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James Draws retweeted
On average, Boomers are getting paid more from Social Security than they “paid into it.” A lot more. Like double, and that’s counting inflation and interest. In raw dollars, they’ll get four to seven times what they paid in. So what about this compromise, to at least stave off insolvency and save billions: you get back what you paid in, but no more. Young families won’t be forced to finance a 250 percent return on your “investment.” That seems extremely reasonable, doesn’t it? It doesn’t go nearly as far as I would like. But it’s a very fair compromise. It completely negates any claim that you didn’t get the money back that you “paid in.” And yet I suspect that this comprise will not be satisfactory. Why is that? Because this debate actually has nothing to do with “getting back what you paid in.” The REAL demand is for a lot more than that.
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The year is 2040. The Republicans nominate an ooga booga from Papua New Guinea who speaks in primitive barks and clicks to govern the last remaining red state of Nebraska. This will obviously prove that the left are the REAL anti-AAPI racists.
"Hey, remember when the worst we had was that smelly guy in Ohio and the Florida guy who spoke in hibbity-jibbity English, but at least we could follow what he was saying? LOL, those were the good old days!"
This shit has to stop.
James Draws retweeted
The Heritage American debate isn’t just about severing your connection to the American past.
The more sinister idea is that what you do today carries no inheritance forward.
Serve your country. Build something. Sacrifice. Endure. Die for it.
Then be told your descendants have no special claim to your story, no right to take pride in your sacrifice, no deeper connection because of what you gave.
Once you convince a people that inheritance, lineage, and posterity mean nothing, you’ve weakened one of the oldest reasons men sacrifice for a future they’ll never live to see.
That is fertile ground for any system that wants loyalty transferred from family and inheritance to the state.
James Draws retweeted
When I hear Americans talk about the Rust Belt it unfortunately reminds me that a lot of what ruined America was the fault of Republicans taking revenge on Labour Unions and outsourcing instead of just making an explicitly Right Wing Labour movement
James Draws retweeted
African apologists will blame their woes on "corrupt leadership" yet the only uncorrupted functioning states (the white ruled ones) were destroyed by external and internal actors.
There are 54 African countries. They didnt all achieve independence at the same time, and some leaders lasted longer than others, but for arguments sake let's say they've been independent for 60 years, average leader in office for about ten years - thats over 300 leaders since independence.
The only black leader who was even remotely competent was Banda of Malawi. You can't try something 300 times and blame corruption every time the state falls apart. It's not going to work the 301st time you try.
The only time any of these places functioned was when they had white leaders.
James Draws retweeted
Private equity buyout firms enshittify everything they buy. But most people don't really understand why. It's not because some guy at the top orders "make everything more expensive and worse." It's because every key employee is suddenly made to report every two weeks on "metrics," and be rewarded or punished as a result. The only metric which matters is "how can I show I have increased EBITDA so my masters know they can sell this dog quickly for a 4X multiple?" And the only way to increase EBITDA quickly, for almost any employee, is to slash expenses, that is, quality, or to raise prices. Any long-term investment in customer satisfaction is therefore anathema (with rare exceptions). And, of course, any other goal, such as retaining long-time employees or contributing to the community, is also anathema.
James Draws retweeted
The government literally did buy every Boomer a house. Boomers would've all lost their houses during Covid or the Great Recession if the "free market" had been allowed to play out. Instead the govt stole 40 TRILLION DOLLARS from the future and spent it propping up Boomers' home equity. Gen Z will still be paying off the houses the govt bought the Boomers when they're 90.
James Draws retweeted
I'm not a fan of the concept of a "refugee" to begin with, but if we're going to play this game, the definition should be limited to women and children.
Not young men.
These are likely the refuse that Morocco doesn't want to deal with (a la Castro's prison dumps), but let's play along...
If these men left their families behind for a better life, doesn't that make them cowards? If you're a man, and your home is in a truly dire situation, wouldn't you send your wife and children to a better country if the opportunity was there? Why would you yourself go and leave your family behind?
However you choose to frame this refugee situation, there is no scenario where these animals do not look like cowardly, immoral, degenerate scum.
James Draws retweeted
Soy de Ceuta, y lo que estamos viviendo ahora mismo es una auténtica invasión, por favor, necesitamos la difusión de todos para que declaren emergencia nacional. Por ahora ha sido solicitada por el gobierno de Ceuta y ha sido rechazada.
James Draws retweeted
The end of The Odyssey is literally about coming home to massacre all the strangers who have taken advantage of your hospitality and taking back what is rightfully yours, and the entire journey is also constantly just strange things showing up that often want to kill him and his men, typically by lulling them into false senses of security.
Even as warped and subverted Nolan’s version is from the original, his movie doesn’t at all communicate the need to be hospitable and kind to strangers. That doesn’t actually come through in his telling at all. I don’t even know how he thinks it does. The whole line is quite confusing given what he says and what’s actually shown on screen.
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Watch this video and tell me with a straight face Western nations wouldn’t be in better shape if we’d imported tens of millions of lil birbs and put them to work instead of the absolute dregs of the Third World. teapawt.org/Sixrande/status/201407…
James Draws retweeted
Everything they type is like this.
Every sentence its own paragraph to maximize it's delivery.
Impact. Results. Driven. Random buzzwords thrown in for their low IQ audience.
Why doesn't everyone write like this?
Because it sounds like you're AI.
Or even worse, a Jeet.
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youtu.be/TqTGn4Khfuk
Here's a cool one. Giant birb hell yeah Kiribati!