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“Responsibility, to be effective, must be individual responsibility. As everybody’s property in effect is nobody’s property, so everybody’s responsibility is nobody’s responsibility.”
— Friedrich Hayek
Teamsters members support Trump 58% to Harris 31%
"In the past week, following the Democratic National Convention and recent Presidential debate, the Teamsters commissioned independent polling firm Lake Research Partners to conduct the union’s final national survey. In the poll ending Sept. 15, Teamsters selected Trump by 58 percent for endorsement over 31 percent for Harris."
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What "MAGA" really means
The phrase has troubled liberals who think it is a call for a return to an America before civil rights, gay rights, and women's rights. But I have a more generous interpretation, one that is truer to my experience of Donald Trump as he is today. "Make America Great Again" recalls a nation brimming with vitality, with a can-do spirit, with hope and a belief in itself. It was an America that was beginning to confront its darker shadows, could acknowledge the injustice in its past and present, yet at the same time could celebrate its successes. It was a nation of broad prosperity, the world's most vibrant middle class, and a idealistic belief (though not consistently applied) in freedom, justice, and democracy. It was a nation that led the world in innovation, productivity, and technology. And it was the healthiest country in the world. I have talked to many Trump supporters. I have talked with his inner circle. I have talked to the man himself. This is the America they want to restore.
Is anyone else getting censored while trying to create an image on GROK. I tried to create one of the moment my dog died and got this.
#grokimages
Is anyone else getting censored while trying to create an image on GROK. I tried to create one of the moment my dog died and got this.
#grokimages
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It was only 2 years ago that there was a planned assassination attempt aimed at a Supreme Court Justice based on the Dobbs leak. That entire incident got glossed over in what seemed like less than a week.
It did not get nearly the condemnation that it deserved, but it's reflective of the environment we increasingly find ourselves in. Political differences are now framed as existential threats. That has to stop.
Most importantly, the demands to change course can't only apply to one side. The double standards, particularly when it comes to recovering and condemning such escalations, undermine the ability of either side to turn back.
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There really is no side to be on but the side that is consistently against mob justice, chaos and violence.
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This election reaffirms the importance of constitutionalism and federalism. Stop giving the federal government—and especially the president—so much unwarranted power and making the presidency something to obsess over. Localism means more happy people.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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Well by being black, my voice is automatically a black voice. That’s how it works. What she ACTUALLY means is we don’t need minorities who don’t want to be a progressive voice. And that, my friend, is the true definition of discrimination.
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Learning how to resist the pressure to succumb to a mob is a really important survival skill right now.
“We should not have allowed ourselves to be bullied and pressured into making a statement prematurely, and we take full responsibility for it.”
#CovingtonCatholic bit.ly/2CI90Dj
"... because each individual will find cruelty enjoyable in his own way."
The unsafe feminist j.mp/2KTFeis
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"The political left has never understood that, if you give the government enough power to create 'social justice,' you have given it enough power to create despotism. Millions of people around the world have paid with their lives for overlooking that simple fact."
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"It would never occur to people with academic degrees and professorships that they are both ignorant and incompetent in vast areas of human life, much less that they should keep that in mind before they vent their emotions and wax self-righteous."
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The allure of being a powerful victim is too great for most humans to deny. It’s seductive because it’s easy. Victimhood undermines principles of hard work & self-discipline & replaces them with entitlement & blame. The power is an illusion and the price is our agency.
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God is the mode of being you value the most as demonstrated or manifested in your presumption, perception and action.
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Kant (Scruton): "Neither experience nor reason is alone able to provide knowledge. The first provides content without form, the second form without content. Only in their synthesis is knowledge possible; hence there is no knowledge that does not [partake of both]." @SamHarrisOrg
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By calling voters that like and back President Trump "cultists" the GOP Establishment is showing their contempt for the thoughts, experiences and hopes of those outside their elitist circle.
Looking down your nose at people isn't how you get them to embrace your ideas.
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That the elite continue to claim to speak for the people or advocate for their interests after a series of dramatic objective rebukes FASCINATES me xitter.gq/bensasse/status/100550… xitter.gq/nickkristof/status/100…
You know that embarrassing feeling when your toddler has a tantrum in public, and you have to apologize to neighbors? Americans feel that way: Our toddler has just had a tantrum at the G7 summit. Sorry, Canada, Germany, France, UK, Japan, Italy nyti.ms/2JwgnQk
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On which point: Steve Hilton: Trump’s criticism of G-7 is ‘unprecedented’ scream the elite -- That’s the whole point of Trump! fxn.ws/2sKm0nD #FoxNews