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He plead guilty to save his son from the same fate, and his family from financial ruin, arguing that he had been coerced into it and that the governme...

A win for justice. A US appeals court orders judge Sullivan to dismiss case against Michael Flynn. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/24/mic...

Everyone deserves his inheritance because that is the will of the bestower.

It's a simple matter of common sense for one familial generation to toil and acquire wealth in order to provide for the next generation, and so on. An...

Fair enough. The thread was full of tripe anyway. Can’t even take a little opposition.

Mob mentality is a form of conformity, whether you laugh or not. Flagged, as they were, by the hashtags and virtue-signalling of corporate and politic...

Those who did not deserve the violence and vandalism—the vast majority of people. It’s why these riots are not about justice in general, and not about...

Those who commit violence against the innocent. The rioting and vandalism is often aimed towards people and things that had nothing to do with George ...

But racism is a belief. So without explicit racial policies, we can only search for it in the minds and expressions of a racist, not in the general ou...

The problem is we can make that accusation with any given statistical outcome. Most people who are shot by cops are men, therefor the system is system...

That much I agree with, save for the systemically racist part. Unfortunately I don’t think it is as simple as everyone is making it out to be. None of...

It’s less stupid than suggesting violence and vandalism against the innocent, which isn’t only stupid and counterproductive, but perverse and dangerou...

If every protestor concerned about police brutality joined the force, they can essentially trade current police behavior with their own. So why don’t ...

Which effects of which policies?

The Durham report is coming down the pipe, and all DOJ offices may be involved with the material under review, including the Southern District of New ...

Racist policies, whether “positive” or “negative”, are wrong and for the same reason. They discriminate on the grounds of race. I think it could be ar...

It seems to me that any law or provision that favors some races to the exclusion of others is both racist and systemic.

Anyone can acquire property through a fair and willing exchange, like Branson. A community can also do this, perhaps forming a community garden or far...

It sounds like a Noocracy, and it would be difficult to call it Democracy because it excludes people from the political process and denies them power ...

I am. The taxonomy is a false one. I repudiate it and I do not think it should be used as a lens through which to view the species. That is not to say...

Recently there was the student who petitioned Merriam-Webster to change their definition of “racism”. It is no longer just racial prejudice and discri...

I don’t know if that definition works. By assuming all members of a race to be the same the racist proves himself to be indiscriminate. He can discrim...

From what I’ve seen it’s pretty vacuous in terms of politics. It reminds me of the Occupy protests. I wager everyone will just walk away when they rea...

Humiliating Trump in effigy is the consolation prize for those who cannot do it in reality. All they can do is preach to the choir with their little c...

I don’t think these people have a just bone in their body. Either way, systemic wokeness is becoming a fearful reality.

Strange times. Here’s Katai’s pandering apology: I would love to see his wife’s full quotes, because I suspect that they are being portrayed as more t...

If you find an instance of me firing someone because their spouse made comments I didn’t like you can rightfully call me a hypocrite. Until then bring...

I guess they should expect some blowback.

Oh Trump. That didn’t take long.

People punished for the crimes of their family. That’s something you find in tyrannical societies.

I never said nor implied the suppression is organized. In fact I think it’s capricious. But the sheer volume of people being coerced into silence and ...

You can always tell when a bad idea has entered the discourse by the amount of censorship its dogmatists resort to in order to suppress any dissent. P...

I was complaining about corporate censorship, not leftists. But sorry I thought this was the low quality one. My mistake.

But it’s all one-sided, aimed only at those who express dissent from the current orthodoxy and is guided by the whims of emotion. It’s a testament to ...

I like your thinking and writing. This is a fundamental point you’re making. But I think it’s an argument for free will rather than against it, becaus...

The hashtags, kneeling and placard-waving protests are the bona fides. They are the means with which to signal ones conformity. Beyond that I do not t...

The “defund the police” movement was a fringe idea two weeks ago. Now it is the rallying cry du jour. So it’s no wonder that, according to a YouGov po...

You’re right. I was looking at the rate for today, and not the entirety. Thanks.

What is concerning is that we based these policies on insufficient evidence. What was true yesterday is untrue today. Sweden faired better than other ...

Now the WHO is saying that the spread of covid-19 through asymptomatic patients is very rare. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus...

Recently the Shaw Memorial in Boston was defaced in the BLM protests. The Shaw Memorial was the first civic monument to pay homage to the heroism of b...

A mob defacing statues is not the sign of a debate but of the perverted and illiberal use of violence and force to assert political expression.

You are applying present-day attitudes to a historical figure and have furnished one quote in order to pretend that was the general attitude of 1945.

It wasn’t much of a question.

I don't think one opinion of Churchill is sufficient either.

Judging Churchill by the standards of some woke, effete, privileged college kids from London doesn't make any sense to me.

Sick. Barbarism premised on presentism. It’s Year Zero nonsense. A culture that will not defend its past is unlikely to defend its future.

Not only in language, but by extension thinking. If we view individuals as individuals rather than a component of this or that race we negate any foun...

I’ve been trying to give the systemic racism theory a fair shake. Here are my thoughts. The racism of South Africa or the United States was explicit a...