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For FIFTEEN YEARS, from 2000 (that's right, before 9/11) to April of 2015 (mere months before Trump announced his presidential run), Subway was defined by one Mr. Jared Fogle: I realize as a decrepit old man some of you whippersnappers all of 24 in 2024 were BORN in 2000 (insane btw) but this mfer was EVERYWHERE for a decade and a half. Constantly on "television" or "TV"
(TV was like dedicated TikTok in a box)

Here's Jared explaining it all in 2015:

This is what a lot of political discourse boils down to Our national life is dominated by the people in the middle, who are - if not women themselves - highly feminized by school and institutional employment

If you did that, the substance of the abortion debate would be revealed as;

Women keep having sex with guys who do not want to marry them, whose kids they themselves don’t even want, and are terrified about being low-status single moms—so they want to be able to kill the kid

https://twitter.com/eyeslasho/status/1817662949131010420

Rape & incest (incest??!) are used to bully people into silence but are a tiny percentage of abortions and the women who have the fewest abortions (college educated white/asian) are the most vocal and the ones who have the most (non-college black) are also most often single moms

2024 will be won or lost via White America:


Only 55% of non-college graduate whites bothered to vote last time. If just 60% did, Trump would have won.

College educated whites went 54% Democratic Party in 2024. If only 50% did, Trump would have won.cookpolitical.com/swingometer Every other type of political calculus is basically innumerate and the people spouting it are dumb.

Just raise the turnout of people with lower than potential turnout whose affiliation is favorable, and win any swing affiliation among people who regularly vote.

Youth unemployment in the US vanishes, corporate profits slightly decrease, prices slightly rise, male labor force participation skyrockets, farm payrolls and ancillary jobs increase outside of the biggest metropolitan areas, traffic decreases, etc.

https://twitter.com/devahaz/status/1813995469108130165

It befuddles a particular type of High IQ Immigrant, but the US has many local economies where it’s all Americans and only recently (40 years) hugely employed immigrants

For its majority history and broadly prosperous times, it was—being frank—WORKING CLASS WHITES doing it all

Trump knows better than to adopt a strongly worded and high-attack surface area position

People who loathe social conservatives but are excited for an end to “wokeism” (like Hanania) read this as an end to social conservatism, but Trump is how you get Gorsuch + Kavanaugh + ACB

https://twitter.com/richardhanania/status/1813921806149124395

I do not think Trump is a social conservative and I think social conservatives know Trump is not a social conservative.

Roe v. Wade did get overturned because of a President going to prayer breakfasts and speaking about the Holy Spirit and the like;

You can see atavistic American features in this man as he transmogrifies into a modern Anglo-American. This is what happened at the first Thanksgiving when Puritans got drunk and realized the King only ruled in name.

If you give it long enough, he’ll be able to reconstruct something like the Boston Brahmin accent

There are endless stories of this in the West

I will let you in on a secret: they won’t stop.

The only solution is organized, professional violence—either by total capture of the State or by its replacement.

Put your energies into building wealth + organizing politically.

https://twitter.com/waynegb88/status/1810384909719986222

If this stuff truly upsets you:

You need to 10x yours and your peers’ wealth. You need to become organized, politically undeniable, and popular. You have to be in a position of property ownership and political sway that you can influence the State or meaningfully challenge it.

Two feasible pro-civilizational efforts:

1. Get more low density low cost housing to talented young people whose labor travels by internet, so they reproduce

2. Get laboring talented young people to someplace with low density low cost housing and internet, so they reproduce

https://twitter.com/Indian_Bronson/status/1786182453343801464

I have previously offered my thoughts on how we should conceive of, and measure the success of, social and institutional alternatives to the mainstream culture and educational regimes:

Buckle up. Genes. Physiology. Inheritance.

Biden will win.

We'll hear coping just like after the "red wave" failed in 2022 or the "stop the steal" coping in 2020 - MAGA has its head in the sand about THREE things:

1. Demographic Shifts (among *Whites*)
2. Abortion
3. Recency Bias

Let's look at each of these:

https://twitter.com/Indian_Bronson/status/1765968214461206666

1.
Trump won in 2016 with tiny margins of victory in Michigina, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania - among non-college educated (working but often middle class) exurban whites: a lot of people who were union workers or would have been non-voters showed up.

But did Trump 'win whites'?

Doesn’t matter

They could openly admit firing only white people in the name of “retention equity”

The only way it ever stops is if white people politically organize to pursue their material self-interest *as* white people, which is literal white nationalism, which you’d reject

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1760817144781021650

What do all of these new prominent right wingers expect? Why is anyone surprised about this? What do they think opposition to the Civil Rights Act was about? Why do they think the Southern states fought integration, or why middle America opposed forced bussing? Etc, etc, etc.

The Tucker Carlson in Russia critiques are true:
Yes, it's just Moscow center
Yes, the groceries are expensive
Yes, Putin killed Navalny

But Tucker has NEVER seen such a modern city, with SO many white people, where public culture is *assertively* hetero and nominally Christian Tucker is a child of the Cold War; this is shocking to him.
All the dismissals he grew up with about Russia as Godless, as poor, as corrupt - these were results of the *Communists* whose spiritual descendants Tucker feels he battles daily in America:

All Bud Light needed to do was apologize.

But they wouldn't, and won't, as that would mean at least implicitly repudiating transgenderism by accepting their (former) customers' moral framework as the right one, which says transgenderism is wrong. So they try this stuff: Shane Gillis and Donald Trump endorse transgenderism.

If Bud Light partnered with someone who said "I want to gas Jews because I'm a Nazi", and Bud Light never actually apologized but said stuff like 'Third, to all our valued consumers, we hear you.' in a 'move on statement',

Yes, you can.

We should show them even more graphs. The right graphs.

https://twitter.com/moveincircles/status/1749730829431939201

The message young people get and have been getting is it is normal to have sex with lots of people, that sex is no big deal, that it is something they should do, soon! — but that pregnancy is life ruining, pregnancy is always a risk, and they must never get/get anyone pregnant.

There are so many recent articles now in 'prestige' publications (NYT, WSJ, New Yorker, NPR, Washington Post, etc.) on "open marriages" or "polyamory" bc the sexual revolution's pushing of the envelope had generational bleed through (intra-sexual competition/behavior modeling): Not only have more people (of both sexes) in each generation since the 1960s become more damaged for marriage at ever earlier ages, their status of being unmarried and socially unaccountable meant more time as intra-sexual competition for later cohorts coming of age.

IRS Section 174

You're not hearing about it much yet, but boy are you gonna

Software engineer/programmer salaries are now an "R&D expenditure", with different amortization rules, and thus, MASSIVELY increased taxable portions of business income.

All me to explain, 2021: + $15M rev.
$8M pay ($6M is devs)
$2M spend ($1M is "R&D")

Deductable: $8M pay, $2M spend; $10M

$5M of taxable income

2022: same

Deductable: $2M pay, $1M spend; $3M + capitalize $6M pay, $1M spend + only deduct %10 of that $7m

$11.3M of taxable income

TEXAS MILITARY DEPARTMENT

https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1745604622197113076

Right now these are Texas National Guard troops - which are part of the Federal chain of command, though until Federalized, ordered by the Governor. What should happen is THESE guys being sent as well:



Not National Guard, but State Guard.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Sta…

So—and my apologies to men who have opened this post in front of their wives—I don’t think the AI Waifu will resolve in replacement of women.
Non-reproduction of humanity is already a make or break moment, and this is still only face deepfaking.

Sanilac is a smart, interesting cultural commentator ( ex. ) whose incredibly ornate bit character is a Silk Road era Vizier of some Bukhara warlord with a court harem, but I think he conflates two distinct failure-modes of male dopamine hijacking; jsanilac.com/good-taste/?re…

https://twitter.com/evilvizier/status/1743721185932939698

MAKE COLLEGE A BACKUP OPTION

1. Young Men Matter The Most
2. 'The Trades' Are Okay, But...
3. You're Smarter Than You Think
4. If The Game Is Rigged, Do Something Else
5. Picasso's early work was good, actually
6. Things I think driven young men should do in 2024

1. Young Men Matter The Most - I

This sounds wrong to the modern ear.
Aren't there lots of talented young women? Don't older people of either sex still have things to contribute? Sure.

But they don't matter the most.



Spanning Scandinavia to India, Iberia to east of the Urals, the religions, languages, and lineages of bands of young warriors from the Steppes who thundered out in chariots yet resonate today in the minds, tongues, and *bloodlines* of hundreds of millions of men.

For all of human history, societies have lived and died by the fates and feats of their young men. Armies have conquered or been conquered, cities have been put to the sword, industry has prospered, pestilence has taken hold, and new frontiers have been penetrated through the blood, sweat, and grit of young men. Between 20-30 (give or take about 5 years), concurrent with coursing testosterone, enough knowledge to be dangerous, with neither the perspective or family obligations to be hesitant or too busy, young men drive civilization forward.

Any society which loses its young men, through catastrophe or self-inflicted lassitude, is doomed.
Any society which harnesses them has the world to win.razibkhan.com/p/casting-out-…

The USA's suicide rates have been rising the fastest among its youngest people and are now at all time highs.

This alongside the end of marriage and births is the story of the "success" of democracy, technology, markets, immigration; of the establishment for the last 30 years.


You can have whatever beliefs you want, and justify your chosen ideology with whatever stories you want to tell yourself; but the reality is that the way things have been arranged causes growing numbers of young people to not marry, and not start families and kill themselves.