Voters have the tendency to forgive the worst wrongdoings committed by politicians from their own party while getting angry about the very same thing when it’s done by a member of their own party.
Labor Surplus / Labor Shortage
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When jobs are scarce, workers are told to make big changes in their lives to adjust to reality. Now that workers are scarce, however, whiny employers are offered sympathy rather than given advice to change their obsolete business models.
Your Values Are What You Do, Not What You Say
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The United States constantly does bad things that its political leaders claim go against the nation’s fundamental values. If you do something all the time, isn’t THAT your value?
Kill the Human Race to Save It
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After ISIS killed 13 US soldiers at the airport in Kabul, Joe Biden accidentally assassinated a US aid worker and his seven young children using a drone. Killing the wrong people isn’t an occasional but rather a systematic, routine feature of drone warfare.
What Passes for Progressivism
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There is no left in the United States. Certainly not in Congress. Even “progressive” Democrats like AOC argue that the rich should pay higher taxes, a stance perfectly aligned with mainstream DNC leadership. No one argues about where those taxes should be going.
How to Talk to an Anti-Vaxxer
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There’s a cultural war raging between people who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and those who already have. Caught in the middle are people who got the vaccine but don’t have contempt for those who haven’t.
Ethics Gone to the Dogs
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The United States only managed to evacuate 7,000 out of the 120,000 Afghans and their family members who were eligible for U.S. visas because they worked for occupation forces. But we did manage to bring out hundreds of cats and dogs.
We Are Worse Than the Taliban
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The new Taliban government of Afghanistan received widespread international criticism for using whips and sticks against women protesting in favor of women’s rights. But Western countries like the United States use even harsher methods to suppress their own demonstrators.
Happy 9/11 Day
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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 left a bunch of ridiculous legacies that pretty much everyone with an ounce of sanity agrees we should let go. For example, let’s get rid of the TSA and go back to the old days of airport security. And let’s stop saying that we have to do something before we think about what to do.
The China Syndrome
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Now that the US military is finally out of the horrid occupation of Afghanistan, the clique of professional warmongers has convinced President Biden that China is a threat. What kind of threat, they can’t exactly say, but a threat.
