Mater Real

Hargraves: I want you to think about who has the most macho army in the worldโ€”or at least the image of it. Russia, right? They pride themselves on this macho bullshit. But they invaded Ukraine, and guess what? Russia is losing 5-6 soldiers for every one Ukrainianโ€ฆ ego doesnโ€™t mean anything.

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM

Effective intelligence, control, coordination and communication are the factors that matter. And having enough materiel of all sorts, too, of course. But even with all the materiel in the world, without those first four things I mentioned you’re gonna do nothing but lose.

As the Russians are discovering.

Quint It

Tik tok is social media which means itโ€™s powered by people connecting with each other, and tik tok fostered many communities. Dismissing it as a dumb dancing app tells me youโ€™re deeply out of touch with the world (as well as a boring garden variety asshole)

— maura quint (@mauraquint.bsky.social) January 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM

Good example of a useful idiot. Also, the mean IQ on TikTok seemed to be in the low 60s.

I Slam Islam

This has already happened in Germany. Letting North African1 and Islamic men immigrate en masse is a terrible, terrible mistake. Nothing good at all can ever come of that.

It has doomed Germany and it will destroy Japan if they keep it up.

  1. Yes, I know Pakistan is not in North Africa; read the sentence again.

Tattered

I might be petty, and I’m so glad I’m not dating anymore, but if there was an otherwise perfect woman for me and she had a single tattoo, still that would be a big no from me.

Gotta have standards, as unpopular as it is.

I have been enjoying watching women realize they have incelled themselves with tattoos, though. It’s rare that women have even the faintest clue what being the average guy is like (the opposite is not true for men, as we also face threats from other men). It’s a good lesson for women to receive.

Damn, tattoos suck. On anyone, but especially on women.

Sky Echo

Bluesky is an absolute liberal clown shitshow echo chamber of the very worst kind. It has some of the goofiest goofballs anyone has ever seen.

That said, it’s right to fear China. They are the greatest threat to the world today, by far, and are likely to kick off WWIII in the near future. Fear is warranted.

Directionull

The ’90s weren’t that great – by Cartoons Hate Her.

Wow, this is powerful stupid. Just fucking idiotic.

She completely and totally misunderstands and barely acknowledges what people miss about the 90s and why it was not exactly a completely better time, but a very different time with an extremely dissimilar feel as compared to now.

This article is ragingly fucking full of shit, I’ll state again for the record. Just clownish in all the worst ways by someone who was just a bit too young to get the full 90s experience. This profoundly clueless article could’ve actually been good but she was simply not smart enough nor perceptive enough to write it.

When someone pens something like this that misses the entire point of the discussion, it causes one to wonder why did they bother? Why produce obviously shoddy pap? Is fighting against straw men really that much fun?

Anyway, the reason people miss the 1990s is that it was an incredibly optimistic time. They miss that feeling. The Berlin Wall had fallen; Communism had been defeated and the pall of nuclear war no longer hung over all of us. We thought we could fix the world and that we all were on the verge of a better future, unburdened by history and all its hatreds.

This feeling, this spirit, was everywhere then. Yes, even among adults (it’s not just childhood nostalgia). Everyone, nearly, believed it, felt it, wanted it to be true and wanted to make it come true.

That’s why people look back so fondly on the 90s and miss that time so much. They miss it as much as that article misses the point.

Ash for Brains

It’s sad to see a lot of the left embracing Rednote as China cleverly cozens them. China is not gonna save you from Trump and the idea is fucking clownish. But people in general believe what makes them feel good, no matter how doofy.

Meanwhile, in reality, China is most likely to turn their bodies to ash in 2027 or 2032. Russia is not far behind, there.

Turn Trump

The return of Trump was also made nearly-inevitable with fourth wave pseudo-feminism declaring all men inherently evil “Schrรถdinger’s rapists” while claiming all women are angelic by nature because they are naught but tiny little blameless children, even up to their 40s.

That just ain’t how people are, and men are tired of hearing about it. Even I am extremely over it, and I didn’t vote for Trump.

Chicago

I knew one day Iโ€™d have to watch powerful men burn the world down โ€“ I just didnโ€™t expect them to be such losers.

I don’t even disagree with the general gist of this column, but it shows how much some women really deeply hate any nerdy man. Shaw is the same sort of woman who likes to claim nerdy types are nothing but sexual abusers and are inherently creepy, despite the fact that frat bros commit sexual assault at something like 3-10x the rate of other demographics — including male nerds.

She even alludes to it in the column, but this is the same type of woman who would’ve bullied me relentlessly in middle school merely for existing. To her, I’d be “creepy” by dint of continuing to breathe and occupying space.

Watching his Nigel-no-friends attempts to be popular, his endless pathetic tweets that read as though they come from the brain of an 11-year-old poser, has made me start to believe we should bring back bullying.

I mean, saying I had “no friends” was an actual taunt people just like her used back then.

I’m no fan of Zuckerberg or Musk — but I hate this brand of sanctimonious bully just as much, if not even more.