Speaking as a Midwesterner, let me give you my opinion of Tim Walz.
Walz needs to be seen in the context of the rapid fall of Minnesota, and particularly what happened to the Twin Cities.
The Twin Cities of Minneapolis & St. Paul used to be one of the nicest, safest cities
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in the United States. The Mary Tyler Moore show was set there for good reason, it was friendly, safe place.
Minnesota used to be purple and quite centrist.
The local Democratic party is called the DFL - the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party.
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That was how Minnesota politics worked - the cities in the metro area allied with the unions (primarily in the mining Northeast) who allied with the farmers. They went against the Twin Cities suburbs and businessmen, it was always polite, and the state was even.
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The big shift happened with the mass influx of Somalis, along with the Dems trying to bring in blacks from other metro areas. The "nice" Repubs being controlled opposition, they of course did nothing to stop this process.
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The demographics changed sharply, crime rates soared, and the political situation rearranged itself.
Along with much of the rest of the country, enough of the suburbs switched to the Dems, that along with the newly black metro areas, the Dems began to get a decisive margin.
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Polite and nice stopped right there, the new DFL played strictly hardball politics
They also turned on their traditional constituencies of the farmers and the Iron Range union workers. As soon as they didn't need the votes, it was slap across the face, and knife in the back,
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they had no need for those traditional white Americans, or there traditional values.
Minnesota rapidly became the most radical of the Midwestern states, even more so than Chicago-dominated Illinois.
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Walz is a snake & a chameleon. Yes, he hunts, does the fishing opener & sometimes wears flannel shirts - all of which are used by the entirely Democratic Minnesota media to portray him as something he is not, a folksy politician with a common touch.
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Walz is despised in the outstate regions where the hunting & fishing are primarily done. Those areas have flipped from Blue to solid Red, as they try to protect themselves from the radical in the Twin Cities - to no avail.
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The real Walz? He's the face of the Great Replacement, that is followed by the Marxists crushing the opposition.
That's exactly why they want him as VP. He brings no election advantages. They're not worried about the election, but what comes after.
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This is an important point 👇for the many people who point to WWII & say the US can crank up military production at any time.
The US started building ships & bombers 6-7 years in advance. There was a long time to build the factories & the shipyards, providing Depression jobs. 1/
The US had not only the physical facilities, but most critically of all, it had the engineers & skilled labor who had 6-7 years of experience building warships & warplanes.
That's part of what we're seeing with Boeing - MBA idiots got rid of the most experienced skilled labor
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and they lost the teachers for the new workers, who knew how to practically do everything.
So, the US was already the manufacturing superpower, and it not only had the facilities & workers who could be flipped from civilian to military production, but it had the people
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It's critical to note the exact wording, because the wording changes the polls results. When asked whether we should "send our Army and Navy abroad to fight?" the overwhelming answer of 90%+ was no. People did not want US soldiers dying in Europe.
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Now, I'll present the two most salient counterpoints by @neoamericana There are others you can follow in the original 🧵
My point by the way, that I'll get back to, is that we can't accept the NYT or many other things at face value in 1940, the NYT was Red by 1930s at latest
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People breathlessly awaiting the arrival of cloning machines & self-repairing robots are an odd group, particularly when they themselves aren't making it happen.
The 2nd order effect of this coming about is that they cease to exist, along with 95% of the rest of humanity. 1/
If you look at some of the stuff coming out of the WEF & related areas, the problem is that there are far too many people in the world. A global population of 500 million to 1 billion is compatible with stopping global warming while rebuilding vital ecosystems.
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Now, if the "tech optimists", aka suicidal death merchants have their way, AI self-repairing robots will take over all the work, and supposedly, billions of unemployed people will be supported by UBIs.
My sweet, naive children - that is not at all how it will work.
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As developed in this 16-post 🧵👇, the facts are clear - by children and families are affordable for those living in some cities in the former Rust Belt.
This fact is a useful sorting system, as found in the numerous replies, many of which are vicious 2/
What it all comes down is perceived status. Many people view themselves, even if they are too poor to ever buy a house as being much higher status than the losers living in the shithole cities of the Heartland - or so they phrase it.
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Women in the West are passing through a Darwinian bottleneck, in which many gene lines will die out - while other women's children will dominate the future.
The issue is that feelings are not a logical process - & that means they are necessarily blind to second-order effects
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Again - this does not apply to all women! Instead, I'm exploring the reasons for the increase in genetically unsuccessful women, not the winners.
For a lot of women, particularly when they are young, decision-making is a social & feelings-based process, in which status is sought
Decisions are made on the basis of how to increase their own status, either in person or increasingly within a group of women in TikTok, IG or so forth.
Second-order effects are logical, many people can't do them - and, some women do them just fine.
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One of the weirdest parts of living in a nation descending into totalitarianism is the average people on the Left cheering on jailing the opposition & ending free speech - but thinking they still get to vote & decide things.
You idiots, that is not at all how this works.
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We're already seeing this on display with Kamala - and yet the average Dem seems fine with this.
They're lied to every day about Biden's condition - hey, no problem.
A group of people on a non-public basis selects their leader for them, someone whose never won a Dem primary
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Again, no problem.
Elections are now determined by secret counting of mass harvested ballots, where anyone objecting to that bizarre version of "democracy" being subject to arrest & imprisonment.