Category: Urban Progressive Privilege
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Urban Progressive Privilege: “The Word Means What I Say It Means. Also, It Doesn’t Exist”
In my 20s, I had a section of my bookshelf that I called my “Know Thy Enemy” section. It had an assortment of books that, broadly, are antithetical to Western Civliization: Marx, Mein Kampf (in German and translation), even a copy of “The Turner Diaries” at one point (although that last one got tossed along…
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New Feudalists Vs. The Free Market
Remember Compact Fluorescent Bulbs? Government and the expert class all but brought them to your house and forced you to change out incandescent bulbs at gunpoint. Government tried to jam them down with by force of law, notwithstanding their cost (to purchase, and to dispose of), and their many other drawbacks. And then, just about…
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Government Of Merriam Park NIMBYs, By Merriam Park NIMBYs And For Merriam Park NIMBYs
The sentence from the title isn’t officially in whatever passes for a “constitution“ for the city of Saint Paul. But it might as well be. The neighborhood – southwest of Allianz Stadium, south of the freeway and west of Snelling – is the home of an awful lot of ELCA-haired “progressive“ with boundless spare time…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Their Own Dog Food
Governors Abbot (TX) and DeSantis (FL) sendig illegal immigrants to New York, DC and – major kudos to DeSantis here – the epicenter of Urban Progressive Privilege, Martha’s Freaking Vineyard. The Vineyardians are not amused: The bleating of the likes of Fernandes (to say nothing of NYC Mayor Adams and DC Mayor Bowser) is pure…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Defunding For Ye, But Not For Me
Rashida Tlaib, antisemitic Democrat Congresswoman from the Detroit area and one of the most strident advocates of defunding the police… …intentionally exposed two victims of oppressed classes to being murdered by the systematically racist police in her neighborhood.
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Limits
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Should that cover demonstrating…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Angst
Elon Musk buying Twitter is generating some…exaggerated reactions from progs: The idea that they are not, in fact, an inevitable force of history seems to confuse and frighten them.
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Only The Right Kind Of Compliance!
A friend of the blog emails: Rise Bagel Company has decided to not have to make a choice of who they serve. They are now closed to indoor dining, open for take out. Their business, their choice. All customers treated equally. Shouldn’t be any controversy. But, yet there is- people who like the vaccine mandate…
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Rule Of Law
Governor Klink had a union obligation to save the bloody shirt yesterday: I mean, he’s not wrong – although I doubt he knows why. The part of our “democratic ideals” that the mooks ofJanuary 6 attacked was the process – the Constitutionally-mandated steps for determining who the President is. The rioters tried to circumvent that…
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Like Fourth Grade, All Over Again
Sheriff Dave Hutchinson, to Fox9’s Mary McGuire: Well, let’s get that reflected in statute, pronto! Everyone does it! (Maybe he meant “everyone at the Sheriff’s Association meeting? We’ll never know – all cameras were reportedly barred. What happens near Alexandria stays near Alexandria). And when they do, and a Henco sheriff’s deputy pulls them over…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Just In Case 2021 Wasn’t Weird Enough
Rep. John Thompson shreds the DFL and mainstream media’s hypocrisy in re Sheriff Hutchinson. And he’s not wrong: And there’s still a week to go…
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It’s Not Us. It’s You.
A relationship can survive anything, says Dennis Prager, except contempt. And there is a lot of contempt in our society. Mostly one-way: Nearly a quarter of college students wouldn’t be friends with someone who voted for the other presidential candidate — with Democrats far more likely to dismiss people than Republicans — according to new Generation…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Am I The Only One That Thinks…
…that the current, possibly-excessive, garment-rending over the “Omicron” variant is the sound of an awful lot of people who’ve gone through lives with little purpose or meaning, and have found a perverted version of both in bullying, shunning and scarlet-lettering people with different conclusions and means of dealing with Covid? That depression and anxiety might…
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Drunk Teenagers With Keys To Dad’s Bulldozer
We’ll allow for a moment that ‘Medium.com”, when the subject is race, criminal/social “justice” or the economy, is like Tumblr for people with unsupportably high self-esteem . With that being said, this happened this morning: Now, for whatever reason it’s not loading for me at the moment, or I’d be llinking to it. I’ll try…
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Our Betters Have Spoken
Author Thomas Ricks on Twitter: Three blocks from my house, August 26,2020. Well, there is a dumbass dupe in the conversation.
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Compare And Contrast
SCENE: It’s the studio at Minnesota Public Radio. MyLyssa SILBERMAN, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats, is guest-ghosting “MInnesota Insights”, a program of insights about Minnesota,. She is interviewing Gretel STROMBERG, Executive Director of “Minnesotans United for All Progressive Causes”. SILBERMAN: So, big news in Los…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Boundaries
One of the most futile memes in the conservative alternative media is “If this were happening to (fill in a democrat, or Democrats), this would he treated as a hate crime”. It’s futile because the people who care have no power, and the people in power don’t care. Still and all, it applies. A protester…
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Urban Progressive Privilege:Somebody Else’s Neighborhood
Saint Paul progressives are all about high density housing and development. In the Midway. Or out on the East Side. Or all up and down University Avenue. Not, you know, where they live: Neighbors who rallied together under the title “Friends of A Better Way St. Paul” had said the St. Paul Planning Commission had…
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Checked And Balanced
A state district judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a group of parents Who were seeking an order requiring the governor to issue a state wide mask mandate and to reinstate the state of emergency. Thankfully, the judge shot the request down: “While this court is gravely concerned about the public health consequences of…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: My Scientific Research Project
Title: Analyzing the Propensity of Modern Feminists, Progressives and the Media to Overstate Accrued Virtue. Aim of the Experiment: The aim of the experiment is to test whether there is any activity approved of by “Big Left” that a woman can do, that will not be turned into a example of supreme personal moral virtue.…
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The Memory And Perceptions Holes
A friend of the blog emails re what’s going on in Uptown Minneapolis: If the local media doesn’t report on what’s happening does that mean it doesn’t exist? As far as political life and the institutional history of Minneapolis at this point in history observed by our political class? Rhetorical question, right? Urban Progressive Privilege…
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The Asylum
MInneapolis City Councilor Andrea Jenkins, presumably feeling herself swaddled in Urban Progressive Privilege and Intersectional Armor, went to a demonstration. And was promptly out-lefted: “BLM” blocked her car, demanding she sign a list of their demands: Which, naturally, happened. Let’s assume for a moment that this whole spiel isn’t staged, to give Jenkins’a whiff of…