I have enjoyed watching the IDW and Douglas Murray and other "non-woke liberals" recently out themselves as just entitled shitlibs who think people to their right need to cater to them and change their politics to reflect their interests
Douglas Murray actually wrote an article arguing we need to arrange our politics to be more appealing to Bill Maher (lmao) and when she isn't discussing who best can handle anal sex, Claire Lehman posts about how the right is kooky while her own country shoots lockdown protestors
The great of fear non-woke libs is not of the left itself, but that the left will get so crazy that it will finally provoke a hard reaction from the right, which is their nightmare. We already have loser conservatives at National Review with this mentality, we need don't more
It's not enough that they are accepted and tolerated and even *promoted* by the right---they have to be in charge and the right needs to arrange itself according to their needs and wants, which of course means they get to determine boundaries for the rest of us
"I left the left because they're so crazy haha but I don't like the right's religion, social conservatism, traditionalism, etc. If those things could just stop, that would be great. If not, I'll assume the right is antisemitic and racist and bigoted. Please be less right wing."
Libs like Bari Weiss don't actually oppose cancel culture. For that matter, neither do I. The difference is Weiss wants people to her right canceled while I want the left politically marginalized so they can't, for example, push critical gender and race ideology on kids.
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Gregory McMichael is one of the men charged in the Ahmaud Arbery case.
He's a former police officer and investigator with no criminal record, and he didn't fire a shot during the confrontation with Arbery.
He just received a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
The theory of the case is that you're not allowed to protect your neighborhood when the police fail to do their job--as they did with Arbery--especially if you're white. You just need to let it happen, or risk going to jail for the rest of your life.
By all accounts Gregory McMichael has no criminal record and never had any complaints filed against him while working in law enforcement. His life is now over, his first crime marking its end.
Douglass Murray tried to destroy my life over tweets that he didn't like with a badly argued and badly written hit piece. So bad, his own fans thought it was embarrassing. In the end, he nuked his own credibility and I enjoyed an outpouring of support. A wonderful start to 2022.
And that's not an exaggeration: Murray called for my professional ruin. I'm a new father, too, and I am just getting started in this industry. Murray's piece had potentially severe consequences for my family. But it took people about 30 seconds to see that his claims were false.
But Murray was also working with Bari Weiss, a supposedly "anti-woke" lib who is never more vicious than against people to her right. Irony: the woman who tried to cancel me is starting a university as an "anti-cancel-culture academic project."
The whole purpose of the "intellectual dark web" is to ensure genuine opposition to the establishment never takes root. Their problem now, though, is that no one takes them seriously.
It makes sense that the IDW emerged within conservatism because the conservative movement is defined by gatekeeping and purges that protect that establishment above all. But people aren't going along with it anymore. The energy has, indeed, shifted.
The IDW is basically an offshoot of neoconservatism: a bunch of "non-woke libs" welcomed into conservatism who are never more vicious than when attacking people who aren't libs. Old neocons were Trotskyites too but could be insightful sometimes. Can't same the same for IDW types.
MTG has been banned for COVID "misinformation." The move follows the appointment of Twitter's new CEO, Parag Agrawal, who was actually installed by neocon GOP megadonor Paul Singer. Under Agrawal, Twitter's censorship regime has intensified
Before MTG's ban, a new private information policy Agrawal enacted on Nov. 30 also resulted in a Project Veritas affiliated Twitter account being banned for exposing a CNN producer who talked about sex acts with his underage step daughter and solicited pictures of another minor
Now, Agrawal had recently talked specifically about focusing on COVID-19 "misinformation," which is a problem because Agrawal is politically progressive (see the third screenshot) and that censorship will only cut one way, not against people saying we should double mask kids
Getting married and becoming a dad was the best thing that ever happened to me
Remembering all the movies, shows, and jokes that portrayed being married with kids as a drag. Yeah it's not always easy, but it is ultimately the best thing
And if you let it, it's eye opening. Fake political ideologies of conservatism and liberalism vanish and the question becomes what is good for my family and my community
Imagine calling the feds because someone said something mean to you on the internet *in a different country* and then reframing it as an act of bravery
Swalwellian "heroism" is what happens when the virtues of the lowest are elevated as good things, the behavior of the sniveling worm becomes the model