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What you’ll read here sounds insane. That’s because the West lost common sense and we’re here to bring it back.

Joined February 2026
If you ever feel stupid, just remember there are socialists who think looting a phone shop is a protest for better education.
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Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam found that in more diverse communities, people trusted their neighbors less, even people from their own group. A 2020 review of 87 studies found the same thing: more diversity in a neighborhood goes with lower trust between neighbors..
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The people claiming to speak for the workers almost never are workers
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If you really think about what these pictures mean, it breaks your heart. Berlin, Madrid, Brussels, Milan, Paris. Shop owners nailing plywood over their windows on a Friday afternoon because they know that on Saturday, neither the police nor the courts will protect them from the hordes coming to loot them. Hard to believe Europe could fall this low, this quickly.
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Can Greta and Macklemore explain this?
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Meet @oscar_puente_, possibly the most shameless politician on the planet. He's Spain's Transport Minister, but he's better known for insulting people and blocking them on X than for doing his job. In 2024, he said Spanish trains were going through their best moment ever. In January 2026, 46 people died in the Adamuz train crash. He refused to resign and said the chance of it happening again was "extremely low." Last week, he was on a TV show joking about trains in Spain. Today, more than 64 people died in another crash on the same line. And again, he refuses to resign. This morning, he was busy tweeting that the left is morally superior to the right.
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Replying to @ChrisMurphyCT
Notice you didn't say he was wrong. You just called him names. Argue about the causes all you want but pretending the gap doesn't exist won't close it. That's the real cruelty.
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You love to see it.
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What did y’all think globalizing the intifada meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? Losers.
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