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Ben Shapiro

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6 Oct

Democrats and media explicitly wish to avoid neutral, transparent regulation of Facebook. Instead, they want an agency that will act as a sort of super-CEO of the company. They're not hiding the ball on this. The goal is control of informational dissemination.

And the so-called "whistleblower" -- who isn't blowing the whistle at all -- is also not hiding the ball. She wishes to be the super-CEO herself!

Here's a direct quote from Haugen: "And there needs to be a regulatory home where someone like me could do a tour of duty after working at a place like this and have a place to work on things like regulation..."

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Ben Shapiro

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4 Oct

This piece is fascinating. The data it cites suggest that political polarization per se isn't the cause of anti-democratic attitudes among Americans -- that we're not willing to overthrow checks and balances because we hate our neighbors. nytimes.com/2021/09/29/opi…

So if political polarization isn't the reason we're willing to overthrow elections and jettison checks and balances, what is? I'd suggest that it has to do with our shifting attitudes toward human nature and political power.

The founding fathers believed, correctly, that humans were capable of great things, but were also venal, ambitious, foolish and shortsighted -- neither angels nor devils. But now we believe that the right human beings can be angels, if only we shift our social structures.

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Ben Shapiro

@benshapiro

27 Sep

Politics is now tied in serious ways to vaccination rates. It's also true that FL and TX have done better than virtually all red states and yet received the bulk of the media's hatred. Which would at least partially explain why so many Republicans think this is political.

If we care about people getting vaccinated -- and we should -- perhaps it might behoove those in the media, whose job it is to tell the truth about both politics and vaccine efficacy, to take a look in the mirror when it comes to why so many people don't believe them.

Institutional credibility is required to get people to do something like take a vaccine for a disease that does not kill the vast bulk of people who get it. When the institutions have destroyed their own credibility for years, it's tough to turn it on like a light switch.

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Ben Shapiro

@benshapiro

27 Sep

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1441924106765602819

My spending binge at the local bookstore cost zero dollars. I used my credit card, and I will at some point pay back my credit card. Or not. Doesn't really matter. But the point is, I bought stuff. And since they gave me the stuff, it's basically free.

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1441924106765602819

Also fun to characterize Americans keeping their tax dollars as "wasting money," but spending trillions on centralized government programs as "investment." This is complete Orwellian nonsense.

"I stole your wallet, and it had a hundred bucks in it. I could give you back $20, but that would be wasting the money. Instead, I have decided to invest all $100 in a steak dinner for myself."

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Ben Shapiro

@benshapiro

13 Sep

I will not hear lectures on American unity from people who explicitly cheer destruction of our system of government in favor of bureaucratic dictatorship, who foment class and racial tribalism, and who treat dissent as the cause of polarization.

Joe Biden does not get tout "unity" after abandoning Americans in Afghanistan and labeling all of his opponents warmongers, then attacking the unvaccinated for his own policy failures.

There is great irony to watching Democrats who spent eight years labeling George W. Bush a war criminal, a fool, and a racist now cheering him on as he issues calls for unity. The fact that Bush never saw that is how we got Trump.

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