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Should be a wild four years.

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It really is just the olds.
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Boomers were mostly teenagers or college-age adults when the civil rights movement kicked off. It’s why they have been trying to replicate the movement for decades since it makes them feel like the one time in their life where they feel like they accomplished anything.
It's their last hurrah, but as I noted during the protest of a couple months ago, it reminds me of the Civil War reunions with the old doddering vets putting on their uniforms one last time to shake a Rebel's or Yankee's hand.
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Same energy.
 
BREAKING: In the past few days, Trump vetoed an Israeli plan to assassinate Iran’s supreme leader, two US officials told Reuters.

My working theory is that Israel didn't initially want regime change but the strikes were so successful and the response so weak that they might go for it anyway
I hope not. They probably can pull it off. They will destabilize the region for decades if they do.
 
the claim mass immigration in the early 20th C caused no significant problems because the Irish & Italians assimilated quickly is a polite fiction. They caused massive problems that cost billions, killed people (look up the Galileanists), and wrecked economies, and it took nearly a hundred years to sort of get it under control. We still haven't completely dealt with Italian organized crime, and the Irish Daly and Madigan families have destroyed Chicago. The Irish-dominated Tammany Hall effectively turned the Democratic Party into a crime syndicate, something that continues on to this day. Mass migration from uncivilized cultures causes permanent problems. We will probably never un-fuck the Democrats, get rid of Cosa Nostra, or fix the damage of Irish machine politics.
With enough time you can normalize anything. Countries like brazil used to be pretty safe until the 60's, then it became a warzone and still is to this day, people there just shrug and accept that getting shot while parking your car is the new normal, much like europeans are getting used to the usual truck of peace running over children.
i swear, all it would take to fix the whole student loan situation in america is to remove the laws and regulations that give special protections to these loans.
just allow them to be discharged in a bankruptcy like any other loan, it would fix so many issues. debtors would have a way to get out of crippling debt like intended, lenders would have to do actual risk assessment instead of handing out these loans like candy, and without government guaranteed infinity money the universities would have to actually think about keeping tuition down to a reasonable level if they don't want to lose all their students.
That ponzi has snowballed to ridiculous levels, they are not gonna do that.
I would say animosity between WASPs and Irish/Italians dissipated because of integration
More like because new more foreign groups entered the nation and suddenly a bunch of redheads and guys with names ending in a vowel weren't such a big issue anymore. The more foreign an immigrant is the most likely it is to create problems, europeans constantly mention they rather have latino immigrants as at least those are come from a western-ish culture and are christian. The average mexican is a far better immigrant than even the best somali or afghan.
 
Nobody realised that she suddenly went back 30 years ? Nobody recognised her daughter that lived there too for a long while?
People are documented living next to serial killers for decades and not knowing. Is it really that shocking? She has no signs of dementia, she could sit up with no help (unlike others that have made it to that age), she burned pictures of her in her youth after she started getting notoriety, AND there was no autopsy.

You can believe what you want but its more plausible in my mind that her daughter lied about it. The record keeping was poorer and stuff like that was much easier to fake.
Her husband was perfectly fine with this particular lie for the 8 years he survived after her daughter death?
Are you seriously saying people don't lie and especially wouldn't lie for family? Do you live in this reality? What color is the sky in your world? Does it rain donuts like a Simpons episode? I'm very curious now
 
Not very likely, especially given a lot of people aren't going to be voting Vance who voted Trump.

Point in fact I will be remaining Republican purely to vote against him in the primaries, I'm sure I won't be the only one.
I've never actually seen a post where I can see the soyjack seething on the other side of the internet, but, well, here we are.
 
Are you seriously saying people don't lie and especially wouldn't lie for family?
what purpose would they have had to perpetrate this ruse from her daughter's funeral starting in the early 1930s onward? why would they bother? the 'oldest person alive' thing wasn't even a thing we cared about until like the 80s, it was just some niche trivia. how would they have manipulated an entire town to lie about the daughter's funeral to the paper that recorded it in arles? it's not like it was one or two people, it was a lot. it was documented.

AND there was no autopsy.
unless there's suspicion of a crime, or a reason to question why your family member died, there's usually not an autopsy done, especially when you're over 100 and the family doesn't care for it. some people don't want their relative's body sliced open for no reason other than "gee, wonder what made nana, age 122, croak."

and all this effort, the work required, why would they lie? for what benefit, for what purpose?
 
there was actually a study done in 2018 that concluded her daughter had died as was said in the 1930s, there were documents about the death of the daughter that was alleged to have been her which weren't publicly known until about 8 years ago. a short read on the topic, and a link to the study in the article if anyone is interested. she was apparently almost entirely blind and deaf in 1997 when she died, so it's not like she was doing perfect or anything either.
You should read what was linked. The proof that she really lived that long is an article from a week later that says there was a "partulicularly large group" that went to the funeral so it totally happened. The article is supported by some totally accurate math that states "someone has a 1 in ten million chance to live past 120" so that means she did. Pretty clearly bullshit if you put in 5min of work. I can't even find the article from 1934 that the "study" says exists.
 
I would say animosity between WASPs and Irish/Italians dissipated because of integration.
It's more due to the fact that Protestantism lost its coherence. Back when WASPs were strongly Calvinist, they persecuted the Catholic Irish and Italians, and they added Catholic Germans to the mix, especially during Prohibition. But as Protestantism lost its coherence over the years and got less dogmatic, WASPs fell away and either became Evangelicals or even Catholic. The furor over the Satanic Panic further drove more WASPs from the faith, which also made them less hostile to Irish and Italians in particular and just made them hate religious people in general.
 
This is very true and hits close to home.

Columbine happenned just as i was entering kindergarten

Columbine happened my freshman year of high-school right after they approved the building of a new high school. When we moved in Junior year the new HS was built like a fortress. It had a billion cameras and gone were the days of skipping out of 8th period unnoticed or walking to McDonald's for lunch.

Anyways, i can't imagine i'm the only one with that story, there's even subreddits called 2-a leftists or whatever. They really need to figure out where they stand on that issue.

It's socialistRA, it generates a lot of screenshots of tacticool trannies and rainbow colored 9mms. Whenever I hear "you're more likely to shoot yourself than a burgler" pop statistics I always think of SocialistRA trannies 41%ing with a Trans flag covered gun.

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The irony of the next one lol
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It'll make the toppling of Saddam look like a drop of water in the Pacific.
Militarily I have zero doubt Isreal can. The deck is stacked in their favor if they want to do a regime change. Just remember the lesson of Iraq. You never know what the last guy was holding back, no matter how much of a fucking asshole the last guy was
 
Isn't he the one who gets blood transfusions from his teenage son? And compares his morning wood with him too. Fucking creepy
Bryan Johnson is maxing out on the psycho stats. As per his Wikipedia:
  • raised Mormon
  • has an MBA
  • from the University of Chicago
  • venture capitalist
  • vegan
And his Blueprint website is total insanity. Imagine writing a blog post entitled MY SPERM HEALTH PROTOCOL, detailing your total motile sperm count (averaged 165 million :tomgirl:) and other medical particulars while assuring your readers that "semen quality is a real-time readout of your biological age."
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Hi Friend,

While global sperm health is plummeting, my sperm count is over 4× the average. At age 47.

Global data from 1973 to 2018:
+ sperm concentration declined by 51%
+ total sperm count declined 55%

My sperm concentration (143 million) and count (380 million) both exceed 1973 levels demonstrating you can maintain high fertility in the modern world.

Semen quality is a real-time readout of your biological age.

My sperm health protocol ⬇️

Semen quality isn’t just about reproduction. It’s one of the clearest biomarkers of systemic aging: tightly linked to hormone health, inflammation, mitochondrial function, and metabolic fitness.

Across five lab tests in 3 months, my total motile sperm count (TMC) averaged 165 million, more than 4 times the WHO threshold for natural fertility (40 million). My peak: 214 million.

Average sperm markers for a 45 yr old:

+ Swimmers. Typical = 80 million. Mine = 165 million.
+ Motility. Typical = 35%. Mine = 43%.
+ Morphology. Typical = <5%. Mine = 8%.

My numbers consistently exceeded those averages by 2-4x.

Protocol for optimal sperm health:

+ Sleep: 8+ hours nightly
+ Reduce inflammation: omega-3s [Blueprint Omega-3 supplement coming soon], NAC, exercise
+ Avoid testicular heat: no saunas (or sauna with an testicular ice pack), tight underwear, or laptops
+ Eliminate toxins: alcohol, cigarettes, plastics
+ Train hard: boost VO₂ max, lift weights
+ Track: Testosterone, SHBG, LH, CRP + semen quality

If your computer is on your lap now, remove it. Keep those boys cool.

Bryan
Note that the publish date was June 10th, and Bryan no doubt thought he was being both tactful and clever by not putting it out on Father's Day. At any rate, this epitomizes the godlessness of our current times etc etc and I'm surprised he not openly eating human fetuses. While Bryan is no doubt engaged in designing a new cryogenic ball cooling regimen, I'm off to work in the garden and spend time with my dad. Happy Father's Day to all those fortunate enough to celebrate it!
 
Ironic the SJWs are having these "No Kings" protests, when they want totalitarian control themselves. And had Harris "won", there'd be even more "woke" control going on now.
Sweaty we have no kings in America but they didn’t say nothin about queens 💅
Not very likely, especially given a lot of people aren't going to be voting Vance who voted Trump.

Point in fact I will be remaining Republican purely to vote against him in the primaries, I'm sure I won't be the only one.
Is this based on reality or what you wish were true? I can’t see Trump voters looking at a younger and more articulate representative of the MAGA movement and being like, no he’s not old and boomery on Twitter enough, pass. Hell I’ve been ready to vote for him since the VP debate.
 
what purpose would they have had to perpetrate this ruse from her daughter's funeral starting in the early 1930s onward? why would they bother? the 'oldest person alive' thing wasn't even a thing we cared about until like the 80s, it was just some niche trivia. how would they have manipulated an entire town to lie about the daughter's funeral to the paper that recorded it in arles? it's not like it was one or two people, it was a lot. it was documented.
Could be lots of reasons taxes, inheritance, some sort of family secret where they needed her to be alive so they assumed her identity. It's also a consequence of the potential reason. She wasn't trying to be the world's oldest person. That's absurd to even argue. However when you suddenly take 30 years off your biological age it becomes a whole lot easier. It's not like you can't find cases where people have lived under false identities for long periods of time. I'm not sure why its so far fetched that people 100 years ago did it when it was more easy to do back then.
unless there's suspicion of a crime, or a reason to question why your family member died, there's usually not an autopsy done, especially when you're over 100 and the family doesn't care for it. some people don't want their relative's body sliced open for no reason other than "gee, wonder what made nana, age 122, croak."

and all this effort, the work required, why would they lie? for what benefit, for what purpose?
I dunno but if my family member died as the oldest living human ever recorded that's a pretty great reason to get an autopsy. I think most people, especially scientists would be very interested in having this once in a life time chance to see the state of your body after 122 years. The only reason you'd not have an autopsy at that point is if you're actually 99 but have been pretending to be 122.

I'll leave you with a personal story. Years ago I worked on a bar and we had a DJ. Every week he would come in and ply and at the end of the night he would thank everyone including someone named Adam. He had regular so we assumed it was one of his regulars. Fast forward a few months into him thanking Adam and we had adverse weather. It's awful out and at the end its just me and another bartender and he looks at me and says "Adam have a good night" and walks out. It then dawns on me and the other bartender that I was Adam and he didn't know my name after months of working with him.
 
Ever since that idubbbz/hasan concern troll supercut was shown on the Kino Casino the other week, people are crying about concern trolling more frequently.

Stop being so easily programmable.
You're crashing out General Ripper. Are you okay, do you need help? Have you been using flouride? Are you sure your fluids are pure?

I just want to add "crashing out" to the list of shit buzzphrase's I heard for the first time 6 weeks ago and 100 times a day since.
 
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