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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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If that were true why did the government send the dogs to gas and trap the protesters?
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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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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The Technium will eat Islam, as it eats all other gods
Ok this was FASCINATING There are 2 billion Muslims in the world, who increasingly get their religious interpretations from short form video. A massive and consequential global cultural experiment is taking place. economist.com/international/…
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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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There's a possible future where Texas is a blue state and New York is a red state. Not a likely one. But possible.
New York’s partisan lean, relative to the rest of the country: 2012: 🔵D+24.32 2014: 🔵D+19.73 2016: 🔵D+20.39 2018: 🔵D+14.75 2020: 🔵D+18.67 2022: 🔵D+9.11 2024: 🔵D+14.06 2026: 🔵D+7.20 (provisional) Soon.
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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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Most of the online rightoids who throw the term around couldn't coherently describe what Western Civilization even is. To many of them, it's mostly just an imagined bulwark against progressivism and brown immigrants. But, in their defense, there is a lot to be said for political freedom and reason and the scientific method, all products of Western Civilization's Enlightenment. (Problem is, a lot of these "Western Civ" rightoids don't show a lot of respect for these pillars.) Western Civ is worth defending because it has produced better results than other civilizations, but what online rightoids don't understand is that it's something that necessarily adjusts to new conditions, and can take on new forms, as long as it doesn't abandon the things about it that matter most: Reason, science, and freedom.
"Western Civ" is the rightist equivalent of "BIPOC"
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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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JD Vance is the Republican Kamala Harris
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Vance’s intellectual league? What evidence is there to show that his intellectual league is anything above median?
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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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I genuinely don’t understand ending a friendship over politics. You could be my friend for 10 years, we could have a million memories together, and suddenly you find out I voted for someone you hate and that’s it? We’re done? I have friends all over the political spectrum. We argue, make fun of each other, then go grab a drink or do whatever. Have people actually lost CLOSE friends over political beliefs??
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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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My tweet below went semi-viral. And so, naturally, the replies filled up with MAGA hyperpartisans utterly missing the point, as they slammed Mamdani for taking credit for stuff he had little to do with. But Mamdani was not taking credit in his post for those achievements. Rather, he was making fun of the Trump administration for taking credit for some of those items. This always happens. If you post something that hits a sensitive spot (e.g., the enormous popularity of Mamdani in NYC), the hyperpartisan's brain short circuits. It occurred yesterday when I tweeted a screenshot of a rightwing influencer screaming about how the "average Democrat" prays for the "slaughter" of the "children" of conservatives. Hyperpartisans stormed into the replies with outliers or strawmen that either deliberately or (more likely) hot-headedly completely ignored the main point of the tweet, which was contained in the following: "Average Democrat" and "children."
It took Mamdani only 3 hours to ratio JD Vance 120:1 after Vance took credit for stuff that had nothing to do with the Trump administration or wasn't accurate. Mamdani is closing in on one million likes. The administration lies and misleads every day. Good to see it pay a price for once.
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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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If you think you're stupid, imagine being a liberal woman voting for him.
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