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Censorship arrives nextdoor

Nextdoor.com is a service that basically acts like Facebook for your community. While Facebook is focused on connecting you with friends and acquaintances and people driven by collecting “friends,” Nextdoor is driven by connecting you by neighborhood. On Nextdoor, you don’t connect to others to start a network. Instead, you can post things of interest to the finite area that is your neighborhood. You can ask them questions about local road construction or stores. You can report suspicious activity (a Nextdoor staple) or alert people to events or other activities. You can also sell things or ask for local…

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Mutually assured destruction

Historically speaking, mutually assured destruction seemingly works every time its tried. When two enemies both wield enough power to destroy the other, both will tend to stand down and attempt to coexist because they figure living with them is better than no one living at all. The Founding Fathers knew this when they wrote the Second Amendment. They knew that if citizens had guns, the government would be very hesitant to impose any sort of real tyranny. They knew that armed, citizens would have the ability to resist tyranny and restore the Republic, should they deem it necessary. Of…

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Inspiration conference

Whether through public schools, popular culture, social media memes, or even the news, our children are constantly told they it can’t be done. Every time they turn around, someone is telling them they’re victims. They’re being oppressed. There are people who want to keep them down. They can’t do it without someone’s help. (Or they can’t do it at all.) Our politicians continue to tell our children how horrible America is. How horrible we are. That someone is always being attacked, insulted, or held down. Of course, those who tell us how horrible everything is and how unfairly so…

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I have a friend who is black

According to the new book of racism, people who respond to accusations or insinuations of racism by responding, “I have friends who are black,” are just proving their racism. That’s quite a feat of mind reading on the part of the accuser. I think it’s much simpler than that. People who say they have black friends are most often grasping at straws to defend or justify something they took for granted. Most people just see people and make friends, or not, based on the same fundamentals as always: chemistry, commonalities, like interests, affable personality, trust, and likability. They never…

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All lives matter = racism

Well, this was fairly easy to predict, and here we are. Suddenly, #asianlivesmatter is trending. So let’s recap: Black Lives Matter = good Asian Lives Matter = good Hispanic Lives Matter = good Muslim Lives Matter = good Greek Lives Matter = good Italian Lives Matter = good Indian Lives Matter = good Female Lives Matter = good Jewish Lives Matter = good (though, depends who you ask) All Lives Matter = racist I think there’s an actual math problem here. I wonder, through process of elimination, who’s lives don’t matter.

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Human zoo

The longer animals live in a zoo, the more they lose the ability to fend for themselves. The more dependent they become on their captors. There’s no difference between the zoo and a government that seeks to make its citizens dependent on it. The more people who rely on the government to feed them, clothe them, give them money, and put a roof over their heads, the more we develop a citizenry who can’t fend for themselves. Those people will become more and more comfortable sitting back, taking it easy, and waiting for the morsels they need to get…

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Critical thinking 101

If I could get Americans to just do one thing, it would be to take nothing at face value. Everything in our society has been reduced to a sound bite, and too few of our fellow citizens have any curiosity beyond it. What a difference it would make if our citizenry would take the time after seeing a headline or watching the 30 seconds devoted to a story on the nightly news to explore the dynamics that led up to the story and consider what the motivations may have been by the people involved. You can take it to…

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Being conservative is a curse

I can’t think of too many things more frustrating than being a conservative. There’s no political party representing your views, and the one you think does may actually damage your cause more than the opposition as they cower in fear and do nothing to represent you. Democrats, the media, popular sports figures, and popular cultural icons all carelessly call you a white supremacist and racist. You rarely see any signs that the United States is headed in the right direction. Everything you believe seems perfectly obvious, and yet is incoherent nonsense to far too many of your fellow citizens….

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Sunday digest: 3-14-21

Thank you for sharing some of your valuable time to read The Bubbler. The Bubbler now contains more than 700 thought-provoking posts about conservatism. While there are hundreds of sites that report or comment on the news from a conservative perspective, this is the only place the explores who conservatives are, what they think, and why they think it. With so much great content that may have preceded your arrival, Sunday’s are going to feature past posts. With so much great content that may have preceded your arrival, we’ve decided to start dedicating our Sunday post to a digest…

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Conservatives should only appoint black judges

At this point, I think it’s a fair statement that conservatives are really bad at appointing judges who will follow the Constitution – which his the same as saying will support conservative principles. They’ve had plenty of chances in the recent past with little to show for it, especially on the most visible Supreme Court. One of the most reliably conservative judges on the Supreme Court is Clarence Thomas. And I think I know why. Justice Thomas has had to fight for his conservatism every day of his life. He’s a self-made man who didn’t rely on affirmative action…

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