experience:
• Baggage fees
• Seat selection
• Priority boarding
• In-flight Wi-Fi
In 2015, these "extras" raked in $59.2 billion — and the figure grows 20% per year. So what does this mean for us travelers? The all-inclusive ticket is a thing of the past. What works for the airlines now is to:
• Unbundle service
• Offer dirt-cheap base fares
• With à la carte add-ons
If you want cheap tickets, try to pay only the base fare.
TLDR: Airline pricing is a complex dance of supply, demand, and data.
To score deals:
• Be flexible with dates
• Use incognito mode
• Set up price alerts
• Go without the à la carte add-ons"
Weird. Left wingers tell us that regulation always protects consumers and is good
Susceptibility to Mental Illness May Have Helped Humans Adapt over the Millennia - "Randolph Nesse, a professor of life sciences at Arizona State University, attributes high rates of psychiatric disorders to natural selection operating on our genes without paying heed to our emotional well-being... In his new book, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry, Nesse recruits the framework of evolutionary medicine to make a case for why psychiatric disorders persist despite their debilitating consequences. Some conditions, like depression and anxiety, may have developed from normal, advantageous emotions. Others, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, result from genetic mutations that may have been beneficial in less extreme manifestations of a trait...
there are two very different categories of illness that should be kept separate. One is the emotional disorders, which are potentially normal, useful responses to situations. And in all such responses, variability and sensitivity are influenced by lots of different genes. There are also mental disorders that are the most severe ones that are just plain old genetic diseases: bipolar disease and autism and schizophrenia. They’re genetic diseases, and whether you get them or not is overwhelmingly dependent on what genes you have. But why would a strong, inheritable trait that cuts fitness by half not be selected against? I think this is one of the deepest mysteries in psychiatry... For bipolar disease, the reduction in the number of offspring is not very great at all, so it might be that there’s not much selection acting there. And what if a tendency to be bipolar resulted in having even more children?... Maybe many of us have tendencies to grand ambitions and mood swings that probably aren’t good for us but might lend to grand successes on occasion, and that might lead to great reproductive success. Then there’s the “cliff edge” effect, which is the possibility that some traits are pushed very far towards a peak that’s close to a place where fitness collapses for a few percent of the population... I find many of my patients feel like they’re abnormal if they are told, “You have an anxiety disorder, you have a depressive disorder.” Talk with them a little bit about the fact that there are advantages to anxiety and that low moods might have meaning. It might not just be something that’s broken in you, it might be that your emotions are trying to tell you something. I think that makes many people feel less like they’re defective."
Hamtramck City Council votes to allow animal sacrifice for religious purposes - "After months of debate, the city council has voted to allow the practice of animal sacrifice, for religious purposes, in Hamtramck. The decision ultimately came down to a more than 30-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says cities cannot infringe on religious freedom under the first amendment. The act of animal sacrifice is often practiced among Muslims during Eid. “Our city is dirty enough. We don't want to make it more dirty,” a Hamtramck resident said during a city hall meeting. “Really ridiculous catastrophic resolution,” another one said. "If it’s not passed then we are ready to take it to courts for religious rights because it is constitution."... Many people, including Muslim residents, were against it citing sanitary concerns if the animals are sacrificed in a home and not in a sterile environment, especially in the tight neighborhoods of Hamtramck. The ordinance that was passed Tuesday night says religious sacrificing of animals can be done as long as it is done legally and humanely."
Christopher Barnard on X - "Colorado is an experiment in failed progressive governance (D+16 since 2013) Violent crime up 60%+ (vs 3% nat’l average) Median home price $600k (vs nat’l $400k average) Drug ODs up 3x Homelessness up 150% Everyone was moving to CO. Now people are leaving at historic levels"
OC coffee shop secretly operating as strip club - "Inside DD Café in Garden Grove, the women are serving a lot more than coffee. FOX 11's undercover cameras captured female servers providing lap dances, offering private dances for cash, and telling customers they could bring alcohol inside for a fee. City records show DD Café, located at 10552 McFadden Ave., is licensed only as a coffee shop."
Meme - "True Story. Red Riding Hood"
"So, you were the one who found the wolf at your grandmother's"
"Listen, I have a thing for older broads, ok"
"So when you say you "ate" Grandma..."
"Listen, I know how to please a woman."
"Years of therapy. Turn off the camera!"
"War and Peas"
