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WearyWendigo retweeted
One of the reasons I don’t like socialism is public bathrooms.
A public bathroom is about as basic a shared resource as you can get. Everyone gets to use it, and everyone is expected to show a little consideration for the next person. The rules aren’t particularly complicated.
And yet, a shocking number of adults can’t even manage to throw their paper towels in the trash. Some will pee all over a toilet seat and leave it for the next person. And the next person, who didn’t make the mess, certainly isn’t going to clean it up either.
Now imagine trusting these same people to collectively manage an entire economy.
We can’t even get everyone to agree that cleaning up their own pee is a personal responsibility, but somehow we’re supposed to believe everyone will become hardworking, responsible, and considerate when we’re sharing the fruits of each other’s labor.
Now, compare your average public restroom to a Buc-ee’s bathroom.
Buc-ee’s figured something out. Clean bathrooms attract customers. Customers spend money. So the company has a financial incentive to keep those bathrooms spotless. They hire people to maintain them, hold employees accountable, and compete for your business.
And people will literally plan their road trips around stopping there.
That’s capitalism. Someone recognized a problem, found a way to solve it, and made money because people valued the result.
Of course, not everyone contributes equally to society. Some people work harder, make better decisions, and take more responsibility. Others seem perfectly content making life more difficult for everyone around them.
I believe people should have the freedom to live however they choose. I also believe in helping people who genuinely need it.
But I have a hard time accepting an economic philosophy that expects me to trust everyone to act in the collective interest when some people can’t be bothered to clean up after themselves.
Buc-ee’s figured out how to get people to willingly pay for a better experience.
Socialism wants me to believe the people leaving paper towels on the floor will suddenly become responsible stewards of everyone else’s resources.
I’m going with the beaver.
WearyWendigo retweeted
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WearyWendigo retweeted
The biggest lie taught in Western literature is that Odysseus was a hero.
Imagine being a gentle giant who just wants to live off the grid, raise your sheep, and make artisanal cheese. Then an unemployed Greek veteran breaks into your cave, refuses to leave under the guise of ancient religious hospitality (Xenia), eats all your goat cheese, gets you blacked out on stolen wine, gouges your only eyeball out with a burning log, and steals your livestock.
In any modern jurisdiction, Polyphemus exercised Castle Doctrine on an armed home invader, but because Odysseus controlled the narrative, we spent 2,800 years calling it an epic poem
WearyWendigo retweeted
Did the white girl who was savagely beaten by a black mob get any teary eyed profiles by national media? Was there any outrage over this at all? Were any of the racist black violent thugs doxxed or made to suffer any penalties of any kind? Of course not.
WearyWendigo retweeted
Every Republican who votes to impeach Pete Hegseth needs to be primaried. Period.
WearyWendigo retweeted
They share the satellite pictures of Rafah and calling the rubble the whole story. Nobody is showing you what was under it.
This is Rafah. The red lines are the tunnel network Hamas built under the neighborhoods, and the video marks where it runs under stadiums, under mosques, under schools, under UNRWA compounds, under hospitals, under civilian homes.
The overhead is an illustration. The shafts and the corridors are not. The IDF filmed inside them. Concrete arches, bunks, stored gear, a city under the city, dug so the people above it could be used as the roof.
That’s why the blocks came down. You can’t leave a fortified tunnel grid under a border town and call the houses above it civilian. Hamas put the war under the kitchens and the classrooms on purpose, then sent the pictures of the kitchens and the classrooms around the world.
The satellite image is the surface. The reason is underneath it.
Gaza wasn’t destroyed because Israel felt like it. It was destroyed because the Islamic army that started the war built its base under the people it claims to defend, and then refused to come out.
WearyWendigo retweeted
A mob of Black "teens" literally dragged a White female college student off her own porch BY HER HAIR to a stop sign, and then beat her UNCONSCIOUS... TWICE...
NO mainstream media coverage.
Two White girls make monkey gestures at a door.
MASSIVE mainstream coverage.
WearyWendigo retweeted
In 1979, leftist students celebrated Khomeini. He’d promised a “democratic government” where “everyone will be able to express his or her opinion.”
Within a decade, the regime had executed thousands of them.
They thought they were on the right side of history.
Remind you of anything today?
