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Progressive xenophobia in San Francisco https://unherd.com/2024/10/san-franciscos-progressive-racism/
San Francisco's progressive racism
unherd.com
Should America be the World's Policeman?
Recapping a contentious debate, as hosted by @TheFIREorg and @TheFP @lhfang @jkirchick @BretStephen_NYT
https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/should-america-be-the-worlds-policeman?r=5mz1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Admitting they don’t really care about free speech, though they claim to champion it, is the most honest position these people can take. It avoids the ridiculous games they otherwise have to play to rationalize it. Free speech absolutism is and has always been an illusion.
Michael Tracey finds that Kamala Harris's "undecided Latino voters" town hall had plenty of people who were just given access by progressive and Democratic organizations, meaning it wasn't quite so undecided. https://www.mtracey.net/p/univisions-kamala-harris-town-hall
It’s been one month with cats and I’m slowly getting less allergic.
The robot-AI revolution will only accelerate the divisive nature of immigration politics. Once we have machines that effectively replace most low skill slaughterhouse, warehouse, agriculture and driving jobs, the industrial lobby that drives migration policy will fade.
The Israel-Palestine debate is interesting because it totally inverts the least principled. Former opponents of identity politics now bend over backwards to justify apartheid and ethnic-based policies in Israel, those who denied cancel culture exists are now getting censored.
"We deeply apologize." Cancel culture hasn't gone anywhere. It's just channeled at new targets.
I have a financial stake in the growth of independent online media, given I'm part of it, but it's absolutely absurd how every indy podcast interviewing the presidential candidates is serving 100% softball questions. Much worse than most corporate media.