USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

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Does @Hillsdale approve of one of its professors tweeting out anti-White & hateful racist attacks on American Christians? If I were a young White American Christian considering Hillsdale, this would absolutely make me cross them off the list.

If there’s a 3 team Giannis for Jaylen Brown trade out there to be had Celtics should just cut out the Bucks and do business with whichever third team is willing to give up the biggest haul for Jaylen. Like do the 3 team Giannis trade but only 2 teams and not for Giannis.

one of the problems with the far left being so “blame America” and libs being uncomfortable with public displays of patriotism is that you then end up with national pride being exclusively coded as right wing, but in reality everyone but the extreme far left/right is patriotic

Missouri is the only US state to border the same number of states as it has letters in its name

A man working as a welder at SpaceX for $28 an hour has just become a millionaire. Juan Hernandez, who came from Mexico, welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour. SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock when he went full time in 2015, and he bought more with every paycheck for 10 years. $SPCX is now trading at $167, making his shares worth over $1 million.

I loathe when either side does this. This kid is just being used by his activist mother.

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I don't have any moral objection to trillionaires, but does it have to be a whack job obsessed with white identity politics and conspiracy theories

Raise taxes, significantly, to keep Social Security funded. And shift the employer/employee 50/50 split to 70/30. Workers get relief, and the system still gets fully funded. The market will sort it out “downstream effects” like it always does.