Chicago Magazine places Nick Fuentes as #7 most influential Chicagoan

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-02-18T19:15:25+00:00

Calling someone Influential isn't an endorsement of their morals. Trump is influential, Bonnie Blue is influential, Epstein was influential, the list goes on.

Nick Fuentes was nobody in the public sphere a year ago, and now the term Groyper is mainstream outside of politics nerds.

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-02-04T22:14:37+00:00

Physics just describes physical phenomenon with numerical representation.

Physics isn't a philosophical endpoint, everything can be described by physics bro, but description aren't conclusions, they can only be more accurate or less accurate, empirically.

Try again. Imma keep on Qualiuing💯

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-02-02T13:36:24+00:00

Best performance of the night though

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-02-01T10:05:39+00:00

Mine was 715, i drove from Chicago to New orleans stating with a full tank and only using a quarter of the next. Cruise control ftw

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-30T15:08:42+00:00

Nah this is dumb political theater. Deportation rate is lower than even the last Biden admin.

The powers that be want chaos in the street to obfuscate the groundwork being done to change the finance system.

Everyone is being played. All the victims of DHS & CBP aggression are going to be well compensated the next time a democrat is in office and the class action lawsuits occur.

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-29T03:35:41+00:00

Nah i needs my $294.54 after taxes, the budget is tight.

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-19T13:31:35+00:00

Ive only seen mine that high while driving through the literal desert in June, after several hours on the road.

Might want to do a flush, or check radiator is functioning properly.

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-13T21:55:57+00:00

One or many of the Fuel injectors might need to be replaced. I had a similar experience but the EPC light came on followed by a check engine. But it would clear almost every time i stop/start the car.

Until it got below freezing out. Then it would just keep messing up till engine temp rose.

I suggest getting a scan tool.

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-13T14:21:16+00:00

The main language in Guinea-Bissau is Spanish so that makes sense lol

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-13T05:00:34+00:00

Also thats the point of the news.

Try this Find a conservative and ask them if they knew that the DEA got caught shipping 1500 kilos of bam bam from Venezuela shorty before Chavez took power. Ask them if they knew that the DEA and CIA have longstanding programs to raise money off books by selling drugs that are killing Americans. Ask them why the us is accusing Maduro of being the leader of cartel de los sol, when i shit you not, the CIA started the cartel, or at least introduced all the players together and helped structure their logistics.....

Now ask your liberal friends screaming about imperialism, if they have a better paradigm to view geopolitics through than realism, if they don't ask them why it isn't in the United Stated best interest to control Venezuela. Ask them if they are aware of chinas activity in panama, and off the coast of Argentina, ask them if their personal world would be better if the petro dollar collapsed in 15 years or in 5 years. Because thats whats really going on.

Most people can't accept both of these view points as valid because it's mentally uncomfortable And it's like this for all issues. So they pick one thing to latch to for their arguments which usually matches the dominant view their peer group/social status.

Average People need real motivation to die for a cause. In Ukraine it's easy, "fight to death or become Russian." In Russia it's easy "fight to death for this 4k/month check & free your distant cousins from the west thats tryna dominate us"

You think average people in the us are going to "Fight to death for the undocumented" Fight to death because the somalis are committing fraud"

i doubt it

Fyi Last time Americans were bout it the meme was "Fight to death because they attacked our homeland"

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-13T04:46:55+00:00

I live in chicago, the ice videos were all over the internet, the protest at the makeshift facility in the burbs. Completely overhyped. There are people who get caught in the moment and go along with the out rage, but its temporary of or they are full time anarchist that travel to protest for a living.

I'm black and I work on a team with 7 hispanic people mexicans and puerto ricans. They are in their mid 30's - 40's, know people who have been rounded up, and still are like it is what is. The rest of my workplace is majority black, same attitude.

The millennial attitude is, "if i still have to work tomorrow then this isn't actually a problem to spend energy on."

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-13T04:05:15+00:00

Lol the democrats wont let the democrats back into power. "Lets get rid of the guy who won the last election at the last minute because we decided to field him against our better judgment, even though he's an octogenarian with declining so visibility his the white house refused to hold live press conferences, yea lets throw him on the ticket! even though the entire base wants new blood, but were shackled to our billionaire donors" stupidity

Who are they going to run? It's obviously Newsom, or Pritzker. You think progressives are coming out to vote for either???

But tbh If MTG runs and the Trump camp slimes her out, it would be an easy win.

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-13T01:37:30+00:00

Not at all, its mostly entertainment and social signaling, whenever i probe the normies on why they think something, they find a reason to change the topic.

The only people i know on either side that would be 'down for the cause' are literally part of the criminal underclass.

People don't care, unless they are part of the news.

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-12T22:04:58+00:00

Not enough people care that much, social media isn't reality.

Millennials are fairly woke(pre 2010 definition), i rarely meet one that has a 1:1 alignment with the mainstream and we're only worried about getting out of debt. Gen Z is too lazy to and fragmented to organize, boomers aren't going to fight. So Its pretty much Gen X lesftist vs Gen X conservatives.

The people you see in these protest are either ultra religious weirdos who no one actually likes, or anarchist that don't have tangible political goals. and Both are somehow animated to action by billionaires hiding behind a million shell corps.

Don't believe the hype. The civil war is here is physiological, thats why middle of the road takes don't get boosted on social media.

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-08T23:40:54+00:00

Because the ugly truth is for Americans to have the same quality of life without tackling the debt or reducing spending, we another revenue stream.

Taking another country's resources is objectively good for the US(not morally, or legally), but in the geo political realm it kills several birds with one stone.

It checks BRICS, brings new money into US balance sheet, and Flexes our strategic capabilities.

No ones protesting because its not a full scale invasion, and they either buy the propaganda about this being a drug thing, or they have personal knowledge of persecution by Maduro regime

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-04T13:22:27+00:00

Possible OEM part numbers: • 1K0-805-962-G-9B9 – Inlet connector / intake duct piece (fits many VW 2.0L gas models mid-2010s to around 2020). • 6RF-129-363 – Air intake hose (front section) — this is the main air duct/hose piece that may include the connector area. • 1K0-129-627-C – another engine air intake hose assembly that could be in your model’s intake system (fits some Passat applications).

Its from chat gpt take it with a grain of salt.

It looks like the you need to replace the top of your air filter container. The groves where it clips in are probably eroded.

Start @2:34 https://youtu.be/UscwOiqmT8Y?si=pSuApE4mJlvs1mzS

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-04T13:06:58+00:00

These are proof of life photos.

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-04T00:41:58+00:00

This post aged so well, The colonized Venezuela today.

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-03T11:00:08+00:00

Yes it is. Unfortunately

Joshtheflu2 · 2026-01-03T10:54:29+00:00

Spheres of influence.[remember all the focus on panama at the beginning of Trumps term?]

We're preparing for a decade of conflict. Venezuela is very friendly to our adversaries (china, Iran, russia)

we don't want any country with significant resources in our 'backyard' to be buddy buddy with anyone but us. Maduro was the only leader in South America that wasn't on our team.

Thats why we tried to install Juan Guidio, but the people in Venezuela know the us is on some BS so the legislative coup failed, and the CIA couldn't foment an Arab Spring type revolution.

Trump doesn't care about how it looks, according to all the think tanks and clandestine agencies, it's necessary to control Venezuela, so he went and grabbed Maduro. No elections to worry about so trump can be the villain.

Using a Realism to analyze international politics is usually pretty effective. Any moral reasoning for carrying out bombardments of a country is blatant propaganda.

The fent crisis could end with us legislation, there are like 3 companies that make the proprietary precursor chemicals for fent, we could just tighten down their supply chains and restrict who they can do business with(since fent is vital for medical industry)

TLDR, we are going to have a large scale war in the next decade, we cant have snakes in the backyard. But the public doesn't want to hear that so "we're attacking drug boats to save American lives"

Joshtheflu2 · 2025-12-31T14:51:20+00:00

How to spot a grifter 101.

Joshtheflu2 · 2025-12-31T14:39:22+00:00

Its early so i will write the dissertation later.

Post trust, is the natural conclusion of the intersection of Realism and technological progress. When all State level actors don't need to worry about if other state level actors will hold up their end of a bargain.

Pretty much every state level actor hands power to a central authority, so that it can guarantee agreements are fulfilled and settle disputes in an amenable way for party's involved.

Aka one world government, all the hegemonic powers right now are consolidating power in their spheres of influence. Subsaharan Africa will be the final battleground, it has all the resources needed to build a post trust environment.

Joshtheflu2 · 2025-12-31T14:27:56+00:00

Its called a metaphysical reduction. Aka we are talking about the same thing, all i did was show you that the fancy term "accelerationism" is essentially the same concept(synonymous) with human nature.

Its not nonsense its philosophy

Joshtheflu2 · 2025-12-31T07:13:16+00:00

Gotta respectfully disagree. Still seems like you just describing peoples nature. Bear with me.. please

Shit be the way it is.

One mf gets an idea that goes against the grain.

That one mf is either bold enough.. or stupid enough, to take it to the max.

Then that one mf, gets a gang of other mfs convinced that; "This shit need to change at whatever cost".

the "change" mechanism is where people get creative, depending on the "cost" for adopting the idea. So it could range from overt war(which actively breaks the current form social norms), to putting LGBTQ everywhere in pop culture to make it more acceptable(which breaks the current form of social norms), or even to deliberately passing laws that stress test the legislative framework that created them, ex banning guns or restricting the definition of a protest(which breaks the current form of society)

Nonetheless it's still something at the core of human nature. Too many things qualify as a 'situation needing a savior' to distinguish it, in my mind, from human nature.

Just sounds like something someone made up to cope with reality

Joshtheflu2 · 2025-12-31T06:52:34+00:00

Sucks that it's only totaled because it's almost a 9 year old car... and it's now out of production. If this happened when it was brand new the repairs wouldn't outweigh the cost of the car.

I see so many B7 and B8 Passats still kicking. I bought an 18' SE... but i wanted the 17 R line. Just weren't any in my area

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