After the terrible El Paso shooting (young white man targeting "Mexicans"), commentators on the Left...

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 9, 2019:

"while those on the Right blamed liberal immigration policies" Well that's a disturbing thought--basically blaming immigrants for their own mass murder. I knew the right was sadistic, but not that sadistic.

Every time one of the idiots pops up and posts troll posts, maybe they should read this first.

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 9, 2019:

I know you see the President as a totem for a class of people (in your mind, the "non-left"), but in reality he's just one person. Meanwhile, he and the right are scapegoating, dehumanizing, and characterizing as invaders an actual class of people.

[spectator.

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 7, 2019:

How do you wipe out white supremacy if you silence the people studying and discussing it?

Joaquin Castro Posts Names, Employers Of Trump Donors | The Daily Caller

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 7, 2019:

LOL. Love how the right rationalizes withholding public information about the very wealthy. Meanwhile, they're totally fine with dehumanizing and scapegoating entire classes of people.

Simply following the Dem Play book, Elizabeth Warren must be responsible for the Dayton shootings, ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 6, 2019:

He may have claimed to support her, but where's the evidence that her language or actions inspired his act of violence? It sounds like he was motivated by misogyny and racism.

What do you think about this report?

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 5, 2019:

Laughable on its face. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/american-intelligence-media/

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WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 5, 2019:

Based on the comments below, I'm not sure that everyone is correctly reading the article. It's referring to conversion therapy (e.g., "pray the gay away") not gender confirmation/reassignment surgery or hormone replacement therapy.

Regarding the shootings etc I think you look at what has changed since the days of folks driving ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 5, 2019:

We need more community. But we need not (and should not IMO) reimpose traditionalism on everyone. Moreover, we should check our aggrievement when young people experiment with new forms of community. Finally, we should consider how our current version of capitalism destroyed old forms of community and discourages new ones. At the end of the day, it is normal for institutions to fade away and be replaced when they cannot adapt to changing social norms. The replacing is the hard part.

How do we explain this?

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 5, 2019:

I think the Swiss model is probably closer to what the founders intended than the gun anarchy we have today.

[youtube.com] Comedy Gold. More to come

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 5, 2019:

People trying to be considerate so that all members can be included in parliamentary session on a tight schedule. HILARIOUS.

Left wing violence

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 5, 2019:

While he may have espoused left-wing ideas, his actions seem to have been motivated by something common to most mass shooters, particularly those on the right. That is, he seems to have sought to avenge perceived dishonor from certain segments of society, namely women and perhaps the political establishment.

[youtu.be] The Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism, the foundation of Postmodernism.

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 5, 2019:

This is the favorite conspiracy theory of mass shooters. Related: https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu

It is sad how few students and people in general refuse to study the roots of modern progressivism ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 3, 2019:

There are a few people you mentioned who were called progressives, but the inclusion of the rest seems to be due to their mention in the cultural Marxism conspiracy theory. Regardless, as a leftist I do criticize the blind spots of people who called themselves progressives in the past (and today too). Moreover, a focus on the idiosyncracies of early progressives is misplaced, because the roots of their politics are much older and less controversial.

Woke to Broke: Gillette Loses Billions After Anti-Men, Transgender Shaving Ads

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 3, 2019:

What does a razor ad campaign have to do with the Democratic Party?

Here are the Top 5 Most Libertarian Nations in the World - The Libertarian Republic

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 3, 2019:

The right in America would probably be more likely to point to Singapore and Dubai (UAE) as current examples. Chile under Pinochet was probably their ideal.

With the Right to Boycott Under Attack, Some Members of Congress Are Pushing Back Manar Waheed, ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 2, 2019:

Thank you ACLU, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and John Lewis!

Michelle Obama will be the dem nominee in 2020 tell me why I'm wrong.

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 2, 2019:

Not happening. No good reason to think it will.

Finally, a Democrat worth supporting - spiked

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 2, 2019:

While she has been good on some antiwar issues, she has worrying associations with far right nationalist politicians across the world (e.g., in India and Israel). And her support for gay and abortion rights is dubious. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/tulsi-gabbard-president-sanders-democratic-party

"Millennials say date's political views are more important than sex, study reports": [foxnews.

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 2, 2019:

It's hard to love someone who is consumed by cultural grievances.

How deeply advanced is Islamic conquest in Minnesota: [archive.is]

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 2, 2019:

When my late grandpa reached old age sometimes he would speak too loudly about "The Mexicans" when we were out to eat. This post reminds me of that.

Gun-free zones, mass shootings, and the leftist media's attempt to hide reality- [bearingarms.com]

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 2, 2019:

Will the Republican National Convention be a gun zone in 2020? Let's see the right walk the walk.

DCCC faces mass staff upheaval after uproar over diversity - POLITICO

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 1, 2019:

Don't worry, us leftists are paying attention. Bustos is a garbage centrist.

A media pundit has mentioned today the phenomena of politicians being "SCHOOLED".

WilyRickWiles comments on Aug 1, 2019:

Ben Shapiro https://www.amazon.com/How-Debate-Leftists-Destroy-Them-ebook/dp/B00JRJQ7Z2 is the first thing that comes to mind. I first started noticing this sort of thing around the time Trump was elected. The style of political coverage perhaps can be traced to "Crossfire" on CNN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_(American_TV_program) Like with Trump's nativist politics, there is a Pat Buchanan connection. I try to avoid it myself, but it's hard to call it "lazy" because it works on a lot of people. I would characterize it as a bad faith political or propaganda tactic. Another Shapiro example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtuqmThPE5c

Tulsi Gabbard said Trump won Michigan in 2016 because people felt left behind.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 31, 2019:

LOL. There can only be one factor!

Who is responsible for the 3rd world conditions of the urban cores of our largest cities: Trump...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 31, 2019:

Who is responsible for the "3rd world conditions" in rural America?

Who is responsible for the 3rd world conditions of the urban cores of our largest cities: Trump...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 31, 2019:

When was the last time you visited one of the largest cities in the US?

The concept of the nation-state is officially over.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 31, 2019:

God willing. Best written critique of conservatives: Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind.

Adam Schiff says he found Mueller’s testimony “chilling.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 31, 2019:

Funny that the issue didn't come up once during the debate last night, for a party consumed with Trump-Russia.

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WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 31, 2019:

How politically correct of you!

Kathy Griffin wanting to know if it's okay for her to come out of the box now?? [youtu.be]

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 31, 2019:

She was put under two federal investigations and on the no fly list. And nobody cried about her freedom of speech being violated.

Maltese Journalist Who Published Clinton-Linked Panama Papers Dies in Car Bomb Explosion ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 31, 2019:

"Clinton-linked." Is that kind of like saying Toy Story is a Kevin Bacon-linked movie?

This is an extract from an NVQ I am studying in Health Care.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 29, 2019:

Relevant: https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/

On July 25, 2019, Imam Mohamad Tawhidi - better known as the world famous "Imam of Peace" - dropped ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 29, 2019:

Relevant: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/25/mohamad-tawhidi-far-right/

Is Donald Trump a Racist? Are You? Why or Why Not?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 28, 2019:

There are many examples, but the best are his campaign against the Central Park Five and his birther campaign against President Obama.

Don’t Blame Police Racism for America’s Violence Epidemic Published by Zaid Jilani for ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 28, 2019:

Relevant: https://cpdp.co

That might be good

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 28, 2019:

Well put, lol.

In Chapter Two of his new book, "We've Got People," Ryan Grim details interesting historical ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 27, 2019:

Continued: The defections of major electoral groups from the Democrats had reduced the party to four overlapping social blocs. The first tendency, which was clearly subordinated within the coalition, was the democratic left: African-Americans, Latinos (except Cuban-Americans), feminists, peace activists, liberal trade unionists, environmentalists, welfare-rights and low-income groups, and ideological liberals. In national electoral politics, they were best represented by the Congressional Black Caucus and a small group of white liberals in the House and Senate. To their right was the rump of the old New Deal coalition, the liberal centrists: the AFL-CIO, white ethnics in urban machines, some consumer-goods industrialists and liberal investment bankers, and Jewish organizations. The chief representative of this alignment in national politics was Minnesota senator and former vice president Hubert Humphrey. Following Humphrey’s death in 1977, his protégé, Walter Mondale, assumed leadership of this bloc. A third tendency, which exhibited the most independent posture toward partisan politics, comprised what some have called the “professional managerial class” and sectors of the white, salaried middle-income strata. These white “neo-liberals” tended to oppose US militarism abroad and large defense expenditures. But on economic policies, they tended toward fiscal conservatism and a reduction of social-welfare programs. They were critical of nuclear power, and favored federal regulations to protect the environment; but they also opposed “special interests” such as organized labor. This constituency was behind the unsuccessful presidential campaigns of Morris Udall in 1976 and John Anderson in 1980. Its principal spokesman in the Democratic primaries was Colorado senator Gary Hart, who as early as 1973 had proclaimed that “American liberalism was near bankruptcy.” At the extreme right of the party were those moderate-to-conservative southern Democrats who had not yet defected from the party, and a smaller number of midwestern and “sunbelt” governors and legislators who had ties to small regional capitalists, energy interests, and middle-income white constituencies. The most prominent stars of this tendency in the 1970s were Jimmy Carter, Florida governor Reubin Askew, millionaire Texas senator Lloyd Bentsen, and Ohio senator John Glenn. All of these groups, in varying degrees, opposed the general agenda of the Reagan administration. But only the democratic left, and most specifically the African-American community, mounted a sustained series of social protests against literally every initiative of the Republican president. Mondale quickly rounded up establishment support, winning over the AFL-CIO early, as well as most leaders in the...

New book day, what you are reading?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 27, 2019:

We've Got People by Ryan Grim.

Is it time to stop using the word "Racist"?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 25, 2019:

Nope. It's time to take it upon ourselves to be more resilient when implicated by the word and recognize all of the complex meanings of the word.

Interesting Story. What do you think? Is he crazy? [youtu.be]

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 22, 2019:

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhXaM_r80_c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AqnapQkXKA

Once again Trump forces the media to do his bidding, without even trying.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 22, 2019:

Let's see... Ilhan Omar arrived in the US as a refugee in 1992. There are unsubstantiated allegations that she married her brother in an implausible immigration fraud scheme. Then there's Melania Trump, who arrived in the US on a visitor visa and proceeded to illegally work for seven weeks before receiving a work visa. https://www.apnews.com/37dc7aef0ce44077930b7436be7bfd0d Moreover, there is a lot of uncertainty about Melania's story. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/21/the-huge-questions-about-melania-trumps-immigration-history-nobody-will-answer According to her attorney's statements, she may even have been married before Donald. Who knows, maybe she married HER BROTHER in a fraudulent "chain migration" scheme to bring her parents here! It seems to me that the case for Melania Trump committing immigration fraud is stronger. Shall we send her back?

Yes. Illinois Republicans nailed it

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 22, 2019:

They don't hold one statewide office and likely won't again for a generation--foreshadowing what's to come to the rest of the country, inshallah.

A country that let Bill Clinton off the hook for his “I smoked pot but I didn’t inhale” ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 9, 2019:

I'm sure there was no crossover between Trump's Miss Teen USA pageant and Epstein's pedophile ring. And I'm sure Labor Secretary Alex Acosta is doing all he can to assist with Epstein's prosecution!

Matt Best comes out - C O N S E V E R A T I V E !!! Oh my gawwwd! LOL [youtu.be]

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 8, 2019:

Who?

So Nancy Pelosi says that President Trump's effort to enforce American border control is a cover for...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 8, 2019:

Maybe because his agenda comes from a organization founded by the eugenicist John Tanton?

just for fun google just these two words "Jack" and "Posobiec".

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 8, 2019:

Try spelling it correctly and removing the quotation marks. Moreover, even if your conclusions were true, it would be more revealing about the right's complicity in his conspiracy grifting than anything else.

THIS ARREST IS LIKELY TO HAVE HUGE REPERCUSSIONS! He probably has dirt on dozens of important ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 7, 2019:

Finally. I'm guessing that Trump consigliere Alan Dershowitz is not a happy man right now. David Boies: "“We hope that prosecutors will not stop with Mr. Epstein because there were many other people who participated with him and made the sex trafficking possible."

What films would you suggest young Liberals watch to better appreciate classical liberal values - ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 6, 2019:

Relevant article on Ayn Rand and the influence Hollywood had on her. https://www.thenation.com/article/garbage-and-gravitas/

What films would you suggest young Liberals watch to better appreciate classical liberal values - ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 6, 2019:

Since there are quite a few mentions of V for Vendetta, I thought I should share a very interesting recent interview with Alan Moore, the author of the graphic novel on which the movie was based. https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/322-second-dark-age-feat-alan-moore-61019

If you see someone wearing wearing Nike's.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 6, 2019:

Fun fact. Phil Knight, co-founder of Nike gave $2.5 million to the Republican who ran for Oregon governor against Kate Brown. And here's the story of what he did to the University of Oregon. https://psmag.com/education/the-secret-betrayal-that-sealed-nikes-special-influence-over-the-university-of-oregon

What films would you suggest young Liberals watch to better appreciate classical liberal values - ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 6, 2019:

They would be better off reading.

Judicial Watch Senior Attorney Ramona Cotca sits down with Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton to ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 5, 2019:

Any concern about the people who have used personal emails in the Trump and Bush administrations?

Discussion about the "scandal free" Obama Administration.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 5, 2019:

Let me guess, they don't mention that it started in the Bush administration.

What the actual fuck? [washingtontimes.com]

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 4, 2019:

Oh, so you have a problem with people exercising their constitutional rights when they don't think like you?

[dailywire.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 4, 2019:

No it is you who has childish take on "the rules." https://niskanencenter.org/blog/the-rule-of-law-is-for-controlling-power-not-keeping-order

The economy is like a game of Monopoly.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 3, 2019:

Tax the rich.

Can some of you history buffs tell me when "our" government became "the" government?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 3, 2019:

There are lots of events one could point to, but since no one else has mentioned it, I'll say Reagan and the advent of neoliberalism.

Just for fun, google "News Feed" and look at the results.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Why would you Google "news feed" rather than just "news"?

Not Islamic and don't understand much about it, but do understand why this woman is mad about people...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Not a fan of Chris Christie, but I wouldn't mind him being brought in whenever this horseshit is mentioned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y83z552NJaw

Rules for Radicals: What Constitutional Conservatives Should Know About Saul Alinsky - YouTube

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Honestly, conservatives already know much more about him, and have adopted more of his tactics, than the modern left.

How any Black person or anyone who supports the call for reparations can possibly accept ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Up to a third of slaves were Muslim. https://www.voanews.com/usa/all-about-america/americas-first-muslims-were-slaves

Sometimes if you open a can of worms from 50 years ago, you have to be prepared to grab a spoon and ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 1, 2019:

It's about time we revisit the years when civil rights stalled out.

..Joining Blackwater to drop few monkeys yourself - level: Gandalf on speed.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 1, 2019:

These kinds of posts are a really good look for the IDW community...

[youtube.com] Where's the leftist willing to defend Antifa?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Their tactics may not be my own, but the law is perfectly capable of dealing with them. And as long as brown shirts are marching through streets, terrorizing locals, and trying to increase their numbers, I think there is a place for some organizations that specifically confront Nazis.

It is very curious the discrepancy, in Liberal thinking, between the ability of the federal ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jul 1, 2019:

I dunno it might have something to do with humanity and not wanting to be Nazis.

Just one of many things actually.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 30, 2019:

Those families already receive tuition assistance. Expanding that assistance was proposed a week after a bill offering assistance to undocumented immigrants who were brought here as young children, likely knowing full well that it was too late to fit it into the budget, in order to justify propaganda like this image. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ny-dems-block-tuition-aid-gold-star/

Where does the insanity stop?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 30, 2019:

The holiday is specifically about celebrating achievements toward equal treatment. If a month of commemoration bothers you, it would seem that offering up more obstacles to be dismantled would be counterproductive.

Politicians say ‘break up BIg Tech.’ What would that look like?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 30, 2019:

This looks like PR. Regardless, I don't think the point is to "slow down or control the pace of change." The point is to combat monopoly, monopsony, and the economic and social problems inherently caused by such concentrated power. There are a few natural approaches to take: 1. Undo mergers and break up units (e.g., Youtube, Google Search, G Suite, etc.), 2. Standardize and decentralize platforms (e.g., Facebook, Uber, and Apple's App Store), and 3. Nationalize (e.g., using a social wealth fund) monopsonies like Amazon that can't easily be broken up and have achieved desirable efficiencies.

When Ayn Rand collected Social Security and Medicare [openculture.com]

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 30, 2019:

Relevant: https://www.thenation.com/article/garbage-and-gravitas/ She also got a free college education thanks to the Bolsheviks. As a woman, poor, and a Jew, that privilege would have previously been thrice denied to her.

Just for fun, what do you think?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 30, 2019:

As long as the Democrats don't alienate their base, and turnout at least matches the midterms, I think they will win with any of the top candidates.

Just for fun, what do you think?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 29, 2019:

Strong black women seem to be Trump's kryptonite. He has a pattern of reflexively and disproportionately minimizing their accomplishments. Already he is doing that in response to her remarks to Joe Biden in the debate. She's not my first choice, but I can't deny that she may have the best chops to tear down Trump's bluster.

This article's recap of the 1921 battle of Blair Mountain is a stark reminder of the difference ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 29, 2019:

The article (pasted due to the paywall): America’s new redneck rebellion West Virginians are embracing an anti-corporate populism that can veer left as well as right Edward Luce in Charleston, West Virginia JUNE 26, 2019 When West Virginia’s schoolteachers went on strike last year, the state’s history flared back to life.  The teachers donned red bandanas in honour of the early 20th-century miners who wore the garments in their infamous pitched battles with coal operators. The strikers of the so-called mine wars thus acquired the name “rednecks”. The label meant something very different then than it does today — the red of workers’ blood, rather than poor white prejudice. These days West Virginia is better known for its “deplorables”, an epithet Hillary Clinton ill-advisedly used to describe half of Donald Trump’s supporters in the 2016 campaign. Though Clinton meant the term more generally, West Virginia took it personally, giving Trump his second-largest margin of victory after Wyoming.  There was a time, however, when West Virginia was the most radical state in the union. “We went ‘red’ because we wanted to hearken back to what West Virginia once was,” says Jay O’Neal, a teacher based in the state capital of Charleston, who organised the strike with fellow teacher Emily Comer over chronically low pay and the declining quality of health insurance. The historical origin of the term redneck is often traced to poor white cotton farmers sunburned from working the fields — “po whites”, in the words of black slaves. Nowadays, a redneck is generally taken to be racist. There are still plenty of those. West Virginia’s miner rednecks, though, were a multiracial group.  African-American and Italian immigrant “scabs”, who had been moved in by the coal owners to replace the striking Appalachian miners, were invited to join the illegal United Mine Workers union. They accepted. According to local activists, as the 10,000-strong integrated army marched towards a showdown with the coal owners’ private army, the strikers desegregated whites-only public spaces at gunpoint.  Barring the US civil war, the 1921 battle of Blair Mountain was the largest armed insurrection in American history. Dozens of lives were lost, with private planes even hired to drop bombs on American citizens. It was also a milestone in desegregated labour history. Unlike West Virginia’s teachers, who took nine days to win last year’s strike, West Virginia’s miners lost their battle. They had to wait for the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 12 years later for the right to organise. A century on, that redneck spirit is stirring again. In 2018, there were more strikes in America than in any year since ...

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WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 29, 2019:

Haven't read the article, but it's worth noting that the Epoch Times is operated by members of the Falun Gong and is highly biased against China. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-epoch-times/

NAZI's are left wing, moron

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 29, 2019:

Do you have a case to make besides "socialist is in their name"?

The alpha male is bacccccccccckkkk and he is pissing them off LOL [youtu.be]

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 29, 2019:

Wait for it.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUMQ7hWpX6g

Obama's ICE Chief Tom Homan says cages for immigrants was Obama's idea... [americanlookout.com]

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 29, 2019:

And it was Trump's idea to fill them up with young children.

Is it antithetical for a Libertarian to win an election?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 29, 2019:

And we have a two party system. Only way for a third party to win is to displace one of the two. That takes a political movement. And as I preciously commented, there just aren't enough right libertarians. Alternatively, you could push for ranked choice voting so that people aren't throwing their vote away when they vote for a third party. For funsies you might encourage Justin Amash to run for President. Also, they would never be a Democrat because they are economically right-wing. A left libertarian, a.k.a. an anarchist or libertarian socialist could of course be a Democrat, but they are more likely to be involved in efforts for workplace democracy than electoral politics. Bernie's the closest thing to that right now.

Is it antithetical for a Libertarian to win an election?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Right libertarians (lower or upper case L) rarely win elections because they are the smallest segment of the electorate.

Me: Exists as a Conservative Leftist on Twitter: "Sexist, chauvinist, pig!"

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 28, 2019:

What you said: "Unfortunate for her, no one cares about her opinions or women's soccer." chauvinist noun 1. a person displaying excessive or prejudiced loyalty or support for a particular cause, group, or gender. I would say that your strong, negative reaction is pretty close to the mark!

Is it just me or does Ben Shapiro talk even faster than usual during his radio show?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Relevant: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop

Is it possible that Obama is waiting to back Kamala Harris?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 28, 2019:

I don't know that he has a particular preference for Harris. I imagine he won't weigh in prematurely.

Looks like Kamala Harris just took down Bidden.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Bad night for Biden, good night for Harris.

Supreme Court allows warrantless blood draws of unconscious drivers... [reason.com]

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Love those conservatives.

Fraud [zerohedge.com]

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Where's the fraud? https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-border-photos/

Did you watch the debate? Any thoughts?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Yes. It was a good night for the left. Warren met expectations by doing fairly well. She drew some attention by committing to Bernie's Medicare for All plan. DeBlasio demolished low expectations. Booker did really well and made a strong pivot to the left (you can't trust him though), signaling that he is bullish on Bernie or Warren. Beto was awful all around. He might be done. Castro, Inslee, and Gabbard got some good words in. Delaney, Ryan, and Klobuchar were a waste of space.

Who knew that Bill De Blasios real name was Warren Wilhelm Jr? Anybody?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 27, 2019:

His dad came back from WWII with his leg blown off from a grenade. He turned to alcohol, divorced, neglected his son, and then killed himself. So, you know, Bill has some justification for having adopted his mother's surname.

The Idea that illegals are more important then American citizens is another indication of the ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Disgraceful.

Neoliberal Corporatism: The global concentration of power in the hands of a few (powerful ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 26, 2019:

Since Reagan and Thatcher, yes.

Let's Rock! Post something good. [youtu.be]

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 26, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tmOr2yWaSs

Let's Rock! Post something good. [youtu.be]

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 26, 2019:

Nice 97.9 The Loop tee.

Justice: "FREE TO CHOOSE" Do you support libertarians' argument? - Very interesting!

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 25, 2019:

Right libertarianism is the oligarch's favorite ideology.

Google as fake news?

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Haven't watched the video (I don't trust O'Keefe but do support breaking up or nationalizing parts of the big tech companies), but it strikes me that the screenshots could just be a function of people's average search activity. The suggested queries about men strike me as things that conservative men would be concerned about and then search for on Google, perhaps constituting most searches about men. The suggested queries about women, on the other hand, strike me as things that feminists would be concerned about and then search for, likewise constituting most searches about women. Maybe this isn't a conspiracy but rather an algorithm outputting accurate but awkward results.

[foxnews.com] The government doesn't get to pass "vague" laws.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Thank goodness for those liberals, huh. Rule of law at its best!

[bbc.

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 24, 2019:

It's their civic duty. Not unlike what happens when we shirk jury duty or go AWOL from the military. Happened in Wisconsin in response to Scott Walker's union busting and it has almost happened recently in other states except the lawmakers got out of dodge before threats could be made. And in this case it sounds like there will be many attempts at persuasion before any force is used. (EDIT: Looks like they're already in Idaho, so I'm guessing the Dems will persue a compromise). What's really a dangerous norm-violation is the response by vigilantes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum#Call_of_the_house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum#Quorum-busting In Oregon, here are the laws governing this process: From the Oregon constitution: "If a quorum is present, the Senate shall proceed with the transaction of business. When there is no quorum present, a lesser number of members may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members." From ORS 181.050: "The state police, with the approval of the Governor, may be called upon by any other branch or department of the state government to enforce criminal laws or any regulation of such branch or department."

Obama To Americans: You Don't Deserve To Be Free

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Seems he was criticizing market fundamentalism and not individualism.

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WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 24, 2019:

What's Q been up to lately?

If you're going to watch one half hour YouTube video about sex this week, it should be Dennis ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 24, 2019:

You mean this Dennis Prager? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODUrLP-NtU https://readsludge.com/2018/12/27/who-funds-pragerus-anti-muslim-content https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbtlCETYbts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gzNgviPYA

I’ve been asked (in the Culture War group) if I reject the ideas of “dignitity”and “honor”...

WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 24, 2019:

But are you rejecting the concepts out of hand or after having read the attached article? Your usage of the words dignity and honor suggests the former. That's fine, you don't have to be interested in learning more about the concepts. And I probably should have provided more context. But these are concepts that a figure of the IDW has expounded upon to explain his differences with elements of the right and left. I would have thought that this community would have been more interested and prepared to engage those ideas. I'm worried that you are going to excommunicate him just as you did Bari Weiss and (provisionally) Jordan Peterson. With Dave Rubin's recent troubles, pretty soon there may be no one left!

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WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 24, 2019:

**This Oregon situation ... cuts straight to a visceral level issue of leftwing fascism versus right wing libertarianism.** Not really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum#Call_of_the_house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum#Quorum-busting Remember when Scott Walker did this? In Oregon, here are the laws governing this process: From the Oregon constitution: "If a quorum is present, the Senate shall proceed with the transaction of business. When there is no quorum present, a lesser number of members may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members." From ORS 181.050: "The state police, with the approval of the Governor, may be called upon by any other branch or department of the state government to enforce criminal laws or any regulation of such branch or department."

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WilyRickWiles comments on Jun 23, 2019:

No, he's a chauvinist in the general sense. But he's pretty aligned with the IDW on Muslims and transgender people.