Glenn Reynolds: “Nothing is more radicalizing than pictures of the old America.” New York subway in 1968:
58 years ago. Arthur Ashe takes the NYC subway the day after winning the US Open… and no one notices him.
Laura Ingraham: “Also note how clean the subway is and how nicely dressed everyone is. A shocking decline across society.”
The subway has become lawless. Hoodlums everywhere with backpacks filled with drugs and stolen electronics. Nobody says a word anymore. God help our cities. …
Where’s all the graffiti and crazy loud people? It’s like another world. …
No twerking or panhandling.
I’ve heard of place out east like this. Mystical Land of Japan. …
Obviously it was because [Arthur Ashe] was a black man “acting white”. Today, some Marxist would call him out as a “Tom” and push him onto the subway tracks. …
And just seven years later, after disastrous left-wing governance, the city went broke and descended into a hellhole.
Now it looks like we’re heading for a repeat
And in China:
China is putting scientists on public screens and treating them like national celebrities, we are so fucked pic.twitter.com/rChag3WA4l
— Matthew Graham (@mattyryze) September 4, 2026
China is putting scientists on public screens and treating them like national celebrities. We are so fucked.
Remember when we did that in the U.S.? Made our scientists rockstars?
Ignore me at your peril billionaires. We *MUST* cut our own scientists into “the upside” that they created.
“Capitalists” are giving the golden goose to Communists in China. This is madness.
Mark my words.
Commenters:
I remember when the US used to elevate achievement above grievances. I hope we can go back to that someday. …
These aren’t just scientists, they’re significant figures in the history books and every Chinese person knows them. One of them for example is someone who created a type of rice that was much easily grown and stopped a widespread famine. They’re all heroes.
The past is as foreign as China.