Dear new followers,
I'm pro-classical (true) liberalism, individualism, capitalism, Western Civilization, 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦
I'm anti-authoritarianism (fascism, communism, socialism, theocratism, monarchism, etc), collectivism,🇷🇺🇵🇸🇮🇷
Just a heads up on what to expect!
Except people are vastly richer than they were 40 years ago. The funniest proof is that an actual 1980s standard of living would be relatively cheap today.
No smartphone, internet, streaming, modern computer, flat-screen TV, modern medical technology, next-day delivery or countless other improvements now treated as necessities.
The wealth didn’t “trickle down.” New wealth was created, and yesterday’s luxuries became today’s expectations.
People are about twice as likely to approve of **coal plants** being built nearby as opposed to data centers.
Coal plants use more water and pollute more. They create comparable noise pollution. There's no way this makes sense outside a media panic.
STOP comparing Afghan women in burqas and Iranian women under compulsory hijab with Christian nuns.
This really isn’t complicated.
A nun chooses to become a nun. Her vow applies to her. She doesn’t take the vow and suddenly every woman in Italy has to cover her hair.
And if she removes her veil, the morality police don’t show up to beat her, arrest her, or throw her in prison.
That’s the difference.
In Iran and Afghanistan, the rules don’t care whether you’re religious, secular, Muslim, atheist, or just want to be left alone. You’re a woman? Congratulations. The authorities have a dress code for you.
And please stop pointing at little girls in hijab and calling it “choice.” Some of these children can’t even read yet. They’re old enough to choose a religious obligation for life, but apparently not old enough to choose what they want for lunch?
Here’s the test nobody seems to want to take:
What happens when a woman says NO?
If the answer is guns and bullets, prison, beatings, losing your education, or being erased from public life, congratulations, you’ve discovered the difference between choice and coercion.
And if you still think the Taliban model is somehow “liberating,” try it yourself. Cover up. Obey. Let religious authorities decide how you dress, where you go, whether you work, and when you’re allowed to speak. Then explain to Afghan women how empowered you feel.
Is this really that difficult to understand?
#LetUsTalk
I am at this conference because @kiyahwillis invited me. “That seems interesting” I thought, “Kiyah is good people” I thought. “This is a good place for me.” Of course I would attend her talk. Now, here she is celebrating the dumping of tea into harbours. I feel betrayed.
When America and Israel have the decency to let you know where they’re going to bomb, and in response, you recruit women and children to stand there… what do you call that?
Who’s really on the “left”? Who’s on the “right”?
What happens when no one can define them, but everyone picks a side?
I’ll be speaking at @ObjStdInstitute’s LevelUp in Chicago this July on how vague language blurs the political spectrum and makes the “extremes” sound alike
Who’s really on the “left”? Who’s on the “right”?
What happens when no one can define them, but everyone picks a side?
I’ll be speaking at @ObjStdInstitute’s LevelUp in Chicago this July on how vague language blurs the political spectrum and makes the “extremes” sound alike
Attacking a random synagogue is obviously antisemitic
Targeting Jews for just being Jews is obviously antisemitic
But some idiots refuse to acknowledge that…
Trespassing is not speech
I'm so tired of people pretending that if they don't agree with a law they should be able to do whatever they want without repercussions
Why do young Americans think the Islamic Regime would be better ally than Israel?
Because so many have been taught from a young age that Western democracies are “fascist” while stone age dictatorships are “revolutionary” and “progressive”