Serious Nonsense

On a host of issues, people are saying things that sound serious but aren’t.

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Dear Reader (Including Scott Lincicome nerds),

Sometimes people say serious things. Sometimes people say things that just sound serious as a way to avoid thinking seriously.

For instance, I saw this tweet this morning:

https://twitter.com/ssharmaUS/status/1451399599634190336

 

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    Megan Taylor

    Prayers to you, Pip. It took having my first cat as an adult to realize how beloved and crucial pets are to a family.

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    Ohio Gas Hog

    I'm only here for the Canine updates. That's not entirely true, but it's not hyperbole!

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  3. Joe1776

    Cohen's view is that valuing freedom of conscience and expression are just racist and sexist hold overs from white men.

    Of course this is gross Ad hominem. It goes without saying that if you are a white man you must be evil. But anyone that agrees with Cohen will be immune to reason. Instead just join her.

    Those who would do away with these freedoms were also white men! Founders of fascism and Communism, not to mention those extremely pasty white monks leading the inquisition, were white men as well.




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    Jerry Masters

    The G-File is, by itself, worth the subscription.

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    KAM

    When people like Cohen say that the system is all about power and domination, believe them. For them, power and domination are all that matter.

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    Ben Connelly

    “ To paraphrase Stalin, how many divisions does Mark Zuckerberg have?”

    Trust Stalin to bring some perspective to this Big Tech debate.

    “ The only real threat to this ideological monopoly, like all monopolies, is free competition. Adam Smith and Joseph Schumpeter demonstrated that monopolies cannot last so long as their monopoly power isn’t protected by the state.”

    My response to the “libertarianism creates monopolies” arguments every time.

    Good luck to Pippa. Hope she gets better. I don’t even like dogs that much and somehow yours have grown on me.

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    Justin Stapley

    The other day, I was talking to fellow conservative students about our topics for several term papers, and another conservative student came and voiced shock that we were actually going to "write our opinions" instead of acquiescing to whatever views our professors espoused. I can't tell you how many times I've come across this phenomenon of self-censorship, both in students AND in faculty.

    It's become my deep opinion that even with the shelter of the law now behind free speech on campus, there's going to have to be a major effort made to challenge the culture of campuses and to re-establish a far more heterodox atmosphere in the academy.

    (BTW, it might be humorous to some to know my answer to my fellow student: "I'm a non-Trump conservative, and after half a decade of this **** my give a ****'s pretty well busted. I write what I honestly think, period."

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    Jo Smith

    Goldberg in the business of self parody, who knew?!

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    1. Tom Neven

      And yet you haven't refuted a thing he's said.

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  9. Paul A Sand

    I think it's time to give a fancy Latin label to arguments like Phoebe Cohen's. How about "Reductio ad Homme Blanc"?

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    Dawn

    Prayers for Pip!

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