There's a market for cheap disposable identities, fandoms and "communities" led by parasocial cults of personality.

While catered initially to millennials and now focused especially gen z, I think there will be a genuine bubble pop in this market in the next few years. This will filter a lot out of lukewarm types, especially in the Christian scene, return of new atheism types as people abandon and apostatize what they thought was a one-stop-shop solution.

The genuine faithful will remain.

Politics will be different, if only slightly.

Currently listening into the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy's webinar on "After Nuland", so far an interesting consensus that Nuland was an avatar of policy and not the lynchpin of USG actions towards Ukraine and Russia. War of attrition has left viable opportunities for negotiation behind, but the political narrative for Biden's election in 2024 means that USG isn't changing its position even if Nuland isn't there and her replacement has a more Asiatic focus.

Panel is looking somber.

Buc-ee's, a thread: Before we can get to the famous chain with its beaverish charms, one needs to look at the founder, Arch Alpin.

There are many that consider the trans issue or the "LGB without the T" to be some kind of "safe edgy" or a less important issue with regards to immigration and demographics. It's an equally important issue and I want give the focus as to why.

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https://twitter.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/1650895025507811328

For starters, let's take a look at recent events.
Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Tennessee have seen shootings, mob violence, and legislatures stormed because of trying to stop the chemical castration of children. This social contagion doesn't breed normally.

Let's take this to task since he keep digging the shovel into this.

"Wokeness is Anti-Whiteness" - No one calling this out would accept a leftist frame for their word, "Whiteness." Like calling the left "the real racists" the word racist was re-defined by the power structure That included prejudice + power that incorporated their methods that the US is a White Supremacist Nation, and thus POCs can't be racist. Deftly done.

The "Racialist Right", as Mr. Young likes to call them, knows this. They're just as read up on this pomo stuff.

With the House of Representatives having their first multiple votes for speaker for the first time in 100 years, I thought a thread was in order.

On the Speaker of the House. 🧵 It's one hell of a job to be the second line for the presidency, set the agenda for the lower half of the congress, and be the legislative face and leader of your respective party. So we'll do some history and get to the news.

The Iron Law of Projection always follows, but it does illustrate something else that is always innately found in these types:

Fear and Resentment. Fear on the grounds that yeah, someone's out for their "rights" (which is usually just their NEET/Consumer/Coomer lifestyle) and the resentment of their parents.

Doesn't take much of an investigation.

Going to do a short little thread on this.

So here goes 🧵 There's a ton of memetic power in the frog, from Pepe to now the more commonly used Apu Apustaja, it's a way to innocuously transmit information memetically within an effective ideological litmus test.

So I promised I'd do a short thread on this book, so here goes. I have the 2002 edition of this book, I do want to preface this that there is a 2012 third edition, published shortly before the great Kenneth Waltz' passing.

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https://twitter.com/MrPrudentialist/status/1498663610914070531

The book focuses squarely on the central question of nuclear proliferation: Should we welcome or fear the spread of nuclear weapons around the world? I'll be covering the two men in this book, some of their arguments, and my takeaways.

More regular people getting riled over Fauci and the dogs is demonstrable of a couple of things:

1 - Circuses over bread seem to capture eyes of the public.

2 - A consequence of Western aversion to childbearing and children in general.

A thread 1/x When it comes to making a fuss in our consumer oriented societies here in the West it seems that the bread and circuses really only get attention when it is the latter moreso than the former. This is in part up until now that we don't worry about bread all that much.

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What's truly evil about some of the things that have come out of this disease was the blatant and very obvious decision to double down than virtually anything else.

A rant-y thread 1/

https://twitter.com/AmerAcadPeds/status/1425857041457942542

The media, academy, and civil service opted for the last five years to do whatever they can to impede the working class revolt of '16. It showed that the system wasn't entirely under their control, so the modus operandi was "to never let it happen again."

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What fascinates me here is that Yarvin thinks that some new regime, and by extension a new political formula, will somehow win through popular support in the existing system. As he states, "ideally an election."

graymirror.substack.com/p/the-real-gre… At the current moment, a majority of the populous is either confined to the fact that this is way things are "learned helplessness" or recognize the risks associated with any sort of popular movement against the current regime.

Just look at the backlash at Trump's admin existing

For those interested in knowing more about what @edgymandrill and I will be discussing, here are some articles and videos worth your while.

"Why doesn't the right use power like this?"

Because the civil service is infested and has been infested with a politically minded, activist class for decades, making virtually any rightward push on policy a sisyphean task.

I'll elaborate a bit.

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https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1408622125791932416

If you didn't already know this, the evidence should have been obivous leading up to the inauguration of Trump, whether organically or inorganically thousands of "Alt. Department of. X" accounts and handles came up promising to "Resist this administration on all fronts."

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