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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 01:20:39 JST 
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@sickburnbro The utility of "secrets" decreases with time. Having a mole inside constantly feeding you updated intel is very valuable, but someone who got fired half-remembering things from a while ago is not really as actionable for the enemy.
There isn't that much information they could leak that would be truly dangerous.
What secrets are long-term useful? Things like military tech only apply to a small minority of government workers in defense (hasn't even been touched yet) and they'd have to actually designs for that to be meaningful.
The identity of foreign spies? Those are their friends within the agency they'd be betraying. And if they do, good riddance. Spooks are not our friends. -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 09:14:26 JST
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@ChristiJunior @Rasterman The thing is, even if those parties do not win, receiving votes legitimizes the ideas in the minds of the public. Knowing they have higher numbers in and of itself would legitimize anything right wing, and any time a moderate party like AfD is called extreme right and receives 20%+ of the vote, those ideas (even if they're not actually espoused by AfD) become more legitimate and believable in the eyes of others.
Trump getting cheated out of his presidency in 2020 and being prevented from getting anything done in 2016-2020 paved the way for what he is able to do now, and the opposition to it has exhausted itself and become weak.
The truth is our side has been winning the culture wars for a while and the left has stopped advancing. They cannot muster even a tenth of the strength of will and show of power they could in 2020. They're still in institutions but those are getting less money, and the number of True Believers willing to do anything substantial is lower. Ironically, I think we've reached a point in the US where we need to be more concerned with maximally blackpilled *leftwingers* doing terrorist attacks and assassinations, rather than our side.
One thing that needs to be understood is that the left as a movement dies if they are not able to constantly devour themselves and "progress" further. Trump and Musk might only want to reset things to circa 1990 or 2010 respectively, but they'll find that it doesn't really work that way. If they successfully manage to undo some of the damage, and actually prevent the left from moving ever lefter, they kill it as a living religion that people actually believe in. And that leaves us with the ability to influence the culture in our own way. Already ideas that were unthinkable 5 years ago make their way into the mainstream, even if some nonsense remains normalized that we considered unthinkable 10-15 years ago.
The problem with Reagan is that while he managed to defeat the USSR, he actually advanced progressives in other ways. They simply pivoted from their previous direction, and became even worse than the marxists. If Trump manages to at least gut their power structures, and stop them from moving ever lefter, it will be different. They'll become a walking corpse, which is what they're looking like now. Even if the ones in charge are effectively just liberals. -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 11:05:08 JST
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@Fash-E @BowsacNoodle Funny how he got sick right after rebuking JD Vance on the Ordo Amoris thing.
Literally comparing immigrants to freed jews from Egypt, and, implicitly, comparing our countries with the land promised to them by God -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 10:59:37 JST
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@Fash-E @BowsacNoodle You can be a sedevacantist -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 02:21:16 JST
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@pepsi_man @sickburnbro The issue with immigration is that it's very easy to turn a blind eye to the problems for a very long time, and when that's no longer possible, it's because you already have a dangerously high amount of foreigners living on your land. -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 02:10:25 JST
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@sickburnbro It had to get so bad that literally everyone knows about it for anyone to do anything about it -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 00:53:07 JST
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@sickburnbro @HarryNuggets @doctorsex There's a line between calling out jews for bad things they do (and there's a decent amount of such things) and having jews living rent free in your brain. -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 00:50:45 JST
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@sickburnbro @doctorsex I think this is an L for Elon but I agree that many here are too uncharitable towards him atm.
I doubt he genuinely wants hordes of third worlders to be imported into the US anyways. -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 00:50:44 JST
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@HarryNuggets @sickburnbro @doctorsex He's not jewish. Does the word even mean anything to you? -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 12:03:19 JST
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@graf @Hoss @p @Kyou >counting to 10 is too complex for americans
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:22:20 JST
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@sickburnbro @c This is a good point. There is no real standard either way, because it would be crimethought to even think of defining one.
By either way, I mean it goes both ways. There's absolutely no clear standard as to what you can say and what will get you cancelled, and it not only changes every year, it also can vary from day to day or even whatever the current seasonal trend is.
At least in most totalitarian dictatorships it was pretty obvious what could or could not be said. You can just shut up about those things. But there's no subject whatsoever that one can safely talk about. -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:14:55 JST
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@racs @sickburnbro @c > For all the faults of the left, they know how to properly boycott and vote with their wallet.
No, they do not. The difference is they have institutional support. The reality is boycotts do not matter. Actual consequences are *always* top down. Same with protests. Protests have zero effect if they are not approved from the top, and are quickly dispatched and the people in them arrested if necessary.
Meanwhile if a protest is approved, you will be the one arrested for defending yourself from their violence, and they will get away with anything. It's top-down violence disguised as grassroots. Just like boycotts are never grassroots movements when they succeed. -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 00:11:33 JST
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None of this works if you don't go outside, fuck the feds, I don't care -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 30-Jan-2023 01:24:01 JST
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 00:51:43 JST
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@alex It's just a thought I had right now, I wrote it on a whim. Could've been shorter and better had I put some time into it. Sorry about that. -
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rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 00:44:52 JST
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Whenever someone tells you, as a man, that it's okay to cry in public and talk about your feelings, they don't have your best interests in mind. They're gaslighting you, and I realized that it's the male equivalent of telling a fat woman she is pretty.
Everyone knows it's not true, but they say it because it makes them feel better and more of a good person for saying it. It's pure gaslighting.
No one respects a man who is a crybaby. No one.
A man can be emotional in private, but you owe it to those around you, especially the women around you, to be strong, and to be like a rock they can lean on.
If you aren't your woman's rock she will find someone else who can be.
Whining literally solves nothing. Find solutions to your real problems if you have real problems or man up.
If you have to vent, do it with your close friends, and stay dignified while doing it.
Moderating and controlling your emotions is important, at all times. It means respecting those around you, and not treating them like your emotional toilet.
Controlling one's emotions is not what gets someone bottled up with anger. If anything, indulging in anger without control just makes you do that more. It's an addiction.
No, resentment builds when you are unable to DO anything about what is making you angry. Talking won't solve it.
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