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What you’ll read here sounds insane. That’s because the West lost common sense and we’re here to bring it back.

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Every socialist is a tyrant waiting for a cause. General strikes, climate or Palestine are just the excuse to ruin your life.
Manifestantes acosan y expulsan a un anciano de una cafetería. Ha ocurrido a las 11 de la mañana en Lesseps, Barcelona, me lo acaba de pasar una seguidora.
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Replying to @AdjointAlneb
Because they also can't afford images of chaos and looting.
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If you think the left can't get any dumber, wait until you see this. Sánchez and his union allies have shut down Spain in a strike "against the opposition." He's been in power for eight years. It's probably the first time in history a government has paralyzed its own country to protest against the opposition.
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Replying to @Noahpinion
Data in Europe shows the opposite. It’s making them more radical.
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Diversity requires hypocrisy.
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There’s nothing worse than a socialist who thinks he’s being generous with taxpayers’ money while saddling New Yorkers who haven’t even been born yet with debt. NYC has $110 billion in debt. Florida’s state government has $14.6 billion. NYC is projected to pay nearly 12 times as much in annual interest. Since when did mortgaging future generations to fund today’s incompetence become the moral high ground?
It’s a fair point. New York and Florida are basically the same, except for our 24/7 subway system, one of the nation’s largest public hospital systems, a higher minimum wage, stronger worker protections, universal 3-K, paid family leave, paid sick leave, and paid prenatal leave.
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I’d actually say it’s more likely than not. NYC elected Giuliani after years of Democratic mismanagement that left the city a mess. Mamdani’s gonna speedrun the conditions that made that possible again.
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How exactly is Western Civilization “adjusting” to the Islamisation of Europe while still keeping reason, science, and freedom intact? In France, 65% of Muslims say religion is “more right” than science (81% among those aged 15–24). 46% say Islamic law should be applied in the countries where they live.
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The most impressive thing about @JMilei is that he's the only politician who might actually want less power.
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“Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” That was Mussolini’s vision of fascism. Funny how familiar it sounds to today’s self-proclaimed antifascists.
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No doomers allowed. Get to work. 🇺🇸
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He graduated from Yale Law School, he worked as venture capitalist for Peter Thiel and he wrote a best-seller book. Hard to achieve if you're intellectual league is not above median. Especially with his background.
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Replying to @MurrayHillGuy1
Saying there is no genocide in Gaza is a friendship-ender for millions of liberals.
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"No one knows anything, even when it looks obvious."
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Congress will become a miniature United Nations, every country will have someone fighting for its interests. Except America.
We made history. 🇵🇸
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Read the replies on JD Vance's post, or even the community note. They all believed Mamdani achieved it. That's Mamdani's whole strategy: he doesn't actually do the things, he just pretends he does. (Thank God for New York, actually.) And actually, Mamdani's results on crime are worse than in other cities, especially on rape and assaults.
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The left has taken over universities, and it's making young women more depressed than ever. Among women aged 18 to 40, only 12% of liberals are completely satisfied with life, compared with 37% of conservatives. Marriage and faith explain half the gap, and elite campuses teach young women to distrust both. College used to teach kids how to think. Now it teaches them what to think, and they come home lonely.
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If you think you're stupid, imagine being a liberal who believes these votes will deliver their progressive agenda.
This is the early voting line in Dearborn, MI. Like it or not, demographics are destiny.
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Thomas Sowell was so right: “Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, social justice.”
Latest Subway Takes: “My take is that white people should stop having weddings and stop having children.” Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and Zohran have all gone on Subway Takes before. It’s a hugely popular mainstream left wing Instagram account with millions of followers. They haven’t even won the mid-terms yet. Leftists are so confident in their coming political victory that they are going right back to the worst excesses of “Woke 1.” They aren’t moderating. They fundamentally hate most white Americans. Buckle up.
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They’re burning restaurants in Paris to protest for Gaza. Meanwhile, this is what a restaurant in Gaza looks like.
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