Boomers have a mental block where they think luxury items are some lavish expense because, when they were young, those things actually were expensive. In reality, "luxuries" have gotten incredibly cheap and now basic necessities are extremely expensive.

https://twitter.com/BTC_i_Hodl/status/1989331665424932936

$6,000 PC today would be like, RTX 5090 OC, 14900K CPU, bleeding-edge fast. In reality a modest home PC is ~$300-500. Boomers see that you own a computer at all and they think of how it would cost $3,000 when they were 35

Charlie's "gun deaths" quote is just a perfect example of the low and trashy nature of the average person's thought process. The average person hears the out of context bit about "accepting gun deaths" and thinks "WAOW. He sed dat and den died from a gun. Dis gives me dopamine tingle and makes me feel smart. He was bad and I'm more gooder than him."

Anyone with critical thinking skills could have imagined what was actually said in context, namely, that any technology or tool or practice we employ in society carries an inherent risk, and some people will inevitably fall victim to that risk. Having industrial machinery means someone, somewhere will get hurt in industrial accidents. Having highways means people will die on them. Etc.

Saying this out loud feels excruciating, because it should be so patently obvious as to be above explanation. Yet there are millions of people who just take the dopamine tingle and are either unwilling or unable to internally think it through on their own. Those same people also won't understand even after having it explicitly spelled out for them.

Charlie Kirk, whatever you think of him, was probably smarter than the vast majority of people, and not because he was some super-genius. No. He was mostly just quick on his feet and a good speaker.

Charlie Kirk was smarter than the vast majority of people because the average person is just much stupider than we would like to believe. This is getting into the secondary issue of whether or not the policies proposed by people like you work and the answer is unequivocally no, but you also need to be smart to understand too.

https://x.com/MOOOOrion/status/1967238615580500368

Rhode Island, and Newport in particular, slants pretty hard-blue — places like this break the false trope of "Democrat-run hellholes," because the "Democrat-run" part isn't the main issue.

These people are living an idyllic life amongst people who look & act in common cause, which they would ordinarily call "exclusionary" or even "racist" by any of their own ideological measures.

Might be the most unselfaware people in the country, but they are living in a Based World of their own unintentional creation — most of RW Twitter would obviously choose a place like this over, like, Arkansas or some deep-red state like that. I mean, really, it's the spitting image of the "aesthetics of fascism" that leftist weirdos are always screaming about — attractive, fit white people eating at renowned restaurants, going shopping, and then hitting the water for some sailing.

But it's in a hard-blue NE city.

Evangelion (NGE) has excellent, realistic characterization for one simple reason:
They are pitch-perfect reflections of their creator.

Hideaki Anno is an insecure and, frankly, pathetic man with a hyper-awareness of his own flaws and why he has them. The main difference between him and his characters is that they're often less aware of those flaws than he is, which makes them even more realistic.

Even Gendo, who is commonly cited as having the poorest characterization of Eva's cast, is still a spot-on representation of what happens to a person who refuses to let go and move on. Kind of like Anno himself. Shinji IS a loser, Anno wrote him that way because Anno himself felt like a loser. Anyone who ever felt like a loser can relate. What's wrong is wallowing as Shinji does.

You're supposed to find strength to stop being afraid so you can stop being a loser.

https://x.com/BlackSliverhive/status/1919444702979325976

"Overworked moms" and "the childcare shortage" are fake problems caused by girlbossing.

Affluent women are the only mothers who feel entitled to purchase childcare. Most families can't afford $1k/mo for someone else to raise their kids, so they find another solution.

Basically, this problem is caused by wealthy women who are too prideful to accept stay-at-home parenthood, so they want to pay middle & lower income women to do their childrearing for them.

Girlboss moms would rather spend $15-20k per year on "high-quality childcare" than quit their do-nothing email jobs and raise their own kids.

They want to make this even more of a whole-society problem by having the government subsidize their expensive childcare services.

But all of this raises an important question — where are all the childcare workers going to come from?

If the expectation is that most parents should be working and that childcare should be "more accessible" [read: subsidized] then you're talking about hundreds of millions of parents offloading tens of millions of kids, which means we need tens of millions of additional childcare workers.

All of this to avoid telling women that they should mother their own kids. Truly sick and horrible for the children. Yes, this is another absurdity of feminist hags saying they feel like a "maid" for their husband and kids — big self-report that if they were single, their living space would be a pigsty.

https://x.com/PaulMclo/status/1903145775355347292

Grok casually explaining that X is definitely still deboosting RW accounts in particular.

We still see the old pattern of the libtard coal getting 100k likes, while "Our Side" almost never breaks ~20k likes. Even the biggest "hits" usually pull 10k-15k.
x.com/i/grok/share/e…
The post of mine that it referenced:

https://x.com/revenant_MMXX/status/1872571672240570836

Feminism directly caused practically all of the sexual dysfunction our society suffers from but getting rid of it would require women to shut up, so that's off the table for "based" E-trads

Whining + pearl-clutching about cartoons (in unison with subversive radfems) will fix it
There is, in a very literal sense, no such thing — an honest person would never conflate anime with hentai

https://x.com/Virding128118/status/1875870989999067207

So, @Walmart claimed to be "getting rid of DEI policies" — this is what I mean when I say "don't fall for it" — they're still selling trash like this.

Note the age range — 3 to 5 years — there's no point to this other than indoctrination. @Walmart There's no point to this other than confusing and manipulating kids, which is exactly what these predators need in order for kids to be led into their arms.

The only purpose of doing this is to plant this vocabulary into children's minds as early as possible.

This post proves why men do (and should) care about body count.

This lady is hung up on a guy from 17 YEARS AGO who she never dated.

https://twitter.com/Ruesavatar/status/1860277466658426906

Every person alive has some sort of embarrassing emotional baggage that they could share on here, but most of us don't — lesson in there!

https://x.com/Cinderwooded/status/1860883822579167425

After watching this @TBYSTweet video, I strongly believe that President Trump should use the FCC and Section 230 reform to either force reform at Twitch or shut it down outright.

Twitch is an absolute cesspool in which children as young as 13 (and likely younger, as there's no real age verification) are not only exposed to graphic mature content, but also to radical leftist politics promoted by the most extreme and predatory people on the internet — Hasan, Denims, Keffals, fr0gan, these sorts of people should be totally removed of any access to children.
The worst thing is that even when a user tries to watch Twitch in a totally innocent way, it's practically inevitable that they will be inadvertently exposed to this stuff as a matter of course.

It is obviously impossible to reform Twitch through any bottom-up means, or from the inside — the staff have done everything they can to preserve smut streamers and to insulate the left-wing propagandists from any
kind of criticism or opposition.

Remember "America deserved 9/11," or the more recent "American soldiers deserve PTSD?" There are no real consequences for this stuff under Twitch policy, and anybody who would actually counter it with right-wing content of their own would just get permabanned.
It's degeneracy on a scale WAY beyond anything you can name in history? Late Roman Empire? Weimar Germany? Please — this is porn and left-wing propaganda being gigaphone-blasted to millions of kids all over the world, kids who are too young to know any better.

It would be preferable for Twitch to be shutdown outright than to have any broad-based age verification laws. There's no real cultural output happening here — it's just smut and left-wing propaganda, both produced by mentally-disturbed people who, honestly, should probably all be locked up in institutions.

"ERM, if you don't want your kid to see the rampant porn and propaganda that's all over social media platforms used by all their friends then just, like, parent them"

https://x.com/CurseOfGnosis/status/1856330636774219981?t=ZKGYEfNdzeEjeHUcOywuPA&s=19

Right-wingers think IVF is "eugenic" because they think embryo selection means choosing "the best one."

We also hear stuff like "families are always good" or "people have a natural drive to reproduce." And that's all sweet and cute and nice to say.

But IVF has nothing to do with this at all. It's a boutique, high-risk treatment for people who *put off* childrearing because they thought something else was more important, but then changed their minds after realizing they were too old to have kids naturally.

Fundamentally, IVF is for people who spent most of their adult lives poo-pooing or forgoing the prospect of starting a family until reality hit them in the face. This is the harsh truth that we're all dancing around.

Young people with genuine, honest-to-goodness fertility problems are extremely rare — this is a fantasy football justification. Almost everyone who uses IVF is using it because they're simply too old to be having children.
A lot of people seem to think that IVF is somehow magic, that it's just a treatment that makes it easier to have a baby, but here's what it actually is:

IVF clinics fertilize selections or "lots" of embryos that wouldn't have successfully implanted on their own, then assess the individual quality of the embryos and choose the "least bad" ones with the highest chance of artificially implanting.

But this does not mean that the pregnancy will be healthy. For prenatal care purposes, *all* IVF pregnancies are considered inherently high-risk.

IVF pregnancies have higher rates of prenatal and neonatal complications than natural pregnancies.

So, by using IVF, you are basically running a dice roll for "what's the least dysgenic pregnancy we can get using this method?"

You know what's actually "eugenic?" Being healthy, finding a healthy mate, reproducing at a healthy age, and having a healthy pregnancy the way God and nature designed you to do.

Some people call this "evolution," but it's really just the normal way that every organism on the planet is able to improve itself over time. Our ability to do this is a gift that we receive and we can either use it or throw it away. People who resort to IVF at 40 already threw it away.

When I make this observation, someone inevitably makes some smooth quip about "Luddism." It's got nothing to do with Luddism. If someone has *genuine* fertility problems, like they can't get pregnant at 25 or something, there are non-IVF treatments for boosting your actual fertility.

But "I thought I didn't want a baby until I suddenly did" isn't a medical condition — this isn't like treating an infection with antibiotics — you are just trying to go back on a decision you already made.

I know that the view I've outlined here is politically unpopular, and it would be foolish for Trump to make opposing IVF a part of his campaign.

But all he should be saying about it is "I will keep it legal." There's zero benefit to saying anything else. Almost no one uses this specific form of IVF because it's even more expensive and high-risk than normal IVF.

The boutique cross-section of an already-boutique process with success rates worse than a coin flip in even the best cases.

https://x.com/sillyguy1488/status/1829882017816985873

"Wow, why are Americans so fat?"

It's not just because we love sweets and fatty foods, the idea of certain foods being innately "bad for you" is wrong

It's that our view of food is almost entirely indulgent and pleasure-maxxed. We don't eatfor nourishment. We eat to feel good.

You walk into Wal-Mart or a similar megastore and the aisles are lined with coomerbrain stuff like this. Cap'n Crunch pancake syrup. Snickers-flavored coffee creamer. Etc.

Many people just don't have the willpower to endure this kind of pleasure overload.

It's like handing a crack pipe to a recovering addict. Same reason unfettered access to graphic pornography is bad. People just can't deal with it. There's nothing wrong with wanting food to taste good, but there is something pathological about "cereal-flavored bacon."

"There's a point where we needed to stop and we've clearly passed it."

https://x.com/extrasynaptic/status/1828846578196721750

For anyone who's confused by my posts about pro-lifers:
I am not "pro-life." I'm anti-abortion.

I'm also not "pro-natalist" — I don't believe that reproducing is a righteous act in and of itself. Some people should not be parents.

See, pro-lifers are not actually opposed to sexual promiscuity or unwanted pregnancy — if they were, they would say so — but instead of telling people "don't get pregnant in the first place," they will say "just put it up for adoption" or other such nonsense. Just so long as abortions don't happen, you can have all the unwanted pregnancies to all the deadbeat parents you want.

By contrast, I think that the unwanted pregnancy is an immoral act *in itself* — for me, aborting it is a second-order offense because it never should have happened in the first place — no unwanted pregnancy, no abortion.

So, pro-lifers would rather live in a world of unwanted children mistakenly created by irresponsible and anti-social losers, because holding those anti-social losers accountable for their behavior is too much to ask. It's difficult and mean to tell people to control themselves and take responsibility for their own behavior.

For me, the real moral failing of abortion is that it incentivizes the biggest losers in society to freely act on their worst impulses, knowing that they always have a "Get Out of Jail Free" card to play.

If people want to be sexually immoral, I would rather encourage them to sterilize themselves. But pro-lifers would never support this either, because they believe Creating Life is inherently righteous, regardless of the context in which it happens.

To pro-lifers, a baby whose mother cannot even identify the father without a DNA test is as precious and sacred as a child conceived in a monogamous marriage.

To me, the polycule baby is a misfortune created by people who shouldn't reproduce.

Pro-lifers are willing to look the other way from this anti-social behavior, so long as it never results in abortion. They would expand the welfare state and go to every other length before they'd ever tell these people to control themselves. People like this should be sterilized against their will.

https://x.com/NotAlcasan/status/1827767652648952239

What they don't tell you is that unless you rise to a position of power, your life is basically already over when you turn 35

20 and 25 year olds:
Treat the next 10 years of your life like they're all you get, because they basically are — time will go faster, days will get shorter — it becomes harder and harder to "get around to" things you wish you had time to do. I don't see it as a blackpill, to be honest, I think accepting this is just part of getting older.

Your late teens and 20s are the decade where you set the course for the rest of your life, and if you set a decent course then things will be alright.

https://x.com/EagleZeroX/status/1824469623686701272

Opening up the Wiki article on house music and being greeted by probably some of the worst post-Floyd cultural vandalism — reframing house as "black music" 💀

If you asked and trusted Wikipedia, you'd think every style of music you can think of was invented by black people

There's no lie they won't tell, not even about dead music scenes To the extent that anyone can be said to have "invented" a style of music on such a short timescale, what really matters is who/what ends up broadly defining it.

https://x.com/RubiconEnjoyer/status/1823980018772435330

People got fired for wearing a MAGA hat in their FB photo, for making the OK Hand Sign, for donating $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse.

People have been physically assaulted in hundreds of different incidents for supporting Trump, opposing BLM, etc in public.

People have been *murdered* for supporting Trump.

There have been hundreds of "Trump-related" hate crime hoaxes in the past eight years.

~2/3rds of Democrat voters wanted to put you on house arrest for not getting the vaccine. ~45% wanted to put you in a camp.
No target was ever too minor, no offense was ever too trivial, no shame was ever felt, no mercy was ever granted.

There is literally nothing that could make me feel bad about liberals and leftists getting a taste of their own medicine.

I do not care. Literally murdered in cold blood — leftist was lying in wait inside of a parking garage entrance, popped out and shot him point blank. For existing.

And you want me to feel bad for these people?

https://x.com/SchizoYuuta/status/1813450315103891614

No amount of cope will un-kill those pedophiles

https://twitter.com/airbagged/status/1810353575416991993

He almost certainly is but it's besides the point because all this stuff about "Rittenhouse is fat/dumb/can't shoot" is cope for the fact that he erased two libtards from the face of the Earth and got away with it

https://x.com/DiscipleOf24070/status/1811200943842554180?t=-EW42fUCGrotMBYUUf-hZg&s=19

The reality is there's been no "movement" to speak of ever since anything resembling a right-wing "movement" — Christian Identity, old WN groups, etc. — was smashed by the feds and the ADL/SPLC in the '90s.

Everything we know as The Movement 2.0, as in the alt-right/dissident right, is just decentralized discourse and memetics, which certainly seems more effective and antifragile than The Movement 1.0 was.

The real criticism of Patriot Front is that it's ineffective because it's a rehash of something that has already failed many times, but that doesn't make it inauthentic or a psyop.

Conservatives cheering for PF's arrest (which they then pretend doesn't happen) is just a form of normie sadism and a desire to cling to the status quo, which is less scary than whatever PF is.

Even though PF is largely ineffective, conservatives do themselves no favors by throwing PF under the bus while pretending to agree with ~90% of what PF says anyway.

The left NEVER condemns its radical flank, up to and including literal rioters and violent terrorists — PF doesn't come anywhere close to this level of radical action, so it makes no sense for conservatives to make a big cowardly show of condemning them for what amounts to nothing.

Is this worse optics than antifa kiddies with anarchism or hammer & sickle imagery cracking elderly women's skulls with baseball bats? Is it worse optics than black nationalists burning down drug stores and looting Amazon trucks?

The liberal press says so, and conservatives never saw a liberal framing that they weren't eager to buy into. My favorite thing about you people is that nobody ever even explains what "the psyop" even is — how does it benefit the feds for some guys to march with masks and flags? Nobody ever explains how. Because you're fucking stupid.

https://x.com/gisforgroves/status/1810053301398122769

Folx who say 2023 was a good year for games are all like:
"But Starfield"
"But Baldur's Gate"
"But AssCreed"
"But Horizon"
"But Cyberpunk update"
"But (mid indie gimmick)"

And now they're awfully quiet this year. Which slop is coming out this year and how will they cope? I still have faith in FromSoft

https://x.com/pentrikvlt/status/1802380106758840699?t=bILZAcSsmG8w2Hd1YtipXg&s=19

"Story-rich games" are the Great Divide in gaming — storytelling used to be just a sweetener — game mechanics and challenge were the main course.

In the 2010s, games exploded in popularity and became centered on normie streamer bait "storytelling."

https://twitter.com/DAKKADAKKA1/status/1798792381682073692

Look at the storylines of games like Ace Combat or Armored Core — often times the story will be quite interesting.

But the meat of the game is "pilot this jet/mech and blow things up" — you can ignore the story and enjoy the game for what it is at its core.

The soyman yearns to have a Nerd Room with wall-to-wall collections of pHySiCaL mEdIa he never watches, plays, or reads.
Physical media is overrated and has been ever since CDs and DVDs were invented — these are just storage devices for digital media anyway, with the added drawback that the discs are prone to degradation — it's not even a different experience from playing back a file, and might actually be worse. I can remember going to watch a DVD for literally the second time and finding that the disc had degraded enough to ruin the movie or even just not spin up at all.

Same goes for digital music and games. It's even weirder when people pine for cassettes or VHS tapes, which are definitively a worse experience than digital in basically every way. You gain nothing by using them, but lose out on a lot. An mp3 or FLAC file is going to play exactly the same way every single time, you're never going to be surprised to find that it doesn't work or has degraded in quality.

Even cartridge-based games are mostly irrelevant because emulation has gotten so good, and if emulation isn't good enough for you, there are even companies making boutique hardware that can natively run ROMs.
At least vinyl records provide an actual difference in experience, and even "store" the content differently — you fundamentally cannot digitally reproduce the experience of listening to vinyl, nor can vinyl reproduce the accuracy and consistency of digital. They're two different things that live in their own worlds.

Mostly, though, the obsession with "physical media" is just soyjakking over having a big, expensive, dusty collection that takes up an entire room of your house — it's no different from Funko Pops at this point.

Nobody has time to watch hundreds of DVDs, each one will be watched a few times at most, so if I'm going to have a "movie collection" it's going to be sitting on a disk drive.
This is exactly why I compare it to Funko Pops or anything similar, these people are addicted to the dopamine rush of Buying The Thing, they don't even care for the thing, it's the act of buying. Everything else they say is just an attempt to mystify this

https://x.com/knight_liquid/status/1797630763942531399