u/gayactualized

The American people either don't understand what our financial situation is, or they are in denial about it, or they don't care about it because they are almost dead and will not be around for the consequences.

Our current debt picture is not sustainable. Barring some AI miracle from Elon Musk's fantasies, our national insolvency leaves us with the following options: (1) We're either going to have to dramatically raise taxes (well beyond the billionaire class). (2) Or we are going to have to dramatically cut spending (well beyond just military spending). (3) Or we are going to have to do both. (4) Or we are going to have to pull off the most globally destabilizing, reputationally destructive feat of financial scammery in all history.

The problem with the options where we actually pay the debt or cut spending is that no politicians would survive this. Trump is extremely unpopular. Biden was very unpopular. George Bush and Obama weren't exactly loved at the end of their terms either. But the president who is around when we address the debt is going to be run out of DC with pitchforks.

People don't understand how much of a heavy lift it would be at this point to change the direction of that debt chart. Wealth taxes on rich people would get us like 5-10% there. And that would completely tank the economy immediately.

Once the billionaire money is gone, everyone's eating rice and beans in retirement now. Imagine boomers being told that medicare doesn't cover anything cancer or alzheimer's related anymore. If you can't swing the treatments from your life savings, take some dilaudid and valium on your way out. We'll make ya comfortable. Imagine gen z being told that there aren't any special student loan repayment options anymore. $500-$1500/month installments are now required or wages are going to start getting garnished. Injured vet? Sorry, the pension program for injured vets is now gone. Here is a coupon booklet instead. Try learning how to vibe code. Finally graduated med school and making the big bucks? Taxes are going to run you about 60% hopefully the rest covers your loans and everything else.

Barring some miracle, we are looking at a level of austerity that American's haven't seen since the great depression. The interest alone is more than our entire government used to cost not long ago.

If technology doesn't rescue us, something extremely dark is coming. And democracy does not provide a way out. The people only know how to vote for less tax and more welfare. They don't know any other way.

I know a lot of straight men find gay sex and promiscuity unpalatable. And it's true that the gay culture and norms around sexual promiscuity are at the extreme end of the spectrum. But that's not because gay people are hornier or less capable of self-control. It's because male sexuality is very different than female sexuality. In general, male + male is the most frictionless sexual relationship template in the human species.

Human male sexual attraction and motivation doesn't require as many conditions as female attraction. Males are more wired toward frequent causal sex with a variety of new partners. In straight relationships, this is discouraged or limited. Female sexuality provides a moderating influence on male instincts. Their trust and intimacy is generally something that guys have to unlock and earn. Female sexuality is influenced by factors like status and resources and even height. Or at a minimum some kind of relationship or expression of romantic viability. And women often feel "used" if a guy has sex with them and then ghosts them later.

Whereas men can literally be sexually aroused by online images of body parts without any face shown. Just a pic of "bewbs" or "pussy" can do the trick. And straight men are often told that no women wants to receive dick pics. Gay men are extremely happy with dick pics.

If female sexuality was like male sexuality, it would be perfectly normal for a guy to finish up work for the day, find a girl on Tinder, send a dick pic to her and say "i'm horny." And there is a very decent chance she would respond by saying "come over, let me suck on it." Or "come put it inside me asap." There is a good chance that she would return the pics with a picture of her breasts or vagina. And she would probably be down to explore your unique kinks. Possibly all before even sending face pics. Straight guys can pretend that this wouldn't appeal to them. They have had a lot of conditioning telling them that this sort of thing is wrong. There is also a devaluation of women who have a high body count. But I don't suspect this would be too much of a limiting factor for horny straight guys looking for a hookup. But if you're being honest, absent any friction on their ability to engage in casual sex with no strings attached, they would be all too happy to participate. And in this alternative world, the rate of STDs among straight men and women would equal or surpass that of gay men.

Instead of judging gay men for being slutty, maybe take the chance to look in the mirror. You would probably do some level of causal sex if the women were into it and saw it as just a way to have fun and feel good.

Free metro/bus/transportation?

Not happening. Fell for it again.

Free childcare?

Not happening. Fell for it again.

Netanyahu arrested?

Not happening. Fell for it again.

Your rent going down?

Not happening. Fell for it again.

Free groceries?

Not happening. Fell for it again.

ICE stopped from deporting people?

Not happening. Fell for it again.

Raising taxes on the rich and corporations to give you more stuff?

You guessed it. Not happening. Fell for it again.

When are Mamdani supporters going to stop winning the fell for it again award?

People on the left often support things like forgiving student loans, forgiving credit card debt, reducing or capping interest on debt, and eliminating various forms of debt. And the reason they give is so often something to the effect of "they are signing up people who didn't know how much they would end up paying."

Well, thanks to AI, that excuse no longer applies. Now no one can plausibly argue that they weren't old enough to understand their loan terms. You can literally take a picture of the loan and upload it to AI and tell it to explain it to you like a five year old, tell it to show what your payments will be, etc. The ignorance excuse is no longer valid. It wasn't valid before because every adult has a responsibility of due diligence, but now it's definitely not valid.

You have a better ability to understand your loan terms than 99% of people and companies in history. So the era of people on TikTok acting surprised at their interest accruing, should be coming to an end. You have a free personal financial advisor in your pocket.

Never again should there be a proposal to forgive peoples debt. We have bankruptcy for certain circumstances. But most of the time you can't discharge student debt. Not only would it be extremely unfair to ask others to pay for peoples' unpaid debts. But it would enable bad lending practices to continue with zero consequences. The debt forgiveness proposals have basically zero upside.

Predatory lenders would love taxpayers subsidizing debt. Don't give them what they want. Let them continue trying to draw blood from a stone.

There is no argument that is worth having on grindr. It's a hookup app. You aren't going to hook up with someone you're fighting with on grindr. If it's someone who you are mad is not responding to you, arguing with them is absolutely pathetic. You're basically begging for sex from someone who thinks you are disgusting.

If you are the person taking the bait and arguing with someone you think is disgusting, you're just feeding their pathetic insecurity and wasting time.

Talking on grindr is supposed to serve one purpose. Planning a hookup.

If someone doesn't respond to your face pic, there is no need to send a question mark. There's no question lingering in the ether that hasn't already been answered by his silence. He thinks you're fucking ugly and his penis will not work if that face is in his presence. This is really simple stuff guys. Please accept reality and keep things professional and efficient.

Canada isn't taking the wildfires seriously and they keep making excuses. At the same time, they are spending billions of dollars on necessary bullshit. The problem is getting worse every year and they are acting like things are normal.

I wish this were not the case because I love Canadians. But nothing is going to change unless they feel serious consequences and are forced to prioritize this issue. I want it to feel so urgent to them that they stop all of their foreign aid, suspend all unnecessary programs and spending and put everything they have into focusing on this one issue. Because we do not deserve to have air quality orders of magnitude worse than Mumbai, India in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis and Detroit throughout our core summer months. There's probably more people in the US metros choking on Canadian smoke than all of Canada.

I know there is a way to handle the problem that is being blocked by some low iq environmentalist politics. If the controlled burns need to wipe out a few endangered species, so be it. If you need to "escort" a few indigenous tribes to a new location, so be it. If you need to sell all your hectares of timer to Blackrock, so be it. Anything is better than this.

There is a neighborhood in Chicago that is predominantly Democratic voters. Not like 60% Democratic voters. Like 95+% Democratic voters. And they tried to build a Walgreens there. They actually had to bribe Walgreens with taxpayer money to build there because it's incredibly dangerous with over the top levels of crime. But Walgreens put a store there. And it was important to the community because no other store wants to be there and this community doesn't make their own stores or anything like that. So it was a "lifeline."

Well, Walgreens tried their best but the store was losing millions of dollars because the people just steal everything. It's extremely dangerous. People are getting killed all over the place. Etc. Etc. So they announced that they are closing the store permanently.

Well when they did this the Democratic party voters and politicians gathered and accused Walgreens of "corporate abandonment." And their argument is that they are entitled to Walgreens staying in their crime ridden neighborhood indefinitely and just losing money. So basically some form of reparations by retail theft. Just transferring Walgreens' money and merchandise to them until the end of time apparently.

The Democratic party wants to win national elections. But to do that, they have to pretend to be normal. But they actually are very afraid to be normal because their core voters are not normal. If they were normal they would tell their voters "stop demanding that Walgreens lose money for you, that is bad optics to the normal voters." They might even throw in "and it's morally wrong." But they are so dependent on democratic voters like the ones protesting Walgreens that they can't even give them any hint of criticism for their appalling and disgusting behavior.

So I am calling on democrats to please do the right thing and teach your voters that Walgreens does not owe them any form of retail theft reparations. That if they want a business in their neighborhood they need to improve their behavior. This is the same thing you would tell a group of school children that were being naughty. But these lessons from kindergarten seem to be lost on an alarming number of democratic party voters.

https://x.com/washington_EY/status/2053531765214433326?s=20

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/04/with-another-south-side-walgreens-set-to-close-neighbors-protest-corporate-abandonment/

https://x.com/Notwokenow/status/2052324017697128588?s=20

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This story is getting picked up today. Just became part of the governor race. New interesting video https://x.com/DarrenBaileyIL/status/2053900339376496743?s=20

Biggest lie of my lifetime: “We have too many people in prison in this country because we put people behind bars for weed.” *Wow! That sounds bad!* Reality: no one has been to prison for weed in decades. It’s not a real thing. It’s fake. They lied. We need way more people locked up. The scary people who belong in prison are running around the streets.

But now we know why they pretended it was a thing. Their goal was to legalize theft, fentanyl, meth, shitting on busses, and violent crime. They knew people would not vote for that. So they came up with something people would vote for.

Every day we see murders committed by people who have been arrested dozens of times for serious, violent crimes. The judges and prosecutors who failed at their jobs face zero consequences. We get the worst judges and prosecutors and mayors because we believed they would “decriminalize weed.” We were lied to. They decriminalized most every type of crime. Democrats don’t believe in prison. They think prison is racist. Now we are all in the prison. See how that works? The train you take to work is the prison now. Only without security guards.

The figureheads of looksmaxxing take extreme measures to enhance their appearance, taking illegal steroids etc. Their extreme behavior gets them publicity and name recognition. But most of the people who see that are not going to go out and start taking steroids. They are going to say "what can I reasonably do to improve my appearance without going to extremes?" They are going to go to the gym. They are going to eat better. They are going to invest in quality skincare, haircare and good clothes.

This is a big improvement on the performative indifference straight American men have had for far too long. For much of my life, many men would conclude "chicks prefer dad bods" and wear gym shorts and graphic t shirts everywhere. Golf attire if they really wanted to "dress up." And they wouldn't really "try to look good," an activity viewed as homosexual. In college I used to see guys' dorm room bathrooms and some of them thought it was ok to have zero products and just a bar of soap. Or a single container of 3 in 1 shave/bodywash/shampoo product and nothing else. Gross!

As people have been pointing out, straight women and gay men have been "looksmaxxing" throughout modern times. It's high time straight American men take this seriously. Males are the more aesthetically extravagant sex most species. This is most obvious in Peacocks. Humans are meant to be the same way. But somewhere along the line we decided that the females would take on the extravagant role.

There are unhealthy shortcuts to achieve looksmaxxing such as steroids and experimental drugs. But beauty is basically a measure of your overall health. If someone is perfectly healthy at a prime age, they are probably hot. They are probably getting enough exercise and nutrition. It's not narcissistic to focus on your appearance within reason. It matters. It's not everything. You still have to be smart and have a good personality. But straight American men pretending like it doesn't matter was a much bigger problem than a couple of guys going to extremes to look better and thereby normalizing putting effort into one's appearance.