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nah that's bullshit, foids on this site keep reassuring me that this is all just hallucinations made up by my woman hating incel brain, and that actual women irl are very based and redpilled, and definitely not turbo leftoids who hate white men
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There's plenty of based red-pilled chudettes, but they're a treasured minority in their cohort.
 
How do you reconcile this with the fact that most of Gen Z are leftists? Too many brownoids?
Gen Z…I dunno Gen Z seem to be leftist in like they are okay with some weird ass shit that a classical conservative would not be, but they also still want a lot of shit that is deemed racist and regressive.

I dunno like nazi femboys and black Hitlers. Its weird. I don’t fucking get it. Just like the Soyjack dudes.
 
You need to differentiate by gender at least (and then account for brownoids, which I assume will pull it further right).
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It really is odd how starkly political views diverges along gender lines.
Hung (lo) Cao, the new Secretary of the Navy, is former Naval Captain and holder of an EOD master badge. He looks like a better choice than the MIC persons who are usually appointed as secretaries. The Navy really need someone who can cut through the managerial BS and get things done.
They should bring Huan Nguyen out of retirement. He was one of the victims of Nguyen Van Lem's terrorist attacks when he was a child. Lem was the dude who was shot in the head by General Loan in that famous photo by Eddie Adams. Loan did nothing wrong, by the way. A historian, Ed Moise, infamously claimed Lem was an innocent boy, he dindu nuffin, even though Lem admitted to it and bragged about it (which is why Loan lost his shit and shot him). I could go on and on about this shit.
 
What are your guys all thoughts on hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles? I think they may be the way to go for new cars going forward. No range issues like an EV and excellent torque. And the batteries are smaller.
I was really excited for that Ram-charger concept. It was a gas-electric (not hybrid) truck that could tow 14,000 pounds at 65mph with 20mpg indefinitely (so long as fuel was supplied). It also had 150miles of all-electric range if you charged it. Diesel-electric is probably better, if only because we've had diesel-electric trains for forever allowing it to be a bit more mature, but fossil-electric with plug-in capabilities has a lot of advantages over the other options.

Basically, you get all your torque at the bottom which is great for towing. My truck has a 10 speed transmission with the first two gears being down-geared for additional torque for getting heavy loads moving. Speaking of which, you don't need a 10 speed transmission to optimize mileage anymore. You can run your engine at its most efficient output level 100% of the time. If that's too much power just throw it in the battery, once the battery is above 30% just run the truck on battery power until it's below 20% then do it again. You've already got all the equipment needed to charge and run off of a battery, so just make the battery beefy enough to handle the day-to-day operations of the vehicle while having the option to throw in some gas if you're going to be under heavy load or going for a longer trip

Basically it's what actually makes sense as a transitional form of transportation between fossil and electric, a proper halfstep built on mature technology (scaling down from locomotive powertrains), instead of the quarter-step of a plug-in hybrid or the clumsy baby-step of traditional hybrids where you have to invent clunky less reliable transmissions that have to accept power from multiple engines of multiple power levels
 
For anyone curious about specifics, apparently Ramaswamy adheres to the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism which can be presented as a kind of monotheism as it asserts that only Brahman (the supreme absolute reality) is truly real, while the individual self (Atman) is identical to Brahman. The matter gets more complicated when one looks deeper into the topic though.
Which part says that you should fake an Alzheimer's drug trial and then sell it off before anyone catches on?
 
Gen Z…I dunno Gen Z seem to be leftist in like they are okay with some weird ass shit that a classical conservative would not be, but they also still want a lot of shit that is deemed racist and regressive.

I dunno like nazi femboys and black Hitlers. Its weird. I don’t fucking get it. Just like the Soyjack dudes.
Covid screwed with a lot of kids including myself (Why else would I be on the farms *sigh*). Regardless, Gen Z is in the camp of a far right society where everyone is fucking femboys, trannies, and women- a far left society where everyone is fucking trannies, femboys, and interracial sex- or a far right society where everyone is straight and no more LGBTQ+. Anyway you see it, most are faggots, some more covert than others.
 
From my point of view from both the zoomer and as someone who holds some rage towards old generations, we’re tribal because we didn’t get the future we were promised. We’re stuck with paying the bill for Baby boomers to millennials that allowed them to enjoy their youth and be happy. Leftists and liberals like to make the argument of a post racial society and science focused world that we were promised. Conservatives and right wingers use the argument of being promised the ability to raise a family and get a house. Now we’re in a society that wants to make you look evil for being against allowing children to transition or sexual degeneracy. Another big thing is the job market, so many of us were told growing up that we needed to learn to code so that we could get high paying jobs and when we did that, we got replaced by Indians and AI. We are in a very bad time in modern humanity and our generation feels there’s no hope. Maybe a bit too heavy of a sperg but it’s an honest one
Baby boomers grew up with their parents having PTSD from four different wars depending on when they were born followed by severe economic issues after the 60s that Zoomers have no concept of. Millennials suffered through the dot com bubble and subprime mortgage crisis. Neither had a rosy youth. Only Gen Xers really got to enjoy that sweet period of the mid to late 80s and 90s. And you know what we didn’t have? We didn’t have the Internet, or YouTube, or video games, or any of those modern conveniences. We had a movie theatre that showed one or two movies at a time. We had records we had to swap out after about 40 minutes that we played over and over again and the sound quality got worse as we played them. Talking to people over the phone cost money. McDonald’s was about as fine dining as we got. Maybe you see that as pastoral. That’s fine. But at least consider the whole of what exactly those youths entailed. You say you’re stuck paying a bill. I assume you’re talking about Social Security and Medicare. Well most Millennials and Gen Xers don’t even benefit from those programs yet so not sure why you are even bitching about them. But who pays for these programs to cover a boomer’s retirement and healthcare? The biggest chunk of tax comes from Gen Xers aged 45-55 at 29%. You know who pays the least? People over age 65 and younger than 35. So do you really have a right to complain about something when you’re not even close to the majority contributor? You talk about being lied to. Who promised you these things? I sure didn’t. Do you actually have a degree in Computer Science and can’t get a job? Did you get laid off recently because of Claude Code? Or is this just some tired talking point you got from 4chan to cover for your own inadequacy?
 
It really is odd how starkly political views diverges along gender lines.
Odd how? It's exactly what you'd expect. Women are high-empathy, high-trust, and high-social concern. Men are highly protective, highly distrustful, and highly insular. This is how it's been for millennia. The data here just continues to confirm that humanity is indeed a sexually dimorphic species, and one of the two is considerably LESS apt at making good decisions for the long-term survival of the group, because their major goal is the short-term improvement of localized conditions.
 
Hybrid/plug-in was the right technology for sure. We jumped in to trying to go full electric too early because the greenies always need to be senselessly extreme, people like Biden and Obama need to cater to them, and people like Elon were around to profiteer off it at the right time.
 
The expense of having two full drivetrains keeps plug ins out of the regular cheap car market, but they're good when they work. Non plug-ins are probably a better solution for average joes.
Plug in hybrids also have all the problems of EVs + all the problem of ICVs + bonus problems of their own.
 
Odd how? It's exactly what you'd expect. Women are high-empathy, high-trust, and high-social concern. Men are highly protective, highly distrustful, and highly insular. This is how it's been for millennia. The data here just continues to confirm that humanity is indeed a sexually dimorphic species, and one of the two is considerably LESS apt at making good decisions for the long-term survival of the group, because their major goal is the short-term improvement of localized conditions.
I think it’s the actual divergence that’s odd, that only recently has it been shifting. This suggests that liberal ideology is changing to appeal to women. I doubt women themselves are changing as a group, although that would be very alarming.
 
For those interested in an update on people being removed or moving on from the administration since the election.
TRUMP 2.0: PURGE TRACKER
No really that’s what they call it in the header.
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Name: Casey Means
Position: Surgeon general nominee
Reason for Leaving: The Trump administration withdrew Means’ nomination after it stalled in the Senate over concerns about her experience and past comments on vaccines.

Name: John Phelan
Position: Navy secretary
Reason for Leaving: The Pentagon announced that Phelan was “departing the administration, effective immediately” but did not give a reason for the unexpected departure.

Name: Lori Chavez-DeRemer
Position: Labor secretary
Reason for Leaving: A White House spokesman announced that Chavez-DeRemer would be leaving for a job in the private sector. Her departure came amid an internal investigation into claims involving her and her top aides.

Name: Todd Lyons
Position: Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director
Reason for Leaving: Lyons, who played a large role in Trump’s mass deportations agenda, will step down at the end of May for a job in the private sector.

Name: Pam Bondi
Position: Attorney general
Reason for Leaving: Trump removed Bondi from the position, posting on social media that “she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector.” The move came after criticism over the agency’s handling of the Epstein files.

Name: Kristi Noem
Position: DHS secretary
Reason for Leaving: Noem became the first Cabinet member pushed out of Trump’s second term after he took issue with some of her Congressional testimony.

Name: Susan Monarez
Position: CDC director
Reason for Leaving: The White House announced it fired Monarez, with a spokesman saying she had “not aligned with the President’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again.”

Name: Drew Snyder
Position: Director and deputy administrator of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS)
Reason for Leaving: Snyder reportedly departed the agency in June 2025 due to “personal family matters” that were not related to any policy changes.

Name: Jared Isaacman
Position: NASA administrator nominee
Reason for Leaving: Trump withdrew Isaacman’s nomination “after a thorough review of prior associations,” the president posted on social media in May 2025. Trump changed his mind about Isaacman, who was a close associate of Musk, after reportedly finding out he previously donated to Democrats.

Name: Elon Musk
Position: Special government employee
Reason for Leaving: Musk stepped back from his role helping to lead the Department of Government Efficiency in May 2025, saying his “scheduled time” as a special government employee had come to an end. But Trump left the door open for him, saying, “Elon is really not leaving. He's going to be back and forth, I think – I have a feeling.”

Name: Cameron Hamilton
Position: Acting FEMA director
Reason for Leaving: Hamilton was fired in May 2025 – a day after he told lawmakers that he did not support the Trump administration’s goal of eliminating his agency.

Name: Carla Hayden
Position: Head of the Library of Congress
Reason for Leaving: Trump on May 8, 2025, fired Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to be librarian of Congress, as a part of his efforts to revamp the federal government to align with his agenda. Confirmed to a 10-year term in 2016, she served through Trump’s first term only to more recently be targeted by conservative critics as “woke” and “anti-Trump.”

Name: Janette Nesheiwat
Position: Surgeon General nominee
Reason for Leaving: Trump on May 7, 2025, announced he withdrew former Fox News medical contributor Nesheiwat’s nomination after doubts arose over whether she could gain Senate approval for the role amid questions about her credentials and criticism from the far right about her support for the COVID-19 vaccine.

Name: Mike Waltz
Position: National security adviser
Reason for Leaving: Trump, on May 1, 2025, announced that he removed his national security adviser after reporting placed Waltz at the center of a scandal in which a journalist was given access to sensitive war plans over a group Signal chat. Waltz, unlike others Trump has targeted, landed on his feet when he was appointed to serve as ambassador to the United Nations.

Name: Kathleen Sgamma
Position: Bureau of Land Management director nominee
Reason for Leaving: Sgamma in early April 2025 withdrew herself from consideration for the role after a 2021 email she wrote that criticized Trump was publicized.

Name: Elise Stefanik
Position: Ambassador to the United Nations nominee
Reason for Leaving: Trump, on March 27, 2025, announced that he pulled the nomination to help Republicans maintain their slim majority in the House so they can advance his "America First" agenda.

Name: Dave Weldon
Position: CDC director nominee
Reason for Leaving: The White House, citing a lack of support for the former member of Congress over his skepticism of vaccines, withdrew Weldon’s nomination shortly before his confirmation hearing in March.

Name: Vivek Ramaswamy
Position: DOGE co-leader
Reason for Leaving: After helping to create the Department of Government Efficiency that he was supposed to co-lead with Musk, Ramaswamy left the DOGE effort in January 2025 amid rumors of friction with Musk.

Name: Matt Gaetz
Position: Attorney general nominee
Reason for Leaving: Gaetz, who was previously the subject of a federal sex-trafficking investigation that did not result in charges, withdrew his nomination in November 2024, saying it “was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition.”

Updated on May 1, 2026: This article has been updated with additional information.
 
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Baby boomers grew up with their parents having PTSD from four different wars depending on when they were born followed by severe economic issues after the 60s that Zoomers have no concept of. Millennials suffered through the dot com bubble and subprime mortgage crisis. Neither had a rosy youth. Only Gen Xers really got to enjoy that sweet period of the mid to late 80s and 90s. And you know what we didn’t have? We didn’t have the Internet, or YouTube, or video games, or any of those modern conveniences. We had a movie theatre that showed one or two movies at a time. We had records we had to swap out after about 40 minutes that we played over and over again and the sound quality got worse as we played them. Talking to people over the phone cost money. McDonald’s was about as fine dining as we got. Maybe you see that as pastoral. That’s fine. But at least consider the whole of what exactly those youths entailed. You say you’re stuck paying a bill. I assume you’re talking about Social Security and Medicare. Well most Millennials and Gen Xers don’t even benefit from those programs yet so not sure why you are even bitching about them. But who pays for these programs to cover a boomer’s retirement and healthcare? The biggest chunk of tax comes from Gen Xers aged 45-55 at 29%. You know who pays the least? People over age 65 and younger than 35. So do you really have a right to complain about something when you’re not even close to the majority contributor? You talk about being lied to. Who promised you these things? I sure didn’t. Do you actually have a degree in Computer Science and can’t get a job? Did you get laid off recently because of Claude Code? Or is this just some tired talking point you got from 4chan to cover for your own inadequacy?
I swear some of you either have no enter key or are allergic to paragraphs.


 
we’re tribal because we didn’t get the future we were promised
No one did. Even the boomers did not really get the future they were promised theirs just looks a bit rosier than most. Honestly the generation that does not get the blame they should is the silent generation.

Biden, Waters, McConnell, Pelosi, etc.

You can blame boomers for a lot of economic shit fairly but the degree to which you can blame them is really questionable since the generation before them clung to power like a fucking tick.
 
Odd how? It's exactly what you'd expect. Women are high-empathy, high-trust, and high-social concern. Men are highly protective, highly distrustful, and highly insular. This is how it's been for millennia. The data here just continues to confirm that humanity is indeed a sexually dimorphic species, and one of the two is considerably LESS apt at making good decisions for the long-term survival of the group, because their major goal is the short-term improvement of localized conditions.
I know women who hate this liberal, namby-pamby horseshit. I'm married to one. I think it has more to do with modern trends where women go to college in higher numbers (propaganda), tend to get socially oriented jobs (more propaganda, especially teachers unions), and consume more social media (which is more propaganda). We are seeing successfully propagandized individuals. Men are less susceptible because so much of the propaganda is anti-male. Even a hood nigga or a cholo from the barrio will get annoyed with the "men are bad" bit after the 400th fucking time.

Younger women have fewer children and that really affects you because you don't care so much about schools and safety when you're only looking out for yourself and have the extra money to live in gated communities.
 
woah! This is the movement that'll defeat the jewish zionist compromised MAGA that want to import more brownoids, this organization will truly put America first. I can't wait!! it even has some amazing names like the man raped by CTE in jake shields, a brown mystery meat groypette, another random brown mystery meat foid, ANOTHER brown mystery meat groypette but in Australian flavor (probably aboriginal), a homosexual troon with a diaper fetish and finally a matt walsh wannabe! america first is back on the menu baby!
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Oh nononono... okay but uhh.. brown muslims are also america first and will help us fight ZOG! Tradcath muslim alliance just trust the process.

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Bit of an update.. it's not looking good fellow troo rightoids.
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I know women who hate this liberal, namby-pamby horseshit. I'm married to one. I think it has more to do with modern trends where women go to college in higher numbers (propaganda), tend to get socially oriented jobs (more propaganda, especially teachers unions), and consume more social media (which is more propaganda). We are seeing successfully propagandized individuals. Men are less susceptible because so much of the propaganda is anti-male. Even a hood nigga or a cholo from the barrio will get annoyed with the "men are bad" bit after the 400th fucking time.

Younger women have fewer children and that really affects you because you don't care so much about schools and safety when you're only looking out for yourself and have the extra money to live in gated communities.
This is probably why foreign women are becoming more appealing. Even though many countries have policies that are far more liberal than even Democratic states, the fact they were never exposed to this propaganda loop can make them far more independent-minded than what women are becoming in America.
 
I know women who hate this liberal, namby-pamby horseshit. I'm married to one. I think it has more to do with modern trends where women go to college in higher numbers (propaganda), tend to get socially oriented jobs (more propaganda, especially teachers unions), and consume more social media (which is more propaganda). We are seeing successfully propagandized individuals. Men are less susceptible because so much of the propaganda is anti-male. Even a hood nigga or a cholo from the barrio will get annoyed with the "men are bad" bit after the 400th fucking time.

Younger women have fewer children and that really affects you because you don't care so much about schools and safety when you're only looking out for yourself and have the extra money to live in gated communities.
I don't mean literally every individual woman, Johnny. I'm talking about the fact that on average, in a large group sample like this, women trend that way, and men trend the other.
 
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