Self Awareness Fail

Self Awareness Fail

Courtesy of a Mewe post by Larry Correia [https://mewe.com/profile/56c8ccd65b424a0c79c1d4b3] - looks like, in addition to being one of the few SF writers who can write "literary" in the same general neighborhood as Gene Wolfe and unlike many literary wannabes, tell a story, Dan Simmons has some balls. Of course, vile 770 took him to task for it [http://archive.is/tNELI]. What did he write? Yeah, he said rude things about a child being used as a human shield to hector and shame adults. Recall -…

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Without Nationalism...

Without Nationalism...

How does World War 2 even make sense? I know, "National Socialists," duh. Let's try to look a bit beyond the painfully obvious, especially since the Germans weren't big believers in nationalism for other people, but instead were prussian supremacists with dreams of empire. Instead, without borders, peoples with a shared culture, ruled over by their own governments and tradition, separate from other nations, why would there even be a reason to resist a few migrants with really cool tanks and u…

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Leftism is Inherently Evil

Leftism is Inherently Evil

No, this is not an accidental repeat of a post I've made before [https://thelastredoubt.com/socialism-is-evi/], but an entirely new post [https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2019/01/leftism-is-evil-literally-metaphysically.html] made by someone else. > An example is the spiritual fact that all men are brothers and sisters; this is perverted into political equality. Another spiritual good is the sexual and creative love of husband and wife - this is reduced into the massively-promoted and enf…

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Efficiency and Money Are Not the Only Measures

Efficiency and Money Are Not the Only Measures

Tucker Carlson, debating Ben Shapiro, made the libertarian end of the sphere lose their shit [https://youtu.be/z3E1I4lu6u0]. > So would you, Tucker Carlson, be in favor of restrictions on the ability of trucking companies to use this sort of technology specifically to, you know, sort of artificially maintain the number of jobs that are available in the trucking energy? Are you joking? In a second. In a second! In other words, if I were president and ran the DOT, Department of Transportation,…

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Bono is a Piece of Work

Bono is a Piece of Work

OK. My first exposure to U2 that I recall was someone blasting "Sunday Bloody Sunday" from their boom box after getting off the bus in high school, not too long before the Joshua Tree came out. I thought it was cool, and despite the popularity of their later album, that remains my favorite U2 song even if I know it's a blatant piece of propaganda. That said, Bono had always looked unhealthy to me, his movements, manner "off." And I never did like the cover to War, and never even looked at Boy…

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