Matthew Vreeland

Advocate for Liberty

[Matthew Vreeland @mattyvree]

@robbysoave Aaron Sorkin is honestly insufferable.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Like a lot of free speech loving Americans today I have this stuck in my head:

🎵”Afroman’ll bring it tooo ya…”🎵

@ogafroman

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

https://t.co/Cozxlv0Id5

[Matthew Vreeland @mattyvree]

@LizWolfeReason I am so sorry to hear this. Deepest condolences to you and your family.

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

I've watched video of the shooting of Alex Pretti, from two angles.

I saw no justification for this shooting.

Based on what I saw, and my mind could change if I saw evidence to the contrary, I believe the agents who killed him should be prosecuted. The Trump administration is claiming they were the victims.

And far too many people will watch that video and decide whether they agree with the killing or not based on who is President.

If this were a conservative filming agents enforcing lockdowns or some other progressive thing, the people who are outraged and the people who are justifying it would almost completely swap places.

This shooting, amd the reactions of so many, are just symptoms of a much bigger problem:

Too many of you literally do not care about right and wrong anymore. You care about red and blue, and pretend those are synonymous with right and wrong.

But team red and team blue are wrong far more often than they're right.

Too many of you are actively participating in your own subjugation.

Stop and think. Please.

As for those of you who aren't falling for this, please pray for America. Too many of her citizens want people they hate to suffer slightly more than them, much more than they want a constitutionally-limited republican form of government.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Follow the Constitution.
Uphold the Bill of Rights.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

The Trump administration trying to pursue a policy of entering homes without warrants as a rule would be political suicide.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Many people believe the legal threshold for self-defense is lower for government officers than for ordinary citizens. It’s not.

There’s one simple test for evaluating whether an officer’s use of force was unlawful or justified as self-defense.

Ask yourself: If you, an ordinary citizen, did the same thing the officer did, how would your actions be assessed?

If someone were obstructing a street in your neighborhood, and you demanded they move, and everyone were in the same physical positions and took the same actions, would you be justified in shooting the driver of the vehicle?

I can say, unequivocally, that if you did the same thing the ICE officer in Minneapolis did, you would be found guilty of a crime, and your claim of self-defense would be rejected outright.

[Matthew Vreeland @mattyvree]

@christopherrufo America is a nation of ideals, not ethnic heritage. Whether you call it "conservative" or "leftist," Ramaswamy is absolutely right.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

America’s diversity isn’t our strength. Neither is its lineage. Our greatest strength is the set of ideals that unite us across that diversity.

[Matthew Vreeland @mattyvree]

@conor64 Look at this fucking goon squad. Deplorable no matter what the "context" is. This is not how policing should look in America.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

I explain why the accusation that Israel is committing "genocide" is blood libel.

Me:
The application of the word genocide to refer to tens of thousands of war deaths is, I mean, I think it is a kind of blood libel. It's trying to import the moral opprobrium that we associate with genocide to a designated enemy, in this case, Israel. I think because I alluded to my side bias, the sides in this case being the sides that a lot of hard left critical theory has defined, namely white oppressors against everyone else's victims.

Moynihan:
It's pretty strong to say this is like a blood libel.

Me:
Well, it is a blood libel in the sense that it is an accusation of deliberate murder, ill-founded in that the, and one could disagree with Israel's campaign against Gaza, one could say that this is not justifiable, it's not a just war. It's still different from deliberately murdering as many people as possible, as in, and we know there have been genocides. I think it really is a terrible blood libel, and it's a sign of how people's moralizing in the service of demonizing and dichotomizing, dividing the world into good and evil can just flatten their ability to analyze and to think clearly.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Stop normalizing violence. The first step is to stop framing anybody who disagrees with you an existential threat.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

I think it’s unfair for biological men to compete in women’s sports. I also think this is classless. Simone Biles said she was sorry. The desire to turn apologies into culture war dunks is exactly why public remorse is dying. Humility is admirable, actually.

[Matthew Vreeland @mattyvree]

@billybinion Is ICE incompetent, or do they just hate these people? The excessive simplicity of these tattoo identification guidelines belies common sense.

[Matthew Vreeland @mattyvree]

@nienna121 It is insane to me that this is such an unpopular opinion in 2025. These replies are depressing.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

[Matthew Vreeland @mattyvree]

@politicalmath I think the dwarf thing is the bigger controversy. It's a great example of the absolute absurd positions that "progressive" reasoning too often leads to.

[Matthew Vreeland @mattyvree]

@JordanSchachtel Link to article?