We're banning raves, because we don't want you having fun where we can't watch you. By the way let me tell you about Woodstock. We're cracking down on underage drinking. It's bad for you. Yeah of course we hit up the pubs at your age it was great. We're banning smoking, but just for you - the smoking age will go up one year every year. Oh yes of course, we used to be able to smoke inside everywhere, it was great really. We're banning flavored vapes. We don't have any evidence they're bad for you, you just like them too much. We're banning dodgeball during recess, someone might get hurt. Yeah we really enjoyed dodgeball too. We're banning flirting, because it might make the girls uncomfortable. We're locking you in your room for the next two years. Yes we know you're in no danger from the virus, but we're worried that you'll get us sick. By the way you have to take this needle if you want to leave your room again. Yes, twice. Well there will be boosters too. No, we aren't worried about side effects, that doesn't effect us at all. We're closing the frat houses, because we don't want you having fun without our permission. Please join these officially sanctioned university clubs instead. We're bringing in labor from the third world to work the service jobs, so you can't have a summer job. You need to go to university to get a good job. By the way we're raising the price of tuition. Oh look we're raising it again. Don't worry there are loans. At interest. Actually we're giving the good jobs to the foreigners we just imported, to make up for our racist past. We are very good people. No of course we aren't sacrificing anything. You just have to take one for the team. Also, we're giving the foreigners the houses. We needed to increase real estate prices. For our pensions, you see. Sadly no, you'll probably never be able to afford one yourself. By the way don't forget to pay your taxes. Need to support those pensions somehow! Eh? No, we're giving ourselves tax breaks of course. Seniors discount you know. Oh by the way, that one thing you still have, now that we've banned joy and kicked every ladder out from under you? That social media stuff you kids like? You guessed it! We're banning that too! Just for you though, we're still going to watch AI videos on Facebook. It's for your safety, you see. We've noticed that you're all getting rather irate, and we think it would be better for your mental health if you shut up for a while. Why don't you just go outside? Eh? No of course we aren't going to stop Ahmed and his twelve illiterate cousins from raping your sister, that would be culturally insensitive, which would make us feel very bad, and we can't have that.

This is really cool. Damn, I wish I had tickets. Anika Nilles, in what might be rock’s most demanding and scrutinized gig ever, absolutely nails it!

Now that’s the type of inspired wordsmithing that earned a follow!

This thread is gonna be fun.

Kinda quaint how we used to have local SoCal white kids chasing away other local SoCal white kids from beaches they'd claim as their own territory only to eventually all be driven out by immigrants. Time capsule of a long-gone era. Anyways, this album kinda sucked.

Like the ancient Roman ruins in Libya, now home to a people who didn’t build it and have no understanding what it all meant.

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NGL, I think he’s telling the truth here.

I’ve put a lot of thought into trying to understand the Black Lives Matter moment and the “racial reckoning,” and I believe that the fact that black Americans endure a much higher level of routine crime victimization is a big part of it. The races of the people in this post are not disclosed, but I think they are probably black because the norms described here are foreign to white communities. White people call the cops when someone steals from us. I don’t believe there are any white people anywhere in America who would feel bad if a white neighbor kid who stole $2000 off our porch lost his college scholarship because we called the cops. That just isn’t how white people work. Nobody expects that whites will tolerate someone who is identifiable on video stealing an expensive package off their porch and not involve the police, and therefore, packages don’t get stolen off of porches in white neighborhoods. A tremendous amount of propaganda has been disseminated through elite media to convince black people that white people tolerate these kinds of transgressions from each other out of racial solidarity. This has always been a lie. White people do not practice racial solidarity. White people call the cops. People like the poster — nice, middle-class black folks who work hard and are doing well enough to order expensive stuff from Amazon — perceive that their lives are somewhat worse than they ought to be, which is true. Powerful political, media and NGO interests are telling them that the cause of this is racism, which is not true, and that the solution is solidarity with people like the neighbor kid who keeps stealing Amazon packages, which is completely counterproductive. What will actually make this poster’s life better is the rule of law being imposed on her neighborhood, which is something that America has failed to do for black communities for 200 years and is the fundamental source of persistent inequities. The reason you can’t order online packages and have them left on your porch is this neighbor kid who steals everything. The reason you have to put bars over your windows and you can’t park a car on the street in front of your house is the neighbor kid who steals everything. The reason there is no grocery store or pharmacy nearby is the neighbor kid who steals everything. The reason property values in the neighborhood are not appreciating the way they are elsewhere is the neighbor kid who steals everything. Your life will be better if he goes to prison. When there is a huge race inequity in who commits crimes, you can either have a huge race inequity in who is punished by the criminal justice system, or you can have a huge race inequity in who is victimized. Americans have chosen the latter, because that is the policy people in the most directly-affected communities vote for.

Imagine completely fucking away the Star Wars brand. I’m almost impressed!

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans. Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable. Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale. Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné. Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut. À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol. Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée. Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit. Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie. Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags. Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle. Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère. Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision : "La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne) "La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek "Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

One of the best accounts on X.

Well said. It's become exhausting.

Sabrina Carpenter failed to memorize the woke rule book.

Definitely a good read. Thanks John!

It’s easier to believe that the 1969 moon landing was a hoax than it is to accept that the country that sent men to the men 57 years ago then proceeded to squander so much greatness.

The moon landing hoaxers are exhausting and I'm not going to argue with them. You do you...

One thing I’ve noticed in reading the replies to this story from the multiple tweets where it’s been posted is that you can tell who are parents to teenagers and who are not.

Yeah, totally thought this was a chicken wing. 🤣😂🤣

God bless Jimmy’s Famous Seafood.