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Mr James Just.🇰🇪 retweeted
Upwardly mobile,Bible thumping,urban corporate type,aspirationally American,Kikuyu millenial woman😂😂 never seen a more cooked bro.
Upwardly mobile,Bible thumping,urban corporate type,aspirationally American,Kikuyu millenial woman😂😂 never seen a more cooked bro.
That whole discourse was amusing ,but at the root of it were disillusioned millennial women who were oneshotted by algorithms spreading American feminist theory. Now locked out of the marriage market by their lifestyle choices they did not take it well at all.😂
In Kenya a porn star named Lexi goes on a podcast. She talks about her life as a porn star.
women APPLAUDED her. "Queen!" "Empowering!" "Smart!" "Intelligent!" "Her body her choice!"
They didn’t care about the trauma. Shame. Suicidal thoughts. Broken family. Emptiness. Future Regrets.
In that SAME country, a woman creates a class to teach women how to be wives. How to keep a home. How to respect a husband. How to build a family.
10,000 COMMENTS. Attacks. Insults. "Pick me!" "Internalized misogyny!" "You're setting us back!"
So let’s be clear on what just happened:
The woman selling her body gets called brave. The woman teaching family gets called a traitor.
The woman who destroys herself gets a standing ovation. The woman who wants to build a home gets crucified.
Women celebrate what destroys, condemn what builds.they call one path empowering and brave, while mocking the other for upholding marriage, family, and responsibility.
And the most disturbing part? They are teaching the next generation of women what to admire, what to aspire to, and what to despise.
They are telling our daughters: Be naked for strangers and you are powerful. Be loyal to one man nor your family and you are stupid.
When women in a society starts applauding what undermines it and attacking what sustains it, they need to ask themselves : Have yall completely lost your moral compass?
The double standard is not a mistake. It’s the point. The rage is not about morals. It’s about agenda.
They don’t hate the housewife because she is wrong. They hate her because she proves their choices are not the only choices.
Mr James Just.🇰🇪 retweeted
不懂人性
永远都是废物
1、不要碰任何贫穷的东西，包括人。
其实贫穷不是缺点，贫穷是所有缺点的总和，
一个人的缺点太多了，自然就贫穷了。
贫穷的背后是一套麻烦的系统。
认知低下，思想混乱，边界缺失。
2、穷人总喜欢跟你谈感情、谈善良、谈道德、谈关系，就是不跟你谈钱，谈价值交换。
穷人一直穷，原因只有一个，
就是他们一直没有意识到，
人与人之间，利益才是一切交往的根本。
3、一百年过去了，田里站着的依然是闰土，
考场里坐着的依旧是范进
街上蹲着的仍然是祥林嫂。
高校里走着的，依然是孔乙己，
马路上跑着的，仍然是骆驼祥子。
4、牛马羊不生崽，最着急的却是豺狼虎豹！
什么是好人?就是他们占尽你的便宜，
而你没有反抗，他们才管你叫好人
5、当下环境别冲动创业，开奶茶店、花店
二手市场，九成新的设备都是这些人甩卖的！
6、旧社会，很多女人宁愿嫁给富人做小妾，
也不愿意嫁给普通人做正妻。
解放后立了婚姻法，实行一夫一妻，
目的就是让底层的布衣，都能找着媳妇儿。
一段时间内解决了问题，
但刚刚过去几十年乡镇光棍成堆，
城市剩女如云，宁当剩女，不嫁布衣。
2000年来，进步不足一厘米，
从春秋战国时期到现在，人性没有实质性改变
7、婚姻是长期的价值交换，这话虽毒，
却戳破很多人的幻想，两个人搭伙过日子，
本质上就是一场价值博弈，
你没有必要弄成爱情的样子。
8、和女人玩，如果你发现她漂亮、情商又高，
说话滴水不漏，让你感觉很舒服。
千万不要觉得她对你有好感，
亦或者是你的魅力让她蛰伏。
这种女人能练就如此手段，
一般都有极其丰富的经验。
你以为能把住这种女人，
殊不知你在她眼中才是猎物。
9、瞎子一旦恢复视力，
第一件事就是扔掉他手上的拐杖，
哪怕这拐杖，曾帮了他很多年。
10、社会的本质就是人吃人，
你没本事，谁都会欺负你，包括父母。
11、当事态不利于你的时候
尽量闭嘴，静就是吉，不乱就是不错。
真正的强大不是对抗，而是允许一切发生。
允许遗憾、愚蠢、丑恶，虚伪，
允许付出没有回报。尤其是心，千万不能乱，
事缓则圆，顺时多做事，逆时多看书。
12、层次越低的人，反驳欲就越强。
如果别人说你两句，你就受不了，
被别人两句话干扰了，
吃不好，睡不好，你得有多脆弱。
何必计较呢？在乌鸦的世界里，天鹅也有罪，
思想不在一个高度，尊重就好，
三观不在一个层次，微笑就好。
不要和不重要的人，计较重要的事。
13、越是亲近的人，越难接受你突然发达，
更容易嫉妒和记恨，人性复杂，
在他们眼里你和他们是同一个水平的
为何你现在过得这么好，他们却不能。
14、什么才是最烂的底层家庭
就是给不了你资源、底气和退路
更不可能给你去撑腰
却给你罗列了一箩筐的规矩
教你如何懂事、教你如何忍让
教你别出头、教你凡事都要委屈自己
从头到尾都在教你怎么吃亏，
小心翼翼的把你养成一头温顺的绵羊。
等你长大了直接把你丢进狼群里，
最后却反过来问你，为什么那么没用？
15、你越会说话，别人就越舒服，
在你需要帮忙时，就越会帮助你。
16、没必要感激任何人，养猪只是为了吃肉，
并不是让猪过幸福的生活。
19、能够伤你很深的人，
往往是那些与我们关系亲近的人。
20、你如果在某一件事上获得了成功，
你就会觉得世界还算公平。
21、做人，心要冷一点，
不要轻易与人交心，深谙人性。
成年人的世界里利益为先，不论对错。
22、赚钱本身就不是讲道理的，
法律是赚钱的底线，道德同样不可忽视。
23、出来混是要靠背景讲关系，
这句话在一定程度上
反映了社会现实中的某些现象。
24、你不优秀认识谁也没有用，
真正优秀的人，更容易吸引他人的注意。
25、不要逢人就说自己穷，
因为每个人对金钱的需求和欲望都是不同的
26、不要总想着去搞人际关系，
其实如果你的实力配不上，
再好的人脉关系也难以维持。
Mr James Just.🇰🇪 retweeted
"From roughly the 1980s to ~2025, there has been a “finance game” that one could play, and that “game” looked something like this:
Kill it in high school, pick your choice of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, Georgetown, or “other top-25 school in a given year.”
Spend a couple of years in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, etc.
Immediately start recruiting for private equity roles (because only the losers who can’t get an exit opp stay in banking! The “buyside” is where the real money status is). Because, as we all know, the whole point of going into banking is, really, to get into private equity.
Get promoted to VP in your PE fund (where you start earning some carry), pivot once again to a hedge fund (if you have some real risk appetite), or go to business school, after which you will either rejoin the PE world as a VP or join a hedge fund.
There is a “trade” you make in this career path:
You will work very long hours from your analyst through VP years, but your risk-adjusted cash compensation will be higher than almost any other “normal” job (I exclude hedge funds from this, given that there’s far more earnings volatility. But it’s very true for the banking and private equity game).
You will have a legible, “high-status” career path that plays well with the upper echelons of society.
The longer you stay in the game, the more that your “upside” is tied to your carried interest in your fund. Starting around the VP level, you’ll likely have some points of carry that vests over time. Fund does well, you make a few million down the road. Fund underperforms? Well, you can’t eat carry, can you?
Your downside risk is capped (cash comp is strong), but your upside is also somewhat capped (particularly at bigger funds, you will be allocated a fixed amount of carry, you will have to stay at that fund for a fixed amount of years for that carry to vest, and the performance of that fund is largely outside of your control)
The TLDR: “finance” appeals to a particular person who desires status but abhors risk.
The key to making this trade work was the “downside risk” being capped: funds need a certain number of young folks doing the tedious Excel work that either A) paints the picture the client wants (sellside advisory) or B) hits the IRR the managing director wants (private equity), so they will pay those young folks a lot of money to do these things. The “downside risk” remains capped as long as two things remain true:
Money continues flowing to these firms in the future, ensuring that there will be future fundraises and more dollars to go around to current and future employees.
Younger folks are needed to do the tedious Excel work through which they earn the right to be the “deal guys” over time."
nitter.cf/Jack_Raines/status/211…
PE was a path to guaranteed money for long enough that people assumed it would always be a path to guaranteed money, making it increasingly prestigious.
But prestige is a indicator of where the world went, not a forecast for where the world is going.
youngmoney.co/p/prestige-tra…
Mr James Just.🇰🇪 retweeted
🇮🇱 Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's Jewish Power party is poised to win eight or more seats running on its own in Tuesday's election, up from the six it won in 2022 on a joint far-right list. Among Israelis aged 18 to 22, it would take nearly 9% of the vote, according to a poll reported by Ynet, the equivalent of about 15 seats.
Up to a third of its supporters will be voting for the first time, a survey at Hebrew University found.
Ben-Gvir has pushed through a law making hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks on Israelis, starved and tortured Palestinian prisoners, and vowed to "conquer Gaza, because it's all ours."
"I used to think he was a bit crazy, but then I actually looked at what he was saying, and it all made sense," Gavriel Marmon, an 18-year-old first-time voter from Beit Shemesh, told Reuters.
🎥 The Guardian spoke to some other young Israelis outside a Ben-Gvir rally. Full video in reply.
Mr James Just.🇰🇪 retweeted
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Jamo wa building society alikua amejishikia Mali safi sana
This is what 62 looks and feels like; loved, celebrated, and grateful. Thank You, Lord, for the gift of life, the grace that carries me, and the beautiful people who made my birthday so special. My heart is full. Here’s to more laughter, more love, and more purpose ❤️
#Hello62 #GratefulHeart #GiftOfLife
Mr James Just.🇰🇪 retweeted
“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet.
Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed.
Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: vanityfair.visitlink.me/Q5_W…
Turkish and Chinese people are on the Internet calling each other everything but children of God. I'm so amused