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Guess those gun-control laws really work.

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Pesky villagers. I bet they voted for Trump.

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So it was a ruse. The hysteria over the separation of illegal-alien asylum-seekers from their children (or their purported children) was in large part pretextual. The real target of rage was the Trump administration’s policy of prosecuting all illegal border-crossers for the federal misdemeanor of illegal entry.

Told ya so.

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Well, that’s socialism for you. Why is this a surprise?

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The Demagogues are officially the Scofflaw Party as well as the Party of Hate.

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Your tax dollars at work.

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Sounds like a deliberate invasion to me.

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We really, really need more of these people in th U.S.

Really.

And we need to send them to San Francisco.

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As predicted, the inevitable reaction to proglodyte subversion has gotten its act together and is taking it on the road, so to speak.

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Sam Lavigne, a far-left artist and game designer, is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He created a database of 1,595 ICE employees using their LinkedIn profiles and shared it to his 3,600 followers on Twitter Tuesday morning.

Prediction: Nobody will get fired, nobody will go to jail.

One of these days one of these trolls will trigger the wrong person and get his head blown off. And then there will be a wailing and a gnashing of teeth….

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This underscores the essentially religious nature of Cultural Marxism. Just because a Nazi said something doesn’t ipso facto make it wrong — but, from the religious perspective, one can’t go around quoting Satan or one of his Dark Angels  (and everybody not on the Good Side is a minion of Satan, by definition).

In any event, the sentiment expressed in the quotation is contrary to the normal operating procedure of the Left: They are only too glad to ignore important things in order to focus on trifles.

The saddest aspect of the situation is that a University staff member didn’t know who Erwin Rommel was.

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I guess being ‘woke’ depends on whose pocket is being picked.

Pass the popcorn.

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Own Damned Fault for eating Third World food.

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It is an unfortunate fact that we are now in our second generation of black people who have been raised to believe that anything they don’t like about their lives is the fault of white people — not specific white people, but all white people.

This cannot end well.

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Anybody in doubt about Wikipedia’s proglodyte bias ought now to be disabused.

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And the Blame America First crowd is alive and well … on CNN.

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This is the sort of scurrying for the woodwork that the Chattering Class is accustomed to seeing when it does a full press rent-a-mob action as it is doing with KiddieGate.

This is the sort of thing that doesn’t work with Trump, except that the Chattering Class hasn’t gotten the memo yet.

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According to Al Sharpton, that makes Obama a racist.

Good to know.

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It’s huge, it’s extremely dangerous, and it’s spreading. The giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) contains a corrosive sap that causes severe rashes, third-degree burns, and even permanent blindness if you get the photosensitive chemicals on your skin or in your eyes, Science Alert reports.

No relation to David Hogg, of course. (Or is it?)

The noxious, invasive weed was just identified in Clarke County, Virginia, near the Massey Herbarium at Virginia Tech. That brings the number of states it’s been spotted in to 11, including Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine. Beyond the U.S., it has taken root all over the world, from the UK to Iceland to Australia.

I bet kudzu can beat it. And I bet goats can eat it.

Tyler Cowen turns over a rock.

“What have been the really major advances of the past 20 years?” is one of the most common debated questions in my circles. The smartphone is probably nominated most often, while Google, Facebook and fracking have their advocates too. Yet we hardly ever talk about one of the most important developments, perhaps because it raises uncomfortable political issues: the governance technologies and strategies of authoritarian regimes have become much more efficient.

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The University of Washington settled with the university’s College Republicans (UWCR) Monday, agreeing to pay $122,500 to make the lawsuit go away. The settlement comes after UWCR filed a lawsuit claiming that UW’s speaker policies “unconstitutionally infringed upon the UWCR’s First Amendment freedom of speech by making it unaffordable and therefore impractical to host events likely to invite violent protests,” Campus Reform reported.

The losers here, of course, aren the university administrators who made these decisions — heaven forbid! — but rather the taxpayers and students of the University, who have to pay for this mess.

As usual, nobody gets fired and nobody goes to jail. And the Crust just keeps rockin’ on.

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Sure! Open up the borders! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

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I guess they haven’t figured out that this will increase actual racism.

Ace of Spades slimes Paul Erlich and his fellow-travelers.

“Did you know that babbling clown Paul Ehrlich is still running his fool mouth? You’d think he’s learned his lesson by now, but no, even though virtually everything he wrote back in 1968 in his hysterical, omg-my-hair-is-on-fire book ‘The Population Bomb’ has turned out to be wrong, that hasn’t stopped him. He says, get this, ‘many details and timings of events were wrong…but…the book was correct overall.’ In other words it was fake, but accurate. He’s like one of those TV preachers who predict that the world is ending Real Soon Now so send in your money. Also, if he honestly believes that the world is overcrowded, then what is he still doing here? It’s like he’s saying ‘this lifeboat is way to crowded, so everybody needs to get off, but not me.’ Considering that European and American birth-rates have been mostly flat for decades, what he’s really saying is that there are too many brown people in the world, and there needs to be fewer of them. Somebody is going to eventually notice that all of this is kind of, you know, racist, and that’s when we’ll start seeing some wild and crazy blue-on-blue action.”

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I had a mother like that.

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No doubt Trump is to blame, what with putting kids in cages and all.

The Other McCain is on the case.

Ordinarily I would recommend to each young man graduating from high school a term in one of the services, which used to give excellent training in responsibility and leadership, along with a usable skill for civilian life (which, alas, high school no longer does).

I couldn’t do that today.

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If self-hating white people don’t reproduce, then the situation will eventually correct itself.

The system works, if people allow it to, even though there are rough spots along the way. But natural selection is a long-term thing.

Eventually, right-thinking people will refuse to send their children to government schools to be indoctrinated in modern tribalism, and the government school systems will wind up like Detroit.

Heather MacDonald turns over a rock.

Progressives say that the United States is racist and misogynist, but they still want everyone in the world to come here.

Funny how that works. And I’d be curious as to what proportion of the people demonstrating against the U.S. in foreign parts would be first in line for admittance.

Progressives are masters of DoubleThink but this appears to be excessive.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care that a labor government stuck Britain with back in the 1940s! Don’t you wish we had a system like that over here?

Feel the Bern….

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The U.N. ‘Human Rights Council’ is worse than a joke, usually containing several of the countries with the worst rep for human rights abuses.

Wouldn’t mind seeing us pull out of the U.N. entirely.

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Apparently there is no such thing as a ‘Catholic school’ any more, just sad remnants of a proud history.

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Part of the answer is found in what Iggy Pop had in common with Pat Buckley, his sometime dinner-party hostess in Gstaad: fashion. Weinstein is out of fashion. Weinstein may have been a fearsome figure in Hollywood, but he also has long been a figure of fun. Tom Cruise gave the second-best performance of his storied dancing career as the Weinstein-inspired Les Grossman in the closing credits of Tropic Thunder. It was not a loving parody. It’s been a long time since Polanski’s was a name to conjure with, and his épater la bourgeoisie sexual-outlaw shtick is out of fashion in a Hollywood that as a matter of social norms might be characterized the way Gilbert Osmond described himself in Portrait of a Lady: not conventional, but convention itself. The soi-disant radicals of Hollywood Anno Domini 2018 remind me of the ladies in “Nasty Woman” t-shirts I see shopping at my local Whole Foods, checking out the $59.99/pound wild-caught river salmon while Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes is on the gently modulated in-store sound system singing: “I pray every single day for a revolution,” as if the Hollywood multimillionaire who went on to produce Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” and Pink’s “Get the Party Started”—and the crowd at Whole Foods—wouldn’t be the first one up against the wall come the revolution. I’ve got some bad news for you, Sunshine: You aren’t fighting the Establishment. You are the Establishment.

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Banning guns has apparently shifted violent crime to using knives.

Whoda thunkit?

At least the perp wasn’t a ‘white nationalist’.

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Well, you know, you work with what you got.

Somebody notify David Hogg. He’s probably looking for something to do.

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I foresee lots of lawsuits under the ADA for people such as myself whose hips hurt if they have to stand for more than about ten minutes at a time.

One of the disadvantages of working for a hip & trendy company is that you have to suffer through all of the latest fads.

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Well, if it wasn’t a thing, the cards wouldn’t sell, would they?

Notice that they didn’t call it an insult to black husbands.

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No matter how often it is ignored, reality always intrudes.

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Sure! Open the borders! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

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Identity politics has engulfed the humanities and social sciences on American campuses; now it is taking over the hard sciences. The STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math—are under attack for being insufficiently “diverse.” The pressure to increase the representation of females, blacks, and Hispanics comes from the federal government, university administrators, and scientific societies themselves. That pressure is changing how science is taught and how scientific qualifications are evaluated. The results will be disastrous for scientific innovation and for American competitiveness.

Saw that comin’.

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For those who haven’t been paying attention, a ‘rescue boat’ is a ship run by a First World bleeding-heart NGO (in this this case, the Aquarius) that ‘rescues’ illegal migrants as soon as they get out of the territorial waters of wherever they’re coming from and delivers them to whatever European country they’re trying to invade.

Imagine the Sierra Club driving vans that pick up illegal aliens from just inside the U.S. border and cart them to Los Angeles or Santa Fe.

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If you increase the price of something, people buy less of it.

If you increase the price of labor, people will buy less of it.

if you increase the minimum wage, people will lose their jobs.

If people lose their jobs, poverty increases.

This is Econ 101, people.

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Feel the Bern.

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The Washington Post has a long article about unsolved killings in American cities. It studied homicide data from 50 cities, encompassing 52,000 such crimes. In the process, it identified areas where killings are frequent but arrests are rare. These “areas of impunity” are located in poor neighborhoods where minorities (almost always African-Americans) reside.

Well, for one thing, they tell us that the DemLegHump Media are more interested in the occasional rampage by loner white kids on suburban white schools than in the horror that black kids have to live through every day. The Crust looks at the black Undercrust as a source of political power through their votes, not as an actual constituency whose interests they need to address.

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It won’t work. But I suppose he felt he had to make the effort.

Nice picture of Sterling Library, though, although picking the side that faces the Law School is somewhat Freudian.

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This isn’t really a secret any more. Apparently Asians are the new Jews.

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It’s hard to be all-in pro-Muslim without winding up in the Judenhasse corner.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Dogs won’t save you from an alligator. Just sayin’.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care system? Don’t you wish we had one like that over here?

It’s just a two-step away….

Benjamin Bratton blows the whistle.

In our culture, talking about the future is sometimes a polite way of saying things about the present that would otherwise be rude or risky.

But have you ever wondered why so little of the future promised in TED talks actually happens? So much potential and enthusiasm, and so little actual change. Are the ideas wrong? Or is the idea about what ideas can do all by themselves wrong?

I write about entanglements of technology and culture, how technologies enable the making of certain worlds, and at the same time how culture structures how those technologies will evolve, this way or that. It’s where philosophy and design intersect.

So the conceptualization of possibilities is something that I take very seriously. That’s why I, and many people, think it’s way past time to take a step back and ask some serious questions about the intellectual viability of things like TED.

So my TED talk is not about my work or my new book – the usual spiel – but about TED itself, what it is and why it doesn’t work.

TED Talks are one of the chief technobabble vehicles for prog-splaining and making Lefty dweebs feel good about themselves. Bratton scrubs the lipstick off of the pig and lets it all hang out.