{"id":71541,"date":"2019-06-13T07:45:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71541"},"modified":"2019-06-13T07:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T12:45:18","slug":"institutional-sadists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71541","title":{"rendered":"Institutional Sadists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back during blogging&#8217;s brief heyday, I commented that a few of the &#8220;progressive&#8221; bloggers that tried to make a sport of getting conservatives fired, doxxed and &#8220;othered&#8221; were the kinds of people who&#8217;d loved pulling the wings off of moths as children.  I&#8217;ve found little to change that assessment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It carries on to the insitutional level, according to Dennis Prager in this article about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/06\/paul-manafort-treatment-leftism-makes-people-meaner\/\">Big Left&#8217;s cavorting about the ongoing legal pummeling of Paul Manafort<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Left is those moth kids with law degrees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back during blogging&#8217;s brief heyday, I commented that a few of the &#8220;progressive&#8221; bloggers that tried to make a sport of getting conservatives fired, doxxed and &#8220;othered&#8221; were the kinds of people who&#8217;d loved pulling the wings off of moths as children. I&#8217;ve found little to change that assessment. It carries on to the insitutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71542,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71541\/revisions\/71542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}