A dude who abides. Gen X. Existentialist. Deist. Classical Liberalist. Realist. โIโd trade our Representative Democracy for an Egalitarian Meritocracyโ
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Respect is reciprocal. Everyone has the right to live their life as they want, right up to the point where they impinge on someone elseโs right to live the life that person wants.
Full stop.
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Lay people don't appreciate how much of post-1960s scholarship has been invalidated by ancient DNA, nor the extent to which it's vindicated earlier scholars, nor how generations have been mal-educated.
The post-60s errors are all in a single direction too: they interpret evidence through a model of human nature that predicts behaviors that run contrary to everyday intuition and observation. For example, for decades, dogma was that violence was rare until the bronze age. Of course, violence was, in fact, ubiquitous. Pots changed because people changed, not because (as scholars asserted with straight faces somehow) ideas diffused through word of mouth.
You can draw your own conclusions about why the academy pushed this model so hard, but it happened at exactly the same time the academy was pushing tons of other ideas inconsistent with an intuitive understanding of human nature.
Ancient DNA has made late 20th century revisionist historiography untenable, but other disciplines are still pushing related nonsense. All of it must be defunded and rebuilt.
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A few days ago, Austin Payne, a 15-year-old White boy in Georgia, was hunted, shot, and left to die in an abandoned apartment by four black teen males.
He called his mom after being attacked and shot, telling her he was dying.
She found his body the next morning after searching all night for him.
Charged with his murder: Jansquincey Donaldson, 15; Omari Marion, 15; Adarious Wallace, 16; Detravion Parker, 22.
National media has been completely silent.
If four White teens had done this to a Black kid, it would dominate cable news for days.
Instead, silence.
They covered the Nolan Wells case wall-to-wall for a drowning.
Yet this kid was hunted like an animal and brutally murdered, and because his skin is White, his story will never be told.
I couldnโt imagine being his mother and getting that call.
Rest easy, Austin. ๐
#whitelivesmatter
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Today is the National Day for the Victims of Communism. Communism killed more than 100 million people in the 20th century.
This memorial, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Prague, powerfully captures what communism does to the human person.
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Most people do not realize just how easy the AP exams have gotten. They are not college level.
Why/how have they become so easy? What's going on?
This might shock you... A brutal new piece in Education Next just dropped, saying the decline in rigor of the AP in the last two decades is, in large part, because the content has been GUTTED. For example:
โ AP Biology cut 40% of its material
โ Required lines from the Aeneid in AP Latin halved
โ Spanish Lit reading list cut from 56 works to 38
Then the questions themselves have become absurdly easier. Readability measures show English passages have fallen multiple grade levels, and some now include footnotes defining basic words...
A 2025 AP English prompt included footnote definitions for words like "optimism" and "pessimism."
At the same time, scoring was recalibrated so that more students pass: guessing penalties disappeared, rubrics grew more generous, readers were told to give students the benefit of the doubt, etc. โ "no one at College Board had any incentive to maintain rigor."
College professors are now seeing students arrive with AP credit who lack basic content knowledge and writing ability. The College Board insists the exams have not become easier, but everybody familiar with them knows they've become an absolute joke.
Advanced Placement is no longer advanced. This is not college level.
It must be replaced.
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The Democrats got 20 milliom new votes.
Thatโs a 40% increase from out of nowbere.
This is 10 million more than in 2018. When Trump was also on the ballot.
Republicans actually marginally increased turnout from 2022 and 2018.
Republican voters rarely flipped this election, according to NBC News exit polls (~1%).
So these are just new Dem voters โmad about Trumpโ that are 20% more than his last midterm.
And some Dem candidates apparently outperformed Kamala Harris, including Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa.
Hinojosa was actually trailing Abbott in the aggregate polling before the election.
How very odd.
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Now playing! A stunning, brand new 35mm print of the must-see silent film epic BEAU GESTE (1926) plays at 3:30pm & 7:30pm daily through next Thursday November 12th. Receive a collectible reproduction of the original theatrical program with admission!
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Nobody believes this.
Democrats are even asking questions it's so obvious.
2,848 out of 3,109 counties is beyond unrealistic, especially when you learn that states across the country registered millions of "new voters" without ANY verification of U.S. citizenship, with some counties even having more ballots counted than registered voters.
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Deporting illegal aliens should be totally uncontroversial and non-partisan.
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96% of Jews in Poland were murdered by the Nazis. That is genocide.
3% of Gazaโs population, mostly male combatants, died in the war they started. That is not genocide.
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JUST IN: Midterm numbers now showing statistically impossible swings in Texas and all over the country.
And it wasn't people moving from Republicans to Democrats or staying home as they tried to say. Magically new democrat voters in masses appeared out of thin air.
Analyses claim over 2,100 counties moved toward Democrats.
Republican totals appear to have increased, not decreased as they have been trying to paint the narrative, while Democrats gained large numbers of new voters and votes.
Super Intelligence assessments have put the odds at roughly 1 in trillions.
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Steve, a tiny dibbler at Perth Zoo, reportedly helped save his endangered species without ever becoming a father. Female dibblers prefer larger mates, and Steve was too small and apparently didn't smell appealing. Keepers used him as the first male females encountered during breeding trials. After meeting Steve, females found the next males more attractive and were more willing to mate. According to the zoo, Steve lived a long life as an unlikely conservation hero.
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There were xerox machines ringing the Board of Elections staff INSIDE the wide open โcageโ where votes are counted in Brooklyn
64,000 mail-in ballots were xeroxed in the back of a conference room during the Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2020 election by Claire Woodall-Vogg, which were all for Joe Biden.
She was then caught on camera at 3:00 am on Nov. 4th uploading the fraudulent tabulated votes on flash drives without any chain-of-custody or election observers to steal Wisconsin for Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
An email from Ryan Chew at "The Election Group," emailed Claire Woodall-Vogg stating:
"Damn, Claire, you have a flair for drama, delivering just the margin needed at 3:00 am..."
She was caught and fired. How many other election workers in other states committed fraud just like this that got away with it? The 2020 election was stolen.
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One of the most remarkable performances I've ever seen! Absolutely priceless! โค๏ธ๐
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When Saladin took Jerusalem, he destroyed all the crosses, including the relic of the True Cross which the Muslims took in battle. They paraded them before Christians before destroying them, even urinating on some of them.
He had 200-300 Christian Knights beheaded while he watched.
He had 8000 women and children enslaved that day alone, including noble women and nuns forced into concubinage. Muslims enthusiastically described the deflowering and r*pe of the Christian women.
Through his entire campaign it's estimated that 40-50k Christians were enslaved.
This is what modern Hollywood films present us instead. Interfaith dialogue and a Saladin who respects the cross more than....the Crusaders.
This is how you end up with CAIR endorsed candidates winning office. A population fed CAIR endorsed films like this one.
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Gene Wu is what we call a boba lib - a high-status Asian progressive who is soft on crime, for open borders, and exploits racial grievances to dismantle America which he says is defined by white supremacy and racism.
Unsurprisingly, like all woke Asians, he has nothing to say at all about America's geopolitical rival.
Wu goes way further. He was involved with the Houston Chinese consulate which Trump shut down in 2020 due to subversive espionage activity. His father has been linked to a group of former Red Guards from Mao's Cultural Revolution era who spout pro-CCP propaganda.
He is a fifth columnist and he is now the leader of the Texas House of Representatives.
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Javier Milei has defeated the tyranny of the status quo.
buff.ly/aew02Jb
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Iranian-born Canadian activist Parishad Kavyani, who spent more than two years marching in support of Palestine, has publicly broken with the movement, accusing former allies of hypocrisy, discrimination and selectively defending human rights.
Kavyani said she had experienced more homophobia, racism and sexism from left-wing activists over the past nine months than ever before.
Kavyani, who grew up under Iran's Islamic Republic before moving to Canada at 14, criticized pro-Palestine activists for advocating women's rights while remaining silent about Iranian women fighting against compulsory hijab laws and other restrictions imposed by Tehran.
She also accused some activists of defending the Iranian regime and sharing material supportive of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Kavyani said Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack on Israel was a turning point, explaining that she could not support the killing, rape, torture or hostage-taking of civilians simply because they were Israeli.
She argued that human rights should apply equally to everyone, regardless of nationality or political beliefs, and accused parts of the movement of prioritizing ideology over protecting innocent people.
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JUST IN: A Kansas postal worker has been indicted for allegedly stealing more than 4,400 pieces of mail, including nearly 400 political mailers tied to Republican candidates.
Nearly four hundred GOP mailers, allegedly gone.
Tampering with campaign mail is an attack on every voter. Prosecute it fully.
