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wuhan_2020_tour 5 points ago +5 / -0

The Gateway Pundit is often first with breaking stories, but that's largely because they are habitually irresponsible and just throw stuff out. For this story, all it seems to be is "here's a list of things someone might put on a digital ID".

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wuhan_2020_tour 34 points ago +34 / -0

Add this to "It's okay to be white" and "Islam is right about women".

They've already gotten their wish, though. Israel's Green Pass is one of the world's strictest, a vax pass that requires a shot every 6 months. There have been large protests, but the government is not backing down.

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wuhan_2020_tour 8 points ago +8 / -0

The BLM crime surge of the last 17 months has disproportionately affected blacks. The excess homicides are easily in the thousands. Blacks absolutely benefit from living in a wealthy, stable civilization, especially rich blacks such as Chappelle.

So, if they were a little forward thinking, they'd see that this destruction may gain short-term racial spoils but will long-run erode the institutions that make their first-world wealth possible. But I suppose they don't understand that, just as Antifa communists want to abolish capitalism but probably still think the power will stay on and the restaurants open and they'll get a better iPhone every year.

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wuhan_2020_tour 24 points ago +24 / -0

And J.K. Rowling is horrible too.

Too many people are atwitter about Chappelle and the like pushing back against the extremism and patent absurdities embraced by the elite, when such people are only slightly less bad.

Yes, Chappelle can be funny, and yes it's satisfying to see the screeching and seething and carnage as the woke fail to take him down, but him and TERFs gleefully embrace nearly the whole congeries of sick, civilization-destroying lies, with the tranny insanity being a lonely exception. They're merely not at the very bottom of the purity spiral.

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wuhan_2020_tour 3 points ago +3 / -0

I don't believe Simpson ever had federal charges for anything, not the murders, nor the robbery. He was sued in federal court, but those are only civil cases.

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wuhan_2020_tour 7 points ago +7 / -0

Mencius Moldbug presents an intriguing theory: The ACLU's past commitment to free speech was a ploy to allow communists to function in the open. Sure, the ACLU defended neo-Nazis at Skokie, but such tiny, irrelevant groups presented no threat. The real prize was establishing strong precedents that protected communists from persecution.

Now that far-leftists have seized every institution and are the ones able to do the persecuting, freedom of speech is not only no longer needed, but an impediment. Suddenly the ACLU is discovering that there should be limits.

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wuhan_2020_tour 13 points ago +13 / -0

And of course even if the defendants somehow get acquitted, there are a slew of federal charges already prepared. It is now routine that a white person charged with a crime against a black person must win two trials with different rules and different jury pools to escape prison.

Meanwhile, I can't recall a single case of a black perpetrator being charged with separate federal offenses, no matter how heinous the crime or whether racially motivated.

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wuhan_2020_tour 10 points ago +10 / -0

Metaculus (prediction market) now gives a 75% chance that GRRM will never finish the series.

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wuhan_2020_tour 10 points ago +10 / -0

No, and these conspiracies are silly, similar to claiming that the George Floyd arrest was staged. There's a saying, "Never let a crisis go to waste." Events are exploited to push the communist agenda, and there's almost always something happening that can be perverted to their ends.

Even a nothing event can be leveraged. No shadowy cabal told Trayvon Martin to brutally attack an innocent man. But an incident that would barely merit a few sentences in the local paper was seized upon to manufacture a mass movement built entirely on fiction.

Similarly, Democrats adeptly blamed the 1929 market crash on Hoover, pushed him out, and held the presidency for 20 years.

WuFlu was a golden opportunity. Anti-Trump forces saw it could be turned to political advantage, and wasted no time. And all the while they push us towards socialism with trillions in spending, de facto expropriation of landlord property, and paying people to not work.

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wuhan_2020_tour 13 points ago +13 / -0

Very unlikely this series ever airs. Remember when there was going to be a Gamergate movie with ScarJo as Zoe Quinn? Show ideas get thrown around all the time but rarely go far.

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wuhan_2020_tour 2 points ago +2 / -0

(a) The idea may have run its course and was close to becoming repetitive. (b) Censorship: it was most active on Reddit, and all their subreddits got banned for "hate speech", and TikTok purged and banned accounts that promoted it.

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wuhan_2020_tour 5 points ago +5 / -0

Why is this the "matriarchy"? It's depressed women who for decades have been the cash cow for psychiatric pharmaceuticals.

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wuhan_2020_tour 7 points ago +7 / -0

It's real but not meant to be serious. Feminists do this crap all the time. When there's a bill to restrict abortion, they'll make a bill to intrusively restrict men to "make a point". Here's an example from 2017.

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wuhan_2020_tour 1 point ago +1 / -0

There's a reason for the saying "Get woke, go broke." Preachy, in-your-face wokeness is often a turn-off to audiences. The shoehorning in of ideology and diversity compromises story and characterization, resulting in a crap product. To be sure, some will turn out okay and succeed anyway, but many of these works will go the way of Ghostbuster Girls.

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wuhan_2020_tour 9 points ago +9 / -0

How is this compromising? Collins has been a pro-choice, liberal-leaning Republican forever. Her pivotal vote for Kavanaugh was suspected to be in part because he was more likely to uphold Roe than other candidates. Collins also voted against Trump in the 2nd impeachment. Maine is a fairly liberal state.

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