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4th June 2021
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4th June 2021
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4th June 2021
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4th June 2021
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4th June 2021
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4th June 2021
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Amid the Israel-Gaza war, Jewish communities across the U.S. were targeted in a flurry of anti-Semitic attacks. The Daily Caller spoke with Jewish leaders and found that many of them believed leading progressives in Congress and elsewhere were, at least in part, responsible for the recent uptick.
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4th June 2021
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You would think that somebody who could afford a Tesla could spare a few bucks for her grandmother.
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4th June 2021
Severian is delightfully dyspeptic today.
As y’all undoubtedly know, mental illness is something of a badge of honor in the ivory tower. Screw HIPAA; most people in academia are willing, indeed eager, to tell you all about their mental problems. The students mostly do it to get out of classwork, of course — the minute you get the letter from Student Services, you can go ahead and start filing the “incomplete” paperwork with the registrar — but grad students and professors collect DSM diagnoses and SSRI prescriptions like the Japanese collect Pokemon and used panties.
Given that, and given how lunatic professors’ actual beliefs are, there’s pretty much nothing you can’t get away with saying in the ivory tower if you play your cards right. In much the same way Jon Stewart rode his “clown nose on / clown nose off” act to adulation from the smart set, you can say whatever you want if you keep it ambiguously crazy. (You know how it goes — if you agree with Stewart, he’s doing straight political commentary; but if you disagree with him to the point where he might lose sponsors, c’mon man, he’s just a tv comedian).
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4th June 2021
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San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed.
In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled across the sidewalks, and first responders dart through the chaos to revive overdose victims.
The city has become a web of contradictions. There are thousands of new millionaires and, by the latest estimates, 18,000 people in and out of homelessness.
The headquarters of Uber, Twitter, and Square are blocks away from the open-air drug markets of the Tenderloin, Mid-Market, and SoMa. Wealthy families attending an art opening at the Civic Center have to cross through the tent encampments that line the sidewalks.
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4th June 2021
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Winston Smith is the protagonist of Orwell’s 1984. He is not to be confused with Winston Boogie Smith. According to CrimeWatchMpls, Winston Boogie Smith is the reported decedent in the police involved shooting at the top of the parking ramp adjacent to Calhoun Square in the heart of Minneapolis’s Uptown neighborhood.
Smith (if it was Smith) was the target of an arrest operation that went down in the heart of Minneapolis yesterday afternoon.
Cue the usual riots.
UPDATE: More Riots In Minneapolis After Armed Suspect Fatally Shot By US Marshal
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4th June 2021
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4th June 2021
Ben Shapiro.
This week, a clip of America’s most prominent racial grifter, Ibram X. Kendi, began making the rounds on Twitter. Kendi, the author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” has undoubtedly made a fortune by indicting those who disagree with him as complicit in American racism — and by providing partial absolution to those who repeat his cultish ideas. In one particular clip from a recent interview, however, Kendi was asked to do one very simple thing: to define racism itself. Kendi failed signally in that task. “I would define it as a collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas,” Kendi stated.
The audience laughed out loud.
Kendi then reiterated his definition and added: “And antiracism is pretty simple using the same terms. Antiracism is a collection of antiracist policies leading to racial … equity that are substantiated by antiracist ideas.”
This, of course, is utterly nonsensical. No term can be defined by simple reference to the term itself.
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3rd June 2021
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3rd June 2021
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3rd June 2021
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3rd June 2021
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3rd June 2021
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3rd June 2021
BLM activist argues for reparations via land reapportionment from ‘wealthy white people’
NFL To Halt Using ‘Race-Norming,’ Will Review Past Scores For Racial Bias Follow The Science, unless it gets in the way of The Narrative, in which case Never Mind.
Baltimore City Homicide Rate Surpasses 2020 Rates Amid Rash Of Gun Violence
The Democrat Legacy of the Tulsa Massacre The elephant in the room is that this massacre was perpetrated in the 1920s, i.e. by Democrats.
Bowser’s About Face: DC Admits Using Tear Gas Against Protesters, Seeks To Dismiss BLM’s Lafayette Park Lawsuit
Former San Francisco Official Allegedly Attempted To Steal Potato Chips While Brandishing Knife At Food Bank, Police Say
Uber Driver Ambushed, Shot In The Head After Picking Up Four Robbers
Black lives don’t matter (to Liberals) If they did, they’d do something about the murder rate in Chicago and D.C.
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3rd June 2021
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Buckhead is a well-to-do district in Atlanta with around 86,000 residents. It has not been exempt from Atlanta’s crime wave (homicides in Atlanta are up 59 percent from this time last year, when the city ended up with its highest total in two decades). One new Buckhead resident was victimized by break-ins to her vehicles twice within a period of a few weeks. Then, there was a shootout on her street.
In response to this crime surge, some residents and business leaders are pushing for Buckhead to become its own municipality. This would enable residents to use their tax dollars to take effective crime prevention measures, something the city is failing to do.
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3rd June 2021
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I love sites like these, and only wished I knew something about music.
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3rd June 2021
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Workforce scholars find that employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office.
The Pandemic Panic has had the effect of a war — the economy was dislocated, and how is resurging in a substantially different form, workplaces have changed and are resurrecting also in a substantially different form, people have had their political sensibilities hammered, and basically things have taken a sharp turn in a new direction.
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3rd June 2021
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One of the reasons that Hamas felt emboldened enough to launch a rocket assault on Jerusalem last month – an action that provoked an 11-day intensive armed conflict with Israel – was because of its progress in building up its military-terrorist force.
With Iran’s help, Hamas entered this conflict with better rocket building know-how, and some 15,000 rockets of varying ranges. Most were made in Gaza, together with Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s 10,000 rockets. The conflict also came with a new battle doctrine designed to try to saturate Israeli air defenses with unprecedented large barrages.
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3rd June 2021
Severian is delightfully dyspeptic today.
The Z Man’s essay today is on electric cars, which prompted me to comment with a story from my professing days. You’ve heard me say quite often that the nicest car in the faculty lot always belongs to the wildest-eyed Marxist. Given what we know about the stiffness of the “most insane Marxist” competition among eggheads, it seems to follow that the faculty lot must look like a rap video — Bugattis and Bentleys and Maybachs everywhere. But that’s not the case, comrades.*
Not because academics are worried about anything so prole as hypocrisy — as we know, cognitive dissonance only affects the Dirt People — but because eggheads operate on a different scale of values. Bentleys etc. are what those people drive — we all know it, but we can’t say it — so professors have to kick it bobo style.** Thus the faculty lot is filled with Priuses (Prii?), Teslas, and so forth. Back when The Simpsons was funny, it had a throwaway joke about Ed Begley Jr. driving a car so eco-friendly, it was powered entirely by his own sense of self-regard. If they actually marketed those, every professor in America would have one… but since they don’t, the “eco-pimp my ride” competition continues unabated.
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3rd June 2021
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The breakthrough graphene aluminium-ion battery cells charge up to 70 times faster than lithium-ion cells, are more efficient, can discharge energy faster and have a longer lifespan. They’re also more sustainable and easier to recycle.
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3rd June 2021
Victor Davis Hanson.
During America’s first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded them.
They picked and chose which businesses could stay open without much rationale. They sent the infected into rest homes occupied by the weak and vulnerable.
Their rules of prosecuting those who violated social distancing, sheltering in place, mask-wearing, or violent protesting hinged on political grounds. Their spending bills on “infrastructure” and “health care” were excuses to lard up redistributive entitlements.
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3rd June 2021
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Ars Technica is yet another Woke tech ‘news’ site.
I have never understood that assertion that ‘gerrymandering’ (i.e. drawing districts so that people who presumably vote one way will all be in the same district) is somehow ‘undermining democracy’.
Which is a better implementation of ‘democracy’, a district where the elected representtaive gets 51% of the vote or one where the elected representitive gets 65% of the vote? Who is more ‘disfranchised’, the 49% who aren’t represented by the guy they voted for (and are ‘represented’ by the guy they voted against) in the former case or the 25% in the latter case?
I should think that ‘democracy’, if it means anything other than ‘we’ll pretend to listen to the voters’, would best be served by maximizing the vote that one side will get in any given election. After all, it’s not as if anybody cares about the candidate more than they care about the Side that the candidate represents….
UPDATE: Is Gerrymandering About to Become More Difficult?
I suspect not, as long as it is in the hands of politicians or their tools.
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3rd June 2021
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Unfortunately it won’t fix the fact that United Airlines is the Worst. Airline. Ever.
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3rd June 2021
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I wonder if that applies to the guys who live in campers in the parking lot because they can’t afford an apartment in Cupertino?
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3rd June 2021
ZMan pulls back the curtain.
The electric car fetish is a good example of how markets are an illusion, at least in the broad sense the Austrian school economists argued. There never was a market for electric cars and there is not one now, at least in the organic sense. Instead, the market has been manufactured by government policy. Massive subsidies to the production side and subsidies to the demand side have created the market. Take those away and Elon Musk is back selling monorails to midsized cities.
It is also a good example of how elites have the dominant role in society. As with other things like immigration and the Covid panic, your opinion is never solicited, and it is never wanted. These are decisions made by a small cluster of policy makers at secret retreats and over cocktails at parties you will never attend. The American elite has decided the electric car is the future, so that is that. The fact that it could turn out to be another disaster like Covid is not a worry.
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3rd June 2021
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The Big Tech social media giants are having to rethink their policy of censoring anybody who suggests that COVID originated from a lab near Wuhan, rather than through some local chowing down on sweet and sour pangolin testicles. This is because it now seems quite possible, if not probable, that the virus was kindly bestowed upon us by Chinese scientists. I don’t know either way, but I would suggest that a suspicion that the virus was man-made, given the proximity of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, scarcely qualifies as a lunatic conspiracy theory to be banned from public utterance. But that’s what the Big Tech companies decided — almost certainly for political reasons. They did not like Donald Trump making such aspersions, nor his tendency to refer to COVID as ‘Chinese flu’ (because it came from China) and still less ‘Kung flu’.
By and large the major liberal institutions concurred: the utterly hopeless World Health Organization refused to entertain the suggestion that the virus had leaked from the WIV and the major liberal broadcasters in the US scarcely covered the suggestion at all. A couple of leftish American journos were invited into the WIV and marveled at how clean everything was, what nice space suits everyone wore and how people definitely weren’t throwing chunks of COVID out of the windows every few minutes, and thus gave it a clean bill of health. The idea thus got pushed into the conspiracy theory dungeon, a realm of racists and reactionaries. The banning of this idea, that the virus was man-made and leaked from a Chinese lab, was not because it was wrong, necessarily, but because it came from the political right and challenged the liberal view. How kind it is of them, then, to think again.
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3rd June 2021
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The pandemic created a new, more diverse, more connected crop of homeschoolers. They could help shape what learning looks like for everyone.
WIRED is allegedly a tech news site, but they plush Wokeness along with the rest of the Narrative media. So factor in that bias as you read.
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3rd June 2021
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The Sarah Halimi case—a brutal anti-Semitic assassination followed by an ongoing denial of justice—may be construed as the “original sin” of the current French centrist administration headed by President Emmanuel Macron.
Sarah Attal Halimi, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish retired physician and a mother of three, lived alone in a modest apartment on Vaucouleurs Street, in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, a middle- and lower-middle-class neighborhood stretching from Republic Square and Bastille Circle to Nation Circle in the center of the city. On April 4, 2017, she was attacked in the middle of the night, beaten to death, and defenestrated by a 27-year-old Malian Muslim neighbor, Kobili Traore.
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3rd June 2021
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I guess they don’t get out much.
A two-dimensional material with similar physical properties to graphene has now turned out to blow graphene out of the water in terms of toughness.
The material is called hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), and it’s so resistant to cracking that scientists are gobsmacked. The finding flies in the face of the fundamental description of fracture mechanics that scientists have been using to predict and define toughness since the 1920s.
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3rd June 2021
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Coates is a MacArthur “genius” and bestselling author, but even accomplished writers typically don’t rake in speaking fees nearly equivalent to the median household income of the city they are visiting. That sort of payment, however, is the industry standard for the rock stars of the new “wokeness,” a survey of nearly 20 contracts obtained through public records requests shows.
Being a Professional Negro apparently pays very well.
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3rd June 2021
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The “pandemic” is officially over: Walmart has removed the “stay six feet apart” decals on the floor of its checkout lines. Governor Ralph “Coonman” Northam, in his infinite wisdom, decreed the end of social distancing restrictions last week, and Walmart jumped right on board. If Walmart is no longer following the protocols, the pandemic doesn’t exist. Period.
I posted my last mask report a couple of weeks ago after my trip through the deplorable hinterlands of Virginia. The farther away from the cities and larger towns, the less residue of the Coronamadness was to be found. I mentioned that a diner in a remote rural area was totally without masks, and had abandoned the social distancing restrictions even before the governor allowed them to.
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3rd June 2021
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This story reminds me of the facility that the Minnesota state government purchased last year at the start of the Coronamadness: $7 million for a former produce warehouse which was refitted as a refrigerated morgue for an expected wave of corpses of victims of the Wuhan Coronavirus. The building was never used. I think the state later asked the federal government to reimburse them for the cost, but I don’t know if the feds ever ponied up.
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3rd June 2021
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And who could blame them?
Austin, Texas, saw the largest influx of tech workers during the pandemic, with a net 217 software and information technology workers moving to the city per 10,000 existing workers. Nashville clocked in second with 154.7 net techies per 10,000, followed by Charlotte, NC, with 145.8; Jacksonville, Fla., with 136; and Denver with 130.4.
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3rd June 2021
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Billionaire Bill Gates’ advanced nuclear reactor company TerraPower LLC and PacifiCorp have selected Wyoming to launch the first Natrium reactor project on the site of a retiring coal plant, the state’s governor said on Wednesday.
TerraPower, founded by Gates about 15 years ago, and power company PacifiCorp, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, said the exact site of the Natrium reactor demonstration plant is expected to be announced by the end of the year. Small advanced reactors, which run on different fuels than traditional reactors, are regarded by some as a critical carbon-free technology that can supplement intermittent power sources like wind and solar as states strive to cut emissions that cause climate change.
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2nd June 2021
Barbershop Owner Allegedly Killed Customer Who Refused To Pay
LeBron James Quits On His Team, Goes To The Locker Room With Nearly 6 Minutes Left In Blowout Loss To The Suns
USPS driver ignores ‘Karen’ banging on his window and demanding her mail during his lunch break She’s white so she can wait.
Google head of diversity: ‘Jews have insatiable appetite for war and killing’
DaBaby Released, Rapper Wisdom Arrested For Attempted Murder In Miami South Beach Shooting Hey, they all look alike to me, too.
Stephen A. Smith Goes On A Rant About Race And Brad Stevens, Storms Off ESPN Set
Rapper Lil Uzi Vert Reportedly Gets Rid Of $24 Million Diamond He Implanted In His Forehead News from the left side of the bell curve.
Rep. Cori Bush Wants To ‘Defund The Police’ But Spent Taxpayer Money On Private Security For Herself
Editor Of Top Medical Journal Finally Ousted After Tweet Questioning ‘Structural Racism In Healthcare’
Destroying Black Babies and Families With Federal Dollars
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2nd June 2021
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2nd June 2021
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2nd June 2021
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2nd June 2021
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2nd June 2021
Kay C. James.
As a black conservative for more than 40 years, I’m an expert on being canceled. I was canceled by the political left long before cancel culture was all the rage. If there’s one thing liberals and leftists dislike more than a conservative, it’s a black conservative.
Liberal America doesn’t want to hear from African American conservatives because we go counter to their narrative that black people needed liberal saviors, especially ones who come bearing gifts of more government.
But we weren’t just canceled by liberals. For decades, liberals worked to put a wedge between black conservatives and our own communities. As a result, many African American leaders wouldn’t invite us to the table and wouldn’t allow us to offer our ideas to help solve problems in our own communities. We weren’t considered “authentically black”—whatever that is.
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2nd June 2021
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Last year, Davon Brown, a former fashion model turned homeless activist, conned his way into an LA Ritz-Carlton luxury suite alongside Jed Parriot, the son of a producer on Grey’s Anatomy.
t was May Day, Brown was wearing a blazer and sunglasses. The former fashion model and son of a wealthy producer were there to ‘occupy’ a luxury suite for the homeless. And demand that the city take over hotel rooms and hand them out to the population of junkie vagrants.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti held a press conference and assured Brown that he would get him a room. When the son of the Grey’s Anatomy producer was asked how to spell his name, he sneered, ““Parriott, like Marriott—which has 900 empty rooms.”
Jed, a Democratic Socialists of America activist, appears to live in a $1.3 million home in Silver Lake owned by a trust controlled by his parents: a prolific TV producer and a TV actress.
Just good clean fun, right? Kids being kids?
Brianna Moore, a talented 18-year-old concert violinist with offers from MIT, decided to get involved in the summer of protests. After a series of Black Lives Matter marches, she joined the homeless cause, and died in an Echo Park tent after taking cocaine laced with fentanyl.
Think of it as evolution in action. Natural Selection doesn’t care about your good intentions, only about what you do.
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2nd June 2021
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A 10-year-old boy’s father allegedly took him on a fake drive-by shooting using a paintball gun, and was shot by a real bullet when a homeowner returned fire, the Miami Herald reported.
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2nd June 2021
ZMan reads the tea leaves.
The regime has already begun to let the court know that they better rule the correct way, or their will be consequences. Senator Blumenthal from Connecticut is the first out of the gate threatening the judges. It will not be long before he is joined by other prominent Democrats, as well as the media. Then you have the extortion rackets run by the FBI and other players. The odds of the court ruling in favor of the civic nationalist position are very low, but their expectations are very high.
This is shaping up to be one of those unforced regime mistakes that seem to characterize every revolution. The abortion case in particular is the one that could radicalize a lot of civic nationalists. Christian conservatives are already on the edge, given the overtly anti-Christian pogroms run by the ruling class. If the court finks on them in the fall, it could be the last straw. They will conclude that there is no path forward in conventional politics and begin to organize outside of the system.
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2nd June 2021
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The Democrats’ race hustle permeated the low politics of the speech, which in that sense contributed to our current regression from equal rights and equal treatment without regard to race. Indeed, in the modern era, regression from equal rights has become Democratic Party orthodoxy.
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