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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws, or the murder rate would be through the roof.

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws, or the murder rate would be through the roof.

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And I, for one, am happy to leave it there.

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In part, the new Communist chic reflects the rise in the popularity of socialism. A Gallup poll earlier this year found that, among Democrats, Democratic-leaning independents—and, perhaps most significant, among all American adults under 30—socialism is now viewed more positively than capitalism. To some extent, this is a consequence of capitalism’s falling stock: more than half of respondents in both groups have reported a positive view of socialism since 2010, while approval of capitalism has dropped by more than 10 percentage points in two years. Most Americans who profess to like socialism associate it with Western European welfare states; still, even Communism is viewed favorably by more than one in four young adults. Meanwhile, Democratic Socialists such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are shaking up the Democratic Party. And hip new intellectuals and pundits with a soft spot for Communism are everywhere.

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The effort to transform Khashoggi from the political operative he was into a journalist and martyr for freedom was an information operation waged largely in the United States. It targeted a diverse audience spanning from “echo chamber” commentators and media figures to politicians, who would then be moved to act based on the new attitude and information the campaign had inserted into the discussion. This operational aspect is of primary importance; as information operations always work to advance policy interests, in order to succeed, these perceptions must affect policymakers and cause them to alter policy.

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The more I thought about that response, the more I realized it’s indicative of a malignant and rapidly growing pathology among leftists these days—the need to frame all political discourse in terms of “us vs. death.”

“We’re just tryin’ to save lives, man!”

Want a fun little exercise? Google “people will die if.” Nothing more. That little semi-phrase alone will bring forth a wealth of dire warnings about the consequences of not doing as leftists demand. “People will die” if Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed (Yale law students). “People will die” if Congress doesn’t create a “Green New Deal” (Alexandria “Crazy Eyes” Ocasio-Cortez). “People will die” if the government shuts down (Sen. Dianne “Fossilized” Feinstein). “People will die” if the GOP health care bill becomes law (Nancy Pelosi, Pocahontas Warren, Bill de Blasio, etc.). “People will die” if Trump cuts refugee numbers (Barack Obama). “People will die” if the GOP tax bill passes (Larry Summers and assorted other Democrat nutbags).

Audacious Epigone welcomes the new year.

What the partial shutdown is making clear is just how superfluous so much of the federal government is. Most people have no idea what exactly is shut down or how it effects them–because it doesn’t effect them. The impending government shutdown is the new Y2K bug.

Apparently Senator Kamala ‘MostlyWhite’ Harris thinks that ‘lynching’ ought to be a ‘federal hate crime’.

Really? Lynching is murder. Murder is a capital crime, in those states that still kill people for killing other people. What, exactly, does making it a ‘federal hate crime’ bring to the party? A lot of virtue-signaling, that’s what.

If we don’t need the federal government, perhaps we don’t need ‘federal hate crime’ laws, either.

Something to think about.

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The available evidence indicates that ‘following your passion’ will get you killed quicker than damned near anything.

Let that be a lesson to us all. Think of it as evolution in action.