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Step One: DON’T GO ABROAD. The rest is obvious.

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How about that great government-provided health care! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

Feel the Bern….

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According to a study done in February by the Center for Immigration Study, 506 MS-13 members were arrested or charged with crimes that were reported in 22 states since 2012, and 207 of them were arrested for murder. 38 of those arrested for murder specified that they were in the country illegally.

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You too can look like a prole loser. Honeymoon in a trailer park to follow.

ZMan celebrates diversity.

There is a phenomenon, that most white people in vibrant areas intuitively understand, but people rarely discuss. That is as vibrancy increases, black-on-white crime escalates. The legendary quantitative blogger La Griffe du Lion showed that the risk whites faces from whites, in terms of crime, is independent of neighborhood size and racial composition. The probability a white is attacked by another white in a given year is the same no matter where he lives. This is true when adjusted for socioeconomic factors, as well.

On the other hand, as the number of blacks increase, the odds of a white being victimized by a black accelerate upward. The reasons are well known now. Blacks are more than three times more likely to commit violent crime than whites and black on white crime is vastly more common that any other inter-racial crime. It turns out that what everyone knows is true. Blacks prefer to target whites when committing crime, especially violent crimes. So as vibrancy increases, white victimization rates accelerate upward.

Om Malik reads the obituary.

Skype, was once a beloved product, one that I loved using every day. It was a product I wrote about long before it was trendy. I sent the team feedback. Like all tiny apps that are good at what they do, it became popular and grew really fast. It was sold to eBay, and then re-sold to Microsoft. And that’s when the magic disappeared. Through series of mergers and managers, Skype became an exact opposite of what I loved about it — independent outsider which was great at — chat, messaging and phone calls. It had just enough features, and its desktop client was minimal in its perfection.  Now, as I tweeted in the past, it is “a turd of the highest quality.”

Victor Davis Hanson points out some inconvenient truth.

Conventional wisdom would suggest that liberal politicians and celebrities should be the least likely to express such racist condescension, if only out of cynical careerist and political concerns. Progressives see bloc minority, gay, and female support as vital to their project. The entire thrust of progressive charges of “white privilege” and “white supremacy,” usually lodged against less enlightened and less affluent whites, is that the elite are confident they’ve created a partnership of solidarity with minority activists. All deplore the supposed Neanderthal, red-state, and Trump-supporting white middle class.

Few may now remember the post-election rant of Melinda Byerley, an obscure founder of the Silicon Valley company Timeshare CMO. She became a window into the mind of the furious 2016 progressive voter — and infamous for five minutes for her candid, embittered, post-election Facebook posting that soon was enshrined as a credo explaining why miffed coastal elites hated people unlike them:

One thing middle America could do is to realize that no educated person wants to live in a sh**hole with stupid people. Especially violent, racist, and/or misogynistic ones. . . . When corporations think about where to locate call centers, factories, development centers, etc., they also have to deal with the fact that those towns have nothing going for them.

Certainly, those who blast the clingers, deplorables, and irredeemables cannot themselves be racist or sexists or misogynists or homophobes.

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But what about all the white people who do that sort of thing? Oh, wait….

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I’m pretty sure that’s now a major.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in his first year in office.

Just bear that in mind.

Absolutely nothing.

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Probably Trump’s fault.

‘The institutional form of the one-room school was radically difterent from the institutional form of the school where children md subject matter are sorted into grades. Each form imposes its oro behaviors on teachers and students. The one-room school H. the teacher to cater to the differences among children and 6e difierences within each chiid. But the graded school requires rhet the teacher stand before his class of same-year-olds and teach thatever sameness has been prescribed for children in his grade.’

— John Henry Martin & Charles H. Harrison, Free to Learn: Unlocking and Upgrading American Education

This was published in 1972. Things haven’t changed much from that day to this, and education is still broken.

The Other McCain blows the whistle.

Do Democrats even understand how bad this looks?’

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In order to defend a bad deal negotiated by President Obama, they are advocating hostile diplomatic actions against their own country?

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Evidently he wasn’t aware that Mexico is effectively a Third-World Country. Think of it as evolution in action.

There appears to be some sort of mental defect in SWPL hipsters that deludes them into thinking that exotic foreign locations are a huge theme park devoted to their amusement.

Hint:

1. Take a look around you.
2. Figure out where the immigrants are coming from, illegals especially.
3. DON’T GO THERE.

The Other McCaines deals out some inconvenient truth.

Online dating is a bad idea. Every time I repeat this warning, someone in the comments will say, “But I met my [husband or wife] on [name of online dating site] and everything was awesome,” as if this anecdotal exception disproves the rule that online dating is a bad idea.

People who engage in online dating are self-selected. What they all have in common is, nobody they know in real life wants to date them. Think about that — if a guy is on OKCupid or Tinder, the one thing you know about him is, he couldn’t find a girlfriend any other way. Simply by signing up for a site, he’s advertising the fact that he’s a loser.

Which immediately raises the question, why do women sign up for these services?

Without going any further in our analysis of why these patterns exist, we can nevertheless say that the results shown by the OKCupid study demonstrate typical patterns of losers — men who waste their time in a futile pursuit of beautiful women, and ordinary-looking women who foolishly imagine that Handsome Princes are as common in reality as they are in Disney fairy-tale cartoons.

Doesn’t sound like a process that will end well.

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The commemorations of Marx’s 200th birthday have done at least one thing: they’ve reminded me of Britain’s abject intellectual decline.

Listen, for example, to this debate about Marx (34 min in); Paul Mason’s interlocutor couldn’t tell the difference between Marx and a bucket of fish.

Contrast this with a few decades ago. Then, if you wanted a critical assessment of Marx, you might reasonably have asked Leszek Kolakowski, Samuel Hollander or Isaiah Berlin – men who, agree with them or not, knew what they were talking about. Today, his most high-profile critics are ignorant gobshites.

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‘Scandal’? Say, rather, lynching in the media.

Yeah, you really want these people in your place of business.

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One of the characteristics of those who write for tReason magazine is that, just as they don’t really recognize who they are politically, they don’t have a clue as to what other people are, either.

Anyone who would characterize McCain as ‘conservative’ is jacked so far to the Left that it isn’t funny. McCain is an old-line nationalist Democrat, like Bloomberg, and the only reason he pretends to be a Republican is because he can’t stomach being in the same party as Nancy Pelosi and ChuckYou Schumer.

Certainly McCain-style ‘whatever’ will live on, as long as there are people who see value in being ‘mavericks’ (i.e. selling out their own nominal side for personal political gain), but that is hardly a good thing.

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The post office duly updated the address, and Henderson-Spruce allegedly began receiving the company’s mail — including checks. It went on for months. Prosecutors say he deposited some $58,000 in checks improperly forwarded to his address.

Gee, he appears to be a Person of Color. What are the odds?

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Boy, confiscating everybody’s guns really worked, didn’t it?

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n the case of the now-deceased toddler, Alfie Evans, the British government, through its Royal College of Pediatrics and its courts, had legal authority. Alfie had legal “interests,” which the government defined in his case, but he did not have any “rights.” Alfie’s parents only had a right to be heard; they had no substantive rights or authority over their child.

IngSoc is coming, better look out.

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Uh, that’s usually a bad career move….

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Are college students affected by the preaching of their mostly “progressive” professors? We are often told to stop worrying about that because polling shows that on the whole, student beliefs are not changed much by their college experience. The problem with that approach is that some students who come into college with leftist beliefs are turned into zealots who will bedevil the country for the rest of their lives.

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It’s not going to be all that slow.

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Whatever you may say about Latter Day Saints, they are never confused about the culture. Once the Scouts gave up on the ‘morally straight’ clause in the Scout Oath, it was all over but the paperwork.

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Sure, open the border! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

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A Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group is launching an online archive giving the public a sneak-peek at how state attorneys general and activists conspired to engage in climate litigation against energy companies.

ClimateLitigationWatch will publish documents involving court cases against the energy industry. The group’s website also offers the first searchable database of records showing activists and politicians working hand-in-glove on litigation aimed at throttling oil producers.

The project, which the Government Accountability & Oversight (GAO) kick-started, will also release profiles of the people involved in the litigation, along with trading cards detailing their role in current cases. AGs Maura Healey of Massachusetts and Eric Schneiderman of News York will almost certainly be included in the profiles — both of whom are at the center of the lawsuits.

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It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Instead of putting rumble strips on a road in a small Dutch village to warn drivers who veered onto the shoulder, officials installed musical strips.

Workers painted the stretch of road near the village, Jelsum, to “play” music from the regional anthem when tyres rumbled along the raised strips. But soon, the biggest rumbling was coming from the village as residents begged authorities to make it stop.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Sure, open the border! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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The Party of Hate lives up to its name.

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Boy, those strict British gun-control laws are sure effective.

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Perhaps they were just making a break for it. Has anybody gotten in touch with their embassy?

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

I have a list of environmentalists that it’s welcome to nosh on. Just sayin’.

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You know, as they do.

If you’d like to see life for a Democrat forced to speak the truth all the time, watch the Jim Carrey movie LIAR LIAR.

It’s especially poignant since Jim Carrey is both a Democrat and a liar.

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But he’s one of the Cloud People, so it’s okay.

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

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Debby Witt referenced this in a comment on Maxine Waters but I think it deserves a prominent position of its own.

Resting Bitch Face, or RBF for short, is an increasingly rife cultural advent describing a facial expression, or lack thereof, conveying a particular mix of irritation, judgment, or boredom

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In 2016, researchers studied the phenomenon using software that detects micro-emotions and found neutral faces identified as having RBF showed four times more contempt than other, genuinely neutral, faces. This showed as a subtle raising of lip corners and tightening around the eyes, which researchers concluded must similarly be registered by the brain. They suggested future research should examine why some people have RBF, what it means in terms of a person’s psychology, and why people react so badly to it.

A lot of people on the Left, especially those affiliated with ‘civil rights’, have this as their default expression. It is not a good look.

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Madame BitterBeerFace sticks with the Narrative.

Are there any pictures in which she is not grimacing? I’ve never seen any. I guess that look works for her.

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‘You’re a Deviationist!’ ‘No, you’re a Deviationist!’

Let’s have the NRA supply the feminists and the transgender activists with modern weaponry and see who comes out the winner.

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Sorry, no time for that, Zuckerberg is hot on the trail of Hate Speech. Hey, man, ya gotta have priorities.

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Boy, those strict British gun-control laws really work, don’t they?

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Two hundred years ago, the treadmill was invented in England as a prison rehabilitation device. It was meant to cause the incarcerated to suffer and learn from their sweat. It would mill a bit of corn or pump some water as a bonus.

Whenever I see anybody on a treadmill, I ask myself, ‘Were you bad?’

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That explains a LOT.

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The National Shooting Sports Foundation^® (NSSF^®), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industries, Board of Governors today unanimously voted to expel Dick’s Sporting Goods from membership for conduct detrimental to the best interests of the Foundation.

Dick’s Sporting Goods recently hired a Washington D.C.-based government affairs firm, for “[l]obbying related to gun control.” Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Edward W. Stack announced earlier this year the retail chain would end sales of modern sporting rifles, voluntarily raise the age to 21 to purchase firearms in their stores and called for more restrictive legislation. Dick’s later announced they would destroy the remaining modern sporting rifle inventory. NSSF responded that business decisions should be individually made, but was nonetheless disappointed and the decision does not reflect the reality of the vast majority of law-abiding gun owners.

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A crowd applauded an Alberta farmer Friday who made his first court appearance after he was charged with aggravated assault following the shooting and injuring of an intruder on his property.

As CTV News reports, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) also charged Edouard Maurice with pointing a firearm and careless use of a firearm after the Feb. 24 incident in Okotoks.

Maurice is quickly becoming a symbol of the urban-rural divide in Canada as well as the Trudeau government’s recent attempts to further strengthen Canada’s already stringent gun control laws.

In his testimony to the RCMP, Maurice said that he had opened fire on two prowlers in his back yard after spotting them near his vehicles. Although police located one of the suspects — with a shotgun wound in his arm — they charged Maurice and not the intruders with criminal activity.

Note to self: Stay out of Canada.

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As Stalin and Mao demonstrated, proglodytes don’t care so long as ideological purity is maintained.

UPDATE: Kicking away the energy ladder – How environmentalism destroys hope for the poorest

John Gray blows the whistle.

It would be easy to say that liberalism has now been abandoned. Practices of toleration that used to be seen as essential to freedom are being deconstructed and dismissed as structures of repression, and any ideas or beliefs that stand in the way of this process banned from public discourse. Judged by old-fashioned standards, this is the opposite of what liberals have stood for. But what has happened in higher education is not that liberalism has been supplanted by some other ruling philos­ophy. Instead, a hyper-liberal ideology has developed that aims to purge society of any trace of other views of the world. If a regime of censorship prevails in universities, it is because they have become vehicles for this project. When students from China study in Western countries one of the lessons they learn is that the enforcement of intellectual orthodoxy does not require an authoritarian gov­ernment. In institutions that proclaim their commitment to critical inquiry, censorship is most effective when it is self-imposed. A defining feature of tyranny, the policing of opinion is now established practice in societies that believe themselves to be freer than they have ever been.

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Who knows? It might work. There are a lot of ‘woke’ judges out there.

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Saw that comin’. Kanye is a Revisionist, and therefore must be destroyed. The witch-hunt for Heretics and Sinners marches on.