Community Notes is a good way to stop BLM hoaxes from taking off.
Jordan Neely doesn’t seem like someone who deserves public sympathy but that won’t stop Woke Activists from trying to lionize this guy.
@thehill Trump has been “held to account” for many things he didn’t do. Schiff stated on live TV, holding up a folder like he had it right there, that he was in possession of solid evidence that Trump was a Russian asset.
Schiff is one of the biggest liars I’ve ever seen in Congress.
“Woke right” is still too nebulous a term for me. It just seems like a conflation of typical fundamental conservatism and neo-Nazi ideology. I think James’ explanations have been too winding and convoluted to really hold a lot of water in terms of logical consistency. At least the ones I’ve heard anyway.
And the whole, “lol u mad?” thing that’s essentially a Kafka trap doesn’t fly. Someone can disagree with a diagnosis while not agreeing with the diagnosed belief system fundamentally. Them getting upset by how often you’re calling something a specific label has no bearing on truth itself or whether or not that person should fall under that label. If you tried to make a case that the Nazis loved the Jews, I might get annoyed at having to argue with you over it. But that doesn’t make me a Nazi or a Jew.
That being said, James’ other work was great prior to this “woke right” stuff.
I was skeptical of Tulsi several years ago because of her 2A stance, but I’ve always respected her because she’s seemingly a person of honor and unwilling to bend the knee.
I’ll say, though, that in more recent years, with an open mind, she dove into gun culture and started doing some competitive shooting and talking to people and her views have changed drastically on the issue. A lot of it is no exposure to guns or the people who enjoy them and want to keep their liberty, and when someone gets enough time they are able to humanize and empathize with the position. And most will actually find it compelling once they do.
I think we need to see what she does in her new role, but I’d support a Vance/Gabbard ticket in ‘28 whole-heartedly.
Like Covid and the abortion industry, this has been seized upon by big monetary interests to drive extreme volumes of revenue. Profiteering off of destroying lives directly is the epitome of evil. It’s no different than Bayer taking tainted vaccines and shipping them to a 3rd world country so they didn’t lose all their money without disclosing the issue to that country and many people being hurt (which they did after a recall here in the US).
What people in wealthy countries like ours fail to grasp is the reality of human nature. It’s unchanging. It’s predictable. It’s self-serving. And there is nothing really good about it. Perverse incentives result in perverse behavior 100% of the time. The ideologues and the crazies who push gender stuff (but I repeat myself) have been purposely propped up by these interests as unwitting useful idiots to push the propaganda, which is just these company’s marketing expense. Nothing more.
These people are not sitting around tapping their fingers together and laughing like evil villains. They’re like the Sachlers. They’re rationalizing in 1000 different ways and patting themselves and eachother on the backs for “helping people” while they rake in the cash.
You can fairly easily evade police-level surveillance and detection with the right trade-craft, and it would just need to be basic trade-craft. Police are not trained in counter-intelligence surveillance and tracking operations. It would be much harder to evade the CIA or Feds, but there are still plenty of people who have managed to do it. And many who did it for years in Afghanistan and Iraq with all of these agencies looking for them at once.
You’re basically espousing libertarianism now, it would seem. The more you drill down in your explanation of the “woke right,” which I’ve found to be a pretty nebulous thing to begin with, the more I see libertarianism being the logical outcome. You end up in the same place, anyway: local governance for your community, live and let live, and don’t try to force anything on anyone else.
Otherwise, what you’re calling “woke right” is mostly just a bitter and cynical form of conservatism. Many of the things I’ve heard you say about it are native to all political parties and movements; they all want to shape the world in their image, to shape the future as they think best, and to put their chosen leaders in high office to do so. I get your point about the adoption of some of the tactics of the left by portions of the right, but that can be explained as battle tactic or cynicism at worst, can it not?
@DineshDSouza It’s always “us losing the vote, both popular and electoral, shows that no one cares about democracy!” I hope Americans are starting to see the irrational lies coming from these people enough to stop paying attention entirely.
@HonorAndDaring Paul is credited with writing Hebrews. The oldest transcripts have Hebrews among the other epistles that were clearly written by him and the writing style and theology matches.
The difference between us and animals is that we are capable of higher order thinking, executive control over our urges and instincts, and we are bound to a moral order because of this. No one blames the animals for following their instincts, but we do blame people because they’re making decisions to violate that moral law in favor of their self-gratification and urges.