maga promised us one
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
— Frank Wilhoit
Henry Grabar: You wrote this in March 2018, which was a pretty banal month by Trump administration standards. Do you remember what you were thinking of specifically?
Frank Wilhoit: I don’t believe there was a topical stimulus. I was responding specifically to that particular posting on Crooked Timber. And the mildly viral quote was just the punchline of a substantially longer posting, which attempted to lay out some of the context. Of course the context could easily be exploded to book length but no one’s got time for that.
Has this actually happened? Or is Pizzacake winning arguments that never happened?
Yeah this seems like a Goomba Fallacy for sure, really wish people here wouldn't enable those sort of things just because they agree
Pretty much Xitter, give or take a subject
Ooh,another zero-effort pizzacake to downvote! Keep 'em coming - I can do this all day!
Who is this? Why does she remind me of the radio operator from Atlantis?
People... Cons are the epitome of hypocrisy, you don't need to point out every example... they don't really stand for anything, they don't want anything except to feel superior to others and the easiest way to go about it is to bring others down (because they won't put in the work to make themselves better)
They will literally get pig roasted by a trans goats if that, somehow, meant "owning the libs" or hurting other people they dislike
I don’t ever remember any of those people crying about free speech. 2A maybe, but never free speech.
they're the freeze peach crowd for a reason…
they're always lamenting that they're not allowed to use the n-word
What universe are you from, really? You're not fooling anyone with that act.
Ok I’ll bite. What act?
They literally invented the idea of “cancel culture” to defend spreading hate speech on college campuses.
You aren’t a very serious person are you?
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