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Tapate50
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Suspect charged with first-degree murder in Loyola University student's killing
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking local authorities not to release a person of interest in the shooting death of Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman, the Department of Homeland Security said Sunday.
www.nbcchicago.com
Tapate50
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Oh boy
zitothebrave
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I mean that's a good joke. But hearly every NHL team has a pride logo. The Lightning did pride night the same night.
Nah, I’ll be a stick in the mud for this one. The fact that the Predators are not unique in supporting Pride renders the entire joke lazily homophobic. It’s possible to make funny offensive jokes, but this joke relies on a “witty observation” that isn’t true.
acesfull86
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https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-ex...munism-3e3f95f5?mod=free-expression_lead_pos3
In a better world, the media would treat the appearance of the hammer and sickle at this weekend’s No Kings rallies the same way it treated the appearance of the tiki torches in Charlottesville, Va. That is to say, as evidence that something has gone deeply wrong in our political culture.
In 2017, a platoon of fascist dorks marched across the lawn at the University of Virginia chanting, “You will not replace us.” The entire political world flipped out for weeks—months, years even. They’re still recovering.
In 2026, keffiyeh-clad tankies clustered in New York’s Times Square chanting, “Only one solution, Communist revolution.” How much do you want to bet you’ll never hear about it again?
Communism is like Covid-19: a pathogen of relatively recent vintage that will be with us forever. As Free Expression columnist Louise Perry wrote in January, communism’s “infantile morality” is perennially attractive to the young. Its empty promise of a new world built on sharing and caring appeals to the ignorant envy of the unformed mind. It’s baby stuff
A well-functioning society educates the baby stuff out of its citizens. That doesn’t happen here because the people who do the teaching tend to be communist sympathizers, if not outright believers.
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The hammer and sickle represents repression and dictatorship, stagnation and misery, the negation of human rights, the opposite of progress. It is the symbol of unfreedom, and therefore of slavery. It is death on a stick.
When an American sees the hammer and sickle he should feel the same instinct to retch that he feels when he sees the swastika. That he doesn’t—that he rolls his eyes and thinks, “They’re just kids, they’ll grow out of it”—is an insult to the memory of the 100 million [innocent people killed by communism]. And it suggests that the grand total is perhaps not the final tally.
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Yup. Sturg’s made this correct point before.
In a better world, the media would treat the appearance of the hammer and sickle at this weekend’s No Kings rallies the same way it treated the appearance of the tiki torches in Charlottesville, Va. That is to say, as evidence that something has gone deeply wrong in our political culture.
In 2017, a platoon of fascist dorks marched across the lawn at the University of Virginia chanting, “You will not replace us.” The entire political world flipped out for weeks—months, years even. They’re still recovering.
In 2026, keffiyeh-clad tankies clustered in New York’s Times Square chanting, “Only one solution, Communist revolution.” How much do you want to bet you’ll never hear about it again?
Communism is like Covid-19: a pathogen of relatively recent vintage that will be with us forever. As Free Expression columnist Louise Perry wrote in January, communism’s “infantile morality” is perennially attractive to the young. Its empty promise of a new world built on sharing and caring appeals to the ignorant envy of the unformed mind. It’s baby stuff
A well-functioning society educates the baby stuff out of its citizens. That doesn’t happen here because the people who do the teaching tend to be communist sympathizers, if not outright believers.
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The hammer and sickle represents repression and dictatorship, stagnation and misery, the negation of human rights, the opposite of progress. It is the symbol of unfreedom, and therefore of slavery. It is death on a stick.
When an American sees the hammer and sickle he should feel the same instinct to retch that he feels when he sees the swastika. That he doesn’t—that he rolls his eyes and thinks, “They’re just kids, they’ll grow out of it”—is an insult to the memory of the 100 million [innocent people killed by communism]. And it suggests that the grand total is perhaps not the final tally.
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Yup. Sturg’s made this correct point before.
sturg33
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You can thank an academic for this profound failure
The communist flag should be the most offensive symbol displayed in this country
But our phd marched for george floyd and supported Mahdani... what do you expect?