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Make stuff up? That's what YOU do!. The rules of this site only allow me to post one link in this post, so there is the most recent indicident with SPLC: townhall.com
Commented: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 11:47 am
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The way the radical left uses the term "hate" is illustrated by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that specializes in denouncing others for "hate" but which spews a whole lot of hate itself. In fact they have been successfully sued muliple times by groups they accuse of "hate". In one incident, the hate that the SPLC posted online toward a Christian group radicalized a far left thug to take a gun and try to shoot up the Christian group's headquarters. A couple of months ago, one of the SPLC's own lawyers was arrested and charged with domestic terrorism when he was part of a viiolent ANTIFA assault on a police facility and police officers. This leftie group that specializes in accuses others of "hate" is filled to the brim with hate itself.
Commented: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 10:48 am
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Yes, you are, Bobbie.
Commented: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 6:58 am
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While the hate inherent in the left is best illustrated by ANTIFA and BLM, probably the two most hateful and violent groups in America, it is also illustrated by your woke doctrines like CRT and DEI which involve a hatred of white people, especially straight white males. For a lot of leftists, there is a form of self-hatred involved. The left always wants to deal with people as groups instead of individuals, and that mentality is much more susceptible to hate than the conservative concept of dealing with people as individuals.
And, Bolshevik Bob, your hatreds are obvisous from your posts, including Trump, Fox News, conservatives, Republicans, and whites generally. The most dangerous extremist America has ever had to deal with internally is named Joe Biden, but it is really the extremists who are pulling his strings as Sleepy Joe is just a figurehead.
Commented: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 6:56 am
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If you want to see hate, violence, and destruction in Amrican politics in the past few years, it has come from the LEFT and not the right. The left likes to use the term "hate" to throw at their adversaries, but the ones who actually spew hate are the far left, or what Margaret Thatcher used to call the "loony left". ANTIFA and BLM are two loony left, and indeed Marxist, organizations that are some of the prime organizations of the far left that spew hate, violence, and destruction. The "green" environmental extremist movement is increasingly doing that, too. But the corporate media (the self-styled MSM) never seems to use the term "far left" while they often throw around the term "far right".
These days, the loony left, of which Baghdad Bob below is a part, will generally call anyone to the right of Mitch McConnell "far right" and heck they might even include RINO McConnell. Many of them would also include old style liberal RObert F. Kennedy, as well, because he does not toe their narrative.
Commented: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 6:46 pm
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The UK's National Health Service, not exactly a bastion of conservatism, recently recommended their doctors NOT use or even recommend new pronouns or new names for gender confused children. Using those pronouns slows the recovery that most children experience as they naturally grow out of gender confusion. It that context, it is a big enough doncern that the NHS put it out in a recommendation to their doctors. Beaufort County seems to be contracting in the exact opposite direction.
Commented: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 2:42 pm
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The worst thing about Bridges is that it aligns with the failed Common Core math that has been dumbing down our students. Dr. Phillips told the School Board that Bridges was "not Common Core" but after citizens pointed out that Bridges own website boasted how Bridges aligned with Common Core, Phillips had to walk that back. Now the excuse was that teachers could just delete the Common Core aspects, but how realistic is that when the whole Bridges curricum is designed to be aligned to Common Core?
Our elected school board members need to stop funcionting as rubber stamps for the superintendant and start engaging on these issues to represent the parents and taxpayers who elected them.
Commented: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 3:53 pm
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Commented on If I were the Devil...Leftwing internet troll Bigot Bob is up to his / her usual lies. Hillsdale College was founded by abolitionists and has admited black students since it opened in the 1840s. It follows the teachings of the great abolitionists Frederck Douglas and of Dr. Martin Luther King, instead of the Marxist twaddle of the BLM, and that is what has the far left's panties in a twist.
What is dangerous in our schools is what Bigot Bob wants - wokeness. Unfortunately, we have way too much of that now and he / she wants to keep that.
Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 7:28 am
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Big Government Bob's lame attempt to change the discussion to a different subject, Jim Crow makes no sense, as he again does not have a good grasp on history. He apparently knows little outside the leftwing narrative. What Jim Crow most resembles are the Black Codes of the antebellum NORTH. The Black Codes imposed in many northern states created far more severe restrictions on free blacks than the later Jim Crow laws of the South. Free blacks, which were 20% of the black population in the South, were generally given more rights in the South prior to the war than in many northern states. This is reflected on the differing treatment of black soldiers by the two sides during the war. The North gave them half the pay of white soldiers while the South gave them full pay. The North put them in segregated units while the South integrated its units. The North did not allow minorities to serve as commissioned officers while the South did allow it and even had a minority general.
Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 10:51 am
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Propaganda can hurt our whole society, and too much of that, of the "woke" variety is in our schools.
Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 3:34 pm
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As usual, Big Government Bob, you confuse the far left political narrative with the truth, when in fact, nothing could be farther from the truth.
Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 11:51 am
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There is one other inconvenient fact for the postwar northern narrative about the war being fought over slavery. That has to do with the position of key generals on that issue. If the narrative were correct, one would expect the northern generals to be anti-slavery and the southern generals pro-slavery. Thus it does not fit that when Grant and Lee met at Appamattox, it was Grant, not Lee, who was the slave owner.
Grant and his wife Julia owned slaves which were in Kentucky, a state still in the Union and not under the Emancipation Proclamation and continued to own them until December 1865, months after the war ended, when the Grant family slaves were finally freed by the 13th Amendment. In 1861, Grant wrote a letter to a close friend in which he emphatically stated that the only reason for the war was preserving the union, and that if the politicians tried to make it about anything else like ending slavery, he might switch sides and fight for the south. Robert E. Lee, on the other hand, freed the hundreds of slaves he inherited from his father in law as soon as that estate was settled. In 1859, Lee wrote that" slavery is an institution of moral and political evil". And if you then look at the second best known generals, that pattern holds. Sherman never had enough money to own slaves, but it is documented that when he was stationed at Fort Moultrie, Sherman rented a slave. Also when he was hired to run Louisians's state military academy, he wrote a letter to send for his wife who was with her parents at the time and advised her that she should buy a slave when she arrived. His wife's family had more money than Sherman himself. On the other hand, Stonewall Jackson never owned slaves, and prior to the war, when he was an professor at VMI, he started and personnally conducted a program run through his church to teach blacks, both free and slave, to read and write. It was probably the first black literacy program ever conducted in the south. After he went into the Confederate army, Jackson sent part of every military paycheck home to keep that program running. And Bobbie, don't try to deflect again with your "whataboutism" (a leftist term you should know well). This thread is about monuments to military heroes.
Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 9:50 am
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The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by Lincoln and never went to Congress, which has no authority over executive orders. It did not apply to the four slave states in the union, not did it apply to Confederate territory that was then occupied by union troops. Lincoln asserted he was freeing slaves in areas he did not control but did nothing to free slaves in areas he did control.
The Confederate army was the first to enlist black soldiers in the War Between the States. There is an interesting letter from the great black abolitionist Frederick Douglas written after the First Battle of Manassass talking about all the black soldiers in the Confederate army who had served in that battle and calling on Lincoln to enlist black soldiers in the Union army. The Confederate army also gave better treatment to minority soldiers. The Union army gave them half the pay of white soldiers, while the Confederate army gave them full pay. The union army placed them in segregated units while the Confederate army's units were integrated. The Union army did not allow minorities to serve as commissioned officers while the Confederate army did allow them to be commissioned as officers. As a result, the highest ranking minority to serve in the War Between the States was Confederate General Stand Watie, who commanded the last sizable Confederate military force to surrender at the end of the war.
Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 8:24 pm
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Actually, the Emancipation Proclamation was a foreign policy manuever aimed at England and France and it largely fizzled. The British did not believe it for a whole host of reasons. The French media played it as an attempt to stoke a slave uprising and gencide of the white population in the South, pointing to the slave rebellion and genocide of the white population in Haiti when it was a French colony. It was a PR blunder for Lincoln in France.
It also purported to free slaves in a foreign country with which it was at war, the CSA, but did not free slaves within LIncoln's own country in the four slave states still in the Union. Then later in 1863, the north admitted a fifth slave state, West Virginia, to the union. Yeah that "freeing the slaves" bit is really nuanced.
Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 5:15 pm
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Bobbie, you really do not know much about history do you? Lincoln's rationale for attacking the South was "to preserve the union", not to end slavery. The Republican platofrm of 1860 did not call for the abolition of slavery in the South. The month before Lincoln sent an armed intervention fleet to Charletson, forcing the South to take Fort Sumter before it arrived, Congress passed two major bills. At that time, the souterhn members of Congress had resigned and left, and the north had total control. One bill was the Morrill Tariff that almost tripled import duties, a huge deal for the South. The other was the Corwin Amendment.
What was the Corwin Amendment? It was a proposed amendment to the US Constitution that was passed by the required supermajority and submitted to the states for ratification. Lincoln endoresed it in his first Inaugural Address. The Corwin Amendment would have given Constitutioinal protection to slavery and made it impossible to abolish at the national level without amending the Constitution again. Saying the north started the war to end slavery, just weeks after passing a Constitutional Amendment to pootect slavery is ludicrous. Then their is the Fremont Affair. Missouri's state government was pro-Southern, so in 1861, Lincoln appointed General Fremont as miliary governor of the state. Fremont was an abolishionist and used that authority to issue a proclaimation abolishing slavery in the state. Lincoln responded by firing Fremont, revoking the proclamation, and using federal troops to return slaves that Fremont had already freed to their masters. That over a year after the war started Lincoln went on an anti-slavery kick was mostly a foreign policy ploy. He finally comprehended how close his government had come to the UK entering the war on the side of the South in the Trent Affair, and his "preserve the union" gambit was laughted at in the UK. "How can a country that owes its own existance to seceding from the British empire possibly complain about someone secceding from them?", the Brits chortled. Lincoln was trying to create a moral stand to keep the UK out of the war, but many in the UK never believed it. The quotes below from Marx and Dickens are good examples of that, as well as an incident in the House of Commons when a pro-northern MP made reference to the war being about slavery but was shouted down in parliament with cries of "No, its the tariffs". While I would agree that the end of slavery was by far the most important psoitive result of the war, it was NOT the cause of the war.
Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 1:27 pm
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This is exactly why parents can no longer trust teachers in our school system. Yes, there are some who are great teachers who do good work in educating students and keep politics out of the classroom. But there are others who are themselves indoctrinated in these leftwing college education classes or through the far left NCAE teachers union. Unless you know all teachers involved personally, there is no way to tell which group they fall into. That is why parents and citizens simply have to have oversight about what is going on in our schools and why we need a school board that will be vigilent in overseeing any recommendation brought to them and do their own research.
There is even a grant program at NC State University to turn out politicized "progressive" teachers to indoctrinate students in those political beliefs here in eastern North Carolina. To know that radical teachers are already here, one only has to look at the national list of teachers who declared they will still teach the Marxist CRT even if school policy says not to do so, and the number of teachers in eastern North Carolina actively proclaiming that. One has to wonder how many more do exactly that but just don't openly declare it. If we cannot depoliticize our public schools, it may soon be time to look for alternatives, and the NC legislature is on the cusp of giving parents the ability to have vouchers to use to educate their children elsewhere.
Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 11:02 am
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When you advocate for the anti-history pogrom of Mao's Cultural Revolution, Little Bobbie, that makes you a Maoist. From your posts, you are also an adocate of "equity" as the far left uses that term today, which is a very different thing than equality, and it is consistent with Marxist ideology. You also support Marxist concepts like CRT, DEI, and ESG.
Actually, when you consider what Marx wrote concerning the war, your position, Bobbie, is considerably to the left of Marx.
Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 7:39 pm
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That was a complex period of history, and blanket condemnations are for the uninformed or the malicious. British political philosopher Lord Acton, most famous for his quote that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely", for example wrote that the Confederate Constitution was a masterpiece of establishing limited government and he was more upset "with the stake that was lost at Richmond" than he was joyful over "that which was saved at Waterloo".
Your usual guiding light, Karl Marx, wrote "the war is not about slavery; it is a war of economic subjugation by the North against the South." Novelist Charles Dickens, a leader in the British anti-slavery movement said essentially the same thing in different words. The valour of our southern soldiers and sailors, black and white, is something we should never lose sight of, and those who destroy their monuments are just despicable. Most southern soldiers joined to defend their homes and families from foeign invasion.
Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 4:45 pm
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Commented on Beaufort County School Board meeting May 2, 2023Affirmative Action has been around for over half a century, which has tilted the playing field in favor of minorities and against whites, especially white males. Everyone now of working age has been in that environment. I don't know of whites complaining about that, but the left sure wants to keep complaining about something that has not impacted anyone of current working age. Only some of advanced age would perhaps remember the last gasps of Jim Crow from their early childhood. You progs are beating a dead horse.
Kemi Badenoch, a black woman serving in Boris Johnson's cabinet called Critical Race Theory "a dangerous trend in race relations" in a speech on the floor of the House of Commons that was called "the speech of the year" in the UK. You can hear the most acclaimed part of that speech here: www.youtube.com
Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 10:21 am
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Commented on Beaufort County School Board meeting May 2, 2023This inherited racial guilt business is just utter nonsense. I had a black handyman who used to do some work for me explain how it upset himm saying "I haven't been a slave. I don't know anybody who has been a slave. That all happened a long time ago and makes no difference to today"
The Marxist "Critical Theory" created by Herbert Marcuse, former cheif ideologue of the German Communist Party is where this business of trying to divide society between victims and oppressors comes from. When you spout it, you are being a "good little Marxist". This division into victims and oppressors gets really weird, too, when one considers that before the War Between the States, only about 3 to 5% of whites in the south owned slaves. The rest did not. About 20% of Southern blacks were free blacks and about 10% of them owned slaves themselves. How does your Critical Race Theory deal with descendants of blacks who were slave owners? Your contrived litmus test does not work very well does it? And what about those people, both black and white, whose ancestors arrived after 1865 so that they had no dog in the slavery fight at all?
Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 7:57 pm
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Commented on Beaufort County School Board meeting May 2, 2023Members of the extreme left like you only want history / social studies courses that politically indoctrinate children with your ideology. If it is not full of the woke doctrines of CRT, DEI, and ESG, and even the 1619 Project you do not want it.
Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 10:19 am
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Commented on Pressure Grows For Governor Greg Abbott To Act After Daniel Perry Convicted In Case Led By Soros DAYou have been corrected many times on that, Little Bobbie, but you still keep posting it. You are a day late and a dollar short. Soros has been an atheist for many years, and has no religion. He did grow up in the Jewish religion decades ago, but even then was not very loyal to that religion. Soros was a Nazi collaborator in his native Hungary in his youth during Wrold War II and helped send other members of his religion off to the camps. My Jewish friends do not claim Soros and want nothing to do with him. And Dana Jane said NOthING about locking anyone up. That is just one of your typical ezagerations.
Mayve you should change your handle to "BS Bob". It would fit better.
Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 10:14 am
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Commented on Beaufort County School Board meeting May 2, 2023Board Chairman T.W. Allen got his comeupance over his shrill attacks on the three conservative school board members concerning legislation to authorize the traditional Hillsdale College social studies curriculum. After a parade of leftwing Democrat legislators called Allen to protest that bill, Allen became the mouthpiece of those lefties to attack the conservative members for their supposed role in that bill. As it turned our that role of those conservative members in that legislation was minimal.
It also turned out that legally, such legislatiion was not even necessary. The board already has the legal authority to adopt the Hillsdale curriculum if it chooses to. Allen parroting the crap from these Democrat legislators is an outrage to Beaufort County parents.
Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 9:11 am
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Commented on EU approves scheme to close 3,000 Dutch farmsNo wonder some in eastern Europe call the EU the "EUSSR". This is Soviet mentality on steroids.
What is worse is that the Dutch voters just gave a landslide to a new farmers party that rejects this eco-fascism. That farmers party came out of nowhere to win more local government seats than all of the government coalition parties combined, and since local officials elect the national Senate, they now have more national senators than all of the goverhment parties combined. All of the government parties suffered major losses in that election, but the arrogant Dutch prima minister Mark Rutte, who is a discipline of the globalist WEF's Klaus Schwab, continues on with this scheme to destroy Dutch farming. Schwab thinks ordinary people should be eating insects and worms rather than farm products. The Netherlands is the world's fifth largest exporter of food, so this impacts more than just the Dutch themselves. The Netherlands needs to follow the UK out of the EUSSR.
Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 3:11 pm
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Commented on Texas wind farm affects land temperatureThis is not the first study to show that wind farms cause warming of the areas where they are located, and thus contribute to "global warming". It is not liekly to be the last, but you will never see them in the propagandist MSM. If CO2 has anything to do with global warming, which is itself debatable, then wind farms do more than coal plants to cause global warming due to all the trees cut down both to make their blades and to locate the turbines. Whole swaths of the Amazon, which is called "the lungs of the planet" are being deforested for balsa wood to make wind turbine blades. Trees absorb CO2 for photosynthesis and release Oxygen
Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 8:32 am
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Yeah, the climate cult is bound and determined to make it rough. Look at Germany which started down this idiotic path years before we did. Their residential electric rates are three times what ours are and they keep going up. That is what expensive and unreliable wind and solar power does to electric rates. Tripling our power bills; yeah these climate cult Democrats are going to make it rough on the middle and working class, but the elistists who push this crap at the WEF have plenty of money to pay their bills.
Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 12:44 pm
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Commented on Massive Offshore Wind Turbines with Flashing Lights Would Be Major Features on the Coastal Horizon, Part 2Lemmings like you blindly beleive what the globalist fear mongers feed you, and continue to march on in the biggest doomsday cult in history - Chicken Little on steroids. Never mind that NONE of the dozens of doomsday predictions the climate cult has made that were supposed to have happened by now HAVEN'T and haven't even come close. ONly the most addled true beleivers continue to follow a cult like that.
Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 12:40 pm
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Anything you don't like, Big Government Bob, you call a "lynch mob" but you have repreatedly refused to condemn a recent blatant and real lynch mob, the one that attacked Riley Gaines. You are a hypocrite and a phony.
What we are talking about here is a child protection law. How you make a "lynch mob" out of that is just crazy talk, Big Government Bob.
Commented: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 10:41 am
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Those who push this "hate speech" scam are NOT supporters of free speech even if you falsely claim to be. That is also true of those who push the "disinformation" gambit and the contrived "fact check" industry which dishes ideological spin instead of "facts".
Threats are threats, not "hate speech". Communicating threats was a crime here in North Carolina long before the far left invented the term "hate speech". Those clear examples of repression of legitimate political speech in France is what you get when the left puts in place their totalitarian "hate speech" laws.
Commented: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 10:37 am
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The examples below from France show how this "hate speech" scam is used by leftist politicians for censorship of political opponents. There is absolutely no legitimate excuse to arrest any of those people for their political expressions. You leftists are trying hard to do this to America. Only totalitarians who hate FREE speech use that Orwellian term "hate speech" and you are clearly one of them, Big Government Bob.
"Freedom of speech is your right to say what I don't want to hear" - George Orwell
Commented: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 9:05 am
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Lets look at how criminalizing speech is playing out in France (this is what the left wants to do in America):
3 citizens have been arrested for flipping the bird at President Macron, and are now facing a year in jail and a 15,000 euro fine. All have clean records prior to this political arrest. A French woman who is not politically involved and has no criminal record has been arrested for posting on social media that President Macron is "a piece of filth". A French Senator has been arrested and charged with "hate speech" for posting on social media "immigration kills" after an illegal immigrant brutally murdered a young French girl. Two French feminist leaders were arrested and charged with "hate speech" for posting that allowing biological men into womens restrooms was an invasion of womens privacy. And that is only in the past two months. None of those involve any of those people arrested doing anything violent. They are political expressions that were suppressed. It looks like Macron is trying to imitate Petain.
Commented: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 4:07 pm
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This is about protecting children from being mutilated, not about wiping anyone out. You lefties have your stupid fantasies.
Commented: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 3:53 pm
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The UK medical establishment did this same thing for years at the Tavistock Center, and then the horrors of what was happening there got out in the British media (which is much more ideologically diverse than the very narrow MSM in America) and medical opinion changed from that bad experience of mutilating children. The British National Health Service now advises their doctors against even suggesting new names or pronouns and certainly not surgery or drugs for gender confused children. Finland was also out front on this early, learned their lesson and now no longer approves these surgeries and drug regimes for children. They seem to be a heck of a lot smarter than the ideologues pushing this child abuse at UNC, ECU, and Duke. Glad Wake Forest is not in that mix.
Commented: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 10:40 am
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Big Government Bob has just outted himself as a totalitarian. The Orwellian Newspeak term "hate speech" is one used by totalitarians who hate FREE speech. But it is not the only tool of the totalitarians who oppose free speech. Classfying things they disagree with as "disinformation" is another one. The modern far left is just recycling Hitler and Stalin.
Commented: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 10:31 am
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