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Blexas turned out to moreso be a revolt by the Republican voterbase instead of the state becoming a true purple swing state. If the Texas GOP doesn’t listen to this wake-up call, they’ll risk the same thing happening in 2028. Dems know their ceiling now and will 100% push for it.
As per @Thorongil16's suggestion, I added TX (note: it's only 12 counties that cover 63% of the vote) and it bucks the trend!
So far, Texas is the only state where our model indicates that persuasion explains more of Democrats net gain than turnout does!
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anyway to answer the original tweet, the New Deal and the postwar security architecture were seen by many as fulfilling Wilson's ambitions and WWII (and the breakdown of international order in the 30s) were seen as proving Wilson to be prescient.
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In “Operation Paul Bunyan,” personally ordered by President Ford, a convoy of 23 American tanks and armored vehicles, along with 800 soldiers, descends on Panmunjom to cut down a single tree where two U.S. soldiers were hacked to death by North Korean border guards three days ago.
Overhead, American fighter jets, helicopters, and bombers fly and monitor the situation, and the tree is felled in 42 minutes with no casualties.
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The Eighties
- Satanic Panic — 1980–1994
- Dungeons & Dragons occult panic — 1979–1992
- AIDS / “gay plague” panic — 1981–1991
- Day-care sexual-abuse panic — 1983–1995
- Satanic ritual-abuse panic — 1983–1995
- Recovered-memory abuse panic — 1984–1997
- Heavy-metal / backmasking panic — 1984–1991
- PMRC / “porn rock” panic — 1985–1990
- Crack-cocaine panic — 1985–1992
- Crack-baby panic — 1985–1995
- War on Drugs moral crusade — 1986–1996
- Teen-pregnancy “epidemic” — 1986–1996
- Gang / drive-by-shooting panic — 1988–1996
- Gangsta-rap panic — 1988–1998
- Climate-catastrophe discourse — 1988–present
The Nineties
- Violent-video-game panic — 1992–2011
- Mortal Kombat / Night Trap panic — 1992–1994
- Sex-offender / child-predator panic — 1994–2006
- Superpredator panic — 1995–2001
- School-shooting / Columbine panic — 1997–2002
- Internet-pornography panic — 1995–2005
- Internet-predator panic — 1998–2010
- Y2K apocalypse scare — 1998–2000
- Ecstasy / rave panic — 1999–2004
- Vaccine-autism panic — 1998–present
The 2000s
- Islamic-terrorism panic — 2001–2010
- Anthrax panic — 2001–2002
- Human-trafficking panic — 2001–present
- Methamphetamine panic — 2004–2010
- “Rainbow party” teen-sex panic — 2003–2007
- MySpace / online-predator panic — 2005–2010
- To Catch a Predator wave — 2005–2008
- Cyberbullying panic — 2006–2012
- Sexting panic — 2008–2012
- Islamic “creeping Sharia” panic — 2008–2016
The 2010s
- Occupy / “the 1 percent” — 2011–2012
- Campus sexual-assault / rape-culture wave — 2011–2017
- Police-shooting / Black Lives Matter wave — 2014–2021
- Campus-speech / microaggression wave — 2014–2019
- Woke / social-justice cascade — 2014–2023
- Trans bathroom-predator panic — 2015–2017
- Russian-election-interference panic — 2016–2019
- Fake-news / disinformation panic — 2016–present
- #MeToo — 2017–2020
- QAnon / elite-pedophile-cabal panic — 2017–2021
- Teen screen-time / social-media panic — 2017–present
- Child-sex-trafficking panic — 2018–2023
- Vaping / EVALI panic — 2018–2020
- Drag-queen-story-hour panic — 2019–present
The 2020s
- COVID contamination / safety maximalism — 2020–2022
- COVID conspiracy / vaccine panic — 2020–2023
- George Floyd / racial-reckoning cascade — 2020–2022
- DEI institutionalization wave — 2020–2024
- Election-fraud / stolen-election panic — 2020–2022
- Critical-race-theory-in-schools panic — 2020–2023
- January 6 / domestic-extremism panic — 2021–2024
- “Groomer” / school-gender panic — 2021–present
- School-library obscenity panic — 2021–present
- Rainbow-fentanyl panic — 2022–2023
- Generative-AI cheating panic — 2022–2024
- AI deepfake / election-disinformation panic — 2023–present
- AI extinction / runaway-AI alarm — 2023–present
- AI jobs / anti-AI cultural backlash — 2023–present
- Data-center backlash — 2024–present
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A comprehensive list of moral panics in US history via gpt
Colonial America
- Antinomian crisis — 1636–1638
- Connecticut witchcraft panic — 1647–1663
- Quaker menace / persecution — 1656–1661
- New England witchcraft scares — 1660s–1690s
- Salem witch hysteria — 1692–1693
- First Great Awakening — 1739–1745
- “Enthusiasm” / New Light controversy — 1740–1750
- Popery / Anglican bishop scares — 1760s–1770s
- Quebec Act / Catholic conspiracy panic — 1774–1776
Early Republic and Antebellum America
- Second Great Awakening — 1790–1840
- Bavarian Illuminati panic — 1797–1802
- Alien / Jacobin radicalism panic — 1798–1800
- Sabbatarian crusade — 1810s–1830s
- Benevolent Empire — 1815–1861
- Temperance crusade — 1826–1919
- Anti-Masonic panic — 1826–1836
- Sunday-mail panic — 1828–1831
- Nat Turner / slave-insurrection panic — 1831–1835
- Masturbation / “self-abuse” panic — 1830s–1910s
- Anti-convent / nun panic — 1834–1845
- Maria Monk / priestly-sex conspiracy — 1836–1840s
- Millerite apocalypse — 1840–1844
- Know-Nothing / papal conspiracy panic — 1844–1860
- Irish Catholic menace — 1840s–1860s
- Mormon theocracy panic — 1833–1858
- Spiritualism craze — 1848–1870s
- Slave Power conspiracy panic — 1840s–1860
- Abolitionist-insurrection panic — 1850s–1861
- Mormon polygamy crusade — 1852–1890
Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
- “Black rule” / Reconstruction panic — 1867–1877
- Chinese labor panic — 1870–1882
- Yellow Peril — 1870s–1924
- Comstockery / obscenity crusade — 1873–1915
- Social-purity crusade — 1870s–1917
- Anti-prostitution crusade — 1870s–1910s
- Opium-den panic — 1870s–1914
- Catholic-school / Blaine panic — 1875–1890
- Anti-polygamy crusade — 1877–1890
- Anarchist / Haymarket panic — 1886–1901
- “Black brute” / rape panic — 1880s–1930s
- Degeneration / hereditary-defect panic — 1890s–1930s
- Race-suicide panic — 1900–1925
- Cocaine-fiend panic — 1900–1914
- Dance-hall / working-girl vice panic — 1900s–1920s
- White-slavery panic — 1907–1914
- Eugenic “feeblemindedness” panic — 1907–1930s
World War I through the Depression
- Anti-German hysteria — 1917–1918
- Wartime disloyalty / sedition panic — 1917–1919
- First Red Scare — 1919–1920
- Palmer Raids / Bolshevik conspiracy — 1919–1920
- 100% Americanism — 1917–1925
- Second Ku Klux Klan moral crusade — 1915–1928
- Immigration / racial-stock panic — 1919–1924
- Jazz morality panic — 1917–1930s
- Flapper / sexual-modernity panic — 1920–1929
- Prohibition — 1919–1933
- Evolution / “monkey” panic — 1922–1925
- Al Smith / Catholic-president panic — 1928
- Gangster / crime-wave panic — 1920s–1934
- Reefer Madness — 1930–1942
- Sex-crime / “sexual psychopath” panic — 1937–1955
- War of the Worlds panic myth — 1938
World War II and Early Cold War
- Japanese fifth-column panic — 1941–1945
- Wartime juvenile-delinquency panic — 1942–1945
- Second Red Scare — 1947–1957
- McCarthyism — 1950–1954
- Lavender Scare — 1947–1969
- Comic-book panic — 1948–1955
- Juvenile-delinquency panic — 1953–1961
- Rock-and-roll / race-mixing panic — 1954–1960
- Elvis / teenage-sexuality panic — 1956–1958
- Switchblade / teenage-gang panic — 1956–1959
- Beatnik moral panic — 1957–1963
- Pornography / obscenity panic — 1955–1973
- Fluoridation / communist-poisoning panic — 1950s–1960s
The Sixties and Seventies
- Hippie / counterculture panic — 1965–1973
- LSD / psychedelic panic — 1966–1972
- Urban-riot panic — 1964–1972
- Black militant / revolutionary panic — 1967–1973
- Campus-radical panic — 1968–1972
- Law-and-order crime panic — 1968–1976
- Overpopulation / Population Bomb — 1967–1982
- Ecological-doomsday wave — 1968–1975
- Global-cooling scare — 1972–1978
- Cult / brainwashing panic — 1974–1984
- Snuff-film panic — 1975–1980
- Halloween poisoned-candy panic — 1970–2001
- Anti-nuclear-power crusade — 1975–1990
- “Save Our Children” / gay-recruitment panic — 1977–1981
- Nuclear-war / nuclear-freeze wave — 1979–1987
- Missing-children panic — 1979–1986
- Stranger Danger — 1979–1995
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Cruelly ironic to post this on the 5th anniversary of the fall of Kabul & disgraceful withdrawal.
When America becomes unreliable, our allies and partners don't stand still. They adapt. They hedge. They look elsewhere. And the consequences to the American people are serious. I’ve been warning about this for over a year, and this piece by @FareedZakaria eloquently illustrates why restoring U.S. credibility isn't just about repairing relationships. It's about protecting our security, our prosperity, and our leadership. Worth a read.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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It’s actually amazing and disgusting how psy-opped Australians have become about America.
I’m going to have to write a massive thing about my trip like Australian Tocqueville. What I’ve concluded is that our media and political class have peddled the myth that every single American is dying on the street of poverty and social collapse solely in order to hide the fact that our own living standards are collapsing.
Their middle class is literally our upper class guys. The top tax rate in Australia of 47% kicks in at the equivalent of 130,000 USD.
MEANWHILE YOU CAN EARN 225,000 USD MANAGING A FUCKING BUCCEES CAR WASH HERE.
THAT IS 325,000 AUD FOR A JOB THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE A COLLEGE DEGREE.
FUCKING NUCLEAR ENGINEERS IN THE UK START ON 20,000 POUNDS!!! (26 K USD, 38K AUD).
THE TOP TAX RATE IN TEXAS IS 37% AND STARTS AT $768,700 USD AS A MARRIED COUPLE. THAT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF A MILLION DOLLAR SALARY IN AUSTRALIA.
WE ARE TALKING A DIFFERENCE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS EACH YEAR IN YOUR OWN BACK POCKET.
My friend moved here for work. On his salary in Australia he would have to pay an extra $15,000 AUD in tax each year. That is literally how much it costs to raise a kid according to latest official estimates. So he’s now planning on having children with his Australian wife. He can finally afford to start a family.
His place is bigger than mine in Australia. He rents it for the equivalent of $600 AUD a week whereas my rent is $900 AUD and I need to have room mates to afford it.
We’re the same age and I think we earn roughly the same income. But lives in his own massive place with his wife and they are now planning kids. Meanwhile I live with room mates in a small rental.
We are so abysmally cucked in Australia. They are living so much better in America. The difference really only comes when comparing how the bottom 10% live in each society. Of course if I was disabled or something I would definitely prefer the social support net in Australia. In America you can completely drop off the cliff into pure social collapse if you’re in the bottom 5-10% in a way that I don’t think exists in Australian society. Thats how you get the phenomenon of Skid Row and fentanyl zombies in Democrat cities like LA and San Francisco (which I saw last week - it was fucked).
But the overwhelming majority of Americans live better than Australians. If you are middle class here it’s the equivalent of being upper class in Australia.
The manager of a BUCCEES car wash would be a top 1% earner in Australia. That’s how much money, wealth and abundance exists in America.
I wish Australians could see it so we could shock ourselves out of our own self imposed decline. It’s completely self imposed but due to Tall Poppy Syndrome we refuse to see it.
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Who is this guy and why is he yappmaxxing?
Girls from the US are a lot more attractive than EU simply because the gene pool was devastated during WW2. All the good genes died in war, while the physically unfit stayed back and reproduced.
Genetics are the number one factor in looks, but Looksmaxing still can bring success. So im going to offer my looksmaxing course 50% off to the French because not only do they need it, but they also cant afford it at full ticket.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Europe had more civilian than military deaths in WW2, disproving this claim and the conclusion made.
Arguably the US sent their best men as joining the military was voluntary, and suffered over 400.000 casualties.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War…
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The President is going to have to figure it out on his own just like the rest of us did. This can’t be explained to him just like it couldn’t be explained to us.
One must bash their head against the wall repeatedly with these room temperature IQ, impulse control having barbarians before you finally say “looks like it’s fuck this shit o’clock” and start destroying them without mercy.
He appears to be a benevolent man at his core. And benevolent people take longer to come around to the truth of fellow humans being very bad. Because benevolent people are inherently good.
It takes time for that benevolence to turn into betrayal. But when it does, the fury burns white hot.
He will experience this. It is inevitable. Nobody is immune from the results of dealing with the retardation that is radical Islam.
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“We love Pakistan”, says US Vice President JD Vance following his meeting with the Pakistani delegation here at Burgenstock.
