I saw this article today and it seems right up your alley: https://jasonstanford.substack.com/p/he-thought-tending-bar-sounded-like The former state labor secretary of New Mexico moved to Austin, got a job tending bar at a theater, and has thoughts about why there’s a labor shortage: low wages, fine, we expected that, but also generally horrible policies toward employees, and […]
Author: Ross Andrews
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Parallel economies it is, then
As I write this, Parler is still down and Trump’s Twitter is still banned. The left seems eager, giddy even, at the prospect of canceling anyone who disagrees with them, or who hasn’t reached the bottom of their purity spiral yet. If we want to have free speech at all, we’re going to need our […]
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Treason and Moral Courage
In a recent video, Bill talked about a point in (I think) the Spanish-American War when the Navy needed seven volunteers to sacrifice their lives by sinking a ship to block a harbor, and sent out a call and got practically everyone who heard it to volunteer. And how Mark Twain made the point that […]
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Racism and the shape of the Earth
I started following politics in about 2015. Before that I was kind of a “they’re all jerks anyway” moderate who didn’t really support either side. I voted for Kerry, Obama in 2008, didn’t vote in 2012. What made me start paying attention was that I noticed the left starting to use a new tactic, and […]
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What can’t people think?
Most of my friends are sort of low-effort leftists; they’re mostly uninformed about anything and are on the left by default, because the right is portrayed as being greedy, racist, and stupid. And you don’t want to be stupid, do you? So when I talk to them I try to avoid anything political. It’s just […]
This week, Nancy Pelosi went to a hair salon and got a haircut. In San Francisco. Where salons have been closed due to the pandemic. And she wasn’t even wearing a mask! I’ve seen a lot of people covering this story and a lot of different takes on it. Pelosi’s take is that the salon […]
I really wish Bill, Scott, and Stephen would make a video about the Twitter discussions on whether two plus two equals four. Yes. You read that right. Twitter is currently debating over whether or not the sum of two and two is actually four. Of course the left isn’t claiming that it’s never four, that […]
The Democratic party is composed of two wings: one is willing to destroy America to get power, the other wishes to get power to destroy America.