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“That’s Not Happening and It’s Good That It Is”
American Mind ^ | 07.26.2021 | Michael Anton

Posted on 07/27/2021 6:09:49 AM PDT by Heartlander

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1 posted on 07/27/2021 6:09:49 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander; Fred Nerks

Well Done, Great Article.


2 posted on 07/27/2021 6:14:46 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Heartlander

This is a fairly long article to read, but this guy Michael Anton is absolutely brilliant. I urge a careful read.


3 posted on 07/27/2021 6:15:24 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Heartlander

All you need to know is that the 40 and under crowd distrusts government and dislikes politicians almost as much as I do. The difference is, in spite of knowing how corrupt and inept government is, the under 40 crowd wants more government.


4 posted on 07/27/2021 6:15:55 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: Heartlander

The psychological aberration of ‘Magic Thinking’ is the hallmark of the liberal leftist mind. It allows their twisted minds to hold opposites as both appropriate in their reasoning. We really need to face the reality that we the people of moral perspective have lost America because of our inattention and lazy tolerance of evil in our midst. Now that evil saunters across the dead republic, flaunting its aberrantcy.


5 posted on 07/27/2021 6:19:08 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Heartlander

If they can make you believe absurdities they can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire.

L


6 posted on 07/27/2021 6:20:41 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Heartlander

. for later


7 posted on 07/27/2021 6:20:46 AM PDT by dforest (huh)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Yep he’s spot on. The article actually was posted earlier but didn’t get any traction. Maybe more people will see it this time.


8 posted on 07/27/2021 6:26:43 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Heartlander

This is a great analysis of leftist logic. It’s actually part of the religion known as hegelian philosophy. To get to the roots of it, please check out James Lindsay’s website, New Discourses, or his youtube channel of lectures also called New Discourses.

Website:
https://newdiscourses.com/

Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg


9 posted on 07/27/2021 6:29:52 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Heartlander

WOnderful. I was laughing darkly as I recognized the well-written descriptions of tactics in use daily by the leftist regime-ists.


10 posted on 07/27/2021 6:37:17 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Heartlander

Ping


11 posted on 07/27/2021 6:46:13 AM PDT by WhattheDickens? (Funny, I didn’t think this was 1984…)
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To: Heartlander

Fauci

” I did not fund gain of function”

” I partially funded gain of function and it’s a good thing I did cuz we needed a vacine”

?

I propose we name this the

Fauci Fallacy.

Jmho


12 posted on 07/27/2021 6:50:35 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Candor7

This is a wonderful article. It brings so much clarity to the current divide between the deplorables and their “superiors”.

It analyzes 7 leftist methods which, once they are spelled out, you realize you are seeing them being used every day.

When conservatives complain they can’t hold a rational discussion with these “progressives”, the points in this article make it clear why that is.


13 posted on 07/27/2021 6:58:44 AM PDT by JohnEBoy
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To: Heartlander
The regime is powerful, which means we must calibrate our resistance carefully. But to think clearly, our minds must be free. Which requires understanding its rhetoric and seeing through it. I hope this short guide is useful in that effort.

The author's "short guide" does a good job of explaining tactics used by anti-American propagandists. What's lacking is explaining HOW to go on the offensive to combat and defeat our enemies. "We must calibrate our resistance carefully ..." is not a war plan.

We have reached a place where pro-American political prisoners are rotting in prison right now. We are in a war and we need a unifing person, voice and tactics to go on the offensive. Unlike the dems, we remain divided and lack the weapons we need to win - IMHO.

Pro-American and Christian Americans lack control of any major media outlet; we lack control of our public schools; we lack control of Hollywood; we lack control of major social and digital outlets. Until we take control of these institutions, our children and useful idiots will continue to be influenced by the lying propaganda of the left - IMHO.

14 posted on 07/27/2021 7:02:33 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: JohnEBoy

Yes, I like th earticle. I have shared it with many already.

BTW, the dynamic is not copnfioned to just our USA. Its an international problem.And it has resulted in recent violence
in Australia where resistence to the left have been called “anarchists,” and in France where atriots have been called “selfish.”

Real violence is the result of these attacks by the left, and that seems to be what they want.

I hoe the left boites off far more tan it can chew, they want violence in America, but just enough to cow the whole population. They may get a lot more than that.


15 posted on 07/27/2021 7:12:55 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Heartlander

We’re not guilty of that. We would never do such a thing. Besides, the right does it too,


16 posted on 07/27/2021 7:15:45 AM PDT by alnick
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To: Heartlander

Nicely worded..
Now, how to counter?

I live my life according to the Popeye theory.
What, you may ask, is the Popeye theory?
It consists of two parts:
1) I yam what I yam and that’s all that I yam.
2) That’s alls I can stand, ‘cuz I can’t stands no more.

My way of dealing with these people, in accordance with the Popeye theory, is as follows:

Turn to face them, put the meanest scowl on my face that I can, raise my middle finger, and in firm tone say “F@#k You”.
Then turn and walk away


17 posted on 07/27/2021 7:19:13 AM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: Heartlander

Ping.


18 posted on 08/01/2021 5:57:57 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Heartlander

Good article, but the titles of each of the tactics are way too obscure to resonate with or be picked up by most people.

“The Celebration Parallax”??

Who the hell is going to understand what that (or his other terms) is referring to.

Seems like he went out of his way to make them as unintelligible as possible.


19 posted on 08/01/2021 8:30:33 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Heartlander; Fred Nerks; Candor7; Attention Surplus Disorder; brownsfan; MHGinTN; Lurker; ...

I think this needs to be revisited as it begins accelerating.


20 posted on 05/17/2022 3:16:23 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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