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Chris Bray's avatar

Also, incredibly clear that we're seeing a gendered political divide, and young women especially are EXTREMELY responsive to completely empty "brat summer" vibes campaigns:

https://x.com/MsMelChen/status/1986037049158512667

Young women voted:

81% for Mamdani in NYC

80% for Sherrill in NJ

78% for Spanberger in VA

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KB's avatar

I live in WA state and I see this everyday. My female clients, friends and family all far left. I was too before COVID and getting married to my husband. It’s all feelings: vibes, kindness, be kind, empathy, feeling good because you aren’t the baddy. Very religious in its zeal, yet none are. The information diet leaves no room for pushback, the Kirk assassination is an excellent example.

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Occam's avatar

Even crazier, they don't realize they are far left. Their ignorance and naivete is striking, but the fact that they have no idea that they're the ones that inhabit some alternate reality really takes the cake.

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No name here's avatar

The real black pill comes not from the fact that these women lack the discernment to understand things like risks or tradeoffs, it's that when you tell them *exactly what will happen because of what they are doing*, then it happens, they still blame someone else.

It's astonishing. Years ago I was warning these idiots about the white identity politics that is going to result from their bullshit... Now it's Fuentes' fault or whatever. They are completely incapable of recognizing their role in the bad outcomes that follow.

They really should not be permitted to vote.

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FuriousIT's avatar

Nick Fuentes is not the problem here. In fact, if European Americans had any sense of cultural/racial self awareness they might at least not be completely defenseless against the very blatant and aggressive expansionist political cultural/racial agendas of other cultures/races and their treasonous accomplices in the US. Gender, race, migration and guilt have been completely weaponized against Americans. And most Americans have accepted this programming and the obvious catastrophic result out of fear of being called "racist, homophobic, flyover country deplorables". It's a disgusting level of cowardice.

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No name here's avatar

I'm not saying it is Fuentes' fault. I don't really care. The point is that who is promoting white identity politics is incidental. It was a predictable outcome of their bullshit.

And left wing women are completely unaware of the fact that their blank slate worldview is complete nonsense (it exists entirely because they see politics as a form of affirmation - and why wouldn't they?), and because they are completely incapable of understanding their role in normalizing this, Fuentes is just the start.

It's going to get much worse.

I'm not blaming the groypers. At least they exist in response to *actual fucking reality* and not the make believe world that we allow these women to exist in - while permitting them to be involved in politics as validation.

So even if I had a beef with Fuentes, it would not matter. It's pretty clear that reasoned argument has left the realm of the possible largely due to female political involvement, so violence is probably unavoidable. This puts me on his side regardless of if I like it or not, because I'm white.

So way to go, ladies!

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BornAlive's avatar

they can vote,just don't let them near airwaves of any sort.

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eric vincent's avatar

They will change their vote

= get what they want

= law of unintended consequences.

...if they still have a vote.

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E. Grogan's avatar

Neither do they realize they are stupid.

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Sunny's avatar

Make Stupid decisions win stupid prizes....Mamdani the Commie

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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John Duffner's avatar

They’re kind and compassionate, except when they’re not, and think they’re the good ones throughout.

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Kelly's avatar

That's how you can spot the real assholes on the road, look for the "Be Kind" stickers.

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BornAlive's avatar

hahaha..ouch.

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Bandit's avatar

They're extremely NOT kind and compassionate. They're hateful harpies. They DO, however, think they're the shizzle. 🙄

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Spiff's avatar
Nov 7Edited

A recent sociological study established college aged men are more fair-minded to their political enemies than their female contemporaries are to their female allies. Women hate women, even friends. Men are even handed to all. An observation that has consequences.

https://substack.com/@thedogepatriarch/note/c-174067019

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Tricia's avatar

Be kind, Love is Love, Murder your Political Opponents (and their children), Science is Real (yes, men CAN become Women), No Human is Illegal (except for Evil Whitey who are Colonialists but Land Acknowledgements fix that problem), etc...

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John Duffner's avatar

No kings (implement top down micromanagement of almost everything), defend the constitution (negate the 1st and 2nd amendments and pack/abolish the Supreme Court), protect democracy (kick our opponents off the ballot and use open primaries to set up 1 party general elections)…

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Sunny's avatar

You jusrt can't believe the level of stupidity in this society of ours:

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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Name Invalid's avatar

"We all get the government we deserve" isn't quite correct.

We all get the government that the AWFLs deserve

Fixed it.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

"The Republican Party had a horrible night, but the Republican Party offered…what?"

Ding Ding Ding Ding!

Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner!

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Kelly's avatar

I live in VA and I was shocked at the results, but the republican messaging is complete shit. Look at all the gems the dems have handed them in the past few years--if you can't use that to win--well. I don't do tv but I recently got a mailer from Sears' campaign and it was awful. The new gov is mindless, lt gov is too good to even debate and the AG is just ridiculous--honest to god, I think one of my dogs could beat them--we'd be way better off. I was looking at some spending stats this morning for the legislature races and the money spent is beyond sickening--the dems massively outspent the republicans--I guess Soros antied up big?

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

You are absolutely right about Republican messaging. IT’s nonexistent. I live in MN and when Walz recently announced he’s running again, I called R party hq to find out who the challenger would be. You know, someone smart, knowledgeable, electable? I got nothing. This state is circling the drain and the Rs got nothing. No wonder I see the end is near today.

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JohnT's avatar

The pols can't offer anything.

The government is up to its ears in debt, if they suggest raising taxes the Libertarians will raise hell.

The poor don't vote only provide warm bodies for the Ohh Rah war dogs.

The country has fallen behind China, the global south countries see it and are abandoning the dollar. The shit is about to hit the fan.

I'm glad I'm old and near death, I've done all I can do to right the ship.

It's nothing but a madhouse, the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

Out.

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Sunny's avatar

And we make stupid decisions we win stupid prizes...

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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Mitch's avatar

socialism in action...forced sharing of the losses.

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CherylBray's avatar

What does the acronym stand for?

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Defective Detective's avatar

Affluent

White

Female

Liberal

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Bandit's avatar

Thanks. I never remember, because they truly are awful.

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CherylBray's avatar

ok...interesting

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Defective Detective's avatar

I do not know who came up with the moniker acronym but you go with what works I suppose

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Reggie Dunlop's avatar

BAWFLs

Botoxed

Affluent

White

Female

Liberals

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Kathleen Caron's avatar

Michael Malice coined AWFL

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j s's avatar

brainless, emotional zombies

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Sunny's avatar

Lots of them voted for Mamdani the Commie...

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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Stan Josselyn's avatar

It’s an end zone winner chant celebration that’s ….without meaning.

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QuestionEverything's avatar

Women are the problem. Women are the problem. Women are the problem. (I say this as a woman!)

They are self-righteous, miserable, virtual signaling cat ladies who have nothing better to do demand your money be stolen through taxation and opine over how it should be spent 'feeding their neighbors'. Not one of these women has functioning children or contributes in any meaningful way to their community.

As the family goes, so goes the nation, and a significant number of women (including young women) do not value family at all. They pretend to care about "the people", but abort their babies, promote child sterilization, discard men, and advocate for every policy that keeps children without functioning parents.

They are anti-human, anti-freedom, and anti-reality in every way. Gird your loins. It's gonna get a lot worse before it gets better.

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FuriousIT's avatar

In fairness, they have also been targeted for extreme psychological manipulation and programming over the last 70 years, with the intent of weaponizing their virtues (empathy, community) against them and the nation. What we see now is the psyop bearing its fruit, where the minds of Western women are divorced from reality and their wombs are increasingly barren. The only question to ask is who wanted this and why?

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QuestionEverything's avatar

Very true and well said. I can reflect on my youth and society at the time - lots of encouragement to go to school, go into STEM, get a job. I was encouraged to get married and have kids a total of ZERO times and my family is by far the most fulfilling part of my life. Good question at the end - the answer is spiritual, not political.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Not sure when societal level encouragement to get married, etc, stopped being a major thing but I was born in ‘64 and never got that from anybody anywhere. And yes, my family is also the most important thing in my life. I can say my mother experienced it intensely for many years, and she was born in ‘29. So it’s somewhere after I was born but before I started adulting, I think.

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FuriousIT's avatar

The cultural sabotage began in the 1930s-40s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School

This seeded the next stage of feminism that began in the 1960s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-wave_feminism

This seems to comport with your own personal experience.

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Sunny's avatar

And look where it's taken us today...

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Thank you for that. Should have known it was linked to the Frankfurt school.

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Sunny's avatar

Most young people have no idea what Adulting means.....

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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Kelly's avatar

You have a point--I also am a woman. But to add insult to injury, as the men become girlier, they also become part of this problem you speak of.

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j s's avatar

ya, but the women ARE TRAINING MEN TO BE THAT WAY. WOMEN ARE OUT OF THIER MINDS!

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Sunny's avatar

Girly men and the worse....Look what we have now!

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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Heidi Kulcheski's avatar

Okay annoying person, this comment section does not exist solely for you to promote your own writing. Do it once, it's okay, do it every five comments and it's really tedious, it's also ignorant. We're here to listen to what Chris had to say not you.

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Sunny's avatar

Thank you for sharing your advice!

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Thanks for the good articles, much appreciated!

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Kathleen Caron's avatar

You can't out-misogynist me. I want to repeal the 19th amendment.

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Tricia's avatar

And what do we do about the men who think and vote this way? And there a LOT of them.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Yes. Was on a travel video comment section, about a castle somewhere and SOMEHOW, the entire comment section turned into a celebration of women who didn’t want a family and who only had cats or dogs instead. There was a whole demographic right that in that one tiny comment section, it was very wild to me.

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j s's avatar

I agree and am a woman also. sad.

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Mitch's avatar

nailed it.

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Heidi Kulcheski's avatar

Wholeheartedly agree, you nailed it, and I'm a woman too.

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spingerah's avatar

Been in the weak men make bad times for quite awhile. The near futures going to be a lot worse.

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Sunny's avatar

The seem to be buying the stupid crap....

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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fiendish_librarian's avatar

I don't know what future even a moderately conservative twenty two-year old man looks forward to in the face of this tsunami of gynocentric toxic empathy.

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Name Invalid's avatar

Blessed are the conservative women, for they shall inherit the earth.

I tell my moderately conservative twenty two-year son, it is a land race, find the few conservative women out there before his peers grow up and learn to search for the same thing.

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Sunny's avatar

Conservative women should be cherished, especially now...

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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No name here's avatar

"conservative"? A couple of years ago pregnant men was the defining theme for these women's political involvement. Opposition to that isn't "conservative". It's "not being a complete fucking retard".

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Occam's avatar

I look at our children, nieces/nephews and their friends and shake my head.

They are seriously fucked and it's going to be tough for them.

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j s's avatar
Nov 5Edited

tell them to go to trade school first and foremost, be their own boss and to live a good life with morals and integrity and do the right thing. period. ALWAYS.

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QuestionEverything's avatar

Help them find strong partners. In the end, family is all that matters. Strong families will make it. Be not afraid. The hottest fires forge the toughest metals.

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Sunny's avatar

Sadly this is what we should expect...

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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Pithy Thoughts's avatar

Is it wrong of me to look forward to the day when all the AWFLs are forced to wear burkas? It would certainly be an improvement.

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MR's avatar

As much as I will enjoy seeing them reap what they’re sowing, the rest of us won’t get a “get out of a burka” pass.

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QuestionEverything's avatar

They seem fine with crime-ridden streets. They already can't go anywhere alone, just like Kabul. Full circle.

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ASensibleMan's avatar

Young women are hopeless. Well, young white women and white-adjacent Asians and Hispanics especially. Look at Europe. Women are being raped at industrial scale by migroids, yet they still favor more immigration. It's bizarre.

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spingerah's avatar

I doubt their rape fantasy's work outthe way they imagined

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Sunny's avatar

Those same people would have also voted for Mamdani the Commie...

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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Occam's avatar
Nov 5Edited

Chris, THIS is why the focus needs to be on action (not words). These voters believe that the administration is nazi criminals and votes accordingly, even though it's (largely) silly bs.

The ONLY WAY to get past this is to make America significantly better in the next year, before the midterms, so there is no doubt of it. Crime down, taxes down, standard of living up, etc.

If we keep up with this mickey mouse deporting 12 aliens a day, letting antifa make fools of LEO's, and everything getting caught up in the courts, the dems will carry the midterms.

And if that happens, it's OVER.

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Bandit's avatar

So true! Really, truly OVER. Our country will become NYC.

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Sunny's avatar

Let's hope not, because this will be the result....

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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Kathy Christian's avatar

That's why Satan went to Eve first in the garden.

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QuestionEverything's avatar

Yep, Satan tempted her first. "Why can't you partake of the fruit of The Tree of Knowledge?" Now they are all insufferable know-it-alls - smarter than God.

COVID showed us the truth about the "my body, my choice" crowd...that's not what they believe when it comes to abortion....what they are saying is, "Now I'm God too."

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Tricia's avatar

But what did that pantywaist, Adam do? Instead of telling Eve he would not participate in such disobedience, he ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. When God confronted him, he plopped his naked ass in the dirt, stuck his grimy fist in his eye and wailed "The woman made me do it!!" Real manly behavior.

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Defective Detective's avatar

The AWFULs have spoken so to speak

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Defective Detective's avatar

Oooops typo LOL

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RU's avatar

There's a lot of disinfo from leftist orgs re: abortion that drives that vote. And honestly, the birth rate concerns raised by prominent (R)s - while real - are driving the female vote away. It's just not "our" "democracy" unless you can take absolutely no responsibility for yourself or your actions - either on the front end or the backend. (Sorry, but I'm always astounded that we have to talk about abortion in an era where birth control is handed out in some elementary schools.)

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Name Invalid's avatar

I think most of the No Kings protesters will age out and be left behind, like zealous Japanese soldiers on an atoll.

But the Machine bolstered by AWFLs will still thrive in Deep blue redoubts:, NY, SF, LA, DC, Seattle, etc like antibiotic resistant pathogens, until there is a more invasive plan, and I don't know what that is.

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Defective Detective's avatar

The coming plan is obvious in both it's simplicity and sheer destructive capability. They will be bred out of existence by a purer breed that sees the power vacuum the AWFLs leave behind ,especially because they wont have children, and they will happily fill said void to everyone's deteriment.

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Name Invalid's avatar

Yes, I am talking about out counter plan.

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CherylBray's avatar

As a woman I find those stats shocking. But my nickname in high school (many decades ago) was "Ms Logical"

More importantly. Why is this so? I don't think anyone believes women are inherently less intelligent so why the divide? Is it the way the propaganda is delivered?

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JBell's avatar

They are more emotional. They make decisions based on emotion, not logic. It's all about how it makes them "feel".

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Fun and Prophet's avatar

I think, spitballing it here, young women are designed to compete for high-value young men. Generically, those men, in performance, prestige, and potentiality, have in this era been devalued in their eyes. That competitive impulse has hit the skids and turned into the virtue-and-hipness olympics, sponsored by Govmint's-Yer-Daddy.

Or, maybe, most women truly are the weaker, easily-led vessel. My own history suggests this.

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CherylBray's avatar

I think your first response is quite interesting. You reference evolutionary differences related to biology which is something Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss frequently (both evolutionary biologists). This idea would be quite interesting to explore.

I don't know about your last comment. Are women really more "followers/easily led" than men? Are the differences due to biology? I genuinely don't know as my personal experience is so different from what you describe.

My experience is just my experience, of course but I don't feel easily led or weak. I've never been in the norm, politically or socially. I lean libertarian and conservative in the bluest of all states and have no issue standing firm for faith, freedom and family. Of course, my views may be in the minority, but I think the trend is going this way, not the other way despite this recent election.

If the distinctions are indeed due to biology, then I think we'll be ok as the natural order of things in biology will course correct the current social trends. If they are due to outside interference, then we need to identify and influence those factors.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

At 60, I could count on one hand how many women in my high school were like you. Although many were quite smart, a lot of them were not really focusing on a career, they just wanted to get a job that would pay enough to let them move out of their parents. I wasn’t much different. I didn’t have any vices, but I just assumed a decent job would fall in my lap someday. Don’t know how I thought that, since my math skills have always been remedial at best. Focused on reading a lot, but nothing job-oriented. Further, my parents raised me to be dependent on them and to have very weak boundaries as well.

Needless to say, these are things I’m learning/have learned the hard way over many years. I am still very timid in too many ways, but working on it.

You are definitely to be commended! As far as the discussion goes, I can see how both nurture and nature/environment can come into play here.

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QuestionEverything's avatar

I agree - as a biologist I've looked at this a bit. Women do tend to look for high value men and there just aren't as many of them anymore. I think some of this has to be due to the ease in which we live our lives. There are no longer ways for men to prove their worth. Think of families two hundred years ago. Men had to hunt and trap to survive, feed their family. Now there is no need for that. When the tool to separate the wheat of the chaff goes away, so does the ability to delineate. With no purpose and no mating prospects, the men head for the gaming console.

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CherylBray's avatar

Since we're heading for some pretty dark economic times, these different outcomes are likely to self-correct once again. See, there's always a silver lining :)

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Sunny's avatar

I'm thinking that you, Ms. Logical would not have voted for this.....

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

My nickname was bunny f___er.

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FuriousIT's avatar

The Marxists who built the feminist movement very clearly knew this. Think of who some of the pioneers in psychology and social science were. The psyop is now coming into full swing, with an even more fundamental result where young men and women now find each other toxic and are no longer dating. No dating, no marriage, no children, no extension of their DNA and culture. On top of this legal/illegal immigration is sold on the idea of white guilt and moral duty, so that the "electorate" and its "government" are something completely different. The objective and its methods should be obvious to everyone at this point.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Yes. ‘Should be’ is the operative phrase here, I think, unfortunately.

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

Interesting dilemma you would think for women in VA - vote for someone from the party that touts DEI or actually vote for a person that really embodies diversity. As the Pitch Meeting character puts it "barely an inconvenience"!

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Will Martin's avatar

So, Are You Jewish, Chris? You sound Jewish.

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Chris Bray's avatar

I don't know what this means. What does Jewish sound like?

The name "Christopher" should answer the question, but I'd still like to understand that question.

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Will Martin's avatar

The only people who complain about Mandami are Jews or Queers. Considering that you're a Lefty-shit, that makes you probably Jewish. You're intentionally refusing to understand the question, as Libshits always play obtuse to prevent any kind of actual conclusion.

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Susan's avatar

One of the clearest ‘long play’ examples of the information divide was episode 229 of the PBD Podcast (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GXmfIf1jp9g) with the Krassenstein Brothers (🤢).

The guests began the show confidently, casually referencing this or that narrative which has long been proven false.

Time after time the hosts called them on their inaccuracies, each time producing evidence to prove the points as needed.

This was handled gently at first but with increasing incredulity.

As I recall, by the end of the show the brothers looked like limp dishrags, though I doubt either has since revised a single position or corrected any comments.

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The Unhedged Capitalist's avatar

Ah yes, the ol' cratering demand leads to higher prices. Because pricing power comes when you don't have any customers.

I'm so glad I live in this day and age. I'd rate myself as slightly above average on the intelligence scale, but compared to the modern day human I often feel like I'm ready to tackle quantum entanglement in my spare time.

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suannee's avatar

I came late to the movie Idiocracy, but there it is.

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Kelliann's avatar

We are geniuses now. Being swallowed by the Blob

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Sunny's avatar

That would be Mamdani the Commie.....

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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Fun and Prophet's avatar

Yes to The unhedged Capitalist!! This could be set to music for a certain select nationwide chorus to chant in unison. Oratorio and Lament scored for Many Voices.

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Sunny's avatar

Prepare for your world to come unhinged.....

https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/mamdani-the-commie?r=zst24

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L  Young's avatar

So maybe I’m straw manning her argument but as more people want to live in Seattle shouldn’t housing prices go down?

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

I think you should take advantage of your many talents and put in for CEO somewhere. I’m sure you wouldn’t do any worse than whoever is doing it now; likely you’d be a big improvement.

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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

“Completely soulless human-shaped object”

Blue state dems could run an inanimate carbon rod that says orange man bad, kill babies and it would win in a landslide because it has a (D).

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Chris Bray's avatar

They should experiment with non-carbon objects to see how far the thing can be taken. "Only cloud of nitrogen will fight for your reproductive rights."

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TheAbjectLesson's avatar

I like "Half of a Mole of Argon Gas" for CO Sec State, myself (sure, .5 of 6.02x10EE23 doesn't roll off the tongue, but whatevs.)

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

What’s that saying, ‘if human-shaped, why not intelligent?’ Or something like that. 🤔

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Greg's avatar

I mean, I was half convinced that John Fetterman was dead at the time of his election (to say nothing of Biden).

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Maybe he did and something more intelligent took his place? Something incredible happened there.

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James Nick's avatar

If an inanimate carbon rod had legs and arms I imagine it would look a lot like that photo of Katie Wilson Chris posted. She looks like Draco Malloy with less character. I’ve seen more attractive peeled potatoes.

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fiendish_librarian's avatar

Kent Brockman said it best: Democracy just doesn't work!

Hail ants!

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Defective Detective's avatar

Essentially they ran a Meat-Puppet

The question however is whose hand is the one directing the movements of said puppet

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

A friend told me this morning that she heard the new NYC mayor on npr (she didn’t even know his name I had to tell her), and felt hope for the first time. A soothing voice saying insipid things inspires.

Chris, I think this is how it ends.

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Leonard's avatar

When is she getting fitted for a burka?

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Well if your ‘friend’ is still listening to NPR then she a total lost cause. Those NPR listeners are clueless and delusional.

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fiendish_librarian's avatar

Akin to CBC listeners here in Canada.

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

I know. It’s the first time it came up. And all I could say was Really.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Valoree what a friend you have 🫣

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

It was a wicked surprise.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

I think you’re right.

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Charlie Cauldron's avatar

"Watching man-on-the-street voter interviews, I have learned that we have to vote for Democrats because Donald Trump turned women into handmaids who don’t have any rights at all and have to be slaves to the brutal Christian nationalist patriarchy, because we need government grocery stores to make food abundant and affordable, because Donald Trump ordered health insurance costs to double, because Virginia’s state government is going to put an immediate stop to the deportations, and because we have to vote against our dictator king who said that we’re not allowed to have freedom anymore. The “No Kings” protests worked."

This is the thing I argue MOST about with my younger New Right friends, who think that because we won the popular vote last year, and because the legacy media is unpopular, and because the legacy media predicted the election incorrectly, that the mainstream media machine is a discredited farce that most Americans ignore.

This is a category error. Yes, it is discredited. Yes, it is unpopular. Yes, it has been exposed for pushing narratives over news. But it is everywhere, all the time. I try to stay away from it, and even with supreme effort I'll hear what Democrats are hyperventilating about this week -- Trump is TEARING DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE! -- like cultural osmosis, without having to read a single word or watch a single frame.

I got into a debate with a friend about Charlie Kirk after his assassination, because at the time the press was trying to spin it that it was a Republican who killed him, and he laughed at me. Why? Because he had access to information. The shooter had a trans girlfriend, was on activist tumblr, wrote progressive talking points onto the shell casings. Anyone with any information at all would know the media was lying.

The following week, poll after poll: Most Americans thought Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a Republican.

We will never win with the legacy media leviathan still active. Even if you subscribe to the theory that these are the dying throes of a wounded animal... fine. Those dying throes are dangerous and destructive.

The media's ability to spin naked lies into narrative will always and forever be our undoing until we can create legitimate parallel institutions. Otherwise we will always lose. Otherwise we. Will always. LOSE.

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Kelly Reardon's avatar

The mockingbird "mainstream" media IS the mind virus that has divided and is destroying this country.

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Kelliann's avatar

Reinstate the Smith-Mundt act

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Kelly Reardon's avatar

Yes! 100%

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Aladdin Sane's avatar

I read a good article once about the HG Wells war of the worlds radio broadcast and the hysterical reaction of a large portion of the audience. People thought it was real with no evidence, there was even a disclaimer earlier in the broadcast. The article I read was about how the government was paying attention and learned that people could be controlled in this way.

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Name Invalid's avatar

(I have this elsewhere but it seems better here)

Seek and ye shall find.

All those seeking truth are finding it. (Admittedly with some effort). Those that don't want truth; they would rather feel good about being the good people since they are so aligned with the narrative, are not the slighted bit suspicious about why the news-narrative finds them so easily, is so uniform across many sources, always has the same heroes and villains.

So reforming the media won't be enough. Removing the drugs maybe helpful, but in and of itself does not remove the addiction. Thus reforming the media won't change how so many want to open the NYT and an Orange Rage the whole day.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Yes, but how to remove the addicting Kool Aid?

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

Sadly, you can't fix anyone but yourself, and these people are very, very self-satisfied as they are.

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PapayaSF's avatar

“Dying throes” applies to the entire Democratic Party. They will have some local victories like these but they are sunk on the national level for many years to come.

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Will Martin's avatar

You Hope Too Much.

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PapayaSF's avatar

I don’t think so. Trump has a big ego and wants a big legacy. For that he needs big Republican victories in 2026 and 2028. Therefore it’s logical that he will do what he can to make that happen. That includes all the scandals they’ve discovered inside the government since the inauguration. I expect three years of bombshells.

Meanwhile, Democrats learned nothing from 2024, and now are doubling down on all their unpopular policies: pro-crime, pro-illegals, pro-trancing kids, pro-DEI/racial quotas, pro-socialism, pro-globalist. They’re losing voters at a rapid rate. The next census will cost them multiple House seats and electoral votes. They’re on the wrong side of the Fourth Turning vibe shift.

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Fred Richmond's avatar

You've certainly posted a robust intellectual challenge. So articulate and well-supported.

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Will Martin's avatar

Lol, you give that Fat Yenta Naomi Wolf Money on Substack Dot Com.

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

Trump will have managed to break both parties when all is said and done.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

That’s just it. The democratic system has suffered a shock and a setback, but we can’t ignore that it is the system, which is why every single thing Trump does gets such ferocious pushback. Who will be coming after Trump leaves will be critical.

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Kathleen Caron's avatar

The media/democrats are dying but still very, very dangerous. Generations have been raised to believe journalists are the voice of authority and it will not be easy to break that stronghold.

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Tricia's avatar

Ah, the White House, which has never been touched, renovated or added onto since 1792, except when the British burned it down and it was rebuilt EXACTLY like the original. Nothing has been done to it since then until Trump came along and tore it down. Good freakin' God...

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Al DuClur's avatar

Always keep in mind that the Republican party is not an opposition party. Their purpose is to pretend to be an opposition party so their voters, whom they hate, feel they have a choice.

The Democrat media is effective. Their voters are always energized to fight the 4th Reich and are kept in the dark about reality. The Democrats like it that way.

On a positive note, that Seattle candidate is at least clear that Hitler invented the concept of supply and demand. People who think customers having more money to spend on pizza would make pizza more expensive are obviously nazis.

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Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

Housing & price of 🍕.

Is this woman serious?

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

She's completely serious to herself. No doubt she has a closet full of participation trophies.

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Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

I get that.

As kids we all strove for 1st 2nd or 3rd place ribbons.

She just needed "I was there"...

You know, takes no effort...

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

Now, she didn't award those to herself. That was her parent's generation - making a mockery of merit in the vain attempt to pump up self esteem. That would be a lot of my generational peers, and I have no shortage of contempt for them.

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Email message in response to this post, unedited, with the same remarkable formatting that I got to enjoy when I opened it:

Sir : This is nothing but the same old tired right-wing BS . let's face it ; there is no doubt that Donald Trump is by far the worst, most incompetent, clueless, inept , unfit, unqualified , incapable , unworthy , unethical , unprincipled , amoral , self-serving , uncaring , unscrupulous ,

abysmally stupid , ignorant and poorly educated , hypocritical , mendacious , conniving ,manipulative , crude, vulgar , crass ,

undignified , greedy, ruthless , callous, cruel , brainless, heartless, soulless , witless ,dishonest . hateful , racist , misogynist ,xenophobic , Islamophobic , Un -American , Anti- Democracy , ProFascist ,dent in US history anti -progress , anti-freedom , anti-justice , anti-equality ,

anti-free speech , anti-you name it president in US history . He is an unspeakably vile man with absolutely no redeeming qualities .

There is absolutely nothing good or admirable about him . Trump is nothing but a glorified conman and grifter who looks out only for himself and no one else . He is the worst demagogue in US history ,

This man is a dangerous malignant narcissistic sociopath and a pathological liar ; a deranged idiot , megalomaniacal lunatic with delusions of grandeur who is so conceited as to be incapable of ever having done anything wrong or made any mistakes in life .

Trump has lied and cheated his way into being elected president twice despite having zero qualifications for the most difficult and crucial job in world history , aided and abetted by his super slick spin doctors , massive amounts of propaganda falsely portraying him as great American patriot and hero , a genius businessman whose amazing skills would "make America great again ",

create general prosperity and freedom by protecting us proper white folks from those uppity blacks, all those horrible Hispanic rapists and murderers and stop those heathen Muslims from imposing Sharia on "Christian " America .'

And in terms of personal morality , Trump is a monster ! He has openly and proudly admitted to cheating on all three of his wives , is a womanizer who makes Bill Clinton look like a choirboy , a notorious sexual predator of not only women, but girls as young as 13 ! Yes, he was a close pal of the late, unlamented Jeffrey Epstein and had his way with young girls . This is why he and the Republicans are so terrified of the release of the Epstein files ,

In business, Trump was a total failure and never had a single successful business . All of his casinos went under , and Trump, wines, Trump steaks , Trump airlines , Trump magazine and Trump clothes (made in China ) non of them lasted for more than a year or so .

Such a "genius businessman ". In business, Trump lost and wasted staggering amounts of money because of his stupidity ,poor judgment , greed, recklessness and corruption . If he had managed his finances widely and skillfully he could have become one of the richest men in America . Trump opened up the notorious fraud called "Trump university and had to pay millions to his victims .

Therefore , how could anyone expect him to be an even minimally competent and honest president ? There are still about 1,500 lawsuits against him as well as an enormous number of conflicts of interest between his businesses and his presidency .

There is no question about it - Trump and his henchmen have set him up as America's first authoritarian , totalitarian fascist

dictator, not our president . We no longer have a president or a functioning Democratic government . Trump , his henchmen and the REPUGNICAN party ( what it should be called ) a.k.a the GOP (gross old perverts ) have pulled off a bloodless coup .

Heaven help America now !

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Jen Todd's avatar

The word "retarded" comes to mind immediately. As do the words "Trump boner".

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Lilia Rosales's avatar

Wow 😅 the level of second hand embarrassment I got from reading this email… sent chills down my spine

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Hard to type one-handed when you're holding a dictionary in the other hand...

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Clay's avatar

If socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

They understand their politically correct, ivory tower, pie in the sky economics.

Not “real world” economics that is really learned by making payroll.

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Loftyloops's avatar

Are these comments supposed to be ironic. She literally explains how practical economics actually works in a particular context and the response is just gaping incredulity and hand waving about ethereal principles.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

Blaming the cost of pizza on customer rent is a very shallow economic analysis.

The idea being if more pizza was sold, due customers having more money, it would result in cost savings due to volume. So the owner could afford to sell for less. Going from $8 to $2 a slice.

It ignores:

- business owner rent

- ingredients cost

- compliance costs

- labor costs (Seattle has a $20.76 minimum wage).

- taxes

- local crime

- profit maximization

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

A chicken can recognize its own eggs. That's why you never ask a chicken to help you make an omelet.

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Randy Farnum's avatar

I thank the older gentlemen, Navy veteran, you highlighted at the top of your post for his service to the country but, frankly his (which is also mine) generation can't die off soon enough. They (we/boomers) are the only things keeping the legacy media alive. As our generation dies off that platform will disappear in a whiff of smoke and within five minutes no one will even remember what it was. I slowly got red pilled starting in 2016 and then just downed the whole bottle in 2020 and the start of Covid.

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Tricia's avatar

Speak for yourself. I'm a tail-end female (a real one) Boomer and cut the cable cord and the Legacy/Mainstream/Idiot media out of my viewing YEARS ago. I still feel I'm drowning in all of that emotional BS that causes people to Vote Blue No Matter Who (and no matter who they threaten to murder, they're still good people).

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James's avatar

Same here (ditched MSM, late Boomer). But plenty of our generation and a lot of Xers in my acquaintance still take whatever the NYT and CNN say as gospel. More so if it props up their PMC worldview.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Can relate. Missed gen X by just over a month. Stopped listening in rapt awe to mainstream anything years ago also.

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John Duffner's avatar

As current navy stationed in VA, I fear I may soon get firsthand experience with how perverse is the Dems’ talk of being anti authoritarian and pro freedom.

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The Curious LP's avatar

Who among us hasn’t walked past a store advertising “going out of business sale, prices higher than ever!”

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NanaW's avatar

Now that is funny!

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Johnstone75's avatar

Our educational system needs to be completely obliterated. That you can have a functioning "educated" adult explain with a very serious expression that when demand falls, prices go up is remarkable. We have entered Idiocracy. Meanwhile, these are the self proclaimed experts. Good God.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Well, but they are so used to screaming to a receptive administration whenever reality has the nerve to intrude itself upon their life, so I don’t know that they would listen to such a person without calling them names, etc.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

Can you imagine a"parent" that isn't ashamed to tell their children " we are on public assistance" ??? Can you imagine putting your adult financial burdens on your child???

To teach them that " the Man" keeps them oppressed and then rages when " the Man" doesn't provide for them???

I wonder how they made time for these " crucial conversations" between nail appointments and tik tok videos.

The cost of pizza argument explains precisely how damaging public education is to developing brains and also how idiots believe if we just divide everything up we will have more.

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Dawn K's avatar

So true! My parents never talked about their financial hardships with us. But they set the example of working, earning, saving, budgeting….

Of course I guess that’s part of the problem today, I was raised by two parents and so many kids don’t have a father figure.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Right in sync with the ‘no kings’ protest. First they want no king, then they want the ‘king’ to say the magic words that will get snap fully funded for them immediately.

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James's avatar

These young women seem to want the kind of king that would care for them cradle to grave, a la that infamous “Julia’s World” ad that came out in King Barack’s regency. They want a leftist sugar daddy.

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Name Invalid's avatar

re:

The foundational problem is an information problem.

Close, I think a more fundamental problem is a complete lack of intellectual curiosity. The information is there, just go talk to any one of your red pilled friends but norrmies NEVER do that. They will read the highly credentialed NYT to know what trump voters are thinking, but never actually ask one.

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Seek and ye shall find.

All those seeking truth are finding it. (Admittedly with some effort). Those that don't want truth; they would rather feel good about being the good people since they are so aligned with the narrative, are not the slighted bit suspicious about why the news-narrative finds them so easily, is so uniform across many sources, always has the same heroes and villains.

So reforming the media won't be enough. Removing the drugs maybe helpful, but in and of itself does not remove the addiction.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Also, they love to be in sync with their hive mind: “Guys, what do we think about this?” Something I’ve seen quite a few times.

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Dena's avatar

Aw yes, Katie Wilson. Another AWFL who never held a real job & is dumb as a stump. Not sure what leftist billionaire ( she actually used antifa as security for her family) is advising / donating to her but if she’s the winning candidate Seattle slips further into the abyss. On a better note, DOJ will resume suing WA state in order to have access to the voter roles. Of course the lawsuit is paused because the shutdown.

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ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

Chris, just listening to BBC Radio 3 (classical music) while we were eating dinner, and the wittering female presenter just mentioned the “exciting new Mayor of New York” as she segued into the next item. Cue collective groan from husband and self as we tried not to choke on our broccoli.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Zohran is catnip for AWFLs. A handsome young brown man who wants to heal the world, free the Palestinians, and bring "Power to the People"?! He checks every box that makes them feel morally superior to the rest of us. White guilt and vague sentimental socialism are the ultimate luxury goods for our age of conspicuous compassion.

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ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

I’m sure he’ll be as successful as the London mayor, who’s been a real asset to the city, as I’m sure you know.

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fiendish_librarian's avatar

Very good write-up on him in Tablet, echoing those points:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/hipster-hologram-mamdani

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

i've been stealing from that all day! ;)

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ANG Pilot's avatar

I was surprised Mamdani didn't play "Back in the USSR" as his walk on music at his victory party.

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fiendish_librarian's avatar

"Those Hamas girls really knock me out.."

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Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

BBC presenter may not be wrong.

NY will discover soon enough, just how "exciting" Zohran is...

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erin's avatar

"has mostly been to ask people if they were born this way or incurred their brain injury later in life"

Bwaha! My mood today to a tee.

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