Second Sailing

Politically homeless. Classically liberal. Tragically aware of it.

[Second Sailing @theLongerWay]

Your thumos is showing.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

Groundbreaking New Study Finds Islamophobia May Be Partially Caused By Muslims Killing People All The Time https://t.co/Q0GuA4ppoI

[Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific]

God bless this brave Copernican and her willingness to share her vision on this urgent topic. If not a Hollywood actress, who?

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“A crude culture makes a coarse people, and private refinement cannot long survive public excess. There is a Gresham's law of culture as well as of money: the bad drives out the good, unless the good is defended.”

Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left of It

[Second Sailing @theLongerWay]

@jolly_rogered Exactly my experience.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

It imported millions of people who think 9/11 was good. That’s how.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman:

“Don’t look at what the proponents of one system or another say are their intentions. Look at what the actual results are.”

“Socialism, which means government ownership and operation of means of production, has appealed to high-minded, fine people, people of idealistic views, because of the supposed objectives of socialism.”

“But you have to ask the question: does the system, no matter what its proponents say, produce those results? Once you look at the results, it’s crystal clear that they do not. Social injustice is clearly greatest where you have central control.”

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Conservatives have some level of advantage here but this is not an inevitable win for a few reasons

1) Democrats are flooding the country with loyal 3rd world voters faster than you have kids

2) Liberals own the culture that indoctrinates your kids

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The last thing you see before 2 dudes in balaclavas saw your head off with a rusty sickle in front of a 1998 Hi8 camcorder.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

The hijab must appear in every clip Mamdani shares, even though Muslims make up only about 10 percent of New York City’s population.

Islam must be present in every speech. Mosques and Islamic centers must be visited every month.

Arabic billboards, Arabic social media posts, and a Ramadan iftar eaten barefoot on the floor of Gracie Mansion.

Every candidate he endorses must visit mosques and wear a hijab.

Doing all of this while occasionally throwing a bone to the useful idiots by defending the “transgender community” or promoting "abortion" does not change the fact that he is a devout Muslim.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 Sec. Marco Rubio just NAILED IT:

"One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism is that it 'sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice.'"

"That's actually NOT TRUE. Communism does NOT sound good in theory. The world that envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul."

"The world that envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity, or ambition, a world without heroes, or glory, or great causes to strive towards, without a world without miracles, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things."

"And the world communism envisions is a world without God."

"For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization, for them, it's an unbearable humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be. So they choose instead to destroy." 💯

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

This woman represents a very specific type of left wing archetype who is an absolute nightmare to wait on, live with, or have as a coworker or mother.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

A 70-year white male leader of an important medical institution is humiliating himself before the whole world because he is subject to the same power that now holds millions of elementary schoolchildren in its grips.

The same false dogmas he must parrot and defer to are being taught to millions of schoolchildren as the only truth. If an eminent physician and institutional leader cannot resist the enforced lies, what hope does your 11-year old daughter have?

If the Democrats regain power and pass the Equality Act, the same power that compels him to lie and abase himself will be inflicted onto every American citizen.

[Second Sailing @theLongerWay]

@DouthatNYT Many replies are furious because they think one side is obviously much worse than the other. But if they don’t specify the side how am I to know which one is obviously much worse? It’s all so confusing.

[Cardiff Garcia @CardiffGarcia]

Maybe we've all been wrong, and strange women lying in ponds distributing swords actually would be a better basis for a system of government

[Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT]

Lesser of two evils, art of the possible, blah blah blah, but all of the factions that have strong agency in our society right now seem profoundly dangerous. I don't know which one is the most dangerous but none of them should be trusted with power.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

Let me get this straight: Ro Khanna was taking a lot of heat at home because he was propping up a Nazi-sympathizing rapist (Graham Platner).

So in order to take the heat off of the fact that he had propped up a Nazi rapist, he flew to Israel to fabricate a diplomatic incident with an ally on behalf of a different group of Nazi-sympathizing rapists (Arab-Islamic supremacists).

And all of this could have been avoided if he had simply coordinated his visit with Israeli authorities instead of having a tour guide sneak him into a military-protected zone.

Do I have that right?

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

This is a map of why Mamdani won. It's Third Worldism all the way down.

[Second Sailing @theLongerWay]

@HenMazzig @davidfrum The two of them are as ideologically anti-western and anti-American as they come.

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

Probably the most revealing thing about the Platner stuff is that when liberals think of the “working class” they think of a misogynistic Nazi rapist.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

DSA types seem to have the wildest emotional swings of any of the major American political subgroups when they get good news its HA HA HA HA WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE! WE ARE COMING FOR YOU WE ARE COMING FOR YOUR FAMILIES YOU WILL BOW TO US YOU WILL BOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW and then five minutes later they get bad news and its "capital is undefeated we will NEVER get a fair shake Israel AIPAC Israel media"