We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
📝 Lomez on X:
"Zoomers are the first cohort to be fully immersed in the reality of generational downward mobility. While millenials will also earn less than their parents, they were formed under the expectations of America ascending to a kind of Post-History stasis where at worst their status and wealth was permanently locked in.
Zoomers have none of these illusions and rightfully reject the obsolete and facile narratives they’re expected to swallow and obey to make sense of their lives and ambitions. Those are dead narratives. They do not reflect reality at all. They do not reflect the deranged cultural and political circumstances they’re expected to navigate from a position of negative expected value for pretty much any career path outside of genius tech outlier.
Scolding them is a stupid and pointless exercise that will only drive them further into despair and resentment.
Yes. Don’t be resentful. Don’t give in to despair. Be resourceful and lay a claim on your own life. But it’s also going to require offering Zoomers much better and updated narratives and opportunities for how to accrue status and wealth and the basic conditions for living a dignified life for the average guy who is not an outlier tech genius.
There are short, medium, and long term fixes for this. Some straightforwardly political. Some more complex cultural questions. But the implicit promise of boomer America, even Gen X America, is no longer viable, and that broken promise has absolutely nothing to do with Zoomers themselves."
📎 Lomez
We hear a lot of rhetoric that 'Islam has conquered Europe'.
Clearly there are problems with mass migration here.
Yet this has been built in the Great State of Texas.
So the problems seem to be everywhere!
🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸 Israeli liberal newspaper, Haaretz, published several testimonies from IDF soldiers that partook in the invasion of Gaza detailing the war crimes they or their colleagues committed:
🔶 A mobilised soldier recounted he and his platoon shot dead 4 unarmed Palestinians in Khan Yunis, an elderly man and three teenage boys
🔶 A sniper admitting he shot and killed Palestinians waiting or seeking food and aid
🔶 Drone operators who knowingly dropped grenades on Palestinian civilians
🔶 Another IDF soldier recounted how his commanding officer executed an unarmed Palestinian for no reason at all
🔶 An HR officer recounted how her unit used machineguns and tanks to kill 5 unarmed Palestinians trying to cross from south Gaza to north Gaza. Later a bulldozer buried them to "prevent diseases from spreading".
🔶 Same officer said how the surviving Palestinian from the previous incident she described was detained for one night and one IDF soldier urinated on him causing ...
🇮🇱🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Let's take a step back and consider the bigger picture.
Strategic goals on day one of the war:
• Israel: eliminate Iran and Hezbollah as threats to Israel
• Iran: survive, deter future aggression
Fast forward to today, six weeks in, and it's obvious the Israeli war effort has failed. Their ideal state for Iran is Balkanization, or a second Syria, unable to mount any cohesive efforts against Israel. But the Iranian state remains stable, the regime change attempts failed. The IDF again failed to do more than push a few miles into Lebanon. Whatever the Israelis were attempting to do to destroy Hezbollah with the cooperation of the Lebanese government also seems to have failed. And Hezbollah seems much stronger than anyone assumed before this conflict.
The Israeli ability to achieve these goals hinged on sucking the US into maximal commitment in war against Iran. A second GWOT would have been ideal, with the US bogged down in Iran for years or even decades. At the moment, ...
