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One of the reasons I don’t like socialism is public bathrooms.
A public bathroom is about as basic a shared resource as you can get. Everyone gets to use it, and everyone is expected to show a little consideration for the next person. The rules aren’t particularly complicated.
And yet, a shocking number of adults can’t even manage to throw their paper towels in the trash. Some will pee all over a toilet seat and leave it for the next person. And the next person, who didn’t make the mess, certainly isn’t going to clean it up either.
Now imagine trusting these same people to collectively manage an entire economy.
We can’t even get everyone to agree that cleaning up their own pee is a personal responsibility, but somehow we’re supposed to believe everyone will become hardworking, responsible, and considerate when we’re sharing the fruits of each other’s labor.
Now, compare your average public restroom to a Buc-ee’s bathroom.
Buc-ee’s figured something out. Clean bathrooms attract customers. Customers spend money. So the company has a financial incentive to keep those bathrooms spotless. They hire people to maintain them, hold employees accountable, and compete for your business.
And people will literally plan their road trips around stopping there.
That’s capitalism. Someone recognized a problem, found a way to solve it, and made money because people valued the result.
Of course, not everyone contributes equally to society. Some people work harder, make better decisions, and take more responsibility. Others seem perfectly content making life more difficult for everyone around them.
I believe people should have the freedom to live however they choose. I also believe in helping people who genuinely need it.
But I have a hard time accepting an economic philosophy that expects me to trust everyone to act in the collective interest when some people can’t be bothered to clean up after themselves.
Buc-ee’s figured out how to get people to willingly pay for a better experience.
Socialism wants me to believe the people leaving paper towels on the floor will suddenly become responsible stewards of everyone else’s resources.
I’m going with the beaver.
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Otherbee retweeted
I asked Claude to analyze the last 300 videos from the "I've had it" podcast and to give me the world view of someone who relies on them for news.
Claude: "A person immersed exclusively in this ecosystem views the world through a lens of totalizing political paranoia and self-righteous outrage, reduced to a black-and-white spectacle of righteous resistance versus abject evil. Every complex geopolitical event, economic strain, or cultural shift is flattened into a single, sensationalized narrative: an imminent fascist takeover orchestrated by a comic-book lineup of "oligarchs," "whack jobs," and corrupt elites. Operating within a high-decibel echo chamber, they mistake vulgar catharsis and relentless mockery for sophisticated political analysis, consuming news not to understand the world, but to validate their own moral superiority and partisan disdain.
Ultimately, this worldview fosters a profound cognitive dysfunction, replacing civic discourse with paranoid conspiratorial thinking and performative activism. Complex institutional processes are dismissed as mere theater, while every political opponent is demonized as a bad-faith actor or cultist beyond redemption. By relying on a steady diet of apocalyptic warnings and therapeutic venting, the consumer becomes addicted to a cycle of perpetual grievance and righteous panic, rendering them entirely incapable of engaging with nuance, counter-evidence, or the lived realities of anyone outside their immediate political tribe."
Jennifer Welch says her advertisers were "harassed" into dropping the show.
"Sadly, some of the advertisers have caved. But we still have other advertisers, and we're still standing."
Little companies are apparently stepping in to try to save them.
They read a message from a brewery in Wisconsin that called Charlie Kirk "an awful human being" and wanted to help sponsor the show.
Welch called that "so sweet," then did a shout out for the company for free.
At last count, around 30 sponsors have dropped the podcast.
It's not because they were harassed. It's because these women are toxic.
But hey if you're a little company, just drop these hateful hags a message bashing Charlie. Maybe that'll get you a free ad read.
Otherbee retweeted
Jesus declared, I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
John 6:51
Lefties are ok with the murdering of righties
New poll from YouGov
Agree it's okay to be happy about death of political figure they oppose:
Very Liberal: 24%
Liberal: 10%
Moderate: 7%
Conservative: 4%
Very Conservative: 3%
Agree violence can be justified to achieve political goals:
VL: 25%
L: 17%
M: 9%
C: 6%
VC: 3%
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Even the most erudite of leftists find a way to justify the celebration of murder.
Rightists have trouble understanding why Charlie Kirk jokes are funny.
Maybe I can explain it in a way you can understand.
People make jokes when a situation is absurd, and more specifically, when others demand you say something untrue about a person and treat them with more respect than they deserved.
George Floyd died. You conservatives thought jokes about St Floyd were funny. In your mind, he was a criminal and a drug addict, and leftists had treated him like the Second Coming of Jesus. Or think about how you'll see a trans person playing basketball with biological women, which leftists tell you is fine and normal, and how funny it is to laugh at this.
Similarly, most Americans do not share your personal admiration for Charlie Kirk. They think he was a bigot and a conspiracy theorist. He was also not in any way a thinker or someone who contributed positively to the discourse, but a political hack who formed his opinions based on tribal considerations and owning the libs.
When Charlie Kirk died, you went around cancelling people for being insufficiently sad. Even if someone said they were sad about his death and they just thought he didn't deserve to be admired, in those cases rightists still tried to destroy people's lives. Republicans in Congress started calling for a statue of Charlie Kirk in the US Capitol, and others introduced legislation to put his face on coins.
As of April 2026, an AP article identified more than 60 Kirk-themed bills introduced across over 20 states. Among these was one in Florida that threatened to take away funding from universities if they didn't rename a road after Charlie Kirk.
Outside of your bubble in which Charlie Kirk was a great thinker and leader, this is all ridiculous.
So when people at a Chappelle show hear the name "Charlie Kirk," they're not thinking about the human being and father. They're associating the name with rightists trying to create a cult of personality, and are employing humor, which is common when people are facing a movement that is trying to tell them what to do.
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Otherbee retweeted
To see leftist podcasters, comedians, and commentators laugh about political assassination as though it’s entertainment and the destruction of a human life is a punchline, is beyond disgusting.
My husband, Charlie Kirk, was killed in an act of political violence, something our two children and I will live with every day for the rest of our lives.
A culture that laughs at assassination is one of profound moral decay. It threatens the very foundation of our country and the principles that hold our democracy together.
You do not have to agree with someone’s politics to recognize the value of their life. This should not be so hard.
Political violence must never be something this country tolerates, excuses, or celebrates.
Otherbee retweeted
All I know, is that I’m on the side that doesn’t murder people, nor celebrates the murder of people, nor fantasizes about the murder of the people...
…just because we disagree
That’s what side I’m on.
Exactly
The “jokes” about Charlie Kirk are heinous for reasons that have nothing to do with the fact that I agree with his politics. There is just something especially callous and soulless about gloating over a brutal, bloody murder we all saw with our own eyes. He was a young man and father of young children. We saw him get shot in the neck. The blood pour out. The natural human reaction when seeing something so violent, bloody, and shocking is to be moved and shaken by it. If instead you’re gloating and joking, it shows that this human part of you is dead. You truly are a soulless goblin in a way that’s only vaguely distinguishable from the guy who actually committed the murder. That’s what makes your callousness so disturbing for those of us who still have souls. We’re human and you no longer are. And that makes you a monstrosity to us. We’re not “offended” so much as revolted by the sight of you. You’ve become the spiritual equivalent of a maggot eaten corpse. You are a grotesquery, a morally disfigured beast.
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Otherbee retweeted
They’re just going to keep talking like this until anyone who disagrees with them are killed. They’ve been rewarded for murderous rhetoric and celebrating the death of their fellow Americans at the ballot box. So they’re thinking, why stop now?
As a GWOT veteran, what concerns me the most is that they’re beginning to talk like Islamic terrorists. It’s not hyperbole, I mean that.
Using declarative and descriptive statements that paint their enemies as ripe for the slaughter. They were dehumanizers. It’s what allowed them to kill one another so effortlessly. To butcher one another.
This is not the language of a political party that wants to make anyone’s life better through policy. It only aims to exterminate its enemies.
I strongly condemn this language.
Otherbee retweeted
Left wing cancelling:
“This conservative teenager said there are two genders! Take his job from him!”
Left wing response to being cancelled:
“All I said is I wanna dig up a Father and Husband and brutally murder him again! Is comedy illegal????”
Otherbee retweeted
From a psychological standpoint, the Dave Chappelle clip and the woman reading that poem show the Left moving past pure violent rhetoric into a phase of normalization and desensitization around political violence.
All over America there are mentally unstable people on the Left who have been guided to a place where they feel that assassinating prominent figures on the Right is not only justified but obligatory.
These kinds of jokes and nonchalant assassination rhetoric reinforce this, and also function as social signals.
For the highly suggestible Leftists already inclined toward violence, these social signals lower the perceived severity of the act.
It only takes one mentally unstable, highly suggestible Leftist to hear these things, take action, and change the world.
The thing that was so disturbing about that woman reading her disgusting poem about Charlie Kirk was her smug certainty that she was that she would be applauded by her peers for it. Same with Dave Chappelle: This was a punch line in front of tens of thousands of people. These aren't isolated incidents. We have a culture on the Left that believes political opponents should be killed and when they are, it's funny.
So much love and joy when they win
I think the American right needs a lot of soul searching after the mid-terms.
But I’m ultimately happy not to be on the same team as DSA influencers who’ve spent the past 48 hours celebrating the results by publicly fantasising about murdering children on racial lines.
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Why arrest her? Isn’t this what leftists voted for?
She FA and FO.
A 19-year-old Miami University (Ohio) student Alexandra Patterson was arrested after allegedly posting on (never heard of it🤔) Yik Yak:
“how many dining dollars to kirk the anti abortion table in Armstrong.”
Students staffing a pro-life booth at the Armstrong Student Center on campus understood “kirk” as a direct reference to Charlie Kirk’s assassination. They reported it as a threat as they should have.
She was charged with making a terroristic threat (felony), aggravated menacing, and inducing panic. Bond set at $170,000. FBI was also notified. She still sits in jail.
I love the mugshot😂
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