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Matthew J. Peterson

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22 Apr

The claim, made over and over, is that somehow the Right/all the opponents of Ds (bizarrely, this now seem to explicitly all poor white males) are racist fomenters of violence and fear. Meanwhile, media/D elites work to demonize, fear-monger, and cause unrest and violence daily.

If Republicans are afraid to combat this with offense as well as defense, they will lose. But half the nation + is increasingly aware and willing to take action. We must give the pols a spine: punish those who fail to speak out and reward bravery and signs of life.

@realchrisrufo

Here’s one way to take action: first, read @realchrisrufo at @theammind and realize we need to draw a line in the sand:

americanmind.org/salvo/standing…

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Matthew J. Peterson

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20 Apr

The mob will not be appeased. The underlying drive of the instigators is not justice, but unending revenge and destruction of the American system of justice. The problem is "systemic", remember? Their goal is to smash the system, and appeasement will never sate them.

All this is just to say that no one should expect the rioting to end because of the verdict.

I don’t relate to trials & verdicts as symbols (it’s a big country, so one needs to look at stats in general), but this is a normal consequence of the system of justice we have, which is in principle pretty good. It’s wild how people swoop & stretch this thread to fit a narrative

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Matthew J. Peterson

@docMJP

18 Apr

Vast majority of the -ism debates and the history talk today is moronic and grasping at straws at best because we are so ignorant we often don’t even know what they don’t know. Not anyone’s “fault”. The living traditions of thought have died and it’s hard to resurrect them.

they=we

Few understand traditions of thought they grasp at & play w/. Complex thrown around as simple & simple made complex. People read & toss out concepts as readymade weapons. Distinction/focus/zoom levels lost in shuffle. All=funhouse mirrors even for those tryna find firmer ground.

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Matthew J. Peterson

@docMJP

17 Apr

The study of what it is to be human is in one sense the most practical thing one could study, for it answers the question "How should I live, and why?"

If true, in respect to the most vital questions technical learning is rather impractical:

Technical education is in one sense the mere changing of the deck chairs of career on the surface of one's life, which ought to be dictated from the interior if possible by what you learn from the so-called Human-ities, properly understood as the serious thing they are, or were.

Of course, if you have no career & wanna sit around & ponder life's deepest questions while adopting a disinterested pose there's a deserved asskicking a-coming, brought to you by life. I’m talking about actual liberal arts or humanities—questions every human must answer anyhow.

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Matthew J. Peterson

@docMJP

16 Apr

The amount of replies on the socials to anyone appalled at our UN ambassador’s claim about our founding that = “But the 3/5ths clause!” reveals the profound ignorance of our fellow citizens. For decades, our education system has taught what the best Chinese propagandists now say.

Slavery is mentioned three times in the Constitution. The 3/5ths clause and the limit on slave importation are both measures taken against slavery in the compromise that was made. The slave owners wanted slaves to count as 5/5ths to give themselves more power.

The worst of the Constitution is the fugitive slave clause. The other two mentions are anti-slavery, and reveal that the document was a compromise between those opposed to slavery and those for it—and was intended by all those opposed to put slavery on a path to extinction.

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Matthew J. Peterson

@docMJP

16 Apr

https://twitter.com/davidafrench/status/1383085322758684673

Not a single person has proposed anything unconstitutional. What kind of blinkered moron in America, 2021 can’t see the corrupt landscape of govt + biz collusion? These sorts of contextless jabs can no longer be seen as anything but disingenuous.

https://twitter.com/davidafrench/status/1383085322758684673

Their job now is to attack the right from the right and paint the targets behind the frontlines for the left.

Do these clowns think these businesses are acting out of the goodness of their heart? It’s also unconstitutional in some way for biz to have to speak a certain way under the threat of government punishment, I suppose. But this is neither here nor there re political action.

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