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@WyIted
@MayCaesar
There is such a thing as mutually beneficial interactions, and there are mutually damaging interactions - and the fact that someone does a lip service to "putting Americans first" does not prevent their actions from contributing to the latter.
Yes, and the American government putting Americans last by never ending the Marshall plan long after the cold war ended ensured there would be nothing mutually beneficial except to the government. Instead we get predatory countries with perpetual tariffs against America, and the government calls that an "ally"
American manufacturing gets hit with tariffs, VAT schemes, and regulatory red tape, while we’re told to treat these countries like indispensable allies. Meanwhile, they buy U.S. military protection, feed our government, use the savings to invest in themselves, and smile as they lock us out of their markets.
With allies like those, who needs enemies?
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My fellow Americans,
It is with great pleasure that I announce Pride Month has been officially cancelled. Pride, after all, is a sin, not a virtue, and we will no longer participate in the celebration of deliberate moral inversions.
From now on, June will be known as Confidence Month. Or maybe just... June. We’ll see. Either way, it’ll be a time to reflect on real accomplishments. Things actually worth celebrating.
And look, I hate to be the one to say it, but putting a wiener in a butt doesn't qualify as a national achievement. It’s not brave, it’s not historic, and frankly, it’s not hygienic.
They say "love is love," but let’s not kid ourselves: poop is still poop.
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@WyIted
ty.
The unholy trinity part took a good 10 minutes to iron out.
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@FLRW
They stole from your SS. And you want to get back on that rail. Shame.
SS was supposed to be a lockbox, not equity for govt pork futures...
The government spent every dime of surplus Social Security money and then stuffed the trust fund with IOUs to itself.... yeah, lets get off that train sir.
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@FLRW
Considering that was a train to extinction, going off the rails is necessary. If the destination is elitism, corruption, and decay, derailment isn’t madness, it’s survival. The nation was built on tantrums and it will thrive on tantrums and outrage against the machine-like unholy trinity of control, theft, and division in order to ensure a future of unified liberty and prosperity.
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@LucyStarfire
Nobody hates Burger King.
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@FLRW
Trump probably believes pain is evil too.
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@FLRW
Grats on your Chinese parents getting good grades.
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@FLRW
Oh Harvard. You must be Chinese then or another DEI. Hen Hao.
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@FLRW
Actually, evil means no pain. OMG did you go to Trump U?
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@FLRW
evil is just live spelled backwards, as in anything that makes you extinct is evil.
Ratman is wrong, it really is that simple.
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@AdaptableRatman
Actually.. why is the "asexual" dragged into this? They just wanna be left alone....
It’s kind of ironic: the group that literally doesn’t want to be involved in sex keeps getting dragged into other people’s sexual identity narratives. If that ain’t peak 2025, I don’t know what is.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Nothing screams equality like having an exclusive month....
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@fauxlaw
The Palestines need to start mimicking the ancient Egyptians and stop thinking like ancient Persians.
Extinction is inevitable for them, whether it's the body, the land, or the culture that goes first is irrelevant.
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@WyIted
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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@MayCaesar
Biden was not as petty as to shake fists and threaten old allies.
That's probably why they kicked him out of the party. Because he put foreign allies first over Americans.
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@AdaptableRatman
Morality does not all stem from reasoning, sometimes evil is just evil and good is just good
Correct. Morality stems from survival, and that is the only way it can be passed on or taught. Through having surviving generations.
If it doesn’t pass down through generations, it dies, no matter how logical it sounded.
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@Swagnarok
It's really easy to judge good and evil in a bubble or a vacuum. It's much harder when the people are convinced that existential threats are imminent. Biological survival will always trump armchair philosophy.
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@RemyBrown
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@FLRW
Since 1938, the minimum wage has been raised 23 times. It was raised 21 times during Democratic congresses, and only twice during Republican ones. Still think both parties are the same?
Maybe Republicans raised it one time to 1 million dollars an hour?
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@n8nrgim
How does reducing income inequality harm the poor? I think there's a certain logic to what you say, more capitalism is sometimes better than less, but most straightforwardly the poor having a little more at the expense of the rich is a good thing
Haiti has low income inequality.
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@cristo71
Ah yes, how could we forget the "mostly peaceful" dude....
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@yachilviveyachali
I was thinking more like Jake Tapper and his tell-all book.
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@yachilviveyachali
Traditional Marriage was always foremost about providing a foundation for children. Not as a lifestyle choice, but as a duty to society. Many old people today are okay letting that responsibility slide because the sweet deep state convinced them it was okay to do so right along with the rest of tradition. So maybe their kids are not prostitutes, but they are increasingly far from the optimal parent for the next generation. "Live and let live" in a duty free world with zero obligations to society leaves zero support for the next generation, and that's a problem only natural extinction can cure.
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@TheGreatSunGod
I find it funny when most of the developed world is experiencing generational existential crisis, and the solution from some is to speed the extinction along by confiscating inheritances intended for the future generations and giving it to old, dying people.
All over, younger generations choose to abandon marriage, children, and any belief in the future and the only thing left tying them to continuity is the faint hope of an inheritance. And here we go again, taxing even that as if confiscating the last thread between generations will somehow fix the societal rot and decay when in reality it is like punching holes in the back end of the sinking Titanic to level the deck because apparently, it is more important that the ship sinks evenly than that it stays afloat at all. Play equity games, win equity prizes.
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@TheGreatSunGod
As opposed to activist judges making sure nothing improves?
South is basically failing badly in all areas. Their birth rates are lowest in the world now. Their debt is huge. Their military is a joke compared to what North has now. And worst of all, North is under sanctions, yet somehow grows really fast while South Korea is standing in place going nowhere.
We are seeing a lot of late stage capitalism malaise in the Orient lately as tradition flounders with nothing to replace purpose except consumerism. The problem with that is it leaves the next generation in the dust where traditions used to be the guardrails to protect and support the future generations. In the past, family, duty, and continuity gave the average person purpose. They weren’t always happy, but they had a place in society. In 2025... That’s been hollowed out and replaced by consumerism, competition, and burnout. It's not just South Korea losing "soul"...China's lay flat movement is also in ascendance.
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@n8nrgim
The only way Republicans are better is because they don't actively fuck over the poor with illegal migration competition for scarce resources as well as making it impossible to build anything for the poor without 1000 arbitrary hoops to jump created for the purpose of milking the taxpayer for swamp pork .
Doing nothing is a vast improvement over evil activism.
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@FLRW
I'll just pay someone to say it and then pawn it off like I know what I am talking about.
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@FLRW
I'll just pay someone to say it and then pawn it off like I know what I am talking about.
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@FLRW
I'll just pay someone to say it and then pawn it off like I know what I am talking about.
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@Sidewalker
Lol, someone hates America and being debt-free.
And possibly, public libraries?
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@yachilviveyachali
Professionalism is an empty word when the professionals disappoint.
Corporate media is full of "Professionals" who definitely disappoint.
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@FLRW
In other words, a Trump hater overheard or fabricated a gossipy bitchy remark, and also got paid to say it happened.
Yawn. That's a tad better than you who didn't get paid nearly as much.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Allowing a group to self-select and to steal...
Again, no theft can occur if said person sacrifices nothing. Your fears are unfounded. Yes, entitlements will be scaled down to an affordable level, but that's nothing to get worked up about. It's hardly a slippery slope to internment camps. Especially when those people are armed.
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@n8nrgim
Democrats are more prone to being higher information voters.
What is the effect of too much information?
It's most certainly not the same as an educated person. High information is as useless as a 2025 diploma.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
and they have the power to make you poor by stealing your money and giving it to their supporters, what is the end result of that?
If they are not sacrificing by paying taxes, no theft can occur. Those people are justly wards of a benevolent state overseen by those who have sacrificed to ensure benevolent support for wards.
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@yachilviveyachali
A professional is a person who gets paid...
Lol, he could have just stopped right there and that's the end of the debate.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I would think, at the very least, voting rights should follow a minimum of 10% taxation into the machine. A vote cast without investment is no more meaningful than a child’s vote on national survival, and we presently have no issue ignoring the will of children when it comes to serious decisions (sans gender sheep states). If you are poor and you want to vote, make the required sacrifice. If you can't or won't sacrifice, the state will treat you as a ward for the survival of both you and the nation.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Here’s the core philosophical take on 1959 Starship Trooperism:
Citizenship must be earned.
In Heinlein’s world, not everyone gets to vote. Only those who have completed federal service, usually military, but not always, earn the right to participate in democracy. Why? Because Heinlein argues that only those willing to sacrifice for society can be trusted to shape its future. He’s pushing a merit-based civic responsibility model. And service means volunteering for underpaid positions for the good of the country.
Violence is the ultimate authority.
Heinlein challenges the idea that peace exists independently of it. He’s saying: without the will and ability to defend values, those values are just words. No right can exist without the force to back it up.
Moral development through discipline and hardship.
The book is all about the idea that individual growth requires struggle. Rico goes from a soft, privileged teen to a hardened leader, not because he was told to grow up, but because the system forced him to earn it, inch by inch. Heinlein believes that democracy without duty devolves into entitlement and decay.
Civic virtue beats individualism.
Service is portrayed as noble, not just useful. The state doesn’t demand obedience; it invites and rewards voluntary sacrifice.
Starship Trooperism rests on the belief that democracy can only function in a moral society, and that morality isn’t innate, it’s forged through duty. By requiring voluntary service, often difficult and unrewarded, this system filters out self-interest and cultivates citizens who have proven they can place the common good above personal gain. It ensures the survival of not just democracy (which the founding fathers feared would devolve into a lazy and evil mob) but the nation and society as a whole.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Let's not forget that we're talking about children being groomed. Everyone told them the same thing.
I have never once told my graduating seniors this year that anything other than an extremely affordable local community college or any trade school were viable continuing education plans in 2025. It helps me sleep very well knowing my sabot is in the gears of the machine.
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@Sidewalker
I love the poorly indoctrinated as well. Preferably ones that don't ask for 100k loan forgiveness for being retarded enough to do that for a piece of useless paper.
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@Castin
In a way, knowing you will live up to a certain point frees you of the worry of smaller things. It's a feedback loop where less stress means you get to live longer.
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@yachilviveyachali
Didn't a truck kill like 90 people in one go in France? That's 3x more deaths than the worst school mass shooting ever recorded in the USA!
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@FLRW
Sidewalker is correct.
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@ebuc
Why do you assume the worst in all humans? What's the point of even talking?
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@Sidewalker
Lol, yes, Biden clearly got under Trump's skin, tee hee.
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