markchristenson

More than a year ago, Elon sent a warning to Jensen. And in his own being on the spectrum style, he repeated the warning ⛔️ , ensuring there were no doubts left. Legend.

Congratulations to America's progressive feminists! Some of you have apparently discovered the most spectacularly fucking stupid strategy ever devised for defeating the patriarchy: make excuses for Islamist authoritarianism and hope the religious fanatics develop a sudden appreciation for women's liberation. Fucking brilliant. These self-appointed guardians of female empowerment scream about bodily autonomy, political equality, and freedom of expression, yet suddenly develop a remarkable tolerance for ideological movements that would happily restrict all three. Imagine Hillary Clinton, Jennifer Welch, and Angie Sullivan living under an Islamist theocracy. The first mandatory dress order would trigger a feminist meltdown visible from fucking space. The first government prohibition on their political commentary would produce enough screaming to register on the Richter scale. Unfortunately, the morality police don't conduct focus groups, and religious dictatorships aren't terribly interested in what the women's empowerment committee thinks. That's the deliciously savage irony of excusing authoritarianism because its advocates share your contempt for Western conservatives. You assume the people you're accommodating will respect the freedoms that allow you to attack your political enemies. Iran's revolutionary leftists made a similarly catastrophic calculation in 1979. They helped overthrow the shah alongside the Islamists, celebrated their glorious victory, and discovered that their revolutionary partners had considerably different plans for the future. The Islamic Republic subsequently crushed left-wing opposition, imprisoned dissidents, and executed thousands of political prisoners. What a magnificent fucking reward for revolutionary solidarity. And that's the historical lesson some American activists seem determined to ignore: authoritarian fanatics have absolutely no obligation to preserve the freedoms of the people who helped legitimize them. So congratulations again, ladies. Imagine finally winning your imaginary war against the American conservative patriarchy, only to discover that the new authorities have actual religious police, actual compulsory dress laws, and actual prisons for political dissent. Your victory speech is prepared. Your outrage is magnificent. Your feminist credentials are impeccable. Then the new government hands you a dress code, confiscates the microphone, and informs you that your complaint has been denied. Permanently. Somewhere, history is laughing its fucking ass off. (article below)

I've never found him funny, he’s been telling the same shitty “white people are idiots” jokes for decades. The joke’s on him though, imagine converting to a religion that hates black people and ran the longest slave trade in African history for the last 1,300 years?. Idiot.

Jamie Raskin wants America to know that Democrats would never, ever consider going after their political opponents for revenge. "We don't engage in retribution and revenge. We uphold and defend the rule of law." Just about spit my drink out.

A feminist tells the table the patriarchy is oppressing her. So the host asks her, “How?” It’s the simplest question in the world, and it completely breaks her. Watch how fast it all falls apart. HOST: “You believe we live in the patriarchy?” GUEST: “I do.” HOST: “Are you oppressed?” GUEST: “I would say so.” HOST: “How so? How are you oppressed?” GUEST: “I’m not answering the same questions over and over again.” She’s sure she’s a victim. She just won’t say how. And nothing is going to change her mind. GUEST: “Nobody can change my mind. So there’s no point in trying.” HOST: “Well, I’m not really interested in changing your mind. I’m more interested in exploring your perspective.” GUEST: “This is just ridiculous. You’ve been berating me about the patriarchy.” HOST: “I’ve been pretty polite. I don’t think I’ve been berating you.” So the host tries one more time. HOST: “But I want to know how you’re oppressed.” GUEST: “Did I not tell you all the ways that I feel oppressed?” HOST: “You’ve established feelings, but not facts.” GUEST: “I’m gonna leave it at my feelings then.” Feelings over facts. That’s the whole ideology in three words.

Harry Sisson tells a father who pushes back on his child’s trans identity that his parenting is “pretty f*cked up.” Then the father brings up puberty blockers, and the lecture ends fast. SISSON: “Why don’t you just love and support them?” FATHER: “You can’t love and support a lie.” SISSON: “Yeah, I feel like that’s pretty f*cked up for your kid.” Then the father flips the script. FATHER: “You’re okay with a child at 12 years old getting puberty blockers?” SISSON: “Puberty blockers have been in use for children for a long time.” FATHER: “Do you know what the original puberty blockers were used for?” SISSON: “For early onset puberty.” FATHER: “Pedophiles in the state penitentiary to chemically CASTRATE them.” Sisson keeps defending the drugs. The father keeps pressing. FATHER: “Irreversible damage.” SISSON: “No, it’s not irreversible.” FATHER: “Bone loss. Seizures...” SISSON: “It’s not irreversible. But anyway, I don’t want to, I DON’T WANT TO get into a conversation about trans.” He was happy to lecture a father on how to love his son. But the moment he had to defend his own views, the conversation was over. CONTEXT: The father says his 8-year-old son identifies as “trans,” which the mother accepts. He does not. Leuprolide, sold as Lupron, was first approved in 1985 for prostate cancer and in 1993 for “precocious puberty” in children. It is also used off-label to chemically castrate sex offenders, just as the father said.

Hey @Delta, my dad was on a flight this evening from New Orleans to Boston, flying back to his hometown for his father’s funeral, completely alone. As you can imagine, this is a very tough time for him. He sent me a message after landing asking to reach out to y’all to thank y’all, especially your flight attendant, Abigail, who was there for him this evening. He said everyone at Delta took such good care of him. You never know what reason someone is on a flight for, and how much kindness can mean to them. So from the bottom of his and my heart, thank you. Thank you for making this trip a bit easier for him. ❤️

“I want to keep my side of the street clean.” That’s Jennifer Welch claiming innocence. But, in the same breath, she sorts nearly everyone into oppressors and victims. And her trick here is that once she puts @TPUSA in the oppressor box, she creates the pathway to innocence for herself. This is pure white guilt at play. She knows that if she stigmatizes TPUSA as evil, she can create the "evil" she needs to dissociate herself from and that creates the pathway to innocence.

Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in downtown Denver Saturday demanding a full repeal of two voter-approved transgender measures, while the group that championed them says the voters have already spoken. Story in bio.

And absolutely loved every second of it

Mark, look at your premise. Do we need commercial insurance carriers at all. Who is we? You are not asking whether you would buy a policy. You are asking whether a group of people with the power to legislate should permit other people to sell one. That is a different question, and it is the only question you ever ask. The real question is whether the state has any right to tell private individuals, and companies that are nothing but private individuals acting together, how they may trade for the things their health requires. Not whether a carrier takes enough risk to satisfy you. Whether it is any of your business, or Congress's, what two consenting parties agree to. Ask that same question of every industry and watch what the record says. The government held a monopoly on phone service for most of a century and you waited weeks for a rotary handset you were not allowed to own. It still holds one on first class mail. It licenses the utility, franchises the cable company, builds the roads, runs the schools, and keeps public libraries open in a world where the entire contents of one fit in your pocket. In every case the service froze at the moment the monopoly was granted, and in every case the one that was eventually opened to trade is now cheap and everywhere. The phone in your hand is the answer to your question. Medicine is not different. The best healthcare system in the world was built here under the principle that a man's life, his work, and his earnings are his own, and the doctor's are his. Antibiotics, anesthesia, insulin, the polio vaccine, open heart surgery. Every one arrived as a miracle for the rich and reached the working man within a generation, because nobody with a title was deciding who needed what. Then the planners took over in 1965, asking exactly your question, do we need this, do we need that, and never the question of right. Sixty years on, real spending per person is up seven times, the government pays half the bill, and you are asking whether the next thing should be allowed to exist. Insurance is a product. A man who wants to pool his risk with strangers at a price he accepts is engaged in a trade, and a carrier that takes too little risk for the premium will lose him to one that takes more, the moment the law stops telling him which plan he must buy and which doctor he may see. The carriers you despise are 72 percent government revenue because government made them so. You are describing a creature of the state and asking whether the state should finish it off. It is not your call. It is not Congress's. It belongs to the man whose body and whose money are on the table, and the entire history of this country's decline in medicine is the history of men like you deciding it was theirs.

Hateful rightwing rhetoric: "My dishwasher wasn't working... so I told her to get busy and make me a sandwich lmaoooo" Harmless leftwing comedy: "I'm so happy this guy was brutally murdered, hope it happens to more of you"