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I can't believe we're having this discourse days after a literal assassination attempt, but here we are.

Defending Home Depot lady because you spoke out against cancel culture is not being "principled" or "consistent." It is literally the opposite of being principled. I've seen people say they're ok with going after college professors and teachers and staffers, but going after a nobody at Home Depot is a bridge too far.

Um, why?

If celebrating the assassination attempt of politicians you do not like is wrong

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"If she's so dumb, why is her side winning?"
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To this tweet I replied "What is your yardstick for determining whether or not she's "smart?"

Let's dig into why Allie Beth (as well as most Conservatives) easily get stuck in a trap with this perspective.

https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1545769310882340865

For starters, credit where credit is due. Allie Beth does rightly identify one trap, which is to assume those who articulate bad ideas can be dismissed because "bad ideas = dumb = irrelevant" or something.

However, she falls into a more pernicious (and ultimately decisive) trap

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I saw this sign in front of a church today. Obviously a lot can be said about this list, but honestly there's only one thing I want to point out, and it cuts to the heart of Far-Left Orthodoxy.

Notice that at the very end of the list, you find "Embrace Diversity," and then 2nd from the bottom is "Love God." This was in front of a mainstream Christian-denomination church. Yet you find environmentalism, race, vague references to what probably include social programs, and Diversity before the call to "Love God," which

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We need to stop conceptualizing our institutions as "broken." They're not broken.

During WWII, our economy became a war economy. Pretty much everything was put towards the war effort. One such example is the company Singer, which went from producing sewing machines tothi manufacturing Colt 45 pistols.

Imagine you're an employee at a Singer factory during WWII. You arrive at work one day to find the entire production line isn't making any sewing machines, not a single one. Instead, they're producing guns. Hundreds and hundreds of guns. You sit

I just had a doctor tell me with all earnestness that not only is it vitally necessary I get vaccinated despite having caught Covid last year, but that it's quite likely I no longer have ANY natural resistance to Covid from my previous infection. She also extended the appointment by a solid ten minutes due to rants about how pharmaceutical companies make too much money, health care is a human right, and that it's criminal Wyoming doesn't have Medicare.

The thing is, this woman very obvious had nothing but good intentions and a desire to help people. Her

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You should probably read this article, as it's suuuper important for what's coming down the pike

Let's unpack how we can calibrate the reliability and durability of religious exemptions for vaccine mandates.

Spoiler Alert: it doesn't look good, folks.

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1434577581135867905

First of all, the courts have evidently held up vaccine requirements in the past, and many places have eliminated religious exemptions altogether (including for children).

Given the experimental nature of this vaccine, one could argue that this is a different situation, right?

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Buddy of mine just texted me:
"CNN is turning on Biden, what's going on??"

Most people understand what's behind this, but for those who don't, here are a few factors to consider:

1) The nature of The Cathedral. The corporate press, higher education, etc. all share the same hierarchy of values. These institutions value first and foremost, the legitimation and preservation of their power, narratives, and institutional control. Every decision, word, and institutional movement serves this goal above all others. Below this is everything else, including

This is 💯% correct.

CRT *uses* race as a means of acquiring political/social power, but it isn't any more "anti-white" than a bulldozer is "anti-soil." It destroys and removes everything in its path, regardless of race.

https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB/status/1405355193907265536

The politicians/pundits/people just now hearing about this need to stop saying CRT teaches you that "you're bad just because you're white." This isn't technically the case. Here's what it actually says, and how to combat their rhetoric Kafka trap.

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Far too many people seem to think the battle against CRT is a fringe debate with little impact on everyday life. This is dead wrong.

Since President Trump brought it up last year, establishment media has been engaged in a full-court press of propaganda cover for CRT. The purpose of this thread is to
1) Show that Critical Race Theory is here, now, in the public lexicon.
2) Illustrate the scope of the propaganda being employed to disarm you against this cancerous ideology, thus allowing its continued metastasizing within our institutions.

This is an excellent explanation. To use a Christian term, I've been convicted by @DrKarlynB criticism of Walsh's fundraiser when contrasted to how little support legitimate, substantive solutions get, *especially* from Conservative influencers.

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1401906132982153221

At the same time, I couldn't bring myself to see the Abuela stunt as having NO utility whatsoever, and "exposing hypocrisy" just wasn't a satisfactory answer. This helps fill in that gap. The Right doesn't know how to capitalize on these things.

Yes. That's why most of the people putting up an actual fight in this space are former Lefties, not traditional Conservatives.

Those of us from the Left understand that we're not in a business-as-usual culture war, because we're not up against the business-as-usual Left.

https://twitter.com/mommagollay/status/1401965842670100493

Conservatives have spent a long time

1) Being told everything the Left does is Socialism

2) Developing the habit that voting every 2-4 years and sharing Obama/Hillary/Bernie/Biden/Pelosi memes on Facebook/Twitter constitutes a legitimate form of pushback.

For a century, 'Chesterton's Fence' has been used as a fine heuristic for rudimentary separation of Conservative thinking from Progressive thinking.

This is often told in such a way that implies the Conservative wouldn't tear down the fence. This is incorrect.
1/ This distinction lies in the reasoning. The Progressive assumes that if they cannot personally think of a reason for the fence's existence, this is good enough reason to tear it down. The reasoning here is internal, and probably arrogant.
2/

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Why you should be furious about the mail-in vote. Let's echo locate to the *massive* disparity in requested ballots vs. returns ballots, and see just how many ballots in a few states are just laying around somewhere. Arizona
Ballots requested: 3,448,181
Ballots returned: 2,471,577
Total MIA: 976,604

Debates & Lenses (thread)

When @JoeBiden became the presumptive nominee, there was a huge debate about whether or not there would be... debates.

The premise: "@realDonaldTrump may be down in the polls *now* but once they have the debates, everyone will see how feeble Biden is." The sides of the 'debate debate' were (and still are): "Since Trump will do so well in the debates, will they even have them?" Presented as a binary, 'yes or no' situation. I've seen many smart people weigh in on this premise: @RubinReport, @JeremyDBoreing, @benshapiro, etc.