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27 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
At a point, capitalists are indistinguishable from communists. Both reduce man to materialism, one just shouts "that's not real communism," while the other one shouts "that's not the free market" at any criticism of either ideology
"Something something but capitalism is moral"

Here is a story about a girl selling lemonade to pay for brain surgery

"That's not the free market but also good because it builds character"

At least this girl can easily get her hands of Oxy thanks to the GOP-AEI-pharma axis
Best of all, capitalists miss the point that America isn't and hasn't been a capitalist society for a while. Managerialism is the defining political and economic system, and it arose in part due to a crisis in capitalism. Anyway, hamburgers or socialism, etc, etc
Every seether replying with "but XYZ isn't real capitalism" sounds just like some communist screaming in defense of his utopia

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Was watching American Pie the other day. Never have been a big fan of the movie. But watching it now I'm struck by the realization that the kind of apolitical, carefree, blissfully ignorant experience portrayed in that movie of young people is increasingly impossible 1/
Basically this was my high school experience, which was totally apolitical, never crossed my mind that there was a world outside our little garden of youth where 2/
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26 Feb
But this time they're going to steal more than $600 million in campaign donations from voters to own the libs, make Juneteenth a holiday, prove Democrats are the real racists, give Tim Cook, Google, and the Koch brothers direct lines of communication to the White House again, etc
DeSantis needs to be drafted against his will to run
Every criticism against DeSantis or a similar challenger is true of Trump tenfold--but DeSantis, for example, had the balls to push legislation that allowed business owners to defend themselves from rioters whereas Trump pushed reparations. But keep LARPing about Trump as bAsEd
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26 Feb
Trump *is* the establishment at this point. McConnell got everything he wanted out of him at the expense of the 2016 agenda, then turned on Trump, and now is backing Trump, likely because Trump agreed to do what McConnell wants if reelected 1/ thehill.com/homenews/senat…
It's also telling who is getting framed as TRUE MAGA right now: Kevin McCarthy, Jane Timken, Ivanka Trump, Maria Salazar, etc. Trump isn't a "kingmaker," he's a pawn rubber stamping what he's told to rubber stamp 2/
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25 Feb
young men's movement that advises physical fitness, healthier eating, and general taking care of oneself to counter coomsumeristic sedentary culture
all of these things matter for family formation, giving people a stake in society worth fighting for beyond spectator politics where morons are idolized and LARPed over
young men should be encouraged to be fit and to date and to desire to start families--the w*men bashing coomsumerism in sections of the right is counterproductive to the stated aims of anything "conservative"
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It cannot be said enough that conservatism's love affair with big business makes no sense because big business is the driving force of woke ideology in the United States
Blaming it singularly on universities is a cope or a bad reading of events. The right should read more Marx without the blinders amgreatness.com/2021/02/02/ame…
There has always been a disintegrating tendency in capital, which everyone from Marx to GK Chesterton to Belloc observed. The idea that academia is solely responsible, that big business was just an innocent bystander, is absurd. The right will lose for as long as it ignores this
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The problem with Trump 2024 is that you're actually just voting to reelect Jared Kushner
with another serving of Ivanka's bossgirl "dad don't do that it's mean and makes me look bad" liberalism
Trump's refusal/inability to govern (without Jared's permission) brought us to where we are now by enraging and empowering our enemies through his pro-corporate, pro-crime policies. If you think things are bad now, it's because we had an ineffective leader for the last four years
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