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"Clearly," she interrupted me, "to be original is to be in some way distinct from others. Hence, to be original is to violate equality. And that which in the language of the ancients was called 'being banal’ is with us merely the
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“And finally, regarding Progress, you must ask yourself the question: Progress towards what? Since the true SJW answer is towards more socialism, more speech policing, more thought control, and more SJW control of society and its institutions, then the rational response must always be no, hell no, not at any price!”
― SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
― SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
“This idea commonly goes by the name “states’ rights” these days. Its opponents have conflated it with power in state governments, and some of those opponents have been so influential that many of federalism’s friends are prone to see it that way too.1 As Jefferson and the like-minded understood it, however, it meant limitation on federal power. Insofar as the US government did not have power, they believed, that power remained in the states as distinct, preexisting political communities”
― Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
― Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
“Friends, remember that you are as honorable as the risk you take for your opinions. —Nassim Nicholas Taleb”
― SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
― SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
“Before some audiences not even the possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we say to produce conviction. For argument based on knowledge implies instruction, and there are people whom one cannot instruct.”
― SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
― SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
“Basically, identifying the location of a target means that you can deliver ordnance on it. Either by yourself, with a rifle, grenade, or heavier weapons like a mortar or Javelin missile, a fireteam can do a lot of damage. For targets beyond the effective range of weapons available to a platoon, you can use the most deadly device ever developed: a radio. One of my instructors told me that four soldiers with rifles are a fireteam, but one soldier with a radio is an army. With a radio, you can call in battalion artillery, or close air support, and rain hellfire down on a target.”
― Valkyrie
― Valkyrie
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