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The DEI Left is getting visibly sour on --- people.

So they turn to the old Leftie wisdom: "We need a new set of people."

The Bolsheviks tried to bayonet-manufacture "Soviet Man."

Western-US Lefties tried to lecture-create "woke people."

Both failed miserably. Glory be!

Human nature (smudges and all) prevailed and will always prevail.

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That Oregon has a Department of Justice “Bias Response Hotline," makes me generally unsympathetic when crap happens. I do feel bad for people who want to leave but are unable for whatever reason. Otherwise, people and their wealth leaving the state, the legalized drug culture and all that comes with it, the ANTIFA riots, the impact of illegal immigration, environmental activists run amok, etc., are just karma doing it's thing.

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I think your introduction to Kat Rosenfield's essay about Severance shows that you have seen (and absorbed) "Joe vs. the Volcano," a gem of a film widely disregarded at the time of its release.

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I'm a C.Hughes fan. And a D. Murray fan. And I'm glad both have work and are surviving as journalists. But these conversations are growing tiresome. No one needs to explain Dr. King or the misandrist Marxist DEI to me. Nor, the one and the same evil, of the central banking DNC/WEF/IMF/CCP Davos flooding of Europe/America with illegals, to create chaos and dismantle Western culture. (Tax treasure is tasty.) Consider that upward of 8% of the people in some Canadian provinces have died in euthanasia centers. Or, the "drones over New Jersey" psyop insertion of sky surveillance into the American psyche. (Get used to it.)

Harris and Starmer are both wolves in the same pack. The terms fascism and tyranny don't begin to describe the ascending horror criminal finance intends to inflict on We the People. I suggest that proof of my opinion is found in the fact that the death of twenty British children or a hundred Laken Riley's would have carried the same outcome.

The greatest non-conversation in history continues.Tired of it yet or, just not tired enough? Moooooooocow.

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Pamela Hemphill is the last bastion of decency. Accountability, common sense, respect of the rule of law and the police.

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Three years between the first and second seasons of a TV show? Does anyone in Hollywood know how to run a business?

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Depart the psyop and live.

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or wingnuts

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Hollywood and all it's expression has completely lost it's appeal. Who cares who/what wins based on the opinions of the dried up people judging? I bet most of the contending films are total junk anyway. Get over yourself Hollywood! You exist because we decided to give you the time of day and that is not a given!!!

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Turns out the Nashville shooter was quite the "Uncle Ruckus."

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Re: Douglas Murray's piece:

“But the authorities must have known this months ago […] meaning that people who were heavily criticized for spreading “fake news” about the potential motive of the attacker now turn out to have said something that seems likely to have been true.”

Meaning also that the authorities themselves were spreading 'fake news,' since deliberately suppressing facts relevant to an adequate understanding of a news event falls in this category. Editing reality with the intent to mislead is a subset of lying: the lie of omission.

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There's value to diversity, even if evolution's upward spiral seems to naturally select complexity. And when it's not forced, diversity, equity and inclusion is how reciprocal relationships are built, how friendships form, how love is felt. I still feel like it's one of those manufactured crises, emerging out of ESG only to be squashed by the least racially sensitive president since Nixon.

Stephen Jay Gould theorized that despite E.O. Wilson's sociobiology theory of evolution that favors monarchical and oppressive social cooperation to an autocratic leader (he used the example of ant colonies), he'd found evidence through horse paleontology and horticulture that evolution is a change process in which the species that survive are simply the species that survive. A mix of luck in harmony with their environment, lack of too many predators, abundant opportunities for procreation, beneficial genetic mutations––and your species is likely to pass on its genes auspiciously.

This pushback against DEI, done for reasons of free speech and not having to hire unqualified candidates, reminds me of an Ayn Rand novel. Remember, Howard Roark was a genius because he didn't follow the DEI-type thinking and was an individualist (who blew up his own building). And John Galt felt he and his industrialists were such non-diverse, sui generis creators they could go on strike. But who would buy their products when consumers make up 70% of the economy, and there's always someone to take over a dominant companies' marketshare.

As far as the Oscars, don't the Scientologists always win?

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I think I've heard Thomas Sowell say that socialism (from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs) should be limited only to the way you run your family. It's bound by close, personal, presumably loving and voluntary relationships.

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Yes, organizing large groups of people is insanely hard. That’s why Marx’s maxim was corrupted by governments, instead of free associations of workers or unions or communes. Communism was involuntary. But then again, so is capitalism. Governments are coercive. Philosophies, not so much.

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Seems like both the UK and Australia (among others) are hell bent on destroying their national identity. Seeing these places go into darkness is really sad.

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Word of the day (from N.S. Lyons): Oikophobia.

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With DEI beginning to be in our rearview mirror, are pronouns dead? Also, I'm tired of answering gender and race questions on job applications. Very insulting.

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Faithful 'crat propagandist River Page's third paragraph, "Whan an era. And now it's over" would have better encapsulated everyone with half a brain thinking, "WTF? Thank God that's over!"

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Since the website design change I've experienced technical glitches relating to scrolling, at least on my Samsung S22 phone. Anyone else? The scrolling will randomly jump the page around a bit, either up or down, so I have to find my place again repeatedly. Also, some comments (not all) bleed off the right side of my screen and I have to reduce viewing to 90% to read them.

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River Page impresses me more and more. His essay in American Affairs mag, "The CIA and the New Dialect of Power", written in 2021, digs deep.

He wrote, however, "Today’s leftists must insist that their “revo­lutionary” lan­guage was co-opted by the CIA, an institution created specifically to quash revolution and maintain the status quo, because any alternative explanation would suggest that this “revolutionary” language serves the same purpose."

On the CONTRARY, Mr. Page, there IS another alternative explanation: that the language itself was (and still is) just the Regressive tip of the Deep State iceberg: that since the days of Angleton and the burgeoning of such closely held beliefs as Foucault's and Fanon's, the mission of the Real CIA has been to subvert any system that seeks misalignment with the Regressive agenda. DEI is, in the minds of many behind the scenes, dumb, dumb, dumb, because it advertises the Regressive cause in plain sight. However, because most people saw DEI as "new", the truth could still be concealed, as America still believes the CIA had been dragged kicking and screaming into the Age of Diversity...

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All pigs from the same trough.

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