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PopeBeanie,

To “wants to put an end to all this nonsense”, ok, but the level and speed of destruction is justified like claiming the Titanic was all about trying to put an end to those nasty icebergs

The exaggerated sense of invulnerability and omniscience of Academia is real, unlike urban legend quotes about the Titanic. Everything rotten hap…[Read more]

Enco, I promise I was only reviewing this thread, starting with its first post back in December, and my purpose was not to find examples of the kind of stuff that you write. But the following comment spurred me to point out that Jason Stanley is not the only pontificator conflating “Fascism” with policies they criticize:

TheEncogitationer…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
And now the Universities and this psycho, self-hating, suicidal egghead Jason Stanley have the nerve to scream “Fascism” when anyone–and this is not just Trump and MAGA–wants to put an end to all this nonsense???

I’ve made it a habit to just skip comments like this, so I’ve lost count. How does that come out so easily…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
If Universities accept taxdollars, they are by definition willing instruments of the State.

OK, “by definition” according to certain idealisms, but not long-standing traditions of giving academia and upper educational institutions some freedom to define curriculum and policies. Otherwise, an “instrument of the state”, by…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

Leftism vs Authoritarianism in America, are those the only main characters left playing now?

It’s Authoritarianism all around and all the way down.

All these universities who have been on the taxpayer’s teat all these years have been imposing speech codes and speech regimens on students and dangling tenure over the heads of…[Read more]

Leftism vs Authoritarianism in America, are those the only main characters left playing now?

The 19-1/2 minute video is about Fascism taking down or converting universities into instruments of the state. Side note, “they” now want NPR and PBS to be next on the chopping block.

Reg,

The correspondance Theory of Truth should be the only governing principle for any government document, curricula, or media. You can use any word, as long as it corresponds to something real.

“Transgendered” can stay, but a sex-neutral “birthing person” will have to wait until there are successful ovary and womb transplants.…[Read more]

As President Trump seeks to purge the federal government of “woke” initiatives, agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents.

accessible
activism
activists
advocacy
advocate
advocates
affirming care
all-inclusive
allyship
anti-racism
antiracist
assigned at birth
assigned female at…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

Isn’t the root of all the corruption in the fact that the Federal Govenment has all that power to tax and redistribute wealth, or to regulate whether products can come to market or whether whole forms of energy can be permitted or has questionable functions that require purchases of armored electric vehicles?

Shouldn’t products…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

PopeBeanie wrote:
I do wonder if SCOTUS might possibly evolve a change of heart about Trump & Company?

Justice Barrett seems clearly to be signaling that nobody bought her vote.

What…endanger their dismal record of being the most unconstitutional, ass-kissing, political, gift grabbing, SCOTUS in history. Jim Crow has nothing on…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
I do wonder if SCOTUS might possibly evolve a change of heart about Trump & Company?

Justice Barrett seems clearly to be signaling that nobody bought her vote.

Here’s the best layout of a presentation I’ve seen in a long time, especially from a politician. What Trump & Company has is doing must be more corrupt, even openly corrupt than any president in history.

@Reg, if you were considering adding this video to Sunday School, I will (or you can) steer readers to it, below.

@Enco, I’d love to hear your…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

Character assassination is trending, alongside digression from the original or most productive topic. It’s a Bannon/Trump political (and authoritarian) tactic, tossing in flurries of accusation, invective, and dubious or irrelevant information, requiring heroic focus to maintain or return to positive, on-topic interaction… toward act…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
I’m not character assasinating the Left. The Left is already nihilisticly suicidal. I’m just providing them the cigarettes, Jagermeister, and fat back to do it to themselves.

Character assassination is trending, alongside digression from the original or most productive topic. It’s a Bannon/Trump political (and aut…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
And the capital and most of the underlying ideas for all of it came from the West. Credit where credit is due indeed

Science grows based on what discoveries and developments came before.

The claim that Russia’s postwar successes were all (every single one, apparently) based on ideas that came from “the West” (as if…[Read more]

Belle Rose,

Here’s what you and your family are up against. Your miles may vary, depending on your status and the papers to prove it.

One thing is for sure from the history of Mexican immigration law: The powers that be in Mexico owe Donald Trump and the rest of the world a serious apology.

Mexican Nationality…[Read more]

Belle Rose,

There’s no relief to be found south of the border. Not merely is there a drug war between the Mexican government and the Cartels, but Trump early on talked of sending U.S. troops into that mess. You and your son and anyone else would be worse off down there.

Pay attention to the iteneraries between the U.S. And Mexico. The traffic…[Read more]

Unseen,

The questions you pose are very hypothetical and are thus unanswerable. They are also polluted by unstated and/or unsupported assumptions and presumptions.

Not hypothetical questions but all too real. And like the unstated assumptions and presumptions that AI requires capital to build, energy to run, and free minds to create it.

A…

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Robert,

Do Americans even have the credibility to condemn authoritarian dictatorships these days? Our new allies are North Korea and Russia. Our enemies are Europe, Canada and Mexico.

The U.S. Government has no credibility here, but U.S. Citizens have the credibility to condemn the human rights records of any regime at home or abroad. And as…[Read more]