Ronald Reagan banned more guns than Barack Obama.

Yeah, about that Second Amendment buddy...

Modern problems require wooden solutions.

Literally every social issue that could be solved, but isn't, is the result of a handful of sociopaths profiting off of it not being solved.

Someone who reacts to criticism as a betrayal, rather than an opportunity for improvement, should immediately go to the bottom of your list when picking teams for anything—basketball, work project, zombie apocalypse, marriage.
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The average American has no idea how existentially dire it is for the separation of powers in our government to have been eroded to the extent it already has, largely because the average American thinks separation of powers is a problem for The Avengers to handle.

Damn, I forgot the heart emojis. Oh well.

I love you all, and I say this with more disappointment than contempt, but everyone calling for the 25th Amendment like it will actually work is a delusional dingus—the absolute dip-est of shits.

Being burned with a cigarette lighter and being burned in an oven are both bad things but I don't know how to explain to certain leftists that you should grit your teeth and vote for the lighter because you don't get to vote from the oven.

Worrying about being "cringe" is how those who lack virtue cow you into keeping your virtues unseen by a world that desperately needs them.
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Dear Americans,

If the only time you get involved to stop a bad thing from happening is when that bad thing is happening to you, you are not a good person.

Once more for everyone scrolling by:

You are not a good person—nobody cares what's in your heart if your ass stays planted on the couch.

It's summer of 2016. Marriage equality is now the law of the land, "Hamilton" has given America hope for a post-racist future, interest rates are low, and you just told a gamergate Nazi to "PokemonGo fuck yourself".

Nostalgia is an insidious bastard.

Many men who can endure significant discomfort to accomplish their goals utterly break down when faced with any emotional discomfort from encountering information that contradicts what they want to be true.

In a democracy, explaining ideas essential to the survival of that democracy, to the antagonistically incurious, is the duty of everyone who understands those concepts.
But goddamn is it an act of masochism 99% of the time.

If your principles lead to bad outcomes those principles are bad.

Clinging to bad principles because you're emotionally attached to them as a part of your identity is why we can't have nice things.

For reference this isn't something I found elsewhere, Gemini and I had this "conversation" this morning.

Well, shit.

Usually not until someone reminds me, and then we all have a chuckle.

The guy makes me sad though. He's the perfect example of how corrupted masculinity has dudes chasing the image of physical prowess despite possessing no actual physical prowess or the drive to attain it—so he fakes it instead.

There are still a handful of decent Republicans out there.

Yes, there are—get over yourselves. Demanding ideological purity of everyone in the conversation is a thing for children and the weak-minded.

Yeah, I didn't think this would go over well with the laptop class liberal crowd over here. At least on pre-Musk Twitter, there was a wider spectrum of discourse on such things.

Maybe he'll drop dead and we can go back there.

When this is all over, they're never going to admit they were wrong—because if they had the character to do that they wouldn't have been wrong about all this in the first place.

They're just hoping you'll forget.

The charge of being a "Nepo Baby" needs to carry with it significantly more stigma if we're ever going to reach any kind of approximation of equity.

Unfortunately, the discourse is dominated by nepo babies who think they're "one of the good ones".

Nothing worthwhile to contribute so here's a 315x3 deadlift form check video.

The idea of going on TikTok makes me angry too but that doesn't change the fact that the people who need to be nudged out of voting for the pillaging of their own country aren't the ones reading polemics—or even reading at all.

Raging into the void is one thing, but I'm starting to wonder if people on this platform actually believe there's a line he can cross, beyond which his followers will abandon him, and if they just repost enough screenshots...

Too many progressives love to actively confuse what "ought" to be for what "is", even in the face of overwhelming evidence. And you can't make any progress being like that.

In a non-stupid timeline where we feed billionaires to wood chippers instead of giving them social media platforms, this is a goddamn banger of a tweet.

Violence may be the last resort, but it's still a resort, so you might as well have a cocktail and enjoy yourself. 🌴

"The Bible says you can only be a man or a woman."

"Well the Players Handbook says you can be an Elf or an Orc, so all we're discussing are different made up rulesets."