Dear American Jews,
Please don't celebrate Halloween. Anyone who's ever smelled a college campus can tell you it is a day steeped in unholiness and immorality. I have religious Christian friends who specifically stay away from it. It's Shabbos, the holiest day of the week. Please consider trading in trick or treating for shabbat with your family. If you really care about dressing up that much just wait for Purim. In fact if this is your first year throwing away Halloween, I'll enter you into a raffle for $50.
The simple fact that western countries seem to have forgotten is that maintaining the type of safe and peaceful society that normal people desire requires a willingness to use brutal and overwhelming force against people that seek to destroy it. Anything less is surrender.
I am getting lots of incoming questions about the public execution of Nidal Hasan, mostly because I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.
My position is simple: Executions should be public and brutal, not private and medicalized. They are the ultimate example of the state's monopoly on violence, and the only way to keep that from running out of control is to confront voters with the trade they have made every single time, that they might have appropiate confidence or revulsion in the institution.
This is not new thinking. George Washington thought the same. The way we have shifted from hanging to firing squads to doctors quietly injecting chemicals that send our worst gently off to sleep is awful and dystopian, a total short-circuiting of important feedback mechanisms. It makes needless executions more likely, not less so. People who demean this as barbaric or yucky miss the whole point. It doesn't somehow become torture or inhumane (as the UN is suddenly claiming) just because we decline to hide the act behind a curtain.
And then there are those who suggest any revel in the death of those who truly deserve it is an indicator of a broken or diseased mind. To the contrary. It is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order. That it has not been done here in 60 years is an indictment in and of itself.
And that is without even getting into the fact that men were not hung for stealing horse, but that horses may not be stolen.
"I would to God that one of the most attrocious in each State was hung in Gibbets, up on a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the Man, who can build his greatness upon his Country’s ruin."
- George Washington, 1778
Guys we can all just FORGET that the Phillies fucking SUCK ASS and have put out the SAME SHITTY TEAM 4 YEARS IN A ROW BECAUSE……….. LeBron tore a page out of Harper’s pandering book and wore a Phillies hat to a preseason game!! #nuke#IHateThisCity
This litmus test might not be accurate 100% of the time, but it's quite a decent starting point for determining who Americans should allow into the public discourse of what it means to be an American.
Drexel University decides to shut down the oldest natural history museum in America instead of cutting DEI hires and administrative bloat. Nothing is more sacred than black trans studies.