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Kevin McCarthy Hooking Up With Notorious MTG (1-11-23)
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Will The MSM Go After Biden For Careless Storage Of Classified Documents? (1-11-23)
Virtual Pilgrim writes: 14:28. “Is America an idea?” Steven Crowder said, “The difference between us (America) and Denmark and Norway and Sweden is WE’RE NOT A PEOPLE, we’re a country of ideals. And if you’re willing to come in and make a go of it, we’re going to provide you with equal opportunity – not ensure equal outcomes. That’s the difference that requires a racial national identity vs a Constitutional Republic. So ironically, Socialism almost invariably tends to be racist to a certain degree. Which is funny when we say national socialism and democratic socialism.”
People like Crowder don’t know what a nation is. Nations are defined by race, ethnicity, language, culture, history, and religion. This is what it means to be an American. America is a nation, but The United States is not a nation. It is an ideology; An idea; A political system of laws. The United States and America are two different things. However, the United States protected the nation with the 1790 Naturalization Act which defines citizens as, “White persons of good character.”
John Jay understood this when he wrote: “Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the SAME ancestors, speaking the SAME language, professing the SAME religion, attached to the SAME principles of government, very SIMILAR in their manners and customs…” ~ John Jay, First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, 1787
Notice, “same ancestors”!!! This is why conservatives today a radical anti-American traitors.
Vox Day, today, writes: “One cannot strip a person of his nationhood because it is his birthright and can be confirmed by external bodies through the use of genetic science. But since one observably can strip a person of his government-issued identity, this proves that the issuing body is not, and can never be, synonymous with the nation.”
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The Demise Of The Wolf Warrior (1-11-23)
00:55 The demise of wolf warrior diplomacy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy
03:00 Zhao Lijian: China reassigns combative ‘Wolf Warrior’ diplomat, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64218847
05:00 Full Interview With Kai, The Homeless Hitchhiker With A Hatchet
08:00 Kai the ‘Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker’ became an internet sensation. Then he killed someone. https://www.mamamia.com.au/the-hatchet-wielding-hitchhiker/
12:00 When narcissism disables, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/
18:00 Games People Play, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_People_Play_(book)
21:30 Elliott Blatt joins
22:20 Elliott tries nicotine gum, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine
46:00 California’s flooding
54:30 Twitch star Amouranth says husband forces her to stream, controls her finances, https://www.polygon.com/23409728/amouranth-twitch-streamer-husband-abuse-domestic-violence
1:03:30 Lex Fridman’s love bot
1:07:00 Stupid Covid conspiracies
1:53:45 Why the MSM’s strange new respect for Ron DeSantis?
2:05:10 Men marry the woman in front of them at the time they are ready to get married
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6yo Kid Shoots His Teacher (1-10-23)
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Which Side Is The Most Likely To Harass?
Which side of the lab leak hypothesis is the most likely to try to destroy people for being on the other side of this debate? Which side is most likely to harass the other?
Which side of the voter fraud discussion is the most likely to try to destroy people for being on the other side of this debate? Which side is most likely to harass the other?
Which side of the JQ is the most likely to try to destroy people for being on the other side of this debate? Which side is most likely to harass the other?
Which side of the political spectrum is the most likely to try to destroy people for being on the other side of this debate? Which side is most likely to harass the other? The normies or the dissidents?
Which side of the global warming hypothesis is the most likely to try to destroy people for being on the other side of this debate? Which side is most likely to harass the other?
It seems to me that doxxing and harassment are like terrorism — it is war by other means by people who are often outgunned in conventional conflict.
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Brazil’s January 6 Type Protests, Ron DeSantis and Big Friendship (1-10-23)
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Protecting your legacy? It resides in the minds of others, you can’t control it. (1-9-23)
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Nathan Cofnas Magnum Opus On Anti-Semitism
I recently criticized some key tenets of what I called the “anti-Jewish narrative,” particularly as defended by Kevin MacDonald. According to MacDonald, Judaism is a “group evolutionary strategy” that led Jews to impose liberal multiculturalism on the West in order to advance their evolutionary interests at the expense of gentiles. In light of MacDonald’s reply, in this paper, I refine my previous arguments, address some popular misunderstandings, and discuss the root causes and consequences of anti-Semitism. I conclude that, contra the anti-Jewish narrative, Jews are not particularly ethnocentric, Jewish intellectuals do not typically advocate liberal multiculturalism for gentiles but not for Jews, Jews did not orchestrate the rise of liberalism or blank-slatism in the West, and anti-Semitism is not primarily a response to actual Jewish wrongdoing.
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The Ron DeSantis Way (1-8-23)
01:00 When the incoherent response is the best
06:00 The brotherhood of J. Edgar Hoover, https://www.npr.org/2022/11/22/1138189651/biography-j-edgar-hoover-gman-beverly-gage-fbi
08:00 Social networks don’t appreciate platform manipulation
11:45 The Ron DeSantis way, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-01-05/ron-desantis-s-war-on-woke-culture-could-pave-his-way-to-presidency
This is “the place where the sacrament of Brotherhood is administered, the Word of Brotherhood is preached, the Power of Brotherhood is felt, the Spirit of Brotherhood is manifested, the Love of Brotherhood is revealed.”
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Nathan Cofnas: Still No Evidence for a Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy (1-8-23)
02:00 The incoherent response is frequently the most coherent because the world is more complicated than we can understand
39:00 Accusations of anti-semitism
44:00 Cofnas Magnum Opus on the JQ
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