I have never hidden my previous employment with the United States government or the fact that I voluntarily and gladly took a DOGE deal to exit government after the Biden administration. I moved to the right out of conviction. I am happy to discuss my previous employment and why I left, anytime, with anyone. Yes, I was a leftist, even DSA, even antifa! I was a dirtbag leftist. I even listened to Chapo. I was a silly dumb young woman. I thought they were smart; I believed in international liberalism and good ol' union power. I went to a humanities college. From there, grad school. Then I became a cynical lib when Bernie lost, and worked for the government. I hated my time in government. Nothing radicalized me more: the government was stifling intellectually and ineffective. I also realized then exactly how left-wing D.C. was. I was on the left initially because my family lost everything in 2008, my dad had to work at Wendy's. We lost everything. When I got to D.C., I realized how much all the people in charge hated people like my dad, who provided for my family when we were struggling. And so, I began to lose faith in liberalism and drift, then teleport, skitter, right. And yes, I took a DOGE deal. I moved to the right in late-2019/2020 as I read, met new people, and met my husband. I then voted for Donald Trump. Pivoting from international AID to a new sector is not easy, and my one good chance to leave fell through due to relocation issues. If you have ever worked with relocation/clearance issues, you know it's not easy to shift careers. So, my exit was delayed, and I was around long enough to take a DOGE deal. Then, I started this little blog to practice my writing. Since beginning, I have moved more to the right; after all, it's been nearly two years. People change. If you would like to attack me or criticize me, that is fine. I check dm's regularly and don't mind chatting. I am always happy to defend my own writing and past experiences. I hold no animosity towards anyone.

Reminder: The foreign-born population grew more under Biden in four years than under Obama 1, 2, and Trump 1 in twelve. The people who compiled this data *did not believe* it was possible to reduce the foreign-born population this quickly. Source @CIS_org

The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags, to remind State Department employees who they work for.

You don't know this but I actually didn't go to the data center party because I want to make my country rich, I did it because Claude is building my disabled sister an app that is entertaining without being too childish, has her favorite games and instrument (the piano), and talks to her (she's a chatterbox) entertaining her so my mom can have breaks occasionally, as she's a full time caregiver. I'm so glad that there are now tools that let me use my one meager talent (writing) to create things like this. Disabled adults have few entertainment options that aren't totally belittling, keep pace with their reduced capabilities, and are meaningfully enriching rather than just busyboxes. AI is truly incredible for allowing normal people to access bespoke software. I have no coding experience at all, btw. Insane to want to take this away from people.

Our culture is opposed to any display of excitement or ambition among anyone. Randomly scrolling x this morning and: - young parents should not teach their children to read (this gives their children an unfair advantage) - young people should not have thrown a data center party (coming from Katie Miller of all people, who has a literal fake podcast, getting angry young people decided *of their own accord* to celebrate a magical technology that will change the world and got, like, 5k in funding from 3 small tech companies to pay for space and drinks. I love the Trump administration, but daily, they do much worse than offer people free drinks) - young people cannot use offensive names online (even though everyone saying this has done the same) Just a totally geriatric culture, not only among boomers but among millenials too! In fact, boomers are better. They are more openly selfish and less self righteous.

Not too late for Trump to inspire young people with a bold Five Year Plan of replacing all the slave labor in Our Economy with agents, robots and Americans. Just stop issuing or renewing H-1Bs. Debank helots, then prosecute their employers. Teach the meth heads to hang drywall

Protestors at the Data center party. Booed while taken off stage with chants of USA

My critique of the right is as follows: If someone gets a DJ, dance!

Wow you're telling me now for the first time

We did the vax card thing during Covid. We can do ICE checkpoints anywhere I want to go on the weekend.

You should remind your friends that the GOP wants to interpret a midterm loss as a repudiation of Trump and a call for a return to “respectable conservatism,” just like it did in 2018, 2020, and 2022. The GOP will never “learn its lesson” and actually represent its voters. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the party has existed for, which is to contain those voters rather than represent them. The only thing that will change that is continuing the process of having Patriots take it over. This has already been remarkably fruitful. It works. We simply need to keep pushing. Develop a plan to get 10 of your friends to vote for Republicans with you in the midterms. You have time.

such a silly take. the state of american manufacturing before ww2 was a mess. the curse of reading a bunch of history is that few others have. just watch the USA over the next 5, 10 and 15 years. the empire hasn’t even started yet

One of my early black pills is that while working for AID I has to travel internationally constantly. My favorite trips were to the Phillipines and Bosnia. In both countries, taxi drivers upcharge and scam you: but they treat you with respect and are pleasant. My others trips through the Persian Gulf took me into constant contact with Indians, Afghans, and Arabs, and in every single interaction I felt deeply unsafe. I could tell, because I was only a mid-level person, they were constantly trying to assess how "big" I was relative to them. If I was found wanting, I could be ripped off and lied to. If I was seen as bigger, they would find someone to lick my shoe if I asked. The Bosnians and Phillipinos would never do this. They may live in post-war or low level war countries, they may have no social trust, but generally, they are culturally respectful of outsiders. They feel different than Japan and Singapore, who are both developed enough to be bored of outsiders, even gov. visitors. Anyway, I had to sit next to an Indian grandmother, belly out, feet uncovered, on a 12 hour flight from Dubai. The stench was brutal. She jutted into my chair. Tried to take my armrest. Didn't speak a word of english. Her family visited her walking through the plane barefoot. They were going to the United States, obviously were poor, and yet were experiencing a luxury of the first world in international travel. Their egoes were bloated with excitement. If I had been on that same trip seated next to my greasy Bosnian taxi driver, I would have been treated very respectfully. When some cultures are given luxuries, they become more humble and grateful. These are mostly western or Christian cultures. When others are, they become more arrogant and ungrateful. You actually can't imagine how venal and selfish some indians are. Our western minds are genuinely too selfless. Even in the heights of our vanity, we simply wish to be understood; we do not wish to lord over others. The worst Americans still feel the need to proclaim their Christlike virtues, the best Indians know their country won't ever be virtuous.

I went to a right wing party and announced I was a communist and I ended up a happily married maga republican

Automation likely already has lowered standards, especially in aviation. The FAA requires high hours post-Colgan Air, but it is without question a 727 required skills not necessarily honed in today’s pilots of Airbus and other FBW aircraft. The demographics of today’s pilots also not the same as those in the 1970s. Separately, non-AI generated text will indeed become a luxury item, as any bespoke, handmade item is today.

FYI: In ten years, antiracist leftists will see the use of AI by non-white people as no different than affirmative action helping them achieve their dreams. They're already doing this with business advertisements. I suspect that in a few years, as long as the writer is black, they will be allowed to submit AI-assisted work. As AI trickles down into culture and becomes "prole" and creolized, the idea of writing a book yourself will be interpreted as an aristocratic luxury. This is a good intersection of disability politics/race politics, too. And because they've adopted the myth that AI is harmful to non-white people, they will interpret AI use as racial reparations. This is just the natural arc of leftism, which turns on itself every few years.

One actually very funny element of this is that Marx and Jefferson were both uncomfortable with the Rural/Urban divide. Žižek once talked about how, like, 8 or so of the 10 demands in the Communist Manifesto were met, with the exception of the collapse of the rural/urban divide and the spread of people across the landscape. Jefferson famously favored an agrarian/rural Republic—albeit for far more rational and virtuous reasons than Marx. Cities make egalitarians uncomfortable because of their sheer capital accumulation and cultural creativity. This is always something on the back of my mind because it's a core demand of 19th-century communism that was just totally dropped by all communists. It's the English utopian black sheep of the world revolution in Marx and Engels' communist vision, later excised by power-hungry leftists. Unironically, both in time and spirit, Marx and Jefferson were closer to each other on this question than we may like to think today. In their ideal world, it's cottages and farms from sea to sea, small villages dotting every other hill. Hobbit utopia. Though Jefferson was more Luddite than Marx. Anyway, thank god for Alexander Hamilton.

I actually do believe a pack of oreo cookies is worth more than an hour of a minimum wage employees work. It is a miracle of capitalism it is not

One of the most terrible losses as a result of mass migration is the loss of the distinctly American voice. Read that last passage. That's a joke you know just came to him. Something witty and simple and humble and yet achingly painful. Something an old man says to you when he has trouble getting out of his truck. Very beautiful. Very distinctly American. Rare and precious and dying.

The American Right has adopted illiteralism as a response to the discursive sclerosis of the bureaucratic establishment, abandoning analytical rigor and the projection of long-term, orderly power in favor of populist, anti-system abstractions. Territory is power: fight in the uni