Negative Space: institutional Left
- Being illiberal: Same sex gun sales
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If selling a gay couple a wedding cake means a “christian” baker participated in their marriage, does selling a gun to a murderer mean a “christian” gun store owner participated in murder?
- But the rhetoric’s so much better here under the tragedy!
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Want to stop domestic terrorism? Take seriously those who say they want to kill. Want to stop the oppression of women and the gay community? Take seriously those who say they want to literally enslave women and kill gays.
- Clinton supporters, can we make a deal?
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The left is refusing to look inward about why they lost the election, and instead continues to try to blame Trump supporters for just not being introspective enough to see how horrible their candidate is.
- Corpseman resurrected: correcting Betsy DeVos
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The left has once again decided that the way those people speak is ignorant, and that those people are too stupid to hold public office.
- Divisive double standards
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It’s a hypocritical form of divisiveness, calling for togetherness and reason whenever your side commits a crime, and engaging in unreasoning partisanship when you can find some way to pin it on others.
- Does Hurricane Harvey support socialism in Texas?
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Should Texas forego federal assistance because Texans dislike socialism?
- How the left bribes big business
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There’s a reason giant corporations and the biggest conglomerates are almost all donors to Democrats if they prefer one party over another. The left’s policies kill their upstart competitors. Big government hurts small businesses far more than it hurts big businesses.
- Illinois Nazis and Lincoln’s Democrats
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An anecdote about other people’s money and other people’s time that I’ve had sitting around for a while.
- Innovation in a state of fear: the unintended? consequences of political correctness
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Is political correctness poised to literally kill minorities as it may already have killed women, because scientists avoid critical research in order to avoid social media mobs?
- The institutional forgetfulness of the press
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We no longer have to rely on the press as our institutional memory. The Internet has made it harder for the left to pretend the past doesn’t exist, or to say one thing here and another there.
- The last time an actor assassinated a president?
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When, asks Johnny Depp, was the last time an actor assassinated a president? The only reasonable explanation for this question is that Depp is a secret conservative.
- The left’s hatred of business is a lie
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The left doesn’t hate business. They hate you and me.
- The left’s vicious racial shaming
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The left is waging a war against struggling mothers—all in service of creating racial discord and shoring up their identity politics.
- A Matter of Opinion
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“Lord, grant me socialism… but not yet.”
- Mom didn’t leave the left, it left her
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Is my mom becoming more conservative, or is the left becoming more out of touch, not just with science but with mainstream religion?
- Obama vs. Trump vs. Hitler: A letter to my friends on the left
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Sure, now that Donald Trump is threatening to take the White House, the left cares about imperial presidents. But unless they’re willing to oppose President Obama’s executive orders, whatever Donald Trump does is their fault.
- On education, the left is mired in the fifties
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Why don’t schools have locked doors? Because when it comes to education, especially K-12, the left, as in so many things, is mired in the distant industrialized assembly-line past.
- The one true gun law loophole
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The only true gun law loophole is that criminals are willing to break the law. Law-abiding victims are not. Gun laws disarm victims but do not disarm murderers.
- Roundup of Reactions to the Democrat’s Latest Corrupt Lawfare
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There can be no comity in the face of corruption the size of New York’s and DC’s. Lawfare is war, and it must be treated like war.
- Take back the name
- I am proud to be a liberal. I hold as my political idols Jefferson, Paine, and other radical liberals from the founding of this country. It is time that real liberals took back the name from the conservatives!
- The Uplifters vs. the Forgotten Man
- From H.L. Mencken in the Baltimore Evening Sun, November 30, 1925.
- Vicious intimidation by the extreme left
- And by “extreme”, I mean anyone who is trying to blame a peaceful conservative protest movement for the actions of a deranged madman. If you’re doing that, you’re extreme.
- What the f*** is wrong with Americans?
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Do you disagree with the left? Then there’s something the f*** wrong with you.
- White privilege is not the nail
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Attributing George Floyd’s death to white privilege when it was caused by left-run city policy means that we will continue to have more George Floyds.
- Why do gun owners think the left wants to take our guns?
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Gun owners think the left wants to take away guns because the left keeps refusing commonsense gun laws in favor of laws that ban guns.
- Why does the Institutional Left hate Israel so much?
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The institutional Left doesn’t hate only Israel. They hate any ethnic group that rebels against enslavement by the Left.
- Why don’t gun owners trust the left?
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If you have a Democrat in the house, you are eight hundred times more likely to die from statistical misrepresentation. Forty-three times more likely? Three times more likely? Would you believe smug mathematical innumeracy?
- Why don’t taxes go down when population goes up?
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The left says that government can better take advantage of economies of scale. So why don’t they lower taxes when population rises?
- Why is the country so divided?
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Because you keep trying to tell everyone else what to do.
- Your devil has no clothes
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The others of the extreme left and right have different qualities. The others of the left—Sarah Palin, the Koch brothers, Brendan Eich, for example—voice opinions, but are otherwise fairly unobtrusive politically. They are people who would not have been an issue if they weren’t personally made an issue by the vanguard of the left.
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- Coordinated Storm of Crap
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“The sad truth, though, is they’re not NPCs. They’re humans, like the rest of us, just—a lot of them—through cowardice or a more conformist temperament, humans who want to be ‘right’ with the ‘majority’… They, like most primitives… want to back the winner and the strong horse.”
- Criminal Negligence
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“Since 1960 crime has risen, fallen, and risen again… The changes were especially pronounced in New York, America’s most populous city and, as the nation’s media center, most prominent.”
- Trump’s great talent is his ability to drive people crazy
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“The most bizarre aspect of Rachel Maddow’s deep anger over troop withdrawal from Syria is that she wrote an entire book in 2012 denouncing illegal US Endless War without congressional approval—exactly what Syria is.” (Memeorandum thread)
- Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed• (paperback)
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“A 1995 study concluded that mothers in states that raised the minimum wage remained on public assistance an average of 44 percent longer than their peers in states where the minimum did not rise.” (Jason Riley)
