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The Time For Choosing Grows Closer For The Left

Posted: September 27, 2023 by datechguy in culture
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“I’m not talking about Islamists. I’m not talking about terrorists. I’m not talking about radical Islam. I’m talking about mainstream Muslim culture. There are eleven Muslim countries in which I could be killed for being a homosexual. The state penalty is death. One hundred million people live in country where the penalty for homosexuality is death. This is not radical Islam. This is mainstream Muslim society. Look what’s happening in Sweden. Look what’s happening anywhere in Germany, anywhere there are large influxes of a Muslim population. Things don’t end well for women and gays. The left has got to make a decision. Either they want female emancipation and it wants gay rights or it wants Islam. It’s got to pick.”

Milo Yiannopoulos 2016

I must confess I read Don Surber’s piece today with some amusement because it seemed so familiar:

This is what I wrote in June:

If these were children of Catholic, or even Protestant Parents they would be denounced all over the west, Canada’s draconian laws would be unleashed against them and their parents would be face legal proceedings for hate crimes, every talk show host would be on their case and people who do their best to have them fired from any jobs they held. Perhaps even proceedings launched to take custody of these children from the parents who did this.

However these children and not Catholic, or Protestant or any Christian denomination. They are Muslims and while a lot more people are claiming to be gay, or binary or whatever the fad is to get credit for victim status the actual physical Muslim population of both the US and Canada is not only growing but continues to grow.

Those MP’s are going to need those Muslim votes in just 10 to 20 years to get elected.

Now Don Surber today quoting the Telegraph:

if a Christian council had banned the Pride flag, liberals would have known exactly how to respond. Denounce the council for its queerphobic bigotry, and lead a furious protest march against heteronormative, patriarchal white supremacy. Simple.

Unfortunately, though, this council isn’t Christian. As a result, American liberals are being forced to contemplate an awkward dilemma. Their whole purpose in life is to defend marginalised minorities. But what should they do when one marginalised minority marginalises another marginalised minority? Whose side should they take?

A very long time ago I wrote how the primary target of the left was always Christianity and the left saw Islam as another group that opposed Christians. What Muslim’s actually believed didn’t matter as long as they could be weaponized against Christian culture.

But having seemingly defeated Christian culture, at least in the blue states, the reality of the Tom Hagen math is biting them. The future belongs to those who show up and people who castrate their own children children if they even bother to have any just don’t have as many votes as those who have large families.

I predict that I will live to see the Democrat/left throw the LGBTQ community, that they never really liked anyways, under the bus, but what will really be interesting is the moment that will come before this when the Antifa types decide to try to muscle American Muslims.

I suspect if they are foolish enough to try it will look something like this with Antifa playing the role of the bikers

At least it will end like this is Antifa is lucky.

I’ll give the last word to Don:

Liberals believe the price Muslims should pay for sticking up for them is giving up their religious beliefs.

HAHAHA.

The needs of the individual always outweigh the needs of the many

Posted: September 7, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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The Wrath of Kahn has always been my favorite Star Trek movie.  I’ve enjoyed everything about that movie, except for that one scene where Spock states emphatically that “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of few”

That quote has always bothered me, even the first time I saw the movie back in the early 1980s.  This was well before my political enlightenment that led me to becoming a Libertarian.  I had read enough history then to know that totalitarian regimes always sacrificed the few and the individual, all in the name of the common good of the majority.

After my great political awakening, which consisted of reading a couple hundred books on all types of political philosophies, I now understand the evils and horrors of collectivism.  I know Spock’s quote reeks of collectivism.  That is not surprising since Gene Roddenberry was very much to the left politically.  Mr. Roddenberry should have read Ayn Rand, especially these two quotes about collectivism:

“Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called “the common good.”

I got the idea [for Anthem’s theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word ‘I.’

If Mr. Roddenberry had encountered this Ayn Rand quote, maybe Spock’s quote would not have marred an otherwise fantastic movie.

Individualism regards man – every man – as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights – and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.

Vivek Ramaswamy was absolutely correct when he spoke out against the tyranny of the minority

Posted: August 17, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Before I encountered this American Thinker article, I had not paid much attention to Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign.  After reading this article I firmly believe whoever is nominated should select him as their running mate. 

While campaigning, Vivek Ramaswamy was approached by a woman who claims to be “pansexual” asking him about his opinions regarding the “LGBTQ+ community” and “same-sex couples.” Vivek calmly and politely explained that he believes America is falling victim to the “tyranny of the minority.” Although he spoke in a polite and respectful tone, what he said is a stronger answer than Republicans normally give and one that might play very well with the silent majority overwhelmed by slogans, yelling, and the other noise that characterizes today’s political discourse.

I have been making the exact same observation for decades.  I first witnessed this back in the early 1990s, when I was a student at UMASS Amherst.  That was my first exposure  to the true political left.  It was shocking to see how a small, yet extremely vocal, minority could trample on the beliefs and wishes of so many.

Vivek begins by accurately stating that so-called transgenderism is completely at odds with homosexuality. This is an important point. Homosexuality has been around since time immemorial, whether one likes it or not. Same-sex attraction is real. However, so-called “transgenderism” is a post-modern concept that has no basis in history or biology. Nevertheless, gay men are being told they’re really women, and lesbians are being told they’re really men—and then both are being pumped full of dangerous opposite-sex hormones and given mutilating surgery to prove this lie.

Regarding same-sex couples, Vivek said he doesn’t have a negative view, which is probably the case for most conservatives. I strongly disapprove of same sex-marriage because Justice Kennedy made up an imaginary constitutional right that smashes headlong into the actual First Amendment protection for religious liberty. And Vivek, to his credit, heads straight for that problem.

I agree with all the points he made.  I have no problem with the idea of same sex marriage.  I am absolutely opposed to forcing anyone to comply with anything they are opposed to.  The Free Exercise of Religion Clause of the First Amendment protects our God-given Natural Right to believe and live our lives as we wish.

In America, he says, America is allowing a tyranny of the minority to force behaviors on people. “In the name of protecting against a tyranny of the majority…we have created a tyranny of the minority, and I think that’s wrong.” He’s absolutely correct.

Vivek continues, saying that it’s wrong to force religious people to preside over same-sex marriage ceremonies or to force women to compete against biological men or change clothes in a locker room with a man. “That’s not freedom,” he says, “that’s oppression.” Yes!

He is 100 percent correct.

Free adults, Vivek concludes, should be able to do as they will, up to a point, but they don’t get to force their behaviors on others. Those others, especially, include children, who are different from adults.

“I think a lot of frustration in the country—and if I’m being really honest, that I also share—comes from that new culture of oppression where saying those things [that is, opposing these aggressive new, leftist views] can actually get somebody punished.”

I don’t like the sentence “Free adults, Vivek concludes, should be able to do as they will, up to a point.”  He needs to add the phrase “until they hurt others or interfere with the rights of others.”  Then he would be voicing the true definition of liberty, which is the freedom to do as you wish, as long as you don’t hurt others, or interfere with the rights of others.

Today we have the Democrat Party, the Media, major corporations, Hollywood; all cramming this woke agenda down the throats of the entire nation, trying to force the vast majority of us to comply. That is the very definition of tyranny of the minority.

Progressives are trying to replace Independence Day with Juneteenth

Posted: June 22, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Progressives, and other leftists here in the United States, demonstrate a very open and deep loathing for the founding principles of the United States.   They have been on a decades long mission to transform the United States from a Constitutional Republic, built upon individual rights and freedoms, into to socialist Democracy built upon collectivism.

These collectivists have been using the fictional 1619 Project to erase Independence Day as the founding date of our nation.  They are trying to erase the fact that the United Sates was built on freedom and liberty.  They want to concentrate all attention on slavery and away from all of the positives this great nation has achieved.

Juneteenth is another effort similar to the the 1619 project.  Most Americans are still unaware of what Juneteenth is all about.  This article provides a great explanation: Juneteenth becomes federal holiday after Biden signs bill (cnbc.com)

Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans. On that day in 1865, Union soldiers led by Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in the coastal city of Galveston, Texas, to deliver General Order No. 3, officially ending slavery in the state.

The final act of liberation came months after the Confederate army’s surrender ended the Civil War, and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

On the surface Juneteenth seems rather innocuous and actually maybe positive.  This article, however, documents the sinister motivation behind the holiday: Juneteenth Threatens America’s Civic Traditions (thefederalist.com)

The very name of the legislation is incredibly revealing. Referring to it as a “National Independence Day” — as opposed to the Fourth of July, America’s original Independence Day, that doesn’t enjoy the “national” language — is semantic manipulation intended to convey that this is the real independence day. This bestowal of honor on Juneteenth is an exercise in refounding the country in accordance with the priorities of the intersectional identitarian left (e.g., direct democracy, expansive legal privileges for preferential political groups, and the weaponization of government against “bitter clingers”) in the pursuit of casting aside the few remaining constitutional and republican norms of the American founding such as a societal reverence for natural law and federalism.

Those of us on the political right need to stand tall and prevent the left from replacing our true Independence Day with Juneteenth.  We need to stand strong for our nation and our founding principles. 

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