This and the “no sex thing” have the same cause.

I hate when I’m a level 30 mafia boss my wife dies and I give the doctor $50k to help her and he laughs maniacally and transforms into a level 30 mafia cadre and gains a full head of hair and my wife comes back to life and leaves me for him and I become a level 1 crook

I’ve been saying for quite some time that, with the exception of the UK, there is no reason for the US to assume that, if push came to shove, Europe would side with the US over China.

Look at trade relations.

Another amazing mobile ad. Don’t feed your gentle infant or else they’ll grow up to be a ravenous watermelon fiend.

This mobile game ad honestly gives Homer’s Odyssey a run for its money. Just watch this.

HELLO FELLOW PATRIOTS

Flowers on a country fried steak, call that Aristopopulism

Friday night

I’m not a gun guy—like at all. I’ve gone to a shooting range. I don’t like it. I don’t get the rush from shooting, collecting guns. But oh boy Justin is really trying to turn me into a gun guy.

If you’d like some reading on this topic, I highly suggest sociologist Robert Nisbet’s “The Quest for Community” as he discussed at length the causes and effects of atomization in American life. Christopher Lasch’s “Revolt of the Elites” discusses economic cloistering.

We need to do something, and we need to do it fast—not just for the sake of currently disaffected young men, but for everyone. The societal ills we will encounter if we don’t will be perilous.

Indeed, Aristotle warns us against excess and deficiency, and (you’d think) common sense does as well. Toxicity occurs at either end of the spectrum, from weird macho culture to soyboy nonsense. Allow men to be good men: good fathers, good husbands, members of community.

from those who came before us, in preparation for those who will come after us. It’s not just hokey “retvrn” talking points—it’s our only hope. We must help young men realize there is such a thing as good and healthy masculinity that doesn’t become a toxic caricature.