Culture Wars

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Of course-
Education Costs: govt keeps on increasing subsidies, and the universities keep jacking tuition, along with spending ever larger sums on Taj Mahal amenities on campus in the battle to attract more students.
Gov’t and university created problem.

There is no valid reason for people to go into high 5 figure or 6 figure debt for non STEMM.
For one, the military will pay a 6 figure amount for college. They have hundreds of MOSes which 90% of aren’t Combat Arms.

Secondly “The you have to go to college” mantra to be successful in life is complete that has been told to young men for decades is BS. Same is the ‘falling demand for jobs traditionally held by prime-age men.’ There is a shortage in the trades (traditionally dominated by men) that is just getting worse. Even low cost areas of the country those experienced & skilled in the trades can make over 100k, and well over 200k in high cost areas. And there is a shortage of truck drivers (another field traditionally dominated by men). Look no further than all the accidents caused by illegals with CDLs (thanks Newsome) that have been in the news lately.

Housing Costs:
10/11/24 article, 2021 survey. That 93,870 in 2021 is about 113k in today’s $$$. And that doesn’t even count the real estate taxes. Gov’t created problem.

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/com ... me-prices/
https://www.nahb.org/-/media/NAHB/news- ... 558881227b
And of course you have restrictions in many areas that make it more difficult and expensive, or impossible, to build new starter homes which the US needs millions more of.
US housing deficit grew to 4.7 million despite construction surge
https://investors.zillowgroup.com/inves ... fault.aspx

And letting in mlions of illegals/TPS/asylum seekers has led to rental shortages in cities where they have settled, which in turn puts increased pressure on housing costs Thanks Biden.

And having to jack interest rates in 2022 to counter runaway inflation made housing more expensive. Thanks again Biden.


So what. For the Mandami voting 20 something Gen Zers who complain about that they can go live in one of the other non trendy/non hip neighborhoods in one of the other 4 boroughs for 1/2 that. Or don’t live in NYC.

The author briefly touched on masculinity. He left off the left’s war on masculinity. All young men heard for the better part of the last decade was donks is pushing woke trans ideology, men playing women’s sports, masculinity is toxic, and if you don‘t vote for Harris you‘re a sexist misogynist, etc.
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 3#p1467453
But what about last week’s elections? Well, about 600k 20204 Trump voters in NJ and another 600k in VA didn’t show up. I suspect many were the young males that voted Trump in 2024. We’ll see what happens in 2026.

The wages are with years of experience and likely various certifications and training.

I’m calling 100% bullshit on new home construction costs.

High rent districts still require service workers. Commuting decreases take home pay.

Toxic masculinity is as old as patriarchy. Those who are offended by questioning it are insecure and driven by fear or resentful of women.

It’s not aren’t service workers referenced in the article you posted with the 3k a month 400 sq foot apartment (actually the avg in Manhattan is 4k a month). Those are mostly white Gen Z, Comrade Zoran voting, yuppies who want to live in Manhattan or the trendy, hip neighborhoods in the other boroughs.

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Owned….

Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, whose childish attempts to justify his riches prompted this, from JCO (who will never stop tweeting).

Only a novelist could be this brutal, for unlike your average shitposter who relies on soy boy/chad memes, JCO opts here instead to get at the heart of Elon’s broken humanity, itemizing with a surgeon’s precision that which he has so clearly lost, and will likely never regain. As the billionaire class continues with wanton avarice to destroy the planet (and everyone on it) it’s nice to see, even if for a moment, a billionaire get destroyed in his own grubby little playroom. So thanks, Joyce.

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The wages are with years of experience and likely various certifications and training.

I’m calling 100% bullshit on new home construction costs.

High rent districts still require service workers. Commuting decreases take home pay.

Toxic masculinity is as old as patriarchy. Those who are offended by questioning it are insecure and driven by fear or resentful of women.

It’s not aren’t service workers referenced in the article you posted with the 3k a month 400 sq foot apartment (actually the avg in Manhattan is 4k a month). Those are mostly white Gen Z, Comrade Zoran voting, yuppies who want to live in Manhattan or the trendy, hip neighborhoods in the other boroughs.

Huh. Must be enough of these to win an election in their city.

Democracy FTW!

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I’m good friends with a former president of the Spokane chapter. They obviously have an axe to grind and their entire existence is based on reducing regulations and costs per unit.

So yeah…I’m right on questioning their numbers. I’m guessing ‘88 can speak to this on a deeper level. We likely will disagree on the political philosophy but he can confirm whether it makes sense to question their numbers.

Which would lower housing costs for the consumer.. Newsflash, the builders aren’t paying those burdensome regulatory costs and taxes. They are passing them on to the consumer.

If the market and lenders will bear it.

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Washington Commanders Fans Sink to New Low With Shameful Booing of Troops on Veterans Day Weekend

In an absolutely appalling display of leftist elitism run amok, a decent portion of the crowd at Sunday's football game between the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions – played on the Commanders' home turf at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland – booed President Trump as he swore in new members of the military as part of the National Football League's Salute to Service initiative.

The festivities were part of a league-wide recognition of service members ahead of Veterans Day, but the people of the DMV (District-Maryland-Virginia) ruined the reverent occasion with their entitled, boorish behavior.

To recap, as our Commander in Chief read the names of new military recruits and led them through their swearing-in ceremony, a portion of the Commanders fan base jeered. The dolts thought they were jeering the president, but what they actually did was jeer the young men and women who just pledged to risk their lives to ensure the crowd's freedom to boo Donald Trump. Think about that.…

https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025 ... s-n2196050

And the left likes to claim it’s MAGA people who are boorish.

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Washington Commanders Fans Sink to New Low With Shameful Booing of Troops on Veterans Day Weekend

In an absolutely appalling display of leftist elitism run amok, a decent portion of the crowd at Sunday's football game between the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions – played on the Commanders' home turf at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland – booed President Trump as he swore in new members of the military as part of the National Football League's Salute to Service initiative.

The festivities were part of a league-wide recognition of service members ahead of Veterans Day, but the people of the DMV (District-Maryland-Virginia) ruined the reverent occasion with their entitled, boorish behavior.

To recap, as our Commander in Chief read the names of new military recruits and led them through their swearing-in ceremony, a portion of the Commanders fan base jeered. The dolts thought they were jeering the president, but what they actually did was jeer the young men and women who just pledged to risk their lives to ensure the crowd's freedom to boo Donald Trump. Think about that.…

https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025 ... s-n2196050

And the left likes to claim it’s MAGA people who are boorish.

Anyone with a single functioning brain cell knows they were booing trump and not the new service members. Typical trump/MAQA trying to shift the blame.

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https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025 ... s-n2196050

And the left likes to claim it’s MAGA people who are boorish.

Anyone with a single functioning brain cell knows they were booing trump and not the new service members. Typical trump/MAQA trying to shift the blame.

Anyone with a functioning brain cell wouldn’t have booed as he was reading their names. I’ve seen plenty of conk & donk pols conducting swearing ins, and not once ever seen any booing as it is being conducted. If Biden was doing the reading (check that he couldn’t) if Harris was doing the reading there wouldn’t have been booing. Since this game was played in the DMV Republic, I’m only mildly surprised.

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Anyone with a single functioning brain cell knows they were booing trump and not the new service members. Typical trump/MAQA trying to shift the blame.

Anyone with a functioning brain cell wouldn’t have booed as he was reading their names. I’ve seen plenty of conk & donk pols conducting swearing ins, and not once ever seen any booing as it is being conducted. If Biden was doing the reading (check that he couldn’t) if Harris was doing the reading there wouldn’t have been booing. Since this game was played in the DMV Republic, I’m only mildly surprised.

I agree that it was tasteless to do at that moment but a MAQA yahoo criticizing others for lack of taste/tack is ironic. trump and other MAQA yahoos' list of distasteful/tacky actions/words is quite long.

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Anyone with a functioning brain cell wouldn’t have booed as he was reading their names. I’ve seen plenty of conk & donk pols conducting swearing ins, and not once ever seen any booing as it is being conducted. If Biden was doing the reading (check that he couldn’t) if Harris was doing the reading there wouldn’t have been booing. Since this game was played in the DMV Republic, I’m only mildly surprised.

I agree that it was tasteless to do at that moment but a MAQA yahoo criticizing others for lack of taste/tack is ironic. trump and other MAQA yahoos' list of distasteful/tacky actions/words is quite long.

"He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured."

[BDKJMU]

Not just NYC, but all of NY and NJ:

Soaring taxes, crime cost New York and New Jersey $670 billion — and rising

……It’s not uncommon to look at the one-year losses and gains of income from internal migration such as taxpayers fleeing New York for Florida, but that fails to capture the long-lasting impact: The migrant’s income is lost (or gained) year after year for the rest of his or her life.

This new report used Census and IRS data to calculate the cumulative impact; it finds that New York state has lost more than $500 billion in resident income over the past 10 years, while New Jersey has lost $170 billion.

Nearly 2 million New Yorkers have moved away this past last decade; New Jersey has lost 500,000 residents to other states.

New York has lost the most income of any state — and only California and Illinois have lost more money than New Jersey.

The folks who’ve fled (especially to low-tax Texas, Florida, Tennessee and so on) don’t spend in New York or New Jersey, while the states lose billions in taxes.

To be clear: It’s not just taxes that push people to move away; rising crime and other sinking quality-of-life issues matter, too — but soaring taxes seem to go hand-in-hand with those other problems these days: Big government tends to be failing government, too.

That’s likely why the exodus is far broader than just high-end earners, such that New York’s likely to lose at least four House seats after the 2030 Census and New Jersey two more….

https://nypost.com/2025/11/10/opinion/s ... nd-rising/
Nice graph but cannot get to post.

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[kalm]

I feel seriously threatened by this.

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Mad respect for the people who were already here and inspired the Thanksgiving celebration.

“You cannot discover lands already inhabited.”
I (Mark) said this almost under my breath, as I walked past a line
of men dressed as Spanish sailors from the 1490s. I was in front of
Union Station in Washington, DC, near the massive statue of
­ Christopher Columbus overlooking the United States Capitol.
Every Columbus Day, there is an official ceremony in this plaza hon-
oring Columbus as the discoverer of America. I had stumbled upon
this ceremony by accident the year prior. There were a few non-­ natives
holding signs and protesting the ceremony but nothing very dis-
ruptive. I came back the following year primarily out of curiosity. I
was not intending to protest, nor did I want to make a scene.
As I walked up behind the statue and approached the group of men
dressed as Spanish sailors, the words just came out of my mouth: “You
cannot discover lands already inhabited.” As I walked farther down
the line, I said it again, this time a little louder. “You cannot discover
lands already inhabited.” As I continued walking, I came to the front of the line, where a group of men dressed in suits were standing. I
repeated myself, making sure they could hear me. “You cannot dis-
cover lands already inhabited.” “Suck it up” was the reply I heard as I
kept walking.
By this time, I had walked around the statue and reached the
front, where a small stage had been erected and chairs set up for
people to watch the ceremony. It hadn’t started yet, but more than
half the audience was seated, waiting for it to begin. So I stopped
near the center, turned toward the gathering crowd, and in a calm
but loud voice I said to the people: “You cannot discover lands al-
ready inhabited. That process is known as stealing, conquering, or
colonizing. The fact that America calls what Columbus did ‘dis-
covery’ reveals the implicit racial bias of the country—that Native
Americans are not fully human.”
Quickly one of the white men dressed in a suit walked over and
interrupted me. “You are not welcome here,” he said as he grabbed my
arm and began walking me away. I attempted to explain the inappro-
priateness of both celebrating this holiday as well as hosting this cer-
emony. But instead of engaging in conversation, he threatened me
with arrest and escorted me from the area. As I walked away from the
gathering, I was amused at his words and at the irony of their context:
a white man, participating in a public ceremony honoring Chris-
topher Columbus as the discoverer of America, telling a Native man
he was not welcome in that space.

https://globalhealth.emory.edu/_include ... pter-1.pdf

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US State Department redefines “Human rights violations” — abortion, DEI, LGBTQ+ protections targeted

ased on recent reporting, the Department has adopted new internal guidance redefining what constitutes a “human rights violation,” placing state-funded abortion, gender-affirming care for transgender youth, workplace DEI policies, certain hate-speech regulations, and even migration frameworks on a list of practices to be flagged by US embassies. The instructions have been circulated to every US diplomatic mission globally, marking a significant departure from decades of American human-rights reporting.
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At the same time, analysts have noted that the administration’s first human-rights report produced under this policy has been significantly reduced in length, omitting or minimizing issues traditionally considered core violations—such as political repression, prison mistreatment, and systemic abuses in countries with authoritarian governments. Observers warn that the new framework risks shifting US human-rights diplomacy away from confronting torture, corruption, and state violence and toward cultural and ideological concerns rooted in domestic politics.

So DEI and allowing migrants to enter your country is now a bigger human rights concern than political repression, mistreating prisoners, etc?

What a clown show!

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US State Department redefines “Human rights violations” — abortion, DEI, LGBTQ+ protections targeted

ased on recent reporting, the Department has adopted new internal guidance redefining what constitutes a “human rights violation,” placing state-funded abortion, gender-affirming care for transgender youth, workplace DEI policies, certain hate-speech regulations, and even migration frameworks on a list of practices to be flagged by US embassies. The instructions have been circulated to every US diplomatic mission globally, marking a significant departure from decades of American human-rights reporting.
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At the same time, analysts have noted that the administration’s first human-rights report produced under this policy has been significantly reduced in length, omitting or minimizing issues traditionally considered core violations—such as political repression, prison mistreatment, and systemic abuses in countries with authoritarian governments. Observers warn that the new framework risks shifting US human-rights diplomacy away from confronting torture, corruption, and state violence and toward cultural and ideological concerns rooted in domestic politics.

So DEI and allowing migrants to enter your country is now a bigger human rights concern than political repression, mistreating prisoners, etc?

What a clown show!

I like how they think they can define based on their own fears of the other, race and cracks in the patriarchy.

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Pope Leo denounces misuse of religion for ‘justifying’ war, violence or fanaticism

The pontiff called on worshippers to enable “dialogue and cooperation” between different communities and see the humanity in others, as he commemorated a significant church anniversary in Turkey.

“The whole of humanity afflicted by violence and conflict is crying out for reconciliation,” said Leo. “There is a universal fraternity of men and women regardless of ethnicity, nationality, religion or personal perspectives.”

“Religions, by their very nature, are repositories of this truth and should encourage individuals, groups and peoples to recognize this and put it into practice,” he added.
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“We must strongly reject the use of religion for justifying war, violence, or any form of fundamentalism or fanaticism,” Leo reflected. “Instead, the paths to follow are those of fraternal encounter, dialogue and cooperation.”

How will Just Dance vance tell him he's wrong?