Category: Social Justice!
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Unexpected
Price hikes brought about by New York City’s new $15 minimum wage are causing some consumer heartburn. Unexpectedly: Some New Yorkers are displeased with one of the more predictable outcomes of a $15 minimum wage—restaurants all over the city are raising their prices, according to the New York Post. The city’s minimum wage went up to…
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The Covington Rohrschach Blob
Your opinion of what happened at the March for Life last weekend largely depends on your point of view on the Trump administration. You either…: Watched the full two hours of video (or take the counsel of those who did) and have come to believe that that CNN edited the video maliciously, with full intent…
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The Nice Thing About Being A Democrat…
…is that you can be a corrosive, giggly bigot, and nobody will ever, ever call you on it. I add the emphasis: MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle implied without evidence Tuesday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) has something to hide and the president is blackmailing him over it.Graham has become one of the President Donald…
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They Warned Us…
…that if Trump were elected, bigotry and hatred would run rampant. And they were right.
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When You Think It’s Got To Be “Babylon Bee”…
… But it’s not: The head of politics at Cambridge University has called for children as young as six to be given the vote in an attempt to tackle the age bias in modern democracy. Prof David Runciman said the ageing population meant young people were now “massively outnumbered”, creating a democratic crisis and an…
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An Inconvenient Truth
The welfare state – in the US, the state that was put in place by Lyndon B Johnson’s “Great Society” – isn’t so much about “solving poverty” as it is about “making poverty a permanently sustainable state that can be exploited for political gain”. We can argue the specifics, and maybe even the conclusion. But…
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The Trainee Is Obviously Guilty
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Got this email from HR today: “We are happy to announce that Ellie Krug will be coming to provide a professional development opportunity on “Gray Area Thinking”. Ellie will share her personal story as we learn about human inclusivity. This will be first of a series of professional development…
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Evergreen
Has there ever been a more perfect Social Justice Warrior headline than this? Katrina survivors call for reproductive rights in face of climate change https://t.co/XcJWTz7hXL pic.twitter.com/PSobttukWY — Climate Progress (@climateprogress) August 31, 2018 I’m not aware that “Climate Progress” is a parody site, long the lines of The Onion or Babylon Bee, although it’d explain a lot. Either…
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Life With An Abusive Half Of The Electorate – Part III
This week, I started going over the political and social aspects of various personality disorders, viewed through the lense of Shahida Arabi’s excellent piece, “20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths And Psychopaths Use To Silence You”. Yesterday it was “Gaslighting” – the narcissistic abuser’s way of trying to convince you not to trust your own…
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Life With An Abusive Half Of The Electorate – Part II: Social Gaslighting
Yesterday, I introduced you to an article. “20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths And Psychopaths Use To Silence You” by Shahida Arabi. It’s a fairly brilliant piece on coping with people with the variety of personality disorders that are slowly being recognized – sociopathy, narcissism (the two favorite pop-culture “diagnoses” of Donald Trump, among…
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This Is Your Minnesota Tax Dollar In Action
The “Legacy fund” transfers a whole bunch Minnesota taxpayer dollars to wildlife conservation – arguably accetable, maybe – and “the arts”. And when I say “the arts”, I don’t mean art. I mean the kind of s**t that Minnesota’s arts bureaucrats find acceptable. Like this “Protect” Minnesota production. Yes, you should treat it as a…
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Lies, Damned Lies, And More Damned Lies
Statistics can be just as misleading as any other variety of rhetoric; One of my “favorite’ examples, lately, is the purported incidence of sexual assault among young women in college. Looking into the “stats” provided, one reaches a few logical roadblocks: The Japanese brutal occupation of Nanjing, China is commonly known as the “Rape of…
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Shining The “Mammuthus Primigenius” Light On The Cloud
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Astonishingly, Hawaii does not have enough hurricane shelters for all its inhabitants. Reminds me of New Orleans. And Puerto Rico. And pretty much every other burg run by Democrats who have plenty of money for illegal immigrants, street mimes, diversity coordinators and homeless bums but not enough money to…
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When You’ve Solved All Your Real Problems
City of Santa Barbara votes to give jail time for straw buyers. Hahaha. Just kidding They voted to give jail time to restaurant workers who give straws to customers, passing an ordinance… …that will allow restaurant employees to be punished with up to six months of jail time or a $1,000 fine for giving plastic…
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Attention, My Progressive Friends
It is your duty as a virtue-signalling progressive to indulge this urge at all costs, whatever it takes.
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Not For Turning
Laura Ingraham’s ratings at their highest point ever.
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It’s Really Barely Even Jokeworthy Anymore
Bernie Sanders attends a fun-grab rally… …surrounded by armed security. Some lives are more worth defending than others.
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It’s The Cultural Civil War, And We’re At The Battle Of Fredericksburg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: College Liberals credited with reaching out, attempting to provide safe space, tolerance. Two thoughts: First, the lack of outspoken conservatives on campus is not new. When I was in college in 1980, the trend had already begun. I knew of only four of us: me supporting Reagan, Dan (George…
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Appropriation
“Aliza Worthington” describes herself as “Brooklyn-bred, Baltimore by choice, music snob, history nerd, family-obsessed, friend-dependent, amateur glassblower, passable dancer, & since age 40, a writer” She may have had a point until she hit that last clause. Ms. Worthington – a honky – writes a piece in the ever-more-loathsome “Medium” entitled “Black Panther” Is Not…
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The Hollers Of Fresno
The most impoverished state in the union? Gotta be West Virginia, or Mississippi. Maybe Alabama or Arkansas. . Right? Wrong. It’s California. On the way to spending itself into the poorhouse, California has helped create a huge impoverished underclass untouched by the glitz of Hollywood and the sheen of Silicon Valley. And the story should…
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Being Evil
Last year, Google’s collective (heh) culture of Urban Progressive Privilege-sotted virtue-signaling intolerance fell onto Google engineer James Damore for the high crime of out that Google, ironically, has a relentlessly PC, virtue-signaling-focused corporate culture. Damore was summarily fired. This past week, Damore and his team filed their lawsuit Damore has now answered Google with a legal…
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A Sign You’ve Solved All The Serious Crises
Dogs at Los Angeles’ animal shelters may be going vegan: The idea was proposed by Commissioner Roger Wolfson, a Hollywood screenwriter who cited research that he contended shows vegan diets “eliminate” many health problems in dogs, which are omnivores. But he said rethinking the dogs’ meals is about far more sweeping matters — the environmental effect of a meat industry that…
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Car Neutrality
SCENE: Dayton, Ohio – 1904. A group of protesters – young activists from Snofe Lakes, California – chant slogans in front of the Leach and Bitwell Auto Company; “Keep The Roads Democratic!”, “What do we want? Road Neutrality. When do we want it? Now!” and “Cars are a Public Utility”. After a few moments, Arthur…
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Cell Neutrality
SCENE: Walll Street, – 1983. A group of protesters – young activists from Slough Fnakes, Vermont – chant slogans in front of the Motorola headquasrters building, wielding protest signs; “Keep Cell Phones Democratic!”, “What do we want? Cell Neutrality. When do we want it? Now!” and “Car Phones are a Public Utility”. After a few…
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Toxic Eunuchism
#NotMe #NeverDidNeverWill And #RealMenNeitherHarassNorAcceptGuiltByAssociation And, for those who insist, #QQQQ. I mean, as long as we’re communicating via the medium of the hashtag. The #MeToo campaign is doing for sexual harassment what #BringBackOurGirls did for Boko Haram’s hostages; took a seirous issue and made it into a trite, temporal trifle; an “event” rather than either…