payant
@phillippepayant
Mammal. Libertarian. Suburbanist. American naval supremacist. Space colonialist. Last adherent of the true 🇹🇼 One China Policy 🇹🇼
All terrestrial politics are a delaying action until we can found America II in cislunar space.
A common feature of ancient life was the constant risk of steppe nomads showing up at your house, murdering you and your children, raping and murdering your wife, and then plundering everything you owned. Communism brought this mindset into the 20th century.
"Okay, so imagine a magic button." "I'm imagining the button." "If you press the button—" "What color is it?" "It's the only button. It doesn't matter what color it is." "Nah, I ain't falling for that again. Last time there was a red button and a blue button—" "That's a…
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
The Baby Boom started in 1945 and petered out in the 1960’s The Trinity test occurred in 1945 and the Partial Test Ban Treaty went into effect in 1963 The solution to our low birthrates is obvious
Happy 80th birthday to nuclear weapons. The Trinity test happened on July 16th, 1945, an implosion-design plutonium bomb (the same type used on Nagasaki) producing a yield of 25 kilotons of TNT. So far, in 80 years, it’s only been used in war twice. Let’s hope for another 80!
An all-time classic: Jane Goodall and her team release a rehabilitated chimp back into the wild. Happy Chimpanzee Day, humans!
The term “Native American”, as applied to American Indians, was the “Latinx” of the 1970’s, a term invented by white progressives and largely rejected by the people it applied to.
Nuspeak struggle session
He did, technically, identity a deranged pro-terrorist fanatic who had managed to infiltrate the US armed forces and set him on fire, but I wouldn’t say he was a hero.
AARON BUSHNELL WAS AN AMERICAN HERO
Sometimes I wonder, “what if Ian Miles Cheong was so lacking in self-awareness that he routinely let it slip that he doesn’t even live in the US despite commenting exclusively on US politics” and then I remember this guy exists.
I think it’s Lindy that the planet’s most successful trader got married in a Venetian shipyard to a woman of questionable virtue
Much like the great financial centers of old, the Italian merchant republics, New York City must spurn democracy and embrace oligarchy if it wants to be well governed.
I'm a native New Yorker (UES), and I'll say the part nobody wants to admit: The reason NYC consistently elects so many bad politicians is that a significant portion of New Yorkers rely on some form of welfare or public assistance. To win, a politician often only needs to promise…
New Yorkers visiting an upstate grocery store in 2030:
Zohran Mamdani announces he'll launch government-run supermarkets in NYC if elected mayor.
Cuomo vs Mamdani is exactly the kind of election that ranked choice voting was supposed to prevent.
Maybe I'm misreading this but I think Trump just gave Iran the green light to annex Iraq and rebuild their capital at Ctesiphon.
Alright, I made a chart. Trump is in the "bomb them *and* negotiate with them" quadrant
