Philo of New York
@PhiloOfNYC
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"I love life and I love truth. If I cannot have both, I would rather give up life to pursue truth." (Mencius, Book 6A:10)
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Joined October 2024
So, Democrats dispensing money to their districts was not abuse of power, but Trump cutting those flows of money is abuse of power? Make it make sense.
The Trump administration has frozen or cut $27 billion in funding in Democrat districts, compared to $739 million in Republican districts. There are open abuses of power occurring daily that would’ve been unthinkable under any other administration.
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At the end of the day, leftists have no arguments, only labels and slogans.
"Why do they call us fascists?"
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"A hierarchy of evil" is a good, reasonable framing. People like to cast conflict as a fight of good versus evil. Upon learning that the "good" side is imperfect, people become disappointed and regress to "they are all the same" narrative. But they are not "all the same".
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The great advantage of being a Democrat is the ability to commit crimes with impunity.
A politician got arrested for doing 116mph in a 45mph zone. Sentenced to 1000 hours of community service in lieu of prison, he devoted 500 of those hours to his own political campaign, obfuscating to the court about how he did his community service. He also not only texted a
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Thank you, Tommy.
After today’s events now more than ever I’d like to reassert the fact that I am a Zionist . I believe in a homeland for the Jewish people & give zero fucks who that upsets. I don’t say it for money & I gain nothing positive for it, I simply recognise that never again is right
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Institutions, especially universities, have spread misinformation on pretty much every single aspect of human history, especially the history of the West. The entire narrative "West bad, non-West good" is just an enormous misinformation campaign.
1/2 Richard Hanania is broken in some fundamental way. By any reasonable measure the most harmful misinformation over the past 25 years (WMDs in Iraq, long acting opioids are non-addictive, lab leaking disproven/ zoonosis, COVID vac is sterilizing, Russia collusion, Hunter’s
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You really can't make this stuff up.
This is just an incredible story that says so much about our education system. - blue district in a red state has years of school board meeting notes with quotas for POC hiring for district (illegal btw) - hires Roberts in 2023, despite having a (domestic) criminal history -
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American single-family homes always remind me of the second pig’s house from “The Three Little Pigs”. Why does the richest country in the world keep building houses with plywood? America is an amazing country, but its single-family housing construction is baffling indeed.
Priorities. Most Euros won't live in a wood, vinyl, asphalt shingle type house. Even their new builds tend to be HEAVY and this costs money, you get less square feet. They want the bricks, roof tile, solid doors, etc.
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Excellent point. This is why to "condemn violence" is a leftist trap. We should not "condemn violence" per se. We should condemn aggression. Violence used in defense or retaliation should not be condemned.
This is true, but there's an even more important difference. There is no moral equivalence between aggression and retaliation. If you hit me with a stick, I might point out that it is wrong to attack people with sticks. But if you keep hitting me with a stick, then I will
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The right to refuse service to anyone means a bank has the right to close conservatives' accounts simply because they are conservatives. Is Matt happy about it?
Get rid of her. Today. This is insane. Conservatives have fought for decades for the right to refuse service to anyone. We won that fight. Now Pam Bondi wants to roll it all back for no reason. The employee who didn’t print the flyer was already fired by his employer. This stuff
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Rules only make sense when all sides abide by them. Leftists made it clear time and again that they respect no rules.
There was an open debate, anti cancel culture guy. They murdered him in front of his wife and kids. There are no rules anymore. We’re going to do things to them that have never been done before.
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Somebody really needs to compile an accurate database of political violence in the US. The dominance of the left in political violence will be shocking.
BLM riots Antifa Church shootings Trump assassination attempt Charlie Kirk assassination Pro life pregnancy center fires Tesla vandalism Attacks against ICE agents Attacks against police Attacks against federal courthouses This is merely a partial list. Nearly ALL of
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This is why it is irrelevant whether Mamdani distances himself from "globalize the intifada" or "defund the police". He has already said enough for everyone to see who he really is.
The best evidence as to what a politician will do before he is elected is to look at what he has done, said and written before he was a candidate for office. @ZohranKMamdani actions and words speak volumes about who he really is and what his intentions actually are. Is that
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The system of governance is really the single most important attribute of any human society. America's fundamental problem is that its system of governance - democracy with universal suffrage - is incompatible with its current ethnically and racially diverse population. The
" The contest over AI, quantum computing, biotechnology, and other frontiers of the 21st-century technological race will ultimately be eclipsed by a deeper struggle over who owns the future and which system of power and governance will define it." https://t.co/H87ufaVevS
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Tapping the sign
Canada has outlawed carrying anything for self defense beyond a whistle or other noisemaker. Now, a city has banned home security cameras that "view or listen beyond the perimeters of their own property." Why do so many laws side with/benefit criminals? https://t.co/9g3deTh7NS
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Words and expressions have a "denotation" (their literal meaning) and "connotation" (cultural and emotional associations that the word evokes). Leftists always play a simple, but effective word game: they alter the "denotation", while keeping the "connotation". The "denotation"
2/3 The whole thing is essentially an appeal to authority fallacy where you have fake experts manufacturing a consensus whose entire purpose is rhetorical and political. People also use the term ‘genocide’ as an emotional expression to demonstrate and socially signal a
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The problem with moderate options is that they are never accepted and people always go with the extreme ones.
Regularly reminding my sensible left-of-center friends that remigration is the moderate option. No. Really.
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One can always rely on the Democratic Party to support the worst human beings imaginable.
With Kilmar Abrego Garcia back in the news, we are already seeing a mountain of bull coming from lefty immigration advocates. Let's go back into the weeds a bit, and go through some of the falsehoods put into the press by his lawyers and agitators. 🧵
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