Boomer conservatives get a lot of flak for telling young White men to subsist off of canned beans and rice, but I'll tell you what. Bring pic related to America and every White guy under 50 will be spending $2 per meal to make sure he has as much money as possible to invest in the liquidation of the judges letting rapists out of prison. We won't be able to retire, we won't be allowed to buy houses in neighborhoods that are safe to raise children in. We may as well be able to throw what savings we have at something worthwhile.

It may not be 2016 anymore, but things like this still happen. Made me laugh like I haven't in a while.

A lot of people miss that, while Trump's 'outsider' status made him particularly credulous on the subject of Israel, he was/is sincere in not wanting more Middle Eastern entanglements, particularly at the cost of American lives. To the extent that he was able to staff the Pentagon, he staffed it with guys who were inclined to evacuate our bases rather than sit still and take sufficient casualties to mandate an escalation, as Israel had intended. Thus, the ground invasion that would've been necessary to take out Iran for Israel is simply not going to happen. Israel thought they were very clever in tricking Trump into going along with the strikes, but all Trump committed to was going along with the strikes. So now they've burned their one chance to get rid of Iran, and they're going to (eventually) have to walk away with absolutely nothing. They're very upset about this. If you'd like some schadenfreude, here's ur-neocon Robert Kagan whining about this. article link (paywall circumvented): https://archive.is/lpBsa

Some say that every generation becomes uncool as it ages, but I think millennials have aged uniquely badly. - Silent generation aged pretty gracefully; symbols of a better era. Last generation to be respected in old age. - Boomers might be hated, but fishing, boats, guns, and trucks will always be cool. - Gen X might be pretentious, but 80's action movies and guitar-playing are still universally recognized as neat. Meanwhile, millennials close in on 50 with nothing to show for their lives but a bunch of deranged whining about Trump and nostalgia for media slop. They had no real hardships to sharpen themselves on, either. Even the handful who went to war did so in the era of the redditization of the military. I think millennials are the low point, though. Zoomzooms will get some sympathy because they've been dealt an absolutely awful set of cards, and also because they produced better culture. If the violent disintegration of America starts earlier than expected, they'll also get an aesthetic war of their very own.

I think it all comes down to the fact that the 2014-2016 years were a religious experience for a lot of people. It had everything new religions usually have. The old creeds don't inspire anyone, and the youth, in anonymous forums, came up with something new. They 'won the culture war', even transsexual communists try to talk like /pol/ oldfags now, they came up with gods and rituals, and these rituals were made to correlate with victory, and they put their guy on the throne. The devil's bargain that a lot of people made is that they get to pretend that it's still 2014 in exchange for not being effective. The various Substack/Twitter grifters who want you to give them your credit card info so they can tell you way ahckshully Israel is based. The burned out ecelebs telling you politics is like so tryhard man and you should just listen to their podcast instead. The various 'NJP' / 'TWP' freaks waddling around giving redditors snark fodder. Fuentes and his endless self-contradiction couched in old memes. They all want to pretend they're still in a secret club like the good old days, culturally ascendant, and that their takeover will come later when people finally get on board. Things are better in a lot of ways, the Overton Window is shattered, nothing is forbidden anymore, but ZOG's elite refused the peaceful transition it was offered and the next few decades are going to involve hard work and danger. The 'great awakening', whatever it might have been, has already happened, and you're meant to do whatever comes after that when the old regime refuses to leave power gracefully.

One of the better pieces of Fedi OC I've seen:

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> Long writefag story post about collapse > Grounded characters > Story touches on a ton of topics that come up here, handles them well Reminiscent of 8/pol/ back in the day

There is an arms race between efforts to 'solve security' with AI and the growing incompetence of the jeet-infested U.S. tech industry. Claude 4.7 pro can't convince Shitar Brapesh not to give his login access to the AI-generated Tindr match who asked him for it.

https://archive.is/rnv0g#selection-967.20-967.278 Neat Haaretz article on what's going on with the Israeli government. > "I'm sorry to be so depressing, but our fate is already behind us. Everything's already happened." > Our society has been torn apart, the army has disintegrated, the judges are dying of fear, the media has become a reality show, the Knesset has become an insane asylum and the opposition shares Netanyahu's view of reality (Iran is an existential threat; there's no solution for the Palestinian problem; only Zionist parties should sit in the cabinet). > The world hates Israel, and antisemitism has returned to its political cradle. It is no longer the "new," left-wing critical version (which was aimed mainly at Israeli policy, and the faults of Zionism), but the old, right-wing murderous version (which gleefully adopts the rhetoric of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"). > The truth is that while we drove ourselves and the world crazy with the Holocaust, while we chanted "never again" ad nauseam, Netanyahu has led the world to the brink of a repeat of history. > All of them sustain the state, and therefore, they sustain Netanyahu, because the state is him. What's the alternative? Dodge the draft and let the country die? Kill the state to get rid of him? > But what is certain is that we will not be able to resuscitate the life we had. There is no way back to what used to be. There is no future for the state as it used to be. The state is him. And his end will be its end. He killed it. They don't seem optimistic about the inevitable - though not mentioned - push to rebrand Israel once Netanyahu inevitably leaves. Rightly so, I think. Neocons have taken over the Democrats' institutions, and faced much less pushback than they have on the Right, but the lefties mad at Israel are mad about a long chain of humiliations, and all of this is sublimated into their ressentiment about Israeli Dems no longer even pretending to care about the base's qualms about them.

There is overwhelming evidence that our enemies are neither united nor competent. The first actual resistance they face in America - the first serious person to tell them "no" when they ask for abdication - will crush them easily.

Hezbollah killed Ben Shapiro's gay doppleganger!