The Bell Tolls

The Bell Tolls

Since the Mexican chain everyone loves to hate came up recently, I figured I'd share this. According to the Harris Poll, Taco Bell is the best Mexican restaurant in the country [http://www.azfamily.com/story/39063348/taco-bell-voted-best-mexican-restaurant-in-the-country] . Also known as "why we have an electoral college".…

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The SJW Stuff Matters Because It's About Control

I mentioned that it's about power. The power to control what you can say. The power to force you to speak something that isn't the truth, or be run out of the community, expelled. Bluntly, the power to keep your sanity [https://mishaburnett.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/my-preferred-pronouns/]. > The language that I use is a reflection of my thoughts. I do not permit myself to indulge delusions–my own or another’s–in my speech. Thus, my prefered pronouns. I use “he” to refer to male persons and…

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Why That "SJW Stuff" Matters

Why That "SJW Stuff" Matters

OK. In parts 1 [https://thelastredoubt.com/why-the-sjw-stuff-matters-an-intro-and-comicsgate/] and 1.5 [https://thelastredoubt.com/false-middles/] I covered an article on why the marketing signaling doesn't matter, and specifically took the article to task for how it looked at a marketing/attention-seeking only filter to both of their actions. Incidentally, this overview is well worth your time. As I noted, at least in the case of the comicsgate imprint, it wasn't about trademarks or copyright…

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9/11

9/11

I've posted on it before, and as noted elsewhere, things are a bit busy. Nevertheless, while I can certainly understand why it may not be the biggest story on the front page of the New York Times - heck, even Google has a small front page icon for it - it's not there above that fold. It's been 17 years. They want us to forget. Maybe our own bureaucrats have far more impact on why half these goatfuckers are around to attack us in the first place, and there may even be other players…

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