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Mayor of New York suddenly, and without warning, revokes New York's status as a "sanctuary city"

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A peculiar frame of mind … has arisen throughout the Western world since the second world war, and which is particularly prevalent among the intellectual and political élites. No adequate word exists for this attitude, though its symptoms are instantly recognized: namely, the disposition, in any conflict, to side with ‘them’ against ‘us’, and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably ‘ours’. Being the opposite of xenophobia I propose to call this state of mind oikophobia, by which I mean (stretching the Greek a little) the repudiation of inheritance and home.

Oikophobia is a stage through which the adolescent mind normally passes. But it is a stage in which some people—intellectuals especially—tend to become arrested. As George Orwell pointed out, intellectuals on the Left are especially prone to it, and this has often made them willing agents of foreign powers. The Cambridge spies offer a telling illustration of what oikophobia has meant for our country. And it is interesting to note that a recent BBC ‘docudrama’ constructed around that deplorable episode neither examined the realities of their treason nor addressed the suffering of the millions of their East European victims, but merely endorsed the oikophobia that had caused the spies to act as they did. The resulting portrait of English society, culture, nationhood and loyalty as both morally reprehensible and politically laughable is standard BBC fare—prolefeed, as Orwell described it in Nineteen Eighty-Four. 

Nor is oikophobia a specifically an American or English occurrence. When Sartre and Foucault draw their picture of the ‘bourgeois’ mentality, the mentality of the Other in his Otherness, they are describing the ordinary decent Frenchman, and expressing their contempt for his national culture. A chronic form of oikophobia has spread through the American universities, in the guise of political correctness, and loudly surfaced in the aftermath of September 11th, to pour scorn on the culture that allegedly provoked the attacks, and to side by implication with the terrorists.  …

The oik repudiates national loyalties and defines his goals and ideals against the nation, promoting transnational institutions over national governments, accepting and endorsing laws that are imposed on us from on high by the EU or the UN, though without troubling to consider Terence’s question, and defining his political vision in terms of universal values that have been purified of all reference to the particular attachments of a real historical community. The oik is, in his own eyes, a defender of enlightened universalism against local chauvinism. And it is the rise of the oik that has led to the growing crisis of legitimacy in the nation states of Europe. For we are seeing a massive expansion of the legislative burden on the people of Europe, and a relentless assault on the only loyalties that would enable them voluntarily to bear it. The explosive effect of this has already been felt in Holland and France. It will be felt soon everywhere, and the result may not be what the oiks expect.


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Exactly ZERO people will be released from Federal Prison due to Biden's recent pardon.

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The damage done to Saudi Arabia from Biden's ruthless attacks on the crown prince has taken its toll.

Sadly, Saudi Arabia was forced to find a new ally, one that did not try to overthrow the crown prince.

Biden reaffirmed his commitment to abandoning allies, no matter the cost.
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Do you think a nuclear war is worth having a Ukraine that is aligned with the USA?
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Biden's used car pitch is formidable.
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Proof that Biden wants to kill more Ukrainians. The war MUST go on.
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Pedo Peter tells on himself.
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Despite the lies spread by GOP supremacists, Biden is, in fact, an incredibly hard worker for the American people.

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Believing American elections are free and fair or believing that you can vote your way out of an oligarchy?

Pick your poison!
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English academic schools Don Lemon on who really owes England for the lost lives stopping slavery.
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“The war is not meant to be won; it is meant to be continuous.” — George Orwell, 1984

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Zelensky has ratified Law 5371, which strips 70% of Ukrainian workers of collective bargaining rights, introduces zero-hours contracts, and allows the state to confiscate trade union property. The price of admission into the imperialist alliance is heavy.

From "creating an efficient market for private land” to "speeding privatization... in 3,300 state-owned enterprises", the plans of the RAND Corporation — the think tank of the US military — for Ukrainian post-war reconstruction are a recipe for total economic subjugation.


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The only green thing about green energy is the color of the money paid with the blood of black children

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Zelensky admits he let thousands of Ukrainians die to save the portfolios of his oligarch pals.
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But he says it was absolutely necessary to do it.


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While Biden is shaking hands with the air, we need to be ready for WW3


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CDC recently arbitrarily decided to end Covid restrictions following a suspicious decline in vaccine sales.

-Those exposed to the virus are no longer required to quarantine

-Unvaccinated people now have the same guidance as vaccinated people

-School children can remain in class after being exposed to the virus.

-It is no longer recommended to screen those without symptoms.


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Of course, I am talking about the government ownership and management of native Indian people. When will they allow Native Indians to be treated like Americans in the land of the free and home of the brave?
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If you check a box on an official government form saying you are African American, thinking since we all came from Africa at some point, then it applies, and you do so knowing full well that you will receive race based benefits, should you go to jail if others classify you as white?

How would such a law be worded and enforced?
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Does this worry anyone at all?

I get the insatiable hunger of Democrats and Republicans for infinite central planning, but is this the planner of choice? If this is truly the product of Democracy, then we are doomed.
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I want to personally thank Putin for lowering gas prices in America.
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1984 is a warning, not a how-to guide.
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The beancounters on mortality have spoken.

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Who here does not think this crisis was a self-inflicted wound?
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When are teachers going to focus on the 3 R's instead of the "current thing?"

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When progressives say they are taxing the rich, they are really not taxing the rich when looking at income tax. They are taxing production. A person could make a lot in a single year and yet, not have a lot of accumulated wealth or assets. 

In order to truly tax the rich, all income taxes, including capital gains, would have to be abolished and replaced with wealth taxes.
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A second civil war may be looming due to the national divide over this same question. 

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"This MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history."

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Except when science defines a woman.

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