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Advocate for social freedom and equality before the law from a liberal/libertarian perspective. Free speech LGBT rights, civil liberties and a depoliticized economy.
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"In America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king, and there ought to be no other." ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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"Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor." ๐.๐. ๐๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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This sort of thing is just more evidence the Wall Street Journal has ceased to be a serious publication.
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Poverty dropped for about 12 years until 2019 under Trump when it increased. It started to even out in 2020 and has had a slight decline. No, the economy isn't worst off the last four years.
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"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly." ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐ โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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"We must see to it that those whom we elect to office do not go outside of the laws, or set themselves up above the laws, and do as they please." ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ง๐จ๐ซ โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ค๐ฒ โข ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐
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Hate speech is many things. Itโs ugly, juvenile, vicious, false, and simplistic and may, under certain circumstances be criminal in the sense of violating the rights of others and not just in violating laws. One thing is true โ itโs complicated.
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"We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. No one can fool you as easily as you can fool yourself." ๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ง๐ฆ๐๐ง โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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Hateful Republican Ron DeSantis stifles freer markets lest they provide housing to "illegals." Hate doesn't just lead to social repression but economic repression as well.
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Los Angeles expands the deregulation of street vendors discovering freer markets tend to work better. I'm sure some Republicans are livid over it.
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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." ๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ โข ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐
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โIt is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.โ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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โWhen and if fascism comes to Americaโฆ it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, โAmericanism.โ" ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐. ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐จ๐๐ค โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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Barry Goldwater was called Mr. Conservative but today he would not recognize either the movement nor his own Party. He warned fellow Republicans about getting in bed with the religious right and said it they did it would put the foundations of this country at risk. He was right.
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"The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think." ๐.๐. ๐๐๐ง๐๐ค๐๐ง โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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In North Dakota former state Senator Ray Holmbergโa protect the children Republicanโsigned a plea agreement admitting he was trying to arrange a European trip in order to have sex with a child. The louder they scream the more they have to hide.
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Trump is having fits over "electric tanks" in the military. They don't exist, it's all part of his Big Lie tactics of his campaign and his party.
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โWe are of course a nation of differences. Those differences donโt make us weak. Theyโre the source of our strength.โ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ซ โข ๐๐๐๐โ
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I wonder why they leave out what the Bible says the punishment for violating them should be. Over and over again it says to kill the person.
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โNo woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.โ ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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As much as they speak about traditional American values today's GOP is out of kilter with them. What the Trumps of the world say about immigration is contrary to what the Founding Fathers said is in start contrast with the values of the Republican Party only a few years ago.
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A piece I wrote on the complexity of hate speech issues was just published by BizNews in South Africa.
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This map shows life expectancy at birth by state, The greener the state the longer the life expectancy while blue state residents have shorter life spans.
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โA despot is merely an individual and becomes quite powerless when those masses of individuals in whom the ability to coerce others really resides, disapprove of his proceedings.โ ๐๐จ๐ก๐ง ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฌ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐๐ก โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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โWe are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.โ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ฒ โข ๐๐๐๐โ
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โMan becomes hardly more, in communism, than a depersonalized cog in the turning wheel of the state.โ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐๐ซ. โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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Elon Musk plays fast and loose with the numbers when he makes grandiose claims to the public and his naive investors. Like most Narcissists he makes shit up and spreads it as gospel to dupe his worshippers.
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"The people who need to hate are driven by their own suppressed fears and uncertainties. They lash out to hide those fears from themselves." ๐๐ซ. ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ โข ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐
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In California two thugs attacked a Pride flag being flown on private property cutting it into pieces while shouting anti-gay slurs more befitting the GOP. The couple who owned the flag replaced it and were surprised when neighbors joined them flying the flag.
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โIf the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. โ ๐๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ฅ โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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"Since liberty, being essential to the individual, is also necessary to the race; and since this necessitates limiting the liberty of each to the like liberty of all, we therefore arrive at the sociological Law of Equal Freedom." ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐. ๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ โข ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐
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In horrible Florida a Moms for Liberty group demanded the banning of a book from libraries for the crime of being about book bans. Of course they are the ones being persecuted. They make Orwell's Big Brother look downright libertarian.
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