The two groups of people in the United States that you are not allowed to criticize are very different from one another in almost every respect, except in that their limitless tribalism trumps all else.

It's one of the things that makes both groups quite unlikable.

https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1789073958785916929

Imagine being so unlikable that an entire legal apparatus, counter to your country's traditions, needed to be constructed from scratch in order to prevent people from criticizing you.

It wasn't true in the past, but now everytime something like this happens, tens of thousands of white people definitively reject liberal racial pieties for good, and decide that there is no alternative to whites banding together as a group. White people are waking up to the reality that "racism" just means that a black person can never be publicly criticized or (especially) ridiculed by a white person.

It's proof that all people aren't equal. And whites will continue to proceed accordingly with that knowledge.

Young white men are good and goddamn tired of life in the Longhouse.

The backlash is just beginning. When war comes (and it is coming) young men are what matters, and they get the final say.

https://twitter.com/OldRowOfficial/status/1786252772817674652

"Do what we want, or we'll hurt you!" This is the mindset of a leftist.

They'll use the same rationale when it's your door, and, eventually, your blood.

We can't live with them.

And, yes, the "anti-Israel" framing is stupid, but the point about leftism stands. The stupidity of conservatives is describing this as "anti-Israel activists". That's exactly how they want you to describe them. It makes them the heroes.

What they are is "leftist terrorists". That's how they should always be described. It's true, and they hate it.

If the competitor to nearly 2000 years of orthodox Christianity is a version of Christianity that believes nothing other than "We have to be really nice to leftists and their clients and undermine anyone on the right", my money is on traditional Christianity. The leftist Christian believes little more than "Jesus was a great guy just like me, with my same priorities and point of view, but lived a long time ago".

Few Christians on the right suppose that Jesus was anything like them. But they are serious about fighting against evil.

As a matter of historical precedent, leftism, degradation, and decay happen slowly and gradually - over decades and centuries.

Reaction and revolution happen far more rapidly. Slowly, at first, then all at once. I think it's a mistake to view "woke" as a revolution. It's the logical end result of a long process of leftist degradation and decay. It's an end of something, not a beginning.

I think that the revolution is coming, and there will be no mistaking it when it arrives.

If Abbott holds firm, let's see if Brandon is willing to shed blood to enforce his will on the border.

If he is, we're in uncharted territory.

If he isn't, and backs down, the regime suffers a huge blow to its prestige.

It all hinges on Abbott refusing to back down. Abbott has been one of the biggest disappointments of the many useless GOP politicians. He's always been all hat and no cattle.

*If* he stays the course, I'm curious whether it is because he senses the vibe shift or because even he has finally had enough (or both).

Most Americans are not on the right.

Nor are most Americans leftists.

But they do support the current thing. And the current thing is most certainly leftist.

They support it because it doesn't negatively affect them, and not supporting it could hurt them. Most people aren't ideological. They follow the leader. They take the path of least resistance. They go with the flow.

The key to breaking the left's power is for normal people to personally experience direct harm from leftism and to see that supporting the left could hurt them.

1) A few fundamental thoughts about our current situation.

I don't believe that it is possible that get you get to the cultural, social, economic, and political point that the U.S. is now at without a major war that directly affects every person in the country. 2) That war (or wars) could be external or it could be internal.

We might get both at the same time. It's happened throughout history.

Unlike the out of sight/out of mind wars that most of us grew up with, I believe that these wars will be impossible to ignore.

We need a gigachad of this guy, anons.

https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1736806514755875173

It would take only four dozen men like this, willing to risk jail or death, provided that they were in the right positions and disobeyed simultaneously, to break the power of the regime.

Although people use many other historical and geographic analogies to argue their strong opinions on the Israeli-Palestinian/Arab conflict, I believe that it is sui generis and unlike any other conflict in the world, rendering these analogies irrelevant and meaningless. This is exactly why the conflict is so intractable and provokes such strong reactions from people with no direct personal stake in it.

The logical conclusion of "abortion cannot be ended under democracy" (true) is either "give up on ending abortion" or "end democracy".

If you believe that abortion is the taking of innocent human life, you should come to the latter conclusion.

https://twitter.com/buttonslives/status/1723425690102468932

Slavery was not able to be ended democratically, so it was ended by other means.

Liberalism constantly splutters and sputters incoherently trying to come up with convoluted explanations for why attacking that person was fine, but attacking this person is bad.

The real explanation is that people help their friends and hurt their enemies. If you want to know whether someone views a person or a group as a friend or enemy, just look at their behavior toward them.

You'll never be wrong.

By my reckoning, the GAE is roughly at the same point of the decline timeline that the Soviet Union was in early 1985, right before the death of Chernenko.

The GAE won't make it to 2030. Neither will NATO or the EU in its present form. Just as with the Soviet Union, the periphery will probably collapse first.

Once you see NATO and the EU disintegrate, the GAE won't be far behind.

1) Because conservatives don't have power, much of the discourse on the conservative side is focused on a philosophical debate about how the movement should proceed, who should be included, and what should happen in the future. 2) This is normal and natural.

However, many (mostly older) conservatives don't understand what time it is.

They cannot (or will not) distinguish between what they think should happen and what will (given current conditions) in fact, happen.

1) A thread on Trump and the fragility of the regime.

This is the most iconic image of 21st century America since the photos of the planes hitting the Twin Towers.

It may prove to be even more historically significant.

This is how Trump returned to Twitter after 31 months. 2) The malevolent idiots in the regime gave Trump the PR opportunity of a lifetime with that photo.

They managed to make this 77 year-old man a martyr while also making him look like a badass straight out of a Hollywood revenge fantasy.