And before you comment it, no, I'm not some bible thumping MAGA, I think gay people should be able to marry, woman should have rights + be able to have an abortion. So in other words, I am a centrist. Or at least I was until I grew so fucking tired of the Left and their insanity.

I remember the days when their rhetoric was confided online, where people could argue without being labeled as a Nazi or some other buzzwords. But now, it has spread to the real world where it went from being annoying to being detrimental.

The inability to think logically.

A parent complaining that their kid was kicked out of school so it could be used to house illegal immigrants? Racist.

A judge sentencing a black woman to life in prison for stabbing her boyfriend to death and laughing about it? Racist.

An airport detaining Chinese students with a crop destroying fungus? RACISSST.

While these just seem to be just comments from stupid people who lack common sense, it unfortunately is present in real life. Do you remember the Somali Daycare fraud? How 4.6 million dollars was stolen? And what was stopping the FBI from arresting or investigating them sooner? Yup. The claims of "racism" despite them having every reason to investigate, resulting in millions of dollars being lost.

A much worse example of this was 9/11. A security guard thought the hijackers looked suspicious, but let them through. Why? Because he thought his intuition was "racist" and didn't want to get in trouble for discrimination. Nearly 3,000 people died because it.

There is no common sense, just labeling it "racist" as soon as an minority is involved, no matter how justifiable it is.

The complete lack of thought/care for their own civilians.

The Left has already showed they hate their own people and country by coddling up to our enemies online.

Now you might say that's only online, but let me ask you this.

Does letting millions and millions of immigrants, some from violent third world countries in unprepared cities scream "I care about the people living there"? Or setting criminals with long rap sheets free in the streets?

The answer is no. The Left has made it very clear that they don't give a rat ass about their people or country. They don't care if their stupid decisions are harming innocent people, all they care about is showing the world "Hey look at me! I'm a good person for letting immigrants in and giving criminals second chances!" while causing the worst border crisis in American history or letting a man with 14 prior arrests stab a woman to death.

Republicans aren't good either, but at least they actually care about the country.

Don’t get me wrong. I'm very happy that young people are finally waking up, following the failures of my generation and those that came before it, despite the significant influence the media has over them.

Let us remember that Donald Trump didn't start any new wars during his first term. As for the military intervention in Venezuela (if one can even call it that) it was among the least horrific actions the U.S. has ever taken; anyone familiar with idiots like Maduro and Chávez knows this. The conflict involving Iran was quite ugly, but as the name suggests, it was already the third Gulf War.

Let’s look at his predecessors: Obama waged an entirely illegal war in Libya, alongside France, fighting alongside Islamic terrorists backed by Qatar. Furthermore, following Gaddafi’s death, Libya descended into disaster, a fate that quickly spread to neighboring countries. Yet, Obama was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, amidst Western propaganda surrounding the "Arab Spring", a term that conflated three entirely distinct movements (in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia). Evidently, Westerners view the Sahara and the Middle East as an undifferentiated mass, lacking the slightest grasp of the differences between them. Then there was George W. Bush, with his wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And before that, the genocidal Reagan. Just as with Africa, the West couldn't care less about Latin America, a disregard that allowed the U.S. to build its influence upon a foundation of violated national sovereignty and massacres (in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, and El Salvador). Ronald Reagan deserved to be convicted at The Hague for his actions against the Maya.

The same applies to Putin. He literally pulled Russia back from the brink following the devastation wrought by monsters like Gorbachev and Yeltsin. The conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh and Chechnya, the famine, and even the issues with Ukraine were, in part, the legacy of these men, who were also responsible for violent crackdowns in the Baltic states. Yet, in their case, too, there were Nobel Prizes and every conceivable honor.

And finally, there's Israel, one of the greatest anomalies to ever exist in the history of geopolitics. In 1978, with the Camp David Accords, that monster won the Nobel Prize, yet again. Four years later came the invasion of Lebanon, and later still, the first Intifada. Let’s not pretend that Israel isn’t, at the very least, founded on extreme defensive and offensive measures against its neighbors, supported by well-established foreign ties (though these are currently shifting). And yet, even in this case, it took until 2026 for it to become acceptable to label Netanyahu a war criminal without any hesitation.

I could say similar things about Milei in Argentina, and many others. I'm not right-wing, I hope that’s clear from my post, but I get the impression that people enjoy criticizing these figures simply because they happen to be on the right.

So they tried to "October Surprise" everybody with another fake "report" about how Trump is a sexual assaulter but nobody is actually taking the bait and they're losing their minds over it.

I mean, according to the DNC pretty much anybody who doesn't agree that they're the greatest people in the world are all sexual assaulters right? Not just Republicans either, but their own party leadership like Cuomo, Adams and of course the illustrious Clintons.

This is the most depraved nonsense I've ever seen. The Democrats are completely imploding right in front of everybody and they just keep doubling down. Somebody get the straight jackets already.

Let me elaborate: the Middle East is a complicated matter subject to all kind of interpretations, but something that's not that controversial is the origin of their nations. It's just history.

Now, the east coast of the Mediterranean sea was always populated but, like the southern coasts, never developed unified nations. It's always city states that can grew, get powerful and rich, but never joined together in a formal alliance under one government, never became a nation. Guess who had the only kingdom in the area? Jews. Both the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Israel can be dated roughly in the 900 BCE.

Fast forward a couple millenia and now they've all been conquered by the Ottoman Empire, which is muslim Turks. Again, they're still city states aside from the Jews, who keep struggling to have their own state even if it meant to revolt against whoever was ruling (a massive revolt against the frickin' Roman Empire, for example).

Fast forward again to the 19-20th centuries and now the Ottomans are long gone, they just collect taxes. All those people have again the occasion of becoming nations but they don't. In the meanwhile, the Jews are coming back from all European countries with the same old goal of building a state. Which they do.

Finally, the WWII ends and the arab word is kind of fucked because they supported Hitler. The French and British governments basically make up a bunch of pretend nations based on geographical features (like if you're around the Jordan river you become Jordan). Do they form any sort of alliance? They only do in the form of Muslims (not Jordanians, Sirians etc.) against not Muslims. Their identity is not based on being a nation, but on sharing the same religion. But Catholics are not a nation, so neither are Muslims, right?

Can we define a nation based on the fact it's just a city or a kingdom? I don't know, but I could argue that if two cities won't even try unifying, they're either too different to survive a fusion, or they just don't care.

And if they won't be nations, why should I care about their claims as nations?

All they can claim is their cities and them belonging to the Great Islam, the latter not even being a choice because it was forced on them centuries ago. It doesn't mean they don't have any rights, but what they have is based on being humans, not based on having a national identity. Not until they start thinking as a nation instead of just muslims hating a common enemy.

That's all.

Any time a woman who's insecure about being flat chested posts on reddit, an army of guys will crawl out of the woodwork and leave comments like "all boobs are good boobs" or "as long as I get to touch them, I don't care how big they are". I've even seen some redditors confidently claim that "most men find big boobs disgusting" which is completely false.

I think that men do this to make the girl feel better, and also to make themselves feel morally superior and less shallow, just like how women insist that "size doesn't matter" or "height doesn't matter" when in reality it clearly does. To dig even deeper, I believe many men say this because their own girlfriends have small boobs, and they know they aren't attractive enough to pull a fit girl with bigger boobs, because those girls can have any guy they want. So it basically becomes an "If I can't have the best, I should convince myself that I'm happy with what I have" kinda situation.

Yes, boobs are boobs. But some boobs are better and more attractive than others, and to deny that is just straight up delusional. Usually, up to a certain extent, bigger boobs are more sexually appealing to the vast majority of men, unlike what reddit would seem to suggest. If this weren't the case, women like Sydney Sweeney wouldn't be so wildly famous and lusted after by so many men. Instead, we would have an equal amount of men lusting after flat-chested actresses, and those actresses would be getting a ton of brand deals to flaunt their A cups. But that clearly isn't happening. Look what happens when a previously curvy woman loses a bunch of weight and her boobs get considerably smaller. Almost all men will view that as a downgrade and say she looked hotter before. Also, no girl gets jealous when a guy looks at a girl with a flat chest. But many girls do jealous when they see their partner watching or admiring girls with big boobs (again, look at Sydney Sweeney).

All this is to say that yes, you can personally prefer small boobs, and it's perfectly valid to have that preference. But to claim that all boobs sizes are equally attractive is blatantly false and just a coping mechanism for the vast majority of people.

If you know your team is going to win, you wouldn’t need to game the system to win. It’s just that simple. Republicans know they’re spouting absolute grade-A horse shit when they call themselves the silent majority. But they wrap themselves up in a cozy lie because they don’t want to face the fact that most of America hates everything they believe in.

So let me get this straight.

Trump has spent years telling us how dangerous immigrants are, how we need to deport criminals, and how America shouldn't be a safe haven for people breaking the law.

Yet Flávio Bolsonaro, who just lost Brazil's presidential election, is under investigation for corruption and money laundering.

He was ordered by a Brazilian court to surrender his passports, publicly said he would comply, and then fled the country instead.

And what does Trump do?

Approves visas for him and his family to come to the United States.

Apparently, being under criminal investigation is only a problem when you're some random immigrant and not a wealthy right-wing politician who's friends with Trump.

And before somebody says it, no, I'm not claiming Bolsonaro is guilty. That's what the investigation is supposed to determine.

But isn't it a little strange that the same administration that wants to deport people over alleged criminal activity is now welcoming somebody who fled his own country while under investigation?

I thought we were supposed to be keeping criminals out of America, not giving special treatment to politically connected ones.

Or does that whole law and order thing only apply when it's convenient?

My opinion is that California has completely failed as a state, and it has converted its natural wealth and geography into a massive, extractive bureaucracy designed to punish the middle class and screw over anyone trying to build a future. They use the fact that the weather is nice to justify bleeding everyone dry with the highest income tax, sales tax, and gas taxes in the country. But for me, that "good weather" talking point doesn't even apply. I’ve lived my entire life in an area of Southern California that is just blazing hot all the time, so I am paying a massive financial premium for a climate I don't even care about.

On top of the heat, we live under constant wildfire risk every single year, largely due to absolute government incompetency and terrible forest management. Instead of actually fixing the problem, they just let utility companies hike our electricity bills to insane levels while threatening us with blackouts.

What do citizens actually get in return for giving up all that money? Gridlocked freeways, skyrocketing bills, and cities that look worse every year because the state has basically legalized property crime and decriminalized retail theft.

If you are a young person trying to start a life here, the math makes zero sense. Home prices are pushing a million bucks. Unless your parents are absolutely loaded, you are trapped as a permanent renter for the rest of your life. The basic American promise that if you work hard you can actually afford a home and feel safe in your community is completely dead in California. The state government has a 75 percent Democrat supermajority, which means they have zero checks and balances and can pass whatever radical laws they want. If you don't perfectly fall in line with their progressive cultural echo chamber, your vote is mathematically neutralized and you are treated like an alien in your own hometown.

The turning point for me was when the state government decided to steal the last three months of my junior year of high school and the entirety of my senior year for a virus that posed zero threat to anyone my age. They completely derailed our lives, canceled our milestones, and wouldn't even let us physically go to school with a mask mandate. They just locked us out and forced us onto screens while the Governor hypocritically broke his own COVID restrictions to go eat at a luxury restaurant. Nobody has ever apologized for it.

The people running this state do not care about normal citizens at all. I am genuinely planning on packing up my stuff and moving to a red state like North Dakota just to get a total, permanent reset from this broken system. I honestly do not care what anyone thinks of this post or what people say in the replies. The reality of what this state has become is completely undeniable.

All these ridiculous mailers and ads im getting calling Talarico names and accusing him of "blasphemy" like this is some Muslim country. Its pretty crazy to call Talarico weird when theres a lazy eyed freak that has been rebuked by his own party running against him.

I hate how people treat babies like they are some angelic beings. Babies ​aren't that cute and they look like smelly bald aliens. if vomiting and pooping on yourself and caretakers all day while crying is "cute" then sure.

and also how people laugh when babies do ANYTHING. yes i get its some evolutionary advantage thing but its still annoying. ​baby laughs? everyone laughs. baby turns around or looks? everyone laughs. its insane.

and also how cruel babies are, they can see people get harmed or trip and they laugh. (correct me if I'm wrong) but its not because they don't udnerstand. if they get put in that situation they'll start crying. ​​

First of all: Piracy is not stealing in the first place. the phrase assumes it can be stealing. It is not and we should not treat it as stealing.

Seconly: it sounds like a childish Ultimatum: "IF you dont gonna do what we say, we gonna steal your stuff"

Thirdly: EVEN if we assume the wrong premise that piracy can be stealing, if you gain ownership of a game through buying it, the logic does NOT hold up. If you e.g. could normally only lend a car, there is no way to buy it, than just taking the car without permission is still fucking stealing

There is no reason or justification why any corporation or individual or entity should be allowed to hold absolute total ownership over their ideas and content they made up.

This does not and cannot even fall under private property, as these are made up concepts that are then baselessly owned by the creator for upwards of 80 years even after death of the individual or disbanding of the legal entity.

Yet every instance of actual copyright enforcement has led to ruining of individuals careers and holding the market hostage to the highest bidder to the court and government.

If you cannot get people to accept and continue funding your original works and concepts, you deserve to be replaced by a copy.

And yet ironically none of these IP infringement laws actually apply to AI, the ultimate machine of stealing and recycling.

Artists are the most entitled people in the world next to your neighbourhood Karen

They think they deserve the bag because they said a couple lyrics and have 0 idea how much goes into a track

First of all, you have the guy that writes the songs, this is a real talent

You have the producer who creates your beats which is whole other talent

You have the engineer and sound mixing guys so your song doesn’t sound like shit

You have the artists that create cover art

And behind all that you have another guy with money funding studio time, music videos, props, parties, venues, everything

Artist themselves contributed maybe 15% to a track

Imagine what would happen. Imagine they do extend the term limit to 3 terms, and they run Trump. What would happen? The democrats would run Obama for a third term, and then Obama would probably win. So yeah. If republicans like actually being in power, extending the term limit would be an extremely unwise choice.

If the alleged victims of a crime say nothing for 5, 10, or 20 years, one of the reasons for this is that it was not a crime.

I get the impression that left-wing thought borders on delusion—on magical thinking. They truly believe that the past can be changed—that consent can be revoked after the fact because, years later, the individuals involved have reinterpreted the events and come to view them as crimes.

People are confusing law with sociology! And it is absurd that many judges and prosecutors have bought into this madness.

For instance, today, it is perfectly acceptable for an employee to be paid for working overtime. Yet, it is possible that, ten years from now, the Left might deem this practice a form of "slavery"—and business owners could start facing lawsuits because, decades earlier, they paid their employees for working overtime.

We cannot judge the past through the eyes of the present. We cannot define a crime based on the perspective of social movements (as such definitions are elastic and constantly changing).

Look, I'm not saying good food can't be found elsewhere in the world, I'm saying America improves it.

Mexican= we added cheese and started frying things

Japanese = love sushi, how did Japan not think of deep frying a roll before?

Italian = I'm sorry, we can even do Italian style pizza better here. Tomatoes are a new world crop, they don't have a claim to them. Pasta is the most basic thing to make, idk how anyone can proudly claim to be the best

Thai = I mean, so many good dishes, but Phad Thai has to be king.

So many examples, I'm sure you all can think of them as well. The only reason this take is anything other than absolute zero is because I can anticipate angry people outside the US disagreeing while calling us fat.

How do you think we got fat? Our food is better. Our version of YOUR food is better because we have people from your country making it here and incorporating the sorts of genius innovations you typically only find at a Taco Bell. ​

Edit: I have done a considerable amount of international travel, so you'll have to find a different way to dismiss my correct opinion.

So alot of people on the internet will complain about how beautiful movies like Wildwood is doing lower than expected or are surprised at how Forgotten Island is doing well and then movie fans complain "Why does the Marvel slop machine keep going (often mad Spiderman BND is one of the highest grossing films ever)". They will then ask why do original movies fail if people demand it or if I say Forgotten Island or Wildwood doesn't appeal to me, everyone will start yelling at me to support the artform or that it's bigotry to not see other culture movies that doesn't appeal to me (Forgotten Island people tell I should support filpino culture in movies).

Before anyone says tune out the noise, I like movies in general and like to go to nerd Facebook and reddit fan movie pages which get flooded with these views.

I'm not interested in Forgotten Island for two reasons: I don't like the Into the Spiderverse, Kpop Demon hunters, ect.. art style and Forgotten Island looks similar to it. 2nd Im not interested in coming of age stories about friendship and two people having to move in different directions in life while possibly losing said friendship. I also I'm not interested in the merman character design either.

For Wildwood I'm not interested in the stop motion animation designs nor am I interested in the story of an older sibling traveling into unknown danger in order to save their younger sibling.

In comparison, Spiderman keeps getting made because his rogues are varied. In 8 live action films until NWH only Green Goblin was a repeat rogue. Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Lizard, Electro, Vulture, Mysterio, and Venom were generally all different action sequences that doesn't feel samey.

I love Fantastic 4 because of the Sci fi designs with space and the Jetsons style retro sets. ​Again more appealing than Forgotten Island despite being "marvel slop". Now I know Kpop demon hunters and Spiderverse movies are popular so I don't go see them and won't lose sleep over it. I like Godzilla and Kaiju movies, I like Tokusatsu as my niche interests. The New Ramyana looks interesting so I might see that movie.

Even if the movie industry dies because supposedly original artists aren't supported, there's still books to read. When I want deep character narrative I read Moby Dick or weathering heights.

I like that sports betting is now legal.

Is it a net negative for society? Are the adds annoying..Sure, but that isn't a reason to regulate something. The whole point of freedom is to be freedom to make bad choices. If you are required to make good choices, you were never actually free.

So yeah, sports broadcasts kinda suck more. But I'm not buying tickets to the game and I'm spending way less money to support the sport than gamblers. I also don't begrudge Nvidia directly their supply of chips to AI companies. It is a reasonable decision

The federal government recognizes certain groups as "protected classes" - race, sex, veterans, disabled, etc. It is time to eliminate this distinction. The fear of dismissing substandard employees from protected classes is harming businesses and public institutions. Valued persons, regardless of race, gender, etc should not be forced to work with those who have an arbitrary level of "protection". Certainly discrimination exists but lowering standards does not help. I think my opinion is a lot more popular than you may think.

Let's just admit that's the first thing anyone notices about him and that even after taking GLP-1, he still shows sign of being a former fat kid.

How does a guy goes from calling Trump "America's Hitler" to calling Taylor Swift a "childless cat lady"?

Because the guy fundamentally believes in nothing. Nothing except his own grievance.

You can imagine Vance's early life. He's a guy who is smart, but is awkward and boorish. He was not popular with girls.

He was also a White kid with a struggling, disfunctional family.

In Vance's mind, these merge. He thinks people and especially girls don't like him because he comes from White trash. Maybe some do, but I think most people didn't like Vance because he is a fatass with bad personality.

But it is easier to tell oneself people didn't like him because he's a White guy than it is easier to accept that guys like Newsom will always be more liked than guys like Vance.

Both are temporary changes to your appearance and in both cases you’re turning up looking the way you presented yourself on your profile. I don’t see why one should be accepted as making yourself look better while the other is automatically treated as deception.

The obvious objection is that the man will eventually take his shoes off, but the woman will eventually take her makeup off too. If the concern is that someone might not find you as attractive without the enhancement, that possibility exists in both cases.

People can personally dislike either, but the standard should be consistent, you either disagree with both or agree with both.

with 64 days left in 2026, i think it's time we all acknowledged that 2026 has put to rest the popular notion that original movies aren't being made anymore. 2026 has seen numerous original movies being successful or at least talked about.

obsession, good luck have fun don't die, hoppers, the end of oak street, wildwood, digger, they will kill you, the christophers, forgotten island. and those are just the films that have already come out. wild horse nine and ray gunn both look dope as shit.

the life in some 3rd world countries is terrible, and unless you are wealthy (or under very specific situations) it's basically impossible to do it in a legal way

a big part of these illegal immigrants have basically nothing to lose, why would they still live in their country? while europe economy is not what it used to be for the average person, it's still a "paradise" compared to their country.

It's Football season now, and in my state (Michigan), everyone is rooting for the Detroit Lions. I've been hanging out with some friends of mine, pretending to care about the games when they watch them, but I must be honest, I couldn't care less about Football.

It's not even that I hate sports. I like Baseball, and I don't mind Basketball or Soccer. But Football, I hate. And people going crazy over it makes me hate it even more. To me, it's just boring, barbaric, and leads too too many unnecessary injuries.

On a side note, the sport should be called Tackleball, not Football.