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There is a fundamental issue with the quote "Equality always feels like a loss to people who are previously unfairly ahead" when you assume that those who are opposed to "equality" are doing so because they fit this category.

Sometimes, they are upset because they are being forcefully dragged back when they were getting ahead by their own merits. Many pro-equality/equity people operate under the assumption that inequality is the result of someone rigging things. Some people are just inferior.

I am posting this again. Because I love traditions. Even if they are the ones I made up myself.

I am glad I learned the important lesson of hiding my power level, as recently I was with extended family and the conversation of the rise in cancer in younger people came up. I was tempted to interject that those experimental "vaccines" might have had something to do with it.

But no, that would accomplish nothing. "Better detection methods of finding cancer" was the next part of that conversation, and I am fine leaving it at that. No use in convincing those who would not be receptive.

It is both sad and hilarious that NPR had a segment talking about Trump's "dangerous rhetoric," heavily implying how horrible it would be if he were to be elected.

As if we did not see that already happen from 2017-2021 where Trump had a very underwhelming presidency overall (though no new wars was good). Most of Trump's "terribleness" was only in the heads of faggots on Twitter and Reddit throwing bitchfits. Him saying things that are "mean" is not an actual concern.

Of course this will benefit Israel greatly, so it is an easy issue to attempt to give to the conservative mainstream as a way they can get a "win" by "stopping the terrorists at the border." This hardly serves as a consolation prize when illegal border crossing are going unchecked and being encouraged and enabled by those in power.

Granted, most on the right are against illegal immigration otherwise. I just do not want anyone on the right seeing "stopping Hezbollah" as anything significant.

Listening to the local boomercon radio station talking about "Hezbollah terrorists were found crossing the border" makes me very suspicious. Not because of what the normie conservatives think, but rather that this is just a gayop to get those on the right to continue supporting interventionist policies in the Middle East because "We have to stop them there before they come attack us here! See? There they are crossing the border!"

While I see US balkanization as a highly likely possibility, I think that it would require a full blown collapse to actually take place. I mean no electricity in some areas for an extended period of time collapse. There is too much sunken cost on transportation, supply chains, and government for it to just be gone easily. And that is not factoring in the government being completely opposed to any sort of separation.

Which means any "national divorce" is not going to happen.

I had a realization when it comes to the whole "trust the experts" meme. There is nothing wrong with experts themselves. Even those who despise the slogan have experts they trust.

The problem is that the "experts" we are told we need to trust are preselected by the government to parrot whatever narrative they want. Other experts who may disagree are never the ones we are given permission to trust.