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We Are Not Sending Our Best

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JD Vance wants to end the US dollar’s position as a global reserve currency, because he thinks it allows Americans to consume too much and do so too cheaply.

This means he openly supports turning the United States into a third-world country, destroying the current standard of living, eviscerating the middle class, and removing America’s global power.

On a positive side, this will solve the immigration problem because nobody will want to come here. On the negative side is everything else.

The guy is a pinko commie anti-Americanist. Not because he sincerely believes any of the pinko commie stuff, but because he’s being manipulated by malignant forces that want America to join the third world. Of course, he’s still a million times better than any Democrat candidate because they’re all this and much, much worse, but he’s not the best that the Republicans have to offer.

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Lose Quickly

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“It is better if the Ukrainians lose the war quickly,” — former UK PM Johnson revealed the details of a conversation with a senior official of German Chancellor’s office before the full-scale invasion.

According to Johnson, this episode is a symptom of the general erroneous strategy of Berlin and Paris after Crimea and before the full-scale invasion.

https://x.com/i/status/2088576865908785588

Of course, these people are eagerly destroying their own nation-states. Why would it even occur to them that anybody else would be willing to suffer and die to defend theirs?

A national sentiment is something that the highest income categories do not need. To the contrary, it frustrates them. It gets in the way of their making even more money by dragging people here and there at will and eviscerating the national welfare apparatus in this way.

What’s harder to understand are middle-income people in educated classes who painfully need the nation state in order to remain in their income category and not slide down precipitously. They assist in dismantling the nation-state because it makes them feel more refined and worldly than they are. They trade comfort, stability, and security for an illusion of this imaginary worldliness.

I have a colleague who’s extremely left-wing. She has dedicated much of her career to teaching that national borders are arbitrary and should be abolished. Her son graduated in 2024 from a very respectable college with a degree in computer sciences. He hasn’t been able to find a job. His mother is shocked and devastated, yet has drawn no conclusions from this regarding her position on the need to erase national borders.

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Sleepover

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When a child goes to a sleepover, the parents have a chance to find out if they still have anything in common or even like each other. It’s like meeting an old lover and finding out that you still like him.

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Class Enemies

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I had eggs and sausage patties at a breakfast place in St. Louis today. $33 with a tip. It included pancakes, but I refused. Of course, I could have raised my own chickens and milked them or whatever. But this same breakfast in the same place cost $16 eight years ago. No amount of successful life management can change this fact of objective reality.

Screw everybody who claims that the cost of living did not increase dramatically.

People like the one in the above picture are my class enemies. He’s responding to a comment by a student who said that takeout burritos are expensive. A student who definitely doesn’t have a wife, let alone a wife who can dedicate time and effort to grinding her own grain for Pitt’s sake. The cluelessness is staggering. The same breakfast, at the same place, doubled in price. What, in the name of everything holy, does that have to do with anybody’s grain-grinding wife?

It should be possible to discuss things without bringing everything into the realm of individual virtue.

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A Mysterious Transgression

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I’m surrounded by extremely innocent people. A faculty member was caught watching pornography on his office computer. When I tell this to people, they don’t react. So I have to explain. Nobody wattches pornography for the plot, you know? It’s not the watching that is the purpose. It’s usually accompanied by an action, you know? “Watching porn” is a way of speaking, you know?

My interlocutors look at me in confusion. “But what do you mean? What do you think he was doing?”

Yes, it’s a mystery.

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Teenagers and Work

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The first time I worked a full-time job was in the summer when I was fifteen. My dad found me a job in the office of one of his clients. I wasn’t allowed to keep any of the money I made, but I loved it. The business owner was this big, gruff dude who was so eager to have a business of his own (and remember, this was very early post-Soviet times) that he learned to speak fluent Italian in order to be able to communicate with his customers.

It felt cool to have a job, to dress up every day and go sit there in front of a computer. I loved the experience. This is why I don’t understand parents who don’t allow their teenage children to work. I already know several such cases, all boys between ages 16 and 18. This is so strange to me. In the cases I know, this is not an issue of not having transportation. Rather, it’s an issue of mom saying that she’d rather her little treasure have a childhood instead of having to go out to work.

My 16-year-old niece worked a full-time job this summer. She loved it. It was a wonderful experience. It made her feel more grown, organized, and proud of her growing competence. She doesn’t have a car, so it was public transportation on a long journey there and back. Still, she loved it. Isn’t that the normal thing?

I sincerely don’t get it.

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Strange at 18

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A middle-aged woman invited her friend out for a coffee on a Friday morning. The friend asked if she can come with her 18-year-old son, who is starting college in two weeks.

The son is not in the least disabled. And he’s not leaving his parents’ house to go to college. He will continue living with them.

Can anybody explain why an 18-year-old dude might want to spend his Friday morning having coffee with mom and mom’s friend? I know both women. One of them is a very close friend. Neither finds the situation to be strange.

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A Ben Shapiro Fan

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She’s been lying in this pose for 15 minutes. I have Ben Shapiro on, so maybe that’s the reason.

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Who Is the Stereotype?

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Are people really that dumb? This i/o guy writes about IQ. It’s his whole thing. And he sincerely doesn’t understand that these loans are excellent political capital. Imagine the electoral ads. “I’m running for president and I still have college loans.” “I’m so clean and non-corrupt that after years in Congress, I still haven’t been able to pay down my college loans.” You’d have to be a total female stereotype to let go of such a priceless discursive weapon.

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Smart AC

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American went to lower the air conditioner in her home and her Smart AC gave her a warning she was not allowed to lower the temperature

“My own thermostat was 79 — it had a little warning that said, “You are not allowed to lower your thermostat set point because the energy grid in your regional area is stressed”

This is with Xcel Energy in Colorado

This woman enrolled in Xcel’s voluntary demand-response AC Rewards-style program. Apparently they lure you in with sign on credits of around $50-150 dollars and then they can set limits on your AC.

https://x.com/i/status/2087649613809652185

People who have been in a coma for the past fifteen years are responding in the posts that it serves the woman right because she voluntarily signed up for the program without reading the small print. They are convinced that this will never happen to them because they do everything correctly and anticipate any eventuality.

Idiots.