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@rachbarnhart Can libs make a single argument without lying? Apparently the answer is "no"

@rachbarnhart Here's a challenge for the libs: go back and review the last decade of public statements about "whiteness" and "white people" and see if they inspire anything like this response

It's morning in America nytimes.com/2025/09/28/mag…

The fact that the CATO institute removed 9/11 as an outlier event, but kept the Oklahoma city bombing which killed 168 people, nearly 50% of the "right-wing" portion of the chart tells me everything I need to know about what results they were aiming for from the jump

A man in Switzerland will be jailed after refusing to pay a fine he was issued for a "transphobic" social media post. Emanuel Brünisholz, a wind instrument repairman, had made a Facebook comment noting that male and female skeletons were different. reduxx.info/swiss-man-opts…

@WaywardRabbler @archiebland @robtopinka LOL readers can judge for themselves which of these two texts is more informative x.com/kunley_drukpa/…

@archiebland @robtopinka so you, a grown man, writing in a major national newspaper, just had to compare this to a scene in the Meryl Streep movie "the Devil Wears Prada" and this doesn't embarrass you at all? By the way that terrible analogy is not at all helpful

First Edition, with @robtopinka, is about how the extremely online right seeded the ‘Boriswave’ conversation, and why they’re basically the Miranda Priestlys of contemporary politics. theguardian.com/world/2025/sep…

The central priorities of politics THEN vs NOW - what changed?

Inexplicably, the central priorities of politics have changed over the past century - before politics used to be about boring administrative issues like taxes and economic policy but now it is all about existential issues of identity. Nobody can explain why this change happened

CONVERSATION WITH A DOMINICAN ABOUT ‘THE HAITIAN PROBLEM’ 🇩🇴🇭🇹 Isn’t a well-known fact but the Dominican Republic actually celebrates its independence from Haiti, not Spain. In 1822 Haitians under the command of Haitian Mulatto President Jean-Pierre Boyer marched into and occupied the ethnic Latin east of Hispaniola - the ‘Black Colonial Occupation’ lasted 22 Years until 1844 with the outbreak of the Dominican War of Independence. In the Dominican Republic’s capital Santo Domingo there is a mausoleum dedicated to leaders of that Independence War, like Juan Pablo Duarte. While I was there visiting a Dominican man approached me trying to ask me about Jesus and I used it as an opportunity to ask about Haiti … “How do you as a Dominican feel about Haitians?” “Oh, we respect Haitians we don’t care if they are black no racism here” “I heard Haitians cause a lot of trouble here in the Dominican Republic, is that true?” “Aye, si, many Haitians - no good! We don’t want them here” “But you respect them?” “Yes we respect them but we don’t want them here” “They come here illegally?” “Yes they have no documents they live in the jungle” “Because Haiti is a failed state?” “Not even a failed state it is, mmm, devil anus” “I see. What kinds of problems do they cause?” “Begging, stealing, robbery, black magic… they come illegally and take many jobs” “But you still respect them?” “Yes we respect our black brothers no racism here. We have good relations with Haiti” “I thought you said Haiti was like the devil’s anus?” “Yes” “I heard the Dominican Government deports a lot of Haitians” “Yes of course” “200,000 a year. They round them up and put them in vans then drive to the Haitian border where… they dump them” “You know a lot about deportation” “The Government will raid construction sites, markets, public spaces no? They try and catch Haitians without valid papers” “Most of them don’t have valid papers” “If so… can’t you tell if people are Haitians though? Can’t you say they are probably illegal then?” “Some come legally” “Racist to assume probably” “We don’t like racism here but you are right many you see on the street are probably illegal” “Do you think a lot of Dominican animosity towards Haitians is motivated by historical grievances? You know, we are in a mausoleum for the independence leaders who fought against Haitians… do people get upset about that still?” “We don’t have any animosity towards them we just don’t like them for the trouble they cause” “Can I ask, so many Haitians seem to want to move to the Dominican Republic-” “Because Haiti is the City of Chaos” “Yeah, it seems to me if every Haitian tried to move here it would cause a lot of trouble” “Yes, we don’t want them here” “So the Government has to develop a strategy to continually deport Haitians back to Haiti - because you are trapped on an island with Haiti… you have a failed state on your border” “Yes this is true, we must deport many Haitians all the time. And if you deport them they keep coming back, some Haitians they get deported and then they come back many times” “Is deportation on that level… do you regard it as a human rights violation?” “What? What do you mean?” “Human rights violation… like the Dominican government is physically seizing Haitians and bundling them into vans without due process” “How is that a human rights violation?” “Because… I mean there isn’t due process. Also the physically seizing people” “Mmm, but we know they are illegal. How else would you deport them all if they have to have trials? What is the point? Better to just deport them or there will be chaos” “You don’t feel that is racist either? Bundling Haitians into vans ‘to prevent chaos’ without due process because they don’t have papers?” “No” “And this doesn’t contradict the respect you feel you have for Haitians, for Haiti as… you know, Toussaint Louverture’s Revolution - they call it the first black nation?” “No, we respect Haitians”

🇩🇴 ASKING A DOMINICAN 8 ABOUT HER WORLDVIEW WHILE ON A DATE WITH HER 🇩🇴 While visiting foreign countries is often fun, for many reasons, to meet local women. Apart from the ‘woman’ part of that experience sometimes just for entertainment like to ask questions to try to build a theory of mind about what people from the country are like, how they see and don’t see the world. This isn’t a very scientific approach but it sometimes throws up interesting perspectives - and when I say interesting perspectives here I don’t mean arcane 200IQ new vistas I mean mostly (from my perspective) bizarre incomplete patchwork weltanschauungs Thomas Nagel wrote famous epistemology paper ‘What Is It Like To Be A Bat?’ Thesis is ‘basically’ that because of a perception gap you can’t really ever know on a phenomenological level what it is like to be a bat. Similarly when you try to find out what it is like to see the world as an average eg Cuban, Lebanese, Rwandan woman whatever (obviously epistemologically not autogynophilically) though like bats women also try to suck your blood there is slightly less of a perception gap since unlike bats generally they don’t use biosonar to echo-locate. And yet even in this smaller gap you still often pull up very strange priors! To this, know not really a revelation to say people / women don’t know much but just as an example here was in the Dominican Republic on date with a Dominican woman who seemed otherwise relatively intelligent, very sweet you know, great thighs, had a bachelor in marketing and so on and was just talking… Thing that first caught me was when I asked “have you ever left the island?” “No I’ve never left the island” Never having left the Dominican Republic doesn’t preclude you from being (sorry being a bit disparaging here but-) cosmopolitan. And to be fair most people in most countries are like this, like I say you know not really knowing anything about anything… maybe have not really left their home country. It’s normal. Such types are even prominent in media, policymaking, academia and so on… She told me it seemed like I travelled a lot and wanted to play a game where she said a country and I guessed the capital city. Went a few rounds and I guessed them all. She was impressed. I said we should flip and I would ask her- “Okay” “Tehran” “I don’t know. Austria?” “What? No Iran” “Oh I’ve never heard of it” “Buenos Aires” “Mmm… Brazil?” “No not quite…” “Oh, um… uh… Argentina” “Cairo” “Umm…” “It’s a very famous country, I guarantee you will know it” “Oooh you’re making me feel stupid” “Pyramids, you know the Pyramids?” “Umm… the pyramids? I don’t know” “Don’t be stupid, come on. You know this you know the pyramids” “Maybe” “The Pharaohs, Mummies, Exodus. Egypt” “Oh I think so, maybe. Cairo is the capital of Africa?” “It’s the capital of Egypt I just said” “Ah okay” “Athens” “I’ve never heard of it” “You’ve never heard of Athens? What?” [frowns] “Is it in Europe?” “Ancient Greece you know Ancient Greece?” “Heard of Greece” “Do you know Athens then? Democracy, Parthenon, Socrates” “Mmm… I don’t know, maybe” “Not being rude but are you joking?” “Oooh you’re making me feel stupid” Wanted to see how far I could push this… “Berlin. Surely you know Berlin” “It’s also in Europe right?” “Do you know the Nazis? Have you heard of the Nazis?” “I think so” “Do you know the war they were involved with? Do you know what they did?” “I don’t know much about history” “Have you heard of World War 2? Adolf Hitler?” “I heard of World War 2 but I don’t know much about it” “Do you know what Hitler did?” “Not really. He was one of the leaders right?” Was taken aback, very egregious case of not knowing things especially since she didn’t seem stupid. Eventually recovered though - she was attractive and there wasn’t much point sidetracking rest of the evening with it beyond that. Want to stress this part of the conversation I put on X was not the whole evening…

Important news to share with “moderate left” friends: THIS is what these conquered universities have become. The ideology of the Marxists in charge is very radical. We need to wake people up - these wackjobs running our institutions represent the ascendant ideology of the left.

My mother became a widow just after turning 50. From the moment she handed the do not resuscitate order to the paramedics (at my father’s instruction) she was doing things, planning things, managing. A friend came over and told her to lie down a few hours after he died, and she said “what are you talking about? There’s a funeral to prepare.” She probably made 500 calls in 48 hours, went through her entire contact list. Ordered enough food for the army of people who stopped by our house and our church. For months after, everyday, all she did was go through his things, organize everything, his pen collection, his books, meet with anyone who wanted to talk about my dad and made sure they had a small piece of him to take with them. She became the rock for everyone around her when everyone else wanted to cry and grieve. I don’t think I ever saw her cry except at the funeral. But he’s been dead for 20 years and she still wears her wedding ring. He’s still her husband. No one should ever judge a widow’s grief. Erika Kirk has to do this kind of work— the widow’s work, a difficult role you don’t understand until you’ve witnessed it—at a scale none of us can fathom. She has to tend to a nation’s grief. And she’s doing a beautiful job.

Sometimes I want to learn about a subject so I look up books about it And there’s like six “groundbreaking revisionist histories from award-winning scholars challenging the traditional view” And zero books conveying the traditional view

My son had a mobile phone stolen. The GPS told him where it was. Police were not interested. Yet they can arrest someone late at night for being rude about a religion. The entire state needs new leadership.

@fentasyl Read this quickly and assumed it was about the Wall Street Bombing of 1920 and the Italian Galleanists

24 years ago you could have gone to Little Italy and asked "why is there a giant burning hole in the ground filled with the corpses of Americans a few blocks away from Little Italy?"

Every time a liberal has said a book is banned in the the last 30 years, what they’ve actually meant is “local governments chose not to purchase my books for school libraries using taxpayer money”

I almost feel bad for the "Balanced Literacy" lady who waged the academic war on phonics for 40 years Not just that Columbia closed your center in total disgrace...but having to live with the knowledge that your life's work ruined millions of childrens' lives 😬

Atlanta Airport Refused Trump’s Anti-DEI Pledge, Lost $57 Million—And The Law Is On Trial - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/atlanta-airpor…