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Oct 8

"Dark MAGA" has been a magnum opus tier experiment in timeline hyperstition, I'll explain the background on where the phrase came from in a short thread here: 🧵

In January of 22' someone in a GC made a joke that a picture of Yugi from Yugi-oh was "Dark MAGA" and we all started riffing on it in other group chats with photoshopped pictures of "gothic" Donald Trump and silly joke posts about what exactly "Dark MAGA" was as opposed to MAGA.

It wasn't particularly serious, just some anons clowning around on the TL. The type of libs with no sense of humor who lurk this particular side of twitter as "researchers" took it seriously and wrote some lame hit piece on it: isdglobal.org/isd-in-the-new…

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@Aristos_Revenge

Oct 2

You know, people him and haw and dodge and talk about immigration in abstractions like legal and illegal, criminal and law abiding, and it frustrates me.

Simply put, I don't want to be surrounded by foreigners with alien and unpredictable values, worldviews, and allegiances.

I just don't want to be around these people, I especially do not want them to outnumber me at Costco or whatever. I want to live in a nation, where the people I'm surrounded by have a similar frame of reference for how they see the world. *That* is a culture, a nation, a people.

In small numbers this doesn't feel like as big of a deal, but there's this barrier that gets broken when in public spaces you start to see more of them than people like you, in a space you've inhabited since before that state of affairs. It's anxiety inducing.

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Sep 30

https://twitter.com/BehizyTweets/status/1840813664255033540

Biden is technically the president but doesn't act like it.

Kamala wants to be the president, but can't even be a competent Vice President.

Trump walks around like he's *still* the president, performs the duties expected of one, and over half the nation treats him like he is.

https://twitter.com/BehizyTweets/status/1840813664255033540

Even the media still talk about Trump like he's the president. It's hilarious and baffling. Nobody cares what Biden is up to beyond asking "Do we actually have a president right now?"

Nobody actually *likes* Harris, they can only *hate* Trump.

That's what's hilarious and insane about all this. The entire election that determines the existential fate of the greatest nation in the world rests on the axis of who likes and who hates this singular man and the aspect of America he is symbolic of.

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Sep 26

I really hate the compromise that suburbs represent, but not for the reasons "Public Transit Enthusiasts" do. I'm going to talk a bit about my old neighborhood when I was in high school, and what we can learn from it when it comes to subdivision design. 🧵

After my dad died when I was in middle school, my mom trekked us across the state to stay with my grandma for a few months. I started high school in her district, at a pretty decent high school. About halfway through the year, my mom bought a house in a neighborhood 3 miles away.

The center of this subdivision had a lake with a marina, which afforded it a small strip of commercial zoning. Here there was a bar, a market with a deli, a liquor store, a restaurant, a nail salon and a hair stylist. It was the community hub for the neighborhood.

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Aug 20

One of the biggest solutions needed for domestic failings in America is a way to bifurcate society between high and low time preference people.

For those unfamiliar, low time = long term planning mindset, high time = short term present thinking.

The low time preference human capital needs to be properly resourced to maintain and innovate on the complex systems our civilization requires without being molested by the high time preference crowd, which would be perfectly content to live in an endless loop of bing bing wahoo pachinko parlour of constant stimulation.

A big part of the problem is that all of the gatekeeping mechanisms that enforced this have been corrupted, and so have a ton of the people on the other side of them. The attention span of the entire nation is like 4 days, those with low time preference are under constant stress because they don't live optimally under those conditions.

So the low time preference gatekeepers have turned into hedonistic perverted midwits which keep the people who need to be in these positions outside the gates, stuck in high time world under a blanket of anxiety.

And now increasingly extreme measures are being taken to keep the non midwit LTP crowd from getting any closer to the levers that make things run, presumably out of insecurity by the pozzed that they'll be made irrelevant or kicked out into HTP world themselves.

The end result is that you've got a lot of smart people just kind of withering and trying to get by in levels of society they aren't optimally designed for, when they should be doing things like maintaining these complex systems. Instead our bridges are crumbling, our grid is vulnerable, our security apparatus is spending all its time looking inward to terrorize the populace.

We've hit an almost unrecoverable critical mass of unworthy apparatchiks trying to fake it till they make it in these positions, too busy being enamored with status games and their world of emperors with no clothes to actually be competent at their jobs. We're finally starting to *really* feel the debt being incurred by their lack of productivity.

Meanwhile the human capital that should be in those positions diligently working are being kept out, and at best they are running businesses or doing important things that are outside of the gatekeeping apparatus and away from the levers of power, or at worst dying deaths of despair.

I'm 35 now, and I've been around long enough to learn from some really smart people who were dithering about online. You can learn more from random dedicated strangers on the internet than you can from the leading experts of those same fields according to academia.

There's a lot of levels to our civilizational problems right now, but one of them which gets overlooked is we have a dire personnel problem and misallocation of human capital. Too many midwits who probably shouldn't have gone to college were shoved into that track.

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Aug 19

Has anyone else noticed just massively illogical demographic change in their own neighborhoods and adjacent areas in just the last 2 years in particular?

I'm trying to imagine the mechanics of how that even works, and the only way this feels possible is if blackrock et al going this hard into assets also includes some kind of government program subsidizing rent for immigrants in these homes.

Suddenly lots of signs "For Lease" in my area, which is/was a predominantly white suburb far flung from the city core. It's not even the blacks or hispanics born here or even illegal indios who are crowding us out, it's arabs, africans, asians, indians, that very obviously didn't grow up here.

I just can't imagine the mechanics involved that can even allow this much change to happen in 2 years without massive subsidization and private capital buying every home here they could get their hands on to lease to them. Where have the homeowners gone?

The issue is everybody I know has been experiencing something similar no matter where they are, in my case I moved to my neighborhood about 10 years ago and bought my first house, and it was about 80 percent white. Feels like it's half that now and it's foreign born replacing us.

The type of people who can afford to drop a down payment on a suburban home within 2-4 years of coming here, even as a "skilled worker" H1B is pretty low unless they were one of the wealthier ones that came here with money in the bank, which isn't very common.

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