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This is only the beginning. There's far more in the complete article. If you're interested, keep reading!
Demand grass. Demand GIMBY.
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When barbarians invade and law enforcement is curtailed, there are two housing paths you can take:
1. Reduce walkability, cut public transport
2. Riad architecture with interior garden and forbidding exterior walls
1 is much cheaper. Easily a better option for the non-rich.
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GIMBYISM: THE CASE FOR _REDUCING_ URBAN HOUSING DENSITY
You've all heard the YIMBY story: increasing population density in cities will lower housing costs, reduce inequality, and save the planet. In this thread I'll make the case for its opposite. No, not NIMBYism. GIMBYism.
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HOW MANY X REPLIES ARE ACTUALLY BY CHATGPT?
I noticed the distinctive prose style of ChatGPT in the replies to this post. Some of them were by well-aged accounts and only distinguishable from a real person by the style. How many? I'll provide evidence in this thread...
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THE REAL REASON PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID
“Why are people so stupid?” is actually one of the most profound questions. In this thread I'll explain...
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Now, why do YIMBYs want more walkability, more public transportation, and open borders?
Occam's razor says they hate you.
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Women tend to underestimate the appeal of the cute factor and overestimate the appeal of aloof confidence. This is in part an instance of projecting your tastes for the opposite sex onto your own; in part an ego ideal.
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The wicked have their own kind of naivete: they struggle to believe anyone acts from unselfish motives.
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YIMBYism has glossed over the question of whether people really WANT to live in high density areas if they have a choice about it.
Fact is that the vast majority of people want a proper house with a proper yard.
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Bell Labs was one of the most important centers of innovation in history. To escape the distractions of New York City, its labs gradually relocated to lower-density areas of New Jersey--examples below. The transistor was invented in Murray Hill.
For innovation, GIMBY > YIMBY.
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THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO GIMBY: A NEW MOVEMENT FOR LOW-DENSITY HOUSING
Would you rather live here than in a high-rise? Are you ready to join the GIMBY movement and demand grass? Then read on.
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One of the most dishonest things they teach you in history classes is "censorship doesn't work, because the truth always comes out in the end." False. Censorship DOES work.
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In case you're not following, in a modern decline-and-fall urban context, walkability just means casual criminals will break in on a whim.
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WHY ULTRAHUMANISM SOLVES POLITICS
We're trapped in a sociopolitical whirlwind of doom. What is ultrahumanism and why is it the answer to our troubles? I'll explain in this thread.
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One of these replies is by a real person. Can you tell which one?
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Lmao. Cowardly screenshot-quote from arch-YIMBY Yglesias. Also lies about the content. I did NOT propose making apartments illegal. So, why screenshot-quote? To get away with the lie. And because he's afraid if you actually read the thread you'd agree with me.
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GIMBY stands for “Grass In My Back Yard.” Or “Green In My Back Yard,” if you prefer. After all, not everyone can grow grass.
GIMBY is an intentional policy of DE-DENSIFICATION.
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People hate me because I promote beautiful women in beautiful clothes living in beautiful houses in beautiful environments and they don't want the world to have any of those things.
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The link between Marxism and DEI is explained by Spandrell's concept of bioleninism.
The basic concept is that low status people are offered higher status if and only if they join a political coalition to bring down those who are currently high status. Their status depends on
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The YIMBY world is actually the OPPOSITE of what we really want. What we really want is a proper house, with grass in the backyard. Or at least something green.
And that's why I'm proposing GIMBYism.
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Humans, perhaps, are like animals who don't breed in captivity. And high-density living amounts to captivity.
YIMBY Sterilization Chamber
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"One actual bedroom for rent," only $3,400 a month. Is this the dystopia you've been dreaming of?
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The two countries with the most expensive housing are the two countries with the LOWEST POPULATION DENSITY!
The unaffordability of single-family housing is an artificial product of terrible government policies. Nothing more, nothing less. Artificial scarcity.
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YIMBYs have been looking at the problem backwards. The problem isn't that there aren't enough homes where jobs are. It's that there aren't enough jobs where people want to live! In other word, it's actually commercial RE density that's driving up the cost of residential.
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Game of Thrones was total trash and it's nice to see that nobody talks about it anymore.
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Demand better. Demand grass.
GIMBYISM: THE CASE FOR _REDUCING_ URBAN HOUSING DENSITY
You've all heard the YIMBY story: increasing population density in cities will lower housing costs, reduce inequality, and save the planet. In this thread I'll make the case for its opposite. No, not NIMBYism. GIMBYism.
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The more you pack in, the stronger the incentive. So when you encourage high density, you turn cities into black holes that suck in all the human capital and sterilize it in miserable circumstances. You enlarge
@spandrell4
's famous "IQ shredders."
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THE WEF LOVES BATTLE OF THE SEXES POLITICS
The battle of the sexes dissolves other political groupings by strengthening outward links at the expense of internal ones. This undermines nations and peoples and smooths the road to open borders. I'll explain further in this thread...
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YIMBYism also ignores the question of fertility. We're entering a crisis caused by low fertility across the developed world.
It turns out that density reduces fertility. And in the long term, fertility that's too far below replacement hurts everyone.
New birth update. I guess we can forget any recovery this year for now.
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Another odd fact is that there isn't actually a shortage of cheap housing in the world. Even less so cheap land. There's plenty available. It just happens to be in the wrong location.
What's the wrong location? Places where there aren't enough good jobs.
The two countries with the most expensive housing are the two countries with the LOWEST POPULATION DENSITY!
The unaffordability of single-family housing is an artificial product of terrible government policies. Nothing more, nothing less. Artificial scarcity.
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First, dense urban areas that have no height restrictions look very dystopian. Take a look at these images from Macao.
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The "dead internet" has arrived, and we can already see who runs it. An entire thread that's just bots talking to bots, all promoting green/ESG propaganda.👇
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GIMBY proposes that we use tax policy to reduce the density of jobs, forcing employers to spread out, and thereby enabling people to live the way they want to: in proper houses with proper yards.
Impossible, you'll say. But is it really?
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If you need proof we're ruled by the wrong kind of people, it's right here. Sliding glass doors instead of french doors? Seriously?
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Australian senate votes 38-3 against allowing the population to choose immigration levels. Unforgettable result.
The Senate has voted against giving the Australian people a voice on halting immigration.
My Plebiscite (Future Migration Level) Bill 2018 has been voted down by the Albanese Labor Government, the Coalition, The Greens, Senator Lambie, Senator Tyrell, Senator Thorpe and Senator
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MASHRABIYA
is decorative lattice screening for windows in MENA and South Asian architecture.
This type of screening is ripe for revival using modern laser-cutting technology, especially in environments where crime is an issue. Ventilation, safety, and beauty at the same time...
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The point of rejuvenation biotech is to REVERSE aging and restore health to a younger state, not to extend the lives of physically frail people. Mixing these up is a common confusion, and the reason I always say "rejuvenation" and not "life-extension."
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Worse still, YIMBYism creates a self-reinforcing dystopia. People move to high-density areas because there's a high density of jobs and companies put offices in those areas because there's a high density of human capital.
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Korea is the famous worst case, but Macao and Hong Kong are just as bad.
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WHEN AND WHY THEY DECIDED TO STUFF YOU INTO A POD AND FEED YOU BUGS
a thread
After wondering why I'd never heard anyone discussing an idea as obvious as reducing urban population density to improve quality of life, I did some research. What I discovered was...
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In practice the number will be lower, because we need room for amenities, roads, parks, and businesses. But 3k/sqm would still put us reasonably close to the density SF had around 1980. Ask yourself: has SF become a better or worse place to live since then?
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Another argument against GIMBY is that “people WANT to live at high density, and we know this because they choose to do so.”
Actually, we don't know that at all. They're effectively forced to do so by job locations, and then make the best of it.
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Things that don't really matter (televisions) have gotten cheaper, while things that do matter (a house with a yard) have gotten more expensive. Now, this is exactly what urban-density "efficiency gains" do. TV cheap, grass expensive. They're effectively FAKE efficiency gains.
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I've been too busy to post or respond to DMs. Will be another week or two before I'm back on Twitter.
Incidentally, I've been informed DISPELLING BEAUTY LIES is now blacklisted from Bing, Duck Duck Go, and Yahoo.🤪Haven't had time to check this. It's still on Google search.
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There's a reason men are more open to hearing the truth about masculine beauty than women are the truth about feminine beauty: it doesn't hurt as much. That's because male erotic psychology has an external focus, whereas female erotic psychology has an internal/reflexive focus.
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Even the less dystopian buildings promoted by YIMBYs don't look like the best possible places to live.
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Trad discourse can largely be summarized as: "Society would be fixed if people just went back to doing x," where x = [thing that people don't actually want to do].
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Now, why would we support a policy that encourages more people to live like sardines, in places where they don't want to live and don't want to breed, when most of the world is empty?
When you put it that way, YIMBYism just doesn't make sense.
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WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT TRENDS?
Yesterday I explained how the human brain uses a version of trend trading to make decisions about aesthetic and moral values without bothering to actually think about them. But why do we even care about trends? I'll answer in this thread.
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AI isn't just going to kill the broader internet. It will turn social media into propagandistic nonsense of bots talking to each other. But I shouldn't say "will." As you can see, it's already happening.
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I gave up. Huge number of hours invested, zero growth in nearly a year. The world doesn't want the truth. Big disappointment for me, but eventually you have to recognize that you used your time poorly and accept the loss. Sad.
@Sanilac_J
Sorry if this is old news but was your other account banned or did you give up and delete it?
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Four centuries of evidence you've been robbed.
Literally worse than feudalism.
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99 percent of rightist "influencers" are grifters. And that number might be low. At the same time, leftist influencers seem to believe the crazy lies they tell, which is arguably worse.
Point is, the whole influence game is rotten and you should trust your eyes above all else.
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A friend of mine wrote me that finance is for old people and there's no reason to bother learning about it. As a public service announcement I'm sharing my response. You simply can't understand what's happening in the world today if you ignore finance.
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But how persuasive are the arguments that today, in the digital age, everyone needs to be clustered together like sardines in order to innovate? After all, historical data doesn't apply to a world where everyone's using Zoom and Twitter.
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I never watched Pirates of the Caribbean, but apparently the plot is that evil pirates were forcing her to dress in pretty clothes, and after great struggles she overcame them and dressed herself in ugly ones.
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Do you want green in your backyard? If you do, why shouldn't we make that a formal goal? Is GIMBY really as impossible as it sounds?
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My punishment for lacking the marketing genius to blow up DISPELLING BEAUTY LIES is that I have to see wrong, low-IQ takes on attractiveness go viral in my timeline... forever. Clicks are driven by vanity and paranoia; zero correlation between popularity and accuracy.
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I'd still like to bring the truth about feminine beauty to the public, but unfortunately there isn't enough time in my life. I need to proactively cut out things that are less important and less profitable and be more sparing with my time than I have been the past year. I've
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How long will it take Google to make the propaganda in Gemini more subtle so they can inflict it on us again with greater success?
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NIMBY, of course, stands for “not in my backyard.” It's the name given to people who oppose building high-rise apartments in their neighborhoods, even though these would provide more housing for more people at a theoretically lower price.
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"Fiat aesthetics" is the assignment of value to an aesthetic that inherently has none. Those who accept fiat aesthetics are insensitive to actual beauty and only care about displaying higher status relative to others. Recognize it when you see it.
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Boomers would rather destroy their nation and sterilize their children than let their home's resale value fall 10%, even though the only thing they can do with their overpriced home is trade it in for another basically identical overpriced home.
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Hideous and embarrassing on every level. The West today has the most tasteless "elites" in its entire history.
Also: just say "no" to open plans with low ceilings.
This penthouse in Sydney is worth $18m.
It's not even particularly nice.
Under a sound money system this would be worth $3m max.
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If we were to house everyone in detached single-family housing on ¼ acre plots, at an average size of two people per household we could fit a maximum of 5,000 people per square mile. As you can see, that's not an absurdly low density.
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AI might not be vaporware, but it HAS become the most overhyped tech in history. That's why I haven't written about it in six months. Biotech is the future we need because we're biological. That trillions are being directed to AI rather than biotech is a very unfortunate mistake.
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NINFOHAZARDS
I'll define a "ninfohazard" as information that's harmful to hear, and also not even true. It may appear to be true or it may just be unclear but confusing or inflammatory in a damaging way.
Most popular posts on Twitter, then, are ninfohazards.
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I tried to teach university-educated American women how to compete with this, but they were not interested.
The only scenario that will prevent rather than just stall open borders is a long depression with very high unemployment. The temptation of a quick GDP hit for the investor class is just too great. Also, The WEF Loves Battle-Of-The-Sexes Politics, Exhibit
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HAS THE CHANGING STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY MADE MEN LESS ATTRACTIVE?
Recently came across a post where a woman said, "I don't necessarily want the CEO of a big corporation, but I do at least want a man who works for himself." This set me to thinking...
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I increasingly suspect the cause of moral decline in Occidental nations is the death of loyalty. Older generations betraying younger generations, women and men hostile to each other, the end of patriotism, absence of solidarity. When enough links are broken, there is no society.
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Mystified as to why anyone would take this Lauren Southern person seriously when she's repeatedly (like other influencers) shown legendary levels of bad judgment. Fame brings clout that's completely disconnected from actual value. Yet another reason ppl are so easily manipulated.
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True love is real, just very rare. The "blackpill" isn't that it doesn't exist. It's that you're not going to find it.
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Personally I don't find these arguments persuasive, but I agree that they need to be hashed out. They need to be hashed out while pricing in the immense social cost of sub-replacement fertility. Not to mention the quality of life sacrifices people make to live at high density.
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And one more obvious but wrong argument against GIMBY is that we can't afford to put people in single-family houses. Well, perhaps we can't afford to house EVERYONE that way, but we can house many more than you might think.
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Efficient stupidity occurs when people believe dumb things even though they're smart enough to see through them. It's not obvious prima facie why so many people, or rather, EVERYBODY, suffers from efficient stupidity, but to make it so I've put the answer in the name.
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The YIMBY case sounds very plausible, and when I first heard it I believed it. However, when I began to think more deeply about it I noticed several serious issues. I'll present them in pieces in the next few posts.
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The YIMBY claim is that we have a simple supply and demand problem here, and increasing supply by allowing higher density will lower the cost of housing. We just need to overrule NIMBYs and build higher.
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A colorful door makes such a big difference that I don't understand why it's not the norm.
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Their plan is to create artificial housing scarcity, convince you that rezoning for high-rise apartments is the answer, and then stuff you into a pod to eat bugs--even though 99pc of your country is empty!🤣
The two countries with the most expensive housing are the two countries with the LOWEST POPULATION DENSITY!
The unaffordability of single-family housing is an artificial product of terrible government policies. Nothing more, nothing less. Artificial scarcity.
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Making the best of it entails overpaying for lower quality living circumstances.
(Besides which, GIMBY doesn't propose to ban apartments. People can of course live in apartments if they really want to.)
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I still feel that Undead Odalisque has hit a dead end and there's no way to expand the reach of my ideas on feminine beauty significantly. However, I'm going to run these two accounts in parallel for a while anyway to help this new account on other topics get off the ground.
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WHAT'S TRENDING: HOW WE TURNED THE WORLD GRAY
Momentum trading is based on a simple idea. If you buy something with momentum and sell as soon as the momentum fades, you can profit—even without having any other information. Guess what? The human brain already does this. Thread.👇
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But--you'll ask: could it really work?
The argument against GIMBYism is that it will reduce economic efficiency, because businesses operate more efficiently when they're closer together.
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Incidentally, I'm posting this thread piece by piece because my internet or X is acting up. It's rather long, so please stay tuned till I get it all out.
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Pretending that people in a world with birth-control, professional careers open to women, and modern divorce laws are going to behave the same way they did in the past is dishonest. The ground rules have changed. You can't go back by flipping some kind of "mood" switch.
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It's obvious that Youtube is rigged. It's obvious that influencers are being funded by NGOs to propagandize the youth. Dead obvious. And it's obvious that young people are growing up on this stuff. I just don't see a way to win this game. It's a waterslide to oblivion.
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Before I close I'll mention a curious paper by Cameron Murray, which mentions that density limits might actually REDUCE the cost of housing by speeding the flow of supply. If true, it's another point in favor of GIMBY.
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"They're just dumb" is such a bad meme you have to wonder whether the powers that be invented it themselves. It clearly doesn't explain what's going on.
By the way, the sliding-glass door on the shrine is totally lame. Jeff and Ghissy should have gone for french doors. Sad.
@spandrell4
No there’s no way this is true bc the online right has been insisting that the elites are dumb and don’t coordinate at this level
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Love is a game most people lose and some don't want to play. This is a truth excluded from fairytales and movies, and which few people even want to speak about.
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Photos from a reader showing GIMBY small towns in Germany. Homes are tightly spaced, but also close to nature.
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It's unfortunate that I need to entirely exclude feminine beauty from this account, but what I've found is that if you post about it a little it ends up totally dominating attention, and eventually people ignore all the other things you have to contribute.
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Horrified by the ugly minimalism of the interior, your eyes instinctively try to escape to the painting. But the painting reminds you Occidental nihilists decorate with images of Buddha, so you instinctively flee back to the interior. You're trapped: an aesthetic death-loop.
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Just amazing how they never stop getting it wrong. This woman has 500k followers and is telling them a strong jawline is an attractive feminine feature! How is this level of retardation possible, let alone popular?!
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Girls will watch boys pick Jessica Rabbit over some stick woman and literally think it's because she wears purple eyeshadow. Then they'll go out and buy five shades of purple eyeshadow. If you demonstrate otherwise, they'll just buy six. It's unbelievable how retarded people are.
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