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Episode 865: Violence is equivalent to violence, no matter who is doing it!!! 

The lamestream media has their sound bites, and talking points from their ideological masters for yesterdays and today’s news cycle, or for as long as they think they can make money off of the narrative!! The phrase “moral equivalent” is being used by the lamestream media and politicains alike to try to score point against President Trump.

The narrative that has been created is that the violence of the “alt-left” is in no way equivalent to the violence of the alt-right” and whoever thinks this is obviously from the alt-right! The story has been put forth that the “so called violence” of the alt-left is a defensive violence in response to the alt-right. The violence of the alt-left is justified because of the ongoing oppression from the alt-right!

Violence that is used to advance a political ideology, and what the alt-left and right believe is a political ideology, can never be justified period. I place the alt-right and left in the same anti-freedom group, neither promotes nor protects freedoms! You can use force only to defend against real physical aggression. You can’t use force to silence those ideas you disagree with, that’s Nazism, fascism, socialism, and communism! And this violence by all groups involved in Charlottesville over the weekend, puts them on different sides of the same dirty coin!!!

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Episode 864   American history disappears a little more each day!!!  

The revisionist history movement in America is picking up steam. Removing historic reminders of American history, including the bad times of the civil war, and what the south represented. There are monuments all over America that depict folks who where important to out history as a country.

What has been going on over the past decade or so is a sanitization of American history. Instead of using history as a teachable moment, the PC anti-freedom crowds want to erase what they deem as bad like it never happened. Santayana is popularly known for aphorisms, such as “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” `

Correct thinking Americans can’t stand idly by while vast portions of our history disappears. Use all of history as teachable moments!!! If your arguments are not strong enough to live up to public scrutiny, and you can’t advance them without violence, then get better arguments or be quiet. Erase all the history you want, it will not change folks hearts and minds, it will only anger them and drive them violence to counter your violence!!! When that happens nobody wins!!!

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Episode 863 Freedom of speech died in Charlottesville!!!

Unless you have been living under a rock, you couldn’t help but hear about what when on in Charlottesville VA. Unite the Right was holding a rally, and other groups came in support of them. Most of the groups are fringe groups of what is refereed to as the Atl-Right. But also in attendance was the BLM and ANTIFA groups, and they were active well before the rally was due to start!!!

There are some facts that the lamestream media and anti-freedom folks who support them have left out of their narrative. Unite the Right was granted a permit to rally, then the city revoked it, and then Unite the Right got a federal judge to reverse the cities rescinding of the rally permit. But while this was going on , Mike Signer mayor of Charlottesville VA and the city manager Maurice Jones granted BLM and ANTIFA groups a permit to rally on the same day as Unite the Right. What could go wrong?

The governor of VA Terry McAuliffe, the mayor and city manager of Charlottesville VA are all Democrats and identitarians. I believe they planned for this to happen so they could virtue signal to the world, look how much we care and are against right wing violence, all the while ignoring the violence from the militant arm of the Democrat party, BLM and ANTIFA!!!

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Episode 862   The market place of ideas needs to be protected!!!

This last week has seen a lot of controversy over the Google meme “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” fro both the freedom and anti-freedom side of the spectrum. Freedom folks thinks it’s about time the Tech industry was called out on it anti-freedom biases. And the anti-freedom folks decries the science that James Damore is pointing out about the differences in the two genders.

Some of the anti-freedom folks on YouTube are claiming that this is a sexist memo, and James needs to be fired and not ever hold a job again. Most of them I have watched don’t seem to have read the memo. A lot of how the anti-freedom crowd characterizes the memo seems to be coming from the “echo chamber” and has no bases in fact. Some have even called for the marketplace of ideas to be shut down!!!

These anti-freedom folks who live in their own little echo chambers do not understand what the “marketplace of ideas” is. If these folks had any clue as to what real freedom and real liberty was, they would know that it can never be shut down nor controlled!!! The anti-freedom folks in the Tech sectors of our economy need to have a reality check. If they continue down this regressive path they will find more and more of the freedom folks who work for them fleeing to companies who truly understand freedom and liberty, especially in the work place!!!

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Episode 861  

Ideological echo chambers are bad for everyone!!!

Living in an echo chamber will make you go deaf and drive you crazy. There are a lot of echo chambers in the world of ideas today, and they are making a lot of people crazy!!!

When we live in our own narrative, and wont allow any ideas in from the outside world, we become small minded and ignorant. Some folks don’t like knowledge outside of their own experience. Knowledge that don’t fit a certain set of criterias, is to be rejected, not debated!!!

When one live in an echo chamber they can expect to be ridiculed and challenged. The worst part of it all, they never grow intellectually, and even start to regress. Their only recourse is to try to get laws made that protect them from other ideas, and by doing so stifle debate and honest public discourse.

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