
Michael Brendan Dougherty
@michaelbd
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author of My Father Left Me Ireland. Senior Writer @NRO.
Joined November 2007
Me: Hey kid! Back up, you're going to get bit by that crocodile if you're not careful. Them: Crocodile lover. Big Croc shill. Why do you hate innocent kids?
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Good to see information corrected but the right is angry that Kirk was assassinated. it’s directing anger at the left because it’s in the left side of their social media feeds that they see approval and celebration of the murder. Not from elected officials thank God, but
This Guardian story was the sole source to speculate on Robinson's politics, and it's now acknowledged to be not credible. It was viewed tens of millions of times, and provided the backbone for a wave of right-wing hate directed at the left. Media illiteracy is dangerous!
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As the House of Lords debates the bill, here is my argument against legal assisted suicide. The bill incentivizes doctors to make the prognosis that allows for suicide. People in their final agony rarely request death, psychologically vulnerable people, fearful of going through
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Theresa May's short and sweet speech objecting to Assisted Dying
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Wait. So the killer’s dad does all the work, then laws enforcement congratulates themselves and each other and heads out for celebratory beers. Are they going to look into this Discord chat? The roommate? The press that can’t even quote Kirk accurately concludes the killer
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Yep. I regret saying the nastiest thing I’ve said here. And the internet is practically built to deliver to you the thing you’ll find most hateful.
Here's the danger of social media. It allows people to publish their internal monologues. Our internal monologues and fantasies are often incredibly ugly. People go to therapists because they feel so guilty about them, and one of the tasks of a therapist is to explain that 1/
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It’s really hard to explain how high the editorial standards go at these places when negatively characterizing a liberal idea or figure, and how low they go when dealing with the right.
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Pedro has been spreading a lot of good sense and straight thinking on this, and I commend him to you.
"I just want people to know that Charlie's family, his daughter, is going to live without a dad. His wife is going to live without a husband. That's not okay, that's horrible, and no one should be justifying that." This is someone on the left. I don't care if people think it's
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To celebrate Buckley’s centennial year, we are partnering with @ISI to host the debate, “Buckley: Conservative or Libertarian?” @michaelbd will take the conservative side, @ToryAnarchist will take the libertarian side, and @charlescwcooke will serve as moderator. Come see the
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There is so much alpha this decade in just not going insane
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“Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.”
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To be honest the reaction on X is far preferable to what’s on every other social network and channel right now. It’s weird watching people you know and love say he deserved to be killed for what he said when they know damn well that you believe the same and can see them saying
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The visual and audio suggested a rifle shooting from a distance.
CNN is reporting that the suspect who shot Charlie Kirk did so from a university building 200 yards away. If true, that means he was farther away than the Trump assassin in Pennsylvania and farther away than Lee Harvey Oswald was when he shot Kennedy.
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Nowadays even the most horrible politically-motivated violence seems to be ... non-political, in the sense that it serves no discernible political goals like seizing power or starting a revolution. It expresses the anger of deranged individuals living in a virtual reality.
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Love to @megynkelly who is somehow broadcasting through this, and reflecting exactly what so many of us feel in real time.
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It is time to stop showing the clips. Of Charlie and of Iryna. These are snuff films, and repeated viewing will desensitize us to them. They will destroy our civilization, and I'm not kidding.
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Universities need to increase security at all political events in the coming days and weeks. For everyone.
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Trauma doctors are miracle workers. No matter how awful the video looks, if they got him to an ER quick, he has a chance. Pray.
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