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Why Are They Talking about UFOs Instead of Covid Fascism?

Daniel Horowitz / August 29, 2023 / Media, Society / 4 minute read

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The lesson of the muted response to COVID from the so-called right is that clearly things have not gotten bad enough. The sad and terrifying thing is that whatever they must throw at us to elicit a righteous and unified policy response will now have to be so devastating that we will likely never have the political ability to fight it even if we wanted to. Meanwhile, the vanity and political circus will continue unabated.

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The Great Game of Let’s Pretend

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 25, 2023 / Government, Media, Society / 7 minute read

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It’s a very strange time in American political history, no doubt. We have one line of thinking sweeping through the population – which is based on mass incredulity and fury – and then another which is a veneer of normalcy that is slathered on top of our anger by all official institutions, which work hard to keep all these topics out of respectable conversations. Meanwhile, the whole of academic, mainstream social media, major mainstream media, and all of government seems to agree that all these obvious topics are too incendiary to be raised in polite company.

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The Positive Feedback Loop: How Totalitarians Instill Fear and Restrict Human Rights

Scott Sturman / August 24, 2023 / Policy, Society / 4 minute read

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We are informed that free speech is dangerous and that it leads to hate, instability, and mayhem. But this disingenuous argument is the argument of tyrants, who gaslight and use words as weapons to disable a free people. Free speech is the salvation of an open, prosperous, and civil society and the embodiment of the sustaining benefits of negative feedback loops.

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The Dangers of Self Censorship During the Covid Pandemic

Joseph Fraiman / August 23, 2023 / Censorship, Media, Society / 19 minute read

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To compound this any expert or publication that dared raise a challenge would be investigated by fact-checkers and predictably labeled as misinformation and subsequently censored. Everyday citizens, on the receiving end of this distorted information machine, were left without any previously respected outlet for any well-founded skepticism. A few spoke out and were virtually ostracized from mainstream society. Many others saw the writing on the wall and, wishing to maintain their relationships and avoid uncomfortable situations, kept their opinions to themselves.

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Covid Controls, the Cello, and Me

Charles Krblich / August 19, 2023 / Philosophy, Policy, Society / 4 minute read

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We played badly at the park for whomever had the courage to leave their house and brave our music. I thought of every note I played into the world as an impenetrable shield against the Sword of Damocles threatening our existence.

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Letter from the Forbidden Land

Michael J. Sutton / August 18, 2023 / Society / 12 minute read

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Covid Hysteria was not an isolated incident. We, my friends, are at war, not against nations or ideology but against fascism. The old enemy has returned to the world, after decades of slumber. It is an existential threat. The one thing it hates is freedom. I used to think that there was no hope, but standing in Russia looking at all the companies that have rejected directives from the Imperium, maybe I was wrong.

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Don’t Assume that Experts Know Something You Do Not

Eric Hussey / August 15, 2023 / Education, Government, Philosophy, Society / 6 minute read

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The “expert” class is nothing special in intelligence. If anything this is a clarion call to the general masses of the US to stop assuming the “experts” know something. You can use the same search engines as they do to learn facts, and together we far, far outstrip the intelligence of all the experts put together.

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Save the Cats of Old San Juan

el gato malo / August 15, 2023 / Law, Society / 8 minute read

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Ask questions about the basis of this analysis. How do they justify disrupting a 500-year-old ecosystem? What about rats? Will we trade chemical poisons for organic paws? What about the heritage and character of San Juan? Does anyone even want this? How is this not “killing the wolves of Yellowstone” all over again? Do they really think they can confine this to parks and not wind up luring all the surrounding cats in?

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Sometimes, Only Satire Does the Job

Ramesh Thakur / August 11, 2023 / Society / 8 minute read

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This is a slim, wickedly funny satire of 126 pages organised into ten chapters of rollicking hilarity. It’s a hugely enjoyable book for all those who were critical of lockdowns, masks, and vaccines. As the Brits say, it takes the piss out of all the self-proclaimed Covid experts, the public health clerisy, the media, and people with blind faith in the experts.

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Brownstone Institute at Two Years

Brownstone Institute / August 7, 2023 / Government, Law, Policy, Society / 4 minute read

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This is a time for truth. There is no time to waste. This might be our only choice. It’s not maudlin or exaggerated to say that civilization is at stake. This generation faces a real choice between freedom and barbarism with a digital face. We need to choose wisely and with courage in the face of evil.

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Racial Grievance Should Not be Permanently Codified

Ramesh Thakur / July 30, 2023 / Policy, Society / 8 minute read

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Permanently codifying racial grievance into the Constitution will guarantee it is weaponised sometime in the future by activists with increasingly radical agendas, followed by monetisation by grifters to demand compensation, reparations, and rents. This will stoke resentment and backlash.

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Population Control: The Receipts

Robert Malone / July 28, 2023 / Government, Society / 49 minute read

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Perhaps the most obvious result of COVID lockdowns and the interruption of commerce is the current record number of people at risk of starvation: Before COVID lockdowns and all their results, the number of people at risk of starvation was 135-million. By the end of 2021, that had increased by another 135-million people, and in 2022, it then increased another 67-million. The result is currently about 10-million deaths from starvation, 3-million of them children.

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