How I Left the Social Justice Cult
This is like one of those deconverted Jehovah’s Witnesses videos.
This is like one of those deconverted Jehovah’s Witnesses videos.
An ongoing debate that I have with a number of socially conservative friends is over the question of whether our society has fallen into free-wheeling decadence. My view is that we are the same moralistic prigs we always were, only about different things, and even the differences aren’t […]
Well, that didn’t take long. Every time a new administration takes office, the other side starts talking about secession. By James Krugnale, Digg.Com Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his show Wednesday that America was headed toward the conditions that resulted in the American Civil War after […]
This is a pretty interesting discussion of culture war politics. Glad to see Saager pointing out that “conservatism” is a scam and Krystal pointing out that the capitalist class uses wokeness as a marketing gimmick.
Some more bread and circuses comedy. Although now that the bread supply has decreased, the ruling class seems to be doubling down on the circuses. Theoretically, I would prefer that all organizations were voluntary (meaning genuinely voluntary, unlike state-capitalist corporations). That means organizations could be as diverse or […]
Sorry, lefties, but if these kinds of tactics are legitimate for “social justice” protestors they’re legitimate for anti-maskers. By Katie Shepherd, Washington Post Minutes into a public health district’s virtual meeting to vote on a local mask mandate in Idaho on Tuesday evening, Ada County Commissioner Diana Lachiondo […]
It couldn’t have happened to nicer people.
So much for the “coup.”
An interesting discussion that challenges Branch Covidian orthodoxy. Tom Woods interview Jay Bhattacharya. Listen here. Jay Bhattacharya (MD, PhD, Stanford) is a professor of medicine at Stanford University who has been working both on the epidemiology of COVID-19 as well as the appropriate policy response. He is a […]
Most of the US Left seems to have bought into the narrative that Trump is either a literal fascist or a conventional reactionary or right-wing strongman like Putin, Erdogan, Orban, Duterte, Bolsonaro, etc. I think all of this is a misunderstanding of what historic fascism actually was, how […]
It’s funny to watch some bimbo trophy wife whose husband bought her a Senate seat try to pretend like she has an IQ above the proverbial room temperature.
Ain’t gonna happen. Look for a genuine armed insurgency based in rural America to emerge at some point in the future like the similar insurgencies that have traditionally existed in remote areas of Latin America as the US class system increasingly begins to look like Latin America’s class […]
Well, this should be interesting…
Whatever else could be said about Trump, at least he’s a thorn in the side of the neocons and Reaganites.
One law for the ruling class, another law for all other classes.
By Don Fitz “And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint; And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profits shall this birthright […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley People often ask me why I continue to insist on identifying with the far-left considering my growing rash of beefs with the movement and my increasingly contrarian tendencies, and its not a bad question. I find myself asking […]
Somehow, I doubt the ruling class is threatened by any of this. What is most regrettable, however, is that so many “anarchists” and “libertarians” feel the need to participate in this stuff.
New York Times bestselling author and Columbia University Ph.D. Tom Woods delivered these remarks to about 100 state legislators, whom he urged to be the voices of the truly voiceless in the debate over the correct response to COVID.
The discussion of trade in this is pretty good. Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim share their thoughts on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Tax The Rich” merchandise.
If Trump is Ross Perot’s revenge, liberal Twitter is the revenge of the nerds. Saagar Enjeti highlights the role Twitter has played in today’s political discourse.
Having Trump stay around as a permanent thorn in the side to the Republicans and causing permanent paralysis on the left should be hilarious. Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim react to President Trump teasing a presidential bid in 2024.
Tim Pool seems to have gone full OANN at this point. I actually wouldn’t be surprised if much of this stuff is true. But it’s a done deal. The election is over and the power elite has the man they want. However, the creation of a “November criminals/stab […]
There are a lot of nuggets of substance in this commentary from Kulinski. As Kyle points out, many Latinos are following the pattern of “white ethnics” like the Irish, Germans, and Poles in the sense of becoming increasingly assimilated into the Anglo-culture. One thing Kyle doesn’t mention is […]
By Henry George, Quillette A review of Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery. Polity, 216 pages (November 2020) In the 2019 British general election, the Labour Party was eviscerated, losing 60 seats and handing the Conservative Party a massive 80-seat majority. The […]
Klobuchar, Hirono, Menendez, and Peters: https://archive.vn/zGewE
Host of the Bad Faith podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, shares her thoughts on Joe Biden’s Cabinet appointments.
Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim compare Joe Biden’s administration to President Obama’s.
Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim discuss statements by President Barack Obama that “political candidates lose support when using slogans like defund the police.”
LOL. There’s your “coup.” One by one, the neocon and neo-Reaganite plants in the Trump administration are throwing Orange Man under the bus. By Michael Balsamo, AP News WASHINGTON (AP) — Disputing President Donald Trump’s persistent, baseless claims, Attorney General William Barr declared Tuesday the U.S. Justice Department […]
Kulinski’s milquetoast Berniebro social democracy is not my thing at all. But this is a great overview of why “right-wing” libertarianism fails. It ultimately ends of getting co-opted by the standard coalition of corporatists and reactionaries, who are in turn being puppetmastered by the imperialists, with the actual […]
This commentary is almost five years old but it seems to be a fairly accurate assessment of the fracturing of the libertarian milieu. As one who is generally more interested in meta-politics than politics, I’m generally favorably disposed to all sincere enemies of the state, regardless of what […]
I don’t know anything about the controversy described below but it seems to be another example of libertarianism being overrun by culture war tribalism. I generally find Reason to be good on civil liberties, a mixed bag on foreign policy, and shitty neoliberals on economics (except for their […]
I don’t really consider myself to be part of mainstream US libertarianism (the axis of ideas influenced by Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Rand, and Rothbard) though I am a fellow traveler on a range of topics. But in recent years I have noticed that US libertarianism (the movement seems […]
SJWs of the Right. This is nothing new. There were right-wing groups like this when I was an undergrad in the 80s. By Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout When President Donald Trump convened the White House Conference on American History in mid-September, he wowed attendees with news that he’d […]
We have always been at war with East Asia? Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim discuss the impact the Coronavirus is going to have on the United States longterm.
An illustration of why the Goofy Gills approach fails in just over two minutes.
I had Giuliani figured out years ago. He’s often thought of as a conservative because of his “law and order” policies when he was mayor of New York and as a US Attorney, but he was just a standard New York liberal Republican. The neocons tried to groom […]
One of the very best books on the modern American police state. I would add to it the works of Radley Balko, John Whitehead, Richard Lawrence Miller, and the late William Norman Grigg. “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book by […]
“Pan-secessionism” seems to be increasingly common in practice. Examples include 2nd Amendment counties, sanctuary cities, autonomous zones, federal drug law nullification, refusal of lockdown orders, etc. As well as other forms of more serious “direct action” like torching enemy military outposts and star chambers, or looting corporate feudal […]
Those who make the cliched claim that “all human life has value” obviously never met these folks. And I’m no fan of Jordan Peterson whatsoever. By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News A new report shows inner turmoil that is apparently taking place at Penguin Random House Canada over […]
It’s rather amusing that Carson can’t even write a review of a left-wing pro-gun rights book without turning half the article into a culture war broadside. Although this sounds like a very good book. By Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on […]
A reader writes: I wonder if Chomsky, Carson, and Gillis would approve of the Waco assault by federal government forces? The ATF was probably doing it for “women’s rights” or “to get the kids in public education.” After all, they are probably on the pipeline to becoming fashes […]
Given that virtually everything is labeled as “fascism” nowadays (echoing tendencies from the past), self-education on what fascism actually was might be helpful. Stanley Payne’s work on the history of fascism is some of the best there is. The Wikipedia entry on Payne summarizes some of his basic […]
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