Josh, Mountain Respector
@StrangerJosh11
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The gods of the copy book headings have returned
Joined October 2012
"It is an iron law of history that those who will be caught up in the great movements determining the course of their own times always fail to recognize them in their early stages.". Zweig
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My youngest daughter stumbled on a wasps nest and got stung 8 times. I'm about to genocide their entire lineage. When I'm finished with them it will be as if they never existed at all. Total wasp annihilation.
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The latest US literacy stats have just dropped and they are every bit as grim as you might imagine. "Approximately 50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels"
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In another time, in another place, the US built the Empire State Building, the world's tallest building at the time, in a bit over 13 months from start to finish.
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Never apologize.
BREAKING:. Mexico’s Pres. Claudia Sheinbaum reiterates she will demand Spain to officially apologise for colonial mistreatment. Her statement was made in response to a @vox_es politician who had called her an "absolutely illiterate" for wanting an apology
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"Extraordinary entitlement"
Oh, and like other government employees, they’re convinced they’re underpaid and mistreated. Just extraordinary entitlement.
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I'm committed to posting this every Father's Day from here on out. Happy Father's day gents.
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Every so often I think about this photo. It's hard to express the feeling it invokes in me, a longing for a world I knew that I'll probably never see again.
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Some of you will call me crazy, but I really believe that these events were portents of things to come.
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Prince William has one of the greatest opportunities of all time, to ride out in full regalia to meet the lads in the streets and lead them to reconquer their country. In doing so he would reinvigorate a fractured Britain and solidify the House of Windsor for another millennium.
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What if I told you that both the Gates and Bezos divorces are nothing more than covers to allow each to liquidate large amounts of stock at the peak of a multi-decade asset market top without raising suspicion?.
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If you want to see what the practical result of this would be look up the Yellowstone club in Montana and ask yourself if that's the result you want for the American west as a whole.
The federal government owns 27% of all land in America. DOGE should study the economic benefits of privatizing more of it.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that whichever of you can rally 5000 energetic 17 to 25 year olds behind you can probably take the whole of Britain.
📽️ | "We will identify. We will be coming for you.". @merseypolice Chief Constable Serena Kennedy has a message for anyone involved in the serious violent disorder in Liverpool. Two people have been jailed today for their part in the shocking scenes in the city centre.
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“I hope he has a great lawyer & I’m praying for him,” the 66 year old woman, who did not want to be identified “And I pray that he gets treated fairly I really do. Because after all of this ensued, I went back and made sure that I said Thank you to him”.
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Warren Buffet's son is ."building a literal private anti-immigrant militia" and you're blackpilling?
Warren Buffet is handing control over $100 billion to his three kids, one of whom is building a literal private anti-immigrant militia.
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Your high social trust society sir.
Always funny to see populist conservatives make anti-immigration arguments based on social trust when urbane libs who encounter immigrants daily have 10x their social trust. It's not a desire for a more trusting society, it's a demand that the low-trust be coddled.
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Wherever she is, you just know she killed it today.
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This is as close a distillation of my general economic position as anything ever put to paper.
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Every billion dollar weapon has a hundred dollar countermeasure.
This sweater developed by the University of Maryland is an invisibility cloak against AI. It uses "adversarial patterns" to stop AI from recognizing the person wearing it.
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An occasional thread of good films you may not have seen. Starting with The Edge, 1997.
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This may be the greatest truth ever spoken on this platform.
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To reiterate something I've said before, 90% could be made to self-deport simply by reversing the incentives that drove them to come in the first place. - levy heavy fines against employers hiring illegals.-remove all social safety nets (food stamps, housing, etc.) .- eliminate.
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"Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door".
BREAKING:. Massive riots have started in The Hague in the Netherlands. A large mob of Eritrean migrants has broken into the Opera House building and are throwing bricks and rocks at police officers. Several police cars have been set on fire…
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There's no technical reason we can't do such things today. It's entirely bureaucracy and institutional inertia that prevents us from doing so.
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Some of you won't want to hear this, but legalizing Marijuana was the worst social decision of the past decade.
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Perhaps nothing better represents the tenor of our time than removing a monument dedicated to the reconciliation of the greatest bloodshed the US has ever known. Where we go from here is anyone's guess, but all signs portend very bad things.
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I'm not being facetious when I say that I'd fight a civil war to stop this.
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Californians raising the median IQ and locals getting mad about it.
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Pulls up a chart of world steel production by country.
@ElbridgeColby Seriously though, Colby why can’t you accept that the U.S. can fight a 2+ Front War? (Under the reality that the U.S. would mobilize all of society to defeat China, Russia, etc).
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"workers at the 2nd largest aluminum mill in America, accounting for 20% of US supply, learned they were losing their jobs because the plant can’t afford an electricity tab that’s tripled in a matter of months. ".
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Blank slatists continuing to take heavy losses.
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See the firetruck in the photo on the right? That's ladder 118. Its crossing the bridge to render assistance to the casualties. Every single person on that truck died that day.
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Guy who spends his entire career studying human nature, psychology, and totalitarianism only for those studies to completely fail him when first tested by a real world scenario.
I got vaccinated because I naively believed the woke force-mongers would leave me the hell alone thereafter. Fool me once. .
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POV: You're about to be one of the the estimated 250,000 people/year who dies due to medical malpractice.
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Generational achievements aren't what they used to be.
Pictured: Cappuccino in the 00’s vs cappuccino today. People think millennials haven’t achieved a lot but it’s actually crazy how much BETTER food is now compared to 20 years ago. Millennial talent went into food and beverage arts. Now you may think this insignificant, but I
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Does not wanting to sell Galcier National Park to Mark Zuckerberg make me a communist?
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The longer they do this, the funnier it gets.
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4 years on I still believe this was a warning of things to come.
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"For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”
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If you're not at least somewhat physically fit there's probably never been a better time to get in shape than the next 6 to 12 months.
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A lot of people are about to find out that oil and wheat fields are more valuable than algorithms and payment processing platforms.
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There's a lot of commentary around this event but most of it misses the main point, specifically that you should not be sitting on that bench at 4am. Everything else that occurred resulted from that one poor decision.
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@AndyJScott I see this driving every day. Huge decline in spacial and cognitive ability on the road.
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Cognitive dissonance is the most powerful force on Earth.
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If you aren't familiar with this particular grift, there's an entire intermediary middle man industry set up to meet such requirements. Basically, people that check the box on whatever the favored minority is will set up essentially shell businesses that ostensibly work in the.
New York just announced a historic $2.3 billion tax-funded grant to fix up the JFK International Airport. This grant, signed off by Governor Katy Hochul, is exclusively for non-White or women-owned businesses. "This is FOR US, and made BY US"
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I can't tell you the # of vets I've spoken to or heard say something along the lines of "my family has fought in every war since the revolution, and that ends with me.". Trust has been broken in a way not seen in generations.
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Checking in on how China's one child policy has aged.
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“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” . Alfred Henry Lewis
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The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks are fighting over fundamentally leftist institutions and you're taking sides?
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What most sticks out to me about this photo is that both of the men escorting him appear to feel ashamed.
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Yes, I should manage my daughter by preventing her from walking by a pine tree. I'm going to kill a few dozen more wasps in your honor Joe.
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"They were robbed"
@VanDiemen_ Comanche country coincides pretty well with the West Texas/ New Mexico Permian oil basin, one of the most prolific globally - they were robbed
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Man, the next few years are gonna be wild.
People and cars robbed after being in an accident yesterday in Los Angeles on hwy 10
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Woe to wasps for it would have been better for them had they never existed at all.
@StrangerJosh11 "What began as a conflict over welts on a little girl's flesh, turned into a war which has decimated a million nests. Their hatred fueled by four minutes of crying. This is a fight to the death. For each side, the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other."
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A lot of people are going to have their perceptions of how the world works dashed on the rocks of reality in coming years.
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You can tell that the protests outside the White House are completely organic by the fact that every participant has the exact same tent.
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@Cernovich @Kairon404 "Had Covid run its natural course (no vents, no lockdowns), 5-10% of the population would have died.". This is completely and totally wrong by an order of magnitude or more.
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@Brushbeater In a just world we'd drop him in Donbas and make a reality show out of the short time he lasted.
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I've long known that when push comes to shove it's maybe 10-20% of the population that matters in determing the ultimate outcome of any important event(s). No better example than the below.
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Good morning. We're all going to make it.
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It turns out a government policy of forced sterilization and abortion may not be as conducive to world domination as we were led to believe. Who could have guessed?.
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This right here is 100% correct. Many of you objecting to the above are doing so because you're decent rational people. The fed gov is neither decent nor rational.
@bronzeagecostco @StrangerJosh11 It would end up being like Soviet privatization and everyone would lose out except a select few who probably wrote the law authorizing the sale to themselves.
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@lordtartan That is 100% correct. If it was up to the engineers and tradesmen this could be done in a year or less.
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Energy is ultimately the lever by which the world is lifted.
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Because a bunch of you are apparently incredibly dense I guess I need to lay this out. This isn't "victim shaming", it's pointing out the simple reality that we are rapidly moving from a relatively high trust society to a low trust one. Adjust accordingly.
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Whichever side of the battle this is, I'm on the opposite side.
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"Tell me why"
this man on the subway was repeatedly harassing a woman, being disgusting, invading her space, etc.tell me fucking why me and the other women around tried to intervene and tell him off but all the young, fit guys around just stood silent and looked at the ground.
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The world I grew up in no longer exists.
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@TrueSlazac You're French, no one on earth cares what you think including everyone else in France.
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Given that you said your mother would have thrown you in a wasp nest I can see how you ended up this way.
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Just remember, the next time a large scale famine hits a portion of the globe it'll be propagated by guys who look like this.
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One of most remarkable and largely unique things in US history was the reconciliation of North and South into one familial nation, and guys like this have completed erased that in under a decade.
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Everyone who spends any time whatsoever in a large American city knows exactly what was happening here, even if they won't admit it.
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This is what's known colloquially as "eating your seed corn"
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Underneath the surface something big is stirring, you can feel it.
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This headline is a good litmus test for whether or not you recognize complete and total bullshit when you see it.
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The Spanish landed on the set of a Saw film and people really expect them to apologize. SMH.
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Every so often progressives will reinvent long ago established societal norms. In this case it's the concept of the shot gun wedding.
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This of course has < 1% chance of occurring. But the next few years will determined by a series of events that had < 1% chance of occurring before they each did. Dum spiro spero.
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@ManMan31566023 Yes, instituted by Caesar Augustus. These people are idiots if only because they fail to understand that it's in their best interest to assuage the warrior caste with sinecures. Historically the alternative has been much worse.
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"In Japan I can sit on any bench I want at any time". LOL, good for you fella, I don't live in Japan.
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@B21stealthbomb This bridge was already designed guy, all they need to do is pull the old plans off the shelf and update them. I could get this done in 4 months.
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Some of the responses to the above are pretty hilarious. Guys, we built the entire Chesapeake Bay bridge/tunnel combo in under 4 years. Add 3 years for design, planning and pre-con and you're at 7 years for a structure that's over 10x the length of the Key bridge.
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"Computer, pull up US educational rankings in 1979, the year the DOE was founded, and the same rankings today".
This is, for the record, what republicans want to continue to exacerbate. An uninformed populace is one that will elect them, allow them roll back child labor laws, destroy the department of education, and then act surprised when their kids become forced laborers.
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"You can't do it, Vladimir. You do it, it's going to be a bad day. And I told him things that I would do. And he said, 'no way.' And I said:, way"
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I suspect that the origin of this trait is largely due to the fact that most Americans are generations removed from any serious widespread domestic strife and can't envision it as a possible outcome.
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All of my best mutuals are doing this.
@StrangerJosh11 Yikes! I’ll kill all of ours in solidarity 🫡.
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Every million dollar weapon has a thousand dollar countermeasure.
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Would you believe me if I told you that western civilization may yet be saved by a bunch of guys named Todd, Troy, and Kyle?.
One of the best photos of 2024 so far:. Fraternity brothers are pelted by anti-Israel protesters at UNC Chapel Hill while protecting the United States flag as it is re-hoisted following its removal by protesters. Well done, gentleman. 🫡🇺🇸
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