With the Obama presidency coming to an end, much of the energy that might have been devoted to analyzing his legacy has been diverted by Donald Trump. But how can one make a fair analysis of a polarizing figure in American politics? Speaking for myself, as someone of the left with libertarian tendencies, it's difficult to have much sympathy to the man, however a lot of criticism coming from the GOP is sadly too partisan and unthoughtful. [ 741 more words. ]
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A new contributor on a particularly silly slur against the Catholic Church: "If the accusations are true – that the Pope can effect change in the sexual habits of sub-Saharan Africans – why are the countries with the highest infection rates not majority Catholic?"
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"It’s hard to think of a situation where holding left-wing beliefs, no matter how left-wing they are, would get someone removed from an an organization that is not itself expressly right-wing.
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The pseudo-dissent that leftists engage in is merely a demand to extend official ideology and praxis. If we’re sitting somewhere around 6 on the Official Ideology Scale, the supposed dissent of the left is just a petition to crank it up to 11."
"In an attempt to call Trump even more racist than everyone else is calling him, Little Bird is painting people with an absurdly gigantic brush. You’re you follow one white nationalist account, you’re a white supremacist by the company’s standards. If you follow three people who have used the #WhiteGenocide hashtag, you’re a white supremacist."
"Other aspects of the Grey Vox would be self-awareness, interactivity and rationalism. Grey Vox would acknowledge their biases, and try to correct them. Grey Vox would cultivate quality comments and be open to revising articles if the comments show a factual error or misleading narrative. Grey Vox would identify not with the positions it took, but by the process used to reach them."
"The conservative advocacy business is rooted in the realm of ideas. It eschews the idea of a national interest, of a patriotic, America-first approach to affairs. Instead, it champions the ideological capitalist man with cosmopolitan values."
"Is there anything less attractive, or arguably less conservative, than appeals to a discrete "conservative philosophy"?"
"The problem for Libertarian Republicans is that in that leaving the GOP would maybe not be a wise choice."
"To a feminist, your intellect matters none, because your gender validates your political positions."
"The self-reinforcing process of the liberal vision and the hierarchical nature of grievances provide incentives for both the afflicted and their rescuers to detect not only new victims, but ever deeper levels of victimhood."
"To those who still wish to leave their home in America, I say go if you must. Leave the business of living here to the rest of us. But don’t be so surprised if you end up missing it. After all, where else is home, but home?"
“We can’t refuse immigrants – that would be racist. We will just have to settle for implementing a police state to keep us safe from the consequences of mass immigration.”
