Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.
— Isabel Paterson
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jonolan on Asian Beauty: “That's good. More of us – and, by that, I mean all of us – need to do so. I…” Mar 28, 13:04
jonolan on Asian Beauty: “Hehe. I actually view this particular variety of orthocegenation as a means of combating said Chinese overlords. If we take…” Mar 17, 09:37
Modern Math Class – So Much Worse Than Common Core
Honestly, we should forget the failure that is Common Core Mathematics. In the calculus of the Left’s war on Americans’ thoughts, there are far worse things to concern ourselves with. Chief among them is their use of the credulity of sheeple and the Left’s chosen Magisterium to label any American who dissents from their dogma as something evil.
This entry was posted on Saturday, February 6th, 2021 at 9:30 am and is filed under Politics, Society.
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Who’s shaking the jar? Somebody has to be shaking it! There has to be some spider in its web and/or some shadowy cabal pulling the strings for their own nefarious ends. Or, so says one variety of common wisdom. A variety I choose to call Tinfoil Wisdom.
With the exception of the Lamestream Media, who shakes things up for their own profit as much as any agenda, there doesn’t have to be any shadowy figure “shaking the jar.” Certain sorts are quite capable of behaving heinously without manipulative instigation. They’re just that bad all on their own.
This is unfortunately the curse of being sentient. We’re built to make use of pattern recognition and, hence, we’re susceptible to false pattern recognition aka Apophenia. We are, as Klaus Conrad wrote, prone to the unmotivated seeing of connections accompanied by a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness and to engaging in self-referential, over-interpretations of what we see and hear.
There doesn’t have to be some spider in its web and/or some shadowy cabal pulling the strings for their own nefarious ends. With the ease of communication and the resultant online “echo chambers,” we’re quite capable of producing conflicts organically.
Of course, all that said, that doesn’t mean that sometimes, at some various levels, that there isn’t someone “shaking the jar.” It just means that there doesn’t have to be and that we should jump to the conclusion that there is. Sometimes, probably the majority of times, that “Shaker” didn’t start the shit; they just enabled existing troublemakers in order to profiteer off of them.
This entry was posted on Monday, October 5th, 2020 at 7:51 am and is filed under Politics, Society.
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This is funny, but also as close to truth and accuracy as the Left can come when it involves President Trump – some truth with at least an equal amount of negative spin.
The truth is that it does seem unlikely that President Trump would maintain the secrecy of many, if not all, of the things that make up the various conspiracies. The spin is that this would be because President Trump is incapable of keeping such secrets.
Our domestic enemies would never entertain the thought that President Trump just believes in transparency over the Deep State’s preference for secrecy and obfuscation.
This entry was posted on Friday, June 21st, 2019 at 1:22 pm and is filed under Humor, Politics.
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I recently wrote about how America’s domestic enemies’ quest to find some evidence of Russia and President Trump was the equivalent of searching for any or all of more famous cryptids. That, while accurate, might not have been perfectly on point.
Their behavior is actually closer to that of those who search for extraterrestrials on Earth. After all, they’re certainly as butt-hurt as anyone who anal probed by aliens and dumped in some field somewhere. 😉
This entry was posted on Monday, May 22nd, 2017 at 8:51 am and is filed under Humor, Politics.
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More and more the Liberals’ and Progressives’ ranting sounds like that of people searching for Nessie, Bigfoot, or the Chupacabra. Then, I suppose this makes sense since there’s almost as much evidence that Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to block Hillary and win the 2016 elections as there is for the existence of any of the more popular cryptids in the annals of cryptobiology.
This entry was posted on Thursday, May 18th, 2017 at 10:37 am and is filed under Politics.
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Cryptoscience – The Liberals’ New Major
